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Every other occupier is to pay the entire rate in the first instance. " If he pays or assumes a rent equal to the full •vaue of the land, he may deduct one-half the rate from his rent. " But, in addition to the full value of his holding, he is to bear the loss of the other half of the rate. That is, he is ; to give the landlord the full value of his land, and pay , over and above, out of his own pocket, half the rate. " That is the first case. " The second case is this :—lf a man pays or assumes to a landlord a rent higher than the full value of the land, he is still to be compelled to pay in addition to more than the value of his land one-half the poor-rate out of his own pocket. " This Poor Law for which so many are clamorous does seem to bear rather heavily on the poor—,that is, on those who have no profit, and on those who are incurring a loss. " The landlord is thus in every case rrlieveJ from onc half of the poor-rate. The absentee is in every case re lieved from one-half of the poor-rate, " Now, mark what is to be done with the other half of o the rate. " If the occupier has any profit by his holding above his rent, his case then stands thus ; he will first bear his own half of the poor-rate, and next a portion of the second half, equal to the proportion his profit bears, to his rent. " This will be best explained by reducing. it into figures. Suppose a man occupied land or a house at a rent of 1001., and that the land or house be rendered by him worth 150/. a-year, so as to give him a profit of 50/. a-year. Suppose the poor-rate to be 12/. a-year, the ten ant will then hare to pay the entire one-half of the 121., that is 61. a-year for his own share, and of the other 6/. a-year he will have to pay 21., being the proportion his profit bears to his rent. " Thus, the occupying tenant, with only 501. a-year for his income, will have to pay 81. a-year poor:rate out of 12/. ; the landlord, with a clear income of 1001. a-year, will be chargeable with only 4/. a-year out of 121.- " I thus show that a tenant occupying lttnd or a house in Ireland, with only one-half the income of the landlord, will have to pay twice as much poor-rate ai the landlord, who, with twice that income, will have to pay only one-third of such rate. " Sec what an advnntage this will be to a landlord having fifty such tenements. It will be an enormous 'gain to him provided he does not occupy his estate himself. Of this more presently. _ THE PRJNCIPAL OFFICERS of her MA JESTY'S ORDNANCE do hereby give Notice, That they intend to SELL by PUBLIC TENDER an ESTATE in Three Lots, situate at or hear the City of Cork, being part of the Lands of BALLINCOLLIG and COOLROE. Conditions of the Sale with a description of the Lots, and a Plan of the Estate annexed, may be seen on application at the Secretary's Office in Pall Mall, the Ordnance, Storekeeper at Dublin Castle, and the Barrack Master at Ballincollig, any day between TOR and Four o'Clbek, (Sunday's excepted) on or before THU RSDAY the Ist of February, 1838, on which Day the Tenders are to be delivered addressed to the Secretary to the Board of Ordnance, Pall Mall, London, and endorsed " Tenders for Purchase of Land at Ballin -410114" By Order of the Board, R. BYHAM, Secretary. WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. No. 14,130. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1837. PRICE sd. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. The PROPRIETORS of this COMPANY having re solved to take up on LOAN the Sums authorised by the Act, No tice is hereby given, that :the DIRECTORS will receive PRO POSALS, at their under-mentioned Offices in London and Bristol, for the LOAN of MONEY on DEBENTURES. Interest, at the rate of Five per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly, will be allowed for a term of not less than Five Years. No Debentures will be issued for a less sum than NW. Proposals to be addressed to either of the undersigned. CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Princes-street, Bank, London, Sees. THOMAS OSLER, Corn-street, Bristol, On Thursday next, in 3 vols., post Bvo., T HE ELOPE M E N T, A NOVEL. By the Author of " Robert D'Artois." Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. THE REIGN;.OF FERDINAND AND ISABELLA OF ,SPAIN. Immediately, in 3 vols. Bvo., embellished with Portraits of Ca. iambus (from the Original Painting by Parmegiano, at Naples) Cardinal Ximenes, Gonsalves de Cordoba, and Ignatius Loyola, THE HISTORY OF CANADA. ( From the New York Enquirer.) INSURRECTION IN CANADA. " safe, not sound." He left this city on Saturday morning last with despatches addressed to Colonel Wctherall, and was taken prisoner on the same day by about three or four hun• drcd men near Point Oliviere. Mr. Spiers resisted their au thority and shot one of them, when he was immediately stabbed on the forehead and beaten nearly sensoless with a bludgeon. He was then secured and conveyed from place to place during the darkness of the nights, so that he had not any idea of the exact Fart of the country he was in. They threatened to shoot him, but on his telling them that if they did, his death would be fearfully avenged, they changed their minds. He was released along with nine or ten other prisoners, on Wednesdny, and immediately joined the Royal Regiment. _ Now Ready, and will be Published on the Ist of January, 1838, price 75., neatly bound in cloth. 4 NEW DERIVATIVE and ETYMOLO GICAL DICTIONARY of such English Words as have their origin in the Greek and Latin Languages; intended as a Guide to a thorough - knowledge of Scientific, Technical, and other Terms in common use. FERDINAND and ISABELLA of SPAIN By W. H. PRESCOTt, Esq. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. The accurate history of the late affairs in Canada, and their present position, are we believe briefly as follows. There have been two regular engagements. In the attack on St. Denis the Loyalist troops under Colonel Gore were repulsed, and the insurgents remained in occupation of the place. At St. Charles the [loyalists were successful, and the insurgents were dispersed, slain, or taken prisoners. Instead of marching the victorious troops directly on St. Denis, Lieutenant-Colonel Wetherall returned by way of C.hamby and St. John's to Mon treal, where he arrived on the 30th of November. A de tachment of the 66th was left in the garrison at Chandily. During his march, a sort of brigand warfare was kept up on his troops, and a smart skirmish took place at Port Olivier, in which a few of the insurgents were shot and two small pieces of artillery taken by the Royalists. Meanwhile the troops repulsed at St. Denis had fallen back upon Sorel. At this point, at the latest date, the Royalists were concen trating, with a view, probably, to an attack upon St. Denis. To