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LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 29, 1854.

No. 19,‘269.1

THE WAR IN THE EASP,

actually omitted to reserve for their own troops
the right of entering the Principalities. We.can
scarcely credit this. Still moie incredible is the
statement that Austria has determined not to per-
mit the armies of France and England to set foot
in Moldavia and Wallachia, even as an act of
courtesy, should such a step be deemed necessary
by them. On this point the well-informed Paris
correspondent of the !!Morning hronicle has some
observations, which we deem it desirable to trans-
fer to our columns, " The question," he says,
" which .every one asks, is, why stria is to
take possession of the Principalities? Avowedly
she says it is becauss she -considers the attack
of Russia an unjust one, and because she sym-
pathises with the Western Powers in their op-
position to the views of that Power, and their
defence of a weak ally. But there aregreatdoubts
as to whether she is quite in earnest in the cause
adopted by the Western Powers. At the same time
that she professes bfr approbation of, the conduct
of the allies, and has put her armies in motion to
assert their cause, she assumes to herself the posi-
tion of an arbitrator in the case, and seems dis-
posed, not only to prevent) the unprincipled invader
fri-rm attaining his ends, but to prevent those who
have been unwillingly forced into war to get the
satisfaction to which they are entitle.l, and, more-
over, to obtain securities against future aggression.
In short, Austria appears as much disposed to stand
by Russia against the just vengeance of the allied
powers as she is to stand by the allied powers in
their opposition to the usurpation of Russia. If we
are to believe public rumour, the Austrian Govern-
ment is determined, not only to force Russia to
evacuate the Principalities, and to become herself
the occupant of those provinces, but she is also de-
termined to,prevent the forces of the allied powers
from entering the Principalities during her occu-
pancy, for the purpose of following up their success.
It is almost unnecessary to point out how one-sided
such an attitude will be."
On the consequences of the determination of
Austria not to allow the allied forces to enter the
Principalities, the same authority very justly re-
marks :—" If. Austria should, as is reported, de-
clare that the allied forces shall not advance into
the Principalities as long as she occupies them,
what will be the result ? Russia, finding that there
is an impassable barrier between her territories and
the Turkish army on the side of the Principalities,
will feel herself at liberty to withdraw the whole of
the army which she has at the present moment on
that frontier, and to carry them to the Crimea, the
Caucasus, or any other point which may be in
danger of attack. Should this occur, the pretended
aid given by Austria will become a positive act of
hostility to Turkey, and the occupation, so far
from being an act of friendship to the Allied
Powers, will be a veritable coup de Jarnac.
In
that case, so far from the occupation of the Princi-
palities being an act of hostility against Russia, it
will be the greatest favour the one Emperor could
do to his neighbour, the other."
This is precisely what we have all along been
saying. The whole thing will, in the supposed
case, be found to be a collusion.. Austria under-
stands perfectly well what she is about, and, come
what may, she feels that all will be well in the end.
She will persist till the end of the chapter in fooling
France and England to the top of their bent.
It is passing strange that no member of either
branch of the Legislature has before now put any
questions to Ministers as to the nature of the treaty
which they have made with Austria relative to this
business. We are all in the dark with regard to
the circumstances under which this arrangement
has been made. The public want to be enlightened
on the subject, and they have a right to know for
what reasons, and under what circumstances, the
Western Powers have consented fo the occupation
of the Principalities by Austria. That occupation
we regard as, in effect, just the salve as if the Rus-
sians had continued in the possession of Moldavia
and Wallachia ; for in Austria, the Sultan will
find, to his cost, as great an enemy as if Russia
had continued to retain those provinces.—Morning
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A telegraphic despatch from our Vienna Corre-
spondent, dated last Tuesday, informs us that the
Russian answer to the Austrian demand had not
yet been received ; and in the meanwhile the con-
jectures as to its probable purport are various.
The most embarrassing course which the Emperor
Nicholas could adopt would be an ostentatious dis-
play of deference to the wishes of a friend and ally.
The opportunity of seizing a plausible excuse for
the evacuation of the Principalities might be re-
garded at St. Petersburg as no less desirable than
the prolongation, of the neutrality of the German
Powers ; and there are hack-writers enough in
Europe who would not scruple to falsify history by
passing over as insignificant the baffled attack on
Silistria, for the purpose of attributing the retreat
of the invader to mere considerations of policy. It
has been pompously stated in official language that
some time since, Russia, Austria, and Prussia con-
cluded an agreement with a view to the termina-
tion of the war, and it would not be difficult to,
represent the recrossing of the Pruth as the mere
fulfilment of a secret undertaking. The advance
of an Austrian army into Wallachia, as if to pre-
vent the allies from pursuing their successes,
would give a colour to this explanatio* of events
the real cause of which must be patent to all the
world.
