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IRELAND. SUMMARY REVIEW OF THE ERINCII>AL MIA- StTRES RELATING TO IRELAND, WHICH WERE DISCUSSED IN THE LAST SESSION OF PARLIA- MENT. As the events 'which occurred soon - after the Meeting of Parliament this year, necessarily delay:. ed much of the public' business -till .a late period of the Session, it became impossible, from,.the cumber of measures which, were broughoforward„ , to _give a very detailed. account of them to the Public dur ing their progress ; it may not therefore beimptoper shortly: to review the diffe.rent measures relating .to Ireland, ..which have been passed in the. 'United Parliament. They naturally, divide themselves up, der three distinct heads, viz. Constitutional Mea 7 . sures, loternal Regulatioos, and Subjects of Finance and Com'merce. `Of those:measures which relate to the Constitution, the first, both irrpdint of time and importance, ' , that was discussed, 'was the Bill `which GovernMent found ifsatinder the necessity 'of proposing, for the continuum:.. of Martial Law in On the tzth of March, Lord-CA.FroF.- • REAGH, in pursuance of zi tio`tice lie NO previetisly. -given, mo cd for k;we to bring in a Bill foe that The SpeeCh with which the. .I'.l . obleLOrcl introdticed the rvltStion, did the bighest - .Credit:eVen to his - acknowledged talents. The fls upon Whith . s he founded it, were contained in the'Report of 'the Secret - dorninctfee in Ireland', and the statement was • corroborated {with only one "exception) by every Irish Member who took part in the discussion.;— . Lcrd CAST LET. 'stated, that although the Re .which-had desolated Ireland, had . beeo .pitt 'down by the unremitting eeertioni of Gbyerrioaeot, ' and the onexarnplect efforts of the Loyalcs-sentry and Y eemanri- of Ireland, stiltlhose petinicioosprinei pies which gave rise:to it, -were unhappily not yet eradicafed. Though the "Rebels . 'Were' no longer -able to: face" His . Majesty'.B - Forces- in tie fielcil yet :Oa :was the, ,unfortunate situation of that-Country; elm- neither the property nor the lives of the Lo% at "'lnhabitants could be secured by means of the ordi ' nary Courts of Law. In forrner - Rebell:bni, When . the Rebels were defeate.4, - they submitted ; 'bur it belonged to the genius of JacobiniSm; that' When it was pot dOwn in the field, it would still 'continue to afilid the G suory by a sYstern•of . warfare, peculiar to itself—a system hardly less fatal to the liveS and. . property of His Majesty's Subje4s, :and mUchinOre difficult to be contended against, than open Rebel lion. Under these circumstances it was - necessary, for the salvation of the Country, that Overnment should be armed with a power equal tO the.danger with vohich the State was - threatened.-L4hat.poWer, was Martial Law. He acknowledged 'that this ) was giving . to Government a power inconsistent with tlfe spirit of the COnsuttitiOn, but to caseS4 of new and unprecedented dottiger, new reMedies must - be resorted to: .Ciavernment 'wool c.icrcise this great pOwer undoubtedly with heavy reteons.ihility, and it .could not hut afford thegteatet . t satisfaeLion to the House, to know that it hadlitherto been ex ercised by theNbble Mareoti;l who preiided Ire land; with every degree of." - leiiity and mercy whieli was consistent with - the safety' Of the Cpuntry. His Lordship then proceeded.. to ,state the . . situation" of the Country. 'And to shew the necessity of the measure he said, that within 'the' last twelvemonth no less than: go 7 persons. had been tried by Courts • Martial, and that even within the last three months • • '67 persons bad been 'tried by 'Courts Martial for Ikebelliop e or for crimes conneelpd with it; Of witOm 34. had been convicted. 