The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-28 00:00:00

THE EX PRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 28, 1846.

iWks and I would engine of the gallant CRON ((Ca Harry)
lb& 4U the to nand ersafalever ne, and give me any rigingstion that arms to
shad Minn* r iejelYer. Hit e
my
it wk. warddiotlig nen ad inn a enennasey—
I en nein bre en word be say, "Mel maybe =Mad dal saiinn
la insinor la myself. It is a end= et nag, sod am
bond to tweet and center with non Os ocerion.
read IS mg of the Cork aewuppn a liter ai4wMe wee Men-
nen barn egUi at such a time t I will tell nanny I was—l was
at warn (Her.) Iwro2 my alma , taking we et my
tenon end dependants—endia IS in bar the baryon
of no realm year, to I am side le israt • t bombes ems Yaw year.
(Haar.) Erg man's own keen, le He bit glass white le dwell
anon lo as wants all (Her.) Mid lent, with bleem=ll
bessima Preobloses. ad tuniimee d a parsed Lead
tient, Its Wen teem rib Heart) nut par. net is an
have to gibe Sli Beast net din esathaer year
wens an So of this des mann r timairds, Ind
mbafl newer y and erelemely numb Seim (How.)
I go this enure to Cenral, and shall be la Bonn an Merry, and
I shall mere en iodine, nit the Lard lameness es agedßy after as
I ma. Erg tone yon bark used I non revolve tea-
mneyy wind, and
N. brow len lest mean ens. I whining that
though I err bre nth nottems MO to Yr aperlei= out,
one plea moppeled, tom panabb tierrerna e
oHe misery and
bubo Tbial dams es in tie bee, yet yam will all beer witness with
re not I bar Yard rigin revers—calamity areedlog cala-
mity—en Ile bra* near pohantial misery titan each
previous len& The alsond Yr what I am saying—
• gargnellid is la ne onparalieled—such as never
bites was beard of. Oh, I shudder nil inprehenston lest anything
that her me be adasidemd In the remotest
to mitten, or even suggest a remedy by any turbulent or tegftet
mesas otrover. There are gem who probably consider me their
friend giedrepud me as their ponied ally. If I have any influence
over the peer Wry of the country, over the cattier tenants and small
fanners, leesayytre them by all that is solemn and sacred to recollect
that any e,eboieate or violence can only defeat the prospects of relief,
and bring down a punishment on them) both at the hands of the law,
and by the coneequenees of the act. (Hear.) Nothing can be more
mischievous than the smallest violence or outrage, and our great hope
is, under the blessing of Providence, that the people will so conduct
themselves that they may deserve the esteem of all good men, and
the relenting interposition of a bountiful Provident* on their
behalf. (Hear, hear.) I wish to have it everywhere proclaimed
—I wish to have it made known through every part of the country
—as it will be on the wings of the it is my solemn
adjuration to the purple to have patience at all events. I Implore
that id the people. They have better guides than I, and their torr-
ential pastors and directors will all join toe in the entreaty to abstain
from violence, and exhibit as much patience an human endurance
will allow the people to practise. (Hear.) If, upon the one band, I
conjure the people to be patient, on the other I conjure every body,
mat and small, rich and poor, to rally together and do something
for the people. (Hem.) If it be not done who ma tell what the extent
of the calamity will be—(hear)—what boundary do you see to it
1 where is it to end t Is it in the bpring —what next Summer may
produce we know not—no min can tell. Foreboding fears
crowd on my mind. I look over two or three years, per-
haps, of those calamitous seasons, for that which is called a ban-
' aition trom potato food to grain. Who can tell me what prospects
' there are of adequate relief within any given period t I throw these
suggestions l out as part of my .duty, and I am thoroughly con-
vinced that the landed gentry. the dignified clergy of each per-
suanion, and official personages ought to meet in Dublin ; they ought
to tome together to consider what they can suggest and effect for the
good of the people. If such a body were met In Dublin, the Hoard of
Works would shrink into its native and be compelled
to act an a machine, performing its as work, instead of being
masters and judges over us as they are now. (Hear, hear, hear.) Last
year, when the calamity was not near so great, most active measures
were taken by the government of the day—(beer)—and it is not
here alone I mine my voice in acknowledgment to Sir Robert Peel
for that. (Hear.) 1 did 30 in parliament—in my place in the House
