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art _societips , and _revolution _bumt a P _& _£ ** W ' _doni _before there was any public into ™! / _£ _* _£ And such must be the state of things n _this coun try , if th f _tptog t o- fBSSt- _^& _St & Wed to ba P _^ own . < _££ _^_ _c _^ _aUsa-Buch attempt * to drown the popular voice ,. he Sd ask them to look to America which they JJd forfeited by their _oppression The peoplo of America presented petitions to that house ; their remonstrances were not listened to ; and they had recourse at last te the principle contained in the _apothe-m of the Noble Lord at the head of the Treaand the Secretary of State for the Home De
sury partment , viz , that moral power was but a shadow , and that phrsical force was a stttetance . America , then , _* as lok , and from the news which ha had recentlv received from Canada , _thit _country also would be lo 3 fc unless they _c-meented to yield to the Canadians their just political rights . Canada rebelled _, and Canada obtained it * Parliament . Well , then when they saw these things-when they _saw that ' contrary to the promise made atthe time of the Reform Bill , that this country should be _governed by local _inst-totions _, all power was being _centralized in that house—he called upon the __ really _patri _. i c men on both sides of the house to resist this measure , which would _consign to the care of the _Attorne ? General _, the judges asd jury of the land
and ta heavy penalties every man of capacity and mind who should hereafter , by writing or speaking , a _* _itste for popular right ? . Was it not notorious that we were _progressing in manufacturing and mecha-Hical improvements beyond any other country in the world ? By means of the electric telegraph , railroad travelling , penny postage , aad other _improvements , we are enabled to take a stand preeminently above all other rations , and was it right that the new and active genius which those improvements had created in this country should be opposed bv _retrogressive legislation _Bcch as this ? Was it right that the _progress out of that house should be met by an unconstitutional ' base , brutal , and bloody'Bill within t ( Hear , hear , hear . ) He could
cali it by no other name . What was this but a Coercion Bill against the free interchange of mind anfoaHst the people of England ? Ifitpassed _. then _wauid that freedom of expression of opinion which was tbe boast of England be changed into slavery , and the free voice of England be changed into muteness . We should then be placed under the ban and control of the Attornev-General—then the Attorney-Genera ! ought to be Prime Minister in that _honsa . He meant no insult to the honourable and learned gentleman who now filled the office Qf- / _. _tt-nj-ney-Genera _' , whose talent , sagacity , and elemency , he might say , entitled him to to the highest admiration . His remarks applied to the _r-Ske itself : for , under the new law , the
_Attornev-Gjneral would have the power of a Prime Mlaif _tcr . Bat he ( Mr O'Connor ) was net willing to _Ec-r £ Dder his rights , nor the rights ef any _clas 3 in this _eo'intrv , tothe system to be created under sueh a Ml as thu . ( Hear , hear ) Again , he repeated , thai if such a bill as this had been introduced into the house when the noble lord now at the head of the oovernment was en the Opposition side of the _kons . the blood of a _Kussell wonld haye been roused into madness to think that the law under _^ hfch his ancestors suffered was about to be _reenacted in the present age . They had had ample proof from the history of yesterday ' s proceedings , as Elated by the rieht hon . baronet ( Sir G . Grey ) himself , _tbit there wa 3 no _necessity for thi 3 bill . They 6 ad fl mple proof thatthe loyal Orangemen of
Ireland did not ask for such a bill as this . Above all , he protested against the unconstitutional attempt of tho _government fo tack itself to the Crown by _brinsias in a bill for the better security of tbe Ci _«^ _i snd _government . If this bill were passed , th Hi * government would be able to perpetuate _it-^ Elfin otSce . He would tell them candidly that he lid not attach tbat importance to Ministers Speaking from tha : * side of ihe house which he did to independent _members speakins from the Opposition and Ministerial benches . He did not place mueh con § - _deocs in ths fervid eloquence of Ministers , the effect of which they sought to increase by boldly _slapping the red box on the table of thc house . He cared verv little for tfee big swelling words in which
thev _solemnly proclaimed their ' intention _anddetermia-ition to uphold , by all means , the dignity and the power of the Crown and their own government . The " echo to that was ' Quarter-day . ' (« near , ' and _laughter ) That was the only construction which he could put upon it . Provided there was free discussion in this _country , he bad no objection to a monarchy , elective or hereditary . If they passed this biil a man would come under its operatijn , not only for advisedly __ speakins , bat for advisedly thinking or dreaming , as had been said bv the honourable gentleman the _member for the _a-ty of Oxford . Ue warned those who now sup . ported this bill that they would be the first to smart under its operations . ( Hear , hear . ) Honourable
_gentlt-raen who supported the bill had carried on the Reform and Free Trade agitation , which system of _advocacy it would _cru ? b . They had not even refused their sanction to demonstrations whose motto _* _ras ' Bread cr blood . ' Cordially as he now approved of the monarchial system , vet if this bill _parsed he should declare himself a fiepuWiean , at ail events . He _confessed he was astonished by what he had read respecting a nobleman who had spoken in another place on the previous evening . The noble lord to whom berefered had stated tbat one policeman dispersed _tl-e whole of the meeting on _KenningtonCoramon . There could be no greater fallacy , ignorance , or folly , than for a minister , in the performance of Ms dntie ? , to make such a statement . ( Cheere 1 Ths fact was , that a policeman came to him ( Mr O'Copnor ) at the meeting , and told him that Messrs Rowan acd Mayne wished to see him , as they had a message from the Home Office . Fearing that the
people might molest the policeman , he ( MrO'Connor ( said that he would knovk down the first man that touched bin , and he made them give the po lieeman plenty of room . The people obeyed him , and were they , on that account , to be met by a jeer ? He cautioned that house not to Iaogh at the _people when tbeir conduct was so perfectly peaceable , it would afford them a bad precedent , fie ( Mr O'Connor ) was not exactly in a state ofh _' . alth to justify his occupying the house any longer in this stage of the bill , and particularly as he had already expressed his views upon it . Ho protested _against a governmen * which _nioeked Ireland by _makin-j it equal with England in its participation of punishment , but refused to ? ut her upon the same totting with regard to political rights . After eulogising the speech of the hon , member for Bolton _( _DrBowring ) _, and that ofthe hon . member for the Tower Hamlets ( Mr G . Thompson ) , he ccneludedby _calling upon the Liberal members to oppose every stage ofthe bill .
Mr _Hoss _! £ » x gave his raod . 'fied support to the bill . HrHnHB said that the present bill was the worst attack made on public _libsrly since he had a . seat in that house . He wanted to know w' eth' r the words of the clause objected to would _affect members of that _hoiisa speaking in their places ; and whether , for words gpokenin that house they would be liable to be transported to Botany Bay ! This bill was a violation of all constitutional right—a right to which he attributed a ' great portion of tbe liberty of England . He also _WisfiSd to know from the right bon . gentleman ( Sir G . Grey ) whether what had been stated by a cabinet minis .
ter in another place was true , that the meeting of Monday had _bren dispersed by a policeman , or wheiher thev dispersed of themselves ! _Tf-e house might not be a **** are of ib ? tiieet which Monday ' s meeting _wouUi produce on tbe continent . What would foreign governments think of the _Dake of Wellington having to be called out , and Somerset House , and other _plac s occupied with horse , foot , and artillery , in order to suppress tbe meeting- of Monday ! He believed that all tbey did was to create an unnecessary alarm ; and that they did much mischief by their unnecessary preparations . He belitved tbat a continuance in such . a system wonld be productive of gerions consequences to the liberties of England .
