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C Ist thoroughly an tirely the less diipose to aid the zt the right of suffrage for NATIONAL LOAN "ICTIC33 L ASSUR AL* CE SOCIETY, FOR GRANTING LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c. No. 26, CORNHILL. Capital £500,000. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. DIRECTORS. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman. Elliotson, M.D., F. R. S. John Rawson, Excl. John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Riddle Stodart, Esq. Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq. George Lungiey, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq. No. 15,711. LONDO FRIO 1Y xr - - DECEMBER 30 1842. ta rItICE sd. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F. R. S Arm. ILY—W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq. ,F.R.A. S. Psyszosx—J. Elliotson, M. D. , F. R. S. Sunazox—E. S. Symes, Esq. SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Lweos, and Ommanney. BANKERS—Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co. ' The most rational motives to Life Assurance are found in the plan adopted by this Society ; viz. joined to a secure provision at death for inheritors of the Assured, the Society affords succour to the Assured himself (proportioned to pre vious payments) in the event of unforeseen reverses. Annual Division of Profits. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary. THE SUN is Published EVERY MORNING at FIVE O'CLOCK, i n Ti me f or t h e EARLY TRAINS and TOWN DELIVERY; a SECOND EDITION (Evening Sun) is Published in Time for the AFTERNOON TRAINS and a THIRD EDITION at SEVEN O'CLOCK, for POST, containing PARLIAMENTARY and all other NEWS in LONDON up to that Hour. ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in. ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE. ANGLO-MEXICAN MINT OFFICE 9, NEW BROAD-STREET, LONDON Dec. 17, 1842. RA. HENRY RUSSELL'S SECOND YO CAL ENTERTAINMENT will take place at the Hanover-square Rooms, on TpinisDAY !evenipg, Jan. 12. Several new compositions will introduced, namely, " The Dream of the Reveller," " The Natlional Melodies of Ame rica," " The Yourg Soldier," several new Indian and Prairie songs, &c., and by desire, "The Maniac," and " The Ship en Fire." * a Tickets 2s. 6d. each ; reserved seats is. each ; reserved fa mily seats, to admit four, 10s. 6d. each—to be had of Messrs. Cramer, Addison, and Beale, 201, Regent-street ; and of all the principal Music.sellers. LANDLORDS AND TENANTS IN IRELAND. COMPLETE SUFFRAGE - CON- FERENCE. Notice is hereby given. that a SPECIAL oENERAL MEETING of SHAREHOLDERS of the ANGLO MEXICAN MINT COMPANY will be held at this Office on WEDNESDAY, the 4th January next, to take into consideration tha expediency of RAISING ADDITIONAL CAPITAL for the Purposes of the Company. The Chair will be taken at Two o'clock precisely. G. B. LONSDALE, Secretary. CONCLUSION OF MR. O'CONNELL'S LETTER ON THE IRISH POOR-LAW. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE AS SURANCE COMPANY, No. 1 i, Lombard-street, at the Entrance of the Old Post Office, London. DILLECTORT. JOHN W. BUCKLE, Esq., Chairman. JAMES .MORRIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Renry Hulse Berens, Esq. John Loch, Esq. John Dixon, Esq _. Lewis Loyd, jun., Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. George Lyall, Esq. M. P. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. S. Marjoribanks, Esq. M.P. Ralph Fenwick, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P. Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, jun., Esq. G. orge Johnstc ne, Esq. John Thornton, Esq. • John Labouchere, Esq. James TullochEsq. When Sir Robert Peel said that Ireland was his greatest difficulty, he did not mean a difficulty arising from a Parliamentary representation. He knew that some four boroughs were already becoming cor rupt, and could be bought with English money. He knew that our county constituencies were fading away, and that popular power in them was nearly annihilated. Besides, he has now such an overwhelm ing Tory majority of unprincipled English Members that the Parliamentary force of Ireland is like chaff before the wind. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY. LOANS.—The Directors are prepared fo receive TENDERS for the LOAN OF MONEY, in sums of not less than 1,0001. each, to be secured by the bonds of the Com pany, for periods of three, fire, or seven years, at the option of the lender. Interest thereon will be allowed at the,rate of Four per Cent per annum, payable half-yearly, in London or Man- chester. The tenders to state which of the periods above men tioned is preferred, and to be. addressed to the Secretary. By order, JOHN JELLICORSE, Sec. Manchester,'Dec, 6th, 1842. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. AUDITORS. A. W. Robarts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Samuel Jones Loyd, Esq. f George Stone, Esq. ACTUARY—Griffith avies, Esq., F.R.S. In the LIFE DEPARTMENT, a Bonus was declared in June, 1829, exceeding One per Cent. per Annum on the Sums in sured, en an average of the different Ages; and a second Bonus at nearly similar amount was declared in June, 1836. At each period the Bonuses allotted to the different Policies averaged rather more than. 28 per Cent. on the amounts of Premiums paid thereon daring the preceding seven years. FIRE DEPARTMENT.—Notice is hereby given, that Assu rances which expire at Christmas must be renewed with in, fifteen days at this office, or with Mr. Sams, No. 1, St. James's -street, corner of Pall-mall, or with the Company's agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they become void. GEORGE KEY Swetar.y. • ZHE FARMERS' and GENERAL FIRE and LIFE INSURANCE INSTITUTION. Empowered by Act of Parliament. Offices, No. 346, Strand, London. Capital 500,0001. With 1,960 Shareholders Enrolled. HONORARY DIRECTORS. Ills Grace the Duke;111;:t1Ldlihel;;1 of Stamford and War- The Earl of Stradbroke rington .The Earl of Coventry Lord Stanley, M. P. Earl Dude Lord Rayleigh The Earl of Stair Lord Feversham Lord Viscount Campdon And Seventy-two other Members of Parliament and Gentlemen. COUNTY DIRECTORS. Upwards of One Hundred and Seventy Gentlemen, Landed Prop r iet ors , or otherwise connected with Agriculture, holders of Fifty Shares, have been appointed County Directors. FARMING STOCK Insured without the average clause at Is. 9d. per cent. ; no duty. COMMON INSURANCE at the usual moderate rates. INSURANCE ON LIVES on an equitable scale of charges. The usual Commission to Solicitors. Agents are appointed in all the Principal Towns in the Kingdom. W. SHAW, Managing Director. ONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. a, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, & 55, Chaneery-lane, London. TRUSTEES. Kennett Kingsford, Esq. I Benj. Ifill, Esq. I J. Bidden, Esq. All the advantages peculiar to mutual Life Assurance, aris ing from a division amongst the assured of the whole of the Mutual Profits, and that security and freedom from responsibi lity which Proprietary Companies can alone afford, are com bined by the constitution of the London, Edinburgh, snd Dublin Lif e A ssurance C ompany , w hi c h i s the only guaranteed l ifutual Society. The rates of premium are somewhat lower k than in most of the mutual offices, and for the non-participating, ltrid for those who effect assurances for temporary purposes, or debt or and creditor transactions, Tables of Premium have been repared, by which a less immediate payment is required than by any other plan. By a half premium credit system one-half of the premium' !nay be retained for the first seven years, and repaidat the con ‘,.enience of the assured: and by the Ascending Scale a greatly diminished rate of premium is required for the first twelve years. SPECIMEN OF ASCENDING TABLE. ge, First Second Third I Fourth Remainder 3 Years. 