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" ~ "" INDIA . B Bombay papers to the 15 th nit ., report that an ¦ fti & emp t had been made to attack Lucknow by a ¦^•^ b oaring rajah , and a fight had taken place near BKfioanderapore , ia which the rajah was defeated . The SJS ^' geountry was still disturbed , the Ninra himenKlf eccupviug teats entade the walls of Hyderahad . jftf | £ n Semde or Lahore there was nt intelligence of aa kiportance . -, „ ... __ **»* -
FRANCE . j Notwithstanding thedennnciationg oftheDsBlTS , rfttfte Befona * g ? tatioa continues to advance . Several ^ Jourui Jsex P re 8 S * ? " tia * an ex plosion is not water y distant , and the Peksbi , a most seaioua * dy « manMUC priut , ' considers even that « the present state ^ rfftrBu rsis as grave and extreme aa matters were < fhe election ol twelve candidates for the office of iiamefor and adjoint of the second arrondfcttment of ¦ ft Paris , which took place last week , has resulted in the itrj triom p h of tiie opposition candidates , to the total exicli clndonof the ministerial list . The A ofcwwl has bean probated on threecharges a eo two of which it was acquitted , but found guilty et tothe third . The aubjectef tiualast was the reform h banquet held at Orleans , and the offence charged was E l Ebel against the person of the King . The sentence oi of the court was a fine of 6 , 000 franca and eight rr months' imprisonment . °
SPAIN . K arvaez is suspected by the Christine coterie of B rjjsiing secret conciliatory advancestowardsthePro g gresistas , in order that he may have a reserve to fall B back upon when his present patrons , the immaculate d dame and Louis Philippe , dismiss him from their 9 service , to make room for Mnnoz and Mon . The f folitiis of this country have become thoroughly de-TToid of interest .
PORTUGAL . Lisbos , Dae . 9 The elections ( so called ) are over , the military f force has triumphed , aud the national party will not I Lave even one solitary deputy in the next Cortes . 5 The prominent features of the la = st struggle must now I be commented upon , and the vis abdita , by which the ( Cahrals aud court have achieved a seeming triumph , 1 hasyefcto be explained . Theeapita ! rwitu the foreign t diplomatic body oa the spot , scanning the acts of the I government , could not well be made the theatre of I military outrage ; so here fraud had to supersede vio-1 fence , and the disfranchisement . of thousands of Li-] beral electors on the one hand , and the intrusion on 1 the registry of a garrison of soldiery , and others
havi ag no votes in law , produced aresnlt ; but eveu-this ' . feat could be without difficulty achieved . mor would it j have been if a sort of ambulatory process had net : heen resorted to by which the military , farce settled the question ( I speak from documents , and . these of so unquestionable nature ) . In the 16 th . ( Lisbon ) Electoral College , the Merces , the Cahrals . towards the end of the poll , were far behindhand , therefore two hundred and sixteen of the petty officers ofthe municipal guard and of the 2 nd battalion of volunteers were marched in squads to the poll .. Merces , therefore , returned Cabral members . In the twentieth district , that of Laps ,, things looked very blank , defeat seemed sure , when , hurrah ! to the rescue ! the
tramp of many feet were heard , and np came an auxi liary detachment nnmbering two hundred and twelve , composed of a select party of the palace livery servants , the German Guard , and pokcemes . One more instance : Sao alameda . Here matters wore , a sad aspect , when , Io ! the sudden apparition of the noncommissioned officers of tbe 10 th Best , the band , the drummers , lifers , and all , changed mourning into mirth , and Cabral' was the cry ; ' and so on through , ont some eighteen out of the twenty-two Lisbon districts , and thefight was won . The same thing occurred at Cintra , the Windsor of Portugal , where the Queen has her summer pal & ce . and theforeiguministers their residences .
Horrible outrages werecommitted by the troops at Aldea Gallega . By such means the Cabraliatas have kiumpbed . SWITZERLAND . . Under date December 5 th , the correspondent of the Truss says : — ' As the great Powers have resolved to take into their consideration the circumstances of the civil war , now happily at an end in this country , a few incidents connected with it , which have come under my knowledge , may , perhaps , be interesting to yon , as serving to illustrate its real character , and the moral influences uns * er which those who fought on the side of the Sonderbund were induced to act . I have already informed you , in a former letter , that the priests in Lucerne had been actively engaged in
denouncing from , the pulpit the Federal cause , and assuring their ignorant and misguided hearers that they had nothing to fear , as the Holy Virgin had declared that she would defend the city and paralyse the exertions of its besiegers . This is strictly true ; and the announcement was accepted io the letter by the people , to a much larger extent than you would believe possible in an enlightened age like the present . Yet the priests themselves , who were foremost in | deceiving the people , were the first to acknowledge their mistake themselves whenjthe time of proof arrived . The worthy curs' of the little village of Eliken , midway between Roth and Lucerne , on the Sunday previous to the siege , told his congregation not to be a ' -anned even if they should see the
enemy advancing to their village , for that on arriving there heaven would pour down its wrath upon item , and destroy them . Singular to relate , however , when three days afterwards the Federal treops were actually on their inarch through Eliken to take possession ef Lucerne , the worthy _ cure came out _ to meet them , bearing , not denunciations of . Divine vengeance , but a propitiatory oblation in the shape of fifty bottles of champagne which were cheerfully accepted . I heard of one man who , in the fervour ef his credulity , declared , in the presence of the gentleman wha informed me , that be ^ so fully relieves in the announcement of the Virgin ' s promised interposition , that if she should fail of her promise he would never believe in anything again .