Col . Simhom tendered bis best thanks to ihe government and to tbe right hen . gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home _Department , for the firmness be exhibited on Monday , end the determination he showed in proposing this bill . He hoped the government would not alter a word of the measure , and he only ngretled that it was not ten times stronger . With respect to the question of the hon . member for Montrose , he had no hesitation ia saying that if that hon . gentleman violated the act in that house he would move that the hon . _geatleta & n be committed to the Tower . Mr Agliosbt supported , and Mr Gbattah opposed thebUl .
2 £ r Ketrolds contended tbat so venal were juries in hia country , tbat no man would be safe from f » _overnjaent _Persecution if this bill were passed , the more _essocially thst convictions under it would shut out the possibility of that appeal to tbe House of Lords whieh Iiad remedied the injustice done by a packed _jary to Kr _o'Consall and his associates . He appealed to the gallantry ofthe house to exempt , at all events , the ladies from the operation of the' measure . At the bill stood eoy oftbe female tea and tract parties so prevalent in Ireland might be indicted for treason or sedition , if the company happened to turn the conversation upon political matters . ( A laugh . ) He denied that . Ireland was disturbed . There were but two _ntwspapers m Dublin which inculcated violence , and in his confident
belief nearly _nine-hundredths of the population of Ire . land repudiated the wild and extravagant doctrines of these two journals . Cork was quiet , Limerick was _qnM , Clonmel , Waterford , Belfast , all the towns of Ireland with large p _.-pnlations were quiet and obedient to the law . There was , indeed , dissatisfaction , for there was almost universal misery . In the last eighteen _isocthsone million of human beings had _SUukintO tho grave in Ireland from sheer famine , and hundreds were still dying in tbe same way every week that passed over © _nrfeads . There was but the other day a ease ia _Galwey in which a man was charged with sheep-stealing , anan was , indeed , proved that he bad stolen thi . aniaal ; but under what circums . a . JCcS ! Why , these : that bis family and hiaseU were _ahsolutely starrirg . tbat tR 0
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_dajs b-fore one of his ch Uren bad died of famine , and tbat , in the desperation of hunger , tbe mother had absolutely gnawed the flesh from her dead child ' s arm . All this the poer man had witnessed before he committed the act with which he was _charged . Tbe bon . member recommended tbe postponement of any farther proceeding with this bill until after Easter . The present were angry times , and the popular discontent _shonld not be exasperated . That discontent was now peaceful enough , if one might judge from tbe bon , member for Nottingham's exhibition of yesterday , wbich had passed over as quietly as a _Qaakers' meeting , all tho grand preparations of military and police having proved quite unnecessary . ( Ob , ob . ) He feared he had hurt tha feelings of some of the special constables of the occasion—( laughter)—but be could not help thinking tbat tbeir enthusiasm bad been needlessly wrought up . He _repeated his hope that the bill might be postponed until after _Baster ,
_MrSiDLKia supported the bill , as a measure which , while it would tend to suppress tbe open and scandalous inculcation , b y word or deed , of sedition or treason , would not prevent the statement oa the part of the peo pie of Ireland of the grievances whieh were felt _through _, oat the width and breath of the country on the part of all classes . Lord Johs RoiBEir , utterl y denied that the government bad manifested any indifference to the physical _sufferings of Ire . land . ( Hear , hear . ) He had , indeed , said that it was not the business of the government to iaterfere between the various relations of _Bocial and industrial life , but he had never put forward any proposition that government did not consider themselves called upoa to come forward when measures were required to meet some marked physical des . _titutien in Ireland . ( Hear , hear . ) He could not have said any such thing ; such a proposition would bave been totaUy opposed to the whole conduct of her
_Majesty's government . ( Hear , hear . ) Last year that go . vernment bad obtained tbe means from parliament of providing dail y relief for three millions ef persons in Ireland —( hear , hear )—a step certainly evincing no indifference to the physical condition of that couutry . In tbe present jear , again , although the poor law bad b es placed ia operation , the government had felt tbat , at so early a stage of its proceedings , the attention of the general government might still be needful , and he bad , therefore , transmitted instructions from tbe Treasury to Ireland , that in the event of peculiar suffering' _manifsating itself in any of tho unions , whether from actual inadequacy of funds , or from the non-payment af their rates by persons able to pay , but exempted from payment by the negligence or connivance of tbe collectors , a report should be made of the fact , in order tbat means of relief might be considered . He repelled , therefore , the suggestion tbat the government was indifferent to the physical condition of Ireland as wholly libellous sod calumnious . ( Hear , bear , )
Sir D . L . _EviNg said tbat having on a former evening claimed on the part of his constituents the protec tion of the government _against the violent nnd _tumultuouo proceedings which wire anticipated from tte meet . log of yesterday , he felt it is his duty to take tbe first opportunity tbat presented itself of thanking ministerfor the admirable arrangements which they bad made againBt any violation ofthe public peace . ( Hear . ) Then never had been an occasion when greater _provocatiotbad been offered to tbe authorities than had beengiven by the menaces of those persons who encouraged and promoted the proceedings of _Monday , and if the ¦ wh ole city was not now deploring the effects of those proceedings It was because the government had done its duty . ( Hear . ) At the same time he must say that nothing could have dene the inhabitants of London and Westminster greater honour than the conduct of the people _generaUy during Monday . The meeting was now characterised as contemptible . If it was so , the government was to be thanked / or tbat fact , Again be _begged , on the part of his constituents , to reiterate bis thanks to tbe
ministers . Mr Masteihau expressed some surprise at the observations made by the hon . member for Montrose , ani had great pleasure in returning thanks to _' tbe government for the exertions made by the authorities to pri serve the peace i : tbe city of wbich he had the honour to be a repress ntativr . Sir 6 . Qbet said that he had been asked by the hop , memher for Montrose a question , to which ho felt it his duty to give a distinct answer . The hon . member ashed whether tbe meeting had been forcibly dispersed by tbe police or whether ithad been peaceably separated . He begged to state that the meeting was not forcibly dispersed by the police , but that tbe police commissioners , acting under the authority of ber Majesty ' s ministers , had notified to the persons composing and heading it
that scans _wiuld bB taken to prevent the procession ap . proaching the House ef Commons or any of tbe public offices , and thereupon tbe meeting was peaceably dissolved . But , at the same time thathe stated this fact , he mnst say thathe could not admit tbe _ioferenco drawn from it by the hou . member for Montrosenamely , tbat tbe preparations were useless or uncalled for . ( Hear . ) It was ' those preparations , and the knowledge that they had been made , wbich gave confidence to tbe loyal and _well-diepcsed _iababitants of tbe metropolis , and struck terror into the minds of tbe disaffected and promoters of confusion . ( Hear , hear . ) Nothing could be mors meritorious than the conduct of the great
bo '' y of the people had been during the whole of Monday ; and that circumstance would bave Us _effict throughout tho country . Indeed , it hod already , he believed , had a benefioial effect , for the telegraph had brought him intelligence that morning that the best ifLcta had already been produced in tbe great provincial towns . He , therefire , _entirely coincided in the opinion tbat had been expressed , that the result would prove most beneficial , notonly in England , but also throughout all Europe , as it would be manifest that . the authorities had heen aided in the performance of their duties by the cordial co-operation of the i ? reat body of the people themselves .