3 Years. 3 Years. 3 Years. of Life. ' 20 £0 19 I£l 5 6£l 11 11 1 £1 18 4 £2 4 9 3 0 1 6 6 114 7 2 2 8' 210 9 218 10 40 113 5 2 5 7 217 9' 3 911 4 2 1 50 216 31 310 10 4 5 5 5 0 0 514 7 6 0 4 8 111 517 4 7 5 9 814 2 10 2 7 The Policies granted by this Company have this great and Peculiar advantage, that they are declared by the Deed of Con stitution to be indefeasible and indisputable : unless they have been obtained by fraudulent misrepresentation. Prospectuses, Schedules, and every information requisite to enable parties to effect Assurances, will be forwarded, free of expense, by the Agents or Manager. ALEX. ROBERTSON. Manager. REEMASON S' and GENERAL LIFE AS SURANCE, LOAN , ANNUITY, and REVER AIONARY INTEREST COMPANY. 11, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. This Office unites the benefit of a mutual association with the leexrity of a Proprietary Company, and offers to the Assured • snongst others the following advantages : 1. Credit until death, with privilege of payment at any time Previously, for one-half of the premiums for the first five years upon Assurances for the whole of life ; a plan peculiarly advan ' tage ous for securing Loans. 2. In Loan transactions, the lender secured against the risk °f the borrower going out of Europe. 3. Sums assured to become payable at given ages, or death, if previous. 4. Policies indefeasible; fraud alone, not error, vitiating them, and in case the Renewal Premium remain unpaid, the Assurance may be revived at any time within Six Months, upon satisfactory proof of health, and payment of a trifling fine. 5. Officers in the Army and Ravy, and persons residing 4 road, or proceeding to any part of the world, may be as 'Allred upon equitable terms. 6. Immediate, Survivorship, and Deferred Annuities granted; 4 41 Endowments for Children, and every other mode of pro vision for families arranged. _ _ AM the rates will be found to have been computed as low as is eonsi t tent with security. 'JOSEPH BERRIDGE, Secretary. IC TORIA LIFE ASSURANCE AND LOAN COMPANY. No. 18, King William-stree' , City. Tau STEES. Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M. SI., Chairman. BENJAIIIN HAWES, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Benjamin Barnard, Esq. I Charles Baldwin, Esq. Solicitor, John Curtis, Esq., 80, P.aslngball-street. The ptincip2e of this Company is to alow to each Assurer %Itch reasonable advantages, as may suit Iris particular views. Thus, parties Assuring the Lives of oewrs, may make their Policies secure, no t w ithstanding the Life Assured may go out of the limits of Europe, without the necessary permission of the Directors having been previously obtained. Credit of half the Premiums for the first five years, allowed on Policies effected for the whole term of Life. Parties who have Veen Assured for five years will be allowed to borrow on the security of their Poli c i es , a sum equal to one-half the Premiums paid, less that 'tor the first year. Advances are made to parties Assured in the Office, on real or undoubted Persor.al Security, for terms Inot exceeding three years, repayable by instalments. Premiums I,3 loderate. Participation in profits. Detailed Prospectuses 4 43.? be obtained on application at the Office, or by latter kddr.essed to the Secretary. WILLIAM :RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary. PO SHIPPERS, OWNERS, CAPTAINS, and OTHERS Copies of Testimonials, Gratis, by all Agents. 13IMSTONE'S EYE SNUFF.—Under the Patronage of his late Majesty, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and the Lords of the Treasury, is universally l'ecommendeNd by the Faculty for its efficacy in removing dis 6rders incident to the Eyes and Head. SIGHT IthSTORED!—NERVOUS HEAD-ACHE AND DEAFNESS CURED! :3y the most simple, delightful, and fragrant Compound! mode of application is fraught with pleasure ; many thou 'and cures have been accomplished by its use, at a triflisig ex ,:Dense, yet certain in its operation. If testimonies be necessary `l<,„ 16 % ndnce the sufferer to make trial, Kings, Lords, and Coin ' %cos have used it. The Lords of the Treasury have sanctioner its, use . Their late M4esties, the Duchess, of Kent, the most '*<. `eminent Oculists, Medical Practitioners—with that gigantic 4:llanee, the Press—l:aye eulogised Grimstone's celebrated tforbaceous Compound, known as" Grimstone's Eye Snuff," Tor i 'ts efficacy in removing all diseases incident to the Eyes and Mead. G. J. Guthrie, Esq., F. R. 8. Sec J. B. Lachfield, le s q :' 3 Letter, Whitehall Dr. Tho mas. Dr. Andrew s Balls It a na ti o :1:11 blessing—sce his Reports touching its utility. The Tate Mr. A bernethy, with many others, recommend Grim ' stone's Eye .Snuff, and call it " Man's best - Friend," and the I "Student's V B :de Mecum."—See the many thousand Letters of Testimonies, 01 4 -undoubted medical authority, with others of the first respectabilit:. Nottingham, 28th Aug., 1841. 'rids extraordinary nuce is attested by Mr. James Wilcockson Foreign Sritqf and cigar Merchant, Nottingham. To Mr. W. Grinastone, 39, Br.:ad-street, Bloomsbury, London. feel great pleasure in se.:ding you the particulars of m} case, and the miraculous cure p t lrformed on myself , by using your truly valuable Eye-Snuff. I am now in my B:3d year, and a native of Holland, have bees; in this country 26 ye ars . Whether from change of climate, or my ....‘dvanced age , I cannot say, but for six years I have been deprivc.7l of sight, therefore unable to follow my business. I do most s,^cerely believe I should have remained in darkness and pain bin: for the kind recommendation of a friend to use your invention. I purchased a 2a. 4d. canister of your agent, Mr. Wilcockson, to •eacconist, who knows the above to be facts, and will bear wit ness to my extraordinary recovery of that most inestispable blessing of our life—" Perfect Sight"—l declare has proceeded from the use of your Eye Snuff. For the sake of those suffer ing, you may make what use you please of this letter, Mr. Wil cockson and many others will vouch for its truth. J refer the sufferers to this gentleman, being your Agent, and so well mown in Nottingham. I am, Sir, your obliged servant. • 28th Aug. 1841. ANNIS ZENIA MASSENIA. P. should not do you jdstice without stating my fwas almost instantaneous. My eyes became clear and reed from humour, and by persevering in its use very fre quently I am enabled to read small print without the aid of Glasses, and continue to enjoy God's greatest blessing—Sight ! free from pain. I have reason to be grateful, and do recom mend your Eye Snuff to all I know, Nottingham. A. Z. M. Observe the Caution.