The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-26 00:00:00

IRISH COERCIVE BILL.

(From the Hereford Times.)
The Irish nation have defied the laws, or, rather, have
rendered them nugatory. The sanction of those laws must
be enforced, and, therefore, the Prime Minister of Great
Britain is about to place Ireland nut of th- pale of the
Constitution—to suspend the civil, and to subject her to
the military, law. This is a fearful and terrible ahem-
tive! Should not full and ample redress have preceded
this awful step ? or, at all events, should not redress and
the power of punishing the infringer of the law have been
collateral measures? But the Irish people must be in-
stantly forced to obey the law !—the man, whom years of
misery and degradation have driven to despair, rebels—in
a voice of out-breaking indignation he demands justice—
he is put off—told that he must he bound hand and foot
first, and then his oppressor will take his demand into
consideration ! Fie ! fie !

(From the Carlisle Journal.)
The Government plan for coercing Ireland has been
introduced into the House of Lords, and we can have little
hesitation in pronouncing it " bloody and brutal." It is
a Bill for suspending all law in Ireland, except the law of
the sword ; and the speed with which it is progressing
through the House of Lords, as compared with the pro-
gress of the Reform Bill, is tolerably indicative of the
temper and feelings of their Lordships. This is the only
business worth noting in the Peers. In the Commons
there has been an awkward indication on the score of
economy. A motion moved by Mr. Hume that sinecure
places in the army and navy are unnecessary, was opposed
by Ministers and rejected by the ll,)use. This looks ill.

(From the Cornwall Royal Gazette of Feb. 23.)
It must he admitted that nothing but a case of extreme
necessity could justify the severity of the measures pro•
posed by Government for restoring tranquility to the dis-
turbed districts of Ireland, but whoever has marked the
fearful progress of crime in that country for the last 12
months must readily allow that it affords an ample justifi-
cation to those rigid enactments. Every civil Government
is hound to preserve, at ail hazards, the lives and property
of its subjects. But will the measures of Government,
vigorous as they are, prevent the perpetration of crime?
'We fear the answer is too obvious—that they will not.
To some extent we have no doubt they will he efficacious,
but by no means to the total prevention of the atrocities
against which they are directed. They will, undoubtedly,
assert the supremacy of the law as the avenger of evil, but
will not extirpate the evil itself. Coercive measures do not
reach the springs of action. They attack abuses which
lie on the surface of society, but cannot check the work-
ings of its under-currents; they may subdue the evil, but
can accomplish no positive good. We hope, therefore,
that remedial means, framed in the most comprehensive
spirit of philanthropy, will speedily follow the adoption of
the harsher mode ; and that the resentments which may
be called up by the measures now under our notice may be
permanently allayed by the blessings resulting from more
generous leeislation, and an improved condition of society.
(Front the Inverness Courier.)
All the other proceedings of Parliament during the week
sink into insignificance, when compared with the expose
made by Lord Grey on Friday evening, relative to the dis-
turbed state of Ireland. The Government measure (which
was read a first time nous con. and was to be read a second
time on Monday) is one of terrible coercion—a total sus-
tension of thz fundamental laws of the Constitution. May
it not be apprehended, that the very extremity to which
the measure goes—particularly as Ireland is not in open
rebellion—will exasperate and not allay, and instead of
eradicating strike deeper the roots of disaffection? Addi-
tional strength might be added to the magisterial, con-
stabulary, and military force in Ireland, and a few dema-
gogues might be put down, without suspending the Con-
stitution and placing whole districts under the ban of
martial law and despotic power. At all events, we deeply
regret that Lord Althorp's Bill and the other remedial
measures proposed for Ireland should not have had time to
manifest their effects, before the last resource was adopted.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB, 23.

HILL V. THE MANCHESTER AND SALFORD WATER-WORKS

COMPANY.

This was an action on two bonds for 1001. each, given
by the defendants to the plaintiff in 1813. The defence
was that the bonds bad been obtained by fraud.
Before the establishment of the Manchester and Salford
Water-works Company, the plaintiff and others had
formed a company, called the Stone Pipe Company. The
project was unsuccessful, and the plaintiff and the other
proprietors then established the Manchester and Salford
Water-works Company. and got bonds and acceptance., to
the amount of 6,0001- for materials which were useless to
the company. T-e bonds in questio❑ had been given to
take up acceptances which it was said the plaintiff, and
those who acted with him, procured for useless materials
which had belonged to the Stone Pipe Company. A deed
had been executed purporting to ratify the bonds, and it
was attempted to be shown that the proceedings with re•
spect to the bonds and the dee 1, to which the company's
seal was affixed, were not authorized by the Act of Parlia-
ment. The evidence of what had taken place in reference
to the bonds and deed at certain meetings consisted of
entries in the company's books, and the question of fact at
lest was, whether or not the books contained correct
entries of the prt ceedings. The Jury being of opinion
that the entries were tree, a verdict was entved for the
plaintiff. A similar verdict was given in another action
at the suit of the same plaintiff, on two other bonds.