join the three companies already at Sorel, a detachment of the Royal Artillery, under Captain Holwell, was dispatched on the 30th ult. from Montreal; and on the following day five companies of light troops, and a supply of Congreve rockets, had also been forwarded to Sorel. -The destination of the troops was not positively known, but there seems little reason to doubt a march is intended upon St. Denis. A good deal of dissatisfaction prevails both at Montreal and Quebec, in regard to the temporizing course of the Govern ment. Great offence had been given to the ultra loyalists at Quebec, by the interposition of the magistrates, to discounte nance the meeting of the Loyal Victoria Club. This bad been called by public advertisement, at the Albion Hotel. A Gene ral Special Session of the Magistrates was consequently con vened, at which a resolution was adopted, declaring that such a meeting would have a tendency to disturb the public peace. This resolution was forwarded to the proprietor of tiw Albion, Mr. Hoffmann, who immediately returned a reply, acknow ledging the receipt of the communication—stating he should not interfere to prevent any number of her Majesty's loyal subjects from meeting at his house—and suggesting to the magistrates that their " tardy zeal" for the protection of the public peace might have been long ago exercised to greater public advantage—and that in the present instance it might have taken a more fortunate direction. The club held their meeting, according to notice, and the resolutions of the magis trates and the letter of Mr. Hoffmann were read ; but no action was taken upon them. The affair seems to have created some excitement, and the interference of the magistrates is con sidered a very superfluous exercise of discretion: The magistrates of Montreal, with the exception of D. B. Viger--an intimate friend of Papineau and his policy—have made a requisition upon Lord Gosford for the proclamation of martial law in that city. This would enable the troops to disarm all the suspected inhabitants, and the Montreal Herald says that " nothing but a general disarming of the French Canadians can long preserve Lower Canada to Eng land." THE Ph R SIAN PRINCES' TRAVELS andADVENTI - 117.52 Immediately, in 2 vols. post Bvo., with Portraits of the Princes, &c., NARRATIVE OF THE RESIDENCE OF T HE PERSIAN PRINCES IN LONDON. In 1835 and 1836 ; with AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR JOURNEY FROM PERSIA, AND SUBSEQUENT ADVENTURES. By J. ROWBOTITAX, F.R. A.S. Author of a Guide to Spanish and English Conversation ; Lectiones Latinw ; Deutehes Lesebuch ; a French Grammar ; French Lessons for Schools ; French Genders, &c. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman. HER MAJESTY'S MAILS by STEAM to VIGO, OPORTO, LISBON, CADIZ, GIBRALTAR, MALTA, GREECE, THE lONIAN ISLANDS, EGYPT, and INDIA. THE BRAGANZA will start from off . Black wall, on THURSDAY, the 28th December, and from Fal mouth en MONDAY, the Ist January, 183°. The PENINSULAR PACKETS start weekly with the Mails, (Goods and Passengers as above), being met by her Majesty's Packets at Gibraltar. Further particulars may be obtained on application at the Penin sular Steam Navigation Company's Offices, 51, St. Mary Axe. WILLCOX and ANDERSON, Managers. We have just learned that Come S. Cherrier, M. P. P., ad vocate in this city, and Toussaint Peltier, were yesterday sent to jail on a charge of high treason. It was men of such a stamp that ought to have been seized at first. It was the tall poppies that stood in need of decapitation ; and M. Toussaint Peltier, though naturally not a tall poppy, had been considered as such by his compatriots for want of a taller. It is an ersy thing to be a giant to pigmies. A warrant has been issued against E. Knight, M.P. P. of Stanbridge, but it is supposed he has crossed the line. 4 , The following are the nines of the prisoners at present un der arrest in this city for high treason : Andre Ouimet, Amable Simard, George De Boucherville, Charles A. Leblanc, Jean Dubuc, Francois Tavernier, In. Frans. Bosu Lionais, Louis Michel tiger, Narcisse Lamotte, Andre Lacrois, A. E. Bardy, .Joseph Baugrette, Dominique Lavallee, Louis Monjeau, jun., Louis Monjeau, sen., Joseph Menard, Joseph Pepin, Augustus Blanchette, Ambroise Cho qeette, Antoine, Forte, Francois Hebert, Toussaint Bouvu:- loir, Come S. Cherrier, M. P., TousTaint Peltier, Felix Braulac, Pierre Legros, Marcisse Sabourrier, Joseph Taille, Eusebe Durocher, Jacob Veaudry, Jean Bte. Leduc, Olivier Lussier, Joseph Daigneau, Gedeon Plante, Joseph Bellemare, Charles Martin, Pierre Lussier, Francois Larose, Francois Bachant, Francois Lemire, Toussaint Lachapullee, Joseph Fortin, Constant Anthier, Hubert Raineau, Louis Chicou Du vert, Antoine Barsaloue, Pierre L'Hereux. EDITED BY THEODORE HOOK, Esq. And Illustrated with PORTRAITS of DISTINGUISHED L By JAMES BAILLIE FRASER, Esq. Author of " Tour in the Himalaya Mountains," " The Kuzzilbash," &c. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. TERARY CHARACTERS, &c. ,-- -- COL B U R N'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMOURIST, Published in Monthly Numbers, at 3s. 6d. each. Among the various Distinguished Contributors to this Popular Pe riodical may be mentioned : Author of " Tremaine." Mrs. S. C. Hall, Esq. Authors of The " Rejected Ad- Benson Hill, Esq. dresses." Leigh Hunt, Esq. Author of " The Subaltern." Douglas Jerrold Esq. Author of " Rattlin the Reefer." Miss L. E. Landon. Author of " Glances at Life." Captain Marryat. Alfred Crowquill. Sir Charles Morgan. Haynes Bayley, Esq. Lady Morgan. Leman Blanehard..V.K. - -The Hon. Mre. Norton. 'S. B. Buckatone, Esq. R. B. Peake, Esq. Thomas Campbell, Esq. J. R. Planche, Esq. Crofton Croker, Esq. John Poole, Esq., (the Author B. D'lsraeli, Esq. of " Paul Pryer") Mrs. Gore. Hamilton Reynolds, Esq. T. C. Grattan, Esq. Horace Twiss, Esq. Theodore Hoek, Esq. BRETT'S IMPROVED BRANDY.