The Express. — 1852-06-19 (London, England)

HUN. MEMBER here moved that the house be counted, but more than forty members being present, Kr. SCULLY resumed, and on our return to the gallery was explaining the provisions of the bill, which he said would apply even to election addresses ; and would enable the Lard-Lieutenant to burden any district momenta. rily excited by electioneering with the heavy charge of police. Local magistrates might send up to Dublin a highly-co• loured account of an exceptional outrage; and then the district in which the offence was committed would he at the Lord-Lieutenant's mercy. This act must be tooted by the answer to this qua: ion; what would Englishmen say were such an act applicable to England ? It had been arid that the principle of taxing the hundred for the crimes committed within it was an old Saxon law; but that was totally untrue ; for that law was a Norman inventica, to punish the Saxons then kept down (as Irishmen were now kept down), and who were guilty of assassinating Normans wherever they could do so secretly. Such a law was arbitrary and unjust, and was totally opposed to the eonetitution of England. It was clear that'll these coercive acts wore failures even as acts of police. They foiled because they were unaccompanied by those remedial measures which would go to the root of the state of society whence these crimes proceeded as inevitably as effect followed cause. And was the last fortnight of the session the proper period for dealing with such a bill? It was • period at which Irish members were compelled to be absent ; and certainly its introduction just now looked like a settled and rather suspicious plan on the part of the government. The hon. gentleman concluded by moving that the bill be read a second time this day three months. Mr. LAWLESS congratulated Irish members on the government having thrown off the mask, and shown what their intentions were. The hon. gentleman expressed his belief that Lord Eglinton wished well to Ireland, but was controlled and thwarted, as Lord Anglcsea was, by the present Premier, then Secretary for Ireland, under Lord Grey. He believed the Ribbon Societies had done lees harm and caused fewer murder, than the Orange associations. (Oh, oh.) Let Ribbonism be pot down if they liked, bat put down also the Orange societies, which went through the country rousing the passions of the le. (Oh, ob.) He would uoommend the governtheir own sakes, and with • view to the approach'on, to give up this hill. Illr. WHITESIDE mid that the government felt it to be an imperative duty to propose the continuance of this bill till next year, or to the end of the next session of parliament, for the moons which had been stated at length by his right hon. friend the Attorney-General for Ireland. since his right hon. friend addressed the house a return, moved for by the hon. member for Louth, had been laid on the table, which showed the amount of crime which existed in Louth Monaghathand Armagh, from the year 1849 to 1852. No izipartial man could read this return without coming to the conclusion that the ordinary law was not sufficient to ape with offences of the character and description menlifted la it. No less than 136 gentlemen, belonging to *Ns three countries and of all politics, asked for additional 11181vires of protection beyond this bill. This bill did sr tubs away the trial by jury or any of the sanstitutional safeguards of the 'abject. All that It did was to protect life and property, Ow • conspiracy, the object of which was to take away harairDife in order to subvert law and order and governMist Ireland. (Hear) He could assure:the hon. and lemma yestismes that the present government was not the governsent of a clique or a party, but the government of a nation; and that they would treat all—whether protestant or Roman catholic, Orangeman or Ribbonman—with the eansejustice. (Cheers.) It was with thaaar—to Met the well disposed and to punish doe that the present measure was p would endeavour to give pros arr ;merles to 17=ab; which, as Lord Bacon said, the prosperity of that eserry could alone be secured. (Cheers.) Mr. FRENCH said, the evils in wells mai see be grappled with by that or any other bill. ll'llmereplep of Ireland did their duty in the matter, no cordon MR would be necessary Captain ao ix and Mr. F. SCULLY spoke egehol the bill. The house then divided: For the second reading Against it