—W. GRIMSTONE h the sole in ventor, and the only genuine is prepared by him. This Odoriferous Herbaceous Compound of herbs is sold in canisters, at Bd., Is. 3d., 2s. 4d., 4s. 4a., Bs. and 15s. 6d. each by the Proprietor, W. GT imstone, at 3t , „ Broad-street; tiloomsbury, and can be obtained in all the prircipal tow. rs and r dies. A liberal allowance to shippers, owners, captains, and vendors of (rimstone's Eye Snuff. This celebrated South ' is shipped to all quarters of the globe, ana retains its benign qualities in every elimate. Nll Snuffs anti Ciea.r "shipped on be eaortest notice. 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DEC 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 COEBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE.—The New Year offering a favourable opportunity for com mencing a periodical, we are bound to remind a large class of her Majesty's subjects, that at the head of those periodicals which furnish useful and valuable information to their peculiar classes of readers, as well as amusement to I 'be general body of the public, must be the United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal. It numbers among its contributors almost all those gallant spirits who have doLe no less honour to their countrsr by their swords than by their pens, and abounds with the most intereFling discussions on Naval and Mlitary affairs, and stirring narratives of deeds of arms, in all parts of the world. Every information 0. 4 ,7 : value and interest to !Toth th e Services is caller; with the greatest diligence from, every available source, and the correspondence of various distinr4Dished officers which enrich its pages, is a featu re o f great attraction. In short, the United Semite 11 .caga , ine can be recommended to every reader - '.. who possesses that attachment to his country which should make him look with the deepest interest On it Naval and Military resources. No. It was not Irish Parliamentary power that was his difficulty. It 'was the temper of the Irish peop!e • the millions who know of' English rule no thing. but its inimical tendency; who have no sympa thies in common with those rulers ; who have heard of the wrongs arisinr , from a hostile domination, general and local, but who have never heard of any benefits derived from English rulers; who know that the present Administration belongs to that party who have, for centuries, oppressed their country and per sectited their religion ; who also know that from English distress or difficulty opportunities may arise for the assertion of Irish rights and the redress of I r ish grievances. • Yes. It was from this temper and disposition of mind of the Irish millions, that Peel felt the great difficulty of his Administration would arise. It is thence it now continues to arise. -What T want now ig, t that you should take part with that people ; that you should soothe and conciliate them. Ido not now speak to you of the restoration of our domestic Parliament, although that would de stroy all the evil tendencies of the present system, and amalgamate us all into-one people. My-present desire is limited to obtaining your aid in seeking the repeal, or, at least, the thorongh remodelling of the• Poor-law. The people of the county of Cork have many causes to complain of the great majority of their landed pro prietors, and of Peel's Administration that gives sup port and countenance to that majority. I will just call to your minds some of their causes of complaint. Let me try the numerical order. Firstly—The rural population of your county amounts to more than 750,000 souls. Yet the number of electors does not exceed, and scarcely equals, 8,000 ! What a frightful picture does this not afford of your unkindness and want of generosity as landlords ! Would it be posOble for the power of language to dis play evidence more condemnatory of your landlord hostility or stinginess to the occupying tenants of your county than is afforded by this single fact ? Three thousand persons only qualified to vote out of a population •of 750,000! The law which has thus enabled you to restrict the franchise, and the spirit which has . induced to act upon that law, are, indeed, melancholy proofs of the landlord animosity of your. county to the people. Secondly—Another exhibition of your landlord hostility towards the people of your county is to be found in the opposition given by the resident propri etary of the county of Cork to the Government plan of national education. The Catholics have no great reason to. applaud that system ; yet it was so much better than any former plan, that the people, with the assent, in your diocese, of their clerry, very generally availed themselves of it. What has been the conse quence ? Why, we hear it from the first authority that not above ten national schools have been opened by the Protestant proprietors in your .moat extensive • county. These were, of course, liberal Protestants; and whilst the smallness of their number affords a melancholy contrast with the greater multitude of illiberals, it imposes a duty on the people to enhance their gratitude to - the Liberals in the same, proportion. But that iS not the point lam labouring at. I labour to show how rancorous must be that hostility to the people entertained by your landed gentry, which would deprive that people of all chance of being educated without danger to their religious belief. Those who exhibit such hostility are not at all aware of its perni cious, though secret, effects Avon the, minds of the general population. Thirdly—But it does not. rest there.... You not only discourage education wneu unconneeted with prosely tism, but you carry on a direct crusade ..against the religion of the people. You wield your landlord influence and power in that unholy warfare. The compultory process is used in the vain, but irritating, • endeavour to make proselytes. That process is more " successful in compelling your Catholic tenants to send their children to the school called Protestant; A bitter infliction upon the unhappy tenantry ! And then, again, your " Scripture-readers," and " Tract distributors," and the entire bent of your disposition is adverse to Catholicity ; and the thousand shapes in which that adverse feeling is exhibited towards, and reciprocally felt by the people; the Protestant pre ferences in all dealings, and the inferiority which the Catholic peasant experiences, both at petty sessions and in the other manifestations of Magisterial autho • ' rity. The vexatious power which the " Wilful Tres pass Act," alone gives, would, in order to make it tolerable, require the utmost mildness and impartiality. In short, in all the incidents of life, the Catholic people feel deeply the effects of your unfriendly dis- ' position. I much apprehend you are furnishing the materials for a slumberin,-, volcano. The