The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-01 00:00:00

IRISH YEOMANRY.

Mr. BLAKENEY presented two petitions, one from
Dunleakney, against the Kildare-street Society, and the
other from the store place, praying that the Irish Yeo-
manry should he disbanded.
Mr. LAMBERT referred to what he hail said on a
former occasion, regarding the proceedings at Newtown-
harry, and read an extract of a letter from the Rev. Mr.
Walsh, confirming the statement be had matte regarding
the proceedings of the yeomanry. He contended that the
present Government ought to allow the yeomanry to fall
again in,o disuse.
Mr. MAXWELL was sorry that the subject had been
revived, and expressed his disbelief that any shots had
been fired over the Roman Catholic chapel, or that any
woman had (as had been asserted) been ripped up during
the commotions at Newtownbarry. The party or parties
accused would be put upon their trial, and he earnestly
recommended the Hon. Member (Mr. Lambert), with his
present feelings upon the subject, to absent himself from
the Grand Jury.
Mr. BLAKENEY was satisfied, on the most unques-
tionable evidence, that the assertion regarding the woman
was true ; she was in a❑ advanced state of pregnancy at
the time. _ _

Mr. WALKER also read an extract from a letter from
the Rev. Mr. Walsh, by which it appeared that the only
etrot in the Hon. Member's (Mr. Lambert) statement
was, that he had said shots were fired, whereas he ought
to have said that one shot was fired. There was no doubt
that a woman had been killed under the most shocking
circumstances; she was pregnant, and the ball fired passed
through the head of the child. He saw no objection to
the Hon. Member's sitting on the Grand Jury, in order
to take care that justice was done, although it might be
proper that he should not form one of the twelve men who
were to decide ultimately upon the guilt or innocence of
the accused.

Mr. CRAMPTON remarked that the whore question
was in a course of judicial inquiry. He (Mr. Clatopron)
objected, therefore, to discuss one of this kind, the effect of
which must be to prejudice the case of the policeman,
as ,inst whom a bill for manslaughter had been found, in
the case particularly alluded to.
Mr. O'CONNELL contended, that public justice would
not be done by trying the policeman on a bill charging
him only with manslaughter; either he had been guilty of
murder, er of nothing. .

Mr. CRAIIPTON interposed to remark that the pre-
tient discussion was trying the policeman by anticipation.
Mr. O'CONNELL said the prosecution of the police-
man in Ireland was a mere mockery and delusion, and he
complained that Government was throwing the shield of a
pretended prosecution over the delinquent. The yeomanry
ought to have been deprived of their arms at once, as they
had been in the time of Lord Liverpool, when a similar
massacre took place at Strabee. The truth was, the pre-
sent Government was resolved to screen all who attacked
the unhappy people of Ireland. What degree of justice or
impartiality had it shown in appointing twenty-one sti-
pendiary Magistrates, not one of whom was a Roman Ca-
tholic? In the late disgusting and disgraceful affair at
Newtownbarry, the yeomanry had been ordered by their
superior officers to fire.
Mr. STANLEY (interposing) said the evidence was
most contradictory upon the point whether the yeomanry
had or had not recrived orders to fire.

Mr. O'CONNELL added, the Captain of the yeomanry
swore oue way and his men another ; and he appealed to
the House whether it was fit such a corps should continue
to exist, when the officer asserted he had given no order
to fire, and the yeomanry insisted that he had given such
an order?

Mr. STANLEY observed that the testimony upon the
question, not merely of the Captain and of the yeomanry,
but of other witnesses, was most discordant.

Mr. O'CONNELL knew nothing but from the news-
paptrs.—(Cheers ) He was acquainted with the Re-
porters who were present, and who furnished the accounts
to the Irish newspapers, and he was aware that the Cap-
tain of the yeomanry said one thing and his men another,
on the important paint, whether orders were or were not
given to fire.
Mr. H. GRATTAN said, that if the Government did
not protect them they most protect themselves. In the
parish of Rathdrum, with which he was connected, the
Roman Catholic inhabitants were made to pass under a
triumphal arch erected by the Orangemen, and a pistol
war fired so close to the face of a Catholic Clergyman that
the flame almost scorched him. The fact was, unless the
Orangemen were put down, they would put down the Go-
vernment itself.

