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London, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

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reglaridt while in Ireland they would use their ut ehileihrTs esseh
veto to annfialate it altogether. When flue yen e 44 ssse,„sse__=.,..,••;:a
lust i died in place of tithes, he told them their wo 'a litilL'is - - es-
hut he aho told then it would only be a lull, and :lee-Ws Mi,,,17 41°' .s,
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tent was spreading fat and wide throughout 'ire] "ss ' ..esf, Pire---S,-,4' 4
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had been fewer agrarian disturbances or outrageg ha* • ''' - 3:h: tepee
Vision of the present Government to office than in . ir''' ars. ' '
nerl6ll of the history of Ireland. The consequence - e •
landlords end incoming tenents, finding themselves satillgrahly.a. oa ,_, .a,
the poor and Wretched people mat of their hovels—they_- Weir s-A s'svha N
thrown out in hundreds to die by the way side. Crime wa.
increasing ' • within the last fortnight two of the most ate oeitar
Waterier& had been committed of any upon record—committede
too, not upon the enemies of the people, but' upon two men
who all their lises supported Liberal principles, • 31r. Hall and
itits Butler Bryan, and they had arisen out of disputes as to
land. New if the incoming, or at least the expectant Adminis-
tration were togive Ireland Orangemen for Magistrates, . parti-
san Sheriffs, and peeked juries—nay, if upon the Bench thee
were to see bigoted enemies to the religion of the Irish people.
could it be expected that they would suffer it in patience andt
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His predecessor le.d brought the country to such a sate of
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quietude that he repealed the Insurrection Act. The Right
lien. Baronet had not. been two years in office until he intro-
awed the Peace Preservation Act, the Punishment of Assaults
Act, and another, all of which renewed the tyianny of the
former. In that year, too (in le14), he proclaimed himself
the champion of Orangeism; in July of that year he rose in his
place in Parliament and gave an account of the rise arid pro-
gress of Orangeism. The House might know how true it was
by the last sentence ,'f the eulogium. It was "S*
far from living liable to the charge brought against
them, their only fault was. .Au
exuberance of
loyalty."—( Laughter )
Was the maw e who said that
fit for the government of Ireland ?—( Cheers 4 Did he
..re-
member the Report of the Orange Committee? ~Did. he re- .
member the unanimeus vote of that House condermanrY
el
that: body?—yet " their only fault was an exuberwthee
loyalty." He jslllr. O'Connell) remembered the time whet: no
man was appointed to any office whatever who was root A
bigoted Orangeman. He remembered the time when an Afte
torney-General dared to write to a Chief Justice, desiring hires
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to call the gentlemen of the Grand Jury and Magistrates into-.
his private room, and, endeavour Or
peraeade them against Ca-
tholic emancipation—thus calling upon him to tamper with the
Jury upon a great political question ; - yet fkat,.letter was de,-
fended by the Right Hon. Baronet. He could tie( well muse w
indeed but he glozed it over, and preve- ted any ntgeiat notice
•
of it being taken. He established a force of yeomanry 32,1)00
ess
strong-0,900d them were in the prioviesse of Ulster, and from
that period down many victims had beert yearly sacrificed era
the anniversary of their orgies. It was elite probably link _
known that theelislster Yeomanry opposed the teetotal move-.
ment ; they even fired into their meetings; so violent were they . •
that the Archbishop of that province had requested Father
Mathew to abstain from entering his province until assured of
his safety. He would ask if Hon. Gentleman opposite were
in power, would not every Magistrate who had been remi,,e4
from the bench be restored ? Would not the bench be again
ei o A-dent with -I he bigetod euemits of the people? Five Judges
hid been made:deriiig the la,t ten }ears, not ose of whom
could be accused of any political partizanship. But on tire
other side, there were Judges now upon the bench who oughC
to have retired long ago ; one was upwards of tilt years of age ;-
he had gone circuit for three years. and his mind was gone, yet
he remained on the bench, in order that no one should be raised
to it in his place who was friendly to the people. They would
have Judges placed on the bench who had publicly stated their
belief that a Catholic did not think himself bound by an oath ; •
in what situation would a Catholic prisoner' with a Catholic,
witness, be placed in before such a man ?—( Cheers.) It was
said that these things could not now be inflicted upon Ireland ;
but the Right Hon. Baronet could not govern without the aid
of the party, and the ten years in which they had been muzzled
had not tamed them—the spirit remainedstal. But what svasthe
sits, ation of things in England? Had not one-third of tie gen-
tlemen opposite obtained their seats by uttering the most
atrocious calumnies against the people of Ireland and their re-
ligion ? " Surpliced :ruffians," " demoniacal priesthood;"
•• villains "—these were the epithets showered upon the min's-
ters of religion. He had thought it his dnty to protest aeainst
men, supported by the utterers of such vile language, coming
into office, for it would destroy the last hope of the people •ef
Ireland. They had the Diarists with them now, but how long
would they keep them after they obtained power ?—( Cheers. ) .
