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and he had accordineiv been dismissed. Mr. Brew-
eter; a _decided partisan, had subsequently been
appointed to the situation. Now he felt that under
those circumstances the Government could not lay
!ehr. Lo that iiapaeeiality to which they had. at the
,oatect of Their eseseer pretended. eigale he fouad
Mr. Sergeant Warren and the present Solicitor-
General,
of the Dublin University, denouncing as cor-
rupt and uneeriptural the National Educa-
• ' tion system—that system for the introduc-
tion of which Ireland was so much indebted to
the Noble Lord opposite (Lord Stanlev).
vaenney occurred in the representation Of Dublin,
and what was the course adopted by the Government
that was pledged to support no party ? This gentle-
men had concurred in the system of education, and
• at the time he was put in nomination the Irish Muni
• etp:tl Act was in operation, tart the Castle Inel
• already selected a Conservative gentleman to
till the the office of • Sheriff. How did the
popular pal 1 • ••t act? The r did not ask that
a perfy man should be appointed, but that they should
put
Sir
Ed Hurrough out of office, and that the elec-
tion should be fitirly conducted. Haviin•• read extracts
from the memorial presented to the Government on
that occasion, he proceeded to say that the Govern-
. mew n•fitsed to remove the Sheriff from office as re-
quested, but the Noble Lord opposite wrote a diplo-
e inatic letter to the Sheriff expressing a hope that the
next election would be fairly conducted. This -Air.
Sheriff Bieewne had been in office WllOll the Whigs
were-in power : and lie had said, if the Government
'e would make him a Knight*, he would do any job for
•k• them they wanted.-1--( !Lear, hear, and laughter.)
This W:l3 said• in a letter to Mr. Eiffe, in which
7ie l• he stated , his determination, let what would
happen, to act in all respects in accord-
'•• mice with the wish of the Gcwerriment. 'When
the Noble lord (r.ortl Eliot) had that docu-
*pent sent to him, he replied to this effect re-
•ceii ed last night your letter. lam under the neees-
.
city thie day of taking my departure for London, but
I.L. Lucas, in whose hands I leave the document,
it ..before the Lord Liedtenant, and give
d• Yllll his -Lordship!s answer.'" NOw, he thought
' Noble Lord might as
.• well, before
414 13; • le left town have giten, an answer himself
to the letter. To be sum allowance was :to be
htil3; made for the deviations of men enthusiastically vir-
thiv,ib tuns on their first coming intopffice. • But he- woUld
ask, had the Government *fulfilled their pro Mises ?
Lprd De Grey in his answers (and they were nume-
„ath.iq .to the various addresses presented to him from
5t1344.12"i 41. parts of the country, without, he believed, a single
)13 ,3'.',,,bllltxception, stated that he was most anxious. for the
sat "L"::47:impartial administratiOn of justice. Lord De Grey's
bad std;:Prornises of an impartial administration of justice
I'3zft 9d 'stood out in high relief. .But why had his Lordship
4 lasicf,..)-eleoted that topic ? He appeared to have thought
,Ititit there was occasion fof those promises. He seemed
'to' have felt that, with respect to the administration of
:itt inst. in Ireland, that suspicions must have
1,14 T.! Ice
./ • • ean entertained, which it was his duty to negative.
Lordship had thought, perhaps not unreasonably
)1441' T!ten a great change had taken place, a vast trans-
,fi!T --wl.
fir of power had taken place in Ireland—when the
lAovernment for the many had been succeeded by the
'dl • 4.3overnment for the few—for the Governmentwhich
X'4l espeeially attended to the misfortunes of the smaller
ie • number—his Lordshipe then, perhaps, thought it
eei„, not unreasone
ble that it should be supposed that fae-
ltt!t Con should find its way back again to the public
tree, tribunals—that jurors would be selected, and judges
,tehosen,- upon principles repugnant to those upon
• I\-hieh he meant the laws should be administered,
Wes... c invested with great power—power which,
Nth if the Noble Lords (Lord Stanley's) Registration
.41r/ ,rl23Ifili was passed, would be greatly augmented.
judicial partisan was a great calamity. When
eit went the circuit what exultation on one
ales! 15416 and what dismay on the oth th 4;20.4 exhibited between parties animateder was
by feelingsere
sir •ef the deepest antipathy towards each other, 11, hen they saw a man clothed with judicial
,;! . ;authority enter the Court as judge who had
• Lorne a part in all the civil feuds of Ireland for years
'Past !---(Cheers.) What did they mean by the impar-
tial administration of justice ? Justice to be impartially
administered must be administered by impartial men,
and when they placed on the bench men distinguished
for their political partieeenebip, he would ask if that
• were a verification of their professions ? Mr. Justice
ec)huson had not gone circuit for many years under tl elVhig Government. lie resigned as soon as the '
Conservative Government had been formed, and
essave an opportunity to the Noble Lord opposite to
verity the sincerity of his professions with regard to
the impartial sarnainistration of justice, and who
.evas the successor selected by the ,Noble Lord
Vii.._ show the sincerity of his professions, and to secure
the confidence of the Irish Catholics ?—(Cheers.) If
kte;' the Government had chosen to elevate Mr. Lefroy to
j • the Peerage, and to let him be engaged in the House
aeoe- of Lords in hearing Irish appeals, where his
4441e44reat learning would -have been of infinite service,
tidSvi 'and Where he -Would not have exhibited any partisan
lii:aT,Ateling; no complaint would have been heard from
eit,lunitAilll (Mr. ,Shiel). If they had made an exchange,
~!and sent an English Judge to Ireland, and
:-..!,l4.l'&*aised Mr. Lefroy to the English Bench no complaint
ir,-,„.°'114 have been made--if they nad waited until
"lie feeling had subsided,and had prepared its Way
s
-tiers solriu-ceoninanying the appointment of Mr.Lefroy with
eee
d•ie - liberal appointments, the case would have been
'eked. But they had, chosen at • once to appoint
limn who for years past had been mixed up
1;-_:every political question by which Ireland had
ill'*4s'a'Y, excited. He bore Mr. Lefroy no Mr.
