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pressed upon them, and yet the Hon. and Learned Member
said, strangely enough, that no change of policy had occurred.
He (Mr. Hope) would say this, that if the Government were in
error in the policy they had adopted, they had to blame the po-
Fcy of the Noble Lord the Member for London, w' o had pre.
ceded them. ( Hear, hear, and cheers.)
Lord JOHN RUSSELL.—The instructions to the Governor
were different.
Mr. HOPE.—The Noble Lord said the instructions were
different. He would not, then, go into the instructions given
by the Noble Lord, but if it were necessary to do so, he should
be enabled to show that his policy went to the very principle
that the natives had a right in the land, and that the Crown had
no right to dispossess them of it. If Hon. Members would
take the trouble to examine the minutes of the reports on New
South Wales of that period, they would find abundant evi-
dence of the results of the change of policy referred to by the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman. The Noble Lord, the Member
for Sunderland, had once referred with considerable force to a
speech of Sir George Gipps, who was considered, by a majority
of the Committee, a person whose opinion on this subject might
be desirable. He was applied to by Capt. Fitzroy, and he
(Mr. Hope) would read the evidence of Sir George
Gipps. ( The Hon. Gentleman then read the extract.) It
was stated that this (the sovereignty) was one of the causes
that would unite the natives against the Government. It was
certain that it now created great discontent, and if they adopted
a different line of policy—a policy inconsistent with that i.re-
viously vursued—it would only bring ruin upon their interests
in that country.
Mr. ROEBUCK said that as he had had some share in
drawing up the report of the Committee on this subject, he
should wish, and he trusted to be pardoned if he addressed a
few words to the House. It seemed to him, that when they
considered the mode in which that unfortunate country was
connected with this, a mode of connexion equally injurious to
New Zealand and to Great Britain, the evils which oppressed
it would be found to have hart their origin in the conduct pur-
sued by the Government in all time to that country. When
Captain Cooke was sent out :to make discoveries', he took
possession of this island in the name and on the part of Great
Britain. He was an authorised person; because it might be
laid down as an important doctrine, that no one, except a per-
son specialty instructed by Great Britain, could usurp such a
right in the name of that country. He thought it necessary
to put this on the broad principle before proceeding with his
case. Well, Captain Cooke went and discovered New Zea-
land, and Great Britain then acquired what might be termed
an imperfect right, which, however, by subsequent acts might
have been perfected. Afterwards they lost possession of it, be-
cause no one, retaining authority from this country, was left in
the island. It was true that certain runaways from New South
Wales went and resided there from time to time. It
was true that mariners called there, who attended the whale
fisheries, and certain missionaries went them for the purpose of
labouring in the vineyard, and there they also fixed their tem-
porary residence. None of these acquired a foot of ground, and
New Zealand still remained unpossessed. And why ? Because
the right of Great Britain to the country had not been per-
fected. But Great Britain, not only not contented with this
virtual cession of the island, publicly declared it to be without
her territories. Thus it was clear that if any for. ign nation
had stepped in, as they had not perfected their right of dis-
covery, Great Britain would have been obliged to succumb,
because she had made no declaration of her right. But she might
-ay " we have recognised them as the independent people of an
independent country, and we shall see that their rights are not
invaded." They were acknowledged by Great Britain, and
now he came to the New Zealand Company's connexion with
the country, and before he had done, he thought he would put
the case in such a position that the Hon. Gentleman would be
puzzled to answer. The New Zealand Company said "We
went out to a country which you have acknowledged to be an
independent and sovereign one, and we bought land of the
sovereigns of that country, paying a fair price for it, and, there-
fore, we consider we have a perfect title to the land, but when
you come afterwards and take possession of it, you say you
have had possession of the country, but we say we think this our
private proper'y, bought according to the very forms on which
you place so much weight—those forms which Lord Stanley so
often refers to. We bought the land and we paid for it, and
you have no right to look into the contract. We claim the
land and deny your right to publish any proclamation that can
be regarded over Europe as challenging our right to our pur-
chases in a free country." He should like to see the question
brought into a court of law—say the Queen's Bench
and its decision upon it.—( Cries of " Hear, hear.")
But what did Great Britain do under the government of the
Noble Lord the Member for London ? What were the next
stages in this farce ? and a curious farce it was. The Govern-
ment enlarged the commission of the Captain-General of New
South Wales. They declared that his jurisdiction should ex-
tend to all territories in New Zealand, and then they further
granted a commission to Captain Hobson to go out as a sort of
deputy-captain-general. They gave him consular power, and
not only that, but they furnished him with ambassadorial
powers to treat with the native chiefs for their submission to
the power of Great Britain. But the farce went on. Cap-
tain Hobson went out, and then began that other extraordi-
nary two-act farce commencing with the treaty of Waitangi.
After this, they had Captain Hobson employing his various
arts to induce the chiefs to cede the sovereignty of the country.
Let them but think of the document obtained by Captain
Wakefield from the chiefs around Wellington, and to
urge with a grave and serious aspect such an instrument as
ceding the sovereignty of a country. They (the Government)
said the purchase of the land was a fraud and they would have
nothing to do with it, but he maintained that the selling of the
land was a fraud.—( Hear.) It was a fraud on the civilized
world.—(Cheers.) They said that the purchase was dis-
honourable, but where was the sense of honour in their tran-
sactions with the New Zealand Company? But now he
would remark tipon the part taken by the missionaries apart pe.
culiarly marked, as they had used every means, by hands and
wit to get these very documents signed. He repeated that
their conduct was peculiarly marked in their intercourse with
the Aborigines. But how did they get them ? Why in this
way. There was at the time a great organization abroad for
emancipating the negroes, and there was a mass of
organization and other sentimental bubbles afloat,
and so the missionaries got to New Zealand.
He should be shut up to
.the end of the session in Committee,
and that would be the end of it. He had had sufficient ex-
perience of this. In the Aborigines Committee, what oc-
curred? When the report was made, Lord Normanby said,
we cannot stand against this. In the result, General Hobson
was sent out. To obviate the claims of France our prior
claims to discovery was set up. This was the origin of the
New Zealand Hobby—( Hear, hear)—from which no one had
gained but the missionaries.—( Hear, and a laugh.) They had
written an account of the Christian doctrine, and had translated

