The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-21 00:00:00

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ADDRESS OF THE Riff. DB. WENERY. O'Brien, in any war which thegovemment may wage against
" It has been my duty to offer you my advice often during them, and that you will not suffer them collectively, or indi-
the last 23 years. I have never given you any advice im. 'ideally to be sacrificed by your standing apathetically
pelted by corrupt motives—l have never given you counsel with your hands in your breeches pockets. (Cries of
without being convinced that such counsel was for your "We will not.") If you do, I say you deserve to be whipped,
good ; and it has been my good fortune never to have re- lashed, and fed upon porridge for all eternity. Well, then,
commended aught that eventuated in the loss or disgrace of what is to be done—how are you to act ? It is very easy
my beloved flock, either collectively or individually. My for men to be carpet patriots; a man might live for 50 year@
advice may be like a distasteful medicine, yet, though a patriot of that stamp, mid lever effect the lean good. Nc
bitter to the taste, it will be found beneficial to the general man is a patriot whom patriotism does not go beyond the
health. tip of his tongue. Now, in the first place, it is the dutyo
" Here, then, is my recommendation, counsel, and ear- every man to prepare himself', to exert himself, to strike
nest entreaty. Make no attempt, give no aid, afford with the bold resolve of conquering that government ths•
no cowitanance, to those who would pretend to is lying like aI ad upon the heart of your country, with
repeal the legislative union between Great Britain the fixed determination of conquering that government or
and Ireland by violent means. The attempt would dying in the effort. (Loud cheers.) In the second place you
be foolish, criminal, ruinous to the country, and should prepare for the emergency that is to come. (Cries of
pregnant with long and incalculable misery to our "We will.'') You should counsel, advise, and direct all Irish •
native land. It would be foolish. For if the repealer' of men in general to get arms to defend themselves. But in
Ireland were to unfurl the banner of rebellion against their all the proclaimed counties the people should not act im-
sovereign, a bloody defeat would be their certain lot. They prudently, or espose themselves to the harpies of the law. At
are devoid of provi-ions, small arms, ammunition, artillery, the same time you should prepare yourselves. (•'We will.")
cavalry, military. discipline, officers, experienced generals, If arms were wanted in any part of Ireland, they are more
and of all things indispensable tor carrying on successful war wanted here if we could have them. In the third place,
against a powerful empire. This powerful empire can gout- having prepared yourselves as well as you can, when the
mend promptly and extensively all those necessary requisites time arrives every man should be at his post. (Cheers.) I
enumerated above. It is true that the rebel force may erect conceive these are the three practical reolutions, and by
barricades, overpower the military in narrow streets, and be- acting on them you will save yourselves from the danger
came, for the moment, masters of a city or town. But during of being slaughtered, and of being hunted like hounds, and
the occupation of that doomed town they would be formid- if you commit to do so you deserve to be hounds.—At the
able to the wealthy, industrious, and peaceable inhabitants same meeting a Mr. Burke spoke still more decidedly. He
alone. Spoliation of property, waste of food destined for the said : I want to ask my constituents, for 1 look on you as
support of man, ebriety, insults to female virtue, violence and such, are yon ready to meet me, your delegan ,in the council
anarchy would mark their career. If they could bold or in the field in a month hence, at any place we appoint ?
possession for a few weeks they would be inevitably driven (Cries of "We are.") No matter for what purpose, suppose
by hunger into the very nets of a victorious and pro- it was to kick footeall, run races, or hurl ? Well, please
hably unsparing enemy. You may be told that in the God, we shall have a great hurling match before long.
ranks of the forces of the Queen many would be found pre- (Cheers.) If guns be not easily procured you can get pitch.
pared to fraternise with the rebel boot. Never was delusion forks with good long handles to them. Nothing more handy
mere complete than this. The military force which the go- than a pitchfork, nothing at all more useful shout a house ;
vernment would bring forward to suppress a rebellion would it will make hay for you, or keep away the flies in harvest,
probably comprehend the revenue police, coast guards, the or it all went to all, it will—(Laughter and cheers, and cries
constabulary, marines, and the regular army, consisting of of "That's true.")
