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London, England, 1848-04-11 00:00:00

MINT BILL.

On the order of the day being read for the House going
into Committee upon this Bill,
Mr. F. O'CONNOR rose to oppose the motion. The
present was a base, bloody, and brutal Bill; and he be-
lieved if time were allowed the table of the House would
be covered with petitions against the measure. He con•
sidered that the Bill was perfectly unnecessary; the
people were perfectly loyal. He had always avowed
himself in favour of an hereiitary monarchy ; but if this
Bill were passed he should immediately declare himself
in favour of a republic. Such being his opinion of the
Bill, he would give a most direct negative to going into
Committee on the Bill.

Mr. HORSMAN said that it appeared that there were
several opinions with respect to the Bill, and he thought
that it would be advisable for the House to come to a
decision at once with respect to the retention of the
words principally objected to. If the House declared
itself in favour of retaining the words, he should not
offer any further factious opposition to the Bill.
Mr. IlUalE wished to know whether Hon. Members
would be liable to come under the operation of the Act
in consequence of anything they might say in that
House. He also wished to know whether it was true, as
stated by a Noble Lord in another place, that the
meeting at Kennington-common was dispersed by a
single policeman. He considered that the Government
were to blame in not preventing the meeting taking
place, instead of allowing the people to meet and then
dispersing them.
SIBTLIORP tendered his best thanks to her
Majesty's Government, and more especially to her Ma
jesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, fur
the firmness he had displayed in bringing in this Bill,
and persevering in it, in spite of the factious opposition
made to it. He hoped that the Government would not
relax one word of it. Ho should have been happy to
have seen the Bill even ten times more stringent than
was. With respect to the question asked by the I
Member for Montrose, whether the Bill woualtdsahpopullyd
to Honourable Members, ho wished to say
that Hon. Member at any time bring
himselftwithin the
provisions of
somf tohvies Bill, he hteheshffouolnd. rise in
be forthwith
nhis place in the
committed to the Tower for the remainder of hie life.
t
AGLlONBYintAelmr.peratellanguage in ang deprecated the use of any warm and
anee. He did not think that discussing
heo a Bill of this import-
pinions expressed by
b
; he House.—(Hear, hear.) He had
ciliate any party. -n_t
the Hon. and Gallant Mem er were at all likely to
Bill the Bill,necessary
andl he shuflodrctehre-
tainly do so again, t favosuidreorifn
g the voted last nigh
d the motion for going into
Mr. GRATTAN oppose
protection of the peoplecon of this country.
Committee.
He did not see why, if the people of Ire-
land were in a state of commotion, a law of this sort
should be imposed upon the people of England. The
Government, by pouring in troops into Ireland, were
creating fears in the minds of the people that an insur-
rection was impending. He opposed the Bill because
he believed that it• would prove futile, and because
the ordinary law was sufficiently stringent to meet
the emergency for which the Government had brought
it forward. The Government were making war against
opinion ; but such a mode of procedure had never suc-
ceeded. Fox said, in speaking of a similar Bill, but
which lead not the words so much objected to in the pre-
sent measure, that if it were passed resistance would be
offered by the people as a matter of course.
Ho warned the Government that a sea was rising against
them in Ireland whose flood would exceed to this
country and destroy it. Nothing but a domestic Legis-
lature would promote the prosperity of Ireland.
Mr. REYNOLDS opposed the Bill. After the divi-
sion of last night, which showed that 453 Members sup-
ported the Bill, he had little hope of obtaining a modi-
ficetion of any of its objectionable provisions. He had
heard the speech of the Solicitor-General with great
pain. In the MO of Vcoonell gw.l his associges, an

