The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1866

MARKETS.--This Day.

MARK LANE.

The trade for wheat in the country markets held on
Saturday was very inactive. The sale of good and fine
dry samples, however, was steadily supported ; but damp
wheats sold at higher quotations. For barley the trade was
firm, at fully late rates. Other articles met a slow sale at
previous quotations.
On the Continent the wheat trade is quiet, and, in some
instances, prices aro rather drooping. Oats aro firm ; but
other articles are a slow sale. At New York the export de-
mand for wheat and flour is very limited.
Fresh up to our market, to-day, the arrivals of ;home-
grown wheat were very small. The condition of the pro-
duce was very bad ; consequently, the trade—notwith-
standing the short supply—was in a most inactive state.
The saleable parcels on the stands found buyers at quite
previous rates, and the least damp quality changed hands
in the courso of the day at about late prices, but the re-
znaiuing portion was very difficult of disposal, and remain
unsold at the close of business.

The supply of foreign wheat on sale was moderately
good. Dry parcels were in request, and sold at very full
priced. For other qualities thole was a fair average de-
mand, and the quotations ruled firm.
. _ .

Floating cargoes of grain wero in moderate demand, at
full currencies.

The supply of barley on sale was very moderate. The
trade for malting descriptions was very firm, and rather
higher prices were obtained. Grinding and distilling pro-
duce moved off steadily, at quite late rates.
The malt trade was decidedly firm, and last Monday's
currency was well supported.
The supply of beans on sale was but moderate. Most
descriptions commanded more attention, at full prices.
The market was but moderately supplied with oats.
The demand, however, ruled quiet, but without leading to
any quotable change in prices from Monday last.

have commanded but little attention, and the quotations
are almost nominal. Linseed cakes have changed hands
steadily at full quotations. Cottonseed cakes, however,
have met a slow sale.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

lIOUSE OF LORDS—SATunDAY Evnum,

The LORD CIIANCELLOR took his scat on the woolsack at
four o'clock.

There was a full attendance of peers, but no business
was transacted until 20 minutes to five o'clock.

SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CO4PUS ACT

IN IRELAND.

The Bill for the Suspension of the Habeas Corptis Act
in Ireland was brought up from the House of Common;
with the usual prayer for its assent by their lordships.
Earl RUSSELL, in moving that the bill be read a
first time, said that her Majesty's Government had not
adopted the extreme course involved in this bill without
due consideration of the circumstances which existed in
Ireland up to the present time. They had been compelled
to resort to the introduction of the bill solely by the ne-
cessity of the case. It had been discovered that a power-
ful
conspiracy had arisen in Ireland, the object of which
was to subvert the Government of this country in Ireland;
and the acts of the conspirators had been so notorious as to
show that they wanted to exhibit their strength and not
to seek concealment of their object. It was indispensably
necessary that immediate action should be taken by the
Government, and, accordingly, proceedings with which
their lordships were familiar had been adopted to suppress
the movement, but these had been ineffectual. Had it not
been for the civil war in America the present disturbed state
of Ireland would not have arisen. At the end of that war
a million of dollars were subscribed at ono time with the
view of invading Canada, and afterwards with the view
of invading Ireland. The object of this Fenian movement
was to take possession of property in Ireland, to upset
both Churches in that country ; it was, in fact, a
movement directed against vested rights and religion.
(Hear, hear.) Of course it was the object of the origi-
nators of this movement to procure as much support as
they could on behalf of their object, and for that purpose
they had established an organised system throughout Ire-
land and the United States, where a sympathy with the
movement was felt. All these facts had come to the know-
ledge of the Lord Lieutenant and the Executive, and at-
tempts had been made to arrest the progress of the nioveinent,
but it. had been ,found that these attempts had been inade-
quate. As a protif of the extent to which the movement
had extended, the noble lord referred to the attempts which
had been made to tamper with her Majesty's soldiers,
which, to their credit; had been unsuccessful.
Under these •circumstances, - there was no course
left open to the Government in order to prevent dis-
order, the devastation of property, and the other effects
that would follow on the progress of such a movement,
even if it were temporarily successful, but to adopt the
most stringent measures which had been sanctioned
by precedent in times of emergency. (Hear, hear.)
The emisssaries of the Fenians from America had been so
numerous that the Lord Lieutenant said he could not be
held responsible for the safety of Ireland without ho was
armed with the powers sought by the bill, and the Govern-
ment felt that the time had arrived when they could ask
the Legislature to give its assent to the bill, which un-
doubtedly was one of great power. If Government wore to
allow the proceedings to go on, and if they were to allow
the military measures b go on, Government would be in-
curring a very great responsibility in not asking for
power to put an end to such a state of things. Tho prin-
cipal emissaries in the Fenian conspiracy were men from
America to whose employment the termination of the
civil war had put an end. The suspension of the Habeas
Corpus Act would enable the Lord-Lieutenant to lay
his fingers on those men, and thus they would be
placed with those who had already had their trial by the
ordinary tribunals of the country. It might be said that
the Government was asking for this very stringent mea-
snre without having measures of a remedial nature to back
them up ; but he thought that in putting down this con-
spiracy the Government were taking the highest and best
remedial measures in their power. (Hear.) The object of
passing the bill, in fine, was to preserve the peace in Ire-
land, and to maintain the authority of the Queen in that
country. (Hear, hear.) He now moved that the bill be
read a first time.

