The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-31 00:00:00

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opening and ca/lital up the country to British enterprise and capitSid
am confident that in a very few years we shall see the r.
of those financial difficulties which at present prove so ro°so
midable in India. (Cheers.) Recollect that the one cali.
which deranges the finances of India is the enormous a'ljo
tary expenditure, and the' amount' of that expendituren
future years, so far as the internal defence and protecti:,,e4);
the country is concerned, will mainly depend upon
you determine to carry out a policy of coercion and lioh
Pardon me, gentlemen, for touching upon a subject .0►
is a little out of the track of our ordinary domestic atral'
but it is a subject which I cannot help feeling deePIY,A,9IIO
it is one which in its ultimate results involves little less
the prosperity or the misfortune of the entire British
pire. (Cheers.)
The Earl of DERBY next rose and said,—l claim
sion to propose to you the only toast which can be "'
appropriately proposed by me than by the chairman/
when I name it I feel satisfied that it will be received t
universal approbation. But before I propose the toast alloyme to advert to a subject alluded to by the late Lord-Lieiv
tenant of Ireland. lam not fond of introducing into pub-
lic controversy anything relatihg to the private menge‘ts
ment of my property or my dealings with ray tenaloll
whether in England or Ireland. I believe I may trust toeing
general character both here and there—(cheers) --ef b tor
known'for not a harsh landlord, and not vindictive or
in
all
forgiving. (Cheers.) I believe that both in England anwuho
Ireland it is universally acknowledged, at least by in.
know anything of the circumstances, that I have never
in.
terfered with the exercise of the politiaal franchise of 3 s
to
gle tenant of mine, though I make my opinions kil°l4l„nopt
them. In proof of this I may mention one case. A g.
of mine in Ireland for the last 3G years, who has been c° f
nisant of all my principles, who has received manYin''„its
favour from me, and who—to use his own extoresslaoted
would walk through fire and water to serve me, veer
against my opinions on every election, and yet we lauj,
disagreed. (Hear, hear.) This tenant-farmer in Ire to
named Michael Ryan, most nobly and honourably called
forward to bear testimony to these facts in a letter publish
in the newspapers. But I have seen charges magi aga-opte
me as a general exterminator and oppressor of We E.,",
and a tyrant landlord, because I have used every In°7l"rder.
my power co bring to justice the authors of a vile raes
(Cheers.) Permit me to say on this subject that the mimeb.
passed on me*on the one side and the calumnies with
on the otherl have been assailed are equally void of ro.''
dation, because they rest on an entire misapprehensincon
the facts: I have never thought it worthmy
tradict them, but, adverted to as they havebeen on a Pn-
occasion like the present, I must state the simple, canine'
stances of the case. In a small outlying property In ts,
rick, worth £7OO a-year, I have about 11 or 12 wino,
three of whom hold by lease, the remainder as tenants fey
year to year. The man who was murdered on that proPeana
was a Roman Catholic, theson of avery old tenant, winato
whose ramily occupied the property long before I c'ara,hen t
possession of it. He was the first man I ever met ljec
-
visited that property. He was in connection with a nr-of a
of very disorderly persona—he was, in fact, the leader
club. Gradually I reclaim& that man, and refer-10443 to
into a respectable and useful tenant. His son sitcom' Ile
him, and hecame the tenant of another small farm.
ong
was from earliest life an industrious, active, stea'aY rety
while to 00
man. He managed to a great extent his father's props 00
and also managed with geeat industry the small farm
which I placed him, when, on account of his father',snr
riage, there was a separation in the family. Tht,-,,Le'
from no fault of his own, but in consequence of his la
by the order of my agent ejected a sub-tenant under, 01 d
whom I had no means of ejectinc, without his consent'
who had rather deteriorated thelittle property than -,, co,
wise, was brutally murdered in noon-day in the pies lot
as I know, of a number of the population. He way led
shot through the heart, his body was then brutally _.,,„
and his head was knocked in with stones. (Cries of S'-inf le
I have never been able to obtain the legal evidence of a
witnesses of this brutal murder, but I had and have '.'-9roclo
to believe that more than one of the small numbs t, 8- I•
eight or nina persons, who held under me as tenants-1'
here"
will were parties to the conspiracy. I gap!, notice,t,iiose
fore at Michaelmas—the latest time I co•ald—to
persons who held on that tenure,in lt
be enabled, if I should obtain. •
satisfactory evideecof
if not sufficient to satisfy a jur
y, 'at least to satisfy nle'rer
the moral guilt of any persmi concealing the IVIVI'old
not have been able to ref to eject snch person on Lar,P;rder that
havethe fe following
been
he tonongn
vaLr
eightd _aovey-hdi amy, , f foro mo
tt
hh
ee r wir sOl,
servedrlt noticea e. t
The whole of the
0.
all Oat lleof
veer ten persons, etn. inte,tion.
serving the ' I.e have me!' and the f carol;
notices was to give 'me the power ,„ who
into exe,-
- ,ution the removal of persons with respeeti_wn step.
I,Pl:ght find moral evidence justifying me in sile.o co it at
(‘Lioar, hear.) But it by no means follows, nerff-crilei.
any time my intention to be the wholesale and ino's d yet
nating exterminator of those eight or ten tenants, Ina too
this declaration and service of notice on eig,llft, beea
tenants holding some eight or ten acres each, iinins-
represented in the public papers as a wholesale
tion, "the doom of Doom," and the turninc:?btoial
the wide world hundreds of families, the Cal,' /1,9'
that there is not one of these families unoelay, or
tice that has not received at my hands, and in en°, of the
another, more than the full value of the fee-simply be.
land they hold. (Cheers.) I have never condeseen
on me,
fore to reply to any of the anonymous attacks made hear.)
and I shall never condescend to do so again. (Heard tect4
I have stated the plain facts and I say that in my.in 8„ at
it is the duty of a landlord, if he has reason to belie/100 of
persons on his property are conniving at the suppreesbratal
bevidenceutto softly- thtoe ctohnocseealpireiresnotn
so: tosuwiatnhdrespect to a oilti
murder—not, indeed, to punish the innocent for the g*iug
under this grave suspicion, and I being reslp—onysoiublesTrusitl,llail
interests and Happiness of this district—you and
not hereafter stand in the relation of landlord and tensT:a
never r
(Cheers.) I beardon for obtruding this subject onyura.
notice, which I thought would be brought .for
and I will now proceed to a more grateful task. Tlie,Tioir
earl then concluded by proposing "The Health of the
man," observing that he wasuotnaelloftitmheesoladnesdt,annidessrt?:cjer.
tent, and faithful supporters,
cumstances;of the Conservative interests, and b
man universally respected.
The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks, and the col:Vali' 1
broke up near midnight. illstrg' Tho entertainment was enlivened b vocal an ore
mental music, and Mr. Harker, of London, ofticiaw--
toastmaster with his accustomed ability.