—NOT PATENT ! THIS Brandy is now unequivocally recommended by the Faculty, as possessing more salutary properties than the finest Cognac ; from which costly spirit, however, connoisseurs, and many of the trade, are positively unable to distinguish it. For the satisfaction of scrupulous persons our genuine IMPROVED BRANDY may be tasted, and single sealed bottles as. 6d. each, may be had, as samples, upon application at this establishment, whence an Imperial Gallon, or upwards, at 18s. per sallon, will be forwarded, carriage free, to any market town in England, if previously settled for in London. HENRY BRETT and Co., Old Furnival'a-inn, COUNTY FIRE OFFICE, AND PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, • REGENT-STREET, LONDON. Established 1805. Capitals, A INIILLIO'N STERLING and UPWARDS. PRESIDENT—The EARL GREY. TRUSTEES AND ISIItECTORS. The Duke of Rutland Sir Frederick A. Roe, Bart. The Marquis of Northampton Glynne Earle Welby,FAq. M.P. Lord King George Pryme, Esq , M.P. Lord Northwick Francis Coil t, Esq. Sir W. E. Welby, Bart. J. E. Conant, ESQ. Sir John Osborn, Bart. Barber Beaumont, Esq. lee. &c. The County is the only Fire Office which has constantly made Returns to its Members, and for a long series of years. These Re turns have varied from 10 to 25 per cent. and have amounted to up wards of 100,0001. In the Life Office, nearly the whole of the profits are divided among the parties insured. Their effect may be judged of from a Policy taken out by his late Majesty on his own life for 3,0001., which additions Increased to 3,963/. Upwards of thirty Insurance Offices having been broken up within a few years, and nearly as many new ones having been projected within the last two or three years,lit may be necessary to observe, that all the substantial advantages promised by such new Offices have been long realised under the plans and management of the Provident Life Office. CONSIGNMENT OF QUARTER PIPES of PORT and SHERRY, of high character, imported ex pressly for private trade, and are strongly recommended to Gentle men and Families in the country, as being the most economical mode of purchasing, and ensuring a genuine Wine of fine quality. They will be forwarded direct from the Docks to tke Purchaser, duty, and every expense in London inoluded, at the under-men tioned Cash Prices :—First-class Port (the finest that can be ob tained), 231. ; Second-class ditto (very excellent), 201. ; First class Sherry (the finest gold colour), 251.: Second-class ditto (very excellent), 211. 10s. THE PORTRAITS Lately given include those of His Late Majesty, Her Present Ma jesty, Lady Bury, the Rev. Q. R. Gleig ( Author of " The Subal tern,") Mrs. Gore, B. D'lsraeli, Esq., Miss Landon, Jas. Smith, Esq., T. N. Talfourd, Esq., and Lady Stepney. The New Year being a favourable opportunity for commencing a Periodical, those who may desire to become Subscribers are re quested to forward their orders immediately to their respective Book sellers. (Correspondence of the Courier and Enquirer.) Sandy Hill, Monday Nigtit, Dec. 4. I have just seen some gentlemen who hare come in from Montreal. " Let us keep the matter distinct by confining the illustra tion to the case of the single occupying tenant, with a rent of 100/. a-year, and a profit of 50/. That occupying tenaft though he is to pay twice as much poor-rate as his landlord, employs labourers, pays wages, puts capital into employment, and in twenty ways is cf use to his neighbours. GEO. lIENEKEY and Company, Gray's Inn Wine Establishment, 23, High Holborn, London. Note.—The Port, 335. and 3.:5. per dozen; Sherry, 365. to 42s . Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. PRESERVATION OF VOLATILE FLUIDS. (IOMPLETION OF MOULE'S ENGLISH COUNTIES; or, A DESCRIPTIVE VIEW OF THE PRESENT STATE OF ENGLAND. Illustrated by New Maps of London and England, and a Map of each County, with beautiful Corner Vignettes of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Mansions, Pic turesque Ruins, also Armorial Decorations, chiefly from the Seals of County Towns. By THOMAS MOULE, Author of Bibliotheca Heraldica,' and Editor of several Topographical Works. Complete in Two Volumes, handsomely printed in quarto, and bound in cloth, price 3/. 3s. ; or with beautifully Coloured Maps, 41. 14s. 6d. "But the landlord spends his money in Bath, or London, or Paris, nobody in Ireland is the better for him. He does not enable a single Irish man or woman to earn a shilling to keep out of the workhouse. Yet by this law the useless and worthless absentee, with double the income of the useful em ploying occupier, pays but one-third of the poor-rate whilst the occupier pays two-thirds. " There are many strange inconsistencies in this best of all possible sublunar worlds ;• but this, as applicable to such a country as Ireland, does really appear to . - ne the most absurd of all. J. A. BEAUMONT, Secretary. EASY MODE OF SECURING THE BONUS ON EQUI TABLE POLICIES BY THE UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; Established by Act of Parliament, for Assurances of Lives and Survivorship%, and likewise for the Granting and Purshasing of Annuities. ItIONORART ?RESIDENTS. Earl of Arrel Lord Viscount Eastnor, M. P. Earl of Ceurtewu Lord Viscount Glandine Earl Leven and Melville Lord Elphinstone Lord Viscount Falkland Lord Belhaven and Stanton. Sir J. H. Dalrymple, Bart. JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman. ' W. PLASKET, Esq., Deputy Chairman. The accommodation, now offered to the public by the following condition will be found particularly convenient and well worthy the serious consideration of parties who may wish to secure to their families the bonus expected on equitable policies, Jan. 1,1840, and, by adopting it, not only will that object be obtained, but they may avail themselves of continuing the insurance for the remainder of life, at the premium of their present age, whatever'may be their state of health, after having received the bonus of the Equitable : " When an insurance is for life half the premium may remain *repaid far lye years at interest, to be deducted eventually from the policy or paid o ff at convenience, it being perfCctly understood that If the party diseontinues the insurance, the Company have no claim on him for the portion of the premium that is unpaid." This a gentleman of 45 may be insured for the whole period of life at 3/. 10s. 6d. per cent., and by paying 1/. 15s. 3d. for the first ive years, he may diseontinne his insurance as soon as he has re ceived the bones of the Equitable, or may remain insured for life as above explained. This Company greets liberal Annuities apon ages of 65 and up wards, to parties themselves, but not assignable, and every infor mation will be afforded on personal application at the office, or by letters addressed to the Resident Director, Edward Boyd, Esq., 8, Waterloo-plasm, Pall-mall. CITY' AGENT.—Edward Frederick Leeks, Esq., Solicitor, 2, Charlotte-row. TO PRIVATE FAMILIES AND ECONOMIS CHEAP WINES and SPIRITS WINES. PORTS. PER DOZ. stout Wine, from the wood 245. Fine old ditto, ditto . Good crusted ditto Superior old ditto 34s. Very curious of the most celebrated vintages 4085. and 465. Fine old crusted ditto in pints and half pints Masdeu, first quality 2Bs. cArits Good stout Wine Ditto Sherry flavour l7s. Superior ditto, very fins Genuine Pontac, excellent 20s. ..... MMUS. Very Good 22s. Excellent ditto, pale or brown 2Bs. Fine old ditto, straw coloured... Very superior ditto Marsala, Srst quality 241. Fine old Rota Tent Old Lisbon and Mountain Bucellas, excellent West India Madeira 341. Old East India ditto, ver7 fine s2s. 58s. Sparkling Champagne 6 os. 70 s. Clarets . 545. 