The apparent probability of such a course on the
part of Russia has led to a premature statement
that it had already been adopted. It is dangerous.
however, to reason froth the interests of Sovereigns
to the conduct which they may pursue in any given
emergency. While Englishpoliticians are express-
ing anxiety as to the consequences of Russian con-
cession, there seems to be little expectation at
Vienna that a favourable answer will be returned
to the summons for the evacuation of the Princi-
palities. Warlike preparations are, to all appear-
ance, continued with unabated energy. A corn-
mauder-in-chief is appointed to the army, and it is
even stated that Count Coronini, who commands
at Semlin, is about to proceed to Schumla for the
purpose of making arrangements with Omer Paella.
It is unnecessary to observe that a military move-
ment undertaken in concert with one belligerent is
necessarily an act of war against the other. An
Austrian march to Giurgevo, previously approved
by the Turkish general, would be as much a com-
mencement of hostilities as an attack on the Rus-
sian outposts.
The Governments of England and France are
apparently satisfied with the attitude of Austria ;
and it must be presumed that they have strong
grounds for the confidence which they display.
Lord Aberdeen declared on Monday night that he
had pressed the advance of the allied army, both
for the purpose of supporting Omer Pacha and of
"holding out a hand to Austria." The forces
which line the Transylvanian frontier were as-
sumed by the Premier to be no less friendly
than the troops of the Sovereign whose domi-
nions we have undertaken to protect ; and it is
at least as reasonable to suppose that statesmen
have reasons for their acts as to believe in the per-
petual predominance of mean, and yet irresistible
cunning. All the theories of anti-Austrian politicians
are founded on the questionable hypothesis that
the sympathies between Vienna and St. Petersburg
correspond to their reciprocal professions Of friend-
ship ; but the revelations of the past year ought to
have satisfied the most superficial political student
that, when diplomatic language conveys any mean-
ing whatever, it may generally be interpreted by
contraries. The ambiguity of Austrian professions
has led alarmists into the hasty belief that the
Western Powers must necessarily be the dupes of
insincere promises. Those, however, who attend
to facts and motives rather than to empty words,
may well believe that the ultimate decision of the
Imperial Government will be dictated by its un-
doubted interests. It is not by deceiving England
and France that intrigues in Sclavonia can be re-
pressed, or the Lower Danube opened to the com-
merce of Germany.
It has been assumed, though without sufficient
consideration, that the movement of Count Coro-
nines troops along the left bank of the Danube will
interfere with the pursuit of the retreating Rus-
sians. There is, indeed, reason to fear that the
Allies may be too weak in cavalry to attempt at
present any active operations in the Wallachian
plains ; and the enemy's force, notwithstanding its
losses by disease and by the sword, is still numerous
and effective, whilst, as it retires on the Moldavian
frcntier, it becomes every day more concentrated.
The army in Transylvania might at once convert
the retreat into a rout ; but the Turks and their
auxiliaries may probably not be able to cross the
Danube in force. It may be doubted, however,
whether the Austrian troops on the Wallachian
frontier can, fur the present, offer any impediment
to an active pursuit. Omer Pacha's left wing will
be disengaged by the approach even of an am-
biguous auxiliary ; and if he is strong enough to
follow the retreating enemy, he need feel no anxiety
as to his flanks or his communications.
The Anglo-French forces at Varna and Adri-
anople are now disposable for service in some other
direction. It may be assumed,that they will either
undertake the reduction of the fortresses on the
Lower Danube, or that they will at once be em-
barked for a more distant and important expedition.
The desire of the Allies that Austria should occupy
a part of Wallachia appears to imply an intention
of operating against Galatz, Relli and Brailow ; for
it may have been thought prudent to protect the
advancing troops, not only by a fleet on the coast,
but by a friendly force on the left bank of the river.
Whatever may be the general policy of the Court
of Vienna, there can be no doubt that all Austrian
statesmen would view with complacency the expul-
sion of the enemy from the region which he has
long endeavoured. to render impervious to com-
merce.