More—I have seen some curious little brass amu lets , with the effigy ofthe Virgin on one side and the Cross on the ether , which were sold in great numbers to the people as charms against all possible injuries in battle . Those sold at seven and ten batzen fabont 10 J . and lad . of onr money ) were eScacious against musket and carbine balls ! those at twenty bateen ( about half-a-crown ) were proof against eannen shot also ! The purchasers of these medals were also presented with a card , of which the following is a translation—if indeed I may be excused for profaning the honest English tongue with such blasphemy : — .- . . 'OhMary!—conceived without sis—pray for as who have recourse to you . Artg one carrying a mi-» culousraedal , who recite * with piety the ab & ve invocation , becomes placed under the especial protection ofthe Mether of God . This is a promise made by Mary herself . *
- „ I told yon , in my first letter from Lncerne , * f the psot Valaisians , who had been lured from their canton , and compelledta fight , and afterwards left , to starve but for the merciful consideration cf their \ captors , aided in the first instance by casual contributions from individuals- Many of tu & se men tried to escape some days before the siege , and being recaptured were severely punished . I waa introduced to a gentleman , a citizen of the town , who , having riven asylum to three of these nnhappy wretches , nnrsuedby their tormentors , was thrust into the dSon where Dr Steward iiid previously lan-Sed , and remained there three days , when , on fKt ranee ofthe Federal troops , he was released TtPMtDEC . 7 .-The Diet met this morning at J ^ SEu * . ^ rd ins to aonointment . The sittings
efthis body are held in a large square room , hung witbamber draperies ; there is nothing ornamental mountedby helmetsand other martial insignw . The pSenftehair is placed upon a sort o dais . to vS three stef sesvered with green cloth lead . The denutiesofthe rwenty-two cantons sit in a sort if SSe , witi tables before them covered with Sdotb . Theydtaecordingtothe rank of their £££ alternately right and left of the chair-Zurich being first on the right , Lucerne first on , the left The President , M . Ochsenbein , isafine looking man apparently somewhat turned of forty . - ^ fae precis verbal of the last day ' s sitting having been read and c onfirmed , the Chancellor wascalled tStoread the note ofthe French government , agnedbyM . Boisle Comte ; there waKne anp . nrSlauehter when mention was made of the
win with which France witaessea we comme , ^ %£ t o ? Secivawar , ' ana again when mention was X ofthe President of the Council of Warofthe ^ S of Vaud . whose dutyitwasto prepare areS & toSnote , then , after aiew observation ? J 2 ed ^ answer , which wasvery lengthy . ; we ^ Se rancipal points :- < The object of the ! Sed mediation * ws the Diet , ' was to put an ffiSeS waria Switzerbnd and effect are-SET between the Diet and the Sonderbund . ESiation supposes the existence of thet separate E " andI the existence of two belkgerentpart . es . SS have the satisfaction of announcing that bStiSve been completely at anend ! forseveral J ^ Snd thus there is no civil war , and there are ISSlSSSSl * Switzerland ; that the seven oeiugerens pw Sonderbund have expressly S £ tt S £ tKr troopsare disbanded £ ?& £ ? thatT ^ de / abfe ^ rtion of the
^ tTffsa ^ ussS personsand property from the te ^ J W Stf the ? nderbund , irritated aganstttose who haveledtht jn totheirruin by fanaUCHing ana ^ , 15 $ ! p ^ of « . «* -rtffl : that is to say , to treat on equal terms with Jtturson derhnnd , wenldbeto compromise the "KgnV w SwilKrland , which only recognises a confederation , a Diet , a federal directory , a federal epuncil of war , and which declares in Art . 8 . that in all tho at-
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After an animated dacussioB , in which the ntmost contemptwas expressed towards the French fSS *^ V * "I . " ' to tho Fren * note was ^ ft- t Twelv and two half states voted for it . TheDietmanimouBly decided that pensions shall be accorded _ to tie widows and chUdren of those who have falten in the service of the country . Complimentary addresses to the Diet from several towns in Germany were read , and subscriptions from the game places were received on behalf ofthe Jrienda of those
who fell fighting for its cause . « . " » t « Wori Canning arrived on the morning ef theYthatNeufchateUnd immediately bad an intemew with M . de Sydow , the envoy of Prussia to the Confederation , and with General Pfnel , the governor of the principality . Sir S . Canning left the same ' evening for Berne , where he arrived on the nigbtof the 8 th . Hehad a conference with Mr Peel on the morning ofthe 9 th , and afterwards an interview with M . Ochsenbein , which continued to a late hour .
The generalassembly ofthe people of the canton of Zug adopted on the 5 th , resolutions similar to those adopted by the other cantons ef tbe Sonderbund , renouncing the League , - acknowledging the authority of theDiet , and appointing a provisional government . The provisional government of Lucerne have issued a decree , ordering that the . Jesuits , and the orders affiliated with them , particularly the Uranlines , and the Sisters of Providence at Lucerne and at Snrsee . are for ever banished from the canton .
Those who are absent shall never be admitted a ; ain to cross the frontier , and those who are still within the territory shall quit it between this time and the 10 th , at the latest . The . ancient funds ofthe Franciscans shall be again , administered as they were before the recall oi the Jesnits . . In the Valais , the assembly < of the people has actually taken place at Sion . Four thousand citizens were , present . - M . Maurice -Herman , one of the proscribed under the late regime , opened the proceedings . M . Joris then proposed a series of resolu tions . . The following are the most important which the assembly adopted : —! . The-dissolution of the
existing Grand Connciland Conneilef State . 2 .-Tbe suppression , of the privileges ( immunities ) ofthe clergy . 3 . The incompatibility of civil and ecclesi astical functions , i . That the Grand Council shall be named in the course of December , and shall hold office for five years . 5 . The expulsion of the Jesuits . 6 . . The expenses of the war to be borne by such religious corporations and other persons as . voted for it , y . dvised it , or preached in its favour . Letters from Milan of the 4 ih say , that a great number of the chiefs of the Sonderbund had arrived in that city , who had been well received by the Auatrians , but unfavourably by the Italians .
Advices from Berne to the 10 th , report that Sir Stratford Canning bad anticipated the decision ef Lord Palmerston as to the course to be pursued in the actual situation of parties in the Confederation . Tbe ambassador-extraordinary delivered his credentials at the interview . which he had with Ochsenbein en the 9 th , butsienined bis intention to . withhold any nete en the subject of the contemplated mediation , until he should receive farther instructions from London . Be is reported to have assured the president ef the Diet that , in consenting to share in the proposed mediation , the more especial purpose of the British cabinet was to prevent any encroachment on the independence ofthe Swiss nation byother powers , and not to interfere unnecessarily with the internal affairs of the Confederacv .
On the 11 th the Swiss Diet held a sitting , at which , after a long discussion , it adopted a resolution to the effect that the canton of Neufchatel should pay as an indemnity to the other cantons for not haying supplied its contingent of troops , the sum of 300 . 000 Swiss francv the whole of which wulbe applied to the support of the widows and orphans of those who lost their lives in the war . The Federal council of war has published a report of the killed and wounded during , the late war , from which it appears that the total numbers were , eightyeight killed , and three hundred and eighty-five wounded , on the side of the Government The loss on the side of the insurgents has not been ascertained , butis supposed to be three or four times greater .
The estimate of the expenses of the war have now been given in . from which , it appears that , including the charge of fifty . thousand men for a month hence , the whole cost will be about seven millions French francs . There is a great deal of talk about important documents discovered at ^ ribonrg and at Lucerne , and which throw precious light , on the proceedings and veritable views of the chiefs of the Sonderbund . These documents show , with the fullest evidence , that tha existence of the league , attributed to the formatienof the corps francs , preceded by more than two years the two fatal expeditions which took place against Lncerne , and that it had been even disapproved of in its origin by Bale Ville and Neufchatel . ITALY . Sicily is in full insurrection against the hated government of Naples . It is ^ said that the people have proclaimed the Constitution of 1812 .
