The Sun. — 1846-02-19 (London, England)

LONDON, THURSDAY. Ifl RUARY 19, 1846  The Lords did not sit yesterday. The Commons assembled at Twelve.  Several railway and other private Bills were forwarded a stage, and various petitions presented. The report on the County Works Presentment (Ireland) Bill was agreed to. On the motion of Sir J. GRAHAM the third reading of the Drainage (Ireland) Bill was postponed to this day. Several returns were ordered, and the [louse adjourned at One o'clock.  We were enabled on Tuesday evening to publish, in a Third Edition, the important Bill introduced by the Earl of St. GERMANS on Monday, for the better protection of life and property in Ireland. It was looked to with great interest as well as anxiety by the inhabitants generally, but more especially those of the south ; for, being well aware of the severity of Tory Governments in former days, they feared that the same system might still be pursued, and that the innocent might be subjected to deprivations and hardships which could be of little service in brieging the guilty to punishment. The Bill, however, will speedily remove these apprehensions, for, taking it altogether, we cannot see how any measure, to be effectual, could be of a less severe character. It is entitled " An Act fur the,better protection of life, and to facilitate the appre • hension and detection of persous guilty of offences in Ireland," and though, like most other legal documents, it extends to a considerable length, embracing twenty-seven clauses, the substance of it may be briefly stated. It empowers the Lord Lieutenant, in case of murders or attempts at murder being committed in any county, or part of a county, to appoint additional magistrates and police forces in the disturbed district, to announce the fact by • proclamation, warn the inhabitants in the districts specified to remain within their places of abode at all hours between sunset and sunrise till the proclamatlonisr offenders, to offer and pay rewards for the discovery of 1 tOlO pay by way of compensation such sums of money as 3 child, or other relation of reasonable to the wife, parent, or anyutrhe person,injured and wt :amt. shall have been murdered or permanently all the expenses incurred in consequence additional constabulary force, and the payment of rewards' and compensations, shall be at the charge of the disturbed disa-n districts. The latter clause is both politic and just, because it gives an interest to every householder possessing bereditaments in the district in the preservation of the peace and the maintenance of law, and will therefore induce all concerned to use their endeavours to restore the district to such a state of security as will warrant the rccal of the proclamation. This is an extraordinary power conferred by the Act. Both in this country and in Ireland, when any damage to property is caused by a lawless assemblage of people, the owners have a claim upon the hundred or county, but when it is caused by any individual or number of individuals that dces not come under the appellation of a lawless mob, there is no remedy but by the ordinary course of law. Two clauses, relative to the parties who will be• come liable to the rates, are of great importance, because they show that a share will fall upon the smallest tenants, and that they shall not have the power to deduct the amount rom the rent. Clause