The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-23 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Apra 22.
Ito Lo RD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
sick at Five
_ o'clock.
LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT

(IRELAND).
Lion on
marquis of 'WESTMEATH said he had a mo
nn the notice paper connected with the law of
40,2010 rd and tenant in Ireland, which he begged to post-
Pone till after Thursday the 29tn, in order that the
secon dreading of the Government Bill upon that subject
is. mightnot be interrupted. The Noble Lord then read
"l Motion, which was partially altered. He continued to
aay, that as he was upon his legs, it was his most painful
haveto bring forward a matter which he would rather
refrained from. But as he had the crime resting
urn hint of being an Irish proprietor he would not,
Lordships might be assured, stand as a butt to any
order whatever in the performance of his duty as a
member of Parliament. Ile admitted, that if any mem-
erinf the British Parliament rose up in his place and
spoke on any subject he was open to have his conduct
Criticised.
th He found no fault with that ; but he did not
bbbat3e3e, when he rose in the House as an Irish Peer, to
misiee the ground cut from under him by misstatefoumnedits,
h were nut forth for the purpose of nng
11P°11 those '
or bgrounds arguments that might cejol.
ansbooxle—(Laughter) the friends of Ireland.
elemight possibly have laid himself open to ridi
but the tendency of such misrepresentation-
ballet
had been the subject of would Le to direct the
of the assassin to his person. The Times news-
tfPec of Wednesday last, in the report of the business
he had
Lordships' House, had put into his mouth what
nad not said, an l had as carefully kept out what he
,le.taannY did say. Th= Noble Lord then referred to thk-
OVnrt in the columns ci the Times, and lakuied that he
I complained of ridicule on the pAt of the Noble and
arned Lord.—(The Noble Lord here entered into a
:Petition of his statement and the provisions of the
;Leasure, which was withdrawn on Tuesday evening.) He
repeated that he did not complain of ridicule on the part
tblthe Noble and Learned Lord, who he knew was as
in the discharge of his peculiar duties as any Lord
Chancellor that had ever acted heretofore, and charac-
st,ed for the amiability of his nature. But he did
-"LIK that Noble Lord had misrepresented both his ar-
- "eats and his measure. Some one, however, for some
hatito Ind—some miscreant unseen, scribbling for his hire,
chosen to misrepresent his wiirds and his statements.
.3144 newspaper also contained the same serious
said Presentation. He assured their Lordships that he
:_ald no such thing as was imputed' to him. He objected
:1 the attempt which had been made to raise a laugh in
c4,le rfouie, instead of meeting the objections of his Bill.
itedsevvvyaaas there
asa representative Peer of Ireland,
present
donhtisadwufuty. determined, cost what it might, in the
which hung over his, country,
the Earirnters
to put a e hoped, by their Lordships support,
stop to this evil, and he begged to move that
ns,_otion.
the of those two newspapers should be called to
of the House. He intended to persevere in the
The Noble Lord concluded by saying "I beg
Ilbpseertacar
_I•oa move that the printers of the Times and Sun news-
trtlled to the bar of the II u-e Co answer for
the privileges of your Lordships' House."
Lord BROUGHAM said, that if their Lordships
tiiiitsved the galleries to be occupied, there was no doubt
voultdhat the reports which were made to the public
be made in a spirit perfectly fair and honest.
felt the necessity for that as entirely as his Lord-
eoLdid, and he thought the departure from such a
re-
mind deserving of censure. He would, however, re-
both his Lordship that the plan usually acted upon in
tee_ gooses of Parliament was to avoid needlessly in-
ee.',ering in such things. That their Lordships had an
ga-erubted right to prevent strangers from entering the
diertiyheoißrf their Lordships' House there could be no
uLtort
Lordships
were not excluded, and at the same
ships should consider
.that those persons
ea: gave an account of their proceedines were, he might
With,
not in 99 cases out of 100, but in 999 cases out of
Wrtuho, actuated by strictly honourable motives, and cave
the singular ability and most admirable impartiality;
account of what passed within their Lordship
douse.es, „, He ho ed, therefore, that his Noble Friend
qn-r deem the notice he had taken of the circumstance
ti-."? sufficient, without pressing the matter any further.
4ov "edest.d, never seen any-any good arise, either to their
ens ."1138 House or to the other House, from needlessly
ernes into a conflict with any portion of the public
4" of this country. It bad been said that he (Lord
esZghatn) had expressed. it as his opinion that the press
not, tlebest public instructor of the country. Be did
Press however,
mean by the term "press" the newspaper
nernit only, but what he meant was, that the press ge-
l-le-I:Cr
atdhveisbeesatiepossible instructor of the country.
krthw Noble Marquie not to take any
tb_ er step in the matter; fur it was his opinion, that
was which his Lordship had taken of the subject
4 Sufficient.dise Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the great
Panurt"ltY in this case was to prove malevolence on the
ace_ Of those who were accuse-I. It aa, merely en iti-
A,L7ra.cy of the reporter. Such practices as the N,ble
ts (Westmeath) spice of could not pos-
yit_ take place on any respectabl. new,paper.
sides
opportunity was alli-rded to any.