He would remind them that during the disturbances in this
country the people of Ireland repudiated the Chartists alto-
gether.—(Cheers.) They refused their aid—they (the Tories)
now courted it.—(Loud cheers.) Were they not all aware
that they had ben courted, aye, and paid at Notting- .
ham ?—(Loud cheers.) Well, they had the Chartists now ;
but would they go along with the Chartist movement, or
would they put theca down ? Suppose they were
to break out again, upon such an attempt being mkde, would
the then Government look to Ireland for support? Would
they look to Ireland and withdraw 10,000 soldiers to maintain
peace ? No, they world instead have to send tens or thou-
&ands into that unhappy country, to keep the people 'down.
What were their prospects in this country ? There never was
a period of greater distress than the present. There were
small 'wages and lessening employment. The Government
offered to reduce their burdens, and give more employment.
What said the other side ? Let things alone, and they .vini
beiter themselves. But before doing so, was there no danger
to the most important institutions of the country? A noble-
man in another Owe was reported to have cried out in horror,
.. What, test the bread of the people !"—( A laugh.) Poor
man, hi r Was a man of but one idea—when a second
one ros&to'bis brain, he became confused. He knew that it
must be %ax when it went into the Treasury and relieved the
people from other burdens ; but he ebuld not conceive that it
could possibly be a tax when a larger impost went into his-own
pockets and those of his class. He and those opposite refused
to give their starving countrymen cheap bread. Oh, they were
more cruel to this country -than they were even to Ireland_
They refused the people cheap sugar because they discovered
for the first time that they had among them ardent advocates
for the abolition of slavers.—(Hear, hear.) But would,Hon.
Gentlemen opposite vote with him for admitting sugar at a
cheap duty which was not slare.grown ? No. Si hey would
not. Did Hon. Gentlemen opposite who hoped to draw out
the militia in Ireland, know that in two counties of Ireland
only was there a majority of Protestants, and in these cesspits
the people who enjoyed some comforts, would' not tikeltfti— - .---'''-"-.
against their fellow-countrymen? And yet Hoe. Gentlemen
talked of their governing Ireland. Perhaps they believed
that the people of that country might be conciliated by the
Noble Lord the Member for North Lancashire, -who was to be
the sweetener of their cup, their organ of peace in Ireland.
No • it was from the present administration alone that Ireland
could expect justice or tranquillity. He was aware he had
little to hope from the people of England, who were silenced
and oppres,ed by being placed within the range of tyranny and
corruption. It was only, however, he would repeat in MI.,
elusion, by coneiLation towards Ireland, that they wouLt .esta-
blish the security of the throne and the prosperity of the
country.—( Hear, hear. )
Mr. .LINDSAY denied that bribery had taken place, as
stated by the Hon. and Learned Member, at the English elec-
tions, as far as his knowledge went ; and it certainly had not
taken place in Sandwich fur which he had been so lately re-
turned. He would only add, that he should feel great plea-
sure in giving his vote in support of the resolution then before
the House.—( Hear.)
Sergeant JACKSON observed that the speech they had
just heard from the Hnn. and Learned Member for Dublin,
though alluding to so many topics, hid nsvcr once referred to
the immediate question then under consideration. The Hone
and Learned Member had ameng other miseetements in the
course of his speech, misrepresented the opinions of the Right.
Hon. Member for Oxford—he (Sergeant Jacksoe) would say
knowingly
,misrepresented.—(Cries of " Order.") He begged
pardon—he did not wish to say anything personally offensive
to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, bet he should ob-
serve that it was not usual in that House to attribute to
others sentiments which they had already repudiated.
On the question of the slave-grown sugar, the hon. Gentle-
man endeavours 1, by shif, ing and contrivances, to set himself
right with the advocates of negro slavery ; and, for that pur-
pose, he brought forward a motion for the admission of free-
labour sugar ; but the Hon. and Learned Member knew well
that suci. a resolution would he contrary to the spirit and letter
of treaties adopted by this country. The Hon. and Learned
Gentleman had sPoken of the present Government as the only
one which could confer justice or prosperity on Ireland. But
that very Government connived at the repeal movement of the
Hon. and Learned Member—a movement, which, if it suc-
ceeded, would be more injurious to both countries than any
measure ever adopted. Repeaters were now continued in ihe
Commission of the Peace arid offices of trust, while a gallant
Member of that House had been deprived of his commission
because he had proposed a party toast at a political meeting.
