The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-14 00:00:00

GROUP XXXI X.

This Committee met at the usual hour this morning in
Room No. 23; Lord Charles Wellesley in the chair.
YOUR AND NEWCASTLE (HARTLEPOOL
DOCK AND RAILWAY BRANCHES).
The Committee were occupied the whole of the day in
hearing general evidence in favour of this scheme.

GROUP XLIII.
waTratrosm AND LIMERICK.
The Ceromittee •
met this morning at the usual hour; Mr.
Protheroe in the chair.
'The object of the Bill,.
make several
v,, which was passed last session, is to
deviations,. in order to improve the old line,
wnohtit.„,.hitwbatsbnautrveae}:anti,:iFort.iiderable haste, and consequently
that success which the promoters
had subsequently bestowed upon The principal
is at Bansha, in Tipperary.ipal
and the only one opposes, ‘ll'`'n it. deviation,
Mr. Osborn, the engineer of the line, was examined rela- l
tire to the proposed deviatienweautl .he town of Bansha. It
appeared that the old line
Catholic place of worship, and he stated through a Roman
had been proposed in order to avoid this, the deviation
thnnenstesilet;.l:,,:
his
bed
for
class of Irish were opposed to 0:11_1,7, as the lower
"Ile
chTtiiti;itants
burialegrounds being interfered with. and
ever, that a memorial had been got up by th,,Btted, bow-
y Lord, -_I beg"
in favour of the old line, as it would interfere
get compensation. ,ea .I.‘ INI,
-“,P s attention— to
S. ecretary of State foralll.
e,
rllyi. irnegs'pselc3tefnuci
respectfully
Bench-walk, a
solicitlk, liiayy
03u,
rl 84,7.
Lord-
washouses tor which they expected to
bieme,lf;sir F.nlLi"r",;letay,NaVr:noirotth
theette which I addressed to you as
not aware that the timber which would be severed 1,,,--
,faist,i,jetro,the
,ir.....__s_an,es Colonies,conn on the 24th tilt., rela-
the deviation was above forty year; of age. The deviatiriii
eectveadstslvith the recal of m y
i frothn sw
it , the Govern m r r 1 t of Van
was, in hip opinion, much better Iran the old line, both ~,, ith
regard t, the expense and difficulty of construction. The old
yeeeand direction, gdreater magnitude
line Was 40t up with considerable haste in consequence of the "Althotl-bl.
emmand your Lord-
these msuaret
,menrite: father:at:rigy, at a
ai
vner r i v
eed
short time which was allowed to Mr. Vignoles to survey it and and importlnce aoTtnhe transactions
direction,
to have these l a your Lord-
; mart it
red
dc:l
partei
fa r, d:
prepare the plans. A saving of about 8 0001. upon the ship's superintende
original estimate would be effected by this deviation. He ship will excuse m
someti.iomln-e
believed :he reason some of the inhabitants of Banslia op- up, as far as they can bnexitf
po,;ed the deviation was, that they might get their land charges of immoral condure'tnia
our mo a ss t
taken, and be well paid for it. There was a great desire cularly as I have learned fromg,aei
amongst the poorer class of owners of land in Ireland, to the colony that he had been confined
..,,f, i', in nrli, t hat they might obtain the means of emigrate before they left Hobart Town by
ing to America. produced, by the treatment he has experienced
M. Walsh, a landowner gave evidence in favour of the , anxious to forward him by the next mail such intelligence and I am
3.,
1..... . I. l'he old line would injure thirty-two houses ,nd may give him relief.-1 have the honour to be,
, ~•,, v eighteen. Generally speaking, the deviation would obedient servant,
be nicre esst:utial and less injurious to the branches. Ent . "J. E. EARDLEY WILMOT.
three acres would be taken from the park of Mr. Baker al "The Bight lion. Earl G:ey, &c., tic.,
gentlemen residing near the town. One part of the line I Stcre ;:ry of tate for the Coloniej."

