The Sun. — 1847-12-17 (London, England)

CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the order of the day for the House resolving itself into Committee on this Bill. The commission of those crimes in Ireland which it was the object of this Bill to repress was too notorious to call upon him to go into any lengthened details. It was one feature of these crimes, that while the victim almost invariably fell, the murderer almost as invariably escaped with impunity. He should have felt it his duty to recite and describe those murders to which he had alluded, and to comment on them in the language they deserved, but these crimes were matters of public notoriety ; he should not, therefore further allude to the murder of Major Mahon and of other victims of these outrages, but should allude to other crimes of less magnitude, which, in conjunction with these murders, proved the existence of a conspiracy against human lifes against the existing state of society, against the rights of property, and of industry itself. In the month of November,l,33s crimes had been committed in Ireland against 1,035 committed in the preceding month. These crimes consisted principally in the sending of threatening letters and in robberies of arms. One of these cases took place in Cavan. Two small farmers, more industrious than their neighbours, had raised crops, and had each provided himself with a gun to defend himself from outrage. In one night the dwelling of each of these persons had been broken open, and their guns taken. In Monaghan a fishing company had been established. Their establishment was attacked and their property destroyed. In Limerick a man's horse had been destroyed because he had let out the horse to draw meal at a lower rate than these legislators chose to determine. This Bill was a Bill not for twhaesdheofennecset oafuthe industrious,r ichm an, butanodf poorenvoeroyne cld on ,object to it to see the rights of property and the rights did not desire riguanfindu man who industry destroyed. In a recent case Mr. Johnson, a most popular magistrate, had been fired at, because, as a magistrate, he personshad.b had fined nCeoduntyacrna eshot , forooon, fibr because cda uasttrespass.ei‘,hier. Barlow, and another at his had Georgerlen. fused to employ a man named Fegan. In Monaghan an attempt had been made to shoot two farmers, named Blane (father and son), because the son had presumed to discharge a servant-maid. These cases were sufficient to .5h iw the objects and extent of this dark and sanguinary conspiracy. Ile would now describe the character and provisions of the Bill which gave the Lord-Lieutenant power to adopt measures to put down crime and outrage in disturbed districts.—(The Noble Marquis then proceeded to de. cribe in detail the provisions of the Bill, with which the public are already acquainted.) In alluding to the provision rendering it a misdemeanour in persons refusing to join a hue and cry against persons who had committed outrages,- the Noble Marquis paid a high compliment to those among the peasantry who had nobly done their duty by opposing, and in many instances apprehending, Persons who had been guilty of outrage. In all these cases the parties so acting had been sought out and rewarded by the Lord Lieutenant. The desire of the Government In p_roposing this measure had been to .provide an effeaftal rktuedylor the deplorable state of things existing in Ireltuld but in •