it into the New Zealand language ; which, however did not
contain a sufficient number of words to express the ideas, and
these were written in a jargon which the New Zealanders could
not understand, but be could because he knew English.
( Hear, and laughter.) But simple as the missiouaries were,
they took care of themselves.—( Hear, and laughter.) One
t-entleman of this body acknowledged that he had obtained
a bit of land—which turned out to he 90,030 acres, Another
had 1011,090 acres.—( Hear, hear, and a laugh.) The
missionaries were the real cause of all the misgovernment.
The great evil at the root of all colonial government was, that
when a Ministry came into power, they said, we must have a
Colonial Secretary, and they immediately placed in office some
man of Parliamentary influence, with•.ut regard to his know-
le .ge or capacity. But there was a power behind, and, in this
case, the missionaries were that power.—( Hear, hear.) Such
influence was sometimes overcome by a man of great strength
of mind, great sagacity, great patience. But Lord Stanley was
not such a person.—( Hear, hear.) The missionaries had been
the cause o' the differences between this country and France in
Tahiti.—( Hear, hear.) They went abroad under the pretence
of spreading the religion of peace, and they spread only war and
dissen-ion. He did not blame this Government for all that had
occurred. Preceding Governments, from the s:ld of Geo. 111.
down to Lord Normanby were equally to blame.—( Hear,
hear.) He thought that the Government should take
the territory into their own hands, and give the colonists
a charter for self-government. such as was possessed
by the colonists of Rhode Island. When the first
settlers of the New Zealand Company were about to leave the
Thames, they bad agreed upon a forth of Govern.nent amongst
themselves which they undertook to obey. In this they
followed the example of those pilgrim settlers who adopted a
form of government which was now reverenced throughout
America as much as %Jagna Charta was in England. He said thus
much in justice to the New Zealand Company, although he did
not approve of all their proceedings, and especially of their
taking out emigrants without providing for their settlement.
( Hear, hear.) A land tax had been spoken of. But upon
whom was the tax to be levied? Who owned the land ?

Hear, hear.) It could not be alleged that individuals amongst
he tribes owned it, nor that the tribes themselves were the

owners. Each tribe occupied, from time to time, certain
spots, which they cultivated as long as they would bear culti-
vation, when they moved off to another spot more fertile. But
they did not po.sess the land as the savages of
North America formerly possessed theirs ; for tho latter
used the land as hunting grounds, and lived upon it.
But it was absurd to say that the New Zealanders possessed
the land from sea to sea and from mountain to mountain, as the
people of this island possessed Britain, or the Hon. Gentleman
opposite possessed his paternal estates. He thought the course
which the Government ought to pursue was to take the land
on the part of the Crown—to give to the natives a liberal pro-
tection, and such reserves of land as would be amply adequate
to their comfortable subsistence amonst the civilized settlers.

