The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-02-22 00:00:00

tilt, LIVERPOOL st ANDAttIY.

Unhappy nobleman! we could have told him all this
long ago; but no matter, let us ptoaed to the considera-
Lion of the noble lord's coercive remedies.

In the first place, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland is
authorised to proclaim certain districts as being in ft state
of disturbance, and to suspend the habeas corpus.
Secondly, under this proclamation and suspension, the
ordinary courts of justice are closed, the power of the
Magistrates interdicted,and military tribunals established,
who shall take cognizance of all offences. These tribu-
nals, if authorized by the Lord Lieutenant, shall have
the poWer of life and death.
Thirdly, it is declared felony for any person or persons
to be found from hoine, or Out of their houses, from sun-
set to sunrise, without legitimate cause. Thepunishment
for this contravention of the act will be transportation.
Fourthly, it is declared to be felony for any number of
persons to meet for any political purpose, to discuss any
matters relative to church or state without permission of
the Lord Lieutenant They must also give ten days' no-
tice to the Lord Lieutenant, apprising him of their inten-
tion, to meet on any public business whatever of a
political tendency.
Fifthly, perfect indemnity is given to the military tri-
bunals, in case of any ultie-riOr proceedings in courts of
law. No man apprehended on suspicion or otherwise is
to be imprisoned longer thaziAree months without being
brought to trial. Any charges brought against the or-
dinary courts-martial, if deemed worthy of investigation,
are to be submitted to highei military courts, and tried
according to the articles of war.
Sixthly. The courts-martial shall consist of not more
than nine, nor less than seven officers, none of whom
shall be under 21 years of. age, or who have not held , a
commission in the army for two years.
This is, as far as we could understand the noble earl; a
fair analysis of the ministerial plan for the suppression of
the disturbances in Ireland. But this has reference ex-
clusively, to the prOclaiMed districts.
In other parts of Ireland which may not require these
extreme measures, the law which expired during the
prosecution of Mr.- O'Connell is to be revived, and the
Lord Lieutenant is empowered to suppress all political
meetings of whatever kind, or under whatever guise, by
proclamation. The newspapers are next assailed. Any
pjournal circulating inflammatory reports, or seditious ap-
eals, in the proclaimed districts, the proprietors of which
will be subjected to 'a summary trial, required to plead
instantly to the indictment, and, if found guilty, sen-
tenced to a period of imprisonment not exceeding twelve
months. If they give up the authors of the obnoxious
addresses or advertisements, they are to be discharged
forthwith.

This, then, is Lord Grey's "healing measure." It is
an hundred times more arbitrary than the Code Rurale
of St. Domingo. It is a measure of such sweeping and
wholesale and unconstitutional severity, that the Tories
for the last twenty years would have been afraid to carry
it into execution. Had they done so, there would have
been an universal uproar of liberalism from one end of
the kingdom to the other. Far are we, however, from
denying that it is a measure of imperious necessity. The
demagogues must be put down with a strong arm. Ire-
land must be made to suffer for the conspiracies and atro-
cities of its priests and patriots. We pity the deluded
peasant, the dupe and the victim of O'Connell ; but the
laws must not only be enforced, but also respected.
One thing, however, the Government must be pre-
pared for, and we beg to call their special attention to it,
namely, the emigration of the Irish agitators to the En-
glish shores. Ministers must be prepared to meet this.
—Guardian and Public Ledger.

acting in his own wrong; and he would at last arrive at
the salutary tonvietion, that poor lawit. instead of oper-
ating as a tat upon land, are in truth a bounty upon its
cultivation.

" If," inquires Mr. O'Connell, " poor laws would ulti-
mately destroy the rich, then what would become of the
poor ?" But poor laWs would not ultimately destroy the
Mr, about Whose interests Mr. O'Connell is so sensitive :
they would give security and stability to the rich, by
placing rents upon a more certain basis. Even if they
did destroy the rich, how would that affect the poor ? Do
the poor of Ireland gain anything by the rich under the
present system ? Are they not ground to the earth by
the rich ? Are they not driven out to broWse upon the
roadsides like beasts by the rich? If all the rich men in
Ireland were in Davy Jones's locker, the poor would be
hone the worse, whatever better they Might be for it..
Mr. O'Connell's argument is not that poor laws wonld
absorb the substance of the country (which, of course,
they would not,) but that they would destroy a class.
Here we have the whole secret of his opposition. He
*ants to preserve the monopoly that has hitherto wrought
unprecedented miseries in the bulk of the population,
vvhde he claiins credit all the while for patriotic aspira-
tions and self-sacrificing ardour !--Atlas.