58s. 70s. A Large Assortment of Wines always on Draught. SPIRITS. GALLON. Ilighly Reetifie.l Spirit of Wine English Gin, of the first quality Bs. Od. to 9s. 4d. 14 ,,euls's celebrated Old Tom los. 6d. Vie Best Old Jamaica Rum l2e. Od. 134. 4d. 1 ery Good French Brandy The beet Old Ditto, very excellent 9 63. 6d. Irish and Scotch Whiskies, genuine from the Still l2s. Oil. 16s. Od. Patent Brandy lBs. Od. Fine Old Rum Shrub l2s. 6d. Bottles, hampers, &c., to be paid for en delivery, and the amoun allowed when returned. No Orders front the Country can be attended to without a Re raittanee. W. MOULS, No. B, HIGH-STREET, NEWINGTON-BUTTS. UNDER the PATRONAGE of HER MAJESTY the QUEEN of HANOVER, HIS R')YAL HIGHNESS the DUKE o f SUSSEX , HER GR. CE the DU. HESS of RICHMOND , &c. &c. R. E. SOLOMONS, OPTICIAN to the Royal Eye Infirmary, patentee of the Amber Spectacles, t e ,!, 36, OLD BON tbTREET, (nearly opposite the western Exchange,) ._,"ose recently invent. d and highly approved SPECTACLES may b rapted to the various circumstances of individual cases appertaining to d efective vision. Whilst these Spectacles excel all others as regards their L e rY superior refractive property, and their comparative lightness, they t; runes; the further advantage of modifying bright and strong light, which, St the same time is transmitted through the various hummus of the eye, t 3 as to resider vi-ion most perfectly distinct, conveying als o a sense of cool gls and pleasure to the organ, with the additional equally i mp ortant re „s - " , nmendation of being FREE from the pernicious attributes of common came.; in short the qualities of Mr. Solomon's Spectacles a dmirabl y adapt them to afford erse and comfort by protecting and strengthening the eyes, and to extend to vision the most decided and instantaneous relief that art can accomplish. Their superior efficacy is attested by the follow- Sag eminent professors, who (among many others) have given them their Unqualified approbation:— P. Tyrrell, Esq , Surgeon to the Ophthalmic Infirmary, Moor-fields. Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., F.R.S., Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S., President of the College of Surgeons. ...John Stevenson, Esq., Oculist to his late Majesty, &c., Margaret-street , vavendish-are. Sir James. Anderson ' M.D., &c., New Burlington street. Sir Charles Aldis, Old Burlington-street. Dr. Aldis, Ditto Ditto. Martin *are, Esq.. Cculist, New Bridge-street. Titus Berry, Esq., Surgeon, Georges-street, Hanover-square. J. Soden, Esq., Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary, Bath. Hodgson, and T. F. Ledmant, Esqs., Oculists, Eye Infirmary, Bir 'ungharn Professor Hufeland, Physician to the King of Prussia, Berlin. Professor Keysig, l'hysician to the King of Saxony, Dresden. Profotsors Clarus and Ruhl, Oculists, Leipsic. Professor Ponitz, Ocolist, Dresden. Doctor Schmeisser, Hamburgh. Mr. Solomons is totally unconnected with persons of the same l b alYM in this country, and the Amber Spectacles bearing the ONLY I,4 I TENT now extant their disposal is exclusively confined to his lee, No. 36, Old Bond-street, and to his braneh establishments in ELAND. •a • Hours of attendance from Ten till Six o'clock. - . 1"1 " Nocet empta dolore voluptas."—H olt: OR the greatest ameliorations of civilized life, we i i , are indebted to tire modern division of attention and labour b,,re various pursuits of society, and in none hare its benefits been so r c i,Nt as in the healing art . ' Early c onvinced of this great truth, 'SRS. GOSS and Co., Members of the Iloyal College of Surgeons in tzdon, have for twenty - five years confined their attention to the sue. lf;in f ul treatment of a few prevalent complaints, viz., the general and ‘l ‘ p debilities of both the sexes, whether arising from . the solitary in. t,,...Pence which a too highly inflamed imagination brings like a destroying ) . „ 1 . 1,1 over the constitution, the mind, and the affections of youth ; or from Is;i'„nB residence in hot climates, excessive drinking, or any other baneful ink`"llence ; and fr,in their daily experience tlicy can with confidence sr r 1 restoration of the debilitated to vigorous health. Married females kiaorre and affectionate disposition, whose ~ perseverancefondet ha been 1e...._ u1 1y deferred, may learn with consolation that p in a itnTer. remedial course, will renovate general health, and remove hidden ~,7, Pne . ns to maternal happiness. etiirj.n!uhous disorder, however inveterate, as also Gonorrh i n cee, Gleet, exererericture, may be removed without material restraint diet or ~ afEk r , o , ' , fo e , ",,,, GOSS and Co. are to be consulted every day at their real 14_ , and Patients in the remotest parts of the country can be treated tw e sicasfully on transmitting their report, which will be immediately an rs4cl l their letters must minutely describe the case, and contain a tet t t atce for Advice and Medicine, which can be forwarded to any ek e; the world, however distant- No difficulty can occur, as the Medi "' Will be securely packed, and carefully protected from observation. GOSS and CO. (M. It. C. 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Old Ditto Ditto..... --s. —s. —s. New White Clover sss. 60s. 70s. 01.1 Ditto Ditto g —a . Neer Trefoil ......... ISs. 20s. Old Ditto s. 10s. Iss. trefolium l Is. Ifis. 2k nglish Carraway ...... 445. 48s. Foreign Ditto —a. 465. s' - .s Coriander —a 9s. I Is. Rapeseed, Engli.l - tine :per Last PRICES OF Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) East K.oit Pockets.. Ditto Bags Mid Kent Pockets Ditto Bags Sussex Yearlings 'Old Olds THE MARKETS_(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—( At plr Load of 36 Trussof.) CUMBERLAND. is C parse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay...., £4 0 to £4 5 New Meadow Hay ...... ..... ...•• •.. 00000 0 • 4 0 Useful Old Ditto 4 5 4 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Byo-grass Hay Clover Hay 5 0 5 10 Oat Straw. £l 14 to .£1 161 Wheat Straw 1 16 1 18 SMII'HFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay XS 0 to X 4 5 New Meadow 1 - lay Useful Old Ditto 4 5 4 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay Clover Hay (extra fine XS II Generally 4 10 5 0 Oat Straw ... ...... X 1 El ts X I 141 Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16 WHICECHAPEL. Coarse Mea,low Hay ..E4 • •0 £4 5 New Meadow Hay ......... . ..., .... • 0 • II 0 Useful Old Ditto 4 5 4 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Itye•grass Hay Clover Hay 4 10 5 15 Old Straw £l 10 to ..f 1 12 i Wheat Straw ...... .... 1 14 1 16 PRICE OF BREAD. One highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is N. for the 41b. Loaf, ood Bread may be had at 610. :EDS.—Dec. :22. Per Quarter. St. Foin ^os. Ms 47► Rye Grass 30t, 335. ?,f,s, rac,ey Grass —s. 10,. 45s Linseed, for feeding 4Bs 5N —s. Ditto, for sawing —s. 52, 56s Ditto, for crushing —s 4h. 475. Canary —s 40s 455. Hemp —s. 355. 