The Sun. — 1848-03-25 (London, England)

ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that there was no doubt as to the law upon the subject. The landlord, upon giving notice to quit, or upon the tenancy expiring had a right to enter peaceably; but if he did so forcibly he was liable to be indicted for a forcible entry; and if that force amounted to a riot, he might be indicted for a riot. If the entry w:s made before the notice to quit expired, the tenant bad a remedy at civil law; but it was not at all usual So make what amounted to a private. wrong the subject of a public indictment by the Govern-' ment.  Mr. S. CRAWFORD said that this question was really too important to allow it to be burned, and he joined the Hon. Member for Cork in hoping the Hon. Member for Stroud would not wait for another Committee of Supply, but at once proceed with his motion. The barbarity committed in the Union of Galway, to which his motion referred, wai worse than anything that had occurred in any civilised country. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY had ascertained that the act was a most monstrous and cruel one; and the sooner the Government made it their practice to insti,ute proceedings in such cases the better. 2. Mr. REYNOLDS asked whether Irish slavery and murder of the Irish people were not more fitting for, the consideration of that House than the mitigation of African slavery, upon which subject they, had been engaged for the last five hours.—(lleur, head.) Mr. Blake, the landlord involved in these vjectieents, had admitted that he was guilty of an illegal act in turning these, people out in the bleak month of December, by which,some of their lives had been sacrificed ; lie therefore asked the Government whether that gerAleman was to be permitted to remain in the comission of the. peace for the county of Galway ?--(Hear i hear.) He firmly but respectfully cautioned the House against passing over offences such as Mr. Blake had committed, for if the people of Ireland were left to think that they were to have no redress under such `atrocious circumstances, he feared the total loss of their confidence, which was every day diminishing, arra likely to lrcotire " small by degrees and beautifully less."—(Laughter) Ile called upon the Govorninenteto institute an inquiry into this case, and if they had not the power to prosecute Mr. Blake criminally for he murderous offences with which he was charged, at limst to deprive him of the commission of the peace.—(Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL said the declaration of the AttorneyGeneral, that Government had no-power to interfere, rendered it the more incumbent on that House to exercise whatever moral power they possessed to put aneno of to such practices as wer3 described in the motion the Hon. Member for Stroud. The Right Hon. Baronet then referred to the report of Major M•Kie, from which he said it appeared that a more grievous injustice had been committed than they were likely to find in any other country.—(Hear, hear.) Major in reply to the commission, stated that it replied this forcible ejectment had been illegal; that rouse had not been served; that it had been under circiunstances of great cruelty; that the occupiers had been turned out of their houses at nightfall; that they and thstir helpless children had been left exposed to a cold bleak shore on a stormy winter niliht; that some of the children were sick ; that their prayers for mercy were in vain, and that many of them had since died ; that he had visited the ruins of their huts, and found many of those unfortunate people still living amongst the ruins, but many of them so weak that they could scarcely stand. He was sure that the mere recital of these facts, accompanied with the expression of sympathy and indignation on the part of that House, would not be without its influence—(Loud cheers);— and he thought that the House owed an obligation to the Hon. Member for Stroud, in not having permitted this ponderous volume (alluding to the blue book) to rest in oblivion, and that he had done r ight in drawing the attention of the House to it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr.