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      India. ] Bon Bombay Paper* To The 13th N...

      INDIA . ] Bon Bombay paper * to the 13 th nit ., report that an _klttemttempi had been made to attack Lucknow by a _Hsighbjfehbounng rajah , and a fight had taken place sear _ccnndcnnderapoie , in whicb the rajah waa defeated . The [ _iiixtfOixam ' _s country was still disturbed , the Nizam him * ¦ _Jjlfotdf occupying teata outside the walls 0 f Hyderabad . ¦ _iroofooSciade or Lahore there was n _» intelligen ce of mn _poi-aportance .

      FRANCE . Sol ifotwiihstanding the denunciations oF the _Dm-ra ihe Bhe Reform agitation continues to advance . Several oonrnonrnals express an opinion that an explosion is not ' (• _exy-exy distent , and the Psessi , a most zealous 'dynastijastic print / considers even that * the present state _ihfaBif affairs is as grave and extreme as matters were _ialSn lS 20 _*' It The election oi twelve candidates for the office of nmaymayor and adjoint of the second arrondisseeient of _EPariParis , which took place last week , has resulted in the ttriutriumph of the _op-josition candidates , to the total _ex--tlnstlnsion of the ministerial list .

      Tl The AatioMthia been prosecuted on threecharces ion ion two of whieh it was acquitted , but found guUtv ctmibn the third . The subject of this last was the reform I bacbanquet held at Orleans , and the offence charged was llibelibel against the person of the King . The sentence _iof iof the court was a fine of 6 . 000 francs and eight _izaoznonths' imprisonment . SPAIN . ! Narvaez is suspected by the Christino coterie of ma making secret conciliatory advances towards the Progre gresistas , in order that he may have a reserve to fall _baibtCa . upon when his present patrons , tbe immaculate da dame and Louis Philippe , dismiss him from their _seisemce , to make room for Munoz and Mon . The po pontics of this counby have become thoroughly devo : void of interest . PORTUGAL .

      Lisbon , Dae . 9 . The elections ( so called ) are over , the military fo force haa triumphed , and the national party will not hi have even one solitary depnty in the next Cortes . T The prominent features of the last struggle must now ix be commented npon , and the vis dhdita , by which tbe C Cabrals and court have achieved a seeming triumph , h hasyetto be explained . The capital , with the foreign d diplomatic body on tbe spot , scanning the acts ofthe g > government , could not well be made the theatre of c military outrage ; so here fraud had to supersede vio-I fence , and the disfranchisement of thousands of Lih beral electors on the one hand , and the intrusion on t the registry of a garrison of soldiery , and others bavx ing no votes in law , produced a result ; but even this

      f feat could he without difficulty achieved , nor would it I have been if a sort of ambulatory process had not 1 heen resorted to by which the military force settled : ihe question ( I speak from documents , and these of : an unquestionable nature ) . In the 16 th ( Lisbon ) _] Electoral _College , the _Merces _, the Cabrals . towards i theendof _tbepoll , werafar behindhand , therefore two ' . hundred and sixteen of the petty officers of the muni * t cipal guard and of the 2 nd battalion of volunteers -were marched in squads to the poll . Merces , therefore , returned Cabral members . In the twentieth -i *" strict , that of Lapa , things looked very blank , defeat seemed sure , when , hurrah ! to the rescue 1 the

      _iramp of many feet were heard , and up came an auxiliary detachment numbering two hundred and twelve , composed of a select party of the palace livery servants , the German Guard , and policemen- One more _instance : Sao Alameda . Here matters wore a sad aspect , when , lo ! the sudden apparition of the noncommissioned officers of the 10 th Regt ., the band , the drummers , titers , and all , changed mourning into mirth , and Cabral * was Ihe cry ;* and so on throughout some eighteen out ef the twenty-two Lisbon districts , and thefight was won . The same thing occurred at Cintra , the Windsor of Portugal , where the Queen hasher summer palace , and tbeforeign ministers their residences .

      Horrible outrages _werecommitted hy the troops at _Aldea Galiega . By such means the Cabralistas have triumphed . SWITZERLAND . Under date December 5 th , the correspondent of the Times says : — ' As the great Powers have resolved to take into their consideration the circumstances of the civil war , now happily at an end in ihi 3 country , a few incidents connected with it , which have come under tny knowledge , may , perhaps , _t" > interesting to you , as serving to illustrate its real character , and the moral influences nnder which those who fonght on the side of the Sonderbund were induced to act . I Save already informed you , fn a former letter , that

      { he priests in Lucerne had been actively engaged m denouncing from the pulpit the Federal cause , and assuring their ignorant and misguided hearerathat they had nothing to fear , as the Holy Virgin had declared tbat she wonld defend tbe city and paralyse the exertions of its besiegera . This is strictly true ; and the announcement was accepted to the letter by the people , to a much larger extent than you would _Idieve possible in an enlightened age like the present . Tet the priests themselves , who were foremost inl deceivins the people , were the first to acknowledge their mistake themselves whenjthe time of proof arrived . The worthy cur < j of the little village of Eliken , midway between Roth and Lucerne , on the Sundav previous to the siege , told his

      congregation not to be alarmed even if they sheuld see the enemy advancing to Iheir village , for that on arriving there heaven would pour down its wrath upon them and destroy them . Singular to relate , however , when three day 3 afterwards the Federal troops were actually on their march through Eliken to take possession of Lucerne , the worthy _^ cure came out _ to meet them , _bearing , not denunciations of Divine _T-enseanee , bnt a propitiatory oblation in the shape of fifty bottles of champagne which were cheerfully accepted . I heard of one man who , in the fervour of hia credulity , declared , in the presence of the gentleman who informed me , that _heso fully believed in the announcement of the " Virgin ' spromised interposition , that if ahe should fail of her promise he would never believe in anything again . More—I have seen some curious little bras 3 ama

      lets , with the effigy of the Virgin on one side and the Cross on the ether , which were Bold in great -numbers to the people as charms against all possible _injuries in battle . Those sold at seven and ten _mtzen [ about lOd . and lad . of our money ) were _efficacious against musket and carbine balls ! those at twenty bafzen ( about half-a-crown ) were proof against cannon shot also ! The _purchasera of these medals were also presented with a card , of which the following is a translation—if indeed I may be excused for profaning the honest EngUsh tongue with such blasphemy : — .-- ., « .. r OhMary!—conceived without sin—pray tor as who have" recourse to yon . Any one carrying a miraculous medal , who reciie 3 with piety the above invocation , becomes placed nnder the especial protection ofthe Mother of God . Tbis is a promise made hv Mary herself . '

      " I told you , in my first letterfrom Lucerne , tf the paor Yalaisians , who had been lured from their canton , and compelled te fight , and afterwards left to starve but for the merciful consideration of their captors , aided in the first instance by casual contrifautionsftom indinduals . Many of these ; men tried to escape some days before the siege , and being recaptured were severely punished . I was introduced toa eentleman , - acitizen of the town , who , having _vi-Jtasyhsm to three o f these _«* _W _""i _* _** pursued h y their tormentors , *** ithrust into the dungeon where Dr _Stemgerd had previously languished , and remained there three days , when , on -tte _entnmce ofthe Federal troops , he was released . Bras * D _** c . 7 . —The Diet met this morning at to The sittings

