The Express.
London, England, 1848-07-24 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF L()RDS.—SATuaDAT, JULY 22.
TM Loan Catsont.Lon took his seat at 4 o'elook.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
SECOND RE ADlNGS.—Marquis of Londondierrs's Estate (Na.
I sod 2); CromforeLbsidge and Manchester-road ; U.
THIRD READINGS.—London and Illackwall Railway (connecting •
and Edinburgh and Northern y (Roscobis, Kettybead,
and Gleneraig branches) ; Monkland land
akintilloch, liallochnoy,
and Stamannsn Railways (amaigamadon, or asle,or lease, and amend-
ment or repeal of ants) Bills.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
REPORT.—Egebange of Emlealastical Patronage between her
Majesty and the Earl of telemeter 8111.
ROYAL ASSENT.
The royal anent win Siren, by commission, to the follow•
sus bills. The commiastonen stele the Earls of Shaftesbury
and Lord Campbell:
Conoolidat Fund; aINOV ReninVni ; eninnt;la 1nd..1.1711; Gains
Certificate for liallWg Harm; Certificate (or Killing liana (Scotland) ;
Imprisonment for Debt (Inland); County Cers ( Ireland) • Appeal in
COSI Carr (Dublin); Truro Turnpike-roads ; Dundee and Perth Rail.
way (Dundee junction); Drumpellar Railway; AtbrOntl and Forfar
Railway (additional capital) ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway
(deviation and abandonment of part of thech Thr irsk and Ma
Gon
branch) ; Leticia and Think Hallway (bran fom Melmerby to
Northallertme, and junction with the York and Newcastle Railway) ;
Leeds and Think Railway (alteration of level of Leeds
tiend Hartlepool
Railway on Eastroliffe, Stockton, and Preston); ?dachester South
Junction and Altrincharn Railway; Oxford, Worm-ter, aud Wolver-
hampton Railway (toenail° of eapital—No.
sway Whltehen Junc
Railway ; Waterford and Kilkenny Ra Act Amendments
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lim' Railway (junction with the
Midland Hannay, vas
Barnsley', and bran(hes% therefrom) ; Illannhes-
ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (station approach at Man-
chester); South Yorknhire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway Amend-
ment (eatension to PC01141066 and alteration Wellington);dworth branch);
North Staffordshire Railway (deviation st Aberdeen
ItallwaySlitional capital); Leeds and Thlrsit Railway (Harrogate
and Pate branch); Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnakire Rail-
way (c nie of SheMeldonset in Mancluater); Estiesburgh and
Glasgow Railway
Una;N—me of acts and branshes) ; Lode
Central Railway Sta Scottish Midland Junction Railway (amend-
ment aod braaches to Be ; Caledonian Railway (branches con.
°ming the Clydesdale Junction and Wlshaw and Li' il)) ;
Great Western Railway (extension of the Serbs and Manta Railway
from Itungerforil to Westbury, with branch to Devises); Windsor and
Stators and South-Western Railway Act (No. I, VW —deviations);
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (deviationson the line from
Mullingar tn Athlone); Bristol and Exeter Railway (branch from
titration to Wilts, eitalitiinbury, and Street); Glasgow, ridgeS, lend
Greenock Railway (amendment and branches); Londonderry and
• Enniskillen Railway (reliimulahment of hoe between Omagh and
Enniskillen); Whitchasen Junction Railway (eatemion, alteration.
and branches); York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Great North
of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junction)) ; Bristol and Exeter
Railway (Taunton and Castle (hey branch); North Staffordshire nail-
vray (Ashbourne branch) ; (amigo's Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
Railway (revision of maximum of tolls); Exeter.