'These were the circum stances which 'compelled him, - however reludantly; to bringfof ward this Measure; but as it was not his wish that Martial law should continue one boor • longer than the safety of the Country absolutely re ohired, he should only propose to Continue this Bill for three motitbs, and would retrain .fortl\ose who should - he entrusted with the. Government of Ireland at the .expiration of that period; to deter_ mine whether or not it would be again necessary .to continue the Bill, though lie confessed • he was by no means sanguine in ll3i hopes'othat Ireland' would then be in a state of rolicietit tranquillity to enable P,,,iiam c nt to- discontinue Martial Law.. 'T'hese were, the grounds coon which his Lordship Inade his Motion. A long and -very animated 'debate took-place, in which oily . one Member for Iteland tidal - a - eel the necessity of the Bill. Every -other IVlember for that part of .the United Kingdom Iviio spoke, not only approved of it, but stated it. to he absolutely necessary for the safety of itelaed.— Each Gentleman stated from his own knowledge; in his own particular situation, the benefits which re_ suited to Ireland from this nienstire„ Which it . was now proposed to reneWl, - -afrer having repeatedly re.. ceiVed the -santainn of - the Irish' Parliament. The impression which their arguments made on the House was irresistibte e and the Motion of Lord CArrLEREAGH passed without A division. The next day tie Bill was brocight in, and read a first time, without any opposition, - 'On the 16th, a Debate f'yf consitlerab% length ionic place_On tile second reading of the Bill.. The principal obje&iOns it, were to the manner in Which Cotirts Martial were constituted. .The op_ ponents of the Bill, however, again deelined a di Vi 7 .siono When the. Bill went into the Committee, '?gird C - 4tresaFActi, notwithstanding that the number of Members on -Courts :Via ; ;jai had never .been- so low as the number specified by 'the -Aft - as "iufficient„ yet, tvitli a-view to obViate s eine obiec tions which had been made to the Bill upon this 'pint, proposed a- Clause, rendering it necessary, that every COuro-Martial should consist of at 'least seven - Members, -beyond whiCh number, the nature of the Service worild not admit of its.beina 'extend ed. This Clause was agreed, to, and the duration of the Bill was limited - to.three-monthS. On the zoth of March the Bill o paSSed . the House 'of Com ,moos.: r the House - of.Ltirds the Bill underwent -considerable discussion, it was most ablY supported . - by; Lord Ct,A R ; Li) id:CA L TON, "Lord Lll.l E ri:, . and indeed by every Peer representing Ireland, who . took part in- the debate.-'Qn the, third reading - , 'a :division todle . plaCc, ',W I - cob:there appeared, including .Proies, 90 PeeEs .iv; fit-roar of the. Rill, and only 7 againit it-1- 7 -afeAbn :24..th : it o rectived the Royal , Asseuf • • The CHANCtLLOR of the EXCHEQUER itairlng; by order of His MAJESTY, laid several Paprs, sealed up, before the House, they were referred to a Committee of Secrecy. The Second Report of that Committee, preserited on the zstlr of May, st a ted as follows : " Your Committee have next diredecl their at tention to the present situation of Ireland, both' as disturbed within, and threatened from 'With out, particularly with reference to the necessity of those measures adopted by the' Parliament 'of that Cpuntry before the Union, for the suppression of the Rebellion there, which have since' been reneWe4 for a limited period by that Gf the United Kingdom and also of the manner in " . mthieli the powers thus given had been exercised, and the cited produced by them.-,lt appears, that though the,,eirt.itts of.the dis, aifeded in that Country have' happily long ceased, to assume the'aspecf of RebelliOn, arrayd in the field against the arms of their Svereign, 'and though the organization established by the United Irishmen may not have been kept up.with.any regularity, and.thai many parts of the.kingdom present the usual appear- . ance of peaceful industry 'andlanyal sub6rdlnatton ; - -yet that at.