Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-04-06

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HsrAnu. Proprietor ylrT0HAt RSruaL'nAs'
HOW ENGLAND PROPOSES TO
PREsERvE PEACE IN IRELAND.
Some Of our readers may be curious to
know how England, which assumes to be
the most enlightened ana liberal Govern.
ment on earth, proposes to preserve the
peace In Ireland. We give below the mate
rial parts Of a bill recently introduced In the
House Of Commons by Mr.. Forteseue, on
behalf of the Government, to- effect the OBJ
jcct In view. The Intelligent reader, after
studying the measures proposed In the bill,
can come to no other conclusion than that
England, so far as tho acts Of Governments
is concerned, has refrigerated at least one
hundred years. Il Is here proposed to es-
tablsh one Of the very worst systems Of ter
rursm; to let loose upon Ireland herd Of
spies and detectives, with all their corrupt
log influences, aud to put not only the free
dom Of the press but the lives and liberties
Of the people at their mercy. England pro-
poses Ia those measures to abandon justice
and generosity and to govern a bravo and
submissive people, smartlng under long
endured injustice, BY force alone. 1t is
almost impossible TO conceive anything short
Of absolute despotlsm better calculated TO
arouse the indignation Of nu injured people,
to make enemies, or increase the violence Of
their opposition than the harsh and cruel
measures proposed in this bill.
The state Of disorder 10 Ireland is not IN.
like that which now exists 10 some Of the
Southern States, and which at times seems
to set all the wisdom Of Congress at defiance.
Compared with this bill Of Mr.. Fortcsquc,
however, the reconstruction measures OF
Congress afford the highest examples OF
justice and generosity. Had Mr.. Fortesque
gone step further and, like BombA, when
he turned all Naples into a prison-house,
proposed 10 lock up every man and woman
In Ireland that differed with him In opinion,
he would have invented something so ex-
qulsitely barbarous rs to tighten the load Of
odlum that hangs like dark cloud over the
political history Of Spain and Italy for q
hundred years. Unless we arc very much
mistaken, the attempt to enforce these
measures against ireland will give England
an amount Of trouble from Irlshmeu In this
country, such as she has never before ex.
perienced. "H $50
Let the reader carefully study this bill,
uMr. q. Forteueue rose TO AJAX for leave "a
bring in bill for more etfeetually preserving
the security Of life and property ~ lrslaad
He aAld the imperative necessity OF the meas
ure must be felt by all. The circumstanceI
under which he PrOposed this measure aros,
% SS' s ~ Sbisb was pSisIpsliy axTSFiSS
During the last year there had been an out
break Of that crime 10 Ireland which was far
ysaTI. 10 1s6o, there were Q light agrAFiAn muir.
deFa committed, according to the police re-
ports, and one other arose out Of = similar
at persons who providentiAlly escaped. The
serious fact was that there had been but two
soae In aT al ~ U.
was A. follows In 1861, l73; In 1865, 100, and
In 1859, 100, Of which ia were ia November
crimes were committed, aud IN February 2TI
II was some consolation to him thai he had
not such an awful catalogue Of crime as was
when he iuttoducOdA bin for the repression
"Ths crime with which he (Ir. Forto,eusl
Government felt that 1t wRa their Imperative
duty, after having done all they could with
press crime, 70 AJAX Parliament for further
powers, 1t was chiefly to cases OF lntimida.
tlon and terrorism that the provisions OF the
bill would be applicable, aud to the difficulty
Of obtaining Identification and conviction In
such cases. Referring to the spread OF Fe-
nianism he remarked that people were more
and more reluctant to give AsGistAnos to the
19tho5itts' stthST e dstsSt OF EsPreas oirsnesS
well organiEed for this duty, and consequently
0overnme Mt had added deteo tive department
which would, II needful, be greatly enlarged.
Ths Siil he wGa hoos S 70 i9[odgss would; It
mAchInAti0ns wherever they were to be found.
The bill would deal with the possession OF
possession OF 4 revolver must be under spe.
oiAl license, and the possession Of arms
without a license would subject the offender
TO two years with hard labor.
"Another power In tue bill was that TO be
giVen 70 tho conAtabulAry TO search for arms,
especially unlicensed arms. Power would be
given to magistrates to search for arms under
AwarrAnt that was to BIO in force for three
months, New powers would Alao be given
with reference tO.tho sending OF threatening
letters, II was proposed to give power to
search Tor documents IN order TO discover II
possible the sender Of a thFcatening letter
sale Of arms and AN muaition only 70 psTso nS
licensed to carry arms. With reference to
Pyidenee enlarged powers would be given to
obtain It, The last point had reference to
BAIL. Magistrates would have power either
TO refuse or accept bail according to their dis.
eretion. There were other provisions which
districts. but only 10 tSpss dIstrieis SpseisIiT
proclaimed BY the Lord Lieutenant. 10 The
ease Of midnight or armed meetlngS power
would be given to magistrates to impTiaOn all
parties who could not give a satisfaetory ae-
count OF themselves In connection with these
meetings. Another power TO be given TO mag
ers 10 give an account OF themselves, or faIi-
Ing to do 80 enthusiastically, to require them 70
IND bail II was also proposed TO give ann,
might deal with sueh oases SummsTIEY BY an
tmpEihonmsnt of mot more than SIX months or
70 aehd them for trial.
"Ahother point was that IN specially pro-
claimed Districts the Drown should have the
Of trying crime With more impNTtislity aud
free from undue tnhuenee, AT present there
was no TeAtriction on the sale Of gunpowdef
and AFmsi 10 was proposed to grant = license
70 sell arms and gunpo WIDER, and that retnFaA
should be made OF those to whom sales wore
sneeted; Il was also proposed to give grand
Jufies the power Of granting compensation In
sases Of serious injury OF murder The com.
pensAtion to the Individual or the family was
70 DO levied on stated area, The next pro.
vision was most Important one; ID referred
to the mode In which Govern ment proposed Ia
future TO deal with newspapers In Ireland
4 90, PTGPSsSd to stoP any Newspaper
tf9Hetnment, tyaS Proposed that the Lord
LieutenAnt should have the power by his war.
rant to seize the plAnt OF that office In which
the paper was published, aud also all copies OF
the paper wherever printed.
"ro prevent any excess ofpover, II was pro- |
posed 70 give a party who might consider him |
leli RggrieVed the right Of action against the
authority aeiElng hla paper, aud II the Jury
should md that the newsp npeF did not eontAln |
irresponsible matter they should infilct n fine
on the Grown commensurate to the wrong. |
These precautions he AppTehended would be |
anmeient TO prevent any extraordinary OF I'm |
Ss osTIsd on The Lev %oga PISs PTPpp0ISsd
Irish newspapers, provided they kept within
legal and loyal bounds, would be entirely un.
aneoted by The new provision 10 the bill
Government had RETAINED from asking for the
suspension of the habsas oOrpHI act hoping that
the meas ure they now submitted to tho House
would render such an extreme step unneceg- '
lary. Sir r. Heggate considered that life an
property must be made secure In Ireland 4
10 the power to Apprehend atFAnEeFa As
must be taken that tOuFist6 were moi MA cAFe
m UNPLEASANT dilemma God in