      , nine o ' clock , according appointment . ofthis body are held ia a large square room , bung withamber draperies ; there is nothing ornamental in the apartment except two _tmnwted columns surmountedTby helmefeand other martial _insignw . The President ' s chair is placed upon a sorti of dais , to _whfch three steps covered with green cloth lead . Tbe denutiesofthe twenty-two cantons sit m a sort tf _Bemi-circle , with tables before them covered with _ffreen cloth . They dt according to the rank of their cantons alternately right and left of the chair-Zarich being firat on the right , Lucerne first _onjthe left The President . M . Ochsenbein . » a fine looking mail , apparently somewhat turnedof forty . The vroces verbal ol the last day's sitting having wascaiiea

      been read and confirmed , the Cbanceuor UDonto read the note ofthe French government , _Spiedby M . _Boisle Comte ; there waa « me sunpressed _hughter when mention was _^ madeofthe _EwitbTwhich Franca _witoeased the commer . c ; - Z . m . t _nffhorf * ril war . ' and again when mention was Se rfSfSS-SE ! B 5 wrfl « f Warof the S _Ste of Vaud , whose duty it was to prepare - _areoly to this note , then , after afew tanta-M . _SSed tlte _anawer , which was rery lengthy ; we _£ _ffite > principal _pobta : - 'The object of the _S _^ _efflation' » _ys the Diet , ' was to put an _SStette _dvilwarin sWland , and effect £ _«* _SnSS oa _talweentheDiet and the Sonderbund . _EKionsop poses the existence of the . separate li _^^^ afte _eStence oftwo belligerent parfaes . SK 5 _SS ? ar _^ - ?» _^ announcing _thrt fc at an end for several _*^ '

      _j _^ KriMm been completely _awtihfaestoTe _^ n _^ d _^ eieaxe Federal army has been dismissed , and _agJ _^ W which are _stUloo foot have heen _^ , red J _* S _£ in thele _^ n states , which _^^ m _^ _SSt with the view ef maintaining order , and K _*»™* persons and property _ftotBthe _veogwncep f tte pa _^ thro of the ? "iderbund , irritated against those who _haveledt-ii a tofteirruin by fanaticismg an « - _^ o _- _^ _ffi _^ tocipleof the offered _^ mediation , that is to say , to treat on eqaal terms with the _£ _onderbund , wouiabeto compromise the integrity or Switzerland , whieh only -recognises _aoonfederaUon , * Diet , a federal directory , a federal epuncd of war . and which dechuea in Art . 8 . that in aU the at-

      India. ] Bon Bombay Paper* To The 13th N...

      _ftS _^ _fe _3 L tt t _° ? i _^ doea _« ot require a _dif _o-mWhJ 2 _S _? ld te x _* . _* * - the ' boniwhich w _£ r ?* « -: 5 » iffl n * tmn . which has known how to wM _^\ _iLp nce _* _ of , t 3 b ] ooi' that independence « _SH _^ the tre aties ef Vienna , in which France 2 ! SfB 4 T _?? S _$ ? Swiss Confederation en ? a _ _%£ & _$ _% W tb T _^^ 8 ° Ten » ment is pleased to remamfaithful . In a word , it would be to divide _^ A i _^? _* , nt 0 * , «» nfederationB , which would _K _^" _' - * _l , aakea . di 8 _tMbance ' _« the ba . S _^ _-S _* _?!? _¥ _" _?** ' _^ _wieeqaences of which « i » difficult to calculate . '

      After an animated discussion-, in which the utmost contempt was expressed towards the French goverament The ansjrer to the French note was _^ 4- _twelve and _. two Wf states voted for it . The Diet unanimously decided that pensions shall ba accorded to the widows and children of those who nave fallen in the service of the country . Complimentary addresses to the Diet from several towns m Germany wereread . and subscriptions from the same places wer « . received on behalf of the triends of those who fell fighting for its cause .

      ¦ _^ - _Stratford Canning arrived on the morning of the 7 th at Neufchatel , and immediately had an interview with M . de Sydow , the envoy of Prussia to the Confederation , and with General Pfuel , the governor of the principality . Sir S . Canning left the same evening for Berne , where he arrived on the nigbtof the 8 th . He had a conference with Mr Peel on the morning of the 9 th , and afterwards an _inter-Tnew with M- Ochsenbein , which continued to a late hour . The general assembly ofthe people of the canton of Zug adopted on the 5 th , re ; -notions similar to those adopted by the other cantons ef the _SoHderbund , renouncing tbe League , acknowledging the authority of the Diet , and appointing a provisional

      government . The provisional government of Lucerne bave issued a decree , ordering that the Jesuits , and the orders affiliated with them , particularly _theTJrsulines , and the Sisters of Providence at Lucerne and at _Sursee , are for ever banished from the canton . Those who are ateent sball never be admitted a _»* ain to cross the frontier , and those who are still within the territory shall quit it between this time and the 10 th , at the latest . The ancient funds of the Franciscans shall bo again administered as they were before the recall oi the Jesuits . In the Valais , the assembly ' of the people has actually taken place at Sion . Four thousand citizens were present . M . ( Maurice _Berman , one of the

      proscribed under the late regime , opened tbe proceedings . M . _Joris then proposed a series of resolutions . The following are the most important which the assembly adopted : —1 . The dissolution of the existing Grand Conncil and Conncil of State . 2 . The suppression of the _privileges ( immunities ) of the clergy . 3 . The incompatibility nf civil and ecclesiastical functions . 4 That the Grand Council shall be named in the course of December , and shall hold office for five years . 5 . The expulsion of the Jesuits . 6 . The expenses of the war to be borne by such religiouB corporations and other persons as voted for it , advised it , or preached in its favour . Letters from Milan of the 4 th say , that a great number of the chiefs of the Sonderbund had arrived in that city , whn had been well received by ths

      Austrians , but unfavourably by the Italians . Advices from-Berne to the 10 th , repoit that Sir Stratford Canning had anticipated the decision of Lord Palmerston asto the course to be pursued inthe actual situation < . f parties in the Confederation . The ambassador-extraordinary delivered his credentials at the interview which he had with Ochsenbein on the 9 th , but signified his intention to withhold any note cn the subject of tbe contemplated mediation , until he should _teceive further instructions from London . He is reported to have assured the president ofthe Diet that , in consenting to share in the proposed mediation , the more especial purpose of the British cabinet was to nrevent any encroachment on the independence ofthe Swiss nation by other powers , and not to interfere unnecessarily with the internal affairs of the Confederacv .

