RKPULSION OF JAMES SADLEIR.
Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD moved the following resolution, on Monday. "That James Sadleir, Esq., a Member of this House' having been charged with divers frauds and fraudulent practices, and bills of indictment for certain misdemeanours having been found against him, and warrants issued for his apprehension, and the said James Sadleir having failed to obey an order of this House that he should attend in his place on Thursday the 24th day of July last, and having fled from justice, that the said James Sadleir be expelled this House." He prefaced his motion by an array of precedents, beginning in 1580 and coming down to 1812, showing the power of the House to expel Members ; and he briefly repeated the story of the Sadleirs, the suicide of John, and the flight of James on the exposure of the frauds connected with the Tipperary Bank. From a letter he read, dated at Paris on Thursday last, it would appear that James Sadleir is in that city ; but that he is protected from arrest by the terms of the extradition treaty. There was no opposition to the motion ; on the contrary, an unanimous assent. But Sir FREDERICK THESIGER, Mr. ROEBUCK, and Mr. WRITE 8171; blamed the Government that they had not assented to a motion for expulsion moved by Mr. Roebuck on the 24th July. Mr. STUART WORTLEY, one of the objectors to that motion, showed that it was resisted by him because it was premature : James Sadleir had not had time to vindicate himself; he was ordered on a Monday to attend in his place on the next Thursday, and because he was not there on that very Thursday it was proposed to expel him. Sir GEORGE GREY reinforced Mr. Wortley's argument by a quotation from Mr. Henley's speech on the occasion. "The worse the case seems to be," Mr. Henley said, "the more careful we ought to be not to act until the person implicated has had an opportunity of meeting the charge made against him." Mr. NAPIER said, nobody could be more convinced now than in July last of Sadleir's guilt. The House would have been perfectly justified then in expelling Mr. James Sadleir, but it would probably not have been so politically convenient.
Motion agreed to.
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