The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-26 00:00:00

',SATURDAY EVENING,' JUNE 26,

has taken place beyond the walls of the house. I Flail ,
not touch in detail upon those allusions which are con-
tained in the inquiry-et the hen. gentleman, because I
understand he himself now admits that ho has discovered
that they are founded on incorrect information. [Mr.
P. O'Brien—lt is only the first cart of my notice that
is incorrect.] The first part is incorrect, and the other
is not very accurate. (Laughter.) Now, with regard
to the intention of the Government on the subject to
which the hon. gentleman referred—namely, that of
landlord and tenant in Ireland, I may say this, that it is a
great many years - some five or six—since that question
was introduced into the discus,ions of this house, and
it has been frequently, and almost constantly, debated
since its introduction. I think and hope that all of us
—gentlemen on both sides of the house—have profited
by those frequent diseu,sions. It certainly is the inten-
tion of her Majesty's Government during the recess to
give their most earnest consideration to that question.
(Cheers.) My right honourable friend the Attorney-
General has already directed his attention to it, and I
shall be happy if he may he able at the reassembling
of Parliarneet to introduce a measure upon the ques-
tion of landlord and tenant in Ireland which may prove
a eati-factory and conclusive settlement of the question.
(C'heere.)
Mr. MAGUIRE defended himself against the obser-
vations of the hon. member for the King's County. He
(Mr. Maguire) bad been before the house tines 1852,
and he thought he might say that he had acted through-
out the part of an independent member. It was net
owing t) his vote that the present Government was in
power. He had voted for the noble lord the member
for Tiverton, against the motion of the right hon. mem-
ber for Ashton, but the present Government being in
office, he conceived it only right, as an Irish member,
and as an independent member, that he should give them
fair play. (Ministerial cheers,) He believed that, so
they had done more for the cause
been done by their predecessors in
foafrparsogtrheesys htheadngboande,
ten years, and therefore he had not pined in any of the
miserable faction squabbles with which they had been
assailed. With respect to the tenant right question, he
was not going to pin himself to a measure which was a
mockery and a sham. It was not his fault if the tenant
right queetlon was not carried. It was not he who bad
sold a party and exposed a cause to ridicule. He had
introduced a bill containing a retrospective clause, and
it had been defeated by a majority of three to ono.
Thiaking, then, that the independent Irish party had
some claim upon the Government as having given them
fair play, and not being in search of some petty lordship
of the Treasury,"such as was thrown to minor politicians
—(a laugh)—wanting nothing for himself but something
for his country, he and the gentlemen with whom he
acted went to the pre:ent Government to see whether
a settlement ,f the question could not be procured. They
did not ask for a retrospective clause, but they asked
for some measure which might be satisfactory to the
country. As to his being a newspaper proprietor, he
admitted the fact, and, he was not ashamed of it, and to'
whatever he wrote in his paper he attached his name, so
that he was al ways responsible, Hear, hear.) He was
not ono of those liberals who stabbed in the dark
and slandered in anonymous articles. The reason he
had mit asked the hon. member for the Queen's county
was that the present Government were scarcely warm in
their seats when the hon. member on the part of ell Ire-
land made a tremendous attack. He (Mr. Magu re) ad
mitted that the hon, member hal not quite destroyed
teem, but he bad establi-hed his own character for poli-
tical eccentricity. He treatsd all the hon. member's in-
sinuations as be would a mere puff of the Thames nuis-
ance. (A. laugh.) He trusted that right hon. gentlemen
opposite would be able to in reduce to Parliament a ea-
tisfactery solution of the tenant-right question.
Mr. O'BRIEN (much excited) would tell the hon. mem-
ber for Dungarvon, asheha.d told him in another place—
(Order.) The hon. member insinuated that he hal sent
anonymous contributions to a newspaper.
Mr. -.NIA Gum E --No, no.
L'lr. O'BRIEN—Then do you withdraw everything?
The SPEAKER—The question is, that this house, on its
rising, adjourn to Monday next. (Cheeis and laughter.)
Mr. O'Brien here suddenly left the house, and the mo-
tion was agreed to.