STATE OF IRELAND.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 58, 12 September 1844, Page 3

STATE OF IRELAND.

LORDS' PROTEST. The following; Ptotest has bee" signed by 19 Peers f among- whom are Lords Normanby, Landsdovvn, Radnor, P*l on (eagle, Campbell, Auckland, and Teynham : Dissentient —Because the Military occupation one third of the United Kingdom avowedly on the ground of the general discontent of the people, is a state of things which calls for the immediate atten« tion of that Parliament to which are entrusted the interests of the whole United Kingdom,

Because those discontents are not confined to that portion of the Irish people who advocate the repeal of the union, nor even to our Roman Catholic fel-low-subjects alone. The grievances of their country are feltSTongly and stated distinctly by some—the highest in rank and most influential in position—of the residents in Ireland of all religious persuasions.

Because the attempt to govern a country possessing the framework of free institutions, through the exclusive influence of a small minority, never did and never can succeed.

Because no satisfactory explanation has been given of the vacillation and subsequent rashness shown by the Government in dealing with the present agitation in Ireland. Because the recent legal proceedings have been conducted in a manner to deprive them of that weight in public opinion which belongs to the due administraiion ofjustice. Because the measures announced by her Majesty's Government, even if admitted to be in the right direction, are utterly inadequate to meet the legitimate wants of the Irish people. Because, tinder the system pursued durißg the first four years of Her Majesty's leign, the value of property in Ireland had increased, in consequence of the tranquillity produced by confidence in the impartial administration of the laws. Since then, Ireland bas become the chief difficulty oftheexecus live, and for this reason, that those who, as legislators, had previously impeded the full extension oi equal laws, have since, in the conduct of the Government, neglected to secure to that people the practical enjoyment of equal rights.