cavalry and infantry. Now all these parties are by habit,
training, and constitution, families within themselves, and
widely separated from the mere civilian. Beside s, I believe
and fervently hope that few Roman catholic@ in her Majee
ty's service would be found so base or so wicked as to sell
their names to shame, their religion to contempt, and their
immortal souls to God's enduring anger by committing the
hideous crime of perjury. There is no power on earth capa-
ble of dispensing with the oath taken by any of these parties,
able to absolve the soldier from his sworn allegiance,
or to exempt him from felling into a damnable sin by de-
serting from the cause which ha has solemnly sworn to de-
fend. Should the deserting soldier be as free from every
other sin as one of those pure spirits who stand before the
throne of God, and die with that single sin of esedury on his
soul, never would be enter into the kiagdom of God,or enjoy
a moment's :emotion from unspeakable suffering. Cold,
hanger, and utter destitution would be the portion of the
misguided people engaged in a rebellion—.XlCllllTO slaughter
in the open country—agriculture would be neglected—the
crops burned in the fields or tran.pled under the hoof of
the war hone—myriads of orphans and widows would roam
through the desolate land seeking that food which did not
exist—the veered edifice consecrated to the service of
the Most High would become a smouldering ruin—
the unobtrusive retreat of piety, purity, and education
would become the barracks of a licentious soldiery—property
would be squandered by the most reckless miscreants in
thought!. ss riot—the banks would become insolvent—the
helpless inmates of poorhouses would crawl out from their
asylums seeking that sustenance which could not be afforded
to them, and dying by thousands on the roadsides—the ear of
man would be closed against the cries of his suffering fellow-
man—morality would perish, and selfishness, cruelty and
violence would reign universally—and the overwhelming
power of union, wealth, and disciplined strength, would ex-
tinguish
the times of an abortive rebellion in the blood of
the misguided people. This picture is not overcharged. It
would become an awful reality. Then would not the attempt,
by the instrumentality of a rebellion, be foolish in the ex-
treme?"
The rev. gentleman then briefly traces the causes which
hare contributed to the misery of Ireland. On the one
aide, neglect and misgovernment; on the other, distrust
and disaffection. England relied on penal laws—lreland
sought a remedy is insane rebellions, which involved the
country in countless sufferings. An ardent and imaginative
people listened to an empiric, and neglected the gradual end
infallible means of improvement. After stating the policy
which the people should now adopt in seeking for political
reforms, of which he is the moat strenuous advocate, the rev.
gentleman proceeds:
" But let me suppose that a rising of the people against
the sovereign were to take place on a large scale—
how and when would that most desirable improve-
ment take place? The present generation would peas
away before the Irish would even presume to enter-
tain the question again. The population would be cut
down by the edge of the sword, by famine, the constant
companion of civil war, and by pestilence, the twin sister of
hunger. fhe loss of human life would be found to exceed
by many thousands any calculations made even by the
greatest alarmist. It would be a civil war, therefore a strug.
gle abounding in horrors ; and these horrors would be
egaravated a hundred-fold, for it would become a religious
war. lam satisfied that the English are at the present time
more estranged from the Irish people than they have been
for many years. The English, as individuals, have acted
nobly by us for the last two years. But a few Irish journals,
and a small number of restless and vain men, pandering to
the worst passions of the lowest and most ignorant of the
people, have taken on themselves to return contumely, in-
gratitude, and hatred, for the beneficent acts of those
noble-minded individuals. The wreckers of the north,
whose hands have with difficulty for years been kept
from the throats of their Roman catholic neighbours, would
cheerfully enter on a crusade to the south; nor would I en-
gage for their observance of the laws of war between civilised
nations. The whole power and strength of the British na-
tion would be put in requisition, and a blow sufficiently
heavy struck to crush the Irish people for the next fifty years.
I may be told that the liberal journals, the watchful sentinels
of the Irish nation—that the glorious and eloquent orators
who stand forward to denounce the cruel Saxon, and to shed
Irish blood for fatherland—speak with hope, eacouragement,
and confidence of the issue of the contest. My dear friends,
attach no credit to their assertions—confide not in their pro-
mises—be not so helplessly credulous as to imagine that they
are in earnest. The journalist who would urge you on to em-
bark on an insane, ruinous, and unequal struggle,wishes to con-
tinue and to increase the circulation of his journal : he looks
for praise and profit, and thoee are his fatherland. The
orator who would encourage you in the path of ruin, seeks
with a craving appetite for applause. Let this, however
evanescent, be conferred on him, he seldom cares what evils
may befall his deluded hearers. An outbreak would in-
evitably prevent for a very long period the enactment of
those salutary measures. It would consign, very probably, I
hundreds of thousands of different ages to • premature
grave. It would kindle anew the unhallowed fires of reli-
gious rancour—it would perpetuate distrust, estrangement,
and mutual aversion between both countries, and it would
leave Ireland in her misery and degradation. Will any man,
then, be so weak as to doubt that a rebellion would be
ruinous to the country ?"