      On the llth the Swiss Diet held a sitting , at which , after a long discussion , it adopted a resolution to the effect that the canton of Neufchatel should pay as an indemnity to the other cantons for not haying sonplied its contingent of troops , the sum of 300 , 000 Swiss franci , the whole of which _willta applied tothe support of the widows and orphans of those who lost their lives in the war . The Federal council of war has published a report ofthe killed and wounded during the late war , from which it appears that the total numbers were , eightyeight killed , and three hundred aad eighty-five wounded , on the side of the Government . The loss on the side of the insurgents has not Iten ascertained , but is _suppeied to he three or four times greater . The estimate of the expenses of the war have now been given in . ' from which it appears that , including the charge of fifty thousand men for a month hence , the whole cost will be _atrrat seven millions French

      franca . There is a peat deal of talk abont important documents discovered at " -Yibonrg and at Lucerne , and which throw precious light on the proceedings and veritable views of the chiefs of the Sonderbund . These documents show , with the fullest evidence , that the existence of the league , attributed tothe fonnatien of the corps francs , preceded by more than two years the two fatal expeditions which took place against Lncerne , and that it had been even disapproved of in its origin by Bale Ville and Neufchatel . ITALY . Sicily is in full insurrection against the hated government of Naples . It is said that the people haTe proclaimed the Constitution of 1812 .

      The success obtained by the Swiss Diet ' s _torct-s would appear to have created a great sensation in Italy . On the Srd instant , when the news of the fall of Lucerne arrived , a grand demonstration took place at Rome . The people , whom a baiid of music preceded , proceeded to the Swiss Consul ' s residence , and cried , ' Viva the Swiss Confederation ! ' 'Viva the Italian Confederation ! ' 'Viva the capture of Lucerne ! ' Viva Pius IX . ! ' The people had first assembled on the Piazza dell Popolo , and crossed the most frequented thoroughfares of Rome , which were lighted np on the cccasion . The Saga ofthe Swiss Confederation , and the Italian tri-colour flag were displayed in great numbers . The accIamatioBS of joy for the capture of Lncerne were especially vociferated in front of the college ofthe Jesuits .

      Thb Comr-Ass Gracciou—The Name Of Lord B...

      Thb _Comr-ass Gracciou—The name of Lord Byron ' s celebrated favourite appears in the Paris papers , as about to enter once more into the bonds ef matrimony . Among the marriages published at the Maine of the first arrondissement of Paris is that of * M . _Hilaire Etienne Octave _Bouiil § , MarqniB de Boissy da Condrais , peer of France , and Chevalier of the Legion of Honour , widower , to Madame _Therese _Frangoise Olympie Gaspera Gamba , daughter of the Count _Ruggero Gamba _Griselli , and widow of _ConntGuiceioli : ' The Marquis de Boissy , like bis

      fair bride , has arrived at an age of decided maturity . He has teen for several years a widower , having been married in'the . first instance to Mademoiselle de Marnier de Folleville , who , we believe , was granddaughter and joint heiress of the millionaire Marquis d'Augre . By that marriage the marquis bad an only daughter , who was married in 1843 to the Prince de Leon , eldest son of the Dnke de Rohan . The Countess Gtriceioli therefore becomes not enly allied to someof tbe noblest families in France , but the wife of one of the wealthiest of the nobility in that conntry . . . __

      Thb Buck 3 Advebti 8 BB asd _Atlksbukt News , of DeclJtb , speaking of the minority who voted , against Coercion and for 'Repeal' thus writes : — _Feaigus is , withal , the most useful of the batch . He stand * up like a man and tells the truth . Friend and foe he powders into dust with the terrible weight ofhis sledgc-hamraertongue . Both thedead and the living are beyond the pale of his mercy . It is quite true that Mr Walter , of Printing-house square , tried , on Tuesday , to put him down with a little extempore thunder ; but he decidedly suffered for it , lost his temper , and retreated in shame and confusion . _Feaiguasmaehed him at a single blow .

      Mabtuhmwb .-At the meeting of the Working Man's Association for the promotion of nsefnl , ppji . tical , _sf-ricritural , and social knowledge , held at the Princess Royal , Circus-street , New-road , on Monday evening , 8 fr Corduroy inthechatr . It wri resolved , _« That the thanks of the members he given to Mr Stallwood for his kind donation of books , and that he be elected an honorary _membsr of the society . Aeon * side-able acquisition was made to the members , also to the volumes in _» he library . The meetinp take place every Monday evening . The NoaTHBRfl Stab and other papers are _provided for the ose of members , ai well as a useful and instructive library of books . Mr Guest ( the secretary ) attend on each night of meeting , to give information and enrol membera in 'Ihe National Co-Operative Benefit Society /

      Ths _EtXCiWC TsueBAPH . —There are now 2 , 000 miles of eleowic telegraph in operation , and the penny-a-liners arefearful thatthey will be superseded by the mechanical mode of sporting . Their fears are , however , groundless , for the electric telegraph cannot give very copious details , the reports furnished by its agency King naturally rather wiredrawn . — Sikgciak Discovsbt . —Workmen have been recently repairing the interior arches of Durham Cathedral . In the thick . : t ei the transept arches they have found a fire-place and chimney of large proportions . _ . Anolher agreeable occupation for seaside lodgers u in counting your lumps of sugar in the morning , and counting them again in the evening , to see how man theland _' ady haa helped herself to during the day . —Pwiuih ' s Pocket Booh .

      The limerick Chxonide states that a gentleman _, who was nnable to get writs served , dressed a bailiff in female attire and thus effected his object , for the seeming woman was admitted , though the bailiff in propria persona bad vainly demanded entrance .

      J Fmpijai Tjantamem*

      J _fmpijai tJantamem *

      Speech Of F. O'Cg^Nor, Esq., M.P., Again...

      SPEECH OF F . O'CG _^ NOR , ESQ ., M . P ., Against the second reading ol .. he Irish Coercion Biu ., on Thursday evening , December 9 . [ Press of matter excluded tbis spetch frem our last number . ] MrF . O ' Connor said , he would not follow the hon . member for Montrose iato tbe confessional , because , upon that point , the hon . gentleman had answered _himself , for he had remarked upon the facility with which absolution for these murders could be obtained , and in the very same breath had

      spoken of the high character of the Roman Catholic clergy . If one reason more than another could be shown for producing remedial measures contemporaneously with this proposed Coercion Bill , it was to be found in the statement of tbe hon . member for Montrose himself , when he said that at every great public meeting he had attended , the people of England , when the question was mooted , had always denounced the tyranny and oppression exercised by the government of this country over the Irish people . He ( Mr O'Connor ) would , however , turn from the remarks of the hon . member for Montrose to the

      bill , which he could now show even better grounds for opposing than he had done at first . The bill was a constructive Coercion Bill , and so it had been admitted to he hy the right honourable baronet himself , in answer to the right honourable gentleman , the member for Tamworth , whom the right honourable baronet had told that the bill embraced all the previous acts of coercion that could be put in operation at the will of the Lord-Lieutenant . . It was then that he ( Mr O'Connor ) recognised in this measure a great legal draw-net , and that its presumed mildness was nothing but a mockery , a delusion , and a snare . He rejoiced that he had not subjected himself to those taunts which