of Commons, and in the name of the Irish people I thanked him,
and I received the personal acknowledgments of Sir Robert Peel, who
came across the home to thank me for what he called an act of ge-
nerosity, but which 1 call an act of justice. I am also ready to give
credit to the present Govertunent : I agree,wlth the rev. gentleman
that a better or more kindly disposed man than Lord Beasborough
probably never filled a public situation; but he cannot do all. The
machinery which he is clogged with impedes him. First, in obtaining
sufficient food; second, in respect to the condition of the tenant
farmers • and, thirdly, the all-absorbing situation of the poor labour-
ing population. (Cheers.) And Ido say in my conscience, that there
Yno man who ever lived more anxious to do good than Lord Bees-
borough. (Hear.) He is an 'lrish gentleman, and one of the beet
landlords in the soimtry, and thoroughly deplores the situation we
are in at present. (Hear.) But he has perique under him in the
Board of Works, and though a gentleman present was perfectly
right in alluding to words in one of the resolutions which had
rather a scolding tendency, and I agreed with him, and had the
word complained of substituted by the word " regret," I cannot but
bitterly regret the conduct of the Board of Works. We are told that
there is mine prospect of a supply of food, but Sir Randolph ltowth
(laughter) or Routh, holds oat no such hope or any such prospect.
He tell us that foreign powers are seeking supplies in the grain mar-
kets. Now we have no Irish power, though we ought to have, but the
power that deprived us of it—the English power—should have been
in those markets ia early at least as any of those foreign powers.
(Ileac) I cannot restrain myself when I see bow we arc deem-
stewed. We have no power of going into the grain markets, and
those who have taken the power from us, should, consequently, have
been doubly diligent. (Hear.) But Sir R. Routh really should be
ashamed of spending his time in the way he does, writing those epbs
tbs. (Laughter.) I often heard It said that the man who was good at
making an excuse weaved for nothing else. (Renewedlaughtere Now
be speaks so much about doing his duty that be becomes handy at the
trade, and makes excuses for not performing the work. (Laughter.)
He seems to me to be a man of that kind. Food is the first thing that
must be had, and yet he enters into a dissertation on the best mode of
using food. (Laughter.) And there is also a class of peewee who he
presses much on our attentiou who are not yet in existence. (Laugh-
ter.) Them are the merchant farmers, or what, I suppose, we call
sky farmers in Kerry. (Laughter.) Whit an idea—merchant far-
mere ! He tells us that in • few years this desirable eLess will be in
' existence, and in the meantime there is not a potato for the people—
in the mean time the peopleare mitring starvation—in the meantime
they cry out for bread, and hear Sir IL Routh speculating on the ex-
istence of a clues which are to be of so much benefit to the farmer and
gentleman. (laughter.) But I feel ashamed of the levity of my
disposition should prompt me to jest on anything so serious ; for my
heart feels truly sorry at the absurdity displayed in bringing forward
so ridiculous a proposition. Ford must be had; but he knows no
, remedy for districts where food is not to be bad. If government do
not establish depots and scatter them in different part of the country,
I announce emphatically my opinion that the people will starve in
thousands. (hear.) The good advice which I sad the ministers of
God give them will Inevitably be thrownaway—for after all the people
will not dieof hunger. (Hear.) He (Six It. Routh) is epeculating
upon not giving us depots. Why t t mercantile men may not
make profits enough. I don't know that this community of indivi-
dual are ready to make sacrifices nor should they be expected from
them. Ido not know why they should work and not be paid. Mer-
cantile speculations in grain are paid by the famine priemobtained for
it. We should prevent speculators being afforded the temptation of
asking famine prices, and the poreibility of their getting them by
having depots to deliver and to sell the food at a lesser price, when-
ever the mercantile price was going too high. (Hear.) These points
I shall urge at greater length and its strongly as I can, before the
Lord Lieutenant. Above all I would suggest that something should
be done for the neglected clas, of tenant farmers. Tbey are obliged
iodic-outs their labourers, and they have no capital to till the land.
