The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-30 00:00:00

THE 1111S11 CHURCH.

Mr. GLADSTONE said with respect to the inconve-
nience the Irish members would encounter in their at
tendance on committees by the house meeting on Tuesday
morning, he hoped as the matter would last but a short
timo an effort would be made to get through the com-
mittee business as speedily as possible.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE-THE MAYOR OF

CORK.

Mr. GLADSTONE said he had now to make the
motion that the house would meet at two o'clock on
Tuesday morning next. There was the greatest desire to
get through the provisions of the bill as early as possible,
and with that view he bad to appeal to hon. members
who had motions on the paper, which it was their inten-
tion of proceeding with on the motion for going into
committee of supply. Most of those motions had
been postponed, and he did hope that the hon. member
opposite who proposed to call the attention of the
house to the cause of Lavelle versus Proudfoot
tried at the last Galway assizee. He had to say that as
yet the Attorney-General had not completed his arrange-
ments. The Government was in communication with the
Lord Lieutenant, in order to determine whether it
was desirable to propose any measure to Parlia-
ment to strengthen the repression and suppression
of outrage, as it would be impossible to proceed with-
out complete information. With respect to the re-
port that had boon published in the newspapers of the
speech of the chief magistrate of the second city in Ireland,
viz., tho Mayor of Cork, the Government at once took
steps to obtain correct information on the point. They
had received certain statements that the meeting at which
the objectionable remarks were uttered was not what
could 113 properly called a public meeting, as very few
persons were present. At present he u as not in a
position to say the words used were correctly
reported ; but as yet tLey had not received
the requisite information. If it should turn cut that words
were correctly reported, he need hardly say the Govern-
ment would be in a condition to take all those measures
it might lie proper to adopt. As the information on the
subject was as yet very imperfect; he hoped the lion.
member for Liverpool, after the statement he bad made,
would notit press forward his motion that evening, viz., to
call thlrattention of We house to recent events in Ireland.
- Sir E. PEEL said the right hon. gentleman said the
-Meeting was only a small one, and that the remarlo• had
not been nab in the capacity of Mayor of Cork—(no, no.),

—but b 3 that as it may, be should like to know whether
the Governmnit Imd received any telegram from the Mayor
of Cork to the effect that the remarks that he had ma(lo
were not intended to bear the inference that had been
put upon them.

Mr C. FORTESCUE said the Government were at the
present moment not better informed than other members
of the house, as the information they possessed was
all derived from the newspapers. Ho had taken
the best course he thought ho could adopt, viz., ho
had written to the resident magistrates in Cork to
know if the words of the mayor were correctly reported,
and to that inquiry he had not yet received a reply. He
thought they would all agree that it was most
desirable that that information should be in the
hands of Government before a discussion of the matter
was gone into. lie had just Lad a telegram placed in his
hands by an lion. friend, which was to the following effect,
that, pending
.th intentions of the Government ou the
subject, the municipal council would take no notice of the
matter, but the feeling of the council was entirely against
the mayor.
The motion for the house meeting as proposed on Tues-
day was non agreed to, and
Mr. GRAVES then proceeded to make his motion with
resrecc to the dangerous condition of certain parts of Ire-
laud. In the that place ho wished to know how a parson
who had b. en removed from the commission of the pence
had 1 eon appointed mayor of Coil; aud whether
ho was the same p ‘rsun who had never allowed a
sLigle opportunity to pass of making treasezable
spi oolies with resle to Engl :ml. lie It'd heard it
stated in sonic quarters that the d,eatiful state of
matte: s is Ireland was renianism cropping up in
another form, but Le did not believe that. He thought
the land question was the matter that lead to much of
the bloodshed that Lad taken place in Ireland, and in ad-
dition to that it became their duty to ascertain whether
there was any defect in the administration of the law in
Ireland, or whether the Lord Lieutenant was wanting in
firmness. Altogether the state of things in some parts of
Ireland was alarming and dreadful, and ho did hope that
Government would give the house somo assurance that
they were doing all in their power to put down crime and
outrage.
Mr. C. FORTESCUE said ho could assure the hon.
gentleman that the Government were not wanting in de-
sire to put down the crime that had now reached au alarm-
ing height. He must, however, remind the hon. member
but these agrarian crimes were not of su tden growth, as
they had began to show themselves when the present Go-
vernment came into office last year. The crimes,
it seemed, were chiefly confined to Tipperary and
Westmeath, and lie could assure the hon. gentleman the
Government would do all in their power to put down
the disturbed state of things in the strongest manner the
law allowed.

(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-LAST EVENING.
THE NIGHT HOUSES.

Mr. BRUCE, iu reply to the question as to what the Go-
vernment proposed with respect to the conflict of opinion
that had taken place between Mr. Knox and Sir Wm.
Bodkin, the assistant-judge, said the question was not so
much one of law, as the amount of 'evidence necessary to
ensure a conviction. Mr. Justice Blackburn had given an
opinion which referred to the matter, and he had that
afternoon received a letter from Deputy-Assistant Judge
Payne, which stated that the subject would come
on for consideration and decision before the Court of
Quarter Sessions to-morrow, and the course he proposed
was to wait until that decision had been given before they
took upon themselves the duty of amending the law in
order that it might be made sufficient to carry out wha t
was the obvious intention of the Legislature.