Yeovil, and Dor.
cheater Railway and branches; Manchester, Shettleld, and Lincoln-
shire Railway (Ashton canal purchase); salisbury and Yeovil Railway,
Midland Railway (branch to Ripley); london and South Wmtcrei
Railway Company, anti SOUtnloll4olllinti Dorchester Railway Conipsny
Amalgamation; London and litackwall Railway (improvements and
branches lathe St. Katharine and London dock') ; Chester an
al Holy-
head /Lailway (power to purchase); Manchester, Shetheld, n-
colnse Railway; I lumber Ferries Improvement at Ilall and New
Holland ; Manchester, ShOtteld, and Lincolnahirc Railway (station
at she Meld and branches to shettclil moil) ; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Railway (Sheffield canal purchase); Plymouth Great
Western Dock Act Amendment; Mersey N• vigation (amendment of
eta); Dover Harbour; Burntisland Harbour Improvement; Ili nun
ital.:, Little Ferry and Leek Solite Harbour ; Chests,. Cemetery; Man-
chester Water Vorks Amendment ; I Ards Improvm
amen
Actm
Aend-
ment ; Patent Galvaniacel Iron Company; Middle Level Manage Act
Amendment; Lowe's Patent; Sco.tiah Prorident Institution: Dublin
and Mullinsor Turnpike Road; Tadcaster and Halton Dad
Enid;
Philanthropic Hockey Marne Estate; Exclaile Orphan W beano;gCharity , East Lincolnshire Railway; and Rawlin's Estate and Her-
rick's Estate ; Bills.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COAIIONS.—SATURDAY, JULY 22.
The Britairas took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
TRIAD READINGS.—ExeuT and Exmouth Railway Acts Amend-
ment ; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (amendment of acts and
regulation of capitol); Bills.
LORDS' AMENDMENTS CONSIDERED.—Payne's Patents (fm-
provements in preserving vegetable matters) Bill.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
FIRST READING.—Runt Duties Bill.
ALL ITS STAGES.—Suspension of the habeas Corpus Act (Ireland)
Bill.
PETITIONS.--By sn LION. MEMBER, from Tyrone, praying for
laws against the licentious abuses of liberty perpetrated by o rtsin
parties in Ireland.—Mr. M.OIBSON, from the guardians of the Man-
chtster Union, against any superannuation allowance to poor-law

Ziiiteere.
(An outline of part of the following debate appeared in
the Erpreu of Saturday.]
SUSPENSION OF
(IRELAN HABE4S CORPUS ACT
D).
Lord J. RUSSELL rose, and amid the meet profound
attention proceeded to address the bowie as tolloweg
Speakes, I never felt so deep a concern in anybringir
question before this house as that which I now feel in pro-
poeing to the house to suspend for a limited time the consti-
tutional liberties of Irishmen. I feel, however, at the same
time, that the measure which I am shout to propoee is ne-
cessary for the preservation of life and property in Intend—
( hear, hear,)—that it is necessary for tee purpose of prevent-
ing bloodshed—(hear, hear)—that it is necessary to step in-
cipient insurreettos, and that it is eminently called for by
I regard to the 'safety of the British empire. (Loud cheers.)
With this conviction on my mind, therefore, and without
any further preface or apology, I propose to state to the
holm the grounds upon which I rest the proposition I am
now about to make. It appears to me, sir, that it is abso-
lutely necessary that I should prove three things as grounds
for the measure I shall propose. The first is, that the
present state of things in Ireland is fraught with evil, that
it threatens danger, and that, as a consequence of it, we are
on the eve of an outbreak it not prevented by measures
prompt, timely, and decisive. (Hear, hear.) The se-
cond is, that there are means at present in action
sufficient to produce great injury, great confusion, and great
danger, unless some measure be adopted to frustrate them.
Tne third is that the measure which I shall have the honour
to propose is, as it appears to me to be, the remedy most appro.-
priete tor the present calamitous state of affairs in Ireland.
With respect to the first of these propositions, with regard to
the present state of Ireland, I do not propose to rest my
case on any secret information, or grounds known only to the
government of this country or of Ireland, or on information
which may rest on the doubtful or uncertain evidence of
accomplices in the proposed rebellion. I propose to rest it
on facts patent, notorious, and glaring. (Hear, hear.) This
hhile," is aware that a good number of years ago, after the
paseieg of the Emancipation Act of 1829,thero were formed in
Ireland various associations succeeding one to another under
the direction of the late Mr. O'Connell, for the purpose of
carrying the proposition of a repeal of the legislative union.