The motion was then agreed to.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, the standing orders hav-
ing been suspended, put the second reading of the bill.
The Earl of DERBY said he did not rise for the pur-
pose of offering any opposition to the motion, because he
supposed that the state of matters in Ireland had altered
very materially since the opening of Parliament. He
should abstain from all lengthy remarks, but he could not
certainly coincide in the observation that the Fenian con-
spiracy was solely the result of the termination of
the civil war in America. The time might
come when further explanation might be called
for, but at the present time all that was to
be done was to assent to that measure which
nearly 370 members of the House of Commons had
approved. There had been an insignificant minority of
six in the other house, and he did hope that there would
not be even ono member in that house who would hesitate.
in the cause Of order,lut that the power would be given to
the Government which they by their bill now asked for.
The bill then passed through its other stages.
TELEGRAPH (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY moved and obtained
leave to bring in a bill giving the Lord-Lieutenant power
over tho telegraph lines in Ireland.
The house then adjourned during pleasure.

The Royal Assent was given to the bill at a quarter to
1 o'clock on Sunday morning.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-SATURDAY.

SUSPENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT IN
IRELAND.
(Continued from our First Edition of Saturday)

Mr. ROEBUCK wished to know what had induced the
hon. member for Birmingham to deliver the speech he
had just delivered himself of. Was it for the pur-
pose of smoothing or conciliating the present condition ?
—(hear, hear)—because if such had been his intention
he (Mr. Roebuck) must say he had missedhis mark. (Loud
cries of "Hear, hear.") The hon. member had taken the
opportunity to find fault with everything that had been
done for Ireland for the last twenty years, but
he did not agree with him in such a statement.
Every matter brought forward for the amelioration
of the condition of Ireland had always been most atten-
tively and carefully considered—(hear, hear)—but one
thing the hon.
.member for Birmingham had not done :
he had not in one instance placed his finger on one
thing that been done detrimental to Ireland—
(hear, hear)—neither had he made known in ono
particular what he considered ought to have been
done. (Hear, hear.) It was all very well to be an admir-
able declaimer, and to lament over the miseries of Ireland,
but he wanted to know what they were. (Hear, hear.)
One of her great grievances was the Irish Church—
(hear, hear)—but did they not think that the Church
of England was as great a grievance to the Roman.
Catholics. Ho thought the state of Ireland would
not be at all improved by the speech of the honourable
member for Birmingham, but quite the contrary.
Mr. HORSDIAN condemned the speech of the hon.
member above him (Mr. Bright), but it appeared to him
after the most minute attention that the hon. member had
forgotten to say whether ho disapproved of or agreed
with Fenianism. There was one thing of which ho felt
perfectly convinced—that the Fenians would place a high
value on the speech of the hon. member for Birmingham.
He could only imagine his motive for delivering it on the
present occasion was because ho had prepared it for the
motion of the hon. member opposite (The O'Donoghue)
on the Address, and had , then been precluded from
delivering himself of it, and therefore he was
unwilling that so much eloquence should be
lost. (Hear, hear.) The hon. member for Birmingham
seemed to him to bo

"One of thbse patriots of the world alone;
The friends of every country but their own."

He (Mr. Horsman) could not think the people of Ireland
would look upon the hon. member for Birmingham as a
benefactor in the past, or a safe guide for the future.

