The Express.
London, England, 1849-02-07 00:00:00

h Ikea pwasdi Veda waadag, proofs whisk sew •
ef thoithiste eacy of that remedy
whisk par "flied to Ike ammo of Ireland, end of
the aeseeses efthe aressores adopted for the 'apprentices of
as histureselesary mrresnont which justified my noble
Skied la making that appeal to the hoses. (Hear, boar.)
111; I hate moll now to ante that say immediate insurrection
= adds et this moment, that parties are now in arms
their sovereign, that her Majesty's troops ate
hanasesdV:amethes sad counter-marches in the vain par-
sed of men who madly raise the standard of ineurrecdon
wily to fly is dismay at the very first sight o. danger.
(Hear, hear) These events have not taken place recently.
Ireland is not now in the state that she was in July led,
and the very success which has attended this measure prevents
my laying before the house those facts which wouA justify
the original appeal fur the suspension of the Habeas Owens
Act. But when I say this, particularly after what has takes
pleb withia the last few days, I must ask the house not to
forget what those eirounestsaces were. We have been told
indeed that the insurrection in Jaly last was a nook bear.
notion, and that the measures which were adopted by the
government for its suppreasi a have been mitered at as nano.
weary and uncalled fur. It may have been a mock haw-
seethe in one sense ; the poor misguided followers the
icon who headed the insurrection teal complain that they
were mocked with illusory hopes of setheas—(general chimer-
ir g)—bepee of encase whittle those who 'wird them to their
mad and vain a.tempts ought to have known were utterly
chimerical. But though sureness must have attended the can-
bleed efforts of all the loyal subjects of her Majesty and the
bless, and the c .nstabulary in swimming any insurrection,
yet we have to think of the horrors through which that
thantry might have been obliged to per, before that insur-
rection might have hem finally put as end to. (Cheers.)
Sir, it is our duty to take measures of precaution as well as
cure ; and I must observe that the reproach which attached
to the government In July last was, that they bad beset ,
ouratimamiudtardy,
amdrathie,:arn.heretdhanganiatehrzztlitetoeymahinthieetedad.
nimap"omthiginehoundenadn
uttontrainsnaaectiont
the
prism fse Whisk they asked. It is impossible that the
boss% or the sonistry, can have forgotten the eirennestarnme
which then @nista; end which it is annosseeary for me now
to detail. It is easy now to say that the insurreetice •
was contemptible because it feal.d. I feel I should'
be wasting the time of the house by reboring farther'
to the circumstances which then occurred ; but there are ono
or two documents to which I propose shortly to
allude in order to show the fallacy of the new
doctrine that that insurrectiee was no insurree-
don at all, that there was no danger to the
state implied, and that there war no necessity for the extra-
ordinary precautions taken by the government. I pass over
the evidence given at the recent trials at Clonmel. But
there is one document so remarkable that I think I may be
allowed briefly to allude to it, particularly as it has been the
subject of considerable discussion elsewhere. I allude to the
letter of Mr. M•Gee, who took an active part in those trans-
actions which otruved in Ireland. That letter appeared in
the New York Morning Herald of the date of the 12th of
October, If4B. He oonom, sees by stating that several gen-
tlemen of that city felt great interest in the recent occur-
rences in Ireland, and then goes on to say,
At any Una during the last el: mulls the townepeegie were, In
terms, ocureitted to attempt a
Iheibleeonizsision of the MU&
pram. This roma* et 500 than, in the
seal et shoat Kele mu tartnitie ailing ego Of these Ws OM belt
WWII min or less tomb be loin and the oder bed erre embeing
ones se hot se they owed where MIS sues 110 i Misery
memoir deer. I have knows tradressa to stint thane
eelvon et their dilly saris la ceder • gem. Zeit dub yes
divided Imo seethes of 10 as, the a sorer to seek meth% who
knew pere=msesh at his to new. And is M swore war
peers= thet Weesk the ohalsoe e st% do sot
sow neat Wiyitharia=. these esethwe ney ail exist. end tona
a swim el talon sisvolist, di& smut arl
be teethed is imbed.
I mere Wen d thin. bib ken Inindsjse of the system, sod from
the hit dna. tsar the Dimerming AM, II Meads et arms have not
yet bees espearail teem the metelenthen. • • • The
bled et midst the warhre a 'theft me ins, to drag these
eoneweratieet le Osseo as the Spank& parka did Napoleoe'e
semis el esimgatien. sith by bringing them into districts where
only latentry amid mot with emu. b pat them more= 'level with
the raw levies el the limb. The remelaiter et the course that
might be taken wield hti to burn the towns sad shies es the MU-
NE= did Athens awl the Reedeas dooms. This. I believe, would
bate hiss the result es the sews at the first royalist blood brag
draws in the nral diarists, whither thaw eaaalderadons and the
Reber Omar Sespewles Act had drives ow leaders. But the rural
ibitriele would sot seem without toes dorm and the clergy were
stewing edema er Weetive. It is not fah be assume that there was se
mesa depentfont screed as lamb the ondederates. There we
• habil sad messedweias piss. 'That it was, It la not advisable
br me wieldy to eßeide% I bed 'rather future smear
shodd publish it then L I hove no ehlesticia—en the contrary—to
=lt to any summing@ er elated the trim& of Ireland, but
it would own no mum moo to ens the seamy.
