The Sun. — 1839-03-08 (London, England)

SHAW—A return made on the 17th Ae, 18:37. Again, looking at aoother return that Gras l with the e e u't, a great capw.mi eur,:amptnrd: tbel r en,oe r, fn of cot explanationt olfhdBmeli3mBpJa3i diminution. trnaiodnontdafh; ogaeargailciivaBtorii it3teimhelStiee.: n—terrir pirbtaestetsptirilwel cor:ofsw(sm:lflit without ejleorsss;rm, ith the Da;me a )parent diminution of crime ; in fact, not one of the pa Hers but contained the same defect—not one of them c one word in explanation, according to the note of Colonel Shaw Kennedy—not one of them stated that June, 1836, was the last month of the old system.—(Hear, hear.) If tue Noble Lord would allow him to take the returns in the same manner as they were made up for 1835, he Would prove to the House that there bad not been the slightest diminution of crime in Ireland. He would take the returns for eighteen months, and compare the averages they gave. The result of the first six months of 1836 was an average of 843 offences ; the second period, the first six months of 1837, gave an average of 904 ; the third period, which was only the last five months of 1837, the average had risen to 1,980.--(Hear, hear, hear.) Again, the returns of the rewards offered by the Lord Lieutenant for murder and aggravated offences was 519, and it vas a remarkable fact that out of the whole only the odd 19 had been claimed.—(Cheers.) The sum offered was 24,8341, while sums claimed as rewards amounted to only 1,0001. With respect to 1838 there was no complete returns, and of course for that. year he could only speak from general information, and such information as he had been able to col.,eet, but certainly that information was sufficient to satisfy his own mind, and if the house would allow him to trespass for a short period on their attention, he would also be able to convince them. lie would show at all events that there had been no diminution of Frimeeither as against the person or property. He had information of not less than 114 murder:, with the description and particulars of each, committed in Ireland in 1838, and if be was to conjecture he should say that he had not received an account of half that had taken place.__ ( Hear, hear.) In Tipperary he had been able to collect from scattered information that in the North Riding alone of that county (about half the county) in 1838 there were no less than 265 aggravated outrages. In four months in both Ridings there were committed 161 aggravated outrages, besides that, there were n less than 20 murders occurred in Tipperary within the la 4 six months, and 27 attempts to commit murder in the same period. From the special commission it appeared there were 13 murders and 3 premeditated attempts at murder. In the first nine months of 1838 there were no less than 178 persons committed to prison charged with homicide in that county, and in West. ineAth from 28th November last to '2d February, ther, were no less than 5 murders and attempts to murder, The Tho Hon. and Learned Gentleman then proceeded 't o road several letters he had received from Magistrates showing the state of crime in that county. in ' ford (as we uiderstood), the committals in 1830 -.negrn-434 ; in 1839 they were 1,136. In 1834 only one murder or manslaughter in that county 1839, at the Spring Assizes, there abuset h e Lord ~e r ci werethat the other offences in proportion. ' Now regardl ii,d become to thehe pfarsohpieornt y LNoI toLorton,--it Nobleman id'n;