surface is - smooth and tranquil. Buethere may be fermenting underneath the materials of a most destructive ex plosion. Fourthly—Let me put a suppositious case. Let me suppose that which, I thank Heaven, is impossible ever to be realised—let me suppose that there were • selected for the highest offs fie in your county a noble- • man or gentleman, who, however amiable in private life, was bigoted in his political and religious animosity to Protestants and Protestantism. If the Magisterial bench were crowded with similar enemies to Protest• • ants and Protestantism,. if all the Government countenance, and every Government preference were given to persons of similar sentiments, and if such preference were aggravated by insulting pretences to great liberality ; if the Judges of the land, in whose hands should be the lives and fortunes of you all, were to be selected for having spent lengthened years in bitter opposition to Protestant education—if men were to be selected who had proclaimed that the Protestants were perjurers in principle and in practice, idolators or infidels, if Protestants and Protestantism had been treated in this manner—need I ask what impression would be made on the minds of the Protestant people of Ireland ? What would be the temper of . that people ? How they would laugh to scorn- the hypo crites who, in such a state of affitirs, should indulge in maudlin pretexts of liberality and justice? Would the Protestant volcano then slumber ? Do but reflect. Turn these things in your minds, and look back to the fate and destruction of empires as recorded in history ; and with me then zealously exert yourselves to avert events which, if they once , occur, will go far beyond human control. Fifthly—To return to the immediate burdens upon the land. Recollect there are such things as rack, rents, which, of course, are payable by the occupiers . of the soil. Add to these the heavy county charges which are enormously increased and increasing. The roads—the bridges—the sessions houses—the court houses—the police stations—the prisons —the expenses of prosecutions—the police charge—in ,short, . the multitudinous burdens for which our counties arc payable by the occupy-be forg o tt en — mus t have in mortgaged, tenant NNa, who —let l e l t i c i h t a n r e e v e a r l l land or must die ! Turn in your minds the curious contrast, the centralisation, in one spot, of all the power, and authority, and wealth-dispensation of the Government, but no centralisation' of the multitudi nous burdens which are carefully localised in Ireland ; thus placing upon our unhappy country as much as possible of the expenses of the machine of the State, - with as little as possible of State advantages or State emoluments. But, above all things, carry with you the recollection that these burdens are all borne by the occupying tenants, who, in their necessary eager ness to possess land, are nut able to shift the load upon their landlords. Sixthly--But, before all, recollect that the whole burden of the Established Church —the Church of not a malgamated with the rents. The tith e n o w co mposes one-tenth of the Irish people - -is now mixed up and part of the rent which the tenant pays; it is true that in general he does not pay it to the parson himself; but you cannot possibly imagine that the Irish peasant is ignorant that a portion of his rent goes into the man, whom he thus p s n o p c k p or e t t of s, as t h h e c i d ' r e o e t s e s h t i a s n i t ay c l l e a r n g d i ' ord. The tithes were considered by that peasant as an accursed thing. Is it safe or prudent to have the Irish peasant conceive that his rent shares the maledictory taint ? Are not all these materials for thinking, especially with the facts stated by the Rev. Mr. Nolan, staring you in the. face? Would to Heaven that I could induce the landlords of Ireland to make peace with the Irish people, instead of aggravating pressing evils by contumelious treatment land the bitterness of bigOted oppression ! Seventhly—l come to apply all these reflections to the question more immediately before us—that of the Poor-laws. It would be easy to deal with those laws if they were tq be introduced amongst a peasantry 1 who had no other grievances to complain of, and no partisan hostility to render them dissatisfied and sus picious. But you must take them as you find them, with every other cause of complaint existing; with the burden of the county cess ; with the payment of the tithe rent charge; with the religious animosity and irritating zeal of an antagonist creed. You must also prepare yourselves for the perpetual recurrence of a new poor-rate after poor-rate ! If it were but one payment, it might be enforced ; but it is the repetition of the enforcement that will increase your difficulties into an impossibility. See how the difficulties will multiply. The harsh conduct of the Commissioners, the suspicion of their partisan feeling, the proofs of their bitter bigotry, will increase the odium attached to this tax. Then the poor-houses are, it seems, becoming the legitimate successors of the Charter Schools for the maintenance of orphans to be brought up Protestants; although the desertion of a child in this country is, to a think ing mind, rather a strong proof of the utter poverty of the parent, and, therefore, of that parent's belonging to the religion of the poor in Ireland. Another fearful consequence of the continuance of the Poor-law in Ireland is its necessary creation of a pauper and helpless population. There are in Dublin, between the two workhouses, at the present moment, at least from 1,500 to 1,600 persons between the ages of 10 and 18, having no friends and relations to fall back upon, or to take them out of the workhouse. What is to become of these ? What is to become of the accumulation of similar persons from the daily re ception of others into the house ? What is to bccome of this " workhouse family," ineiteasing as they yearly , ust, in tens, i n huthireds. audin-t.1....,.Anit. a ,yearly '• bee • is to .come of them ? Are they to be sent out to too.: for employment ? Alas! there is but too little em ployment for those who are out already! Are they to be dismissed and bidden to 'go look for wages ? Alas! there are but too little wages for those who are already seeking them, without ever having gone into the poor-house ! Are they to live " from the cradle to the grave" within the walls of the workhouse ? It may be said the males may enlist as they become adults, to furnish soldiers to our armies. In this respect the experi ment has already been tried in the Charter Schools, and totally failed. There never were enough of their inmates possessed of manly vigour to constitute a cor poral's guard. And yet they were brought up with the advantages of open air and free exercise. But the male and female youth brought up in the imprison ment of the workhouse will become driftless and un fit for any .pursuit that requires labour and exertion. The plant reared in the dark never acquires the green ness and vigour of fertile nature. This unhappy poor house population, totally disconnected from