The MARQUESS of LONDONDERRY,in presenting a petition from tenant-farmers of Wexford, in favour of tenant-right, said, that a large body of tenant-farmers, living in a county certainly unknown to him, having appealed to him to present the petition, he did not think he could decline the duty, though he had informed them distinctly that he could not advocate the whole purpose of the petition. An ardent advocate for what he understood as the tenant's right, it was not surprising the petition had been confided to him. After alluding to the Bill brought in on the subject under the last Administration, and that proposed by Mr. S. Crawford, the noble Marquess proceeded to observe that the Government Bill had met the decided disapprobation of all parties and persons in the north of Ireland. Even Mr. S. Crawford tore it to pieces. If ever it passed into a law, he (the Marquess of Londonderry) trusted it would be a complete dead letter in Ulster; but should it come to that House, he should move a proviso saving existing customs. According to the tenant-right in Ulster, if a tenant wished to sell his holding, whether there was a lease or no lease, provided he brought a competent successor for the approbation of the landlord or agent, the sale took place. No inquiry was made as to the bargain between man and man. If the party purchasing was not in the landlord's mind eligible, he gave his veto, and another candidate might be produced. If no purchaser was brought forward, and the tenant desired to quit, or if no rent was paid, or misconduct occurred, the landlord, at a valuation open to the opinions of all on the estate, gave full compensation for outlay, and got another tenant. In all this there was no compulsion. If any measure could really be devised to ameliorate the relations between landlord and tenant, he should certainly not oppose it. But he could not go the length of the petition, which prayed that tenants should have power to sell possession of 1254 their holdings by their own free will to the highest bidders, under a guarantee that the rents should not be raised, except at a valuation by them. He could not, in justice to his own feelings, conclude without expressing his humble but unqualified approbation of the manner in which the noble Lord at the head of the Government in Ireland had conducted the arduous and difficult administration of that country. To say nothing of his personal exertions, a rare example of prudence, firmness, and wisdom had been presented in all his proceedings. The noble Lord had allowed all the bravado to pass; he had allowed the alarm as to attacks on St. Patrick's day, and the terrors and the threats which had been held out, to take their course. When the declamation of Mr. Mitchell and his a dherents had vanished into thin air, the noble Lord quietly and firmly put his hand on the delinquents, and vindicated the majesty of the law. There were, no doubt, great alarms; he (the Marquess of Londonderry) hoped great exaggerations. He had full confidence in the noble Lord's firmness, and in the brave soldiery, should their services unfortunately be required. But he considered the people of Ireland sound to the core. It was by misery and destitution, not by civil war or bloodshed, that he feared they would be cursed.