§ MR. J. O'CONNELLcalled attention to the notice placed by him on the Paper for the purpose of bringing the condition of Ireland under the consideration of the House. He had put the notice on the Paper, not so much for the purpose of stating his own opinions, as with the view of drawing from influential parties in that House their impressions with regard to the condition of Ireland. There seemed to be a general acknowledgment that hitherto a mistaken and disastrous policy had been pursued towards Ireland, and it was time that some largo and comprehensive measures for her relief should be introduced. He particularly wished to bring fully out, if possible, the plan, of which an outline had been given on a former occasion by the right hon. Gentleman the Member for Tamworth. That was a plan which had attracted a great deal of attention in Ireland, though it had merely come before the public in an imperfect state. There was this much about it—it appeared to be "a large and comprehensive plan" in the real and not in the ridiculous sense of the phrase. He expected also to hear from the hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire what great promises he was prepared to hold out to Ireland. When that hon. Gentleman brought forward his Motion with respect to agricultural distress, he said he intended much good for Ireland, if he had but an opportunity of explaining it; and he (Mr. J. O'Connell) wished to give him an opportunity of stating what his views were. He hoped that Her Majesty's Ministers might he stimulated by what had fallen from the two hon. Gentlemen of whom he had spoken to state also their plans. He trusted they would hear something statesmanlike from them, instead of the miserable expedients to which hitherto they had recourse—expedients mistrusted even by 22 themselves, but which was the only system of policy they as yet had developed in reference to Ireland. He should not, however, bring forward his Motion on the present occasion, because he expected that the opinions of the parties to whom he had referred would be elicited during the adjourned debate on the Rate in Aid Bill.
§ Motion postponed.