friends, relatives, or motives for exertion, will display in the moral world, what the plant brought up in the dark displays in the physical. . This is a frightful prospect of a necessarily aig menting pauper population : a new class created in society; idle, useless, driftless ! Another menacing consequence of the continuance of the Poor-laW in Ireland, must necessarily be the giving of an absolute right to the paupers to be ad mitted into the poor house. It has passed unnoticed that our worthy Poor-law Commissioners have strongly urged, in three of their reports, that persons should be prevented from begging in Ireland ; and Lord Morpeth had at one time undertaken to bring in a Bill for . the Suppression of Mendicity. This, of course, could not be done without giving to every pauper an absolute right to claim and obtain relief in the poor-houSe. If this law should pass, it would 1 , be .necessary to erect another workhouse in Cork, and at least two more in Dublin. And if the Poor-law contiuues, "to this complexion we must come at last." Another necessary consequence of the continuance -of the Poor-law in Ireland, must be the giving of out door relief; especially if mendicancy be suppressed. In that case, out-door relief must, of course, be given in all pressing cases. But after all it is monstrous to talk of a Poor-law without out-door relief. If there be a principle at all in the Poor-law, it must extend itself to giving relief to all who want it, whether in the poor-house or out of the poor-house. Had not this letter run to such a length, there are many other points relative to 'the Poor-law that I should touch on, inore especially to illustrate the dif ficulties which must arise in levying an universal Poor-rate. I deeply deplore that I cannot discover means of avoiding the inevitable conviction that the Poor law will be in Ireland what Talleyrand called "the beginning of the end." It will be, in my opinion, the last drop in the filling up of the waters of bitterness to make them overflow the land. It will give to Whiteboyism and to Ribbonism another and a most melancholy feature. It will give the last worst phases to the agarian system of disturbance; flick warfare between landlord and tenant. Shall you - ask what is my remedy ? My remedy would be the restoration to Ireland of her nationality —of her domestic Legislature. Ireland is, by nature and natural advantages, the richest country in the world; the best situate for commerce and manufac tures; infinitely the most productive of all the neces saries of life. It therefore appears to me plain as the clearest demonstration, that her people are poor and wretched only, because they are not well-governed ; and above all, because in the present system of the Union, the resources of Ireland are drained out of her as fast as they spring up. But there some of you whom I do not now expect to make converts to that national sentiment. There are, alas ! amongst you many that are pationless ; as I fear there are some who are creedless, save only in a creed of hate. I cannot, therefore, expect to make you love Ireland, or to become Irishmen. All that belongs to another (and I trust not a distant) day. I, therefore, must propose to you my present re medies. They are two—with an alternative. My first is; the total repeal of the present Poor law. Ireland was not worse before the Poor-law was enacted than she is at present. My second is, to follow up that repeal by aug menting the present medical charities, and extending the same principle to the multiplication and manage ment of other charities. Or, in lieu of both—and if we are to have a Poor- On NV : To make the poor-rate an income-tax—all persons to be exempt who have not an income of 5001. per annum. 'The Poor-rate to be, say 1 per cent. upon 5001. a-year, and to augment in proportion as the in come augment's, until, if necessary, it should be 50 per cent. upon the enormous incomes of absentee pro prietor 3. An experiment of this description, but not carried out to the extent which I propose, has mitigated the horrors of the tithe system. Let it be distinctly understood that I propose no man should pay poor-rate who has not 5001. a-year ; but that the owner of 5001. a-year should pay 1 per cent., and that such per centage should increase in ths ratio of one for every additional hundred per an num. The actual per centage, however, could not be an essential part of my plan. The principle of that plan is, to exempt all persons under 5001. a-year ; and to levy the poor-rate by a graduated i ncome - tax uuon every person having that income, with an accumula ting ratio for greater incomes. It is quite clear that no violent resistance, no insur rectionary movement, would be created by the plan which I propose. It is the wealthy alone who would, on my plan, be compelled to support the paupers. And the self-interest of that class, with the power which naturally belongs to them from their station in the State, would effectually protect them from the faults and the follies of the Poor-law Commissioners. I have only to add these two sentences : Firstly—That I am ready to attend any day in January before the 22d, in the City of Cork, to meet any of my constituents who may,desire to confer with me upon the subject of Poor-laws, or to obtain my assistance in Parliament to promote their views. Secondly—That I have heard that the Government, s 9 far from checking the authority of our worthless Poor-law Commissioners, is actually mad enough to think of placing under their control the medical charities of Ireland. That is to say, in other words, to annihilate nine-tenths of our medical charities ! I have the honour to be, My Lords and Gentlemen, Your faithful humble servant, . DANIEL O'CONNELL. DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Wednesday morning, be tween nine and ten o'clock, the following determined suicide was committed by Mr. John Sowerby, highly respectable master butcher, who for some years past resided in Farringdon-market, Farringdon street, by drawing himself in the Paddington-canal. It ap pears, from the statement of two labouring men, that they were walking on the foot-path of the canal, at the above-mentioned hour, when they observed the unfortunate man jump into the canal; they hast,ened with all speed to his assistance, but he imindi2tely sunk; they. rushed into the water, and after a quarter of an hour, they found the body. Every exertion was used to restore him, but without effect. The body was removed to Paddington station-house to await a Coroner's inquest. BIRMINGHAM, WEDNESDAY. —The delegates as sembled again last night, when the Chairman com menced- the business by reading to the meeting two letters, one.