47,40-7deejmer' could not be hurt by his attacks, or by the
tlos-./ftsaenee of the Noble Lord. If he thought Mr. Le-
`ll4,l°l7 would be hurt, his (Mr. Shiel's) lips should at
e be sealed as far as regarded Mr. Lefroy.
t Orth turned from the appointment of the gentleman, to
4' 'Allem he had referred, with, he trusted, as little
t
•411erity as possible in treating a subject so deli,
r6k, to the appointment of judges and jurors.
f the system of appointing juries there were two
e66s, which he Would bring before the House, which
4frorded a strong exemplification. He knew English-
Zell would be surprised that they should complain
the exclusive institution of juries, and think that
f3ile religion of men, by whom they were to be tried
11' their lives, was of importance; but if they
•14:. "ew the real condition of that country, they
,at
,%•_ould not be surprised that they should be
. ;17%ious that their lives and property should not
541', ! surrendered to that class of men who were
3.?" dinerily impannelled upon the juries. The Orange
ill t'titution was dissolved indeed, but its spirit
les'liabroad. It had left influences of a social and
` •
la, teal kind upon the entire frame of society in Ire-
!1(1, and upon the administration of justice it acted
• e
, I,s'e T a most sinister effect. They might think
"'naps that he spoke in this matter as
4,
O pmere • partisan. He would refer to the
~ •
't/,, "11011 S of an Irish Judge, delivered many years
/4tlr, with respect to the administration of justice in
'• north of Ireland, but much of which was
xtt'lieable to it at the present time. The
"11. Member then read an extract from a document
• 'ten by Mr. Justice Fletcher, stating that there
ilvrere numbers ofpersons who, under the assumed name
(4lnge veomen, attended the fairs and markets with
r•
zns in the'ir hands, under the pretence of self-defence,
"It in reality for the purpose of exciting their op-
al, r gents. In a Court of Justice it was sufficient
fir,;) say that such a party displayed such a colour to
'•
thro°tuee au titter disbelief of his testimony ; to another
display of the same party colours instigated
e. 4 der and larceny. If this system, or its relics, con-
fil,4ll°(l, they could not be surprised that the Roman
t•-•atholies were anxious that persons of their religion
-Hild have a due share in the administration of justice.
1,-‘2 remembered that when the Hon. Member for Gates-
ss-e!td attacked the Secretary for the Home Department
i‘h4Petiting the constitution of the municipal Magistrates,
fie Right Hem Baronet insisted, and the majority of the
e,:buse—those that supported him—insisted that the due
,-"tainistration of justice required that men of both
itatties should 1:e placed on the Bench; and the Right
Baronet said that he had modified the exclusive
e
aracter of the Municipal Magistrates. If that were true
tt" their own country—and he knew it was so with the
' titai
Magistrates—how much more powerfully did
ftj
,observation apply to the course pursued in the north
!rebind, where a man was put on ,trial for his life ?
f,`4l•is 4,lit`; unale that observation with a view to account for
extraordinary excitement produced in the north of
Isel(01,1b
• l'As. y the two cases to which lie was about to refer.
,AT 0 men were put upon their trial for the murder of
resl' 4`Ardle. The course he (Mr. Shiel) took with
qte.o,t to that case was this. He applied to Mr.
41' a, a gentleman of high standing at the bar, who
4,11e31,-''tely distinguished in a trial at Dublin in which
ii,.,\Aton. the Solicitor-General was for the Crown, and
Shiel) begged of him to give him a faithful
utshed account of what took place at that trial.
• Le ,ttleount he had received from that gentleman
Leis' • read at full length, as it would give
blouse authentic information upon that subject.
-. 'l,latse would remember that when the case of Mr.
rea:le 1.11-'llO was tried, the verdict was acquittal. The Noble
..aaidt:•cAnressed his astonishment at that acquittal—the
%es: -'11e,;" expressed astonishment. The circumstances were.
1)1'41 Wardle was a Roman Catholic7-some d!s-
;,rf!: luweedaTosi'. and he took refuge in a house. He was..
tet;ts." itti,t'Y the prisoners, and they demanded his life, and
atil'7/1%.4, madpon his being given up. A temporary resistancesti
And w.€!, (:XpOStUltllloll was in vain, he was sent toi
1,;4-714.10eu us •He (Mr. Shiel) had a great quantity of
;seeh, tee !Alts, and the perusal of the whole of them would
~,'lls• He was satisfied that the Right Hon. Ba-
T,
I:::.ttedetested the .ystem of packing juries as much
*4'
:I anY
Irian, but 4 he (Mr. Slid) was afraid that
tea'''
tut Mr ;
• Burke said long oleo would apply now. leo
r what rQiand attention was given by the Government to
'tteek
•Patas t; s° lung as the subordinates did not act with sym-
w•di„st, Government was attended with danger and
t11:1
•iiivi'AtonZ• 'This trial was fixed for nine o'clock on the
';', tailed ••Yi, morning; at that hour a trifling case was
lie ", and a common jury sworn without notice.
Sgent of the persons charged would not challenge
.Y--be 'WAS content with the Jury in the box.
• of bruew eonipare that with what took place in the case
un the
sese, the Catho,lic, at Armagh. The Noble Lord
•biumch stated, on that occasion, that the agent for