Mr Hume said , that both the bon . and gallant member for Westminster and the right hon . baronet ( Sir G . Grey ) had mis-stated bis former observation . What he said was , not tKat the government were wrong iu making the prcp » rations tbey had done — on tbe contrary , he said they were right in so doing ; bnt that he thought tbem wreng in having created a very disproportionate degree of alarm , as compared with the real apprehensions they entertained . Mr F . _O'CoKirea said that before any communication Lad been received from the commissioners of police , and even before the procession started , for tbe place of meeting , it had been resolved that tbe assemblage should disperse after they bad reached Kennington Common , and that no attempt to bave a further procession to the _house Bhould be made . Mr S . _Caiwpoai ) wished toknow whether , as the bon . member for Carlow had stated , there were , in future , to be no _witnessi's required to depose as to sedition or treasonable expressions under the bill 1
Sir 6 . _Geev would answer the question when the bill was in committee _. On the motion tbat the _Speaker do leave the chair , cries of ' divide , ' and' no , no ' were raised . Mr F . O'Connor said , that as those who promised to act faithfully with him in opposing the bill , now cried ' no' to the division , on which the gallery was cleared . For going into committee ... 321 Against it ... ... ... 19—302 In committee , on its arrival at tho tbird clause , Sir G . GRtv . stated , that with the exception of the words now introduced far the firBt time by 'open and advis . d speaking , ' the powers given by the bill were _precisely the same as th « secontained in former and ex . _isting acts of parliament . The reason for inserting these words being , that the existing law was found in
efficacious as regarded persons who excited others to sedition and treason by their speeches ; and in Irelaud , even wheo _persons who bad used seditions and treasonable language were subjected to prosecution for the sarae , they were , under the existing law , still able to continue in the commission of tbat offence even during tbe interval of their _beieg accused and held to bail , and of tbeir being tried . In order , therefore , to put an end to tbis state of things , it was proposed to make cases of this description felonious , because in that case , the offence would not be bailable , acd , therefore , tbe offending party would not have the _epportunity of repeating bis offence before he was brought to justice . By a temporary act of 36 George III ., it was provided that , in order to bring any person within its operation , the information
of his having uttered treasonable or seditious expressions must be deposed to by two witnesses , within three days of the time after tbe expressions were uttered , and also tbat the person accused should be brought to trial within-three months oftbe time when the deposition was taken . A similar enactment ministers were ready to insert in the present bill , but they would not recede from tha principle of making this _cffiiice felony . After some debate , and a variety of suggestions for _alterations , amendments , and _omistlons , Sir G . Grey said , tbat as it appeared tbat not only the words 'by open and advised speaking' were objected to , but also the whole wording of the clause , he should move that the chairman rfport progress , and that the bill be recommltted this day at twelve o ' clock , whioh preposition waa agreed to .
The house resumed , and adjourned shortly before four until five o ' clock . At tbat boar Captain _Rushodt moved tbe issuing of tbe Bewdley writ in tbe room of Mr T , J , Ireland , whose election hari been declared void . Sir J . Hahhbk moved , aB an amendment , that , inasmuch as tbe late member bad been unseated on tbe ground of corrupt practices which prevailed in the borough of Bewdley , the writ be suspended with a view to further inquiry . On a division , the motion for issuing the writ was carried b y a majority of 42—the numbers 89 to 38 .
Repeal or thk Uhioh . —Mr John O'Conhell moved for leave to bring in a bill to repeal the legislative union between Great Britain and Ireland , and to enable Her _Majesty to summon her parliament of Ireland . He commenced by drawing a wide line of demarcation between bis own sentiments on thisaabjeet , and the wild and mischievous menaces ofthe Irish Confederation and then proceeded to declare his conviction that the Repeal of the Union between Great Britain and Ireland would be of advantage not only to Ireland , but to England also , and would add greatly to the strength of tte empire at large . As at tbe time of the Union , there * . 7 _as a treaty between the two countries for it , and as the articles of thst treaty were subsequently embodied into a separate ac : of parliament , be thought that the consideration of the _articlts for the Repeal cf the Uniou would not be injured by letting his bill for accomplishing that Repeal
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_> . e urevmualy luid on tlie labie . He _propostd thut the preamble of his bill should declare tbe necessity of such a _Itepsal—that its first clause should enact that Repeal —that a fallowing clause _sheuld enact the integrity of the old Irish House of lords—and tbat another clause should recall into existence a Honse of Commons for Ireland , with 300 members . He tben prpcoeded at great length to _allrgo tbat the Union , aa it had existed for tbe last forty-seven years , was Hnjust , injurious , and unwise —tbat it had begun in injustice—that it had been maintained by _iisjuBtice—and that it still subsisted in injustice _. Sir W . Some _3 ville met the proposition of Mr John O'Connell with a direct negative , and entered into several statements to point out the injury which the Repeal of ( he Union would inflict upon Ireland , both socially and politically .
Mr Bii 4 ckat . Ii moved , as an amendment to Mr John O'Conneil ' s motion , tbat an humble _address ' be presented to Her _Maji-sty , praying her to convene the Imperial Parliament in future for a certain number of months In each year in Dublin for th _< J despatch of Irish _bujineso . Mr _Maubice _O'Connxll opposed the amendment , and called up in tbe house not reject lightly tbe appeal io favour of Ireland the appeal which his hon . relative had just made to its justice . Every reaBon which could . be urged in favour of Mr Blackall ' _s amendment , applied with tenfold force to the total Repeal oftbe Union ,
Lard Mobfeth observed that ho should deplore tbe Repeal ef the Legislative Union for the consequences which it would entail on Great Britain and the empire at large ; but contended that , disastrous as it might be to the unity , tranquillity , and safety ef thecountry to which we belonged , it would be still more grievous and fatal to tbe best interests of Ireland . But he agreed with the views wbich h » d been expressed in an article in tbo _Jodskal deb Debats , that it was not repeal or revolution that Ireland wanted , but regeneration , ( Hear , hear . ) The people of tbat cons try possessed many attractive and brilliant qualities ; and he would _aga'n repeat what bad procured censure for him b > fore in Yorkshire , tbat he believed there was to be found a greater absence of theft amongst tbe males , and more chastity among the females , of Ireland than in this country . ( Hear , bear . ) There was greater kindness amongst
tbem one towards ths other . But while he paid what was bnt a just tribute to tbeir many virtues , be could not Bhut his _vjes to their failings ; and they wanted the patient and persevering industry of the Saxons . ( Hear , hear . ) He had heard it said in America that an Irishman , wben placed between a Scotchman and a Yankee , was tbe _perfection ofa se'lltr , because on the one side he harned frem the sobriety and industry of the _Scotchman , and on the other side be was incited to activity by tbe _goa-headednesB of tho Tankee . ( Laughter . ) He believed that xnnch the same thing wonld take place by a cordial union between tbe three countries , ( near , bear . ) Ho concluded by declaring that the government could not and would not abandon that union . The debate was then adjourned till Thursday . Tbe other orders were _disposed tf , and the houso adjourned at a quarter to one o ' clock .
