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London, England, 1848-04-22 00:00:00

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(TIIIS DAY.;

HOUSE OF LORDS.

purpose of giving the
The House sat to-day shortly after two o'clock for the
Royal Assent to the Crown and
Government Security Bill, and various other Bills.
Among the Peers present we noticed the Lord Chan-
cellor, Lord Campbell, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord
Carew, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Marquis of
Clauricarde,

ROAL ASSENT.
At twenty minutes past two o'clock the Lord Chan-
cellor, Lord Campbell, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the
Marquis of Lansdowne, and the A.latquis of Clanri-
carde, took their seats as Lords Commissioners
below the Throne, and gave the Royal Assent to
the following Bills : The Exchequer Bills' Bill,
the Crown and Government Security Bill, the Mutiny
Bill, the Marine Mutiny Bill, the Borough Police
Superannuation Fund Bill, Public Works Completion
(Ireland) Bill. Leases of Mines (Ireland) Bill, and Ket-
tering Small Tenements Bill.
Their Lordships, after disposing of other business,
adjourned to Thursday, the 4th of May.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Two o'clock.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
Sir G. GREY moved that the House at its rising
adjourn until Monday, the let of May.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL did not wish to detain the
House, as it was about to adjourn for the holidays, but
he felt he should not discharge his duty if he did not
offer a few observations with respect to the state
of Ireland before the motion was agreed to.
He wished, in the first place, to express his
regret at a portion of the address of the
Noble Lord on Monday—(bear, hear)—he alluded
to the statement which he made at the close of his
speech, that whatever were his opinions with respect to
the repeal of the union, he was prepared to resist
any proposition of that kind by force. His
expression had been thus misinterpreted in Ireland,
whereas what he (Mr. J. O'Connell) understood him to say
was this, that if he were met by argument on the sub-
ject, he should be prepared to enter into a discussion of
the matter. but that if force were resorted to ha should
resist it by force. In his opinion, great injury could not
fail to result to all parties in Ireland, if any attempt
were made to carry the repeal of the union, or any other
political measure, by force of arms.—(Hear, hear.) If
the Irish people were insane enough to adopt violent
measures there would be one thing far more cruel and
disastrous than success—the placing of the city
in the hands of an armed, reckless, and un-
diciplined mob.—(Hear, hear.) Such a prcceeding
every lover of humanity must deplore. Still the state
of the country was far from satisfactory, and he could
not help stating that the Government had not introduced
those measures for the benefit of Ireland which, owing
to their conduct whilst in opposition, the people of that
country had a right to expect. They had expected a
poor-law suitable for the country, but their expectations
had net been realised; and the reclamation of waste
lands, with other important measures, had been aban-
doned; and the difficulties which the Government stated
they had to contend with were of their own creating.
The lion in their path was one of their own raising.
The wants of Ireland at this moment were rather more
of a material than political nature. The people of Ire-
land wanted more employment rather than the further
extension of the franchise.

The Usher of the Black Rod then appeared at the
bar, and summoned the House to the House of Peers,
to hear the Royal Assent given, by commission, to se-
veral Bills (for which see Lords' report).
The SPEAKER, accompanied by several Hon. Mem-
bers„ proceded to the House of Lords, and having
returned,

Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL proceeded to state that he
believed that, notwithstanding the violent language held
by some parties in Ireland towards this country, there
was still a considerable fund of good feeling towards this
country.
Sir G. GREY said the Hon. Gentleman had given a
right interpretation of the sentiments of his Noble
Friend.—(Hear, hear.) He was most anxious to argue
the matter in the House of Commons, and not to resort
to force, except force were ari aged against the Govern-
ment. After the recess, no doubt, measures would be
introduced by the Government which would give satis-
faction to every reasonable man in Ireland, as they
were calculated to remedy the substantial grievances of
that country.
Mr. C. ANSTEY deprecated the violent means which
were being taken by certain parties in Ireland, and con-
sidered that the violence which they were resorting to
would be tantamount to the abandonment of the repeal
cause.

Mr. F. O'CONNOR said the present excited and dis-
contented state of the people of Ireland was the conse-
quence of the education which they received from
O'Connell and their other leaders. And Lord Brougham
after the three glorious days in France, during the
former revolution, taught the people not to respect the
Crown ; for he said, in soliciting the sweet voices of the
electors of the West Riding, that if kings were arbitrary
towards their people that their heads would soon roll in
the gutters, for boys to play at ball with.—(Laughter.)
The people of this country were kept in the dark
with respect to the real condition of the people, in
proof of which he related the following story, which
he said a Noble Lord, formerly the Member for North
Staffordshire, could confirm. A gentleman called upon
him some years ago, and after sa)ing that ho was going
to Ireland as a " commissioner" for one of the news •
papers, solicited employment in a similar capacity for
the .N rthern Star. He declined to do so, on the ground
that as the letters would no doubt be correct, he could
copy them from the newspaper whose " commissioner"
he was. " Oh," said the gentleman, " they will not suit
your newspaper. I must give one version for the
paper for which I am specially going to Ireland,
and I could give you another."—(Loud laughter.)
He believed now that the Bill for securing the Crown
and Government had received the royal assent, that
the Government were traitors to the Crown for proposing
such a measure, and allowing it to go out to the world
that the monarchy was so weak as to require further
powers to support it.
The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY wished to
know when it was the intention of the Hon. Member to
bring in a Bill, leave for which he had some time since
obtained, upon the subject of the Chartist Land Company.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR said that it was his intention to
do so immediately after the Easter recess.