Mr. LAMBERT repeated his former statements re-
specting the outrage committed upon a poor woman named
Mary Maloney, and read to the House the following letter,
which he had received from a highly respectable person,
confirmatory of that fact :—" I have just seen a person
who saw the body of the poor woman Mary Maloney, the
mother of six children. Horrid sight ! the ball passed
through her, ripped open her belly—she was within six
weeks of her confinement, and the child's head and body
protruded through the wound. This was seen by numbers
who can testify to the fact, upon oath, if necessary."
Mr. HUME put it to the House if the time had not at
length arrived when it was incumbent upon his Majesty's
Government to institute an inquiry ? Did they, suppose
that the people of Ireland would rest satisfied thatseventeen
persons should be put to death, and no justice executed

upon-the perpetrators of the oft'enee ? Ile Would say that
he thought the attention of the House was well occupied
in hearing complaints upon that subject. If necessary,
let the business of the House stand still, but let justice be
administered. Let not the Government of Ireland be
allowed to betray such weakness, or if the present official
persons were not competent; let them retire. Inefficient
personS not be allowed to occupy such situations in
times. The p rind had no' arrived when not only
the people of Ireland, but the people of England, ought
to demand inquiry.
Mr. STANLEY said, that if the Hon. Gentleman
meant to say that the time had arrived when the Irish
Government should inflict puni!..hmritt Upon persons not
found guilty by the ortiinary tribunals, be confessed be
cott'd not agree with him. Whatever party feeling there
might exist upon the subject, the Irish Government had
been acquitted, even by the Hon. and Learned Member
for Kerry, of any participation in that feeling ; and
that Honourable and Learned Member was one d the
warmest, not to say the most violent, advocates on
the other side. Let the Home only turn its attention
to the real state of the facts. Immediately on the lament-
abl'et occurreute taking place, Government sent down an
officer, for the purpose of setting an inquiry on foot—Govern-
ment conducted the prosecution—Government persisted to
the utmost in brim the matter before a regular legal tri-
bunal—and what more could Government do ? Ile con-
fessed it did not appear to him that the House was justified
in proceeding judicially upon the highly-coloured statements
brought under its consideration by the Hon. Member for
Wexford.
Mr. H rlfE said that a body of armed men had com-
mitted a gross outrage—had taken away the lives of several
of their unoffending fellow-countrymen. They (the House)
had that fact before them—they had also another fact,
namely, that bills had been sent up to a Grand Jury and
ignored, and therefore no public trial took place. Was it
not then fitting that the Government should see that per-
sons thus entrusted with arms had not made an evil use of
them ? Did any man in his settees doubt that the persons
to whom he alluded ought to have their arms taken out
of their hands ; and was it not in the power of the Irish
Government to do so ?

Mr. JEPHSON said that i;fter the letter which had
been read, there could not be a second opinion as to the
necessity which there existed for disarming the offending

parties.
Mr. HUNT, after adverting to the crimes committed
by the yeomanry at Manchester, obFerved that it was not
matter of surprise that Irish Members should be loud in
their complaints.
Mr. LAMBERT said that the facts fully supported the
statement which he had made.

After a few words from Colonel TOARENS, the petition
was ordered to be printed.
On the question that the Order of the Dry be then
read for the House resolving itself into a Cruimittee of
Supply,
Sir GEORGE MURRAY gave notice, that in the
Committee on the Scotch Reform Bill, he should move a
clause that all counties in Scotland, which contained a
population of 100,000, should return two Members to
serve in Parliament. He should also move that the city
of Perth do return one representative.
An 110 N. MEMBER gave notice, that he should move
that the Eastern District of boroughs in Fife do return
one Member.