WEDNESDAY , _AraiD 12-HOUSE OF COMMONS . —The house met at twelve o ' clock , and on the question being repeated tbat the houBe no into committee en the Crown and Government Security Bill , Mr G . Thompson rose to oppose the motion on the ground that the country were in ignorance of the nature of this measure , and bad not bad time to express its oplnkm upon it , although it was one of ihe worst tbat bad been introduced during tho present century . He could account for itB _introduction only on the _supposition that the government were panic-stricken by recent events on the continent , and bad come to tho conclusion that her Majesty ' s throne was in danger from the deep seated disloyalty ezistiog throughout the kingdom . If her
Majesty bad been so _instructed , if the royal ear had been so abused , she ongbt to know that thero was no portion of British territory on which she could put ber foot where she would not rind a warm welcome at the hands of all classes , ( Hear , hear . ) But the government confounded _loyaltr to the Queen with _obodlenee to themselves . ( Hear _, hear . ) He told them that there wae not a cabinet in Europe which less enjuyed tbe confidence of tho _pnople than the present government of this country . ( Heir , hear . ) Tbey bad stated no ground for introducing tbe measure . The right honourable baronet bad not quoted a single article or spo' ch delivered in England , Scotland or _VTaleat j justify him in applying this measure to Eng . land ; and even in Ireland he had inertly Tead articles which appeared in the Nation and United Irishman ,
and tbe speeches of a few persons belonging to tbe Irish Confederation . Let them rave at the Onanists as they would—let them rave at the _workfag classes as they would , and whilst they did so eulogists the middle classes , and try to set one against tbe other , yet be _challenged them to point out one case ot the description to which he had alluded . He knew manufacturers wbo had in tbeir employment hundreds of Chartists ; they were trustworthy , they were men of intelligence , they were loyal men . Her _Majesty ' s government bad not made a conees'ion to their jutt demands , but had met them with an _un-Eugii « h and unconstitutional law , and sought to deprive them of those privileges which all tbo governments of Europe of the present day wore guaranteeing to _thete _aubj cts . He denied , therefore , altogether , that government bad made
out a case for this bill . He was no : here , to say . that some alteration of thelaw might not be necessary _iasi to particular individuals ; but ho denied that government had any _right , by implication , to cast a false accusation in tbe teeth of the people of this country at large ; It might be said tbat if expressions were used hostile to tbe style and title of her Majesty , and the integrity of her dominion ; , that there waa no guarantee that they would not be made the instrument of widespread operations throughout thecountry . Let a man bo obnoxious to those in whose neighbourhood he lived ; let him be reported by aD illiterate _peraon ; be might be _Instantly committed ; no bail could be put in ; and wben he came to take his trial , he _wob in an infinitely worse position than if he bad been accused of high treanon .
This law was either wanted , or it was cot . If it were wasted , ffor whom was it wanted , and for what particular ends and purposes ! With regard to the people of Ireland generally , tbey wero not employing this Ian ' guage . Let the bouse know that the Chartists assembled on Kennington Common wero but an insignificant fraction of tbe Chartists throughout the country . Where were not the _Clwtiota ? Tou could not _travi-l east , west , north , or Bouth , without finding them . He had never taken a Chartist a 3 ide into a room , that he had not found him as decile and teachable as any other member of the community . Wbo were the Chartists ? The men who made the members of this house what they wcre — tbe creators of their luxury—the men without whom the country would be
_nothins—the men whoBe value could not ho computed with the value of any other class of the country . If he were called on to soy which was the most valuable class , he shou'd say the working classes . They did not yield in _intrrlligi nee to any other class of the cemmunity . They read the speeches of members in this house with as much attention as any one ; they weighed the value of every measure brought before it ; tbey were skilled in mechanical arts , and trusted by tbeir employers . These were the men whom you were branding by tbe present Mil . How would tha right hcnoBrnble gentleman the Secretary of Stato for tho Home Department , and the noblolord , and the Attorney-General , whose nameB rtood atthe back of the bill , answer to tho working classes of the country for tbis bill ! Do not outdo Mr
Pitt in bis hostility to the privileges and rights of the people . Do not outdo Lord _CaBtlereagb _, who never dreamt iu tho days of the Manchester massacre of introducing such word bob were in this bill , All he asked for was delay . If this law were passed , and the people ignorant of its intention , a man might be viBiteci by a magistrate ' s warrant , and told he had committed a felony ; aad when he asked how it was to be proved—be answered , proved by an act which tho people's representatives in tbe House of Commons have passed without giving time to read it . He taid that a more monstrous act was never meditated than a passage of such a bill in bo short a period of time . When he heard tha-. tbe Government had summoned their adherents to come down to the bouse to make tbis bill law , he despaired for any one who looked to tbe government for the smallest instalment of tbeir political rights . Upon
what principle did the American colonies revolt , and justify that revolt in the eyes of the civilised world f On the ground of taxation without representation . On the imposition of the Stamp Act and the duty on " tea , they flew to armB , and finally won their independence . The people who had come to this house , by their petition , stood in precisely the same relatioa to ihe government of thiB country now , as tbe people of America stood to the government of England in 1776 , and tho petitioners whose signatures were appended to the petition were more in number than the inhabitants of the North American colonics at the timo of their declaration of Independence . Whilst the words to wbich he objected remained in this bill he wonld obstruct it in every stage Tho house was aot the friend of the _peeplein passing it ' . Gather their troops together as they might ; garrison _Somerset-houae ; glory in the majestic attitude ofthe metropolis for a day ;
- Bnt m these cases We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions , which being taught , return To plague the iBventor . Thk even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips . ' 'They were alienating from tbe Sovereign millions of tbe people by passing such a bill as tbis . Her Majesty ' s ministers would take tbe bill to her Majesty , and ask for ber sign manual , and commit ber to the act of treason ; but _although the people wero despised by tbe Houee of Commons , and looked upon with scorn , the day would come when they would have that which every man was entitled to—a right to elect their own representatives in that houBe .