40s. Per Bushel White Mustard 10s. 04. 13s. od. Brown Ditto l4s. Od. 18s. Tares 3s W. 4s. 6d. 271.:;0!. Foreign 24/. HOPS.—llec. 22. 111 Os. 71 Os. to 31. 31 10g. 41. Os.'t• 61. (Ri. 0.. to. 4r. lg. to st. Op. 0!. Os. 31. 18g. to el. Os. 01. Os. 31. Mg. to sg. 0/. Us. V 111 s. to 3 16.. 01. le. t/. 12s to 3/. ss. 01. Os 11. fk. to t' lOs PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS. York Reds (from ♦essel) 3/. 3s. to ft/ 10s. per ton. Scotch Reds ditto . 2l. 10s. to 3/. Os ditto Kidneys... O/ Os. t. 42 1 lOs . ditto .. Jersey; V. Os. to 21. ss. ditto PRICES OF LEATHER Per lb. d. to d. 1 Per lls d. to d. Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b. each 10; 13 Horse Hides, German lO 21 - -40 50 000000000000 15 ' Spanish 50 60 dull Hides Butts, Vitriol - English l4 24 1 70 100 *l4 fe Foreign Foreign Hides lO 12 small 2O 21 Dressing Hides Shaved .... 12 15 , Basil, 7 12 ' Be.t. Saddlers Ilides ... ...... 14 15 Bellies 6 $ florae Hides, English • If rounded 2,1 .to 4d per lb more PRICE OF OIL Rape Oil, brown, per ton, n 4 /.10s.—Refinet1,36 N.—Linseed Oil, NI. Pr. Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, (lOW , 12/. 12s —Rape Cake, per ton, 5 5 . PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 8117. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) ...... 28. 93. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles ir, the Retail Shops is as follews : Candles, per dozen, 7s. ; inferior, 6 5.61—Moulds, 9s. Od. Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c per I InT .-- Town Tallow 498 tki. Yellow Soap —1 od. Yellow Russia • White —s. lid. Curd —l oli Soap Ditto —s. igi. Graves !!S3 s.i. Melting Stuff I: itto Rough 23s. Id. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, Dix. 23. There has been little animation in the cotton-market this week, the demand on no day exceeding the consumption ; but, with our limited stocks, this has been sufficient to effect an advance, since last week, of Ad. to %d. per pound in American cotton, at which rates the market is very firm. Sea island continues in fair demand at full prices. Egyptian and Brazil are in moderate demand, and fully support former rates. The better qualities of Surat are in fair demand ; the lower are neglected, but unaltered in price. The sales of the week amount to 18,240 bales, including 4,000 Ame rican, 150 Pernam, and 1,000 Surat on speculation : 700 Egyptian are also reported, which were taken on speculation last week. d. d. d. A. 200 Sea Islands 13% to 26 30 Demeraras 5... 10 fto 11 30 Stained ditto 5 7 100 Peruvians ..... BE 9 5,800 Uplands 7% 9 270 Laguayras B— 84 1,000 Mobile, &c. ... 74 Bi l 1,7b0 Surats .... 5% 6i 6,890 New Orleans... 6'4 —9% Bengals 290 Egyptians 9l —l3 30 Carthagenas ~, si 0 1,120 Pernams, Sze 9% —lO4 Manilla 0 0 270 Bahias , 7% 9 150 West Indi a ...., 74 —8% Maranhams 9% —9l "-- Barbadoes 300 Sawginned B—Bi f 40 Smyrna 6:- 0 The sales to-day are 3,000 bags, of which 150 Pernams, and 150 Surats, are on speculation. The market wears a firm and healthy aspect, only rather too limited a supply for the wants of the trade. Bales. Taken on speculation this year Same in 1836 ... Forwarded to the country unsold this year Same in 1836 Increase of import this year compared with the same date last year Decrease of stock Increase of quantity taken for consumption 63,400 Increase of quantity taken for export lB,BOO Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 16th inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last year : Into the Kingdom this year. Bags. American . South Ame r i can %Vest Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Egypt, &c. Total of all descriptions 1,123,222 Same period last year. American 8ag5.746,641 South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Egypt, &c. Decrease of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1837. American, 50,175 ; Brazil, 5,191 ; EseL India, 72,277 ; West India, —; Other kinds, —. Total in 1837 Same period last year Stock. Dec. 22, 1837 Same time, 1836 Two children were burnt to death last week at Shef field. However this may be, there is little doubt that the French Canadians are generally united in the interests of Papineau, and the insurgent leaders. Evon those in Montreal who re peat apparently loyal are suspected. Three volunteer com panies in that city are under the command of French Cana dians—and not a soldier in their ranks is of French Canadian extraction—nor an officer, with the exception of the captains. The language of the press, and resolutions of public meetin g s on both sid e s, indicate the existence of the mos t em bit tere d feeling between the Gallo and the Anglo Canadians. Recent occurrences have stimulated that feeling, till animosities have been excited which no conciliation can allay. A desultory and predatory warfare will probably be kept up during the winter. The rural districts, which are now in the possession of the insurgents, will continue to afford them a retreat. The royalists will remain in possession of Montreal and Quebec— and the fortified posts be subject to occasional alarms, but ex posed to no very serious danger. Present appearances would in dicate that the affair will end in the abandonment of the lower province by the British Government to the French Cana dians--an event, to say the least, extremely improbable, or the re-union of the two Can ldas under the old system. Inde pendeuce is now the avowed object of the Papincau party— while fhe ultra Royalists are bent upon such a union of the provinces as will give the BritiQh power an uncontested politi cal ascendancy. These are the antagonist objects of the two ultra factions—lndependence and Re-union: meanwhile there is a large party disposed to continue the present political or ganisation, and to give the French Canadians such influence in public affairs as they are entitled to from their numbers and position. It is obvious that affairs have now reached a crisis. The French Canadians must either be subjugated—treated as a conquered people and their political power merged in the re-union of the pro ces—or the Lower Province must con- tinue for years the scene of popular outbreak and insurrection ary violence. To meet this crisis, the Royalists appear to be concentrating all their military force in Lower Canada. The Upper Pro vince has been emptied of its regular troops, and the entire 43d regiment, recently stationed at New Brunswick, were to march by the post route to Quebec, as soon as the necessary provisions could be made for their accommodation on the road. The detachment at Annapolis has been ordered to St. John's. Volunteer companies are forming in many of the counties. Lord Gosford has authorised the formation of a volunteer corps of lignt infantry—to be called the Quebec Light Infantry Corp;—and appointed its officers. Similar military organization was going on with great spirit at Que bec--and meetings of the loyal citizens for mutual defence were holding throughout the province. In Upper Canada the same spirit prevails among the inha bitants. Meetings have been held at various places, at which resolutions have been passed, proffering all requisite aid to the loyalists of their sister province. Four militia colonels in Glengarry county have applied to Lieut.