The Sun.
London, England, 1831-09-10 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, SRPTEM)I22i 9.

Mr. BLACKNEY presented a petition from the land
proprietors and others of the parish of Carlow, praying for
the dismemberment of the yeomanry of that county.
Captain GORDON presented 9. petition from the mini-
sters, eld rs, and members of the congregation of the Pres-
bytery of Newcastle-on-Tyne,against any further grant to
Maynooth College. The Hon. Member said as this 'sub-
ject would come on for discussion in another part of the
evening, he should not do any more than present the
petition.

- Mr. O'CONNELL expressed a wish, as the Hon.
Member had not stated the contents of the petition, that it
should be read.

The petition was then read—it alluded to the " Idolatrous
Church," &c.

Upon the question that it be printed, the gallery was
cleared for a division, but none took place.
New writs were ordered to issue for Forfaishire, in the
room of the Hon. W. Maule, created a Baron of tbe•
United Kingdom; and for Derbyshire, in the room of Lord
George Cavendish, also created a Baron of the United
Kingdom.

Mr. WYSE presented two petitions front Galway, for
an extension of the G-ilway franchise.
Mr. LAMBERT presented two petitions, one from
Enniscarthy, in the county of Wexford, and the other
from the relatives of the persons who were killed at New-
townbarry, praying that the yeomanry might be dis-
banded. The petitioners spoke in respectful lan-
guage to the House, but in strong terms, of the Newtown-
harry affair, calling it an inhuman murder, a barbarous
and indiscriminate massacre, &c. He sincerely hoped his
Majesty's Ministe:s would be prevailed upon to comply
with the prayers of the petitioners by disarming the yeo-
manry, for unless their prayer was attended to, the very
worst consequences would. ensue.—(Hear.) He did not
believe that his Majesty's Government were indifferent to
the late unfortunate transaction, but it was necessary that
some immediate means should be adopted to show the
opinion that Ministers entertained of it.

Mr. MAXWELL hill heard so many statements re-
specting what was termed the massacre of Newtownharry,
that be was induced to trouble the House with a few ob-
servations. He denied that it was a massacre.—(Hear,
hear, from Mr. O'Connell.) He regretted to say that lives
had been lost, but how was it ? The Hon. Member thew
['entered into nstatsment of theoceurrences that led to that
unfortunate affair, and alluded to a statement made on a
former night by the Hon. Member opposite (Mr. Lambert).
That Hon. Member bad stated that a woman named Mary
Mulrooney had had her womb ripped open by the bayonets-
of the yeomanry—:(Hear, hear)—and afterwards the Hon.
Member Said sbe was ripped up by a built t, and her un-
born child exposed. He (Mr. Maxwell) had documents
of an unquestionable nature in contradiction to that state-
ment ; be had the evidence.CE Mr. Green, King's Coon-
eel, and of Captain Fitagerald, who were sent by his
Majesty's Government on purpose to investigate the
charges, and he had also certificates of the Coroner and
the Foreman of the Jury, all of whom denied-that Mary
Mulrooney's body had been ripped open and bee child
exposed, and stated that she died of a wound of a bullet;
that the person who shot her had been committed to

and that a hill of indictment for manslaughter had been
found against him by the Grand Jury. This indictment was
corroborated by R. W. Hue, Esq. Magistrate of Wexford,
and Mr. Hyde, the aurgeon, who attended the woman. In,
addition to this, be had the affidavit of Mary Stone, at
whose house Mary Mulrooney resided, and where she
died fiom that affidavit it appeared that the deceased was
nut pregnant when she was shot. He did not mean to
impute to the Hon. Member for Wexford the slightest
in-
tention to state any thing that he did not hirmadf most
firmly believe ; but he begged him to be cautious on
what authority he rested the statements which he made
.n that House.

Mr. WALKER was much amused to hear the confi-
dence with which the statements of the Hon. Member
who bad just sat down were accompanied. He had not even
attempted to contradict the fact that the calling eut of the
yeomanry was unnecessary upon the occasion referred to,
and that of the innocent people of the place from ten to
fifteen were killed, and upwards of twenty wounded.—
(Hear, hear. )
Mr. O'CONNELL would only say, in opposition to the
assertion of the Member for Cavan that the calling nut of the
yeomanry was necessary, that the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, who could not be accused of any disposition to dis-
parage their character, had published a letter declaring
the sot altogether unnecessary.
Mr. SHAW said that on no subject connected with
Irish affairs bad there been so much misrepresentation
and exaggerated statements as on the Newtownbarry
Oh ay. No one more sincerely regretted than he did the loss
f human life, but he could not but repeat his assertion.—
It had been affirmed that no placards had appeared stating
that a sale was to take place of cattle seised for tithe. But
such placards had most undoubtedly appeared, conelud-
mg too with " No tithes, no Parsons," &c. &c.—(Hear,
hear.) A representation was also made, only the day
liefur,., too late for the arrival of a regular force, by the
Magisttates of that part of the county to the Lord
Lieutenant, stating that in consequence of such state•
ments they did apprehend a rescue.—(Hear, hear,
hear.) Such a document, he believed, was now
forthcoming.—(" Hear, hear ;" " No, no," from M r. O'Con-
nell.) Shaw) was prepared to state that there
was a memorial of that description now in the Castle of
Dublin--(Hear, hear, hear)—which was written pre-
viously to the transaction. There was also an
organized force of strangers brought to Newtownbarry
on that occasion, and these people were all armed.
He thought it most unjust to characterise the transaction
by the term of butchery.—(Hear.) The Hon. Member
had also chosen to characterise the transaction as a murder,
whits a Grand Jury of Wexford had, upon their oaths,
declared it not to be so. He could not account for such a
mode of acting, nos could he conceive what object the
Hon. Menaber had in view in doing so.
hlis IILACKNEY considered it a most atrocious mur-
der, and felt confident that so long as the yeomanry were
kept armed, tLe Rouse would be deluged with petitions
like the present.
Mr, M. O'CONNELL thought the placards &dinned to
would not bear the construction put upon them by the
Hon. Altatuber opposite, (the Recorder of Dublin).
Mr. LAMBERT, on moving that the petition do lie on
the table, entreated his Majesty's Government to look to
the wants of the people of Ireland. He believed the
Newtownbarry affair, and he declared it, in the
presence of his God and of his country. to be
;as colti.blooded anti atrocious a massacre as ever was
o) the
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