The success obtained by the Swiss Diet ' s forces would appear to have created a great sensation in Italy . On the 3 rd instant , when the news of the fall of Lucerne arrived , a grand demonstration took place at Rome . The people , whom a band of music preceded , proceeded to the Swiss Consul ' s residence , and cried , 'Viva the Swiss " Confederation ! ' 'Viva the Italian Confederation ! ' . ' . Viva the capture of Lucerne ! ' * Vira PiusIX . 1 ' The people had first assembled on tie Piazza dell Popolo , and crossed the most frequented thoroughfares of ,. Rome , which were lighted up on the occasion . . The flags ofthe Swiss Confederation , and the Italian tri-colour flag were displayed in great numbers . The acclamations of joy for the capture of Lucerne were especially vociferated in front ofthecollegeofthe Jesuits .
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Thz Coubiess Gciccioij . —The name of Lord Byron ' s celebrated favourite appears in the Paris paper ? , as about to enter once more into the bonds of matrimony . Among the marriages published at the Mairie of the first arrondissement of Paris is that of 'M . Hilaire Etienne Octave Bouille , Marquis de Boissy do Coudrais , peer of France , and Chevalier of the Legion of Honour , widower , to Madame Therese Franooise Olympic Gaspera Gamba , daughter of the Count Ruggero Gamba Griselli , and widow of Count Guiccioli : ' The Marquis de Boissy , like his
fair bride , has arrived at ah age of decided maturity . He has been for several years a widower , haying been married in tbe first instance to Mademoiselle de Musnierde Folleville , who , we believe , was granddangbter andjoint neiressof the miHiMKK > e Marquis d'Afigre . By that marriage the marquis had an only daughter , who was married in 1848 to the Prince de Leon , eldest son of the Dnke'de Rohan . The Countess Guiccioli therefore becomes not only allied to some of the noblest families in France , but the wife of one of the wealthiest of the nobility in that
country . Tax Bncxs Advsbtiseh ahd Atxkburt . News , of Dec . lltb , speaking of the minority who voted , against Coercion and for 'Repeal' thus writes : — Feargus is , withal , the most usefnl of the batch . Ho stands up like a man and tells the truth . Friend and fee he powders into dust with the terrible weight of his sledge-hammer tongue . Both the dead and the living are beyond the pale of his mercy . It is quite true that Mr Walter , of Printing-honsesquare , tried , on Tuesday , te put him down with a little extempore thunder ; but he decidedly suffered for it , lost his temper , and-ietreated in shame and confusion . Feargus smashed Mm at a single blow . Marihboke . —At the meeting of the Working Man ' s Association for the promotion of useful , political , agricultural , aud soeialfenowledge , held at the Princess Royal , Circus-street , . New-road , on Monday ATAiiinff Mr Corduro y in the chair .- It was resolved ,
« That the thanks of the members be given to . Mr Stallwood for his kind donation of books , and that be be elected an honorary member of the society . Aconsiderable acquisition was made to the members , also tethevolnmesin . he library . The meetings take plaoe every Mondav evening . The Nobthkrit Stab and other papers are provided for the use of members , as well as a useful and instructive library of books . Mr Gaes ' t ( the secretary ) attend on each night of meeting , to give information and enrol members in 'The National Co-Operative Benefit Society- ' Thb EtKcraic Txltobaph . —There are now 2 , 000 miles of electric telegraph in operation , and the penny-a-liners are fearful that they will be superseded by the mechanical mode of sporting . Their fears are , however , groundless , for the electric telegraph caanofc give very copious details , the reports furnished by its agency being naturally rather wire-drawn . — Punch .
Swauxut Discovert . — Workmen have been recently repairing the interior arches of Durham Cathedral . In the thickest ef the transept arches they have found a fire-place and chimney of large proportions . Auoiner agreeable occupation for seaside lodgers is in counting your lumps of sugar in the morning , and counting them again in the evening , to see how many the land ' ady has helped herself to during the day . — Punch ' s Poelet Booh . The limerick Chronicle states that a gentleman , who was unable to get writs served , dressed a bailiff in female attire and thus effected his object , for the seeming woman was admitted , though the bailiff in propria persona had vainly demanded entrance * ;
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k SPEECH OF F . O'dOMOR , ESQ ., M . P ., Against the second reading of the Irish Coercion Bm ., on Thursday evening , December 9 . [ Press of matter excluded this speech from our last number . ] Mr F . O'Connor said , he wouit ? not follow the hon . member for Montrose into the confessional , because , upon that point , the hon . gentle ^ " bad answered himself , for he had remarked upoi ? the facility with which absolution for these murde ^ could be obtained , and in the very same breath had spoken of the high character of the Roman Catholic clergy . If one reason more than another could be
shown for producing remedial measures contemporaneousl y with this proposed Coercion Bill , it was to be found in the statement of the hon . member for Montrose himself , when he said that at every great public meeting he had attended , the people of England , when the question was mooted , had always denounced the tyranny and oppression exercised by the government of this country over the Irish people . He ( Mr O'Connor ) would , however , turn from the remarks of the hon . member for Montrose to the bill , which he could now show even better grounds for opposing than hehaddone at first . The bill was a constructive Coercion Bill , and so it had been admitted to be by the right honourable baronet himself , in answer to the rig ht honourable gentleman , the member for Tamwortb , whom the
right honourable baronet had told that the hill embraced all the previous acts of coercion that could be put in operation at the will of the Lord-Lieutenant . It was " then that he ( Mr O'Connor ) , recognised in this measure a great legal draw-net , and that its presumed mildness was nothing but a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . He rejoiced that he had not subjected himself to those taunts which had been levelled , and he thought unjustly , at other hon . members , who had given their support to the bill . . He ( Mr O'Connor ) not wishing to disturb the unanimity of the Irish party , which was indispensable for the redemption of his country , could , perhaps , make a better apology for those gentlemen than they could for themselves . His apology was this—that from the rig ht hon . secretary ' s first description of the bill , and from the fact that the hon . member for
Limerick could not be supposed to possess that legal discernment which would lead him at once to the malignity of this bill , might be taken as an apology for his assent to the first reading ; while he ( Mr O'Connor ) had given it his most decided opposition in the outset , because , however mild it might be described by its parent , wait till an ingenious hired lawyer , making its severe construction his qualification for patronage , came to expound it , and then it would be discovered that it was a kind of telescopic measure , to be collapsed ahd expanded at the will of the Lord Lieutenant and his minions . ( Hear , 'hear . )