The truth was, that. a more one-sided and mischievous course
had never been adopted in any country thanby the present
Government in Ireland. But, in fact, it did not deserve the
name of a Government; fur, if they had a Goverruhe t., the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman, who was the nhsins
spring of the repeal agitation, would be obliged to
behave himself, and to conform himself to the laws.
.Then there had been an allusion to bribery and intimi-
dation at elections, and a charge had been made by
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman upon that head against. that
(the Opposition) party. But it did riot become an advocate
of Hon. Gentlemen opposite to bring forward such an accu-
sation ; for it appeared from the evidence taken before the
Committee of the House that the foulest ca-es of corruption
had been perpetrated upon their side. He had some ac-
quaintance wi-h the manoeuvres of the party opposite, and their
attempts to tamper with electors. He knew that a political
agent of: the Liberal party in Ireland had gone to the borough
of Bandon—he did not say whether recognised or not by any
one—but a political agent had gone down to the borough which
to
he (Mr. Sergeant Jaekson) represented, and had' ftrolnils
every Conservative elector who should vote aheoai
ap-
pointments for his son, and to every elector w
lie knew the
neutral a bum of motiey.—(Heart hear.)e deem them to
anx,ey of the Ministry to eject him, but shouldi- remain
The Hon. and
able though humble freemen of ii
tar
tenants
of the
.ed Gentleman had also talked of the unp_urchase-
do so, relying as he did upon the suppoarntdoonf.
Ants
L, arn
this country towards their ten sciont it was
iandk:rds of .
pressed a Metnber : no man was
the Hon. and Learned .
his ensues thaw
1 he wss.—S lh ar, hear, and
distrain them .gran
more ready to
eee see wit that no man in Ireland more severely upon
cries
of
"497der.
1.
to order. That Was totally t'ntrur.
said that the Hon. and Learned
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Mr. Sergeant SAL to defame the landlords of his country.
Mr. O'CONN.EI. L rose
Member had thought IR •
.skinned as not to listsu in return
and he should not be sot'-bir' a tsst himself. Was it not a fact
to certain charges brought. '5 ~•,,iman had distrained a tenant
that the Hon. and Learned u,.uk f
.rears of rent?—(Order.)
m plainer: theassa personal attack had
Mr. O'CONNELL co. p
not t 1.2 po:sibility of a re-
h had
while e•
teen made upon him,
the
Chair if that were in ,order.
11.)". He appealed to
made some observations
in April last (as we understood) ar rts
which did not
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reach us.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON said it would be art injuse:ce to
Ireland—it would be an atrocity to say one word ageless she
p •ieldness of the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin,. That
uprightness
and Learned Member had frequently put forward at-
tacks the landlords of Ireland in their absence, anti
complained of being himself attacked in his presences_
now
ilusl hdaega
thenon. and Learned Member venture to say that he
never distrained a tenant in the month of April for rent, due on
the 25th of March ? He (Mr. Sergeant Jackson) had been
assured of the fact by a gentleman on whose veracity he could.
rely. With respect to the disturbed state of Ireland, it was
not the conduct of the landlords that caused it, but the conch: et
pursued by Government in Ireland,—by the officials in the'
Castle of Dublin, who, when applied to for protection by the
landlord, met those latter with the sentence, " Property has
its duties, as well as its rights." Two murders of an airncious
nature had been lately committed in Ireland. Both the gentle-
mmn differed in eolities hem him (Mr. Jackson). The only
cause to which the murder of one of those gentlemen could be
attributed was, that he had desired to appropriate to his own
purposes certain porthole of his own land, of which some
tenants had been dispossesses. The consequent e was his mur-
der, and why ? Because the Hon. and Learned Gen,lematt
had dictated that no man ought to be removed from his lands
unless by a Jury of his countrymen. They were now called
n'
on to support a Government which allowed that Honour-
c country.—.(Hear,
ry
......liar, Bear,
? Learnede Me m he r
hear.) t
If .on
the disorganizingEulishme
o
tt go
able
nthe
who set on the Ministerial side of the House, knew the state •
into which the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin brought
Ireland, they would strenuously condemn his Conduct. With
.„si.tet to the want. of confidence manifested towards her Ma-
i,..ty•s ministers, and the consequence which 'ought no jaw
from it....uarnely• resignation
of offics,-the Right Hon. Gen.
tlevan, .the Secretary irl ,at W lad -
rawn,4 very nice dig*. .