      had been levelled , and he thought unjustly , at other hon' ] members , who had given their support to tbe bill . He ( Mr O'Connor ) not wishing to disturb the unanimity of the Irish party , wbich was iudispensable for the redemption of his country , could , perhaps , make a better apology for those gentlemen than they could for themselves . His apology was this—that from , the tight hon . secretary ' s first description of the bill , and from-the fact thatthe hon . member for Limerick could not be supposed to possess that legal discernment which would lead him at once to the malignity of this bill , might be taken as an apology for his assent to the first reading ; while he ( Mr O'Connor ) had given it his most decided opposition

      in the outset , because , however mild it might be described by its parent , wait till an ingenious hired lawyer , making its severe construction his qualification for patronage , came to expound it ,. and then it wonld be discovered that it was a kind of telescopic measure , to be collapsed and expanded at the will of the Lord Lieutenant and his minions . ( Hear , hear . ) Yes ; it was a short knife in the bands of the Lord Lieutenant , with as many blades as were required for Irish persecution . ( Hear , hear . ) . It was a Christmas box for Ireland , the outside shell representing tbe sexagenarians ; and the inside , the children of sixteen , who were to scamper with even pace across the countiy after their famishing friends

      and relatives . ( Hear , hear . ) The right honourable baronet , the Secretary of State for the Home Department , had gained courage from the ferocity of party . The right hon . baronet , the member for Tarawortn _, asks one question , and receives an answer to his taste , t ! : at the hill in that instance can be made more stringent . Then comes the hon . member for Buckinghamshire , he asks another question , and the right hon . Home Secretary gives a solution . of one of his former declarations , wholly differing from his former statements , as it struck him ( Mr O'Connor ) and every other member who had spoken upon the question , and who were nevertheless allowed to remain in tbeir ignorance until the strength of party

      emboldeued the right hon . Secretary in his course of hardihood and presumption . The motto— ' Vires acquirit _eitnda , ' may be well applied to the bold dating of the right hon . gentleman , but he would remind him , that tbe course now being pursued by the British parliament would only strengthen Irish hostilityagainsteven theordinary law . There was no better way of answering a Whig government than from its own lips , and he could do so effectually on tbis occasion , but , unfortunately , was not prepared with the formal indictment ; for he had searched the library in vain for the 85 th volume of Hansard , conr taining the speeches of the noble lord opposite at the time the right hon . baronet , the member for

      Tamworth , introduced his Coercion Bill . However , he had a pretty good memory , and remembered perfectly well the substance of the speeches made hy the noble lord and right hon . gentlemen now in the government in opposing the introduction of that measure . The ground of opposition was , that remedial measures were not at the same time introduced—( hear , hear)—and hon . gentlemen now in the government declared then that nntil that was done they would resist the bill in every stage . And what was the state of Ireland at that time ? It was described hy the noble lord the member for Lynn as in a more riotous and disordered condition than it was represented tobe at the present time ; but still the crv

      was that the hill should not be passed until remedial measures were produced . And if he ( Mr O'Connor ) required further reason for opposing Ihe present bill , he should find it in the tactics tben pursued by the hon . member for Buckinghamshire and his party , but which would probably not be the same now as when the object was to turn out a government . He ( Mr O'Connor ) would ask the house where was the difference between the two cases , further than tbe difference of the "Whigs sitting here , and the Whigs sitting there , and where were the remedial measures now ? ( _Iletr , hear , from Sir W . Somerville . ) The right hon . secretary for Ireland cries hear , hear , 'but he ( MrO'Connor ) replied , 'where ,

      where . Was it in Pandora ' s box , and at the bottom ? ( Laughter . ) And would such - * an" announcement have reconciled that right hon . gentleman to the bill proposed last year by the right hon . member for Tamworth ? No , but unfortunately that right hon . secretary appeared . to forget that it was he himself who moved the amendment to the Arms' Bill oi the right hon . member for Tamworth , and not upon the ground that remedial measures were simultaneously proposed , but upon tbe grounds that remedial measures had not been enacted as a means of suppressing the cause of crime . ( Hear , and cheers , ) It was impossible , when a country was to be deprived

      of even the semblance of a constitution , that sucb a bill should pass this house without any attempt to suppress crime , by a redress of those grievances which led to it ; but the noble lord at the head of the government , when at this side of the house , went even farther than the right hon . secretary for Ireland ; he not only advocated remedial measures , hut he showed the house how , when the most stringent measures of coercion were required in 1833 , he and his party had made the remedial _measures precede coercion . And now what were his words ; they were , * That Lord Althorphad laid bills upon the table of that house for the amendment of Grand

      Jury laws , forthe abolition of Church Cess , for the extension , of Municipal Reform , and other salutary measures , eight days before the Coercion Bill was introduced . ' ( Hear , hear / and cheers . ) But that was not all , that was what had been done in 1833 , bnt what did the noble lord say in 1846 ; why , having discovered the deficiency of his reforms of 1833 , he opposed the hillof the right hon . member for Tamworth , because if bad not been preceded—mind , not accompanied but preceded—by _. a Tenant Right Bill , and extended municipal corporation reform , and an extension of the political franchise . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Now then , he would ask what bad become of those remedial measures , and if he

      was told that the circumstances of the present case were different , he would ask in what , except in the difference between the two sides of the house . ( Laughter . ) The right hon . baronet , the member for Tamworth , bad . told them not to parley with assassins—it was echoed from all sides of the housebut let them now see if they had not parleyed with assassins , when assassination was a Whig auxiliary . ( Hear , hear . ) And let him see whether qr no the present advocates of coercion could be i gnorant of the then state of Ireland . The noble lord , the member for Lynn , detailed the then state of Ireland thus ; he showed the house , that more crimes and of a more heinous and savage nature had been committed within a certain period , than had ever beeu

      committed in Ireland before , ( Hear , hear . ) He showed how a poor woman , one Mary ? ennelly _, had been shot . How another woman in the familyway had been shot . How the family of Mr Ryan had been fired at , while performing their religious duties , when the whole group might have been destroyed ! He showed the systematic resistance to all ordinary law , the destruction of social order , and the general reign ' of tenor , and yet you parleyed with the assassins for five whole months—your invariable answer being , where are your remedial measures , yonr tenant right , your extended municipal reform , and your extension of the political franchise . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) Now , he ( Mr O'Connor ) re-echoed the Whig cry , and asked where are your