:40°1 Noble es'
:Merannber Who might be misrepresented ?t
I.4''p.ng any mistakes that might be eche:mated. Their
repor,ciPs should consider the difficult position in which
that, porters were laced—bear( hear )—and he trust, d
not
eimder theses ircumstances, the Noble Lord would
The
in his motion.
he Marquis of WESTMEATH said, that since
es: found it was the wish of their Lord-
IV; he would not persist in his motion.
rowever, he must say, that in the pres,nt state of Ire-
anl, it was very necessary that there should be a true
statement of what he said, and that the mi.representa-
t,VuS of the press should not be used against him.
There was an article in the 7 irtzes containing most
scurrilous abuse of him. Upon that he looked with
contempt ; but still he must say that, coupling that ar-
ticle with the report, he believed the misrepresentation
was deliberate. But, as their Lordships were agreed,
he would not persist in his motion.--(hear, hear.)
The LORI) CHANCELLOR said that the observa-
tions which he had made, he confined entirely to the
Bill before their Lort ships.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH said he believed that
the Noble and Learned Lord was incapable of acting in
any unamiable manner, but he did feel that he had not
been well treated.
The motion was then withdrawn.
POOR-LAW (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord KENYON presented a petition from the vestry
of Alarylebone in favour of the Poor-law (Ireland) Bill.
The Earl of CLANCARTY laid on the table petitions
from the county of Roscornm n, and the medical profes-
sion in the county of 'Trine, against the Poor-law
(Ireland) Bill.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who was imper-
fectly beard, was understood to say that the Poor-law
(Ireland) Bill was not what the Noble Earl had repre-
sented it, and did not contain any clause conferring a
general right to out-door relief to the poor of Ireland.
The Earl of FITZ WILLIAM wished to ask the
Noble Marquis (Lansdowne), if, in the event of the Bill
for the Suppression of Vaisrancy in Ireland not passing
into law in the other House, the Government would pro-
„Ceed with the other two measures, the Poor-law and the
""'anded Property Bills?
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said it would be
Presumptuous in him to sate what course would be
adopted in the event of the other House not passing into
a, law the Bill referred to. No exertion, however, would
oe wanting on the part of the Govt rument to carry all
the measures they bad introduced in connexion with
Ireland.
The subject then dropped.
Lord MONTEAGLE presented a petition against
any alteration in the Navigation Laws.
EDUCATION.
. The Bishop of LLANDAFF presented several peti-
tions in favour of the Government scheme of education.
Earl FITZWILLIAM. presented several petitions
against the Government scheme of education.
Similar petitions were presented by Lord VIVIAN and
the Marquis of LANSDOWNE.
The Martinis of LANSDOWNE presented petitions
from the inhabitants of Wakefield, the churchwardens
arid others of the parish of Stepney, and other places, in
favour of the Govornment scheme.
• Lord DENMAN presented two similar petitions on
the same subject.
POOR-LAW (IRELAND).
Lord RODEN presented a petitiou against a poor-law
for Ireland.
FEVER (IRELAND) BILL.
The Earl of CLARENDON moved that the it Lord.
ships should go into Committee on this Bill. The pre
sent Bill was one brought in for the purpose of making
some amendments in the Bill passed last session upon
this subject.
Lord MONTEAGLE considered that some difficulty
- would be found in obtaining the necessary super
vision under the provisions of this Bill, arising
from the great extent of the unions of Ireland,
some of them containing upwards of 500.000 acres,
and he thought that some amendments might be intro-
• duced in the Bill to remedy this defect. Any amend-
ments that he might at a future stage of the Bill propose
to their Lordships should be framed in such a manner
as not to defeat or affect the principle of the Bill. This
. Bill has been more or less obstructed by disputes among
the medical profession itself, and Parliament had allowed
its efforts to be neutralised by the party squabbles of
local medical boards. He thought that the time had
now arrived when such considerations should not ope-
rate, but the Government should come forward and
Make such enactments as the emergency of the case re-
quired.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH said, that consider-
ing the expense of the education of the medical profes-
sion in Ireland, and the facility that was afforded for
obtaining diplomas in Scotland, and ,elsewhere, he
thought that there should be an amendment to protect
the members of the medics! profession in Ireland, and
would propose an amendment to that effect.
The Earl of CLANCARTY—His Noble Friend op-
Prlsite had spoken of the disputes among the medical
profession in Ireland having impeded the efforts of the
uL ov
of that
en this subject. He must say, in justice to
tue medical profession, that those distinguished mem-
bersthat profession, who had come before the House
last session, and to others who had sent petitions, sup-
Porting th© views of the Government, that they were
actuated by motives quite different to those attributed to
them.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE could assure the,
Rouse that it was the earnest wish of her Majesty's
Government to deal satisfactorily with the medical pro-
fession in Ireland; but they had to deal first with that
subject which concerned all parties.
After a few words from the Earl of CLARENDON and
Lord MONTEAGLE their Lordships went into Committee.
The Rill having gone through Committee, the Chair-
PAU reported accordingly, and the Bill was ordered to
be read a third time to-morrow (this day).
Their Lordships then adjourned.