This was the only thing which could be done to soften that
fate, to which the New Zealanders, like all savage races coming
in contact with civilised men—that'Of Certain extinc-

lion. But if the proposed land. tax w,re imposed
;he result would be. that the land would become that of the

Crown by forfeiture within twelve months.__(Hear.) That
was a fiction which he would not say was undignified—the
term was in•ufcient to express its character. It was rather
worthy of that term to which the Noble Lord himself ( Lord
Stanley) had given authority—that of "thimble rig."—(Hear
ar.d laughter.) The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, who was

very imperfectly heard throughout, concluded by entreating the
Government to adopt the policy he had recommended.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that it was not his

intention to enter now into a lengthened discussion of this ques.
tMn, which had ben already, in the course of this session, suffi.
ciently considered by the House. Now he was quite prepared
to admit with the Member for Ltskeard, that there were many
of the persons who undertook the scheme with the most disin-
terested motives, and yet it appeared from the book on the
table, that there were persons who realised 6 per cent.
on their outlay. He men, ioned this because there was
a great deal in the conduct of the Company which was deemed
culpable by the Government. In 1839, when under the conduct
of Captain Wakefield, the New Zealand Company had
made purchases unwise in their character of the natives. The
Hon. and Learned Member for Bath had distinctly chal-
lenged tim on the ground that the New Zealand Company had
not been guaranteed by the Government. In 1839 the New
Zealand Company had applied to the Government for a recog-
nition of their authority. On this application the Government
had expressly stated that they would not recognise their pro
ceedings, yet in spite of these proceedings the New Zealand
Company had made purchases of the natives of lanes to
which they were alone entitled, and on the 2d
of May the New Zealand Company had issued a
lands were
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Normanby had ex, ressly recognised the sovereignty over the
wastes of New Zealand, and it was quite incompetent fur the
agents of the New Zealand Company to enter into any arrange-
ments which disregarded the rights of the natives. This treaty
was made in 1840, with the full cognizance of the New Zealand
Company, and he used the expression advisedly ; he yet asserted
that the country was fully bound to observe the terms of that
treaty. In the terms of that treaty the Noble Lord the Mem-
ber for London entirely agreed, and had expressed his approval
of the treaty, and had further stated that this treaty was one
which ought to be observed, that there were no members of the
common community who were so much entitled to protection
as the inhabitants of New Zealand, Their rights had been
recognised by the Government. On the 18th November the
New Zealand Company's agent had entered into an arrange- •
merit with the natives, in the full knowledge of the terms of
the treaty cf Waitangai. In that treaty it is expressly stipu-
lated that the Company should not be entitled to any lands
which were not granted by the Crown. Yet, when any dis-