Yes ; it was a short knife in the hands' of the Lord Lieutenant , with as many blades as were required for Irish persecution . ( Hear , hear . ) ., „ It was , a Christmas box for Ireland , the outside shell representing the sexagenarians ; and the inside , the children of sixteen , who were to scamper with even pace across the country after their famishing friends and relatives . ( Hear , bear . ) The rig ht honourable baronet , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , bad gained courage from the ferocity of party . The right hon . baronet , the member fer Tamwortfi , asks one question , and receives an answer to his taste , that the bill in that instance can be made more
stringent . Then comes the ' hon . member for Buckinghamshire , he asks another question , and the right hon . Home Secretary gives a solution of one of his former declarations , wholly differing from his former statements , as it struck him ( Mr O'Connor ) and every other member who had spoken upon the question , and who were nevertheless allowed to remain in their ignorance until the strength of party emboldened the right hon . Secretary in his course of hardihood and presumption . The motto— ' Vires acguirit eundo , ' may be well applied to the bold daring of the right hon . gentleman , but be would remind him , that tbe course now being pursued by the British parliament would only strengthen Irish
hostility againsteventheordinary law . There wasuo better way of answering a Whig government than from its own lips , and he could , do so effectually on this occasion , but , unfortunately , was not prepared with the formal indictment ; for he had searched tbe library in vain for the 85 th volume of Hansard , containing the speeches of the noble lord opposite at the time the right hon . baronet , the member for Tamworth , introduced his Coercion Bill . However , he had a pretty good memory , and remembered perfectly well the substance of the speeches made by the noble lord and right hon . gentlemen now in the government in opposing the introduction of that measure . The ground of opposition was , that remedial
measures were not at the same time introduced—( hear , hear)—and hon . gentlemen now in the government declared then that until that was done they would resist tbe b . 'll in every stage . And what was the state of Ireland at that time ? It was described by the noble lord the member for Lynn as in a more riotous and disordered condition than it was represented to be at the present time ; but still the cry was that the bill should not be passed until remedial measures were produced . And if he ( Mr O'Connor ) required further reason for ^ opposing the present bill , he should find it in the tactics then pursued by the hon . member for Buckinghamshire and his party , but which would probably not be the same now
as when the object was to turn out a government . He ( Mr O'Connor ) would ask the house where was the difference between the two cases , further than the difference of the'Whigs sitting here , and the Whigs sitting there , and where were the remedial measures now ? ( Hear , hear , from Sir W . Somerville . ) The right hon . secretary for Ireland cries ' hear , hear , ' but he- ( Mr O'Connor ) replied , where , where . ' Was it in Pandora ' s box , and at the bottom ? ( Laughter . ) And would such an announcement have reconciled that right hon . gentleman to the bill proposed last , year by the ri ght hon . member for Tamworth ? No , but unfortunately that right hon . secretary appeared to forget that it was he himself
who moved the amendment to the Arms' Bill oi the right hon . member for Tamworth , and not upon the ground that remedial measures were simultaneously proposed , but upon the grounds that remedial measures had not been enacted as a means of suppressing the cause of crime . ( Hear , and cheers . ) It was impossible , when a country was to be deprived of even the semblance of a constitution , that such a bill should pass this house without any attempt to suppress crime , by a redress of those grievances which led to it ; but the noble lord at the head of the government , when at this side of the house , went even farther than the right hon . secretary for Ireland ; he not only advocated remedial measures , hut he showed the house how , when the most stringent measures of coercion were required in 1833 , he and his party had made the remedial measures
precede coercion . And now what were his words ; they were , ' That Lord Althorphad laid bills upon the table of that house for the amendment of Grand Jury laws , for the abolition of Church Cess , for the extension of Municipal Reform , and other salutary measures , eight days before the Coercion Bill was introduced . ' - ( Hear , hear , and cheers . } But that was not all , that was what had been done in 1833 , bnt what did the noble lord say in 1846 ; why , having discovered the deficiency of his reforms of 1833 , he opposed the bill of the righthon . member for Tamwortb , because it had not been preceded—mind , not accompanied but preceded—by a Tenant Right Bill , and extended municipal corporation . reform , and an extension of the political franchise . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Now then , he would ask what had become of those remedial measures , and if he
was told that the circumstances of the present case were different , he would ask in what , except in the difference between the two sides of the house . ( Laughter . ) The right hon . baronet , the member for Tamworth , had told them not to parley with assassins—it was echoed from all sides of the housebut let them now see if they had not parleyed with assassins , when assassination was a Whig auxiliary . ( Hear , hear . ) And let him see whether or no the present advocates of coercion could be ignorant of the then state of Ireland . The noble lord , the member for Lynn , detailed the then state of Ireland thus ; he showed the house , that more crimes and of a more heinous and savage nature had been committed within a certain period , tlian had ever been
committed in Ireland before . ( Hear , hear . ) He showed how a poor woman , one Mary Fennclly , had been shot . How another woman in the familyway had been . shot . How the family of Mr Ryan had been fired at , while performing their religious duties , when the whole group mig ht have been destroyed ! He showed the systematic resistance to all ordinary law , the destruction of social order , and the general reign ' of terror , and yet you parleyed with the assassins for five whole months—your invariable answer being , where are your remedial measures , your tenant right , your extended municipal reform , and your extension of the political franchise . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Now , he ( Mr O'Connor ) re-echoed the Whig cry , and asked where are your
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rfemedieg ? ' The hon . member for Buckinghamshire had justified the taetlca pf , his party in opposing the ngnt hon . baronet , after a five months' parley , and he ( Mr O'Connor ) justified that ' policy ' upon the grounds that it was better to destroy . the cause pf disease , than to pick the pimple , and irritate the sore . ( Hear , ! hear . ) He justified the course on these grounds , that when a party in opposition became sufficiently strong to oust a ministry whose general policv was considered dangerous and obnoxious , that in his ( Mr O'Connort ) opinion , it mattered not the question upon which that ministry was defeated—it was the removal of the cause , and the cure of the disease may follow . ( Hear , hear . ) Up to this hour , where were the reme ^ 'al measures that had been promised for Ireland ? 'ity hon . member for Montrose had said
that he would impose the giving an equal title to the tenant and the landlord ; but the Landlord and Tenant Bill that he $ 4 r O'Connor ) would support was one which , confirmed v . ne property , of the landlord while it enforced the perfoi'Jiance of his duties as a landlord . At the same tims , he would make ejectment more easy than now . ; He would not only give an interest in the land to the . landlords , but to those who cultivated it . He wished the house now to consider what had caused the two last Coercion Bills for Ireland , and he could show that the conduct of the landlords and ' the Protestant clergy in that country had been the direct cause of the two measures of 1823 and