The German partisa,nsof Russia are already boast-
ing of the aid which, according to their anticipa-
tions, will be rendered to their cause by the King
of Prussia. The treaty with Austria has, it is said,
become practically void by the retreat of the in-
vading army ; so that the Court of Berlin is now
free to express the sympathies which, even at an
earlier period of the dispute, were scarcely dis-
uised. This expectation is founded, however, on
afalse assumption. The sentiments of the King of
Prussia incline to both sides in turn, but the rea-
sons which induced him to Sign a treaty with Austria
are still as valid as they were when the recent con-
vention was made. The petty States have given
in their unqualified adhesion to the arrangement, in
the not unnatural belief that the case of war con-
templated by the contracting parties is in the last
degree improbable ; yet both the German Powers
had grounds for the course which they adopted,
and the same motives will induce them to perse-
vere in a-similar policy. Prussia may lean to the
enemy as the champion of absolutism and of so-
called orthodoxy ; but she would inevitably resent
any attack on the territory of Austria. The re-
sources of dissimulation and trickery are, after all,
not inexhaustible. It is satisfactory to know that
England and France are not bound by the com-
plicated negotiations of Germany ; and the Wes-
tern Powers will be content to contribute to a
diplomatic solution of the quarrel by proving that,
for once, force is not on the side of the wrong-doer.
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He says, Mr. et ames Fair,
• • an apprentice to a solicitor, told
him in 1848 that he had been in negotiation with a mem-
ber of-Parliament, through the Dublin agent of that mem-
ber, for the purchase of his interest to procure him an
appointment as paid guardian ; the sum to be paid was
3001. Mr. Charles O'Hara, jun., of Westport, was said to
be the agent. - - • •
" Mr. P. Somers, then representing Sligo, was the mem-
ber alluded to.
seseess " Mr. James Fair, being examined, admits having made
a communication in substance such as has been stated by •
E 5. Dr. Gray.
"Your committee have examined Mr. Fair, Mr, C.
O'Hara, jun., and Mr. Graham. It is impossiblefrom the
VIONINIM=I nature of his evidence to s y how far Mr. Fair was or was
'cs of not justified in drawing the inference he seems to have
the done from his conversation with Mr. Charles O'Hara.
be " Your committee have examined the Solicitor-General
f th for Ireland and the hon. member for Mayo with reference
to their speeches.
s it. " The evidence given by these hon. members is not, in.
scent, the opinion of your committee, sufficient to sustain the
ng general allegation of corruption they are reported to have
al expressed at Ballina and Wexford respectively.
Mr. Patrick Tottrell, Mr. Bindon, and Mr. James
Walker, the persons beforenansed by Dr. Gray, were ex-
amined. The result of the examination of these witnesses
has not sirtained‘the expeotition of Dr Gray.
" Mr. Ackans, also named by Dr. Gray, gave evidence
about a subscription got up for Mr. Reynolds, late member
for Dublin, but that transaction does not appear to have
anything to do with this inquiry.
" Mr. Henry Stonor, the other witness named by Dr.
Gray, is out of England.
" Dr. Gray having said that, during his examination, y
this committee, the hon. member for Meath had, in the
course of conversation, spoken of rumours affecting Mr.
Burke Roche and Mr. Daniel O'Connell, as having sold
places, or as having obtained a pecuniary advantage by
disposing of them, your committee examined Mr. Lucas
thereon.
Your committee are of opinion that the story, so far
as Mr. Burke Roche is concerned, had its origin in an
anonymous letter, published in the Standard newspaper,
and is false and unfounded. Nothing came before the com-
mittee to show why Mr. D. O'Connell's name had been
mentioned.
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made,
among others, a distinct charge against the Solicitor-Gene-
ral for Ireland of corrupt conduct, and with having made • _
promises and oaths which were deliberately broken
" Mr. Lucas, when asked to explain this accusation, dis-
claimed any intention of imputing to Mr. Keogh that ho
had been connected with the sale of places for money
that he had ever heard his name mentioned in connexion
with with such practices ;' neither did he mean by the charge
that he had given votes corruptly to obtain patronage from
the Government ; but he explained and persisted in his
accusation, as referring to the circumstances under which
Mr. Keogh accepted office in a manner, as Mr. Lucas al-
leged, inconsistent with his previous conduct and pledges.
