The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-22 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The House sat this afternoon, shortly after Four
o'clock, for the purpose of giving the Royal Assent to
the following 70 public and private Bills:
Consolidated Fund.
Poor Removal.
Commons Inclosure.
Game Certificate for Killing Hares.
Certificate for Killing Hares (Scotland).
Imprisonment for Debt (Ireland).
County Cess (Ireland)
Appeal in Civil Cases (Dublin).
Truro Turnpike Roads.
Dundee and Perth Railway (Dundee Junction).
Drumpeller Railway.
Arbroath and Forfar Railway (Additional Capital).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Deviation, and
Abandonment of part of the Thirsk and Mahon Branch.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Branch from Melrnerby to
Northallerton, and Junction with the York and New-
castle Railway).
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Alteration of Level of Leeds
and Hartlepool Railway on Eaglescliffe, Stockton,
and Preston).
Manchester south Junction and Altrinclaam Railway.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (In-
crease of Capital—(No. 1).
Whitehaven Junction Railway.
Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Act Amendment.
Fast Lincolnshire Railway.
• Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (June-
tion with the .Midland; Railway, via Barnsley, and
Branches therefrom).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station
Approach at Manchester).
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway Amend-
ment (Extension to Pennistone and Alteration of Dod-
worth Branch).
ro-th Staffordshire Railway (Deviation at Wellington).
Aberdeen Railway (Additional Capital).
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Harrogate and Pate!ey
Branch).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Cross-
ing of Sheffield-street in Manchester).
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway (No. I—Amendment
of At is and Branches).
Leeds Central Baiway Station.
Scottish Midland Junction Railway (Amendment and
Branches to Birnam).
Caledonian Railway (Branches connecting the Clydes-
dale Junction and Wishaw and Coltness Railway).
Great Western Railway (Extension of the Barka and
Hants Railway from Hungerford to Westbury with
Branch to Devizes.)
indsor and Staines and South-Western Railway Act
(No. 1,:18 4 7—Deviation-O.
bliiiland Great Western Railway of Ire'aad"(Devia-
lions on the Line from Mullingar to Athlone).
13.11-01: and Exeter Railway (Branch from Bleadon to
Wilts, Glastonbury, and Street).
Glasgo w,I Paisley, and IG reenecki Railway (Amendment
' and Branches).
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway (Relinquishment
of L ne between Oma .h and Enniskillen).
Whitehaven Junction Railway (Extension, Alteration,
and Branches).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Great North
of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junction).
Bristol and Exeter Railway (Taunton and Castle Cary
Branch).
North Staffordshire Railway (Ashbourne Branch).
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (Revi-
sion of Maximum of Tolls).
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway, and Branches.
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (Ashton
Canal Purchase).
Salisbury and Yeovil Railway, Midland Railway
(Branch to Ripley).
London and So itt -Western Railway Company, and
Southampton and Dorchester Railway Company
Amalgamation.
London and Blackwall Railway (Improvements and
Branches to the St. Katherine and London Docks).
Chester and Holyhead Railway (Power to Purchase).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway.
Humber Ferries Improvement at Hull and New Holland.
Manchester, ShF Meld, and Lincolnshire Railway (Sta-
tion at Sheffield and Branches to Sheffield Canal).
• Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Shef-
field Canal Purchase).
Plymouth Great Western Dock Act Amendment.
Mersey Navigation (Amendment of Acts).
Dover Harbour.
Burntisland Harbour Improvement.
Hemadale, Little Ferry, and Leek Robio Harbour.
Chester Cemetery.
Manchester Water Works Amendment.
Leeds Improvi meat Act Amendment.
Patent Galvanized Iron Company.
Middle Level Drainage Act Amendment.
Lowe's Patent.
Scottish Provident Institution.
Dublin and Mullingar Turnpike Road.
Tadcaster and Halton Deal Road.
Philanthropic Society Charity Estate.
Esdaile Orphan Working School Charity.
Rawlin's Estate and Herrick's Estate.
The Lords Commissioners were the Earl of Shaftes-
bury, Lord Campbell, and Earl Granville.
