The Sun. — 1838-04-24 (London, England)

LORD BANDON'S TENANTRY.—The case of Lord Bandon's tenantry upon his estete of Kinneigh, in the west of the county of Cork, to which the recent extraordinary proceedings attempted to be instituted against them have given notoriety, is again refared to in the Cork Southern Reporter, %liich j we have received to-day. Mr. Swete, Lord Baia m's agent, on the 30th of November last, published A lettee, which i!.:0-11: republished, purporting to assign the reasons for (hiving from their homes, and deprivirg of their means of livelihood, some hundreds of unfortunate creatures. Gentlemen resident in the vicinity of the town, connexions of the Bandon family, and professing to speak the sentiments of its head, but probably without sufficient, or any authority whatever, explained the cause of expulsion in summary terms to be, that the delinquents were Catholics, and that the Noble Lord had formed the determination of never letting land to any perscn rrofes.sing that creed. Mr. Swote may be considered an authorized expositor of the Noble Lord's views, and we therefore extract from that gentleman's letter the paragraph which purports to set forth the grounds of expelling the tenantry:— " The farms In question, for half a century out of Lord Bandon's controul, fell into his hands, by the death of Mr. H. Gillman, the sole tenant. The question arose, was Lord Bandon to recognize immediately the tenants of Mr. Gillman as his own ? He must inquire into the state of the district in which they lived. He did so, and he found it confessedly and unfortunately notorious for crime, disaffected in no ordinary degree during the disturbed times of 1822, &c. ; the scene of not unfrequent and recent murder, which could be brought to light; the land on which but lately two of the revenue policemen had been barbarously massacred in open day before a crowd of witnesses, not one of w hem would convict the well: wellknown murderers ; the head-quarters of illicit distillation, with its ruinous evils. Ile, moreover, found the village connecßandonwith it in a demoralized condition. Should Lord Bandon have quietly continued this state of things ? Every lover of peace and morality would decide not. He felt the same." After showing the utter groundlessness, the insufficiency, the inconsistency, and absurdity of the reasons assigned by his Lordship's agent, the Reporter makes the following observations :—" The legal proceedings in this matter reported in our last number are absolutely without parellel or precedent, and such as must engage the attention and excite the astonishment of the whole country. Here is a proceeding at the instance of a Nobleman—amember himself of the final Appellate Jurisdiction of the Empire—and whose legal proceedings, when he was obliged to have recourse to them, should he looked to as offording an example of every thing strictly correct and regular, and what do we find? First, a summary proceeding, of doubtNI legality, adopted on the authority of the antiquated and obsolete statutes, and two magistrates, whose knowledge of law must be presumed to be moderate, required to act in a ease which would require all the teeming and experience of a court of super ior jurisdiction, Neet, an assessor appointed, ex parte, .t the instance of Lord Bandon's attorney; and finally the same attorney returning the jury under the authority of the Sheriff. Lest this latter statement may appear incredible, we re-publish the following passage from the report of the proceedings in our last publication : " Assessor—l'll make a note of the irregularity complained returnedrFc.ournsna yere the—tt _r Jdßurbyye theLuilstaad " Mr. Bullen—Of the fact that the plaintiff's agent filled up and . :ir .authority of tli theat Slieriff. Mn, -° authority. Pray, show it me."  " Since the foregoing was written and in type, we have re. ceived information which, wider all circumstances, we deem somewhat satisfactory, at least for the present. " We understand that the High Sheriff of the County has declined to comply with the new precept issued by the Magistrates, Mr. Gore Jones and Mr. Conner, of Manch, who so creditably conducted themselves at the sessions on Saturday, to issue a new jury for to-morrow, intimating that ho would take it upon himself to suspend making any return until he .liould be further advised in the matter, the proceeding being heretofore without precedent in his Bailiwick." Loan