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      remedies ? The hon . member _^ . Buckinghamshire had justified the tactics of his-party in opposing the nght hon . baronet , after a five months' parley , and he ( Mr O'Connor ) justified that policy upon the grounds that it was better to destroy tiie cause of disease , than to pick the pimple , _ajri irritate the sore . ( Hear , ; hear . ) He justified tbe course on these grounds , that when a party in opposition became , sufficiently strong to oust a ministry whose general policy was considered dangerous and obnoxious , that in bis ( Mr O'Connor ' s ) opinion , it mattered not the question upon which that ministry was defeated—it was the removal of the cause , and the cure of the disease may follow . ( Hear , hear . ) Up to this hour , where were the remedial measures that had been promised for Ireland ? The hon . member for Montrose had said

      that he would oppose the giving an equal title to the tenant and the landlord ; but the Landlord and Tenant Bill that he ( Mr O'Connor ) would support was one which confirmed the property of the landlord while it enforced the performance of hi ' s duties as a landlord . At the same time , he would make ejectment more easy than now . 'He would not only gfte an interest in the land to the landlords , but to those who cultivated it . He wished the house now to consider what had caused * the two last Coercion Bills for Ireland , and he could show that the conduct of the landlords and the

      Protestant clergy in tbat country had been the direct cause of the two measures of 1823 and 1833 . What produced the outrage and confiscationof property in 1823 ? Pour bad barvests had taken place ; the people were not able to pay war rents , and yet the landlords , accustomed to receive thera , would not abate one farthing so long as a particle of property remained to be distrained upon . At the same period , too , so dreadfully hostile were the Protestant clergy to the people of Ireland _. _' that when the war tithes could not be recovered by themselves , the parsons let the tithes to the proctors for three-fourths of their yalue , upon condition that they did not remit the other fourth _.

      ( Hear , hear . ) Now , let them analyse the course whicii led to the Coercion Bill of 1833 * , and which never had been developed to tbat house or to the country . It was this * , the hill of the right hon . member for the University of Cambridge , which repealed the Act of the Irish parliament passed in 1735 , began to be felt by the Irish landlords , whose grass lands were , by tbat measure of the right hoo . gentleman , brought to bear their just proportion of tithe , while , previously , all was paid by the miserable Catholic cottier . From _/ l 735 to 1830—nearly a century—the Irish Protestants , as landlords and captains of yeomanry corps , were the first to shoot every Catholic who resisted the payment of

      tithes , while , as _magistrates , jurors ; and grand jurors , they hung them , trans ; o : ' ed them , or . otherwise persecuted tliem . ( Hea _:-, ' ear . ) Then every village official was a staff officer , and every little Protestant Orangeman was constituted a judge and executioner . But as soon as ever the Protestant landlords were called upon to pay the ministers of their own church , that moment , . ike the volunteers of ' 82 , the Catholic soldiers were again enlisted to light the battle of the Protestant officers —( hear , hear , and cheers)—and so popular had these Protestants made the resistance to tithes , that Sir Edmund _Nagle , the Honourable Pierce Butler , and other Protestants , who were

      deprived of appointments by the minister , were returned to that house by the "ovular voice . . ( Hear , hear . ) And one remarkable feature of that agitation was , that at every anti-tithe meeting Protestant landlords and Protestant farmers claimed the honour of moving , seconding , and supporting the strongest resolutions for the . abolition of tithes . ( Hear , hear . ) And he ( Mr O'Connor ) , as a Protestant , was tried in 1832 for taking part in that agitation . Now , such were the causes which led to the Coercion Bills of 1823 and 1833 , while the cause of the present Coercion Bill would be found in the heartlessness of the landlords , who , having dabbled and speculated in railroads , and other gambling

      transactions , took vengeance upon their unfortunate tenantry for their own improvidence and misdeeds ; and they looked upon this constructive Coercion Bill , not as a measure for the protection of human life , but as a means of sacking tlieir estates , levelling the hovels of the Irish Catholics , and striking terror into the hearts , of the Irish people . But he defied them , as the love of country , of kind , and religion , would sustain them , even amid the gloom of famine , until the day of retribution arrived . ( Hear , hear , hear . ) This bill would have the effect of silencing the just complaint of the injured man , lest resistance to oppression might be construed into resistance against the law ; and thus the little of liberty that remained in Ireland would

      receive another stab irom its eld and implacable enemies , the Whigs . With respect to the present bill , he maintained , that it was at once folly and injustice towards the Irish landlords to give the Lord Lieutenant this shut-up knife , with as many blades in it as he chose to open , for he was certain that the Irish landlords would find in the end that tbey had been the greatest sufferers by it , and they , as well as the English landlords , would beled to exclaim , ' Why did we not look to remedial uieasures instead of having the agricultural labourers thrown upon us for their bread ? ' He referred to the case of the colliers

      in the north of England , whose disorders were wont to be only increased by extraordinary measures , but who bad become quiet and peaceable by a mild administration of the ordinary law . Now what was their case : —magistrates who were their masters , sat in judgment upon them , and so constant and irksome was the oppression of these coal kings , that the colliers—a kind of under-ground race , living in villages together—and finding the law an opp - ssor , instead of protector ; in former times tliey sought to avenge themselves by force , and so terrible was the recollection of their power , that the nuble lord , the member for Lynn , had told the house that the relaxation of the Bank

      Charter Act of 1844 was caused by a visit from Mr Pease , formerly a member of this house , to Lord Grey , and at wbich interview Mr Pease assured the noble lord that a stoppage of tbe collieries of Northumberland and Durham . occasioned by want of money , would drive the colliers of those counties into revolution . ( Hear , hear . ) But he ( Mr O'Connor ) begged to inform tbe house that reliance upon the ordinary law , and finding protection in the ordinary law , had seduced the colliers from riot to obedience to the law , and for this simple reason , because they had secured tbe professional services of an able solicitor , Mr Roberts _^ who taught tbem to Tespect tbe law , and rely upon the law , —and the

      result was , as he ( Mr O'Connor ) believed , that without a single exception , the judges of the land overruled the coercion and the tyranny of the master magistrates ; and to this gentleman ' s professional skill was due the merit of ha- * ng turned this riotous race into a peaceable , and orderly class . If , then , a system of relaxation and the habit of teaching the people to rely upon the ordinary law , had had that effect in England , why not tiy the _sarae thing in Ireland ? Itwas because tbey thought they were a strong government , and that they could do as

      they pleased with Ireland . The government had been asked in vain to produce tbeir remedial measures along with this measure of coercion . Their answer was , thatthey intended to bring forward a Landlord and Tenant bill , but there were such difficulties in the way that they must have more time to consider it . Well , suppose they had no Landlord and Tenant bill ready—had they no other bill ? Were they so incapable that they could do nothing for the Irish people but coerce them ? There was the hon . member for Rochdale ( Mr W . S . Crawford ) ai Irish landlord . He did net ask them for a

      Coercion Bill ; and , just as he believed the thirteen Irish members who bad voted against tbis bill to be better representatives of Ireland than the other ninety-two , so he believed the hon . memher for Rochdale to be a better representative of the Irish landlords than those whom the government were in the habit of listening to . It was a curious fact that when there was anything required to be done for England there was an easy way ofdoitigit ; but when anything was required for Ireland it was felt to be such a complicated question that it required _twenty-five years to look at the principle , and other twenty-five years to look at the details . He admitted that the present bill was mild in appearance ,

      but it was capable of being stretched to any purpose the Lord Lieutenant chose to apply it to . He asked again , where were their remedial measures ? Now he ( Mr O'Connor ) did not ask the . government to bring in their remedial measures first , he merely asked that they should proceed pari passu with their Coercion Bill . The reason why the government were so tardy in introducing remedial measures , was that they did not understand Ireland , and were afraid that by chance they might trench upon the rights of the landlord ; but he maintained that they could not by possibility do justice to Ireland without at the same time doing justice to the landlords . The government showed extreme sympathy with the Poles , and with tbe people of every nation on earth except the Irish ; but when the history of

