The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-09 00:00:00

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LONDON. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1847.

The Irish Members are pursuing the Fabian policy
in a very effectual manner. On Monday evening the
Member for Limerick contrived to waste the entire
evening by his amendment, thit the order for the day
for the second reading of the Bill for the prevention
of crime and outrage in Ireland should be postponed,
and the other orders of the day read. On Tuesday
the motion for a Committee to inquire into the means
by which the Act of Union was carried, the
effects of that measure, and the probable con-
sequences of the legislative union between both
countries, occupied the attention of the House
for the entire evening. Other questions will
have priority for this evening. Lord GEORGE
BENTINCE is entitled to precedence for his motion for
an inquiry into the present condition and prospects of
the East. and West Indian possessions and the Mau-
ritius, and if his Lordship should be disposed to
waive his claim, in consideration of the great impor-
tance of carrying the very moderate measure de
manded by the Irish Government, for the preserva-
tion of life and property in that unhappy land, we
can scarcely hope that the Member for Youghal,
whose monster motion for the production of
Papers stands next on the list, would ex-
ercise a similar forbearance. If, however, by any
possibility the Bill should come before the House,
we have then Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN'S amendment, on
Which, most probably, the same speakers will again
repeat the same matter which, on Monday, was
addressed to the House on Mr. J. O'CormEnn's
amendment, and the debate will be protracted for
many
ensuing evenings, so as to prevent the passing
of the Bin before the Christmas holidays, and thus
to defeat the intentions of the Ministry by with-
holding for a few weeks the additional powers de-
manded h
Excellencybyhopes Lord-Lieutenant,to be
by means of which
enabled to effect the tran-
quilli,zation-f the disturbd•
corapliratittthheeylrta:iihtsM
We cannot
Members on their
discretion in the course
may be conscientiously uppowi to Pursuing• They
in the slightest degree interfere wi
anything that will
Or interpose an obstacle in the way
of
the
_hetp:ople,
of the public peace, but they may be 4i
well atrsbers
that the present question is not merely whether treed
re
shall or shall not be a law savouring of coercion, but
as to the amount of restriction that shall be sanc-
tioned in such a law. There are very many mem.
bars who are disposed to censure the moderation
of the present Bill, and who would readily assent
to much more stringent enactments, if demanded
t. The most violent opponent of
by the Governmen
the Bill now before the House does not attempt to
deny that it Is a much slighter interference with the
• ilar cha-
liberty of the subject than any Bill of a similar
Th
ratter brought forward at any former period. e
' member for Tralee, on Tuesday, spoke of the coer-
e.iron Bills as becoming,
" Small by degrees, and beautifully less,'

till They were reduced almost to a nonentity," and
yet (at least within the last week), he resists it with
the . utmost energy, not merely by fair argument and
dis, lussion, which would be perfectly legitimate, but
by i 'uterposing delays, and converting the forms of ,