" In support of this charge Mr. Lucas referred your com-
mittee to speeches of Mr. Keogh, and incidents in his po-
litical conduct, which he alleged gave to his acceptance of
office, on the formation of the present Government, the
character which he attributed to it. It appeared to your
committee that the charge resolved itself into an impeach•
ment of the public and political conduct of the hen mem-
ber referred to, matters upon which they do not consider it
their duty to offer any opinion to the house.
" The publication in the Tablet contained other charges
of matters within the cognisance of your committee. With
reference to these charges Mr. Lucas was also examined,
and your committee are of opinion the hon. member for
Meath has not substantiated them in proof.
" The hon. member for Dublin University (Mr. Napier),
for Youghal (Mr. Butt), for Mayo (Mr. Moore), for Antrim
(Mr. Macartney), and Manchester (Mr. Bright), having been •
named by Mr. Lucas as being able to give evidence material
to this inquiry, were severally examined.
" The cases, however, with which these hon. members
were presumed to have been acquainted, have been ex•
amined into and found groundless.
" At the close of the inquiry Mr. W. A. Dane, a solicitor
of Dublin, came before the committee and informed them
That a gentleman who was in my house within the last -
fortnight told me that a situation had been promised to be
obtained by a member of this House (the situation of a re-
sident magistrate); and that in consideration of that pro.
miss a gentleman accepted bills for 1,0001. for the hon.
member ;' that having failed in obtaining that appoint-
ment,
therewas another appointment obtained, and the
gentleman referred to was absolutely filling ;it at the pre-
sent moment.' The office was in the Excise.'
" It came out in examination that the member referred
to was the Solicitor-General for Ireland; that Colonel
Smith, formerly Assistant Adjutant-General at Athlone,
and resident there, was the person said to have accepted
the bills • and that the place in the Excise was for his son,
Mr. Lambert Smith.
" This story appears to have arisen from the facts that
Mr. Lambert Smith holds a place in the Customs, and that
pecuniary transactions connected with election expenses, in
1847, had taken place between Colonel Smith and Mr.
Keogh, not in any way connected with the appointment.
" Mr. Lambert Smith's appointment took place in 1845,
one year and a half before Mr. Keogh entered Parliament;
and it has been shown to your committee that Mr. Keogh
had nothing whatever to do with it.
" When your committee separated on the 30th of March,
before the Easter recess, your committee understood that
the evidence to sustain the charge against the Solicitors
General had terminated ; but when your committee met
again after the recess, a letter addressed to the chairman,
from Mr. W. A. Dane, was read, in consequence of which
your committee permitted the case to be reopened, and re-
ceived more evidence. The charge assumed an unaltered
shape ; but having carefully examined all the evidence
that was adduced on this head, your committee are of opi-
nion this charge is false and unfounded.
" The name of Mr. Patrick Somers, late member for
Sligo, having been by several witnesses brought before this
'committee, it is due to that gentleman to say that no proof
has been made to implicate him in any improper or corrupt
transaction.
" Mr. Somers attended before your committee, and was
examined, and not only denied that there was any founda-
tion for the charges imputed against him in the evidence
of Mr. Kelly and Dr. Gray, but also corroborated the evis
deuce of Mr. Howley, and further explicitly and solemnly
denied that he had ever received any pecuniary considera•
tion for recommending any one to the patronage of Go-
vernment.
" Your committee reports that, having followed up and
exhausted such sources of information as have been sug-
gested by the various witnesses, no case of corruption has
been proved.
" It appears to your committee that the persons who havei
preferred against a section of the Irish members the charges
which have led to this inquiry have failed to support them.
Your committee have given every facility for this purpose.
and extended their inquiries to a latitude which has nob
unfrequently involved them in the reception of idle gossip
and the investigation of groundless calumnies. Your com-
mittee are of opinion -that those who gave to the public
these statements ought to have been prepared to support
them ; and they cannot but regard it as matter both of
regret and animadversion, that even the excitement of
political passion should have induced gentlemen to place
before the public allegations so vitally affecting the honour
of one class of Irish representatives—allegations which
when they had the opportunity of sustaining them, they
failed to substantiate by any reliable proof.