" I confidently appeal to your Lordship, as administrator
of the affairs of our colonial empire, and not as a member of
a Whig Cabinet, to see justice done to an oppressed public
servant. The injury that has been done can never be
«graced. But it is in the power of your Lordship to remore
the unfavourable impression upon the public mind, by stat-
ing in Parliament. that from documents last received from
the colony, your Lordship is satisfied that the rumours pre-
judicial to my father's character are without foundation.

" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
" Your most obedient servant,
" J. E. EARDLEY WILMOT.
" To the light Hon. Earl Grey, &c., &c., &c.,
" Secretary of State for the Colonies."

"Downing-street, May 6,1847.
" Sir-1 am directed by Earl Grey to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your letter of the 24th ultimo, i❑ which you call his
Lordship's attention to the terms of a dispatch, marked
Secret,' of the 30th of April, 1846, which was addressed
by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to Sir Eardley -Wilmot at the
period of his recal from the government of Van Diemen's
Land.

"In reply, I am directed to acquaint you that being, as
Lord Grey had already stated, ignorant of the grounds upon
which that dispatch was written, it is impossible fur his
Lordship to express any opinion regarding it, and that it is
the less necessary to do so, as Mr. Gladstone's own answer
to the letter which has been addressed to him by Sir E. E.
Wilmot, after receiving that dispatch, has been printed, and
all the documents which have since been received from the
colony upon the subject will be presented to both Houses of
Parliament. Lord Grey directs me further to observe, that
there is this additional motive for his abstaining from ex-
pressing any opinion upon this painful subject, that his Lord-
ship coild not do so without stating that the reasons as-
signed by Mr. Gladstone in his public dispatch for the Twat
of Sir Eardley Wilmot appear to him to be quite sufficient to
justify that step.—l have the honour to be, Sir. your most
obedient servant, " B. HAWES.
"To J. E. Eardley Wilmot, Esq., 11, King's Bench-walk."

" 11, King's Bench .walk, May 7, 1847.
" Sir,—l beg to acknowledge your letter of yesterday's
date, being a reply to one which I had addressed to Earl
Grey on the 24th ult., asking his Lordship, as Secretary of
State for the Colonies, to remark in his place in Parliament
upon additional documents lately received from Van Dieinen's
Land, the same having reference to a ' secret dispatch.'
written by Mr. Secretary Gladstone to my father, Sir E.
Eardley Wilmot, at the time of his recal from the govern-
ment of that colony.
" I regret to find, by the reasons assigned by Earl Grey for
non-interference in this matter, that his Lordship does not
consider the Colonial-office, as at present constituted, to be a
tribunal qualified to take cognizance of charges made by a
former Secretary of State for that department.
" I hope you will excuse my observing, with reference to
the concluding paragraph of your letter, that I do not ex-
actly see how Lord Grey's approval of the public grounds
on which my father was recalled can in any way influence
his Lordship in declining to express an opinion upon a mat-
ter of a totally different character and complexion. All I
asked his Lordship to do, was to ground upon the basis of
documents lately arrived an acquittal of charges made
against my father's private character. I felt that the public
reasons assigned by Mr. Gladstone for his recal embraced
matters which it would have been impertinent in me in
any way to discuss or interfere with.
"The bar of public opinion being now the only tribunal to
which my father can appeal with hope of justice, I must
beg his Lordship's permission to make this correspondence
public.
"The case of an individual, however humble in itself, be-
comes important when it shows the disadvantages under
which a public servant labours when attacked by other than
positive and specific charges; arid that ministers of state do
not act upon the principles of our English law, when they
give credence to allegations unsupported by testimony—to
allegations which they may afterwards find themselves in a
position where they cannot give the injured party an oppor-
tunity of refuting by evidence, and thus entitling himself to
a fair anti honourable acquittal.
"I have the honour to be, Sir,
" Your most obedient servant,
"J. E. EARDLEY WILMOT.
"To B. Hawes, Esq., &c.
"Under Secretary of State for the Colonies."