- no e time have there - been wanting in others, -demonstrations of the same 'systematic plan cllnsurredion, and marked with the same charac ters of unexampled atrocity. . The principal Trai, tors in Dublin continually; send their emissaries through the :Country to keep up the spirits . of 'the diSa'ffeded by. - .the hopes ;of . support - from fOreign /nVaSion.' Aboutyear n sync a C 5) 6 0 association was *about! to be established; atid'a new- Executive Piredory . formed in Dublin: • This was to originate in a Hetid Cominittee; who were to appoint .ojose on whom they . could 'depend, to form Regiments, of which each Colonel was to' provide the Major and caPtains ;' each Captain his Subal - and they, the private men,. "eonimuni catiOns ‘t , ere'to be verbal,: and the business con - duded without eled-ionS;debites, or committees.-- This :11.10t,..h0we-Vet,' being 'deteded . • :vent, , progress was checked, 'if 'not 41,61- . 4 Stopped: It-affords a r.emarkable 'coincidence With the'" ntaligenee before detailed (in the f6rmer Tart 4f'the_4.th Re.. pert) of Whae has been tang,. that.it appears to have been lately 'held out to thedisaffeded Iteland; - that whenever at in. surredion shall tak4.place in that Country, which it is intended shall lie, universally on the smite dik, a similar explosion 'is' to, be Made in several of the principal towns in England, particelarly in London,- where. they . are - told - the disaffeeted are - acting on the . same 'plans and principles as the Thentant , .er- in'which the,, ` Rebellion was originally organized, the secret springs': of 'the Confeele racy,.. which set 'in-: mdtion, and dired'ed to every enormity of private 4.1 public . outrage so large .a mass. of ''the 'inhabitants, have long been familiar :td the' House and to the - Public. The pbjed Of it heing to'edisunite that "Country from this by the co.:operation of a ForeigreEnenty, it be ..imagined that the cause .will . never an ,. pear desperate to. those engaged- in it, t, , t hile the contippance of the War. still.keeps alive the hope of that: assistance, ,encouraged, as -it may. be from time to time, by assurances of support from their _Ally, or at least frOm those Traitors to their Conn. try,. - who still .form in' :the capital of that Ene my' a Central Ccrainittee ''.of Rebellion, .to insti gate Invasion - oil the one hand, and 'prepare - In surredion on the other. Their Emissaries; are continually passing into Ireland. for this purpose, where two of Them are supposed- - still to be canceal `• "The view's'of this CommiCiee, and - the means hy'whicli they:are not'agharned to endeavour to ac eOmplish thetn,• will be sufficiently obvious from the Address to the.lrish Saildrs in our Fleet, which has been printed in their name, end prepared on . the Continent for extensive circulation. 'Emissaries, on other hand, have not been wanting from Ire land, to interest the French Governthent in support of their cause. One particularly has lately pass, ed over to the Continent, and opened a dired eommunication,with the -Enetny' accrediting, him. self with them, 'as being deputed by a great body of the landed interest of his Country, whom .he repi4.senis as being, like - himself, so dissatisfied • with the Union, that they would engage in any concert with Fiance,. to procure the . nieanibf estab lishing, under the guarantee - or that Power, some netv form of Representative Government. • With this view, he aftbrds theni all the information in his power, of the state of the Gountry, ,and of the force • employed to proted it, and,sugg-ests the amount of that which he recommends to be sent against He stipulates, 'however, with his. proposed Allies, for the tassurance of their property to all the present possessors, in opposition to any. claiin of the Ca tholics, whom he states still to look forward with hopes of establishing a Popish Ascendancy ; and it appears that he has been given to understand that both the late Directory and one of the principal' 'Ministers of the present Government,.had coincid ed in the justice 'and , propriety of that _.stipulation:" The Report then proceeds. to State, that the System of Terror has been continued to the present hour, and that it can only be counteracted by prompt ; and, efficacious nunishment for, the guilty, end a sense of security And protedion for the innocent. , It then" states various ads of 'enormity, in different parts of that Conntry, upon Which the above Statement was founded ; but; as we have before given the ,Report at length, we think. it unnecessary to detail them again. _ . (To be continued.) TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, Dartmouth street, 7u). 