" Your committee have, however, to add, that respect-
able witnesses have stated that in Irish society there is a
general belief that practices of the gross traffic indicated in
these charges have existed. Not that such practices Isave
been genes-al, but that in some few instances there have
been members who have been in the habit of using
their influence over Government patronage to obtain peen-
I ary advantage for theinsel, es. The extent of the impros-
siison.h.ss been described to your committee, as far as it
can be traced, as resolving itself into an accusation against
not more than three or four.' This impression appears to
have existed for some years, and the period over which it
ranges to hive included many Parliaments. With every
anxiety to discover the origin of a belief which is too general
to be entirely disregarded, your committee have not been
able to trace it to any ground more satisfactory than rumours
and suspicions which have acquired a certain held upon the
public mind. In estimating the valise which is to be at-
tached to this general belief, it must not be forgotten that
many cases have been brought before your committee which
at first appeared to warrant that belief, but which, when
thoroughly sifted, were found to supply no foundation for
it at all. Your committee have had many instances which
establish that in Irish society there is a readiness, upon very
light grounds, to accept conclusions detrimental to the
character of political opponents, and, to some extent, a
willingness to damage that character without very scrupu-
lous inquiries as to the grounds upon which the impeach-
ment rests. It is impossible to reconcile the notoriety of
such transactions alleged by some persons with the un-
questionable fact, that with all the anxiety manifested to
establish the charge, and the latitude given by your com-
mittee, not a single case has been proved.
" At the same time, considering the secrecy which would
most naturally be observed, the unwillingness of parties to
Place themselves in the position of accusers, the fact that
your committee had no means of searching for evidence,
but were limited to such as might be offered, and the want
of the power of examining witnesses upon oath ; and fur-
ther, that in snore than one instance their inquiries have
been stopped by direct contradiction in the evidence of
those examined, your committee are of opinion that no
investigation of the nature, and with the powers of that
intrusted to your committee, can satisfactorily ascertain
to what extent there may have existed grounds for the
belief to which so many witnesses,haved in
deposed.
" That, with reference to the paragraph the Tinice
of the 6th of February last, your committee feel bound to
report to the house their conviction that there existed no
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then accidentally absent in London. The remarks of the
Times had been referred to as unfavourable to the un-
dertaking, but there seemed, notwithstanding, to be a
feeling in favour of carrying it out, and one' of the
aldermen had immediately subscribed 1001. towards it.
The Mayor of Liverpool was also unavoidably absent,
and the rest of the corporation had postponed taking
any step until his return, but the same feeling seemed
to exist there as in Manchester.
Mr. MEcRs stated that he had visited Oxford with
Mr. Causton, and the municipal authorities of that place,
after they had explained to them that their object was
not of a local character, had promised to co-operate in
receiving their foreign friends in a manner worthy of the
nation. (Hear, hear.) They had visited Sheffield, Leeds,
and Hull with the same result, and he behoved they
should also be supported by the press.
The resolution was agreed to.
Mr. GEACH, M.P., moved,—
" That a subscription be entered into for carrying into
effect the object of this meeting ; that the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor be appointed treasurer, and the Right Hon.
Lord John Russell, M.P., Lord Viscount Ebrington Mr.
J. Master man, M.P., Sir J. Duke, M.P., and Baron
Lionel
de Rothschild, M.P., bo respectfully requested to act as
trustees, and the bankers in London and the country be
solicited to receive subscriptions ; and that the mayors,
provosts, chief officers, and magistrates of the cities and
boroughs of the United Kingdom be also requested to
sanction the addition of their names to the committee,
with a view to the augmentation of the funds, by opening
subscription lists in their local districts."
He thought that the people ought to have an oppor-
tunity of showing their approval of the union between
the Governments of France and England, and be hoped
that they would do so by subscribing towards this un-
dertaking. He might mention that the subscriptions
already entered into were for sums varying from 100
guineas to one shilling. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. UZIELLI, as a British merchant, who had had
transactions with the French nation, heartily seconded

the resolution.
Mr. DuNFORD said he was a working man who had
worked his way up to the position he now occupied,
and, as it was chiefly upon the working classes that the
weight of the expense of the war would fall, he was
practically interested in maintsining a good feeling be-
tween his countrymen and the French. He was the more
interested in this, because one of his sons was in the
Guards, and two others were with Admiral Dundas—
(hear, hear)— and he therefore heartily supported the
present movement.
The resolution was agreed to.
Viscount EBRINGTON moved, "That the noblemen
and gentlemen whose names appeared in the printed lists
be constituted a committee to conduct the entertain-
ments, with power to add to their number." He hoped
that they should never hear the expression which Mr.