-from Mr. Sharman Crawford, who had deputed his son to attend on his behalf; and referring to a pamphlet which.he had just published, entitled " A Defence of the Rights of the Working Classes," for an exposition of his views with respect to the pre sent movement, The second letter was from Mr. Daniel O'Connell, addressed to Joseph Sturge, Esq., and was to the following effect : " Darrynane Abbey, Dec. 22. "My respected Friend,—Your letter, requiring to know whether I could attend in Birmingham at the meeting of delegates for carrying out the principles of the Complete Suffrage Association, has been followed by the draft of the Bill for that purpose, which draft reached me only this morning. " With respect to the first point—namely, my at tendance at the Conference, I have, on the fullest con sideration, determined not to go there. Do not ima gine, however, that this refusal results from my want of zeal in the cat se of Universal Suffrage. No such thing. lam thoroughly convinced that every man of legal age, who does not forfeit his right by crime . or id;otcy, has, by the principles of the British • Constitution, a distinct, inextinguishable right to vote for a representative in the Commons' House of Parliament. lam convinced that such right on the part of every male adult is to the full as complete as the right of any member of the House of Peers to the privilege of peerage; or as the right of our gra cious Oueen to the throne. The only difference is, tlat an practice the tifd- fatter - Srein - 7ficii-vigoor, perhaps somewhat superfluously so; while the former —the suffrage right—is curtailed, and restricted, and mutilated; thus creating, where all should be free men, a distinct and separate slave class, who, by iniquitous laws, and more iniquitous practices, have been robbed of their natural birthright, and are essen tially slaves. " I am ';he friend of the slave class in every clime and coun;:ry ; but more especially in the British dominions. " I am also the most decided advocate for the voting by ballot; the best, if not the only mode of prevent irg corrupt and criminal practices at elections. " I also concur in the other points proclaimed by the Complete Suffrage Association ; that.concurrenee, however, is created by my sacrificinc , my own opinion of a preference of triennial to annual L Parlian.ents, to my sincere desire of producing unanimity of exertion amongst all friends of a real, substantial, and radical reform of Parliament. " The reason why I am thus distinct in once more stating my political creed is, because I cam answer for it, that the overwhelming majority of the people of Ireland go with me upon these points, and that they will co-operate with their English br4her Reformers in all legal and peaceable means, but in no other, for obtaining a fair, free, and complete representation of the people in Parliament. " The great reason why I do not consent to attend the meeting at Birmingham is because I have con vinced myself that I ought rather to be a spectator of than an actor in your approachinc , exertions. I have been personally so hostile to tbat class called 'physical force Chartists —I have been sa unjustly and, indeed, so absurdly calumniated by their writers, that I have brought - myself to believe, though perhaps without any sufficient foundation, that any efforts I could make for conciliation and to produce harmony might be defeated, and that my presence might tend to di minish the prospects of concord and co-operation which are so necessary for the success of your just demands. " Besides, it is to be apprehended that there are too many other causes of strife and contention be between the more ardent and violent of the Chartist party and the more placid and mild portion of the Complete Suffrage Association. If I could throw oil upon the troubled Waters, so as that, the ark of British liberty might float in tranquil grandeur on the poli tical wave, I should attend at once and at any sacri fice ; and if, after the meeting has been organised, you should be of opinion that my attendance would be of any possible use to the great cause, I will, with the rapidity of steam, place myself amongst you. " I do most anxiously desire that the spirit of peace, harmony, conciliation, and concord may reign in the Convention ; that you, may there have the means and the opportunity of considering and adopting the best modes of ensuring success. My entire conviction is, that without co-operation between the middle, and what is called the lower, that is, the poorer or working class, you cannot possibly succeed, and perhaps you ought not. Whether you ought, or not, the concur rence of the middle classes is, in my judgment, most essentially necessary towards obtaining the right of suffrage for the operative classes. Recent events have proved to demonstration the essential importance of the middle classes in any struggle fot the amelioration of political institutiont. I know that 'it was the co operation of the middle classes that enabled the people of Ireland to achieve Catholic emancipation. I know that it was the co-operation of the middle classes that enabled the people of England to obtain the first step in the march of Parliamentary reform. I see before my eyes at the present moment _ the irresistible progress of the middle class towards the total aboLion of all taxes upon human food. How anxiously, therefore, do I desire to see a combination between the middle and operative classes for the attainment of radical Reform. If that combi— nation takes place, the aristocratic classes, who have hitherto insulted and trampled upon the people, will be scattered like chaff before the wind ; and the honest and just principles of democratic liberty will pervade, ameliorate, and ennoble all the institutions of the State. Let me then conjure all the friends of peace able and rational liberty to use every possible exertion to constitute, to combine, and to consolidate the ope rative and middle classes, If that can be done, the materials of complete and immediate success are in your hands, a success unstained by violence or critte— a success deserving the praise of good men—a success deserving I hope the approbation of all good men. The meeting at Birmingham is a glorious oppor tunity for working out these purposes. That op portunity may be thrown away. It may be soiled, stained, and destroyed ; but the spirit that will work .among the best part of the members of the Con ference will survive; and even at the worst it will afford an opportunity of separating the chaff from the good seed. But let me not anticipate evils which may be merely imaginary ; .and let me trust and hope that any discordant element may soon evaporate, leaving nothing behind but kindly feelings and cordial disposition to unanimity in the service of our country. It may be said, by way of discouragement, that the present Administration, over which the Duke of Wel lington and Sir Robert Peel presides, being composed of men strongly inimical to Reform, there is no chance of their acceding to any measure approaching to uni versal suffrage._ There are, however, two facts con nected with the leaders of this Administration which show that they are inspired with a more pliable dispo sition. The first of those facts is, that the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel were selected by George the Fourth as the lead ers o f an Ad m i n i s t ra ti on framed for the express purpose of continuing the laws • by which the Catholics were excluded from the Con stitution; yet that very