The rcv. gentleman then reviews the present distressed
and distontented state of the country, amt impresses on the
legislature the necessity of timely and practical interference.
The poor law, without employment, he says, will still fur-
ther depress the people ; and if the Irish landlords shun
their duties, the law must compel their ob-ervance. Go-
vernment, too, should be mere liberal in the means of af-
fording employment to the " millions of strong, moral, and
hard-working men who :-re tautly to give their labour." The
r, v. gentleman concludes with the following forcible passage :
"It is truly a humiliating reflection that in our dear and
suffering country men could be found so unnatural, so
selfish, so unpatriotic, as to urge our noble and confiding
people to adopt proceedings which would largely
increase their misery, and consign to death in the
field, to strangulation at the gallows, or to a dishonoured
grave in a penal settlement, those whom the famine and
the plague of the two last years have spared! My dear
friends, the advocates of guilty cosines are sordid, selfish
men—they are false and cowardly advisers. For a little
money, fur a miserable ephemeral applause, they would in-
crease your present suffering, eley would p.unge n country
too deeply suffering before into anarchy and ruin, they
would perpetuate your suffering for many years yet to
come, and they would close the gate against the improve-
ment, tranquillity and prosperity of Ireland. Then, have I
not a right firmly, fearlessly and moat truly, to say, that an
abortive outbreak, and it would be literally abortive, would,
must, px, pregnant with long and incalculable misery to ow
native land ? Then, your sacred duty, your interest both for
this world and the neat, your love et country, and your hopes
of prosperity fur your native land, point out a plain, sure, and
honourable course. If you be tempted by the apostle of re-
bellion, consign him into the hands of the police—preserve
your loyalty to your beloved Queen invinlate—organise a
constitutional agitation to obtain good laws fur Ireland, to
remove every remnant of formir penal statutes, to increase
the number of your representstises, to enlarge the consti-
tuency, to profitably employ the people, to make religion no
test for cherishing one religionist and neglecting the other,
to make the laws the same for England and Ireland, to make
the union a reality, to bring the artificial means of supporting
the people to this country, to promote charity, affection, and
confidence between the Celt and Saxon, and to amalgams--
all into a single, loyal, and united people."

SCOTLAND.

Aat Egrmo of the CHARTISTS of EDINBURGH was
held last evening (Thursday) to hear delegates from
the convention. The chair was occupied by Mr.
Graves, who expi eased his gratification that t heir cause
was now commanding public attention. Mr. Ernest
Jones addressed the meeting, and in a speech of some
length contended that the object of the chartists was
the amelioration of social grievances, and concluded
by advising the people to procure arms, which he said
every man had a right to possess, that he might repel
any attack made upon him. Dr. Hunter then rose to reply,
but, on entering into sonic details respecting his electton
as a delegate, encountered great opposition, and was
ultimately compelled, after a scene of great confusion,
to resume his seat. The meeting, with this exception,
passed off very quietly, and the city is perfectly quiet
and peaceable.

The Ragged School system is telling gradually in
Edinburgh. During the three months ending March,
1848, the commitments to jail of boys thirteen years
of age and under, was .50 per cent. less than in the
corresponding period of the previous year, a result
which the governor of the prison believes to be attri-
butable to these institutions. The cost of a boy in the
ragged school is 3/. per annum • in the Edinburgh
local prim), 111. ; and in the Perth general prison, 17d.
The Flax-Growing Society of Scotland are prose-
cw.ing their vocation with some energy. They have
procured the services of Mr. Stewart, one of the in-
structors of the Irish Flax Society,. wh) is at present
in Aberdeen, ready to give advice in all stages of the
cultivation of this new branch of Scotch industry.