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      their own ' day . and their own . rule came to le written ? 'it ; should be characteristically written in blood , for lUey had made a Golgotha of Ireland , and destroyed Us peace and prosperity . It-was strange that the law officers of the Crown were not present on that occasion to tell tliem whether or not this bill embraced all the previous Coercion Bills , as be ( Mr O'Connor ) asserted it did . ' With respect to the Catholic priesthood of Irelandt ' o whom allusion had so Oiten been made in the course of these debates—he as a Protestant begged to say , that he bad had more intercourse with

      them than any Catholic in Ireland ( laughter ); and for this reason , that the Catholics had intercourse only with the priests of their immediate neighbourhood , while he had mixed with them in all parts of Ireland ; and he defied hon . members to point out to hira a more pious , forgiving , humane , religious , or excellent body of men . In fact , the fault he had to find with them was , that tbey were too subservient to the landlords in their neighbourhood . Whenever they happened to be anything good at all they held them up to the admiration of their flock ; but be did uot believe tbat they denounced them from _thealtaT .

      If the conduct of thc landlords merited denunciation , it was sure to be known sufficiently to the people , who would not require the priest ' s word to urge them on . Now one word of comment upon the only two points worthy of notice in the speech of the hon . member for Bridport . That hon . gentlemen said , let tliegovernment cultivate the resources of Ireland as a means of securing tranquillity , while he appeared to forget that it was the very ground work of all reforms recommended by hira ( Mr O'Connor ) . _T * or years he had been saying tbat thc first duty of a government was to cultivate the resources of a country ; but not for tbe landlords only , nor for the landlords and tenants , but for the labourers as well , who pay the rent , of the one and the profit ofthe other .

      ( Hear , heari ) What was the landlord ' s interest is the raw materiarcompared to the amount of produce secured by the husbandman ' s toil ? The landlords had advocates in that house in abundance , but the labourers had but few . The right hon- baronet had told them of the assassination of a few landlords and there was sympathy for them . He had trumped up anonymous communications to serve his purpose , but he had not taken substantial cases which he might have gathered from legal proceedings in the Irish . courts ; he had not related a pitiful case recently heard by Master Murphy in Dublin , wherein the receiver and counsel for the respondent applied

      to the master for permission to give a paltry -6150 . to the inhabitants ofa whole district , to induce thera to abandon their miserable homes . He had not told the house tbat 320 of those miserable creatures were buried in one hole in Bearliaven , and that the survivors , dreading the same fate , have waged a war of assassination versus extermination . Those who have survived the plague , pestilence , and famine , have learned an awful lesson from the fa'e of tlieir miserable friends and relatives who had been sent to their last account unhousel'd , unappointed , unannealled , without pity , sympathy , or remorse . The ' right hon . gentleman has not told the

      house that these miserable creatures were forty shilling freeholders , until by the Emancipation Act they were disfranchised , up to which time they were looked upon as political engines by their lord , but when their political powers ceased to be of service , there , as throughout the rest of Ireland , they were scattered upon the wide world , in order to gratify their tyrant-master ' s lust by knocking numberless little labour-fields into one large farm , to correspond wiih the then parliamentary franchise . Then Ihey fell in arrear , though they gave good value to the lord . in patronagp , and now £ 10 , 000 arrears are sought to be recovered from these perishing slaves . ( Hear , hear . ) The hon . member for Bridport had ventured upon another question . He had a _* ked what the state of Ireland would lie in six months after the

      Union had been repealed ? He ( Mr O Connor ) would answer him likean Irishman , thus ; let him try us , and he . shall see . ( Laughter . ) In conclusion , he would make one more appeal to Irish members who represented popular feeling in thatcountry , and would again implore them to abandon that equivocal position which they occupied as flag company of the enemy , and , like liim , face the foes of Irelandacting upon a defined principle and recognised policy —that of eradicating the cause as the best means of curing thc disease , by hurling from office eveiy and any ministry that dared to viola ' e the little that remained of the British constitution ; and that feared to do justice to a people , lest they should offend a class . Again he repeatetl _, that if he stood alone , he would oppose any government that dared to govern his country by other than constitutional means ( Cheers . )

      SATURDAY , Decembeb 11 . The House of Commons sat for a short time , when the report of tbs Crime and Outrage ( Ireland ) Bill was received , and the third reading fined for Monday ,. MONDAY , December 13 . . HOO'SK OP LORDS . —After some talk ' on the spiri . tual destitution of Devonport , occasioned by the prescn . tation of a petition on that subject , tho house was kept open , and a few lords waited upwards of two hours and a half for the Crime and Outrages ( Ireland ) Bill , which was passing the ordeal ef the third reading in the otber house . It came at last at twelve minutes past eight o ' clock , and the Ewl of Shaftesbury having taken ihe chair , the ' House ' consisting of the Duko of Richmond , the Duko of Grafton , and L > _rd Campbell , read tbe bill a first time , and adjourned at thirteen minutes past eight _.

      HOU 3 E OF COMMONS . —Tue Govebkkeht Letteb to the Bank , —Mr Pattison Baid that au expression had fallen from the Chancellor of the Exchrq-er tbe other night iu alluding to the letter of the _government to the Bank of England , and tbe blame which bad been cast on ihem for asking for a participation in the profits of loans made by the . Bask , to the effect that the suggestion bad emanated from * tbe authorities of tke Bank . He begged to ask the right hon , getu ' . emau who those authorities were ? The Chancellor of tha _ExcnzQcra complained that Mr Pattison bad not _giren him no ' . lce of his question . Nevertheless , he had no objection to say tbat he wss at that time constantly in communication with tbe governor and deputy-governor of the Bank , and in the cou-. se of conversation , it was agreed that it would be better if thot condition were inserted in the Utter .

      Mr Pattison would not have put the question , but he saw _tbose gentlemen tbat morning , and ihey assured him that they were no parties to the arrangement . Adjocmikent or tbe HonflE . —Lord J . Russell said—I beg to g ive notice that contingent on tbe pro-Deeding" of the _housa and the progress of the bill now before it , I shall , on Monday next , move that the house at its rising do adjourn to Srd February . ( Hear , hear , and cheers . ) _Obdhamcb Maps . —Mr Home begged to ask what measures had been taken by the Board of Ordnance to supply the public with ordnance maps at a reasonable charge . He askea this because he held in bis hand an account which stated tbat £ 1 , 600 , 000 bad been expended in surveys in England , Ireland , and Scotland , and the public were still ignorant of what had taken place .