6, 1891. ON my return to Town I found that an article had been introduced into your Paper of the 2zd ult. and into other daily. Papers of the same date, pur porting that the Knight Marshal's Volunteers, late ly under my command, had been disbanded, in con-, sequence of Hts MAJESTY having no further .occa sion for their'services. Had this insinuation af-, feted, no one but myself, I should riot have taken any notice of it'; but as: it may affca the feelings of 'those Gentlemen who did me -the Honour to serve in the Corps, and , to whose Zcal and Loyalty lam on every aceonht hound to afford-the most de cidr.!d testimony, I beg leave unequivocally to'con_ tradia it ; the ilia being that my Officers and self voluntarily resigned our Commissions, for causes which it is„unneces`sary - for me 40 qatee arn, Sir, Your most obedient Servant J. B. BuaGgs. THE SUN, SOLEM DICIRE .F.LSUM AUDSAT ? yuLy 7, tBol. As this Paper was on the point of being.put.tO Press we received, BY EXPRESS, Paris Papers to the rth inst. We find no one article in them of importance, except the followipg : Egg L J U NE 2,2.-= - : -Frorn I's to i 6,000 Troops which had reached our Peighbourhood, and which have been exercised with the Eerlin and Pqts( l ,am Troops, remain antoned five or six leagiles from the town, in the villages.--They remain on the war establishment, and are in readiness to march. The destination of this Corps is a 3ecret ?, bqt. all agree in thinking that it isintended to rake posses. sion of the Indemnities destined for Prussia. Affstach• and Bairevb are to be given as Indemnities ; but our Sovereign will receive a coMpensation in the several Ecclesiastical Territories in Westphalia. .We are assured that t h e J( will send,' on the recal of the Marquis de LuccßEsq.jr, an Arnhaisi. dor of the first rang to Paris. Our connexion with France was never on a better footing than at present, nod' our 'intimacy with Rds sia more stria. The Hamburgh. Mail due on ~ S unday, had no arrived when this Paper was put to Press. le P iNcE of WA.i..ts - gave , a grand•Dirmer A' Caile'{On :lousc, on Saturday, to. the 'lrish Npbility, Forty Irish Gentlemen, mostly Meinbers o Parlia• neat, were present. His Royal: Highness the PttrWC E of W i s E - s dined vesterday with tOrd and Lady Mr. at their residence at Whitehall. On Stlrlday the CH ANC E Ortile E left Wimbledon for 'leis seat 4t Woodley,. in. erk. shire, where the Volunteers of that Pistria,. v which Mr. ADDINGT(44 is . Commandant, Were yes : terday revievved. • The First Regiment of Life Guards, centrilapded by tieutenint.General the Earl of fI'ARRI . gGTort., will be reviewed 'by Their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE Of WALES and DUKE of YoKK ) row, on Wimbledon Common, at tea io'clock pre: cisely. • When His MAJESTY and Suite, passed through Southampton,' the Mayor, ind Corporation, and Count WOIiONZOW, the Russian Ambassador, were assembled to receive them ;- they remained in the Council Chamber near an hour and a half, during which time His Royal Highness PRINCE ADOLIIBTS was presented with the Freedom of the Town, and took the usual oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, 'His QUEEN to be presentat the reining of the oaths . ; she smiled at the thought of. a son's swearing fidelity "to t his, father. HE R NINJESTY, on looking over the list of Burgesses, 'observed oil her Sons' .natnes, were there except that of the —ntrxE of CLAIMCE. The Prince Di CoNDE is arrived at Hamburgh,. on his way to England. He is waiting there for a frigate, which is to bring him : over. Mr:WicicT HAM is also returning to London. The Prince dined on the 25th ult. at SirjAmisCRAUFURD'S