A meeting of electors was held in Paisley on the
14th inst., the Provost presiding, when the following
resolutions were passed:
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That this meeting is of opinion, that the legislation of this country,
by the several monet.dy oats of parlionient a hich have been passed
during the last 3tl years, has had the effect of ogitrunlising the moneyed
interest at the exywrise or the commercial and ilide•trlUM classes of
the community; and that the continuation of an tuqust and unequal
system of oppressive taxation, whi h these closeix are totally unable
longer to sustain, is certain to be productive of still more fearful con-
sequences.
In explanation, the speaker referred thwhat he considered to
be the injustice of the several acts of parliament relative to
the currency of the country, and to the improved position of
the fundholder, the tithe-receiver, the placeman, and the
pensioner, and, in point of fact, all parties who had their
incomes fixed during the French war. With regard to the
fundholder he held that the aavantages had been enormous
—during the time that most of the national debt was con-
tracted, the price of funds did not average more than 60 per
cent., so that every person who lent 601. to the government,
got a guarantee that this 601. should stand for 1001., although
only 500,000,0001. sterling was received by the govern-
ment. In this way they had bound the nation to pay interest
upon 800,000,0001. But that was not all, for since the ter-
mination of the war ie,veral acts of parliament had been
passed, whereby this money had been so much increased in
value, that 1001. would now purchase as much food as 2001.
would have done when the money was burrowed, and it
would now purchase as much manufactured goods as 4001.
would have done at the same period. It was true that the
manufacturing classes were benefited by the cheapening of
provisions, and that the agricultural population were bene-
fited by the cheapening of manufactures ; hut in both cases
the wages of these classes had been reduced in nearly the
same proportion as the different commodities had been in
which they dealt, so that these clue-es were now in a worse
position atter 33 years of peace than they had been during
she French war. It must be evident to every one that the
wealth of the fundholder, the tithe receiver, the placeman,
and pensioner, and every party whose income had been fixed
during the war, had been enormously increased, and that
certainly at the exPense of the other classes of the ct morn-
nity. lie held the opihi,n that these partite ought to be
made to pay a very large proportion of the taxes of the
country—in fact something equivalent to the amount of be-
nefit which they have denved from the undue advantages
which the legislature had bestowed upou them.
The subsequent resolutions were:
That the trade of the country, generally, has been in a depressed
condition for the last le months, in the manufacturing districts par-
ticularly. Labour has been but partially obtained and poorly remu-
nerated, sod the working clteeea are reduced to a most melancholy
and heart-rending conditiun, The owners of fixed property have bad
to sustain a great reduction in the amount of their income, while the
vGlue of their property is de remotest to a serious extent; and the
losses sustained by people in iiusneus, from bankruptcies, and depre-
ciation of their stocpkin unpreeedt•nted in umoutit. That the trade of
Paisley, being entire yof a fancy nature, of peat cane to the country,
but readily affected by internal depression, has bran plunged into a
much worse state than any other town in the Lint/d Tbe poor
rates here have been =mewl to an extent never previously equalled
in Scotland ; while such is the poverty 01 several thousands of the
population, that for the last eighteen mouths th.l have had to subsist
upon a meagre allowance deleil out in charity. That this meeting is
of opinion that their and other grievance+ under which we suffer will
never be radically removed until the country is Inure generally repre-
sented in the legislature, and that the government should no longer
refuse an alteration of tne trauchise, along with on equal distribution
of electoral district.
A petition conformable to these views was ordered to
be sent to parliament, and it was also agreed that an
address should be sent to Mr. ?fume, " for his noble
efforts in opposing the estravagout expeuditme of
the present and former governments."
GAME Laws.—A farmer sends a subscription to the Anti-
Game-Law Association, with the following note to the
secretary :
I beg to send you £5 to forward the good cause. However, you
murt nut let my name be known, as we in ---- dare not bd our
lives say anything about game, as the landlord, would not let us a
farm. Perhaps the time may come w hen we may dare to speak out;
in the meantime, the oppressors are ninny of then, getting somewhat
of a lesson where they are at present residing. 1 pity them, poor
fellows; in fact, they do net get lull value tor their (annn, as no man
of independent capital and feelings will embark at tanning, seeing the
arbitrary clause in the haw +; and, now, in ntau. of the gentlemen
(amen. they are glad (Duke any man that will goo case to pay • high
rent and submit tio their whine.; whereas nun of sterling worth will
nave nothing to do with such despot.,
Fame Lerristh.—The Duke of Buccleueb has lately in-
troduced a change in the mode of occupation of his extensive
estatcs in the south cf Scotland. Nlaej of the tenantry
being in t a.y circumstances, were enabled to rent two or
more holdings; those on which they did not reside being
termed lad farms. Thin practice, coupled with the large size
of the farms, had been carried to so,* au extent that wide
districta of country were in a great measure depopulated.