      Col . Anson said that steps had been taken to supply tbe public with maps at a lower _pi- _' _ca tban thty were sold at present , and he hoped they _inouWI rsbavily be issued at half the price ; The eight shilling sheets would be charged four shillings , and the quarter sheets OBe shilling-. Mr Home : I could supply them for Gd . ( ' Order , ' and laughter ) DEFBNCE 8 Or THE _CoUNTBT .-- lord J , ItPflSIU _gaiJ that the hon , member for Middlesex had a m . ice of motion on the paper , for which no day was fixed , relating

      to the defences of tbe country . After the recess be ( Lord j . llussell ) proposed , on the part of the government , to enter into a statement of what had heen done , and wbat was intended to be done in that rtspect ; and he thought that Mich a question had better bo brought forward by somo member of the government than by an independent member . If the hon . member was not satisfied with bis ( Lord J . _Russell ' s ' statement _, it was still open to him to make a motion on the subject . He wished to asltthe hon . memher te defer his motion until after he ( Lord 3 . _Itus-ell _) bad made his statement .

      Mr B . Osborne said that after tbe statement of tbe noblo lord he should not bave the slightest hesitation in postponing his motion . _( Hcnr _^ hear . ) Rrm Plats . — Lord _Pai , _he * sto » , in answer to Mr T . Baring , intimated that tbe French government had manifested a strong desire to co-operate with Great Britain in patting an end to the present state of things in the River Plate . The French authorities had sent out instructions for raising the blockade ; and that object effected there would be a fair prospect of tbe ter . mination of hostilities .

      _ExPOMIO _** Of THE JESUITS FBOH SWITZERLAND , —Mr J O'Connell begged to ask the noble lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs the following questions of which he had given _notioe—Whetherhehadrecelveflofl * iciaHBform 6 tion of the decrees of the provisional governments ofthe cantons of Fribourg and Lucerne , banishing for ever tbe Jesuits , the _Llguortans , the Brothers of the Chii _» tian Doctrine , the _Ursuline Nuns , _tbosiators of Providence , and other denominations of religionists , male and female , under pretence of tbeir being _afilHated to the Jesuits ; also confiscating their entire property , and an _nullinc * any and every provision which they might have made of it during nearly two months previous to the surrender of Fribourg and Lucerne ? and If the noble lord had also received official information of the

      enormous . demnndB made upon the cantons of the Sonderbund for the expenses of the war , 1 000 , 000 of francs being demanded by the 20 th inst , , and two millions more within a brief space afterwards , besides other charges and exaction ! I The hon . member was then about to proceed with the following question , which was contained on the notice , viz ., whether , considering these acts ofa tyrannous majority in Switzerland , tbe insults and outrages to the clergy , and the religion of the ml

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      _^^^^^ _^^ ms' _S- ___ _iitmAmmSi iS _^ _immmmmmmJm _imm 3 _& tmm * , _nority , the extreme persecution and plundering of individuals _ameng that minority , whose only crime was to discharge faithfully the duties imposed on thorn by their _fellow-clt-zens , an nrgent case had not arisen for tha intervention of the powers who guarantied , in 1815 , the tbe cantonal independence if Switzerland f—when ' The _SPEAKW interposed and said the hon . member must stop at the last paragraph of his notice . Mr J , _O'Connelh said he believed it wai'competentfo him on fl motion for the adjournment of the house to use that language in the shape of remarks . He _therefore moved tbat thehouse do now adjourn . ( Upon this tbe hon ; member went on with the paragraph in question . )

      . _Yiscounl _PAtMBsrowsaid tbat the government had received officially the decrees ofthe new government of Fribourg , _banisbinaf tbe Jesuits and' the orders in con . nexion with them from Fribourg ; but tbey hnr \' jot received officially tbe decrees of thc canton ef _Luoeirne , uor had tbey rece . ved tbe information mentioned in ' tbe second _queBtioncf thehon . member . With regard tothe coreluding question , be begged to say that it ' did not ap ¦ _penrto the _goveinment that ' there'were any grounds to justify tbe interference of the powers _who ' guarantecd tbe independence of Switzerland in 1915 . Br Bowkino regretted thaf the hon member for Linu erick . in putting his question , had vituperated the Diet of Switzerland . ( Order , ordtr . ) The _Spbakeb must remind the hon , member that there , wat no question before the house . CuBBENcr ( Banking ) . —On Sir G . _Gbbv moving that tbe order of the _di » y be read for the third reading of the Crime and Outrage ( Inland ) Bill ,

      MrD . YUBQOBABT took the opportunity ofvindicating himself from tbe attack made upon him a few nights ago by Sir It . Peel , for baring suppressed a portion of the words which Sir R _.-Peel had used in 1814 respecting tlie Scottish banking system , His knowledge of that speech _wab derived from the _,-report ; int ) ie'TiME 8-, wbich did not contain tbe paragraph on which SiriBobert relied . He therefore contended that he was perfectly justified in aBstrting that Sir It . _PeiV had not given due formuland public notice of his intention to legislate _e < . that time for the binks of Scotland , _poA tnat : be ha * no _ri'jht to say that he bad misrepresented his words . Sib R , _PBEfj asserted Umt there _cuuld not be any doubt at thu timo ofthe inttntionsifthe government with respect to tbe banks of Scotland , for it bad been his duty to more certain resolutions in committee , and one of tbo » e resolutions related to Scot _, lnnd . The banks of Scotland understood that their

      banking relations were not to be interforcdwith by tho act ! of 1844 , but tbey also _understood tbat no new ban ! . _-, ing institution of issue , would bo permitted after the passing of that act . . ¦ Coebcion Bill . —The order of the day was then read . On the question that the bill be read a tb _' _- _'d time , . , Y Mr J . O'CohneiL , in redemption of his _pledge , movrd that it be read a third time that day i is months . In the course of his remarks ha retracted the assertions which he had made respecting the-appointment of Mr Rjnn , and read a letter , from tho parish priest of Strokestown ,. denying that Major Mahon had ever been denounced from the altar ofhis chapel , or f _.-om any altar in any chapel nitl '

      twenty mtle 3 if Strokestown . Mr M Deimott _' s s' ' _'' ment was as follows : — ' If , as is gratuitously . assert : •' _- , any Catholic _clcriil'man-hasdeno-iBCBd a « y one of tho "> obnoxious landlords from bis altar previous to ' tho fatal event in which he bas fallen a victim to ' thewiid _justlo of revenge , the legal process of rendering _thtit _cUrtyman amenable to the law , and responsible for his _seditious preaching , is neither expensive nor difficult . May I ask why such steps are not taken by _tha afflicted rela . _tlves or Ly the inheritor t f the property ? Oh ' _l the informer will not come for wurd ; his courage _ooz-s through his fingers . He skulks into his lurking hole , and laughs atthe credulity of those wbo emp ! o-Jed him after he received the reward of his turpitude . There may b « found in a Caibolic congregation somo hireling serf whose