appeal to the House of Lords, on the ground that the
lure that tried them tv3RPd. s-eyed ,cfpnrtinl, r7"-^4.
; but a CollYleLloll unuer thiti Bill would shus,
out such an appeal. After conviction there was no ap•
peel, and the person convicted would have, perhaps, to
spend years in a penal colony. The support of the Bill
by the Hen. and Learned Member for Youghal, whom
lie did not intend to lecture, reminded him of an anec-
dote of a person who spelt spirits with two
" r's," because is was twenty•five above proof.---
(Laughter) Under the present law of Ireland
all the ,nuces s 4 'ugh t to th.t pit, down by the Bill ~ker.4
punishable. W by, then, did they want to pu,,lsh those
guilty of them more severely, by transportation for life,
or not less than seven years? Why, even females might
be transported under its previsions. Ile hoped they
would show their gallantry, by leaving out the ladies at
all events. What were the grounds on which the Bill
was proposed? First, because Ireland was disturbed ;
and, secondly, because England was disturbed. Ile denied
that this was so. With the exception of the United
Irishman and the Nation, no violent language was used.
Nineteen-twentieths, or 99 out of 100, of the people of
Dublin condemned the wild and extravagant doctrines
promulgated
.by the violent demagogues in Dublin.
Cork was quiet, and so also was Limerick, Belfast, Water-
ford, Kilkenny, Cloi.mel, and the other large towns. Those
who said the city was disturbed libelled it. The Iloa•
and Gallant Member for Lincoln wished to promote the
cold water cure. Let him take care in promoting it he
did not get into hot water and be punished under
the provisions of the Bill. Since the union Ireland had
been retrograding hour by hour. During the famine
1,900,000 died of hunger and cold. And latterly A
man, who had been committed and sentenced for
sheep stealing, was acquitted because his distress was
great that his wife ate the limbs of her
dead child.—(Hear, hear.) If they adopted is
conciliatory policy, they might withdraw their
30,000 troops, and trust the protection of the
country to the people. He had hoped that the
Government would have postponed the Bill till after
Easter—(Laughter)—but as they did not he should
move an amendment as to the third clause. He had
supported the Government, and supported them when
no one else would have ventured to do so.--

(Laughter.) Well, his constituents, who numbered
10,000, had all a bad word tor them—(Laughter)—and
he stood up, when no Member would do, so, and de-
fended them. Ho would give them another trial
(Roars of laughter)—and he thought the best way he
could serve the country, was to absent himself
from public meetings.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.")
He was glad that the demonstration of the Hon. Member
(Mr. O'Conaor) had passed off quietly, and that he had
not been guilty of any violence.—(oh, oh.) He was
afraid he had offended the special constables—(Laughter)
—but he believed he was right in what he had said.
Mr. SADLEIR supported the Bill, because he consi-
dered it necessary to suppress the seditious proceedings
of the " juvenile' men who were now disturbing Ireland.
At the same time he thought it right to state to the House
and Government, that since the time of Cromwell and the
" Poyning's Act," this country had oppressed his
country. The greatest dissatisfaction and misery pre-
vailed, principally in consequence of absenteeism, from
the physical degradation of the people, and the obnox-
ious provisions of the Irish poor law. It was a great
error to suppose that domains of 60 miles, and electoral
divisions of 16, could prove otherwise than a delusion to
the poor, and be lookediupon as anything else than a hol-
low attempt to mock their distresses, and to confiscate
the labour and property of the industrious. Was the Noble
Lord aware of the elective franchise in Ireland?—(Ques-
tion, question.) He submitted he was in order in stat-
ing this, whilst discussing the necessity for such
measure as this. The Honourable Gentleman was pro-
ceeding to deal with the constituency of Tippe-
rary, which had been reduced, he said, to 434
when he was stopped by repeated calls of Question, and
resumed his seat.

