The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-28 00:00:00

The :-,Pk'AXER resumed the Chair at Five o'clock, when
there was au unusually lull attendance of Members.
FALSE RUMOURS.—STATE OF
IRELAND.
eION SELL shortly after one or two unimportant
petitions had been presented rose, amidst almost breath-
less silence, and said —Sir, seeing the Right Hon.
Baronet. the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment in his place, I wish to put a question to him with
reference to the rumours that have reached this city to-
day with regard to the state of Ireland.—(Sensation.)
I am happy to know that a great many of these rumours
are entirely false.—(Cheers.) And I am sure I only
express the feeling of the House when I say that a
more heartless or disgraceful rumour was never
perpetrated than that which has been cir-
culated to-day.—(Loud cheers.) I do not know
whether there is any means that the Right Hon.
Baronet could make use of to prevent the electric tele-
graph from being used for such disgraceful purposes,
but I am sure if the Right Honourable Baronet has
the power to do so, he will take care to prevent
a recurrence of these disgraceful practices.--(Cheers.)
The question I wish to ask him first is, what accounts
he has received from Ireland; and, secondly, do these
accounts confirm the statement that the whole of the
south of Ireland is in open insurrection?
Sir GEORGE GREY—I have great satisfaction in
stating that I have every reason to believe that the
alarming accounts which have appeared in the: later
editions of the morning papers, and which were trans-
mitted this morning from Liverpool by the electric
telegraph, to the effect that an open insurrection had
actually broken out in the south of Ireland, are totally
destitute of truth.—(Loud cheers.) Sir, on re-
ceiving the first copy of the paper transmitted
to me containing the intelligence, said to have
been sent from Liverpool this morning, I disp itched
a letter to the Honourable Member for Stoke -upon-
Trent, to induce him to forward a communication. by the
electric telegraph to the Mayor of Liverpool, rev testing
to know from him what information had been ia .ceived
in Liverpool from Ireland, and I received a dispatch
from that functionary by the electric telegraph, ;stating
that the information published this morning was 'accom-
panied from Ireland by a letter, of which the following
is a copy. (The letter was dated Dublin, Wecb iesday
evening, and represented that Mr. Conway, of the Dublin
Evening Post, had received from the Cis, stle a
most dreadful rumour, which he was eh( ,ut to
publish in a second edition of that paper.) The writer
then went on to say that he took advantag a of a
Queen's messenger going off at the moment for I .ondon
to forward the intelligence in a parcel to Messrs . Will-
mer and Smith, of Liverpool, who no doubt would to •ansmit
it to London by the electric telegraph. The Mayo! • of Li-
verpool about an hour after this further communi.c ated to
me that he was perfectly satisfied that the Irish. intelli-
gence contained in the paragraph published in the
morning papers was utterly untrue, unless Govern-
ment had received a dispatch from Lord Cl.a rendon
confirming it. He also states that a Queen's mes-
senger certainly had arrived from Dublin by a
steamer this morning, and he left Liverpool by the
half-past six express train. Now, it is perfectly true
that a Queen's messenger was dispatched from 'Dublin
last night. I had sent him over with a dispatch,. stating
that the Bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act had
received the Royal assent, and he left Dublin with a
dispatch from the Lord-Lieutenant yesterday evening,
and arrived in London by the express train this r ac Tning
at half-past one o'clock. This dispatch certainly d, at zribes
the state of the country in the neighbourhood of Clc inure],
Carrick, and Thurles to be dreadful, but in reit it ion to
any actual outbreak it is perfectly silent, and m a'kes no
mention whatever.—(Hear, hear.) I have s evil the
messenger, and he states that he left Dublin tit three
o'clock yesterday afternoon, but he assures me tl tat he
brought no parcel or letter for any private party- what-
ever. The messenger is stated to have come over by a
special steamer from Kingston yesterday ; th at he
started at three o'clock by the steamer which was
reported to have had the Queen's messengi a. on
board. Now, no Queen's messenger came ce ier in
that steamer; but I have received letters from the Lord-
Lieutenant, written after the departure of the 44 10025
messenger yesterday afternoon, which contain In allu-
sion to those frightful accounts. lam also assur ed by
an Hon. Member that the Hon. Gentleman the Ja amber
for Totnes left Dublin yesterday by the steamer which
leaves at seven o'clock, and that everything was tran-
quil when he left—that no rumour of the kim I had
reached his ears when the steamer left the pc rt. I
will only add that I certainly shall ends avour
to trace the wilful originator of the report..-4 (Loud
cheers.) I have now given all the information :in my
power; and it enables me to concur with the lic.nour-
able Gentleman, that these reports were fabricate d for
a wicked and malicious purpose. With respect to
the state of Ireland, I may only add, that by the
letters which I have receive from the Lord-Lieu teelant,
it appears that Sir Charles Napier had arrived at the
port with his squadron—(Hear, hear)—with an able and
ample body of troops, who, I am sure, are always
ready to discharge their duty with unflinching brt 'very.
and who are, therefore, entirely free from the imputa-
tions which the reports circulated this day hare naost
unfoundedly cast upon them.—(Cheers.)