-Governor Head for arms and ammunition to prepare their regiments to lend such aid to the loyalists of Lover Canada as circumstances may render necessary. Other volunteer movements have been made in other parts of the province. We observe with regret in some of our newspapers a dispo sition to agitate in favour of the insurgents, and to excite a spirit of hostility against the Anglo- Canadians. As far as the present struggle is a contest for independence, it excites, of course, the sympathies of our citizens ; but there is no doubt that the whole policy of our Government and our institutions suggests the observance of a strict national neutrality, and the nature of our connexions with great Britain renders that duty in the present instance doubly important. We have made ar rangements to procure the earliest and most authentic intel ligence from the seat of war, and shall keep our readers duly advised of the progress of the insurrection. But we shall as sume the charac.er of annalists not partisans t as that best adapted to the pri sent position of affairs and the uniform po licy of our country. Since the above was written we bare received papers of Saturday from Montreal, and have conversed with an intelli gent gentleman who left that city on Saturday. From the former we learn that the insurgents had mustered in conside rable numbers no th of the city, building fortifications, and making other demonstrations of an intended _engagement with the Queen's troops. The postmaster at Vaudcuil is stated to have joined the insurgent camp, and the mail bag for Bytown had been sent back to Montreal, as it was not deemed safe to carry it further than St. Eustache. Some fifty families of Royalists fled for safety to Montreal, where they arrived on Thursday and Friday. fhe number of insurgents in arms at Grand Brule is said to be greater than that originally at St. Charles. We learn from the gentleman to whom we refer in the above paragraph, that it was understood when he left Mon treal that Lieu , .-Colonel Wetherall would march on last Monday for Grand Brule. We extract from the Montreal Herald of Saturday, Dec. 2, The only parag:aphs of interest : "It has been generally expected that the Governor would, ere this, have declared the district of Montreal under martial law, and while no reascn appears to exist that he should hesi tate, events are daily occurring which prove the immediate and most urgent necessity of putting it in force. On Tues day last a person named Chartrand, a respectable mason, re siding in St. John's, and a loyal ♦olunteer, left his ~house to collect a debt due to him a few miles out of the village by one Roy, and on his return he was arrested by five men with laaded muskets, who set him up against a tree and fired at him. One ball pierced his heart, and several others showed the deadly aim which his savage murderers took. We have conversed with a gentleman who saw the dead body. In con sequence of Chartrand's not returning to St. John's, fears were entertained that be had been taken prisoner by some of the rebels, who had scouts over all the neighbourhood, and Mr. M'Crae with twelve of the Dorchester Volunteers set out in search of him, when they learned the particulars of his untiinelytate." We are glad to learn that Sir John Colborne has made seve ral promotions among the Royal Volunteer Cavalry. But it is impossible to please every body ; and we doubt not, that such a step will shock the conciliatory taste of the Governor in-Chief. What a terrible affair it must appear to his Lord ship to reward " foreigners" for mauling " the great body of the people." But, in sober seriousness, the measure may not meet cordial approbation at head-quarters, for so careful has the British Government always been to avoid mortifying the pride of La Grand IV ation Canadienne, that not a single regi ment in the service bars the name of Quebec on its colours. It was, perhaps, a lucky thing for Wolfe that he died in the arms of victory, for he might otherwise have been laid on the shelf to please le peuple. Never was St. Andrew's day more appropriately celebrated than on Thursday last—never was a procession more nume rously attended in this city, than that of the Ist or Royal Scots Regiment, which has proved itself worthy of its honour able name. The liberty pole which was hoisted at St. Charles's at the meeting of the six counties, together with a wooden tablet bearing the inscription, " A Papineau, par ses conci toyens reconnoissans," have been brought into town. General Brown's military coat, with epaulets, is also in possession of one of the soldiers. Mr. Spiers, who was reported as having been murdered by the rebels, returned to town on Thursday with the Royals, Wetherall's victory was much more complete than has been reported; the carnage was so great that it has not been pub. lished. The malcontents lost at least 500 men, by shot, fire, and water. They fought very well until they were charged by the bayonet, and then the butchery was dreadful. Upwards of 100 were in a barn full of hay and straw, which was set fire to, and they were burned alive or smothered. Many attempted to cross the river, and were drowned. Brown's carpet bag, with one clean shirt and one pair of stockings, his new regi mentals' were found; and in the bag many letters, which im plicated parties not hitherto suspected. Colonel Gore has marched with five or six hundred men against St. Denis. The fate of that town was decided on Sa turday last, but is not yet known. The orders are to destroy everything—to raze the houses to the ground or burn them; and it is expected that, as in the affair of St. Charles, no quarter will be given. Colonel Wetherdll also leaves Montreal this day for Grand Brule, where the enemy were in force, but without provi sions. They have been pillaging the whole country without mercy. One thousand poimds have been offered by the Governor for the head of Papineau, and also for that of Brown. This will probably secure them. These are hard times, and a thou sand pounds are not to be despised. They arc in great spirits, and full of military ardour at Montreal. The volunteers are very assiduous in their duties, and every gentleman in the city carries his musket. Every thing reported from Burlington may be considered as false. One thousand of the Glengarry Volunteers are expected to arrive daily at Montreal. Your's, &c. THE ARMY. It is stated in the Halifax papers, that the first division of the 85th Regiment, under Lieut.