JUSTICE FOR IRELAND. Strong Appeals Made in the House of Commons.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 268, 30 May 1888, Page 4

JUSTICE FOR IRELAND. Strong Appeals Made in the House of Commons.

In Iho Commons on April 24th Justin McCai t-hy mo\cd that tho House adjourn on ingency in ordci to call alleniion to the departure fiom usual practice in the ln-h County Courts by mci casing sentence-* on appeal. He aigued that the whole piacticc was opposed to all prc\ioiih experience. Madden, Solicitor-General for lioland, held that it was not an appeal but really a reheaung ot the ca.se, and it was the duty ot tho judge to pronounce the judgment he consulted van anted. Sir William Vernon Hnrconrl said that no .--ingle t;a&e of increase in sentence had occuned in England. He denounced Ihe piactice, and '■aid that after tl\i« ln^hmcn eoukl not and ought not to have eonlidenee in tho admhiistKition of tlie law, because it. was earned ont in a manner repugnant to Englishmen. Haltour defended the practice, and asked tho House to \ eject the motion, which was> done. Gladstone said that the fact that an appeal had been giantcd showed that it was intended to be exorcised in favour ot the accused and not agianst him. Ho taunted J-Jalfouv with breach of faith in granting an appeal and then practically putting a \ oto on it. Balfour appealed to the Speaker to declare Gladstono out of order, but the Speaker nded in Glandstonc's favour and the decision wns- received wit<h great applause. Gladstone said the practice was a tiick of the meanest kind, the discredit for which lie would not divide between the Government and the authorities in L eland, tor ho did not know how to divide it. He belie\ed that in this discussion McCarthy had stiuck a death blow nt tins outrageous practice, totally impossible in England and Scotland, but good enough ior Ireland as long as tLo people of England were disposed to tolerate it. Attorney-General Webster, amidst derisive laughter, doniocl that tho Government had interfered with tho Irish magistracy.

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