The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-03-05 00:00:00

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154 1 , 1832

'HURGLARIEE AND ATTACKS ON HOUSES.
39 1831 ....
94 I 1832 ....

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BURNINGS.
31 1831
31 I 1832
CATTLE ROUGHING%

... 29

• ••• 77

13 1831 .••• 17
20 I 1832 •••• 31
SERIOUS ASSAULTS.
'45 I 1831 •••• 89
-,p4 1832
'ILi.EOAL NOTICES.
'49 1831 •••• 117
I
•••• 79. 1832 .... 197
INJURIES TO PROPERTY.
1829 '44 1831 .... -67
1830 '•••• 59 I 1832 .... 134
Thus it 'appeared that within the last three months of the last
year there had been an enormous increase of offences of an in-
surrectionary character, as compared with the corresponding
periods in the preceding
.years. He would now give them an
account of the manner in which other outrages had gone on
increasing. in different parts of the country. Here the -noble
lord proceeded to read a long series of letters. The first from
the county of Kilkenny dated the 21st of January, 1833, to this
effect We have to report that outrages last week were on the
increase, chiefly near Carlow. So well are the proceedings of the
Whitefeet' arranged, that at the very moment at which the po-
lice are ordered out, beacons are lighted as signals upon all the
hills. It is dangerous to leave a small post of police, lest it
should be overpowered ; and, therefore, the duty of the mem-
bers of it is now peculiarly heavy; they are obliged to-sleep by
day and to be out on 'duty all night." After reading a great va-
riety of letters, the'noble 'lord said that the house had already
been informed by his right hen. friend (Mr. Stanley), that the
number of rewards offered for the discovery of atrocious crimes
was 108, and that of this number ho more than two had been
paid. This might be owing to the disinclination of the parties
who knew the criminals to give information against them, for
he did not suppose—quite the contrary—that the people of Ire-
land had lost that horror which all men naturally feel at the
perpetration of enormous outrages. It Was a strong proof,
however, of the terrible situation in which the loyal and peace-
able portion of Irish Society were placed, when the parties
who had been attacked by the turbulent and disaffected had
a knowledge of their assailants, and yet durst not come-forward
to invoke the vengeance of the law against them. lie thought
that he had' now' said enough to prove that thestate of Ireland
was one which 'reqdired an immediate remedy to be applied to
it. He felt that blame might he imputect by some gentlelmen
to His Majesty's advisers because they had not attempted to
stop these outrages before, by the application of the extraor-
dinary meal:A-Which they Miw called for. His defence, however,
*as that His Majesty's ministers did not wish to exceed the or-
dinary powers of the law, if they could by any possibility avoid
it. As a proof of their disposition on that point, he would
merely mention that On their first acceptance of office they sent
a special comtnission into the county of Clare to put an end to
the disturbances which prevailed in it, and the object for which
that special commission was issued was, he was happy to state,
coMpleteirsuccessful. (Opposition cheers.) The second point
which it was necessary that he should.proVe before he could ex-
pect the house to give him the -xtraordinary power which he
now demanded Wits, that the ordinary law was, in its execution,
insufficient for the protection of person and property. He had
already stated one ground which he thought atlorded undenia-
ble proof that the ordinary law was not sufficient for the pur-
poses for which it was intended. He would now proceed to
state other grounds,—as forinstance;the intimidation of jurors
and the intimidation of witnesses,—which made it impossible
for the ordinary law to have any effect in the repression of
outrages. If he could prove that the system of acting upon the
fears of jurors existed in 'lreland, and that intimidation had
been exercised to a Certain extent upon the jurors of every
county in which these disturbanees had taken place, gentlemen
would have to diftieulty in conceiving how difficult it now was
to obtain jurors in criminal cases in that country. He would
briefly mention to the house what had happened to the jurors
who tried the Carrickshaugh case. He did not mean to say
whether that case was or was not a case of murder,—he should
merely allude to it in order to show that the persons who
served on that jury, and who were supposed to have given a ver-
diet of guilty, had some of them received threatening notices
that their houses should be burnt over their heads, whilst others
had been obliged to resort to Dublin and other large towns for
the protection of their own lives, and for the safety of their fa-
milies. His right hon. friend the Secretary for Ireland had
told them of the number of jurors who were summoned to try
one of 'the prosecutions instituted by the Crovrn, and of the very
'small portion of them who answered to their names. The dis-

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