at Ham_ burgh, in company with DvmovlklEß, Who' still resides at Ai tons. -The Thilse . of BR u NCW I CF. is at Berlin ) .on a visit to the Hereditary Prince of BADEN, Ivhose.daug,hter is about to be married to the Duke's son, The Dutche - ss of DEVONSHIRE gave a • Public Breakfast on Saturday at Chiswick. At four o'clock, the company sat down to a very sumptuous break fast, and at five o'clock the country-dances corn_ inenced upon the lawn, At ten company had entirely separated. The four Prizes, annually given by, the. Repre sentatives of Cambridge University, are this year judged as follows : For Senior Bachelors, to Messrs. T. Brown and N. C. Tindal, both, of Trinity Col. lege. The subjea :—Ex coalescentibus et liihernia- Imperiis, quid potissimiux boil; sit . spe. randum ?For the middle ~Bachelors, to ',Views. H. V;Bayley, of Trinity College ; and Mr. G. D'Oyley, of Benedict College. The bubjea Quid est Causa, cur jam per .. plura Secuia, Scientier et Li. berates Aries, 71012 nisi in Christiania Populis :11?rue . rint Sir W. Browne's Medals for the Greek Ode, to M. R. Walpole, of Trinity College; and Tor the Latin Ode, to the Hon. F. Robinson, of St. John's. The subjel :—Melita Britaini .11.t3aaa and . to Mr, G. Pryme, of Trinity College,, r the Epi grams.—The subjea Canora.. The last iveek's importation of ' , Wheat was 7523 quarters; .of Oats there, were 20,204 (Far . _ ters ; about iOOO quarters of 1,3 , c, ,4000'cwi. of Rice, and spa of• Wheat Flonr.--The price of• Wheat has advanced during the week "aboutlss. per quarter,; Oats Ss. ; and Barley and Malt 2s. or 3s. Flour is likewise ios. per sack dearer. The quantity ,of wine brought by_ the Fleet, which on Thursday a nd Friday arrived in the seve ral ports-of. the Channel, has, from the unfortunate situation of Portupl, greatly exceeded the irripar.. talion of any Tourer year: Ina violent storm which took place an 11; 25th ul.t,". at .Paris, the hail - s.torres which icil Wcre in some Of them - two oiinces . weight: - rEYMOV77I,, TIM? _T. On Friday the whole Line, comprising the Gar rison aner alifeient Corps - near, together With the Volunteers, was drawn up; .the centre fronting the Lodge, by eleven o'clock -in the morning, and re mained underarms the whole day, anxiously expea ing the honotir J ana tii4e3fkable pleasure of receiving' their Royal Master and his"august F'a'mily`; of which they were disappointed, 25 they did not dis embark from on bond the Royal Yacht (in which they came from Christdfurch) till midnight. Be, ing apprised of their approach, the 'town win itlu; rninated very brilliantly,, which, from, the sea, must have had a charming appearance. MATJEST ES landed from the Royal :Barge at the 'Nevi_ Pier, and, notwithstanding the late hour, (walked to the t.odge, to tie unspeakable gratification of thousands of their loving, dutiful, and lopil Subjeas.—On . THEtp. MAJEsTigs `.ing into the Lodge, they were saluted with hgarti s ,and loud iluzzts: amongst the rnan-y - ?ppropriate Trztispaitnies, &c, exhibited on this pleasing occasion, those of 'Mrs. GREENLY,' in Gloucester-row, stocd first in itimation. In the centre window. of the secona i3oor was the figureiyf an Angel, debcending with! crown s proclaiming . s jnyful.prospeds now appear, f!,eay'n. mstcres a Tvionarcf= dc::.r!" • In two other pieces were she.3.l - n.Ntdallions of r-fr g (excellent iikenesse4, supported by tannii, Neptune, A..191.1d, • I , la.val and 114ilitary.--, Trophico, - &e. very appropriate, and reHea great t .. o.clit on Miss . GREEII4 . ..r, .by whom they were itxecuted. • - • . . His M.AtEsTy yesterday afternoon walked of the Esplanade with his attendants: the KIN - con; versed with. Mr. Cotrilmissary, WAriON and the re- , 7' sfeCtive NOblemen who attended Hit ? MAJ EL. TY", " In the evening -TH F .. I4 MAT.Es T rEs and. Pll.l N.; C g SSES iv.ent,tO the Theatre: in their carriages :. the erfornianceq were, the Comedy' of Laugh' , thet,: you can.;: tit the cn .of the third ad, the fitiourite i song of Young Witham, was, sung by Master ' Wok DSVICATII, and at the end..of the Play the ,Mu-. sical Entertainment of No sqng ng-Sy'pper succeeded . .. In the Comedy Mr. S 4 Nosolio perforMed.the . par; of Ossaiiii:r with 'great' applause: Mortiii l er viia4 well -sustained by-Mr.. Woe osworrx ; andAlr: ! . PE Nie,x, as Samba, had his share of merit.