1833 . What produced the outrage and " confiscation of property in 1823 ? Four bad liarvests had taken place . ; the people / were hot able to pay war rents , and yet the landlords , accustomed to receive them , would not abate one : farthing so long as a particle of property remained to be &\ s . trained upon . At the same period ; 'too , so dreadfully hostile were the ' Protestant clergy to the people of Ireland , that when [ thenar ijtli ' es could ' npt . be recovered by themselves , the parsons let the tithes to the proctors for threeTfourth 8 of their value , upon condition that they did not remit the other fourth . ( Hear , hear . ) Now , let them' -analyse the course which led to the Coercion Bill of 1833 ; and which
never had been developed ' to that house or to the country . It was this : the bill ofthe righthon . member-for the University of Cambridge , which repealed the / Act of the Irish parliament passed in 1735 „ began to be felt by , the Irish ! landlords , whose grass lands were , by that measure of the right hon . gentleman , broughfrrto beat" their just proportion of tithe , whiles previously , ' all was paid -By '' the ' miserable Catholic - tdtlierV ' WrM 1735 to 1830—nearly a century—thejrish Profestahts ^' as landlords anil : captains of yeomanry ; . cbrpsi ; we ' re- the first , ' to shoot ' every Catholic who .. resisted . the , payment ( Of tithes ,, while ,. ^; magistrate , Jurors , and ^ grand jurorsj they bung them j . transported them , or
otherwise persecuted them : ; ( Hear , hear . ) Then every village official-was a staff officer , and every little Protestant Orangeman was constituted a judge" and executirjrier . ' But as soon as . ever the Protestant landlords were called upon to ' pay the ministers of their own church , that moment , like ' . ' the volunteers of ' 82 , the Catholic soldiers , were again enlisted to fight the battle of the Protestant offieers —( hear , hear , and cheers)—and so popular had these Protestants made the resistance to tithes , that Sir Edmund Nagle , the Honourable Pierce Butler , and other Protestants , who were
deprived of appointments by the minister , were returned to that bouse by the popular voice . ( Hear , hear . ) And one remarkable feature of that agitation was , that at every anti-tithe meeting Protestant landlords and Protestant farmers claimed the honour of moving , seconding , and supporting the strongest resolutions for the abolition of tithes . ( Hear , hear . ) And he ( Mr O'Connor ) , as a Protestant , was tried in 1832 for taking , part in that agitation . Now , such were the causes which led to the Coercion Bills of 1823 and 1833 , while the cause of the present Coercion Bill would be found in the heartless .
ness of the landlords , who , having dabbled and speculated in railroads , and other gambling transactions , took vengeance upon their unfortunate tenahtry for their own improvidence and misdeeds ; and they looked upon this constructive Coercion Bi !! , not as a measure for the protection of human life , but as a means of sacking their estates , levelling the hovels of the Irish Catholics , and striking terror into the hearts of the Irish people . . But he defied them , as the love oi countiy , of kind , and religion , would sustain them , even amid the gloom of famine , until the . day of retribution ' arrived . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) This bill would have the effect of silencing the just complaint of , the
injured man , lest resistance to oppression , might be construed into resistance against the law ; and thus the little of liberty that remained in Ireland would receive another stab irom its old and implacable enemies , the Whigs . With respect to the present bill , he maintained , that it was at once folly and injustice towards the Irish landlords to give the Lord Lieutenant this shut-up knife , with as many blades in it as he chose to open , for he was certain that the Irish landlords would find in the end that tbey had been the greatest sufferers by it ; and they , as well as the English landlords , would beled to exclaim , ' Why did we not look to remedial measures instead of having the agricultural labourers thrown upon iisfor theit bread ? ' He referred to the case of the colliers
in the north of England , whose disorders- were wont to be only increased by extraordinary measures , but who had become quiet and peaceable by a mild administration of the ordinary law . Now what was their case : —magistrates who were their-masters , sat in jadgment upon them , and so constant and irksome was the oppression of these coal kings , that the colliers—a kind of under-ground race , living in villages together—and finding the law an oppressor , instead of protector ; in former times they sought to avenge themselves by force , and so terrible was the recollection of their power , that the noble lord , the member for Lynn , had told the house that the relaxation of the Bank
Charter Act of 1844 was caused by a visit from Mr Pease , formerly a member of this house , to Lord Grey , and at which interview Mr Pease assured the noble lord that a stoppage of the collieries of Northumberland and Durham , occasioned by want of money , would drive the colliers of those counties into revolution . ( Hear , hear . ) But he ( Mr O'Connor ) begged to inform the house that reliance upon the ordinary law , and finding protection in the ordinary law , had seduced the colliers from ! riotto obedience to the law , and for this simple reason , because they bad secured the professional services of an able solicitor , Mr Roberts , who taught them i to respect tbe law , and rely upon the law , —and the
result was , as he ( Mr O'Connor ) believed , that without a single exception , the judges of the land Overruled the coercion and the tyranny of the master magistrates ; and to this gentleman ' s professional skill was due the merit of having turned this riotous race into a peaceable and orderly class . If , then , a system of relaxation and the habit of teaching the people to rely upon the ordinary law , had had that effect in England , why not try the saxie thing in Ireland ? It was because they thought they were a strong government , and that they could do as
they pleased with Ireland . The government had been asked in vain to produce their remedial measures along with this measure of coercion . Their answer was , that they intended to bring forward a Landlord and Tenant bill , but there were such difficulties in the way that they must have more time to consider it . Well , suppose they had no Landlord and Tenant bill ready—had they ho' other bill ? Were they so incapable that they could do nothing for the Irish people but coerce them ? There , was the hon . member for Rochdale ( Mr W . S .. Crawford ) an Irish landlord . He did nr . t ask them for a
Coercion Bill ; and , just as he believed the thirteen Irish members who had voted against this bill to be better representatives of Ireland than the other ninety-two , so he believed the hon . member for Rochdale to be a better representative of the Irish landlords than those whom the government were in the habit of listening to . It was a curious fact that when there was anything required to be done for England there was an easy way of doing it ; but when anything was required for Ireland it was felt to be such a complicated question that it required twenty-five years to look at the principle , and other twenty-five years to look at the details . He admitted that the present bill was mild in appearance , but it was capable of beieg stretched to any purpose