Administration, with these identical leaders, totally repealed these excluding laws. The second fact is, that the landlords of England have forced into power, in despite of the Queen, the came Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, for the ex press and proclaimed purpose ofpreserving in full vigour the .Corn-laws. Yet there are most unequivocal evi dences already exhibited to the public that this same Duke of Wellington and this same Sir R. Peel will totally repeal those same Corn-laws. These are most en couraging facts; they demonstrate that, unless some feud, some violence, some selfish desertion ruin our present prospects, there exists every probability, at no remote period, of vindicating and establishing the ' rights of the people at large. With respect to the draft of the Act of Parliament, I will return it, suggesting some alterations, which, I believe, will be improvements. But, in any event, it will be difficult to amalgamate the case of Ireland with that of England and Scotland. There are - two objections to the inclu sion of Ireland in the same Bill with Great Britain. The first is a technical one, and relates to there being no such machinery for the registry of voters in Ireland as in Grea; Britain. There are not in Ireland any parish overseers az in England, nor any parish schoolmasters as in Seotlaad, though there are schools in almost every parish. The expression " parish schoolmaster " would in Ireland be either too vague,matter or inf er , as of law, a schoolmaster employed by the Protestant clergy man. Of these there arc but a few, and there are still fewer to whom it would be safe to entrust any political duty with reference to the elective franchise. The second objection arises from matter of substance. - The millions in Ireland who are anxious for Universal Suftrage aye much more solicitic'us for the restoration of the Irish Parliament. They are convinced that, in the present state of the property and population of Ireltml, a local Legislature is essentially necessary for the peace and prosperity of this country. In this opi- I . nion I am bound tp say I n - ick. concur. We Irish are not t British people in working our _..„ ..„Lrage every male adult, Complet e Suffrage 6 being the only honest basis upon which 'either, our Parliament or yours should be founded. " I have the honour to be, with sincere regard and respect, your faithful friend and servant, "DANIEL O'CONNELL. "To Joseph Sturge, Esq." The meeting then proceeded to elect nine delegates to form a Committee to decide on the claims of par. ties, the legality or honesty of whose elections had been questioned by the Council. Mr. THOMAS BEGGS, of Nottingham, then proposed the following resolutions : "1. That this Conference, convened in conformity with a resolution passed at the first Complete Suffrage ConTei•ence held at Birmingham, April 5:1-8th, 1842, and having for its paramount object the, consideration of the necessary details of a Bill embodying the prin ciples then agreed upon—viz., the -extension of the suffrage to all male adults, not deprived of the rights of citizenship by a verdict of a jury of their country men —vote by ballot, equal - electoral districts, aboli tion of a property qualification for Members ofTar liament, payment of Members for their services, and annual Parliaments, do now declare its adoption of these principles, pledges itself to employ such means only for obtaining the legislatiVe recognition of them as are of a strictly just, peaceful, legal, and constitu tional character ; and will forthwith proceed to fulfil the mission with which it has been entrusted, resolved to support their chairman in preventing the introduc tion of any propositions not in accordance therewith. " 2. That, - 'as this Conference will resist the intro duction of any topics not obviously relevant to its main design, so it also disclaims all interfe.rence with existing organisations, recognising as its paramount duty the arriving, if possible; at a cordial agreement in reference to the object towards which peaceful agi tation may be directed. " 3. That this Conference, .agreeable to resolution 17, Passed at the first Conference, is prepared to receive and to consider all documents which may be laid be fore it, and which may be supposed to contain rn embodiment of the necessary details for s.vorking out the principles already recognised. ", 4. That the documents so to be presented. to this - Cenference=be taken . into consideration at the opening of our next session, by a Committee consisting of the whole body of delegates. And that the Committee belnstructed to observe the following rules :—First, That the Bill to be presented by the Council of the - biatii , note.-Sinfrage Union be taken as the basis 0: diseuision.' Secondly—' That each clause as it is read shall be considered pari pussu, with the correlative clauses of the other documeiits."fhirdly— ' That all amendments be handed up to the chairman in writing.' Mr. J. DUNLOP, of Edinburgh ; seconded the adop tion of the 'resolution. Mr. LOVETT moved as an amendment to the fourth resolution, to the effect " That the Bill or document he yntitl , :!tl The People's Charter,' instead of 'The Bill to be presented by the Council of the National Complete Suffrage Union.'" • Mr. F. O'CoxNoa seconded the amendment, when the meeting adjourned till the following morning. This morning (Wednesday) both parties Po.isernbled to try the question of the " Bill" or the " Charter." Mr. LSVETT reStlillt'd the question of the previous evening, by asking Mr. Beggs whether he hid re considered his motjon, and would give in his adhesion to the amendment ? But Dr. Ritchie said that the "Hon. Member" was clearly out of order in putting such a question. Mr. Lovett replied, that such being the case, • he would re-move his amendment, which he did amidst cheering from the O'Connor party. He said that he had made up his mind to keep to his amendln,nit, - which was worded as follows : " That the document entitled the People's Charter,' embracing all the essential details of just and equal representation, couched in plain and definite language, capable, of being understood and appreciafed by the great mass of the people, for whose guyertunted and fruidance all laws ought to be written,—that measure having * been before the public for the List five years, formiug the basis of the present agitation in favour of the suffrage, and for seeking to secure the legal enactment of which vast numbers have suffered im prisonment, transportation, and death, has, hi the opinion of this meeting, a prior claim .over -all other documents professing to - embrace the principles of just representation. It is therefore resolved, that we proceed to discuss the different sections of the People's Charter, in order to ascertain whether any improve ment can be made in it, and what these improvements shall be, it being necessary to make that document as clear and perfect as possible." Mr. P. O'CoNNoa did not think the result of the amendment would create so much division as was an ticipated. %On the contrary, he thought it would tend most materially to unite all thoiie who were the ad vocates of sound principle and consistency against a few weak and feeble men, who were without any principle or consistency whatever.