---• Mr s! aCted the part of .Dorathy, and : Misi'" Gloonlyi . bi Miss . t. : 4'l-414D ; and Miss ,Ein4y, Miss BR AJ4w ELL. The'principal charaeters in the After. . piece .were : M.r EY, Mix. GORE, Mr. SF.A.Roox, Mr. - -Wottpswovrik; and the female Performers., Mrs. 6oRE, Mrs. Kr ys, Mrs. PlsrW EL L atid Mrs: 13R A IVI',,V ETIL The .8.6 AL :FAMIL Y were highly`entertained with the gerfo,unapce . . This mornirr-the KT NG before breakfast walke4 .on the Esplan4de; after which His MAJESTT saW the StalFordshireNrilitialiiount guard. " The‘RotA.L. 'FAmny at eleven o'clock attended Divine Service atVernouth Church, where an ex' cellent Sermon was preached by the. Rev. ;144 Of 'Stafford, from 'St, Paul's Episilc the .Ron3ans, Chap viii, v: 28. L We know that, Ali thylgs work together fcr good to them that lore God.' The QUEEI` F. pd, PAIpISESS . ES ..cetlq:llCvl to the Lqdge in thice carriages, ~HIS MAJESTY and Pitirrcp ADOLPHUS, with the Earl of Dolt CHESTER walked before. -dinneg about the town. About 7o acres of .open-field land in the neigh bourhood of Bury, the greater part.copyhold, aria over which theT9 is a right of sheep-shackage, were last week sold by public auction for the extraordi nary sum of 3,4201. thy-rental only 691. per ann. On Weanescl!ly last, during the-Abunder_storm, the house of Mr. Hill, at • Marksbury, near Ba t h s , Was struck .by lightning, arid'' in a-shbrf time 're.' ✓ (16c.,ed to ashes. Mrs, with her infant child, and licrsistet-in-law; werc : the only. person's in the house, and, alarmed .at the storm, had. bOlted the door's,_ an4..elosed the •,vindow-shutters, and'remov. ing as far as possible from the windows,,,gor near 'the - chimney, down which some stones shortly fell,. accompanied by sparks of fire, and a 'strong stilphtirous. smell. fhe. sister-in-lv,v, who stood with her back to the .fire..vcc - , wig struck dead, although thc only marks of injury that afterwards `appeared were some livid spots on the hack •of het neck and shoulders.' Mrs. Hill, who sat close by' . . her, ran with, her infant into an adjoining room and, 'fainted. The house became in a few minutes in v-olved iri fiathes, and although thefire . was imme diately discovered, yet so much time elapsed in forcing open-the doors, &c. that it was with extrens danger and difficulty that Mrs. Hill and her child ,could be extricated. • • . On Wednesday morning two Privates of the York. Hussars, were shot, on Bincomb-down, neat Weymouth, pursuant to, the sentence of a Conrt. Martial, fof desertion, and cutting a boat out of the harbour, with intent to go to France, but by mis take they landed at Guernsey, and were secured.—;. All - the Regiments, both in Camp and Barracks, were drawn up, viz. the Scotch Greys, the Rifle C-orps, theStifford, Berks, and North Devon. Mill. tja.. They came on the ground in a rnDurnink coach, attended, by two 'Priests : after marching along the 'front of' :'the line,, they returned to the centre; where they spent about twenty minutes IP prayer, and were shot at by a guard of twenty-four men; they dropped instantly, and expired without a groan. The men wheeled in seEtions, and.marck ed by the bodies in slow time.. , On Fridiiy morning, while some boys were bath ing near the Bridge, at Limehouse, a Jew broker stole their clothes, and was making off - with them: When he was deteded, and handed over to the boys for punishment, who ducked him nearly to drowning, when' they suffered him to-depart. Friday .last Mr. Alexander Gilbert, Steward to . _ the - 1330t0p of Winchester, stiot himself at Farnham, by • pA4ting the rtiuilelof a . gun , in . his mouth, and toucht)g the'trigger with •a , stick.—The• Jury sat on the body; - andieturned- a verdiCt of... Lunacy. 0 B v(