-Colonel Maunsel, had ar rived at New Brunswick from Halifax. The 43d Regiment were to march by the post route for Canada, as soon as the necessary preparations were made. The 34th arc said to have a.nivcd at Metis, in this province. This is stated in the lifer cury, on the authority of private letters from below, but we have not been able to discover from the Halifax papers that the 34th Regiment had left that place. M. LabalmotLdiere, 83d Regiment, returned last evening, via Boston, from Halifax, where, it will be recollected, he carried dispatches relative to the movement of troops in this province. LATEST FROM CANADA. " the only further information we have from Lower Canada is, that the whole country is in a state of fermentation ; and that about 2,000 habitans are assembled at Grand Brule, and that the communications with Montreal and the adjoining country were altogether interrupted. " In some of the seigneuries the dissaffected had paid do miciliary visits to the Loyalists, and disarmed them. Mang of the latter have removed to Montreal with their families. It must be remembered that Montreal is an Island, and that repeated embarkations and disembarkaiions arc a sad impedi ment to the celerity of military movements. " In the mean time the inhabitants of British and American descent arc not idle. They are mustering in great numbers and spirit ; and on the night of the 23th of November about 500 men from Clarenccville, on the Richelieu, near the frontier of this state, turned out with alacrity against a sup posed attack from the insurgents. They had no occasion to show their courage, however, as it was a false alarm. Their zeal may encourage others ( Upper Canada.) " The Scotch settlers in Glengarry, to the number of 2,000 have declared their readiness to march to the assistance of the Government. The Radicals in the Upper Province, although clamourous for Reform, are by no means ready for revolution, and have intimated their willingness to quell M. Papineau's pretentions. Their example has been followed in other places. The following paragraphs, containing the latest in formation from Quebec, the seat of Government of British North America:— " The enrolling of men for the several volunteer corps of artillery and infantry commenced yesterday, did went on with a spirit beyond the expectation of the most sanguine. We understand that upwards of 400 men had volunteered be fore three o'clock, and probably before this evening the seve ral corps now authorised will have completed their complement. One company, nearly 80, consists of sailors, many among them old men-of-war-men, who will make excellent hands at the batteries. " The guns en the works were fired yesterday, for the pur pose of scaling the guns, which alarmed the country people, who supposed that the city was actually attacked.—Quebec Mercury, Nov. 30. " For a week before Thursday last, the weather was some of the worst we ever recollect in Canada. The temperature was mild, with mixed rain and snow, and violent easterly winds. On Tues , lay night the rain froze as it fell, and coated everything with pure ice nearly an inch in thickness. Immense destruction has been made in the woods. Oak trees of two feet in diameter have been broken off by the weight of the ice on the branches and twigs. Other trees have limbs of about a foot in diameter split off, and all the smaller trees and bushs have their tops bent down to the ground, and many of them split. The orchards have also suffered. The mischief hag not extended, however, more than about six miles from the river. Since Thur.i.day it has been cold; the thermomoter 5 degrees above Zero, and on Saturday night there was suffi cient snow to make good winter roads. Th 3 floating, ice in the river is increasing fast. —Gazette. MR. O'CONNELL'S SECOND LETTER ON POOR LAWS. " TO MY CONSTITUENTS. " Fellow.countrymen,—This letter is intended to fix your attention upon two objections to the proposed poor law; both are important, though of unequal magnitude. " The first is this :—By the 19th section of the Bill, at page 7 of the printed copy, it is enacted that no clergyman of any persuasion can be elected a guardian of the poor. " I submit that it would be infinitely better to have clergymen of all denominations eligible —that is, capable of being elected, if the rate-payers think fit to elect them. It is a mistake to think that the Catholic and Protestant clergy quarrel or create jealousies when engaged together in works of charity or benevolence. The contrary is proved by one thousand instances in which they have cor dially co-operated together in such works. Indeed this enactment is one of the proofs of the utter, and I may say contemptuous, ignorance of the real state of Ireland on which this Bill is framed. _ " The real guardims Of the poor are the clergy. Why should they be shut out from any share whatever in the legal guardianship ? It is really too bad. The second objection, however, is of vital consequence. It is the grand and overwhelming error of the Bill. It is the most important feature of the measure. " It involves these questions :—How, and by whom are the rates and cesses to be paid ? Who are to be the payers ? Are they to be the landlords or the tenants ? the residents in Ireland or the absentees? • " The answer to each question is—the occupiers are to pay : that is, the tenants are to pay and not the land lords : the residents are to pay—not the absentees. " I proceed now to show how the occupiers are to pay, and also what remedy they arc to have for a part—a small part, indeed—of the rates against the landlords and the ab sentees.: " By the 67th section, page 23, the occupier is rendered .liable t%_the payment of the entire rate ; that rate can be enforceTby distress and sale, or by suit, in like manner as the grand jury cess. " By the 69th section every tenant holding at a rent not lexceeding .5/. a-year is not to pay any poor rates. Tbi " The occupier also, if he lays out money in the cultivation of his farm, or improvement of his house, renders it of more value. What is the consequence ? Fin. every shilling he lays out he increases Lis proportion of the poor -rate, and exonerates in the ratio . of his (the tenant's) expenditure, his landlord, who does not lay out one shilling. " What can be more inconsistent with good policy than this, to discourage improvement, and encourage absenteeism ? " I have thus shown the state of the occupiers of lands. I wish my constituents to understand that the occupiers of houses are worse off, for this simple reason, that the rent of a house is, in general, less in proportion to its value, than the rent of lands. The value of houses is given by way of fine in very many instances. In most instances, some