pttte arose, they endeavoured to establish it as a sort of condi-
tion that the lands they sought to obtain were to be allowed by
the express consent of the natives. That this was the case was
expressly apparent from the consent ef the Noble Lord himself,
and a letter of Mr. Vernon Smith, which expressly stated the
terms of the agreement to the Company. To this the chairman
of the New Zealand Company replied, fully stating that the
Company took the land under the supposition that the Crown
had to give its approbation to the purchase. The Commissioner
of Land Claims had to ascertain on what grounds the Company
had to make their claims to the lands entered upon by tie ar-
rangement of Col. Wakefield. By an inspection of the agree•
ment with the natives it was evident that no agreement had
been entered into by the Company. But a Commission on the
part of the Crown lands had authorised such steps to be taken
as would validate the purchase of the lands. He would not
fatigue the House by reading letters which showed that the
New Zealand Company had agreed to make their purchases of
lands for a considerable sum—not 5064.—but for a considerable
sum ; and if this deposit was to be made, how was this claim to
be satisfied ? and he thought that it was quite contrary to the
principle of this agreement that the New Zealand Com-
pany should take this land first under their original
right, and secondly on the principle of national law.
Now, what did the Noble Lord the Member for London say to
this subject ? Why, he said that he would guarantee any grant
to which a superior title was not shown. It was, therefore,
rather too much to say that the New Zealand Company's views
had not been carried out to the extent which they themselves
had laid down. It has been suggested that the Noble Lord has
not kept. faith with the Company, because he had not fulfilled
good faith in the award of the 18th May. Now, what was the
fact ? The Noble Lord had determined that the title to these
lands should be shown by the possession of the 'latices. A
Commissioner had accordingly been appointed to investigate
the titles of the natives to the several districts, for which he
was responsible. When, therefore, the Commissioner had in-
vestigated this award, there was to be a subsequent agreement,
on which the title of the New Zealand Company was to be
based. He would venture on no further explanation, because
he thought that it was unnecessary. He had shown the nature
of the treaty of Watangi, he had shown the nature of the de-
gree of civilisation to which the natives had advanced, and he
had shown that it was a treaty into which the agent of the New
Zealand Company had solemnly entered, which had been gua-
ranteed by the Government, and for which the previous Go-
vernment was responsible.
Mr. LABOUCHERE denied that this was a question be-
tween the Government and the New Zealand Company. It
was the duty of this House to inquire what was the policy of the
Government with which, as Secretary of the colonies, he was
connected. He did remember the anxious desire of Lord Nor-
manby—an anxiety in which he had most deeply participated—
that the inferior race should not be crushed by the sueerior
rare, and he was prepared to s• .y that nothing had been more
opposed to the policy of the Government of which Lord Nor-
manby was a member, than to violate the terms of the treaty
of Wanangai. He would contend that if was owing to the
documents which the Government had put upon the table that
had cawed all the confusion and misfortunes of New Z eland.
He found by the dispatches of Lord Stanley, that the instructions
of Lord Stanley were contrary to the instructions of that
House. If it was the wish of the House to conciliate in that
country they would have adopted a very different course of
policy. He did think the same course of justice and fairness
should be adopted towards the people of New Zealand as had
been exis•ing between this country and France or in America.
He did not mean that nice points upon any sub-
ject should be allowed to form d:ffieulties in
the way of leAslating for a h alf savage people.
( Hear, hear.) But he did think that substantial justice should
be done as between the natives and the settlers, and this could
be very easily done without injury to the prosperity of this coun-
try, or without the necessity of sending out a larger body of
armed men. He did think it would be absurd to regard the
aborigines of New Zealand as if they were the inha-
bitants of a state as civilized as that of England; lint the
mode by which the Government proposed to fine those
people was an absurd mistake. ( Hear, hear, and cheers. )
The levy of a tax was proposed, but the absurdity of such a
measure must be apparent to any person who considered the
present state of the aborigines of that country.—(Hear, hear.)
He would not detain the House further on the present occa-
sion. He would give his vote in favour of his Hon. Friend
near him, for he did think, that if the House was so taken up
by party conflicts, he feared it would go far to shaks the confi-
dence of the public in that House.
Sir R. INGLIS contended that the labour of the missionaries
in New Zealand had produced great results, and he was sorry to
hear the Hon. and Learned Member for Liskeard permit him-
self to speak slightingly of those missionaries. Believing that
the question raised by the New Zealand Company was raised
to support the interest of the Company as such, and for no
()therm object, he should give his support to her Majesty's
Gore ment.
Mr. AGLIONBY regretted being obliged to obtrude him-
self upon the House upon this subject, because his feelings were
very strong upon the matter. He thought that a Committee
would be a much better tribunal for the investigation
of the subjects which had been brought under the considera-
tion of the House by the Attorney-General, than that House
was. The Hon. ann Learned Gentleman had dealt in gross
exaggeration. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had said,
that tne purchases of land by the New Zealand Company had
been unfairly made. This was entirely without proof. The
Company had paid every farthing which had been awarded by the
Commissioner of claims. In one ease, after the title to the
land had been conveyed, the Cempany paid 7,1;00/. for what was
called good-will. 1 he Company had desired peace, and had
made every concession to the Government short of a concession
of their honour. They had never concealed anything from the
Government. He believed that no one would dare to say in
the presence of the Noble Lord the Member for London, that
the New Zealand Company had misled him. They had done no
such thing. Everything was open to him, and the Noble Lord
knew this. The Noble Lord, when he was in office, might
have had every document connected with the Company merely
for the asking for them. The safety of the colony had been
and should be the first object of the Company. They coupled
the condition with the monopoly. If the House wished for in-
formation nothing would be refused. With regard to the Hon.
Member for Oxford, I e would assert that no aggravation
was conceded. But until he had evidence to the contrary he
should believe that the; motives and actions to carry on
their designs were rendered abortive by the proceedings of the
Church Missionary Society ; arid tire opposition of that Gen-
tleman had been a prevailing opposition. The Hon. Gentle-
man then read a memorial from that society.
Sir R. IN GLIS asked whether this was according to the
custom of the Church Missionary Society. This remark would
justify any imputation on their character?
Mr. A GLION BY would say that in the absence of the reli-
gious inducements of the popular safety there was something
to consider beside the religious prejudices of the people. By
the decision of the Government they had settled 200,000 acres
of land on these persons, and between the several parties it had
come to this whether they would or could not colonize New
Zealand. But he was obliged to yield in order to rebut the
feelings of those whose judgment he very highly respected.
He had listened to the observations of the Hon. and Learned
Member of the Board of Trade, he was quite conscious that the
adhesion of the 'rtie Company would be quite sufficient but
in the event of aggrieved should be granted. On the 21st
December last it was agreed that the advantages should be
divided, and assured to those who felt a very conscious sup-
pusition that a division would settle the question.
Mr. HOPE said that be had supplied a full report of the
proceedings of the Government, and he thought that when he
had supplied the whole document, extracts w ere unnecessary.
FEES (CRIMINAL COURTS) BILL.
Mr. B. ESCOTT moved the second reading of this Bill.
Mr. CHIPPS seconded the motion.
The ATI': ,RNEY-GENRAL opposed it.
Mr. HUME supported it.
Mr. B. ESCOTT explained, and
Sir J. GRAHAM expostulated.
Mr. DARBY remonstrated with the promoters of the Bill,
which was eventually postponed.
TURNPIKES ROAD (SCOTLAND) BILL.