Mr. DILLON thanked the hon. member for Birmingham
for the speech he had just delivered, which he looked upon
as the truest, noblest, and most generous address it had
ever been his good fortune to hear. He was opposed to
the bill now sought by the Government.
Mr. J. S. MILL hoped the Government would use the
enormous powers given by the bill cautiously, and that
they would not go to sleep again for the next 15 years,
but that they would direct their energies to the improve-
ment of the condition of the country. _

After a few words from Mr. MooRE and Mr. CONOLLY,

Sir G. GREYsaid he co;;1::1;;;;t-say a more Fenian
speech than that delivered by the hon. member for Bir-
mingham he had never heard. (Hear, hear.) 110 con-
demned the Fenians in Ireland as a body of lawless ma-
rauders, banded together for the appropriation of property
of every kind. (Hear, bear, and No, no.) Hon. members
might say, " No, no," but he contended that life and pro-
perty were the chief objects of assault in Ireland. (Hear,
hear.) He denied that the Roman Catholic clergy were
to be looked upon, according to the member for
Sheffield, as the abetters of conspiracy ; lie emphatically
denied such an assertion ; on the contrary, he (SirG. Grey)
was of opinion that the peace of Ireland, up to the present
time, had probably been preserved by the Catholic clergy.
(Hoar, hear.)
The O'DONOUGHIJE thanked the hon. member for
Birmingham for his speech, and said if the tenour of it was
acted upon it would go far to put down Fenianism. (Hear,
hear.) He thought if the Government had determined to
thoroughly investigate into the matters that had brought
the Fenian movement and say so the greatest good would re-
sult. (Hear, hoar.) He could not agree in that which had been
said, viz., that robbery and murder were the great aim and
object cf the disaffected in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) Co-
ercion was not what was wanted in Ireland—(hear, hear)
—it would only create panic and intensify disaffection, and
produce exactly the opposite result that the Government
desired to bring about. Ono of the greatest triumphs for
Stephens would be tho action of the Government that day.
(Cries of "No, no.") He said "Yes, yes ;" and further that
when the news arrived in America they would come to the

conclusion that the matter was much more important than
it really was. They would say "We must subscribe, we
must get our ships ready, for the movement must be im-
portant when the Government of the Queen comes forward
in the British House of Commons and proposes to suspend
the Constitution. He could only.deeply regret that the
Government had been so precipitous as to introduce this
bill.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
time, he thought, had now arrived. when the house ought
to come to a decision on the bill now before it, but before
it did so he thought it was sight ho should refer
shortly to some of the' observations adddreised to
the house during the -debate. • With respect •to the
act referred to by the hon. member for Buckinghamshire as
being repealed just at the time it was wanted. Now that
act was passed for &different object to that which the hon.
member now states it would apply to. He (the Chancellor
of the Exchequer) did not think the Government would
have been justified in putting in action an act passed for
vagrants and vagabonds against those whom it was now
sought to restrain ; and with respect to the want of fore-
sight of which the Government had h.!en accused of in
that respect, it should be borne in mind that the bill for the
repeal of the act had been moved in the House of Lords by
the Earl of Donoughmore, a very distinguished member of
the party opposite. (Hear, hear.) With respect to tho
speech of the hon. member forßirmingham he could not but
say he had listened to it with feelings of pain and regret,
and he could not but think that on the present occasion it
was entirely out of place. (Hear, hear.) The re-
presentatives from Ireland have not protested
against the passing of the bill. He contended they
had the unanimous feeling of the house in their favour,
because the members for Tipperary and Tralee had not ex-
pressed their disapprobation of the bill because they ap-
proved of Fenianism, but because they thought it would
irritate rather than allay the present state of feeling, and
because they considered it unnecessary. The Government
had waited until the last moment before they took the step
they were now asking the house to assent to. They did not
propose the measure because there was a danger of the
separation of Ireland, because the loyalty of the majority
of Irishmen was too well known to the Sovereign who
now occupied the throne to give rise to such a sup-
position. (Hear, hear.) They brought in the bill to
act against those who had been misled. (Hear, hear.)
That was their duty of to-day, and to the duty
of the day let them for the present confine- thernselves.
(Hear, hear.) He felt that before the clock chimed again
(4 O'clock) the bill would have passed from that house to
another place for it to give its judgment, and such a pro-
ceeding would show that the House of Commons was equal
to the emergency, and was not slow to guard even mis-
guided people against themselves.
The SPEAKER then put the question that leave be
given to bring in the bill,
The "ayes" answered in a very numerous and emphatic
manner, but on the "noes" being called for The O'Donoghue
objected to the motion, and a division took place, when
there appeared—

For the introduction of the bill 364
Against it 6
Majority —3sB
The announcement of the numbers was received with
loud cheers.

The bill was then brought in and read a first time.
Sir a GREY moved the suspension of the standing
orders, when the bill was read a second time, committed,
and read a third time, and passed without further opposi-
tion.