-170-r-c1.17:-RTS-S- ELL said the Hon. Gentleman who had

just sat down had mistaken the nature of the motion before
the house—(Hear, hear)—as he would have had an
opportunity of making the speech at a later period; and
in making this statement he would simply submit
to his consideration, and to the consideration
of the House, whether if the Government should
feel disposed to bring forward a number of
measures with respect to Ireland, whether it would not
be quite impossible to do so—whether any particular
day could be devoted to them, if the time of the House
was occupied in the Nay it had been to-day?—(Hear.)
The Hon. Gentlemen had referred to a statement made
by him (Lord J. Russell) last night, which seemed S.O
have been very much misapprehended, and as it
was not unlikely that that misapprehension might
extend to Ireland, he wished to say a few words
in order to set the matter right. He seemed to
think that he (Lord John Russell) stated with
respect to the loss of life that had taken place,
in Ireland, that it was no part of the duty of the Go-
vernment to interfere for the purpose of saving loss of
life from the ravages of hunger and disease. What
he had stated was, that, generally speaking, iC
was not the business of the Government to
interfere, but from what had been done be,
thought he could hardly have been supposed
to state that such measures were unnecessary with
respect to the want of food in Ireland, beause last year
the Government recommended to Parliament, and O 1
tained power to feed 3,000,000 of people daily,
so little was the Government disposed to be indifferent
with respect to the suffering people of Ireland
(Hear, hear.) With regard to the poor-law,
had any been introduced during the present
year; the arrears of the sums required the consideration
of the Government, as no doubt cases might arise
in which it was quite impossible, from their
size, to supply the starving people with foods
and therefore not long since he sent a notice from the
Treasury stating, that if any persons were starving
inquiry was to be made whether the want of the neces-
sary funds was owing to the non-collection of the rates,
and the reports received were in many cases to the effea
that persons fully able to pay had been favoured by
the collectors, and that therefore the people
for whose support they were intended, had been left, in
consequence, to perish.—(Hear, hear.) Where there
were no means of relieving the distress, he directed that
application should ba made to the British Association
and to the Government, in order that the people might
be spared from starvation. He thought he had cleared
up this misapprebension.—(Hear, hear.) If such state-
ments were made in Ireland they would be both libellousand calumnious.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir BE LACY EVANS offered his hearty thanks to
the Government for the admirable arrangements which
they made yesterday. He was happy that no disturb-
ance had taken place, and his firm belief was that it
was prevented by th© course pursued by the Govern-
ment. It was to the Government alone that the
thanks of the people were due for rendering the
meeting of yesterday a contemptible meeting.
Mr. AIASTERMAN expressed his sincere thanks,
and that of the citizens of London to the Government,
for the prompt and effective course they pursued yester-
' day. It was alike honourable to themselves and the
people. _

- Sir G. GREY, before the House divided, felt bound
to say a few words in answer to the question put
to him by the Honourable Member for Montrose.
He had asked the Government, whether the
meeting on Kennington-common yesterday, had been
forcibly dispersed by the police. In answer to that
question, he had to state that the meeting
had not been forcibly dispersed by the police.
The Police Commissioner under the direction
of the Government had stated to the Honourable Gen-
tleman opposite (Mr. O'Connor), and the leaders of the
meeting, that it any attempt was made to have a pro-
cession, and it was persisted in, force would he
used to put it down.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
With respect to the statement of the Honourable
Member for Montrose that the preparations made
try the Government were useless and improper, be
could not admit that they were useless, because ho
believed that in consequence of the preparations that
had been made, the knowledge of them had struck
terror into the minds of persons who, but for them,
would have been disposed to have created disturbances.
—( Hear.) Nothing had been more meritorious than the
conduct of the well disposed part of the people of the
metropolis,and the spirit that animated them,was above all
inaise.—(llear, hear.) Ho had no doubt that it would
have its effect throughout the country.—(Hear.) Indeed
it had already had its effect according to the
information he had received that morning by
the electric telegraph. By. that means of com-
munication, ho had received intelligence, that
the occurrences in the metropolis yesterday, and their
peaceable termination, had beenreceived with great joy
in many of the large towns in the country.—(Hear.)
The Government had, he was happy to say, by the
blessing of Divine Providence, been enabled to dis-
charge their duties fearlessly, assisted, as they had bean,
by the cordial co-operation of the people.
After some observations from Mr. HustE and Mr. F.
O'CONNOR, the latter gave up his motion for pressing
the House to a division; but
Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD insisted upon the
House dividing.
Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, when there appeared—
For going into Committee .................. 321
Against it
................. 19
Majority for going into Committee —302
The House then went into Committee on the Bill, hfr.
BERNAL in the Chair.
The preamble was postponed, and the first clause
agreed to without any discussion.'
(LEFT SITTING.)

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EXPLOSION OF GAS IN A SHIP.—The Maria
Agnetha, a Danish vessel, had her decks blown up and
some beams broken on Friday, in consequence► of an ex-
plosion of gas. On© of the crew also was injured. She
was lying at Tyne Main, and had been coal-laden two
days. It seems the gas had accumulated in a part of the
vessel which had been boarded off, and into which a
candle had been incautiously introduced.—Gateshead
Observer.

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