the Lord Lieutenant chose to apply it to . He asked again , where were their remedial measures ? Now he ( Mr O'Connor ) did not ask the government to brine in their remedial measures first , he merely asked that they should proceed pari passu with their Coercion Bill . The . reason why the government were so tardy in introducing remedial measures , was that they did not understand Ireland , and were afraid that by chance they might trench upon the rights ofthe landlord ; but he maintained that they co uld not by possibility do justice to Ireland without at the same time doing justice to the landlords . The government showed extreme sympathy with the Poles , and with tbe people of every nation on earth excep t the Irish ; hut when the history of
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their own day and thelf own rule came to 1 e . written , Jt should . , be characteristically-written in blood , for they had made a Golgotha of Ireland , and destroyed its peace and prosperity . It was strange that the law officers of the Crown were ' not present on that occasion to tell them whether or not this bill embraced all the previous Coercion Bills , as he ( Mr , 0 'Connor ) asserted it did . With respect to the Catholic priesthood of Irelandto whom allusion had so often been made in the course of these debates-he as a Protestant begged to say , that he bad had more intercourse with them than any Catholic in Ireland ( laughter ); and for this reason , that the Catholics had intercourse only with the priests of their immediate
neighbourhood , while he had mixed with them in aU parts of Ireland ; and he defied hon . members to point out to him a more pious , forgiving , humane , religious , or excellent body of men . In fact , the fault he had to find with them was , that they were too subservient to the landlords in their neighbourhood . Whenever they happened to be anything good at all they held them up to the admiration of their flock ; but he did uot believe that they denounced them from the altar . If the conduct of the landlords merited denunciation , it was sure to be known sufficiently to the people , who yyouldnot require the priest ' s word to urge them , on . ' Now one word of comment upon the only two points worthy of notice in tbe speech of the hon . member for Bridport . That hon . gentlemen said , let the
government cultivate the resources of Ireland as a means of securing tranquillity , while he appeared to forget that it was the very ground work of all reforms recommended by him ( Mr O'Connor ) . For years he had been saying that the first duty of a government was to cultivate the resources of . a country ; but not for the landlords only , nor for the landlords and tenants , butfor the labourers as well , who pay th ' e rent of the one . and the profit of the other . ( Hear ,, heat ' . ) ., Wliat was the landlord ' s interest ia the rawl material compared . to the amount of produce secured ,, bytheihusbandman ' s' toil ?; . The , landlords had advocates * an ; that house in abundance , but the labourers had but few . The right hon . baronet had told them of the- assassination of-a- few landlords
and'there was sympathy for them . 'He had trumped up anonymous ' communications to serve hispurpose , but he had not taken substantial cases which he might have gathered from legal proceedings in tbe Irish courts . ; . he . had not related a pitiful case recently , heard , by , Master ; Murphy in Dublin , wherein the receivenand- counsel for- the respondent applied to the master for perrriissi 6 h to' give a paltry £ 150 . to . tire' inViabUantsof a whole district , to'induce them . te ' ab ' ahdoh ; tHefr \ mis ^ He had not told : tl $ >' lipuse ^ ilfdt 320 ' of i ^' ose / misjerable ' creatures were burie ^ in . pne ' uoieMn Bearhaven , and that the survivors , dreading the same fate , have waged a ' viar of assassination versus extermination . Those who have survived the plague , pestilence , and famine , have
lcarned ; an awful lesson from the fate of their miserable friends and relatives who had been sent to their last account unhousel'd , unappointed , unanncalled , without pity , sympathy , or remorse . The . right hon . gentleman has not told the house that these miserable creatures were forty shilling freeholders , until by the Emancipation Act they were disfranchised , up to which time they were looked upon as political engines by their lord , but when their political powers ceased to be of service , there , as throughout the rest of Ireland , they were scattered upon the wide world , in order to gratify their tyrant-master ' s lust by knocking numberless little labour-fields into one large farm , to correspond with the then parliamentary franchise . Then they fell in arrear , though "they gave good value to the lord in patronage , and now £ 10 , 000 arrears are sought to be recovered from these-perishingslaves . ( Hear , hear . ) The hon . member for Bridport had
ventured upon another question . He had asked what the state of Ireland would lie in six months after the Union had been repealed ? He ( Mr O'Connor ) would answer him like an Irishman , thus ; let him try us , and he shall see . ( Laughter . ) In conclusion , he would make one more appeal to Irish members who represented popular feeling in tbatcountry , and would again implore them to abandon that equivocal position which they occupied as flag company of the enemy , and , like him , face the foes of Irelandacting upon a defined principle and recognised policy — that of eradicating the cause as the best means of curing the disease , by hurling from office every and any ministry that dared to violate the little that remained of the British constitution , and that feared to do justice to a people , lest they should offend a class . Again he repeated , that if he stood alone , he would oppose any government that dared to govern his country by other than ' constitutional means . ( Cheers . )
SATURDAY , Decembeb 11 . The House of Commons sat for a short time , whan the repoit of tho Crime and Outrage ( Ireland ) Bill was received , and the third rnadlng fixed for Monday . MONDAY December 13 . . 1 I 0 USE OF LORDS . —After some talk on tho spirl . taal destitution of Davenport , occasioned by the presen . tatioii of a petition on th » t sulject , the house was kept open , and a few lords waited upwards of two hours and & half fur the Crime and Outrages ( Ireland ) Bill , which was passing tho ordeal » f the third reading in tbe other liouso . It came at lust at twelve minutes past ei , 'ht o'clock , nnil the Earl of Shaftesbury having taken the chair , the 'House ' censistin ? of the Duke of Richmond , the Dukoof Grafton , and Lord Campbell , read tho Mil a first time , and adjourned at thirteen mimitespast eight . HOUSE OP COMMONS . —Thb-Govebnmbnt Lettbb
to the Bank . —Mr Fattison said that an expression had fallen from the Chancellor of the E . ich » qaer the other night iu'alluding to the letter of the government to the Bniik of England , and tbe blame which had been oust on them for asking for a participation in . the profits of loans made by the Bask , to the effect that the suggestion bad emanated from tbe authorities of tV . e Bank . He begged to ask the right hon . gentleman who those authorities were ? The CnAXcmoa of tha Hxcuzqcib complained that Mr Fattison had not given him notice -of his question , . Nevertheless , he had no objection to say that he was at that time constantly in communication with tho governor and deputy-governor of the Bank , and in the course of conversation , it was agreed that it would ba better it ' that condition were inserted In tbe letter . Mr Fatiison would not have put the question , but he saw those gentlemen that morning , and they assured him that they were no parties to the arrangenitnt .