The house is likewise well aware that, in theme ruiso.iations,
and at the meetings—mat numerously att- nded—which
took place for the porpoise of promoting that repeal, while
the most exciting Linguaee was used, while there was every
appearance that that language would lead to insurrection,
there was still on the part of the leader of the
movement a frequent and emphatic declaration that
no political gain was worth a eingle ilrop of blood—
. ht.:rel.—and that it was by the force of demonstration, by
the force of great collections of the people, by uniting all th
people of Ireland in one unanimous sentiment and feeling,
that the object of repeal was to be a complished. (Hear,
hear.) I sin not making any comments on those proceed.
ings so to wneth o• they were lawful or truly patriotic; I am
merely recording what the house kno s to be the fact.
(Hear, hear.) Towards the end of that course of action, as
it was likewise towards the end of the toe of Mr. O'Connell,
there broke away from the Repeal Association a new piety,
different both in its objects aad the means by which it pro-
posed to effect those objects. The object which Mr. O'Con-
nell and the Repeal Association had held out to the people of
Ireland was that the Act or Union might be repealed, the a
parliament might sit in Ireland, c ,neisting of Lords and Com-
mon., and the, as it parliament bed it in Ireland from
1784
to 1800, so lila.wiee by a repeal et the ueieu finale r do.
in, slit parliament might be revived, which would legielste
for that country. As I said before, Mr. O'Connell always
declared that this object was to be effected by peaceful means
on.y. The new confederate's, or by whatever names they
might be called, held forth as their object, et first somewhat
covertly and ambiguously, but more openly as they pro-
ceeded, and as I think quite evidently to any one who had
examined their language from the beginning, the total s's
paration of Ireland from the dominion' of the Mated
Kingdom. (Hear, hear.) They held forh with certain
lax conditions of allegiance to the irivereiga of this country '
that Ireland was to be tota:ly independent,and that no coun-
cils of the sovereign of this country wen- at all to affect the
course of Irish legislation or administration. They pointed
really—as I think—to the separation of the two nations,
and to the independ !nee of Ireland under some other form
of government. Now, whatever might he thought, and
whatever I, as an individual, might thiek of the proposal foe
a rep of the legislative union, as tending t a the element-
berment of the empire, yet that was a matter of ressoning,
of argument, and of proof ; but the separation which this
party contended for was obvious, and was on the tare of all
their speeches and proposals. (Hear, hear.) Likewise, as
the means by which they prope.eo to effect their object.
I These means were, from the liegiunier, tliettegui,,lted by the
appellation physical force," as opposed to " moral force,"
wt ich was the designation aseutned fur their mode of opera-
tions by the old repeelere; that is to say, by the term phy-
sical force, they intended no less than rebellion against the
crown of this kingdom—(hear, hear)—and they hoped by
means of that rebellion, if successful, to establish that sepa-
rate government which they sought. Sir, whatever might
be thought at other none of the thin disguises assumed as to
these ajects, or as to the want of power tocarry them into
effect, a pest change has been produced by events which
have taken place within the last two years. The mis-
fortune falling upon Ireland in the blight of the potato
crop, the want of food of millions of her people,
and the imperfection which naturally belongs to any plan for
supporting by artificial means those who had been deprived
of their subsistence, afforded to those who were looking for
the separation of Ireland from England a means of further-
ing their objects and of exciting the passions of the people
against this country. (Hear, hear.) But it is to be observed
that, as far se I know, they never did anything to assuage
this calamity. (Load misled " Hear, hear.") While eight
millions were lavishly poured into Ireland by votes of this
house, while about four-hundred thoneend pounds were con-
tributed by the voluntary assistance of these in this country
and in Scotland who could not bear to see their fellow.
subjects in ealeery—(heer,hear)—all that was contributed on
the part of this party was seditious harangue a inflammatory
appeals to the procris, and endeavours to misrepresent the
motives and the amount of the contributions of this country.
(Hear, hear.) But when Ireland was in some degree, and
but very slowly, recovering from that great calamity—while
the evils consequent on it, though still very severe, were
somewhat mitigated—there occurred an event in a neigh-
bouring country which has been productive of encourage-
ment to all who wish to overthrow institutions, to all who
wish to promote rebellion, to all who believe that the force
and authority of empire may be overthrown by revolt. I
allude to the events which took place in Yana in the
month of February of the present year. We cannot forget
that immediately en the thenrrence of that event a depute.