Mr . Obbobwe very much feared that ministers were resuming the course of poliey of 1795 , with this difference , that the descendants of those men who resisted Mr Pitt in bis policy of 1795 were now installed in office , with mueh _lesB excuse for _pagnlng acts which Mr Pitt dared not carry Into execution . They were trading upon a panic . A certain old lady bad got into tbo cabinet of the noble lord , Bnd bad been exciting him to actB of terror . Nothing could be more despicable than the manner in which the government put forward thc Queen ' s name as u cover for their own UBConstitu-ironi demands upon tbo parliament . Why her Majesty was
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n _^ ver more popular than she was _presewi momentthroughout the land . ( Hear , hear . ) It was , therefore , a cunning device , on the part of the Ministers , Co put the Queen in the front rank , when it was their own _Dolioy which was unpopular . The Whigs of 1795 resisted the bill of tbat day ; but the government of that day did not attempt to thrust their bill upon tho house without giving the people time to consider it . ( Hear , hear . ) He was surprised tbo other night , when the hon . mem . her for MontroBe alluded to the _oase of _Muir , to hear him taunted by the hon . member for tbe University of Oxford , who said he had no sympathy with such a man or his fate . Bat what waa Mutr ' s crime ! _Tluvprime charge _against him was that he had lent a copy of Tom Paine ' _a worha to a tbird parly , and he was co _*™ ° ° the evidence of ' his servant-maid ef having said that he
thought a _reform of the present system necessary . Tor this ho was sent to tho hulks in irons and tr" _»« I » *»* for _sourteen years . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr Pitt in 1795 did not [ venture to carry such a measure as this ; he withdrew the obnoxious clause respecting ' open and avowed spenking' en the Intercession of Lord _Grenville . He wished there was somo of the old leaven of Wfti _< rgisrn in that house , respectfully to request the Government to withdraw those words , which , if carried into law , would assimilate the condition of this country to tbat of Russia . Under tho doctrine of constructive treason it was impossible to say what proceedings might _nat be broug ht within the province of this act . In the newspapers of that very day a remarkable ease was cited which occurred in tbo _reljfn ot Charles II ., wben it was held that the destruction of brothels amounted to
treason . If these words had been law in 1880 , tho bon . and gallant member for Westminster ( Sir D , L . Evans ) and tbat excellent and able man , the right bon . member for Harwich ( Sir J . Hobhouse ) , might be sent to Norfolk Island . Even Mr Macaulay might now be accused of feloniously writing and sent out of the country for seven years , because he justified the conduct of tbe Puritans in bringing Charles I . to the block . ( A 1 mgh _. ) H « thought this a slavish bill" ( Hear , hear . ) Ciroum . Btan _*! e 8 might arise In this country which would make It . ths duty of every man to make war on tbe _sovereij _^ tt ( 0 ries of ' ob , oh' from several members , and ' n _* a _^ _, hear' from Mr Hume ) . If tbey shut up the safely valve , as it bad been well called , which freedom of speech gave to the people , the tendency of snob an Unconstitutional : measure would be to drive the people to
secret and armed confederacies . He wehld ; . direct the attention of the _gentlemen of tbe Pox Club to the lauguage wbich _Mr'Fox had used when _Bpeaking ofthe freedom of the press and liberty of speech . Hesaid , 'Tho power and influence of the Crown areBogreat that all tba liberty of this country is preserved by froe _« dom of speech and liberty of the press ; and if those great barriers of liberty are destroyed , though men may _spuak le » B they will feel more , and arms will be the only resource left them , either for redress for themselves or for vengeance upon their oppressors . If such a bill is passed , it such a line of conduct should be adopted , resistance to it would be a matter of prodonce . That was in 1795 ; but he would not go into any com . parison with the man who made those observations and the Whigs of tbe present day : _givo them rope enough .
and tbat was all tbey required . ( Laogbterand ebeers . ) If hon . and right hon . gentlemen on the Treasury bench disowned these sentiments , let them abandon Brooks ' s , and immediately become members ofthe Pitt Club . ( A laugh . ) He lamented the state of parties in that house . The present was a government of Invalids — ( a laugh )—who were just the sort of people who always lasted longest . At one time they leaned for support on this party , then on that . On one side the right hon . baronet the member for Tamworth served them for a crutch , and on the other the aid of the noble lord the member for Lynn was invoked , while the party by whose support and under whose auspices the _Whigx attained power were completely thrown overboard . ( Hear , hear . ) The greatest insult that could be offered to liberty , the greatest dero . cation to the right 9 of property , would t be the conduct of
that house being in a hurry to pass facts of coercion wliile they held out no hopes of conciliation . ( Hear , hear . Unless Ministers wore prepared to take tho initiative in measures not only _withrenard to tbis country , but Ireland , unless they could check the old woman in the Cabinet , the government of the couutry would be in the eroatest peril , Theu would It bo necessary to bring in a bill for the better security ofthe crown and government . It was with the utmost astonishment he had seen it stated that an alien act had been introduced elsewhere . ( Ironical cheers . ) A noble lord in another place said fie bad seen a number of Frenchmen walking along the Strand ; Lord _Broughasn was excessively frightened , and the . y were therefore to have an alien bill . Mr Pitt ' s alien bill was one of the first causes of war with France . The House of Lords and the panic-stricken majority of that house were pursuing a course which : would very probably plunge the country into war . ( 'OhfOh ! ' ) Would not the
government of France be likely _*} to say that we had received Louis-Philippe and , his Ministers , but resorted to an alien act in order to keep out " those _foreigners who had opinions of their own ! He appealed to the good sense of the country . They were reviving the old Tory policy of 1795 . He should look with great suspicion to the course pursued Vy the Foreign Minister . ( ' Oh , oh !') He remembered the interference of the noble lord in Portugal , and if he got agood opportunity to meddle in the affairs of France , he very much doubted whether there were not certain influences at work that wor _. ld plunge this country into a continental war . _(? Ob , oh !') lie hoped the _middle classes would not be carried away hy a temporary panic : that the shopkeepers would not take alarm because n few windows had been _C-roken , and that the people would yet stand firmly by those liberal principles which hon . gentlemen below him oh the Treasury bench had so disgracefully deserted . ¦ ¦ . ¦ After a few words from Mr Aqliokdy
Mr Feargus O'Connor _expressed his regret and disgust , that Mr Reynolds had given w ; ay to the appeal of the government ; but it only confirmed the opinion he had ever stated of the Irish liberals in that house , and he repeated it now , thai bad as eve ' _ir the present eovernment was , it was 'too good for such a set . ( Hear , hear . ) What , was this one of thc remedial measures for Ireland that was to have succeeded the . CoiTCion Bill ? and with what pomp the Attorney-General and the government told the house , that the object of this bill was to put England and Ireland upon a perfect equality , as regards the law of treason . ( Laughter . ) Would thev put Ireland
upon a footing with England , bad as that was . in all other respects ? No , iC was their Poland . Just at a time when oilier nations were wringing concessions from despots , the reforming government was curtailing the little liberty the British subject had . 'Oh , ' but says the noble lord , * it is clemency , it takes away the punishment of death for certain acts which are now treason , and attaches the penalty of felony to acts which are now sedition ; but see the fallacy , the sophistry , and delusion of this affected clemency ; it takes away the punishment of death in cases which do not happen once in a century , and it enacts the punishment of transportation for offences
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of every day occurrence —( hear , hear)—and offences which will be constituted a virtue , and become more numerous , if the present act should pass . But look to the causes which have led to revolt and triumph in other countries / fend see if the disaffection anddissatisfnotion was not _^ paralleled in that house . He woul d not mock even a fallen monarch in his misery ; but as it was notorious that the noble lord was taking counsel from the deposed king of the French , he would ask him to bear the fact in mind , tbat the cause of his overihrow and expulsion , was the _overawing-fhc Chambpr of Deputies , oy the voice of placemen , officials , hacks , and pensioners , precisely as the noble lord is now relying upon the subserviency of the same class , to overawe the House of