The duke has now, however, determined to put a stop to this
system, and at the recent let of his Selkirk. hire lands, all
those tenants who did not personally reside received notice
to quit. The same rule will shortly be adopted in the adja-
cent counties of Dumfries and Itelburgh, when the present
leases expire.

TIE 84V1N09 Basfx.s.—The Cork Reporter explains,
very satisfactorily, that it is not the small depositors who
are withdrawing the money from the savings banks, com-
paratively few holders are of the humbler classes—they are
principally persons in retail trade, and these persons find it
more profitable now to purchase at present quotations, 81 or
82 stock with deposits made when the funds were at 92 and
95 ; and hence the run upon the savings banks, which led to
such unnecessary remarks, verging on alarm. In proof of this
1 the editor of the Cork &porter miss he is acquainted o ith the
1 name of a family the different membenof which have given
, notice for withdrawing not less than 400 in one week. The
whole deposits in the Cork savings bank amount is about
350,0001., of which not more than 68,0001. belongs to the
working classes. The Tralee savings bank still excites much
attention, and suggests the necessity of additional legislation
to secure poor depositors against fraud. It appears the trus-
tees did not require of Mr. Lynch the securities enjoined by
law, which is considered sufficient to charge them with
" gross and wilful negligence," and thus render them re-
sponsible. There is grievous hardship on every tide. Mr.
Pratt, the arbitrator under the act, is to be in Tralee to-day,
to institute an inquiry.
Matte Szortiox.—On Sunday last there was a repeal
meeting held at Templederry, underr the aurpices of the Rev.
J. Kenyon, a parish priest, wo, erby, taken the chair,
said,—Friends and fellow-countrymer., you have solemnly
pledged yourselves this day to stew'. by and support John
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ADDRESS OF THE REV. DR. M'ENERY, O'Brien, in any war which thegovemment may wage against V ' '
" It has been my duty to offer you my advice often during them, and that you will not suffer them collectively, or indi.
the last 23 years. I have never given yeu any advice int. vidually to be sacrificed by your standing apathetically
pelted by corrupt motives—l have never given you counsel with your bands in your breeches pockets. (Cries of
without being convinced that such counsel was for your "We will not.") If you do, I say you deserve to be whipped,
good ; and it has been my good fortune never to have re- lashed, and fed upon porridge for all eternity. Well, then,
commended aught that eventuated in the loss or disgrace of what is to be done—bow are you to act ? It is very easy
my beloved flock, either collectively or individually. My for men to be carpet patriots; a man might live for 50 years, •
advice may be like a distasteful medicine, yet, though a patriot of that stamp, mid lever effect the least good. Nc
bitter to the taste, it will be found beneficial to the general man is a patriot whom- patriotism does not go beyond the ;
health. tip of his tongue. Now, in the first place, it is the dutyo
" Here, then, is my recommendation, counsel, and ear- every man to prepare himself, to exert himself, to strike .
nest entreaty. Make no attempt, give no aid, afford with the bold resolve of conquering that government tha•
no maintenance, to those who would pretend to is lying like aI ad upon the heart of your country, with
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repeal the legislative union between Great Britain the fixed determination of conquering that government or
and Ireland by violent means. The attempt would dying in the effort. (Loud cheers.) In the second place you
be foolish, criminal, ruinous to the country, and should prepare for the emergency that is to come. (Cries of
pregnant with long and incalculable misery to our "We with') You should counsel, advise, and direct all Irish •
native land. It would be foolish. Fur if the repealer' of men in general to get arms to defend themselves. But in
Ireland were to unfurl the banner of rebellion against their all the proclaimed counties the people should not act em.
sovereign, a bloody defeat would be their certain lot. They prudently, or expose themselves to the harpies of the law. At I.
are devoid of provi-ions, small arms, ammunition, artillery, the same time you should prepare yourselves. (•'We will.")