Mr. HAMILTON considered the Right Hon. Baronet
had sufficiently answered the question which h ad been
put to him. In the event of any partial outbrea k great
excitement would be the natural resalt ; and th erefore
he thought it would, in such a case, be the duty o I every
loyal Irish subject in this country to put himself at the
disposal of her Majesty's Government either for the
purpose of suppressing insurrection or tranquillis ing the
excited minds of that people.—(llear, hear.) He there-
fore begged to ask whether it was the wish of t he Go-
vernment that Irish Members now in London sh ould at
once leave this country and immediately pros teed to
their estates and the particular localities with which
they were connected, for the purpose of perform ing the
duty he had stated—(Hear, hear)—and it so what
course the Government intended to pursue with 'respect
to Irish business ?
Sir G. GREY—Several gentlemen connect(' d with
Ireland have called upon me in the course of tl se day,
and expressed their readiness to proceed at once 03 those
parts of Ireland where they considered their E lervices
would be available in tranquillising the minds , of the
people.—(Hear, hear.) Although, as I have stated,
from the information I have received from Liver-
pool, that I believe the rumour totally d estitute
of information, yet in the excited state of the c iountry,
where the insurrection is stated to have brol :en out.
I think Irish gentlemen of property, of character, and
of influence, cannot do better than proceed at once to
that country, and exert themselves to maintain tl ic peace
of the country..-(Hear, hear.) My Noble Fri. Ind has
instructed me to say, that in the event of Irisl t Mem-
bers leaving town, he will not proceed with the Land-
lord and Tenant Bill.
Sir ARTHUR BROOKE considered that Irish Mem-
bers would do well by adopting the advice thrown
out. In the ncrth of Ireland there were man y well"
affected men, but if it was necessary that they ' should
come forward in the defence of the country, h, j hoped
the Government would take the precaution to provide
them with arms and ammunition. He the, ight it
necessary to make this observation, since an inn sression
had gone abroad that they were well provide d with
arms. Now they were totally destitute of arm s; they
were, in fact, without any means of defence what-
ever, except some old yeomanry muskets whit h were
altogether useless. He hoped the Government would
give them the means of defending themselves ar id their
country.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir G. GREY here arose again, with a paper r in bill
hand, and said, I have since received a further co comuni"
cation from the same quarter on this subject. l ,t states
that Messrs. Wilmer and Smith are the agents for the
London morning newspapers at Liverpool ; that a cab-
man, at seven o'clock this morning, drove
up to their office, and delivered to th em
parcel, which contained the news that ha d been
transmitted to the London papers, and which I have
read to the House, stating that it was to be sent by the
seven o'clock special train, and that it was by special
favour of the Queen's messenger. He stated 1 hat be
had received it from a Queen's messenger.
Mr. HERBERT inquired when the Noble L( Ird in-
tended to proceed with the Landlord and Tenant .Bill
Lord J. RUSSELL—I mean to postpone that 1 till for
a fortnight; and in case Irish Members are not in yaosval
I certainly shall not proceed with it.—(Hear.)
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL considered that the /sTobla
Lord might as well postpone it for six mom hs for
whether Irish Members were obliged to go to Ire La/I'd or
not, it could not be proceeded with this session.
SUGAU.
The CHANCELLOR oDf theTIES EXCFIEQUI
answer to a question from Lord George Bentinck, , state"
that he proposed to go into Committee on the Sugar
Duties Bill on Monday next, and he would thei a stir°
the course he intended to pursue.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
A message from the Lords informed the Hon ra that
their Lordships had agreed to the following 3
Amendments to Ecclesiastical Districts Assign, vent-:
Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway (Extension as id
viation, without amendment—London and 1 Vertu.,
Western Railway (Branches arid Extensions from Le tia
mington, &c.)—Edinburgh and Glasgow Railwa _
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Ra
(Amendment of Acts)—Dundee and Arbroath Ra.l vi_a•A
(Dundee Junction), with an amendment—Stirling and
with Amendments.
(Amendment and Deviate/ 19),

LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) BILL C•
In answer to a question from an Hort. MEMBER,
Lord J. RUSSELL said it was not his intention to
proceed with this Bill in the present session.
Several Members called upon the Noble Lord not to
po-tpone the measure to another session.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not,
consistent with big
duty, recommend the further proceeding with the Bill in
the absence of the Irish Members, who had been advis ea
to go immediately to Ireland to do all in their power to
put down the disaffection that prevailed in that counntp