      embarrassment tempts him to court tbe patronage of _}•'" landlord , and to off _* r his services , as an officious wL ' _.-perer , for thi purpose if drawing a little grist to hb mill . But why , I ask , does not somo such _chitroetrr come forward to substantiate the odious charges against tbe priests ? No , he stands back , because be knows bis parfidy -would be detected , and that tie thtn _s-hould bo held up to public scorn , as a liar and _caluaniitor . I hare now to assure the public , by the most _| solemn assertions n clergyman can utter , that the late _Majer Mahon was never _ueuwmced nor evta his H » mo mentioned , from any chapel altar in Strokestown , or within tweiity milesof Strokestown in any direction on any Sunday biforc his death . I enn , under the same sacred _pledge ,

      declare , that _s single sentence was never spoken from tho altar whicb , by misconstruction or otherwise , could tend to stimulate the peasantry to the atrocious murder which has been perpetrated . Tno cruelties exercised . against a _tenantry whose feelings were alrtudy wound up to woful and vengeful exasperation by tbe loss of thdr exiled relatives , as well as by hunger aud pestilence , wbich swept so many victims into an untimely grave , in my opinion may bo assigned as the sole exciting cause of the disastrous event tbat _heB occurred . 1 saw no n ' eeossUj » for the idle display of _als-r _^ e _military and police force surrounding the poor moil ' s cabin , setting fire to 'lie roof while the _half-starved _, hnlf-iiakcd children were hastening away from the _flamas with yells cf despair , wbile the mother lay _rrtWrate on tha threshold ,

      writhing in agony , aud the heartbroken father remained _supplicating on bis _kneie . I saw no need i sx tbi 3 demonstration of physical force , nor did I see any need forlrjtnl triumph and exultation , when returning afier theso feats were nobly pciformed ; nor cau I concave that Ihe feeling of humanity should permit any man to send b ' v bailiff to revisit those scenes cf bwr r and conflagration , withan order _, if they found a hut built or a fire lighted ia tho murky ruins , to demolish tho one und extinguish the other , thus leaving tbe wretched outcasts oo alttnmtiva but to perish in a ditch . In my opinion , _thesctcenes , of which I can only draw a very inefficient portrait , had more to do with the murder cf Major Mahon than ill tbe thundering denunciations of the Vatican could _i-ffcct , had they been rolled on bis head . . I tell , thertf re , the

      Orange press , that tbeir fabricated charge of _denuncia * tion against tbe Catholic clergy is a _moajtrous , outrage * ous , and _flagitious calumny . Jt is hot true that the ex . terminated tenants of the late Major Mahon havo been all 8 >; nt to America . There are' hundreds , as _yrjt , who ' survived their expulsion , tfter seeing their crops carried away trom their door * and safely deposited witliin tha landlord ' s haggard , —left to subsist on the _precariona alma ef their neighbour * , roving about as houseless wanderers , without a "riend . to console , cr a restingplace whereon to lay their achingbones . _'—The ~~ Uv . U . Hughes who bad been accused of a similar offence , had expressly denied having used tbe words attributed to him . The story against him bad originated in a Castlebar Conservative paper , whose oi ject it was to cast a

      slur upon the Catholic priesthood . . The bon . member di _Winded himself from impute * _ineorisisteuey in having voted for tho first reading cf-the bill . Ha did to in tha belief tbat remedial measures would be produced and proceeded witb pari passu with the coercive measure . He now implored the bouse to pass measures _if-roiiff for Ireland without delay . If they relied solely on tho Poor Laws they would trust to a broken reed . Iu tbs meantime , he implored the government to use to the Utmost the means ihey had in tbeirhands of giving food to the peoplo . Let them do that dm ing tbc recess , and afterwards bring forward real measures for the remedy of the soeial state cf freland . Thero were difHcuItii _s ia tb ; way , no doubt ; but a good beginning was half the battle , in Ireland as well as _eleewiscre .

      Mr S . O _Brien seconded the amendment . Having been absent from tbe discussions which had taken place upon tbe bill , in consi qnence of indisposition , he hoped he should bs permitted to state thc groundB on wbich he felt bound to give the measure all the opposition in bis power ; though be wss quite sensible that the house was thoroughly weary of the subject . ( Hear , hear . ) Among the majority who had recorded their votes In favour of the measure he found a _l-.-rge portion of the members who were the representatives of Ireland , and he was not prepared to say that all due attention should not be paid to the expression of their opinion . At tha same time , he had always felt it his duty to ant upon hia own views of measures _^ The hon , member , who was but imperfectly heard in the gallery , owing to the buzz

      of conversation whicb prevailed in the house , proceeded to _assuro the hon . gentlemen that he should despair ct his race and ot hie country , if he < * . id not believe that the outrages which had recently been committed in Ireland were the _coniegueuce of wi . 'government for many centuries down to the present hour , Tbere was no man in the house who would go further tban he would towards the suppression of those outrages , if any measures could be pointed out to him which would mitigate instead ofaggravate tbe evils of which eomplaint _hBdhesn made . The plan proposed bythe right hon , baronet the member for Tamworth , a system of espionage , under the name of a detective police , would only lead to more grievous evils than tbose wbicb already existed . With respect to the measure _befi-re tho house , it

      seemed to him to be liable to produce greater _-nischitfa is then it proposed to . remedy , even if St had the merit of of being effective . It undertook to disaim the whole popula . a . tion of Ireland . Now , the safest way of putting down out- itrage would be to put arms into the hands of the well- _IIdispoged , thus creatiBg a moral pewwr which could not ot fall to bave a beneficial remit . With reference to the ie possession tt erm « by the peasantry , the government nt bad notdedt quite fairly witb tbis subject , because the he right hon . gen tleman ( Sir G . G » j ) had emitted to re- remark a most striking fact , namely , that there had been en a greater amouut of resistance offered to armed attack * k » than bad taken place at any former period . He thought ; bt it would bave been but fair that tbe rigbt hon . gentle *

      leman should have mentioned tome of the numerous in- instances in which tbe farmer * had defended their dwellings _iga against the _attacks ef midnight marauders . The bill bill imposed large pecuniary penalties upon the occupiers ia ia a proclaimed district , In the shape ef expenses incumd rid for the maintenance of She constabulary . He ventured red to submit to the house that they were proceeding on a a a wrong principle altogether , and that they ought to en * en * courage as _mnc _^ as passible the principle of self-rell . -ellance , and abandon a military system like that _bajW- _PtrfrV _ir the employment of the police . As an _Irlsbmart _^ _aiiB -3 « an individual member of tbe house , be _tepered WJt ' beifc _Mfe thanks to the people of tbis coantry forfthl / _raMttotm lots which tbey bad made for the relief of _^ _f- _'dJWreM ' fe _» ' Ho must , however , say , that in the last " _. _wiDi _& rt _^ _Bi iMt _dreda and thousands of people in Ireland p _^ _rlpuffeir _^ * « F ') d to die , who might hare betn kept alive jf ft _$ 8 QirerW _£ » _wp »

  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 18, 1847, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns3_18121847/page/7/