The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-24 00:00:00

paid a high compliment to the generous and humane
feelings of Lord ASHLEY, which was responded to
by general cheers. It was more than gratifying, he
said, to see such a man stooping from his high rank
to perform virtuous and humane actions, and to add
new nobility to the name of ASHLEY.
After some remarks from other Members, Lord
ASHLEY said, after the assurance from Sir JAMES
GRAHAM that he would consider the subject next
session, he would withdraw his motion.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved for copies of dispatches
relative to the alleged plot in Guernsey against the
life of the Governor, General NAPIER.
Sir J. GRAHAM, after stating that there were
grounds for believing that an attempt was to be made
on the life of General NAPIER on the QUEEN'S birth-
day, trusted Mr. DUNCOMBE would withdraw his
motion—if not, he should oppose it. The motion
was withdrawn.

Dr. BOWRING called the attention of the House to
the state of the quarantine laws, and moved a resolu-
tion carrying out his views, which was agreed to.
Mr. Ross moved that an address be presented to
her MAJESTY, praying for the removal of Mr.
O'Dniscom. from the commission of the peace. The
motion was opposed by Sir J. GRAHAM, and nega-
tived, on a division, by a majority of 33.
Mr. DUNCOMUE moved that the evidence taken
before the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry be
printed, which was agreed to, with the understanding
that the copies should be for Members only.
The other orders of the day being disposed of, the
House adjourned at One o'clock.

The case of Mr. O'Daiscom., which has already
been discussed in the House of Lords, was last night I
brought under the notice of the House of Commons
by Mr. Ross, who moved that an humble address be
presented to her MAJESTY praying for the removal of
that gentleman from the Commission of the Peace.
The particulars of this case of magisterial tyranny—
which is about as flagrant a one as has come before
Parliament for many years—must be well known to
the generality of our readers; and accordingly we shall
content ourselves with observing that Mr. O'DnlscoLL,
after having been proved, on unimpeachable evidence,
to have acted in the first place illegally; secondly,
with wanton cruelty towards a boy who, from all we
can understand, seems to have given him no earthly
offence; and thirdly, to have conducted himself with
gross impropriety towards his brother magistrates,
and then aggravated his offence by refusing to
apologise till an apology was absolutely wrung from
him—after having been proved to have committed all
these multiplied offences in his magisterial capacity,
Mr. O'Daiscom. was very properly superseded by the
Lord Chancellor. But how was he superseded,
and in what spirit was the official communi-
cation of his removal from the bench made known
to him? He was told, forsooth, to consider that he
was removed solely in consequence of his ill-health!
It was not the magisterial temper that was an invalid,
hut the magistrate himself. On the receipt of this
gentle and delicate communication, Mr. O'Daiscom,
observed with emphasis that so far from his being in
ill-health, and thereby incapacitated from the dis-
charge of his official duties, he was never in such ro-
bust health in all his life, as indeed he had triumph-
antly shown a short time previously by the vigorous
and -energetic manner in which he anointed the
unoffending shoulders—as Counsellr PHILLIPS would
; say—of the boy DEMPSEY. But passing the excessive
, complaisance of the Lord Chancellor towards an indi-
vidual who had so grossly rxisconducted himself as
• Mr. O'DittscoLL had done—and this, too, at an age
,when years and experience should have taught him
the wisdom and beauty of forbearance—what is to be
said for the subsequent proceedings of Sir E. SUGDEN,