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

CRIMP; AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of L ANSDOWNE 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 f 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 life, against the existing state of society, against the rights of property, and of industry itself. In the month of November, 1,335 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 the defence of the rich man, but of every poor man who was honest and industrious, and no one could object pr operty and it who did not desire to see the rights of and the rights of industry destroyed. In a recent case Mr. Johnson, a most popular magistrate, had been fired at, because, as a magistrate, he had fined some persons for trespass. In King's County a shot had been fired at Mr. George Barlow, and another at his son, because he had refused to employ a man named i egan. In Monaghan an attempt had been made to shoot two farmers, named Blane (father and ion), because the son had presumed to discharge a servant-maid. These cases were sufficient to show the objects and a extent of this dark sanguinary conspiracy. He would now describe ud 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 describe in detail the provisions of the Bill, with which the public are already acquainted.) In alluding to the provision rendering it a misdemeanour iu 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 proposing this measure had been to provide an effectual remedy for the deplorable state of things existing in Ireland, but in