—(Chzers.) , Dr:RITCUIE denied that the Confei•enc,!e.bad ever adopted the Charter, and complained of the,diL;honest course pursued by the mover and seeondt:e of the amendment. They had never adopted the Charter, and they never would. The I.ev. Tnom.,ks SPENCER, of Bath, contended that there was no reason why they should be bound by a document which had been brought forward five years ago, whilst another document equal) , embrac ing the fire points of the Charter, and possessing va rious improvements, could be advocated by, every reasonable and honest man. Mr. RonEtta' SUMMERS, of Newton-Stewart, begged to submit an amendment; which he hoped would meet the difficulty and enable them to take the: two mea sures into consideration. Mr. Summers then proposed his motion, to the effect that both liflls, with Major Cartwright's Bill, and any others that might be thought necessary, should be referred to the Confer ence, and the clauses of each considered pari passu, and such amendments made. as might be considered essential to the well-being of all. The CHAIRMAN thought that one of the resolu tions, submitted last night, fully met the views of the speaker. • Mr. BRomE, a delegate from Scotland, seconded the resolution. Mr. MAGAN wished to set the meeting right with respect to a few facts in reference to the Bill of the Complete Suffrage Council. Mr. Lovett stated that he had not seen it, but the opportunity had been af forded him had he chosen to avail himself of it. A copy of the document would be placed in the hands of each delegate the moment it was decided to take it into consideration. Mr. LOVETT said he had never seen the Bill till it had been prepared. Mr. BuEwSTEtt, with a view to promote a good un derstanding and secure unanimity, begged to move that the Bill prepared by the Council, being founded on the People's Charter, and embodying its principles, it is unnecessary to discuss any other document. The amendment of Mr. Brewster having been se conded, the discussion was continued till one o'clock, when the debate was adjourned till the afternoon sitting. BIRTII.-At Coombe Abbey, on the 24th inst., the Countess cf Craven, of a daughter. MRS. TROLLOPE'S NEW WORK, IN MONTHLY PARTS.-It appeats that Boz is not to come into the field on the opening of the new year without a rival. Mrs. Trollope commences on the Ist of January the publication, in Monthly Shilling Parts, of her long - - considered tale illustrative of the New Poor-law. It is entitled " Jessie Phillips," and report speaks of it as likely, by its resistless appeals to the common sense, as well as the imagination of the reader, to do more towards strengthening the public feeling against that already unpopular law, than all the reasoningS and arguments of all the casuists cif the public press have done since its enactment. What this celebrated writer is capable of doing with a subject of this na ture, was shown in her " Factory Buy"—one of the most powerful and pathetic stones of the day ; and the present subject is one of equal promise—with this vast difference in its favour, that it appeals to the sympathies as welt as the interesta of an incomparably larger number of persons.—Evening paper. LADY HESTER, STANHOPE.—This lady was un doubtedly one of the most remarkable personages of our times, and the interest her name once excited will be again revived by the announced Publication of her letters-in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine. We have heard that her correspondence shows-the extra ordinary disposition of this very extraorilinarc woman, the wonderful dominion she for a lon7 time exercised over the Arabs of the Desert, and all her eccentrici ties and adventures, in a manner.no lesss original than entertaining; and from such materials only can the reader hope to obtain a knowledge of her ;:cr;:onal history, of which, although much has Icon said, very little has been kno‘Nn, in consequence of her living for a considerable time altogether retired from European observation, in a secluded residence, situated in a re mote corner of the mountains of Syria, where she en joyed all the honours of an Eastern Empress. It has also been stated that Lady Stanhope's Leiters, in ad dition to some singular revelations relating to her own private • lire contain many personal anecdotes of certain distinguished members of the noble circle in which she once moved. I N•DRURY-L2lNE.—Wednesday nioht between six and seven o'clock an alarming fire broke out in the manufactory of M. Hover, a paper-stainer, opposite Brornitiw. street, Drury-lane. it originated in the dryinoznii,' and spread with zreat rapidity. Infor mation was soon , forwarded to - the fire•qations, and v;?r y quickly ati.erward s the enghles from High HolhOrn, Chandostreet, ar rived, when the firemen with and Fariingden-str.r.et, their usual exertions were soon cuabled to arrest the progress of the :lames, but not until a great portion of the .stock was de stroyed. Mr. Ho v er is insured in the County Fire office. SUPERIOR CANDLES. DAVIES'S CANDLES, 6d. per !b.; Wax Candles, Is. 2d. ; Fine Wax, Is. sd. ; Composite, Is. Od. ; Extra Fine Wax Wick Moulds, lid. ; Transparent Wax, 2s. 2d. ; Ge•mine Sperm, 2s 2d. ; Genuine .Wax, 2s. 3d. ; Yellow Soap, 465., 545., and 603. per ll2lbs. ; Mottled, 625. and 665. ; Windsor and Is. 4d. per pac ket ; Old Brown Windsor Soap, Is. 9d. ; Rose, 2s. 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WATSON (late ALDERMAN) have tanked pre-eminent fur 50 years for their superior Table Cutlery, the whole of which is marked with his name and ad dress, and subject to exchange if not approved of. C: W. sole inventor of the NEW ALBATA PLATE, which is so rapidly superseding Silver. Exclusive Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, ant! at 16, Norton Folgate. Established 1795. THE NEW DISCOVERY, by ' which the trembling hand may become steady, the weak heart strong, and nervous irritability (so often the precursor of in. sanity) may be arrested, is offered to the public, who may rely on nervous vigour being the reward of a patient trial. By the use of this medicine (which does not contain one particle of any opiate) refreshing sleep has been obtained by those who have not enjoyed that blessing for years. Above thirty of the Nobility now use this wonderful restorative. Sold hy E. PURSER, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, in boxes at Is. 10., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d. each, who supplies all Chemists. Ask for " Dr. Grandison's Charity Pill." From W. A. Goff, Esq., 11, Bloomsbury-square : " December 21st, 1842. " Sir,—l cannot refuse to state that your Pill has had an effect upon my nerves almost miraculous. "Your obliged servant, " To Dr. Grandison;?" ~ W. A. GOFF. TIME TABLE FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1843. The following Diary, showing day falls throughout the ensu, the purposes of an Almanac, ; be transferred into a Pocket-1)f