The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-24 00:00:00

EVEIkTING,

FEBRUARY 24, 1849.

every freeholder who exercised the elective franchise
might have hal the same question put to him with the
same propriety as the Hon. Gentleman has put his ques-
tions to me. I must be content to leave it to the Roman
Catholics whether they can safely take that oath or not.
I think it is for the Roman Catholic Members personally
and individually to consider its propriety. With re-
spect to those Hon. Members who have taken it and
have given their votes upon their conscientious construc-
tion of it, I have never upbraided them for a breach of
the pledge they contracted on entering Parliament, and I
think the Roman Catholics are as little likely to commit
the crime of perjury as any other Hon. Members of the
House—(Hear, hoar)—but the construction they put on
the oath must be left to their consciences, and nothing
would in my opinion be more dangerous than that I
should give a legislative construction of it.—(Hear.)
Mr. J. O'CONNELL said that the doctrine of the
Right Hon. Baronet left each man to put his own inter-
pretation on the oath. He would rather take the inter-
pretation of the House, be that what it might.
On the question being put,
Mr. LAW declared that, in allowing the resolution to
pats without a di-si,ion, he reserved to himself every
opportunity of offering the proposition a most vigorous
opposition.—(Hear, hear.) He begged to move that the
Chairman should leave the chair to record his opposi-
tion, though he would not divide the House upon it.
The question was put; the resolution was agreed to,
and, the House having resumed, was reported.
In reply to Mr. BANKES,

Lord J. RUSSELL stated that, owing to the great
amount of public business, he did not propose to intro-
duce the Bill till after Easter.

RELIEF OF DISTRESS (IRELAND) BILL.
Oa the order of the day for the second reading of the
Relief of Distress (Ireland) Bill,
_ _

Mr. HUME entered his formal protest against it, but
refused to divide the House.

Mr. BANKES wished to take that opportunity of
asking the Noble Lord what had become of those col.
leges in Ireland. which would, he was afraid, turn out
to be so;uselefa?
Lord ef. RUSSELL, in reply, said that due provisicn
had been made in tho Act for the erection of the col-
leges, and for the maintenance of the professors. The
colleges would be open by the Ist of October, and so far
from their being entirely useless, he was glad to say that
many persous of th 3 Roman Catholic persuasion had
stated their intention of entering them.—(Hear.)
The Bill was ordered to be committed on Monday.
VICE•GUARDIANS OF UNIONS (IRELAND)

and with great ferocity snatched it from her arms. The
sister returned to the mother, and informed her what
had happened, and in a few moments the unnatural
parent entered the room, holding the child up by its
ancles. The poor little creature was laughing at the
time, apparently thinking that the way she was being
held was the result of play. The mother iastantly
made an offer to seize her offspring, when the prisoner,
with fearful force, dashed the child upon the floor. He
then lifted it up by its uncles, and again hurled it to the
ground. Here his brutality did not cease. He struck
the helpless innocent three times, and having lifted the
body from the floor, swung it round by the legs, and
threw it some distance towards the mother. The floor
was bricked, and several places were broken by the
force the child was thrown down. The prisoner then
decamped, and the unfortunate little creature was re-
moved to the infirmary, but death had already termi-
nated its sufferings, several severe fractures having been
inflicted on the skull.

The LEARNED BA.RON having summed up,
The jury, after an absence of an hour, found the
prisoner Guilty of murder, but strongly recommended
him to mercy.

Hii Lonnsnir —On what grounds, gentlemen? The
Foreman—Because of our strong abhorrence of capital
punishment.
Ilia LORDSHIP-Oh that is a very foolish ground.
Any other or better ground? The Foreman—No, my
Lord.

His LORDSHIP having put on the black cap, in a most
impressive manner passed upon the prisoner the awful
sentence of the law, that he be hung by the neck till he
was dead, and his body to be buried within the precincts
of the gaol.