- Adjournment ; or the Hocsb . —Lord J . Bosseli said—Ibvg to give notice that contiagent on the pro . ceedingscf tho housa and the progress of tho bill now before it , I shall , ou Monday next , move that tho house at its rising do adjourn to 3 rd February . ( Hoar , hear , and cheers . ) ¦ OBDHMttCB MArs . —Mr Htmn begged to ask what measure * had been token by the Board of Ordnance to supply the public with ordnaneo maps at a reasonable charge . He asked this because he held in his hand an account which stated Unit £ 1 , 000 , 000 hnd been expended in surveys in England , Ireland , - and Scotland , and the public were still ignorant of what had taken place . . ' ' . Col . Anson said that steps had been taken to supply the puWic-ffith maps at a-lovrcr price than thry were sold at present , arid he hoped' they would shortly be tewwd at half the price , ' The eight shilling sheets v » pnld be . charged four shillings ; and the quarter sheets one shilling . ; ' - ''
- Mr Hbkb : Icould supply them for 6 d . ( ' Order , ' and laughter . ) - ' Defences op ins CoCstbt ;— -Lord J . Rdssbi . l said that the hon ; member for Middlesex had a notice of motion on the paper , for which no day was 6 xed , relating to the defences of the ' country . ' - After the recess he ( Lord'J . Russell ) proposidi on the part of tho govern , menti ' to enter into n- ' statomtrnt ef what hn ' d been done , and what was intended to be doneinthat rtepect ; and he thought ^ that -Mich a question had better be brought forward by some member of the government than by an independent member ; If the hon . ' member was not satisfied with his ( Lord J . ' Ruscelt ' sjs tatemerit , it was still open-to him to make n motion on the subject . He wished to ask ths hon . member te defer his motion until after ho ( Lord J . Rusaoll ) had made hia statement . ¦ Mr B . Osbobmb said that after the statement of the noblo lord he should not have the slightest hesitation in postponing his motion . ( Hear , hear . )
Rivee PliTE . —Lord Paimebstok , In answer to Mr T . Baring , intimated that the French government had manifested a strong desire to co-operate - with Great Britain in . putting an end to . the present state of things in tbe River Plate . The French authorities had sent out instructions for raising the blockade ; and that object effected there would be a fair prospect of the tcr . sanation of hostilities . Expulsion of the Jesuits ram Switzebianb . —Mr J . 0 'CoNHEr . ti begged to ask the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs the following questions of which he had given notice—Whetberhebadreceivedofficiali & formr . tion of the decreet of the provisional governments ofthe can . tons of Fribourg and Lncerne , banishing for ever the Jesuits , the Lignorians , the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine , the Ursuline Nuns , the sisters of Providence
and other denominations of religionists , male and female , under pretence of their being affiliated to tbe Jesuits ; also confiscating their entire property , and an nulling any and every provision which they might have made of it dating nearly tvro months previous to the surrender of Fribourg and Lucerne ? and If the noble lord had also received official information . of tho enoraious demands made upon the cantons of tho Sonderbund for the eapeases ot the war , X 000 , 000 of francs being demanded by the 20 th inst ., and two millions more within a brief space afterwards , besides other charges and exactions ? The hon . member was then about to proceed with the following question , which was contained on the notice , viz ., whethtr , considering these acts of a tyrannous majority in Switzerland , tbe insults sad outrages to tho clergy , and the religion of tho ml
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aority , the extreme p « r . K ,, 8 U , lon and V ^*™* ™ di . jiduals » meng that rafflon ' . '* ' . ^ . 90 n , y ^ "VK ? dlichargVfaithful ? y ^ fellow-oitfz . ns , an urgent ease bh' * */'"/" , n ^ f ^ ° Intervention of the powers who gaar » J tted » iD -- 5 ' tIie the cantonal independence cf Swha-rfano . ? ~~ nu < m The Spbareb interposed and said the hOK . ' m 6 mbw must stop at the last paragraph of his notice " , ' * Mr J . O'CoNNBtL said ho believed it was CompffflJlo him on a motion for the adjournment of tho hoaseto use that language In the shape of remarks . He therCi few moved that the house do now adjourn , ( # pon this the hon . member went on with the paragraph in q » es . tlon . ) ..
Tiscount Palmerston said that the government had ! reeeived officially tha decrees of the now government of Fribourg , banishing the Jesuits and tha orders in con . nexion with them from Fribourg ; bat they hadjnot received officially the decrees of the cantos ef Lucerne , nor had they received tha information mentioned in the second question of tbe hon . member . With regard to the con * eluding question , he begged to say that it did not ap . pear to the government that there wore any grounds to justify the interference of the powers who guaranteed the independence of Switzerland in 1815 . Dr Bowbino regretted that the hon member for Lim . orick , in putting bis question , had vituperated theDiet of Switzerland . ( Order , order . > The Spbakek must remind the hon , member that t here was no question before the honse . CoBBBHcr ( Banking ) . —On Sir 0 , Obbt moving that tbe order of the day bo read for the third reading of the Crime and Outrage ( Inland ) Bill , ' ¦ :
. Mr . D . TSbqohabt took the opportunity of vindicating himself from the attack made upon him a few nights ago by Sir R . Peel , for having suppressed a portion of tho words which Sir P * . Peel had tised in 1814 respecting the Scottish banking system . His knowledge of that speech was derived from the report in-the Times , which did not contain tbe paragraph on which Sir Robert re . lied . He therefore contended that he was -perfectly justified in asserting that Sir It . Peel had not given due formal and public notice of his intention- to legislate-at that tinio for the banks of Scotland , and that he had bo ri s ht to say- tbat he had misrepresente & hfr words ;' 1
Sik' R . Peel asserted that there couldriot be any doubt at the time of tho intentions of the g . jvernw ' entwlth -respect ' .: to the banks o ? Scotland , for it had b « ea bis duty-to movo certain resolutions 'in committee , ' and one-of tho « e resolutions relatsd to Scot , land . The . banks ' of Scotland understood'that their banking relations were no * to be interfered wittt by the act of 1344 , but they also usd < r ; tood that no aetrbnnk ing institution of issue would be permitted * after the passing of that act , » Coebciom . Bill . —The order of the day- was then read . On the question that the bill be read' a third time , ¦ ' - * -
Mr J . O'Coh & iii ., in redemption of his pled . ro , moved that it be read a third . time that day tit moiftha . In the course ¦ of bis remarks ha retracted the assertions which . he had ¦ ¦ made : re specting the appointment of Mr •¦ By an , and . ¦ read ¦¦¦ :. a letter from the parish priest , of . Strokeatown , denying- tfcet Major Mahon-vbad ever . "been . '^ denounced ' - 'from rhe altar of his chapel , or from any altar in any chapel within twenty miles of Strokestowa . Mr M'Dermott '« statement was as follows : — ' If , as is gratuitously asserted , any Catholic clergyman has denounced any one of those obnoxious landlords ; from bis altar previous to the fatal event in which he bas fallen a victim to tbe wild justice of revenge , the legal process ot rendering ttiat clergyman amenable to the law , and responsible tor Ms-sedi . tious preaching , is neither expensive nor difficult . May