Commons and the nation . He ( Mr O'Connor ) not only contended for the people ' s right to remonstrate with that liouse , and to compel that house to a performance of Us duty , but he contended fov th constitutional right of the people to overawe that house if necessary . That house _Hliotild be the exponent oftbe national will . It bad no constitutional right to usurp a prerogative fer seven year ? , playing the tyrant for b _' ix , and the penitent for one , leaving ita poison upon the Statute Book , and its antidote on the winds . Look to the state of Spain , with her immense population , and only 96 , 000 voters . ( Hearj hear . ) He would answer that oheer presently . Look to the state of France , with her immense population , and not 300 , 000 voters . ( Uear , hear . 1 lie would now answer both those cheers . The mind of England untrammelled ,
and her opinion unfettered , had achieved a larger amountof representation in the Senate House _th _^ n either France or Spain ; and the active genius of the day , an irresistible thing , admitted no other standard than ihe fair representation of all—the want of which had caused revolution in other conntries , and the attempt to stop which would be ineffectual in this . ( Hear , bar . ) But he would go still further , and he would quoto precedent , to prove that the law in England , and tyranny in Ireland , had ever been found 9 trong enough to secure peace . In 1839 and 1840 , tho law had imprisoned him , and nearly 500 working men—juries convicted against Jaw and evidence , without leaving the box , and the _censequence was increased hostility to the law , and an increased determination to override ita injustice . Well , in 1842 there was a general _risine of
thenation , and he ( Mr u uonnor ) waa tried , with fifty-nine others , at Lancaster , during eight days . They had a ' just judge , and a highly conatitutional lawyer upon the benoli ; he explained tbe law , and Bhowed the legal power whioh the people possessed . _Hifnudement was imprinted upon the mind of every leader in the country and , through them , upon the people , and from that hour to the present , now six y ears there has not been one single political offender tried in England . ( Hear hear . ) Well , if that precedent waa distributed ever too _long a period forthe Whig government , he would now draw their attention to Monday ' s proceedings ; aild he defied the house to arrive at any other conclusion than this . The people who at ended that meeting went there with the express intention ot _having their procession aaproclaimed-and _, therefore , if the _pieparat ons of the is , that many of those peop e wonM h _™ « , „ ...
_„ armed , and that all would have felt baulked by the suppression of this armed display . It was to have been a day of rejoicing aid triumph , nnd yet , hear the star-tin e truth thai whereas not a man in tha _tmul £ knew of my intention of _prohibitum the proreS until they were _aBsomUed upon the Common for th !
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_purpose , yet its m auionmeut was carried without a ringle dissentient , and with universal approval . ( Hear , bear . ) Well , thus baulked of a _sauginuarj triumph , for which we were told » reparatie _> ns were made , this armed multitude , without a walking stick , ' quietly dispersed , and not a pane of glass was broken . ( Hear , hear . )—Well , then , if mischief was intended , or if vengeance was' the aim , would they hare dispersed with acclamation , and would they have restrained their feelings of difappointment to the most perfect observance of peace ? ( Cheers . ) He would caution hon . memberR in that house against invitations to loyalty , and _scoffinga at peace- ( Hear , bear . ) The people had learned their lessons from the Whigs , and if this was to _bu an _expostfaelolaw , there was not a _hullc in her Majesty ' s service that would be large enough to hold tbe noble lord and his
associates—( cheers and laughter)—and amongst whom would stand prominently the hon . and gallant member for Westminster , who had threatened , if the Reform Bill was rejected , to invade London with a hundred thousand fighting men . ( Hear , hear , and cheew . ) He added his testimony to the intelligence , the industry , and the honour of the Chartist body , for tbat high and just character so generously and nobly paid to them in the eloquent and manly speech of hia hon . friend the member for the Tower Hamlets , ( Mr G . _Thompson ); and he would go further , and say , tbat if industry was rewarded , they would be the first to punish idleness , snd all that tbey required was a fair day's wage fora fair day ' s work ; and in that noble struggle he would go with them to the death , and he told the house that if he and thousands fell in tbe contest , for every drop of the martyrs'blood would _spring 10 , 000 patriots to avenge the martyrs'death . He ( Mr O'Connor ) had made
anintffectual appeal to the _landlord-class , _whoshould be the natural _proteotorsof tbe people , but who were nnw tbe foremost to hound the government on m their acts of treason against tho crown ; and seeing that they relied upon sueh treason for the upholding of their privileges and their power , the country would no longer rest satisfied with that piebald patchwork opposition now sitting upon theee benches , an _opposition of shreds and patches ; but after the country had reflected durin _*? the Easter week these benches would present a marshalled opposition ofthe middle and the working classes—( hear , hear , and checnO—too Btrongfor tyranny to resist , and too powerful for treason to put down . ( Hear , hear . ) Tbe Whigs stink h tbe nostrils of every man of common sense in the kingdom — ( cheers )—and having received credit tor some inlluence with the working olasseji . he ( Mr O'Connor ) would martial a national mind which would hurl
them from tbose benches in spite ot tbe support of the right hon . member for Tamworth , or of their old opponents , tha Tories . Whnt a humiliating position to tee the" descendant of Russell relying upon the disciplfs ot Pitt . ( Hear , hear . ) The Boble lord might have been a powerful minister if he had acted upon constitution ' ! principles , and the pre cent bill bein ? treason against the Crown—treason against the Constitution—and treason against the people , he ( Mr O'Connor ) demanded breatbin ? time for the nation , to allow the people an opportunity of declaring their sentiments . Let them pass this bill , and that which was tbe safety-valve of tbe constitution would at once explode ; there woald be no more safety for the expression of public Opinion . Vulgar men would be allowed to preach throughout the country what doctrine they desired ; ef them no notice
would be taken ; but a * soon aa any man , opposed to the government , spoke adviBedly , tbey would mark him out their victim . Well ; and if they were te fill the hulks with martyrs , he would tell them that for each one of them ten thousand new men would arise eager and willing to step into tbeir place ? , and to bide the event . It was impossible that they could maintain Ireland in her present position . Some thing must be done for . her , and that _speedily . This bill would not put her down—this bill , which he denounced as treason against the Crown , and the person of the sovereign . Such a bill he never expected would _haveemanated from a Whig Ministry . They had now become the most unpopular _government that had ever possessed the reins of power in this country . WaB it not well known that the Gove n ment had the power of _selecting the judge and the
jury ? What chance , then , was there for the liberty of the subject ? He entreated the bouse—he en treated the government—to give the people of this country breathing time , to give them an opportunity of expressing their opinions upon the bill . He besought the noble lord not to disgrace the high name he bore by thus pressing such an _unconstitutional measure .. He did not mean to taunt tbe present men in office with the treatment which he bad personally received at their hands . He _considered that it was but right that those who led the people should suffer any penalty which might attach to their position . He protested against a reformed parliament thus stealing a march upon tbe people ; hepiot _^ s _' . ed
against the bill , because he was a loyal subject , and because he objected to her Majesty ' s becoming tinged by the disloyalty of her ministry . He could not find language sufficiently strong to denounce his abhorrence of it . If folly or treason were spoken at a public meeting , the good sense of _those present would put the surest extinguisher upon it . He had never allied himself to secret societies , he never would ; but let thein pass that law on that day , and on that day week hundreds of secret societies would be organised throughout the _kingdom , wbich sooner or later should result in a storm that would swamp the government , and shake the empire to its foundations . Let not the noble lord despise his warning —to he ferewarned was to be _torearmed .