Now, sir, I most my, after a letter of this description,
coming from a man who took • most active part in those pro-
, reeding', I am astonished that any hon. gentleman should
get up in this house or elsewhere and assert that that insur-
es-oOn was a mock insurrection. I believe there can be no
real doubt upon the minds of the greatmejority at least of this
house bat that the eirentestanees of July hut frilly justified
the measures which her Majesty's government proposed to
parliament, and which the parliament almost unanimously
adopted. (Cheers.) Sir, the term for which those powers
were granted was neresearily a limited term, and limited to
a short duration. That has been the universal practice
epos every occasion on which, unfortunately, it has beenjoe-
wraary for parliament to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in
Wand. It was towards the close of last session that this
on weed, and for a period fixed with reference to the meet-
be el parliament, in order to carry the government through
the reuse, and to allow a margin for this discussion, so that
parliameat when it again met might decide whether the
powers it granted should expire or be continued. That
question we, in anticipation of the meeting of parliament,
have anxiously considered, and we have arrived at the con-
ignition which I have already intimated to the house. We
must view this question as I have said before, in a different
light from the original proposal to suspend the Habeas
Corpus Act, and we most remember that when the act was
agreed to in July last, it was to pot down an insurrection
which was actually existent and flagrant at the time ; and
in addition to that, to prevent the suppreeed, but not ex-
tiegaished spirit of insurrection, from reviving aad again bunt-
ing into a flame, while the recollection of these matters woe
fresh in the memory of the people. (Hear.) The real quie-
tism we have to ask is whether, looking at the recent occur-
rence of those events, looking at the spirit which I believe
still to exist where the insurrectionary feeling prevailed,
looking at that club conspiracy which Mr. hilliest smelts
still exists, with their members ready to form again under
the same system and to adopt the same means as bet summer
—whether, looking s.t all these things, the time has arrived
when it would be possible safely to remove the restraint
which this act imposes, and to run the risk of a repetition of
those occurrence which took place last year. I admit that
this must he in a gnat measure a matter of opinion. lam
not prepared to state that there is an insurrection at the
present moment imminent or flagrant. There is nothing of
that at present. The law has removed all that mistrust and
general terror and alarm which previously existed. Our
opinions, however, have been formed from information most
carefully collected—from such information as the lord-lieu-
tenant has founded his letter upon ; and though I am not
ablate quote extracts from the communications which have
been made to the lord-lieutenant, because they are not before
parliament, end are aseessarily of a confidential character ;
yet I can pledge enrol( to this, that the most anxious consi-
deration has been devoted to the subject by the lord-lieute-
tent and her Majesty's government, who have collected in-
formation from every available source, and have come to the
irresistible @exclusion not to shriek from recommending the
continuance of the wt. Upon this subject Lord Clarendon
writes :

The sorely sDaded b the sobromot et the law, sad the eel.
ifui OM IY proddre wort sob ha= solar thew whose
mord ldal tads eletsoies ressory, ban best
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Is rob Idlor ari shod are Stratal to a eon sonsotel
bre es dr Int boroliepwiNiNft; Nor la Urn wry lesson to
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It is lopossibie W pint tali renews af these
individual tdreasotaasse le whisk I have Ti bat all
the evidences whisk la beta ssibated tends fa tM MY
dhotis& All the evident. whisk has beau esthete& b
the Lad Lieutenant tends to enlist the 'pietas I have ex-
oiledWithin only these few bye there has appeared is
he DO:UR as ativerthement to this aka :
As •101110failla milt ow mthe bet Istonlay et
Mar* INS, The aretr wisi • WWI= et dr most
sprtrlitibb Ittsdiss. istraelot kits to. paps etre poorthed
PM% sod Mbelel to the yaws on dirks& Wady sissers
tran the Mg Ferrlo* b T.D. mho ; oat mar Is soort
et is Boos to by to le asolors. ose posy each.
Mb he lona or et Mart sad swirl lades*ix the rot.
diodes deo " poor obi asumay."
This walkers the *aim that those clubbists are warty to
est le Mr. Wties desstises gad I Wises there are
men ia this haws wile amid to to the truth of Lutt-
hruation which has yeas to the Lied Lisataaaat as to the
Iber of those clabbils f` .Dahlia who are ready to ap.
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