s his conviction that the landed interest, in which he
was himself concerned, was under erroneous impressions on the subject.
The debate which followed brought out speeches from many of the men who
afterwards took so prominent a part in promoting or opposing the repeal
of the corn-laws--such as Mr. Mark Philips (member for Manchester), Lord
Stanley, Lord Howick, and Sir Robert Peel. The first-named made a useful
and practical speech; Lord Stanley an absurd one; Lord Howick was as
capricious and crotchetty as on most other occasions; Sir Robert
Peel repeated himself and other hack orators on the side of the
protectionists. Mr. Villiers made a calm and effective reply, in which
he especially directed his skill as a debater to the exposure of the
fallacies of Sir Robert Peel, whose ignorance or partizanship he
handled with a calm and dignified severity. On a division the motion
was rejected by three hundred and sixty-one against one hundred and
seventy-two.

THE AFFAIRS OF IRELAND DISCUSSED IN PARLIAMENT.

On the 1st of January an Irish nobleman, Lord Norbury, was savagely
murdered. His lordship was shot within sight of his own house, in clear
daylight, with many people at hand, and yet the assassin escaped with
impunity. The occurrence was the more shocking, because the deceased
nobleman was a most exemplary character both as a man and as a landlord.
His lordship expired on the 3rd of January, after forty-three hours of
suffering; and on the same day a notification to the magistrates was
issued by the lord-lieutenant of the county, requesting their attendance
on the 10th instant, to consider the measures necessary to be taken
in consequence of the late outrage. This meeting was held, under the
auspices of Lord Osmantown, at Tullamore, and in the course of it
resolutions to the following effect were unanimously adopted:--"That
it appears to this meeting, that property had its duties as well as its
rights; that the answer conveyed to the magistrates of Tipperary by
Mr. under-secretary Drummond has had the effect of increasing the
animosities entertained against the owners of the soil, and has
emboldened the disturbers of the public peace. That finding from the
circumstances mentioned in the former resolutions that there is little
room to hope for a successful appeal to the Irish executive, we feel
it a duty to apply to the people of England, the legislature, and the
throne, for protection. That the magistrates assemb