On the order of the day for the second reading of this Bill,
Air. PRINGLE wished to reserve the second reading, as a
great number of Scottish Members were out of town.

Mr. P. M. STEWART trusted that the Hon. Member, as
he did not object to the Bill, would allow it to be read a second
time, and take the discussion in Committee.
The Unions (Ireland) Bill was read a second time.
The Jurors Book (Ireland) Bill was read a third time.
The report on the Va:ualion (Ire and) Bill was brought up,
and ordered to be committed.

The report of the Committee of Supply was received.
SLAVE TRADE (BRAZIL) BILL.
On the order of the day for going into Committee en
this Bill,
Mr. MILNER GIBSON said that as this was a very im-
portant measure, he trusted before the House would proceed
further in it, that any correspondence yet unproduced would be
laid before the House, and he should therefore move that the
House do not resolve itself into Committee on the Bill this
day in order to give Government an opportunity of laying any
other correspondence relative to the question before the House.
Sir R. PEEL hoped that the Hon. Member would allow
the Bill to go into Committee, and if any papers connected
with theslave-trade, not already laid on the table could be
found, they would be produced before the third reading.
Mr. HAWES hoped that if any other correspondence ex-
i.ted, it would be laid on the table, and he thought those Hon.
Members belonging to the mercantile community ought to en-
tertain similar views.

Sir ROBERT PEEL said he had stated he would Le ready
to acquiesce in the postponement of the third reading of the
Bill in order to producing co. respondence that had taken place
between the Government of the Brazils and her Majesty's
Gavernment.

11Ir. HUTT thought that the correspondence was of very
great importance, and he trusted that the papers would be laid
before the Hou,e, as it was really a matter of moment that the
House should be informed on the subject.
Capt. PECHELL said that if the Admiralty Court were
made paramount it would be the most effectual means of put-
ting down the slave trade.
Mr. HUME objected to the matter going further without
additional in ormation being furnished.
Si R. PEEL said the lovernment could not bring forward
the Bill at an earlier period of the session, from the press of ether
business.

Colonel SIBTHORP bad been eighteen years in the House,
and never saw the Hon. Member for Salford asleep at his pest
before. They were now mile(' upon, at half-past one, to force
measures of the greatest importaece through a thinly attended
House. Why did not the don. Member move the adjourn-
ment ?

Alr. MILNER GIBSON thought he should not be discharg-
ing his duty if be allowed the bill to proceed without the pro-
duction of the correspondence he had cailed for. He would
therefore muve the appointment of the Committee on Thursday
next.