Mr P . _Hoivabd urged the adoption of the amendment of MrHorsman , _giving , the court power to mitigate the penalty of transportation to three years . Mt Reynolds contended that by 3 clause in the bill a spy might be hired hy a wicked and venal minister to go to a meeting and utter incendiary and treasonable expressions , and the remit would be that every person present would be liable to two years'imprisonment and hard labour . Mr Hume's advice to the government was , to atay further _proceedihga for a week , in order that the con _' atry mignt be made acquained with the provisions of the bill , and thus avoid the disgrace of precipitation in reference to a measure of sueh vital importance . He contended that the experience of the past showed that prosecutions of that nature had never been attended with any public advantage . The governments of bygone _vears had not attempted to prevent the assembling- ofthe
people to petition for the removal of abuses or assertion of rig hts . He had himself headed a deputation of 100 , 000 persons , with a _» address to the Crown , and no one had dared to oppose him . He well remembered the occasion upoa which he hart presided at ameeting wherea resolution was passed pledging the meeting to pay no more taxes . TliHtresolution was brought under the notice ofthe Attorney-General , who told him thathehadactedUlegall y , and his reply wns 'Ifenow'ft- try me . _' _lHfea-, hear . ) But the Attorney-General did not try him . The government of the present day had been raised to power by those very Reform demonstrations and that unrestrained liberty of speech nhich this bill now sought to check . Lord J , _Rosttiib observed that we were living in extraordinary times , when persons deem it consistent with their duty to call _touether councils and confederations for the purpose of dtclaring war against the sovereign , for seducing or bribing tbe armed forces of the sovereign . aad for _onnosine them in arms in case seduction and _brihorv
do not SHeceed . He _believ _« d that the general opinion of the country was not that Ministers had interfered _intempvrately and hastily , but that they had waited too long . Considering the designs -which traitors had avowed , he should be ashamed of himself if , seeing danger at hand , he had been sp awed by the authority of Mr Fox as to for . bear from taking those measures of precaution which he believed to be necessary . After pointing out the difference between this bill and that under which Mulr and Palmer had been formerly convicted , he added that , while he retained all the other parts of the bill , he was ready to limit the operation of that part of it which related to 'open and advised speaking . ' The measures which the government had Introduced vtere Introduced under the deep conviction that the peace of this country was worth preserving . The trustof preserving the institutions of this country , its monarchy , and its constitution , wcre in the hands of the Administration , and it would bo its constant endeavour toj preserve them . The house then went into committea .
Mr Hobsman expressed his satisfaction that the obeetionahle clauses ofthe hill were to he in operation for a limited peiicdonly . Mr Martin moved that the words in question should he struck out altogether . The Attobnet-General followed against the amendment ; and after some observations from Sir P . _Thesiokb , who expressed his deep regret at the determination of tha government that this most important feature of tbe bill Bhould have only a temporary endurance , and from Mr P . Wood , who considered that Chartism might be exploded by extending the franchise , which would super sede the necessity of resorting to such a _blistar as the _present measure applied , and various desultory anu
_time-engrossing observations from other hon . members . He had recently voted against the motion for allowing that dastard Frost to / eturn _, whieh did not look like sympathy with such men . But while he joined in the indignation against them , and in the repudiation of their sentiments , lie must say , that he thought the present a most unhappily chosen moment for introducing such a measure as that now before the house . He should much prefer seeing Chartists put an end to by extending the franchise- ( cheers)—and giving them an opportunity of occupying their time in sending members to parliament instead of to the Convention , If that were done , he was sure the parliament would never again have occasion to resort to such a blister as this WU ,
Lord J . _HvestLL , perceiving that it was near six o ' clock , moved that tha chairman report progress , and ask leave to sit again . _^ ir G . Obet said the onl y amendment which government had to propose was the alteration of part ofthe third clause , limiting its operation to a period of two years . That amendment would be in the possession of gentlemen to-morrow , and , therefore , he hoped the house would be ready to proceed with the further consideration of the biU . ( Hear . ) Colonel Sibthobp was perfectly ready to oome down ot twelve o ' clock , or indeed at any hour , to proceed With the bill ; but he agreed with the Attorney . General of the lute government in denouncing the vacillation of govern _, ment , as exhitited by their _abandoning a part ofthe bill . ( Hear . ) After a few words from Sir M . _O'Conkbut
, Mr Bright hoped it would be borne in mind that on Monday night , when the gorernment had so large a majority in favour of the second reading of the hill , there was , in reality , a house of special constables . (• Oh 1 ') Tie believed that a _mujority of the members of tlie house - ( great _cheeringl-had beeu employed in the conserva . tion of tho peace , and were really in a state of considerablo alarm . ( Loud cries of'No , no . ') Ho was verv glad to hear it was not so . At all events , when government had at their command so large a mniority whv should the business of committees , and tho _ordlniii-v business of the house , be interfered with by thu course now proposed ? Such a step would give encouragement to a small _llltaoi'lti * tG throw every obstacle in the way of
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sa _*_* mmm _*^ _mM . mm ! _,.. i , , '„„ _^^ I the bill which the forms of the house admittea of _^^^ II c-h . » ' _) He would not sanction _Wrii a _courie- _Jm , ' ' _*! f such might be the consequence , r He _hopad th . '"ll v the bill would not be hurriedly pushed _throne , ' 1 - house , especially when it was considered tbat the rti " _* _* i % slons which had tiken place had already cban ( r ( ii ' ' » - opinlons of many members and even of MiBiateiS _. i . ° > 9 _^ selves . ( Hear , hear . ) im "Km , ' Mr Mowatt moved , as an amendment , that _thftdv * -i be adjourned to Monday next . ( 'Uo , no . ') He hV _* _^ ' desire whatever to giro any factious opposition f ? f 5 ° oh ! ' ) It must be admitted that government , tha ' th ' -1 and the country , were under great- excitement _inf' _^ '"no . V Ono reason why a little more time should ba L _» \ i fov tbe consideration oftbe bill was , that wheal * : 11 s brought forward on Friday they had before _taemnS' ¦? mighty ghost , this mighty bugbear of the Chartist n _« ' * ing , but they had succeeded in laying this gho 8 t 1 _^ there was now ho reason for this indecent haste ; _'an" t Mr _Faoan seconded the amendment for po ' _stnnn- 5 the bill till Monday , and proceeded , amidst constant ?* terruption , toaddresa the house , ln * _5-— _w _^ - _^^™ n _,, * _s _^ P _™ _-.. , _^ .. """" " — " "" _tSri ijw . _
u Being now . su 0 _ciosk tne s > feakb : b announced . * w [ according to the standing order , the house must art £ journ . _° ' _!* The house adjourned accordingly , thc effect of _«» , _v 1 in , that the further consideration of tho bill stands » _= i order of the day , and will hava to take ita chance Wi * '* the other business en the paper . mUi FRIDAY , Amil H , _^ The HOUSE OF COMMONS assembled at _noen im _? ait on without interruption to two o ' clook thl 8 { 8 aturdaj _) _^ morning . On tho' motion that the Speaker leave the cbalr to gn iato committee on thu Bill for the better aecarity of thu 1 Crown and Government of the United Kingdom , a ait . < _cusslon , with the object of obstruction , took place this ' was continued up to four o ' clock when a division _m _. tor ceil— For going into committee ... 287 Against it 33 Majority 25 t The house went into committee , and the debate oa the question that tho words * by open and advised speaking' stand part of the bill , was resumed .
