The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-29 00:00:00

MALTA.

In reply to a question from Mr. GOULBURN,
Mr. HAWES stated that the effect of the appoint-
ment of a civil governor of Malta would be to place an
increased charge upon the army estimate.
NEW WRIT.

A now writ was ordered for Thetford in the room of
the Right lion. W. B. Baring, now Lord Ashburton,
who has been called to the House of Peers.
STATE OF IRELAND.

On the order of the day for going into a Committee of
Supply,
Mr. S. CRAWFOfID moved that the present dis-
tracted state of Ireland demands the instant attention of
Parliament, with a view to the speedy enactment of
such measures as may be necesary to improve the con-
dition, redress the grievances. and establish the just
rights of the Irish people, and thereby promote the good
order and prosperity of that portion of the United
Kingdom, and give increased security to her Majesty's
Crown and Government. If the House assented to that
proposition, he should follow it up by another similar to
that which had been proposed by the Noble Lord in
1844, via., that the House resolve into a Committee of
.she whole House to take into consideration the state of
Ireland. On this occasion he appealed to British Mem-
bers of this House on behalf of his unfortunate country,
and the question was, what was to be done for Ireland?
If they were ignorant of what was to be done for Ire-
land, it was their own fault, for they had had the infor-
mation on their records for years. He took this up as
an English Member—as an English question. He charged
the British Parliament and the Government with having
deeply wronged his country by a long course of. op-
pression. He charged them with being the perpetrators
of wrong, as they could redress it, and they would
suffer if they did not redress it. When the Noble Lord
moved for a Committee on the state of Ireland in 1844,
he had said—Why is Ireland in the condition of being
occupied by a military power ? The condition of Ire-
land, if it was bad then, was infinitely worse now. The
general condition of Ireland might be collected from the
report of the landlord and tenant commission. The ac-
count of the Irish in that report was, that they were
badly housed, badly clothed, badly fed, and badly paid
for their labour. Again, in the poor-law inquiry com-
mission we had a record of the condition of Ireland. The
commissioners described a great proportion of the
of life, as inhabiting wretched hovels, and
po-
pulation as insufficiently provided with the common ne-
cessarieslYing in straw which was insufficient to cover them.
The state of Ireland was such that men were obliged to
live upon a meal of potatoes in the day, and
sometimes less than a sufficient quantity. In
fact, an extermination of the people was going
on to a certain extent, and whilst enormous
rates bad been raised in some parts of the country, no
exertion had been made to give a reproductive and proper
employment to the people. There were vast tracts of
land lying waste its Ireland which might be brought into
111=lenoad c up_
profitable cultivation, and why, he would ask, was that
itllrieescsajosne.?
Wlthyhavleraeritsheiel from ini stigsoov edie.
upon Ire-
dition? It was in cousequente of partial
land
were iament.
slaves, ae
laws, which had inflicted for centuries
Ire-
land, those laws being enacted by a British°"Bunjust
The people had been created as if they
masters; and what
the landlords as if they were their
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, lt was that the
waspeople
the
were result
involved of that
uon—that they were
swtaerrevinagc.tuaTllhy
The demands of the
over
and lrish people for in a state of dentittLst' laiserY—
that
they
jus-
tice had been refusedover again, not only
since the union, but previously,
,
with England, and were retnsec
union they demanded a tree trade" y.
grossest corruption were .t
Government by Mr. Grattan, upon an equality
whilst . charges of the
broughtund against the British
unanswered. The
Oa= of his alluding to those charges was, that they