The motion having been seconded,
Sir R. PEEL expressed his willingness to postpone going
into Committee on the Bill till Thursday next.
Mr. M. GIBSON called for the production of Mr. Ellice's
correspondence relative to the right of search.
Sir R. PEEL said, as these negotiations had been unsuc•
cessful, he thought it would be inconsistent in him to pro-
duce it.

HIJAIE said the country was anxious to know upon
what grounds the trade between Brazil and this country had
been suspended, and he therefore hoped the correspondence
would be laid on ,he table of the House.
Sir H. PEEL said he had no objection to the production of
all pacers which would not be injurious to the public service.
The Stamp Duties Bill then passed through Committee, and
the report was brought up.
JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL.
On the reading of the order of the day for the third reading
of this Bill,

Sir R. IN GUS objected to the passing of the Bill at this
late hour, being now two o'clock, and he would divide the
House.--( Hear, hear. )
Colonel SI BTHORP had for many years looked upon the
Gentleman at the head of her Majesty's Government as a sin-
cere Christian and Protestant. But he had been compelled not
to regard him any longer in that light—( A laugh)—and he
should never again be surprised at any Bill which that Right
Han. Gentleman might bring in, if it were even to destroy
the Protestant Church, and to bring in infidelity in its place.
( Laugh ter; ) He would support Ina Hon. Friend the Mem-
ber for Oxford, who was really a Christian and a Protestant
)Ther. )
itnrecording his vote against the Bill.—( Hear,
h—ea(Lr,auteagnhdlaru
Tho House then divided, when the numbers were—

For the third reading . 44
Agai.ist it
Majority .... —33
The Bill was accordingly read a third time and passed.

" Heytesbury,
ss Whereas by an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign
of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, entitled ' An Act
to Consolidate the Laws relating to the Constabulary Force in
Ireland.' it is amongst other things enacted, that it shall and
may be lawful to and for the Lord Lieutenant, or other chief
governor or governors of Ireland, by the advice of the Privy
Council in Ireland, to declare by proclamation, that any county,
county of a city, or county of a town in Ireland, or any barony
or baronies, half barony or half baronies in any county at large,
or any district of less extent than any barony or half barony to
be therein specified, is or are in a state of disturbance, and re-
quires or require an additional establishment of police:—
" And whereas it hath sufficiently appeared to us that the
county of Cavan is in a state of disturbance, and requires an
additional establishment of police.
"Now we, the Lord Lieutenant, by and with the advice of
her 11aje-ty's Privy Council, by virtue of the said Act, and
the powers thereby vested in us, do, by this our proclamation,
declare that the said county of Cavan is in estate of disturbance,
and requires an additional establishment of police.
" Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin,
this 18th day of July, 1845.
"RD. DUBLIN. DoNoUGHMORE. EDWD. MEATH.
" CHARLES KILDARE. F. BLACKBURNE.
"E. BLAKENEY. FRED. SHAW.
"GOD SAVE THE QUEEN."
There is in the same Gazette another proclamation, direst-
ing thi,t additional police shall be placed in three or four ba-
ronies of the county.
This proceeding the Lord Lieutenant is enabled to adopt by
the ex:sting law ; which, if impartially and vigorously enforced,
as it had been by the Whigs, will speedily restore tranquillity
in the district.
The Tory magistrates of Cavan, in their memorial, intimated
to the Lord Lieutenant that they would not be satisfied with
the mere " proclaiming of the county;" they require martial
law. But it is welt known that his Excellency is opposed to
such extreme meaures, and Mr. Justice Jackson, in his recent
charge to the Leitrim grand jury, stated it as his conviction,
that the ordinary law is quite sufficient. If the magistrates of
Cavan cordially co-operate with the Government, their county
would soon be treed from the violence and excitement produced
by the Orangemen as well as the " Molly Maguires. "
Th ere is now a strong military force in Cavan and the other
disturbed counties, and troops are regularly encamped at Drum-
shambo in the county of Leitrim.
VER:DIC.F AGAINST THE POLICE IN CAVAN.
The inquest on the body of Thomas Tierney, shot by the
police at Lavey, county of Cavan, on the night of the 12th of
July, terminated on Wednesday evening. The deceased, a
young man, aged 20, was the only son and sole support of a
widowed mother. The evidence went to show that no provo-
cation whatever had been given for the firing ; and the jury,
composed of Prot' stants and Roman Catholics, unanimously
delivered the follewing verdict, which is virtually one for mur-
der ;—" That deceased, Thomas Tierney, came by his death
on the night of Saturday, the 12th of July instant, in the
townland of Lavey, in the parish of Lavey, and county of
Cavan, in consequence of a gun-shot wound inflicted by Wm.
Farmer, constable in the constabulary, and it does not appear
there was a provocation given."
The correspondent of the Dublin Evening Post says—
" The event gave very great satisfaction to the friends of the
deceased, and also to a large concourse of country people who
were present, and will tend more to restore peace to this part of
the country than additional police or threatened coeicion.
" The Coroner immediately issued his warrant for the arrest
of constable Farmer for murder. It is rumoured here to-day
that. Farmer, instead of being sent to gaol like any other per-
son, is to be kept in the police barrack until the Government
order him co be bailed.