The great landed proprietors should meet and put their heeds to-
gether to determine what could be done to relieve that class of
society—l mean the middle-tenant farmers, without whose weal
social order could not exist. They are represented by nobody, they
have no combination among themselves—they have no protection,
and heir ease require. the fullest consideration of the gentry of
Ireland. (Bear.) And let the Tines rail an long as it pleases,
and the bum and paltry press of England, too—thank Heaven
there is a gentry in Ireland whose hems are open as day to charity—
and among them are to be found in this county the most excellent
landlords. I shall not speak of the living, but I may mention the
dead. I may name the lamented Hedges Eyre, a Conservative poli-
WWI —one of the best Lendlords, the protector of hasten:OlLS. (Hear.)
We have landlords in abundance ready to do their duty by the people,
if they had the opportunity of doing so at home as they would wash.
(Her.) I ask what is to become of the tenant elms of farmers next
year? if things go on m at present, the famine now among the labour-
ing classes will extend to them. There never was a topic more de-
serving of consideration than the manner of dealing with the tenant
farmer. I come to the labourers now, and 1 arraign the Board of
Works at once. A month has elapsed since a particular barony with
which lam acquainted passed presentments to the full amount of its
Poor-law valuation, 11,000/. I wrote day after day to Dub endea-
vouring to get some of these projects unertaken. I did not allow a
post to escape, and yet no substantial work has been commenced in
this district up to the present day, though the preeetitments were
passed on the 19th of Septemeer. Other instances of a stronger nature
might be mentioned. What excuse have the Board of Works for not
setting these works in operation 1 Government can lose nothing by
them—the entire fee simple of the country is pledged for them—every
shilling advanced is to be raised off the country by instalments. What
economy then is it to keep the people starving and perishing in this
way? They cannot excuse themselves upon the pretence of not
haring money to advance—for the Britieh Treasury —the Bank of Eng-
land is at their back. The Act of Parliament authorises the Treasury
to advance any money the Labour Act may require. And if the Lord
Lieutenant choose to raise 20,004,0001. under the Labour Act, he has
the power of doing so. In the name of wonder, then, why does the
Board of Works shrink from giving the people labour. We have
heard sad tales boday. The Rev. Mr. Disney and the Rev. Mr.
O'Brien, the Rev. Mr. frig and the Rev. Mr. h alb have told tales
of horror that make the human heart shrink within the human form,
and look with impatient anxiety for sone solution and tome mode of
relief. I have trespassed on you for sometime. (Cries of "No,
no.") I have endeavoured to avoid any topics but these which
have brought us together. lam going to labour with all my heart
and soul to endeavour to effect some good for the people—to in-
sist at all events that the Beard of Works shall give them employ-
ment. There have been dissertations here upon wages. I don't like
to speak of myself, but in reference to the question of wages, I may
I state that lid. a day was the ordinary wages when I g, ot into passe pion
of the greater part of my property. I raised it to Bd., and now I have
raised it to Is. ;Hear.) Less than that is me subsidence for a man.
More I should wish to see him earn. Things are coming to a frightful
pass. Don't you authorise me to tell the Lord Lieutenant that the
peace of the country is not secure? (Loud cries of "We do.") Don't
you authorise me to tell him that there is actual starvation in the
country at this moment —(" we do")—that be will be responsible
be human lives in countless numbers if somethins be not done.