fine is given. That fine is not to be taken into calculation in offer to exonerate the occupier from the poor-rate. No such thing; it is the landlord or the house-owner that will be exonerated from the pour rate, in the exact ratio of the fine he receives. By paying the fine, the rent of the tenant is less, and the annual calcu lated profit above the rent is more. It is upon that profit the occupier will pay his proportion of the second half of the poor rate ; and of course, that proportion will be the greater in proportion to the greatness of the fine, and of the sums of mo ney laid out in improvements. " Inhabitants of Dublin—the more you improve your houses, the more you fino down your rents, the more poor-rates you will have to pay, and the less poor-rates will be paid by your landlords. "Is this to be borne—is this burden on the occupiers and residents on Ireland to be endured, in order to exonerate the rents of landlords and absentees from poor•rate, and to give a pecuniary bonus to landlords to transport themselves out of Ireland, and to augment the baleful number of absentees ? " But this is not all ; the tenant is still worse off, the land lord is still better off. Look at the 74th section, page 25 : you will find the mode in which the tenant or occupier is to he repaid by the landlord the part of the poor -rate chargeable on the landlord. "Observe, in the first place, that the entire rate is to be paid, without any deduction, by the occupier, and that in every instance. " In Ireland it is no small inconvenience to a tenant to be oblied to advance money on account of his landlord ; but let that pa , s. Under this Bill the occupit. r must advance the landlord's share of the rate. " But, having advanced it, how is the occupier to be repaid by the I.lndlord? " The 74th section will tell you the astounding fact, that the occupier is to be repaid only out of the gale to accrue next after such rdranee. " This is almost incredible, but it is not less true. The wor!s of the 74th section are express. I will give them, to exYhit a rnenstrosty of legislation I believe unparalleled. Oh! 1.1:e Union ! ! the Union !!! " Provided always that no person entitled to rent shall be compellable to accept in part payment thereof any receipt for rate un'ess the residue of the Fortion or gale of rent, next ac cruing due after the payment of the rate by the person tender ing the receipt, be also tendered and paid.' " Thus the receipt of the rate-collector for the landlord's share of the poor r :te shall be taken as part of the occupier' rent in one case, and in one casx only —that is, in case the occupier shall pay.up in full all rent due of him when he paid the rate, and all the gale to become due after he paid the rate. It is, in short, only out of a gale to become due after the pN)r-rate has been raid, that it is to be allowed, and only upon the terms of paying up all that gale. " This is, indeed, a boon to landlords. It is, iudeed, the first time an Irish tenqnt was ever required to pay a rent not due, but to become due. " Was I not right in calling this a landlords' bill—an ab sentees' Bill ? '‘ It ought to be entitled, an Act the better to enable harit landlords and absentees to extort large rcuts, and to throw the support of the Irish poor on the residents and occupiers of lands and houses in Ireland.' Besides, there is this peculiar bar lsbip in placing theso payments on cecupiers resident in Ireland, that it is a plan diametrically o, polite to the general policy of the present Ad ministration. That policy has been to throw the tithes and other burdens on the roots, that is, as much as possible on the landlords. This plan is to throw as little as possible upon the rents and landlords, and as much as possible upon the occu;iers. Thus the Ministry contradict thernFelra, end whilst they advocate the placing other burdens on the rent and landlords, they now insist upon throwing this burden on the occupiers and residents. " Why should the Ministry violate their own principles and, in this instance, act in a way directly the reverse of that which they pursue on other occasions ? I have no doubt that one reason is, because unless they conciliated the landlords they would have no chance of passing the Bill through the House of Lords. The second reason I fear is this, that this Bill has originated with the Grey section of the Cabinet, and that scot on is necessarily tinged by the extinguishable hatred of Ireland and Irishmen which is well known to rage in Earl Grey's breast, and from which sprung the atrocious Coer cion Act. • " Our business is, if possible, to save the Ministry from the fatal effects of such a mistake as is involved in this Poor-law Bill. We owe too deep a gratitude to Lord, Melbourne's Ad ministration, and, above all and before all, to the Government of the Earl of Mu?grave, not to exert every energy in our power to rescue that Administration from the fatal effects of this ill-considered measure. My object is this if we are to have a Poor-law in Ire laud, let the rates come out of rents, and out of rents almost exclusively. Tax the rents, one, two, or ten shillings in the pound. Relieve the occupiers, the payers of wages, the em ployers of labourers; lean on the non-residents, on the absen tees, on the men who take all and restore none, who employ nobody in Ireland, pay no wages in Ireland, drain everything, and return nothing. " What is then to be done ? Alas 1 I fear very little ; no thing, certainly, effectual, unless every parish, town, city, and county in Ireland bestirs itself, and clamours loud and long against this Bill. " It has been said that the Bill may be amended in Com mittee. I tell the people of Ireland that it will not be so amended ; that it cannot be se amended, unless the people, by overwhelming petitions to Parliament, compel the Ministry to attend to their cries. " Citizens of Dublin, it depends on yourselves. Men of Ireland, it depends on yourselves. I do my duty in exposing the absurdities—the glaring mischiefs cf this Bill. What sup port am Ito expect ? " From the prey, little—very . little. There is a maudlin affectation of sentimentality about what is called a provision for the poor' which distorts the views of most of our public writers, and prevents them from seeing that, at all events, this Bill is no provision for the poor,' but is really a provision to render occupants and residents poor indeed, and to proclaim protection and rewards to landlords and absentees- 111 , " Even the English press will do nothing for us. Irish poor laws are not of sufficient interest to justify the, London papers to insert my letters on this subject. Even The Sun which takes co kind and zealous a part on most subjects con nected with Ireland, does not feel itself warranted to consume its space by printing my commentary on this Bill. I could