" It behoves the Government not to give the people anv
cause to think that a constable, aceu'ed of a serious crime, will
he treated differently from one of themselves under similar cir-
cumstances."

ORANGE PROCESSIONS—INQUEST AT ARMAGH.
THURSDAY, JULY 17.-1 he Coroner took his seat this

morning at nine o'clock.
William Kelly examined-1 am sub-inspector of nice.
Early on the morning of the 12th July, about eleven o clock,
I think, being informed that some Orangemen had come
into Armagh, I employed Coulson, a policeman, to watch
them, in order to tell me when any number should assem-
ble. Coulson was a sort of running orderly. Having been
informed by him that a party were assembling at Barrack-
, hill, sod were preparing for a movement, I went over,
being at that time in the Court-house, to Mr. Paton,
the magistrate for the c-unty Armagh. He was sitting in
a grand jury-room. I said to him, " Sir, the Orangemen
are assembling, and I thiiik it would be well if you would turn
out the troops." He shook his head, saying, " Oh, there is
no occasion," or words to that direct effect. Sir George
Molyneux was sitting in the window near him. I can't say
which I heard. I stepped bark and said, " Oh, very well,
Sir." I said this with marked emphasis and gesture, intend-
ing that be should mark the consequences. I had stepped
backwards a pace or two in the act of returning, when he
turned round and said, " Mr. Kelly, are there many of them ?
are they moving 7" I think these were the words he used.
" Why," I replied, "they are actually moving." " Oh, then,"
said he, " go into the secretary's office, and get me a sheet of
paper." I asked Mr. Anderson (county inspector) to get a
sheet of paper for me, as I must fly off immediately and get
Hit my men, telling him at the time the object of it. Seeing
that Mr. Anderson did not know the direction of the secre-
tary's office, I went to get the paper and two pens myself,
fearing the consequences of delay. I got the paper and
pens from Mr. Davison. I think. Mr. Paton was at the
door of the jury-room, into which he walked leisurely. I
saw him head the paper with the date, and the words " City
of Armagh." I said I could not wait for it, and added,
" Sit, I must be off to my men, and I'll leave one of my men
to wait for it." I went down stairs. I left one of my
men (Daly) to wait for the document ; I ran down stairs to
College-street, and up to English-street, and saw an Orange
procession pass, with banners and music. I had not at that
time made any calculation of the number; seeing Head-con-
stable Lodge at the corner, I took him with me to watch the
movements of the procession. I took him with me to Ban..
brook-hill, being in the direction of Loughgall. Mr. Anderson
and a party of police were immediately in the rear of the whole
parts' ; having seen them almost out of sight unmolested, clear
of that part of the town, so far as I could see the banners
waving, Mr. Anderson gave orders to countermarch to the
barracks. I saw two of the party, at that early hour of the
day, very drunk. One of them was Mr. Sling—he is very
seldom sober. I don't know the second one. Sling had an
Orange sash. Perhaps Head-constable Lodge does, as I pointed
him out to him, and I said, " I should not wonder if something
happens, bye-and-by, from that fellow's being drunk." Head-
constable Lodge remarked that he feared something might
happen when tho-e pe, sons returned in the evening, to which I
replied, that all we had to do with our small party was closely to
watch their mmvements ; there were not more than eight dis-
posable men at the time, the rest being employed at the Crown
solicitor's office, as witnesses, to be examined, preparatory to the
assizes. I stationed a man at the same office to give me
word whenever he heard a drum in the distance ; in the course
of the day, I asked Mr. Robinson, J.P. if anything •happened
in the course of the evening with regard to the Orange pro-
cession, where and when I could have his services. He
" Oh, you shall have my services—you'll most likely
find me at soy house." At the same time he deprecated or
found fault with it. " 1 have made it a matter of neck or
, nothing with some of my tenants, if they come in to join this
11 enjoyment," and -hese were the words Mr. Robinson used, I
think. It was before I saw Ur. Paton that I spoke to Mr.
Robinson. The witness went on to say that having then
heard drums in the direction of Banbrook, he proceeded in
that direction. Saw the Orangemen defiling at the head of
Mill-street. Did all in his power to induce the Orangemen
to go back. Saw one of the Orange party with a long pistol,
firing and resting the pistol on his knee. He took deliberate
and murderous aim. Thinks there were sixty shots fired.
Witness here expressed a wish that Mr. Barnes had renderd
him the assistance he said he did. He caught hold of Mr.
Barnes by the breast and implored him, for God's sake, three
or four times, to go for a magistrate, but he did not go. On
his (witness's) sacred oath, he believed such harm would not
have been done if he had gone.
Mr. Anderson, county inspector, was the next witness;
but his evl'ence was not material.
Dr. Colvan deposed that he examined the deceased, and
found that he had received a gun-shot wound in the right groin,
from the effects of which he died.
A woman, named Al'Kenn, deposed that she saw an Orange-
man, named Rice, fire the fatal shot.
At half-past seven e'clock the public were excluded from the
room. The jury remained closeted until about ten minutes to
twelve &clock, when they unanimously agreed to the foilowing
verdict :—" That on the 12th of July last, at Thomas street. in
the city of Armagh, a party of Orangemen, to the number of
150, were matching in procession with banners and music, and
armed with pistols and swords, and that divers persons com-
prising that procession (that is to say, 31 Orangemen. whose
ames are set forth on the face o' the verdict), aided and as-
sisted by a man unknown to the jury, made an assault on the
person of John Boyle, since deceased ; and that the aforesaid
person did, then and there, in Thomas-street, as aforesaid,
inflict on him, John Hoyle, a gun-shot wound, which caused
his death, and of which he died.