Hear.) I will repeat the echo of your voices to the Lord Lieutenant.
I know that be has a generous heart and • noble disposition, and I
ant of opinion that be will do the best he can for the people. If any
attempt is made in England to control him, my reverend friend, Mr.
Daly, has suggested what my line of duty will be, to tell Lord John
Russell that he shall get no support from the Irish members. (Hear,
bear, and cheers.) I belong to no party but the people. I ought to
be attached to the people. I owe them everything, and they
owe me nothing. (No.) Let no man mistake me, when I say
the people I do not mean merely the poor man, who
earns his precarious livelihood with the spade by the sweat
of his brow, or the cattier or the farmer, but everybody from the
highest peer o the realm to the lowest peasant boy. 'Tis my solemn
duty to attend to their interests—to watch over the rights of the
landlords, and the interests of the tenant and the labourer, and to do
injustice to no titan, to secure better prospects for the country and to
devote my heart and soul to the best fulfilment of my duty to you.
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(CheersleLgUe honourable gentleman eat down amidst loud and pro-
r. i
le Beam suggested that each relief committee should send a
dertation to Dublin. Agreed to.
bet
Vcry Rev. Dr. Course observed that they could meet at the
Imperial HOW in Dablin, and then go to Mr.
Mr. O'Cossau. : Or Mr. O'Connell can go and wait on you.
(Laughter.) It was then agreed that they Monet meet at the Imperial
es Wednesday.
Mr. (Carlene. observed, that as they were to meet on Wednesday,
he would wait on the Lord Lieutenant on Thursday. As they had
fixed on that day, be would go with whoever should be present at
the time—he would wait only for those who should then come up. It
was hie plan, like that of the Rumian general Suarrow, to light with
those who tirst came up. (Laughter.)
Captain Comm proposed the warm thanks of the meeting to Mr.
O'Donnell for his rmdy co-operation, and for his appearing amongst
them on that occasion, at se much personal inconvenience to himself;
and alio to their stht r valued county repreeentative Mr. E. B. Roche.
Dr. O'Neill. seconded the resolution, which was Carried with accla-
mation.—The meeting then agreed that Mr. Roche should accompany
Mr. O'Donnell, when waiting on the Lord-Lieutenant—The Chairman
then left the chair, and Mr. I lendley was called thereto, when the
thanks of the meeting were awarded to Mr. Dennehy for his conduct
in the chair, and the meeting cep rated.

the neighbourhood of the Glasgow terminus there are about
M.OOO souls ; at the Edinburgh terminus there are upwards
of 230,000 souls. Reflecting for a moment upon the
thommods of industrious artisans comprised in that calcula-
tion ; won the men, women, and children, who are there
pent up in the confined and unhealthy bye-streets and courts
of Edinburch and Glasgow; upon the six days of labour,
living hand ta. mouth, breathing nothing but polluted atmo-
sphere, seeing n °thing but smoke and bricks, hearing nothing
but the roar and clatter of industry ; remembering the =my
limbs that must an he In those two great cities on the seventh
day, the many bravo that must burn with the toil of the
preceding week, the many hearts that must sicken with the
breath o the factory and the workshop,—it is impossible to
r,
this restriction on the part of the railway directors
cetreittrwise than as a most cruel and unjust transaction.
With the proper observe= e of the Sabbath these Sunday
trains have not the remota et connexion • on the contrary,
their continuance has been An extraordinary boon to hun-
dreds, who would have been ,olherw se without any means
of attending divine service. It s stated that through their
instrumentality many hundreds of Roman Catholics were
enabled to reach their chapels In Glasgow every Sunday
from a considerable distance in the country ; and Christians
of various other denominations have been benefited in like

manner. By the stoppage of thee. L'ains every means of
communication between the two princi. nal towns of Scot-
land will be entirely destroyed, coach's and postehaises
having been long since abolished on the :nigh road, in con-
sequence of the facilities of stem transit.