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London, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1846.

The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack at
Five o'clock.
Various petitions having been presented,
Grienr rose to move that an humble address be pre-
sented to her Majesty, humbly to submit to her Majesty
that this House, in compliance with the recommendation in
her Majesty's most gracious speech from the Throne, has
taken into consideration the frequency with which the crime
of deliberate assassination has of late been committed in Ire-
land, and that we hope that the adoption of measures calcu-
lated to give increased security to life, and to bring to justice
the perpetrators of so dreadful a crime, may be the result of
our labeurs:; that we have also given our sanction to the
measures proposed to us for relieving the distress occasioned
in that part of the Usited Kingdom, by the loss of a large
part of the potato crop of last season ; that having thus
attended to what appear to be the most pressing exigencies
of the actual condition of Ireland, we think it right hum-
bly to represent to her Majesty that Parliament has re-
peatedly found it necessary to make provision, by temporary
measures, for difficulties with reference to that country, simi-
lar in character to those which have now demanded our at-
tention, grants having on various occasions been made for
tile relief of the Irish people from the apprehended miseries
of famine ; the Executive Government in Ireland having
Also from time to time been armed with extraordinary
powers for the repression of crimes • that we observe with
deep zoncern that the necessity which has now again arisen
for measures of this description, proves that their adoption
heretofore has failed in eradicating the evils against which
they were directed, and that the progress which might rea-
sonably have been hoped for has not Yet b4ratmade in re-
medying the social disorders of Ireland. we are im-
pressed with the conviction that, under these circumstances,
merely to grant pecuniary assistance for the relie
present
distress, and to pass severe laws for the detection and
istitnent of crimes, cannot be considered as fulfillgpi-
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ditties of the Imperial Parliament towards Ireland, but that
measures ought, without further delay, to be adopted for the
purpose of effecting a real and permanent improvement in
the condition of this part of her Majesty's dominions. That
to this end it shenld be the aim of her Majes Irish'
—.Merit and of Parliatnent, by giving to the people
confidence in the equal administration of justice, to
obtain their co-operation in the enforcement of
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law, and by remedying real grievances to allay
evirit of discontent to which the prevalence of outrages and of
vielence is to be traced : that without the co-operation of the
people, the enforcement of the law must ever be uncertain
and unsatisfactory,-and while the spirit of discontent con-
tinues to prevail, no systein of repression, however severe,
• C.an be expected to prevent its breaking out from time to
time in acts of outrage; that a change in the temper and
disposition of the people, brought about by an improvement
in the la" and -in the mode in which they are adminis
tered, is therefore required for the establishment, upon a
(solid foneidation, of the good order and security indispensably
necessary for the development of the industry of the nation,
and the improvement of its great natural resources, whereby
alone the periodical recurrence of insubordination and dis-
tress, can effectually be guarded against : humbly therefore
to assure her Majesty, that we shall be ready to co-operate
with her Majesty in the adoption of measures having for
their object to allay the discontent and conciliate the affec-
tions of the Irish people, in the earnest hope that, by the
blessing of Divine Providence, peace and prosperity may
thus be established in Ireland." The Noble Earl then went
Into a detail of the evils under which Ireland suffered,
and attributed the greater part of tleoee evils to misgovernment.
The Noble Earl accounted for the failu of all past attempts
at conciliating the Irish people by the fact tha: they had no
confidence in the Gorerarheat, and that, cousequotip pr:.