Dunford used—" the working classes"—uttered invi-
diously. (Hear, hear.) He believed that no one in the
country worked harder than the Sovereign who presided
over our destinies—(hear, hear)—and many of those
who were born in a high station worked with their heads
quite as hard as any labouring, man among us did with
his hands. It was desirable that we should all recogs
nise the dignity of work, and do nothing that would
tend to introduce class distinctions, and he hoped the
time might come when, instead of work being considered
a disgrace, selfish indolence would be scouted by all
ranks. (Cheers.) It was no longer true that the chief
burden of a war fell upon the working classes, as all legis-
lation had recently tended to decrease the burdens of the
lower and increase those of the higher classes. It was
desirable that there should be union and friendship,
not only between the Governments, but between the
people of France and England, for the knife of an
assassin, or some accident, might upon any day change
the head of the Government of a State, and if an
alliance depended upon the life of one individual there
would be little security indeed for its permanency. He
therefore rejoiced that we were now met to stimulate
and encourage a national movement of this sort, and
to invite our French friends to partake of our hospitality.
Since the days of Henry IV., of glorious memory, no
monarch had sat upon the throne of France who had
given evidence of so much goodwill and cordiality to-
wards England as the present Emperor—(cheers)—who
had acted with us without jealousy or arriere pewee,
and seconded by able Ministers, had, in a straightfor-
ward manner, promoted the joint interests of the two
countries.
Mr. OLIVEIRA, M.P.; in seconding the resolution,
bore testimony to the good feeling towards the Eng-
lish nation which prevailed throughout the whole of
France.
The resolution was agreed to.
Mr. F. BENNOCH proposed, and Colonel FREESTUN,
M.P., seconded a vote of thanks to the Lord Mayor,
which was carried unanimously.
The LORD AUYOR, in returning thinks, observed that
those who imputed to him anything like the personal
motives for connecting himself with this movement
which he had seen very vulgarly imputed to him were
never more mistaken in their lives. (Elear, hear.) He
had motives for acting as he had done, because he desired
to see the advancement of this 'Country, and the exten-
sion of the freedom of which we boasted to other nations,
and he firmly believed that the best mode of attaining
those objects would be to cement the friendship that
existed between England and France. The French were
a sensitive people, and he asked whether we ought to
refuse to meet those advances which they had of late
made to us ? Should it be said that the French people
had invited and welcomed us, and that we had not re-
turned their hospitality ? (1-Jear, hear.) If the feel-
ings which animated him were sound and proper they
would be responded to by the country ; and, if they
were not, it was remarkable that the opinions he had
expressed should not have been controverted in a meet-
ing like the present. Not a single dissentient having
bee❑ found to the objects which had been proposed,
he had a right to assume, with all respect to the press
of this country, that the meeting fairly represented
the opinions of his countrymen at large, and that they
desired to cement their friendship with the French people
by means of social intercourse and the practice of the
common courtesies of life. (Cheers.)
The meeting then separated.

CHARACTER OF THE IRISH MEMBERS,

The following is the report. of the Select Committee o
the House of Commons, to whom it was referred to
examine into and report to the house upon the matter of
the complaint made to the house of a paragraph in the
Times of the 6th of February, as containing calumnious
reflections on the Irish members :
" That the article in the Times of the 6th of February
purports to have been founded upon allegations contained
in speeches of Mr. Christopher Kelly and of Dr Gray,
re-
ported in the Freeman's Journal of the 27th of January
last as having been tlelivered after a public dinner at roam
on the 24th of January ; but your committee aro of opinion
that it was not founded entirely upon those allegations,
inasmuch as they find, by evidence brought before thorn,
that another article of precisely the same tendency, and
containing allegations much stronger and mei e comprehen-
sive than any contained in the speeches referred to, was
published in the Times some months previous.
" The general accuracy of the report in tho Frcem an's
Journal was admitted. both by Mr. Kelly and by Dr.
Gray.
" In the speeches general charges of corruption are
brought against a section of the Irish members, and a
particular instance is given both by Mr. Kelly and another,
Dr. Gray.
" The following instance of corruption was stated by Mr.
Kelly :---` I knew of my own knowledge in one of the past
Parliaments, not the present one, a stipendiary magistracy
to have been sold by an independent Irish member for the
sum of 1,0001. The contract between the hon. memberand
the pure-minded magistrate were these :-5001. were to be
paid by the magistrate for the promise of the place ; the
second 5001. was to be paid upon the ratification of the
promise.' The `own knowledge' of this witness consisted
of a conversation said to have taken place in 1841 between
the witness and a Mr. Maguire, long since dead, who wa
said to be the solicitor of the member of Parliament re-
s
ferred to.