•
DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE.—JULY 19.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.—Three per Cent. Consols, 98% ;
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 101% ; Six per
Cent., reduced to 4/. sterling per annum, 684.
Miscaa.LANEous.—City of Dublin Steam Packet Shares,
101: City of Dublin Steam of 1836, 502 ; Wicklow Copper
Mine, IS.

RAILWAYS.—BeIfast and Ballymena 6% 3/4 ; Belfast and
County Down, 3% ; Cork and Bandon, 6% 34 ; Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 7% 8; Dublin and Drogheda, 101%,;
Dundalk and Enniskillen, 2% 3 ; Great Southern and
Western,' 23%; Ditto, Extension, 121/2 % ; Midland Great
Western Railway and Royal Carat Company, 3% ;
Irish Great Western Dublin, to Galway, 3%; Kingstown
and Bray, 61i4 ; Killarney Junctions, 2% A ; Londonderry
and Enniskillen, 314 3 ; Newry, Warrenpoint, and Ros-
trevor, 2% 3% • Ulster, 5212 ; Waterford and Limerick,
; Waterford and Kilkenny, 2% • Wexford and Car-
low, 2 ; Waterford, Wexford, and Dublin, 1%,

Loss OF TILE TRITON, FRENCH PACKET-
The total loss of this fine vessel, and a cargo valued at 20,6001.,
has been announced in the City. She was from Bordeaux,
with a cargo of sugar, rum, wine, brandy, and different other
articles, bound to Cuba. When about four degrees north of
the line she sprang a leak, and, notwithstanding every attempt
on the part of the crew to stop it, the water gained on the
pamp; considerably. and eventual), the men were obliged
to rbandon her. They (the crew) were picked up by the
Young King, which arrived safe at Southampton in the early
part of 6e week. There is no doubt but the ship foundered
zoos 2:'ter they left her.
Sou Tit ANI PI ON, SUNDAY.—The Great Liverpool
steam-ship, Captain 111‘Leod, left the river this afternoon, at
three o'c!ock, with the Bast India mail, about thirty passengers,
and a large and valuable cargo of goods.
At the r'-cent S.?rn •rsetshire Sessions held at Bridg-
water, an old woman, 105 years of age, from Long Asiiton,
near Bristol, gave evidence in an appeal case. The venerable j
dame was cheerful, and appeared in good health.