At the conclusion of the Commission several Bills
were brought from the Commons, the Bills on the table
were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned
shortly before five o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair Five minutes after
Twelve o'clock.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed :
Exeter and Exmouth Railway Acts Amendment.
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Amendment of
Acts and Regulation of Capital).
LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The Lords' amendments to Payne's Patents (Improve-
ment in Preserving Vegetable Matters) Bill was con-
sidered and agreed to.
STATE OF IRELAND.
Lord J. RUSSELL rose and said—Mr. Speaker, I
never felt so deep a concern in bringing any question be-
fore this House as that which I now feel in proposing to
this House to suspend for a limited time the constitutional
liberties of Ireland. I feel, however, at the same time
that the measure I em about to propose is not only
necessary for the preservation of life and property in
Ireland'—it is necessary for the purpose of prevent-
, ing bloodshed—but it is necessary to put a stop to in-
• cipient insurrection, and is eminently called for to secure
the safety of the British empire.—(Elear, and cheers.)
It is from such a conviction in my own mind that I pro-
pose to state to the House at once the grounds upon
which I rest the proposition I am now about to make.
It appears to me, Sir, that the measure I have to pro-
pose is absolutely necessary on these grounds. The
ono is, that the present state of Ireland is fraught
with evil—that it threatens danger—that we are on
the eve of an outbreak if not timely repressed.
The second is, that there are means sufficient to produce
great injury and great danger unless some measures are
adopted to prevent them. The third is, that the measure
which I shall have the honour to propose is that remedy
which appears most appropriate to the present cala-
mitous state of 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 on any grounds known solely to the
Government of this country, or upon information of a
doubtful or uncertain character, but I propose to
rest it upon facts patent, notorious, and flagrant.
After the passing of the Emancipation Act there were
various institutions established in Ireland under the di-
rection of Mr. O'Connell for the promotion of the repeal
of the legislative union, and this House is well aware
that while these associations were in progress—while at
the meetings of its members which took place for the
purpose of promoting repeal, where the most exciting
• language was used—language that hardly fell short of
sedition—there was on the part of the leader of that
- movement one settled conviction that no polical change
was worth one single drop of blood, and he held out to the
'4: multitude who followed him that it was by the force of
• great collections of people, expressing their views peace-
,.
ably and deterruindly, that their object of the repeal of
the union was to be attained.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, I
am not making any comment upon those movements ;
I am not arguing whether they were lawful—whether
they were wise—or whether they were just—l am
merely recalling to the recollection of Hon. Members
that which they have already known. Towards the
end of that course of action, and towards the close of the
life of Mr. O'Connell, there broke away from the Repeal
Association a new party, which took a course different
both in the object to be attained and the
means by which it was proposed to effect it.
The object that Mr. O'Connell and the Repeal Associa-
tion bad held out to the people of Ireland was, that the
Act of Union might be repealed—that a Parliament
might sit in Ireland consisting of Lords and Commons,
and that as the Parliament sat in Ireland from
1783 to 1800, so likewise by the repeal of the union an-
' other Parliament might be again summoned to sit in
Dublin. As I have said, this declared object of the Re-
peal Association was to be obtained by a peaceful move-
' rant, but although the second party held forth the
same object,and counselled similar measures for its attain-
ment, yet I think it is quite evident to any one who exa-
mints their tactics, their true object was the total
separation of Ireland from Englar.d.—(Hear, hear.)
They held forth, with certain lax conditions, that Ire-
land was to be totally separated from England, that the
councils of the Sovereign of this country were not at all
to affect the course of legislation or of administration in
to the separation of
that country; they pointed entirely
the two nations, and to the independence of Ireland un-
der some other form of government.—(Hear, hear.)
• Sir, whatever might be taught—whatever I might think,
as to one of the proposals for
da
isme repeal of tent he uniof the on, as
tending to lead to a mberm
epapire—that was a matter of reasoning and
airgument but the separation which the second party
contended for was obvious. It was clear and plain on
• the face of their movement, the object, and the means by
which they proposed to attain it. From the beginning
the means they suggested were distinguished by phy-
sical force as opposed to moral force. That is to say, by
the term physical force they intended no less' than a
rebellion against the Crown of these kingdoms, and
they bopell, by weans of that rebellion, if successful, to