" Mr. Kelly stated to your committee that in the year
1811 he was in the employment of Mr. John Ennis, who
was a connexion of Mr. Howley, the stipendiary magis-
trate referred to ; that in that year Mr. Bernard Maguire
applied to him to induce Mr. Ennis to exert his influence
with Mr. Howley to persuade him to fulfil his promise by
paying the sum of 5001. Mr. Kelly stated that, in conse-
quence of this, he did apply to Mr. Ennis, who indignantly
refused to have anything to do with the transaction. Mr.
Bernard Maguire, Mr. Kelly stated, professed to act ou
behalf of a member of Parliament, but he was unable to
say whether the member was Mr. Patrick Somers or Mr.
Robert Dillon Brown, but he was) quite sure that it was
one or other of these gentlemen.
" Mr. Ennis denies any recollection of any such applica-
tion having been made to him, or having held any such con-
versation.
"Mr. Howley has been examined before your committee,
and has denied that, directly or indirectly, he ever gave or
promised any consideration for the appointment, or was
ever applied to pay any money to any person for obtaining
it. Mr. Howley informed your committee that at the latter
end of 1840, soon after which time he obtained the appoint-
ment of stipendiary magistrate, he lent a sum of 4001. to
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Mr. P. Somers, then member of Parliament for
Sligo,esoaemtdo:ifnutt
committee
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c‘a:piTophne ai:rastnrtiaiontyshaoacuttritochnoemrhemaisist tnbeoeeeranotepodvpuichodaciaerenvneatefemuebbl
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tainedsaid
late r. O'Connell had given him an introduction to Lord
Morpeth, by which he considered. he h
obtainedt litatti
ap-
pointment. Mr. Christopher Kelly gave no other evidence
to support the particular allegation in his speech
there-
fore your committee see no reason to doubt Mr. Howley 's
denial, and are of opinion that Mr. Kelly has failed in sub-
stantiating the charge which he has. meat,-
" Dr. Gray, in his evidence before your committee,
quoted its an authority for the general charge of corruption
extracts of speeches said to have been delivered by the
Solicitor-General for Ireland after a public dinner at Wex-
ford, and by the hon. member for Mayo (Mr. Moore) after
a dinner at Ballina.
" Dr. Gray gave to your committee as witnesses the
names of Mr. Patrick Tottrell, Mr. Bindon, Mr. J. Walker,
Mr. Adieus, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, and Mr.
Henry St .nor, who he stated he believed could give infor-
mation of facts bearing on the subject of this inquiry.
" Dr. Gray also spoke of conversations held with the
Solicitor-General for Ireland, Mr. Duffy, and Mr. Lucas,
on the same subject.
" The partizular cue mentioned 1,9 Dr, Gray is this :21

DESTRUCTIVE INCENDIApy Foy.—A destructive fire;
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which there is every ii. to believe was the act of en
incendiary, broke outoansoSunday last at the retired vi'.
lage of Hodson, near Swindon. Mr. Haynes, of the
Ay ilts constabulary, has since been erfgaged in investi-
gating the matter, and a man named Farr has been ap-
prehended on suspicion of the offegee. It appears that
time flames, which were discovered to be on a farm in the
occupation of Mr. Baverstock, were first observed by
asseer a le stack
the tenants of a neighbouring cottage. Before any per-
sons could
of straw, containmble toing nearlyrend twentyassistance tons, andarg a large
barn were on fire. The flames were visible for many
miles round, and in less than two hours two stables,
several waggon sheds, a large barn, containing nearly
eighty sacks of unwinnowed wheat and a thrashing
machine, together with several other outbuildings, and
four waggons, were entirely consumed. A cottage close
by was also burnt to the ground. We regret to add that
a cart-horee, worth 351., pe,-"shed in the flames, no person
arriving in time to rescue the poor belst. Four other
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horrible death. So clu=e were the flames upon them,
that one of the poor animals bad his tail very much
singed, and they were all burnt in several PhtcHe
on the back and other parts, by the burning embers
fading on them. A large number of fowls were burnt
to death. The fire also spread to a pigstye belonging to
Benjamin Chowles ; it contained a pig,
which made its
e3cape, but when found it was discovered that its eyes
were completely burnt out, and it was ipMedititely
killed,

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