After a lengthened dlscaseion _, tho committee divided : — For retaining the words 188 Against it 79 Ma J _<»* y 109 M A proviso to be added to the 3 rd clause , limiting the time in which a prosecution should follow tha proof of words spoken , was tho subject of another long debate . On the motion that tho Chairman report progress : — For IhU motion 48 Against it 3 P 5
Majority against the motion ... 257 The proviso was postponed . On the question that clause three , as amended , _itaad part of the bill _: — It was moved that the chairman report progress , and the committee divided : — Forthe motion -... 39 Against it _,., ... »• 379 Majority against tho motion ... ¦ 231 The committee then divided on the 3 rd _clause—Fortbeclauso , „ 2 * 2 Against it ... , SO Majority for tbe clause ... —192 On the 4 th clause another division was
taken—For the clause / ... 221 AgainBt it 35 Majority for the clause ... —188 The remaining three clauses were agreed to , and the bill , as amended , was ordered to be reported to the bouse on Monday , Tho ether orders _wrs disposed of , and the house ad . journed to Monday .
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ; FRANCE . Tbe members of tbe Paris Club of Eqnality and Fraternity have published the following resolution , signed by one of their secretaries ( M . Alfred Mon * brial ) : — Oa learning that a Chartist manifestation is to take _placo In London , tho Club of Equality and Fraternity de . uided spontaneously that the people of Paris should be invited , through tbe medium ot all thc Clubs , to make as
soon as possible a calm , imposing , and _fraterntl _mani . _ft-station , to prove te the _English peoplo that they may count on trie good wishes and sympathies of tbe French nation in tbe combat which they are about to maintain agaiust tbe feudal system and the government which so audaciouslycontests its _rights . Tbe object of the proposed manifestation is to encourage the English people in their resistance to the despotism by which they 'have heen so long oppressed , and this resolutien , of which acopy shall be sent to tbe Parisian journals , will communicate to the British democrats the certainty of a sympathetic _support _fi-am their brothers in Paris .
DENMARK AND SCJ 1 LESWIG _HOLSTEIN . DEFEAT OF THE TROOPS OF THE DUCHIES . 'ike Hamburg Boksenhalle ofthe lltu inst . con * tains the intelligence subjoined '• — _Ilostilitiea have seriously commenced between the forces of _Denmark and those of _Seheeswlg-Holsteln . A very fierce battle bas been fought near _Flensburg _* _, in which the Danes , _h-vving a decided superiority la _xxoxo hers , as well as in their cavalry and artillery , the _Schleswig-Holuteinarmy was defeated and compelled to retreat towards _Rendshurg . The loss of life has been rery great on both sides . The Danes entered the city of _Sshleswlg yesterday . The Prussian troops have been ordered to advance in order to support tho people of Schleswig , acd should the King of Denmark , in retaliation , stop the passage of the Sound , his territories are to be invaded . A Utter from Altoua , of April 10 , says : —
The Danes appeared with an overpowering force , and so suddenly and boldly , in the midst of their enemies at Bau and F ' _ensburjj , tbat they took them by surprise , and compelled the Holstein troops of the line and volunteers to retire in all haste . The attack began iu the morning on the part of the Danes , wbo had two Vessel *! Of Wfir and gUbbO & ta to _aBSiBt their attack on the to fa . Thoy had landed atHolnis , and , after several small contests , the _Schleswig-Holsteimrs made a stand at Bau , not far from Flensburg , which ended in th eir total defeat and
the destruction of almost all of their IGth battalion . Towards twelve o ' clock on the 3 th several vessels of war , with three thousand Danes on _board . _japeared before _Flenabury , Tho commander of these troops evidently acourately knew the position of the _Holatelners , who , from wank of artillery , were unable effectually to oppose the landing of thtir enemy . As the Danes now threatened to bombard the town , the Prinee of Noer , tbe Holstein commander , gave orders to the troops to withdraw , which they did , but not until after a sanguinary contest , with great lees of life on both sides .
POLAND . The Royal Commissioner in tha Grand Duchy of PoBen , M . Von _Willisen , has published a proclamation to the inhabitants of that province , He says that the Polish _re-orgsnisation of the grand Duchy , according to his Majesty ' s promise , is just beginning , and that ho is intrusted with powers to carry it out ; that the Poles de . _slrea National Government and National ( i . « ,, Polish ) Courts of Justice , and that they shall have both , also that the interests of the German inhabitants of the province shall be taken care of . But he makes one condition , _vis ., orJer and legal authority must be re-established . The proclamation concludes with the promise of aa amnesty for all those rioters wbo at once lay down their arms and return to thuiv _renpielive homes .
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m — _"TTnTTTTPUBLIC MEETINGS . We havo report 8 : for which it ia impossible to find room , of a great nnmber of publio meetings holden tH all parts of tbe country in support of the Charter and the Convention . These meetines have been tho largest , most numerous , and most _enthusiasts ever held by the working classes of thia country . In many places tho middle _clasaeahave nnited with the working men for the Charter .
Metropolitan Public Meeting. A Public Me...
METROPOLITAN PUBLIC MEETING . A public meeting will be holden on Tuesday evenine ; next , at eight o ' clock , at tho Farrinedon Hall King ' s Arms-yard , Snow-hill , opposite Farringdonstreet . Several membera of the Convention will attend .
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¦ a— - _a _^ m TUE FRATERNAL DEMOCRATS . A meeting , crowded almost to suffocation , was holden in the Farringdon llall on Tuesday evening last . Mr John Overton was called to tho chair . Eloquent speeches were delivered by Messrs Kydd , _Walter Cooper . Ernest Jones , Daly , and M'Carthy . A petition _agrnnat the _gagging bill was adopted . The greatest enthusiasm prevailed . Another publio meeting will bo held at the same place on _Tnesday evening next .
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_BumioNDSKT . —It is the unanimous wish of tha _Ohattiots of this locality for Mr Wild , of the Convention , to pay them a visit on Tuesday evening next , April 18 . h , and lecture on _anysubjeothe thinks proper . Mr James _Bluett , of tho Metropolitan Delegate Council , will lecture on Tuesday evening , April 35 th . Subject : ' The _origie , aim , and end , ot _mouswhy . '
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Northern Star (1837-1852), April 15, 1848, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns4_15041848/page/4/
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