I ask why sach steps are not taken by the sfflicted relatives or by tho inheritor . if the property ? OU i the informer will not come forward ; his courage eozes throngh bis fingers . He skulks into his lurking hole , and laughs at the credulity of those oho employed him alter he received the reward of his turpitude . There may be found in a Catholic congregation some hireling serf whose embarrassment tempts him to court the patronage of bis landlord , and to ofhr his services , as an officious whisperer , for thn , purpose of drawing a 'little grist to his mill . But why , I ask , does nee soma such character come forward to substantiate the odious charges against the priests ? , No , he stands beck , because he knows his perfidy would ., be detected , and that hu then should be held np to public sewn ; as a liar and calumniator ,. I have now to assure . itbe . public , by the mast solemn
assertions a , ' clergyman can utter , that $ e late Major-Mahqni was . never denounced nor even bis . name mentioned , from : any chapel altar in . Strokestowa , . er , . within -. twenty milesof Strokestown in- any ; . direction , on ; 'any , ; Sunday bif > re hia death . I cau ,. tinder , the same ' sacred pledge , declare , that a single , sentence . was never spoken from the altar wbicb , by misconstruction or otherwise , could tend to stimulate the peasantry to the atrocious murder which has been perpetrated . The ( Cruelties exercised against a tenantry whose feelings were already wound up to wo « fulund vengeful exasperation by the loss of thur exiled relatives ,, as wsHasbyi . hungeraud pestilence , which swept so many : ' victims into an untimely grave , in my opinion may be assigned as . the sole exciting causa of the disastrousevestytbat has occurred . I saw no necessity
fjr the idle display of \ alarge military . and police force surrouBding . the . poorjman ' s . cabin , sotting five tothe roof ; . while .. the half-starved , . half-naked children were hastening , away , from the-ilamea : with yells ' cf despair , whila the mother lay i prostrate-on tho threshold ,- writhing in ; agony „ and the heartbroken father remained sop . plicating onliis knees . , 1 sawinuneed for this demonstration of physical force , ncr did I sec any aeed forfcrata ! triumph and eiulmtion , when-returning after these fdats wero nobly petfiir / ned , vnor can I . conceive that the feeling of humanity-should permit any man to send liU bailiff to revisit those scenes of hot rvf and conflagration , nithan order , if they f jund ' a hut ' . tiuilt ' or a fire lighted in the murky ruins , to demolish the one and extinguish the other , thus leaving tbe wretched . outcasts no alternative bat to perish in a ditch .. In . my opinion , -theso sce ' neB ,
of which I can only draw a very memeit-nt portrait , bad more . to do-- -with . . the raurdcr . of- Major Million . than all tho tliundering , cenuneiati 6 nsof the Yatican could effscly bad they . been , rolled on . his head ; I tell . thertfriv / tae Orange press , that their fabricated charge of denunciation against the Catholicclergy is a monstrous , outrage , ous , and flagitious . calumny .. It is not true t > . at the exterminated , tenants of the late Major . Man on have been all sent to . America . . There are hundreds , as yet , who survived their expulsion , sfter seeing their crops carried away from thtir doors and safely deposited within thelandlord ' s haggord , —lefcto subsist , on . the . precarious alms cf their neighbours , roving about as houseless wanderers , without a . friend to console , or a restingplace whereon to lay their aching bonos . '—The Rev . M . Hughes who had been accused of a similar offiuce , had expressly denied having , used the words attributed to
him . The story against him had originated in a Castlebar . Conservative , paper , whose object it was to cost a slur upon the Catholic pricstheod . ; , The hon .. -member 'Jif « nde 3 . himself from imputed inconsistency in having voted for the first reading cf . the . bill . Ha did so in the belltf that remedial measures would be produced and proceeded with pari passu , with the coercive measure . He now implortd the house to . pass 'measures of relief fdr Ireland without delay . . . If they rdied . solely on the Poor Laws they would trcst . to . a brolu-n reed . In toe meantime ,.. he . Implored the government to use to the utmost the means they had in-their hands of giving food to tbe pcopli " . . Let , them do that during ' the recess , and : afterwards bring forward reul . measures fur ., the remedy of the social state of Ireland . There were difficulties , ia the -way , ntx doubt ; buta good . bpeinning was half tha battle , in Ireland as well as elsewhere . '
Mr S . O Brien seconded the amendment . Having been absent from tbe discussions which had taken place upon the bill , in consequence of indisposition , he hoped he should be permitted- to -state the grounds on which he felt bound togivo the measure all tho opposition in his power ; though be was quite sensible that the house was thoroughly weary of the subject .-- ( Hear , hear . ) Araong tbe majority who had recorded their votes in-favour of the measure he found a .-Urge portion of the members who were the representatives of Ireland , and he was not prepared to say that all due attention should not be paid to the expression of their opiniun . At tbe some time , he had always felt it his duty to act upon his own views of measures , The hon . member , who was butimperfectly heard in the gallery ,- owing to the buxz of conversation whichprevailed in the-house , proceeded
to assure the hon . gentlemen that h » -should despair of his race and of his country , if . he -Sid not bolievo that tlfe outrages which bad recently been . committed in Ireland were the . oonsequesce ; of 'rnisgovernmtnt far many centuries down- to the . present hour . There was no man in tho house who : would go further than ha would towards the . ; suppression of those outrages ,. if any measures could be pointed out to him which would mitigate instead of aggravate ; tho evils of which complaint had beer * made . Tha plan proposed by tho right hon . baronet the member for Tarn worth , a system of espionage , under , ths -name of a detective police , would only lead to more grievous ovils . tlmn those whith already existed . With respect to the measure before tho house , it seemed to him to be liable to produce greater mischiefs than it proposed to remedy , even if it had the merit of
being effective . It undertook to dtsatin tho whole population of Ireland . Now , the safest way of putting down outrage would be to put arnu into the hands of the welldisposed , thus creating a moral power which could not fail to have a beneficial result . With reference to the possession ef arms by the peasantry , the government had not det > H qui te fairly with this subject , bfcause tha right hon . gentleman ( Sir O . Grey ) bad emitted to remark a most striking fact , namely , that there had been a greater amoun t of resistance offered to armed attacks than had taken p lace at any former period . He thought it would have been but fair that the right hon . gentleman should have mentioned some of the numerous in . stances in which the termors had defended their dwellings
against the at'acks of midnight marauders . The bill imposed large pecuniary penalties upon the occupiers in a proclaimed district , in the shape of expenses incumd for the maintenance of the constabulary . He ventured to submit to the house that they were proceeding on a wrong principle altogether , and that they ought to en * courage as much as possible the principle of self-reHauce , and abandon a military eastern like that based on the employment of the police . As an Irishman , and aa an individual member of the house , be tendered his best thanks ' to the people of this country for the exertions which they had made for the relief of Irish distress . Ho must , however , say , that in tho last lummtr hundreds and thousands of people la Ireland were suffered to 6 io , who might have been kept alive if the government
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