cavalry, military. discipline, officers, experienced generals, If arms were wanted in any part of Ireland, they are more
and of all things indispensable for carrying on successful war wanted here if we could have them. In the third place, ;
against a powerful empire. This powerful empire can gout- having prepared yourselves as well as you can, when the I .
mend promptly and extensively all those necessary requisites time arrives every man should be at his post. (Cheers.) I
enumerated above. It is true that the rebel force may erect conceive these are the three practical reolutiohs, and by
barricades, overpower the military in narrow street, and be- acting on them you will 'are yourselves from the danger
came, for the moment, masters of a city or town. But during of being slaughtered, and of being hunted like hounds, and .
the occupation of that doomed town they would be formid- if you consent to do so you deserve to be hounds.—At the
able to the wealthy, industrious, and peaceable inhabitants same meeting a Mr. Burke spoke still more decidedly. He
alone. Spoliation of property, waste of food destined for the said : I want to ask my constituents, for 1 look on you as
support of man, ebriety, insults to female virtue, violence and such, are yon ready to meet me, your delegate ,in the council
anarchy would mark their career. If they could hold or in the field in a month hence, at any place we appoint ?
possession for a few weeks they would be inevitably driven (Cries of "We are.") No matter for what purpose, suppose
by hunger into the very nets of a victorious and pro- it was to kick footoall, run races, or hurl ? Well, please
bably unsparing enemy. You may be told that in the God, we ahall have a great hurling match before long. 1
ranks of the forces of the Queen many would be found pre- (Cheers.) If guns tie not easily procured you can get pitch- )
pared to fraternise with the rebel host. Never was delusion forks with good long handles to them. Nothing more handy
more complete than this. The military force which the go- than a pitchfork, nothing at all more useful nbout a house ; e
• vernment would bring forward to suppress a rebellion would it will make hay for you, or keep away the flies in harvest,
probably comprehend the revenue police, coast guards, the or if all went to all, it will—(Laughter and cheery, and cries ..
constabulary, marines, and the regular army, consisting of of "That's true.")
cavalry and infantry. Nuw all these parties are by habit,
training, and constitution, families within themselves, and
widely separated from the mere civilian. Besides, I believe
and fervently hope that few Roman catholic in her Mikis... SCOTLAND. •
A MEETING of the CHARTISTS of EDINBURGH was i
a'asiasenrviceas would be ftraliadaseoligibsoaseworaosoatawiaickpetd, Irdiseel.l held last evening (Thursday) to bear delegates from
immortal souls to God's enduring anger by committing the the convention. The chair was occupied by Mr.
hideous crime of perjury. There is no power on earth cape- Graves, who expressed his gratification that theircause
abbieleof
todispaebtsrosig withthe the
soldieroath li.takenam bhyisan.y.oorf
these parties,
jmoannesnaodwdrceosamTtanhedimngeeptiutb,g,licaantdteinntiaonsp.
speech of
fEmsomeset
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or to exempt him from felling into a damnable sin by de- length contended that the object of the chartists was ,
seztin g from the cause which ho has solemnly swore to de- • .
feed. Should the deserting soldier be as free from every the amelioration of social grievances, and concluded
other sin as one of those pure spirits who stand before the by advising the people to procure arms, which he said . I
throne of God, and die with that single sin of perjury on his every man had a right to posses., that he might repel
soul, never would be enter into the kiagdom of God, or enjoy any attack made uponhim. Dr. Hunter then rose to reply,
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a moment's i xemption from unspeakable suffering. -°-C I
, but, on entering into sonic details respecting his electton •
hunger, and utter destitution would be the portion of the ' -
misguided people engaged in a rebellion—s itenain daughter as a delegate, encountered great opposition, and was
in the open country—agriculture would be neglected—the ultimately compelled, after a scene of •great confusion,
crops burned in the fields or tran.pled under the hoof of to resume his seat. The meeting, with this exception,
the war horse—myriads of orphaos and widows would roam passed off very quietly, and the city is perfectly quiet
through the desolate land seeking that food which did not
and peaceable.
exist—the sacred edifice consecrated to the service of
the Most High would become a smouldering ruin—
The Ragged School system is telling gradually in
the unobtrusive retreat of piety, purity, and education .
would become the barracks of a licentious soldiery—property Edinburgh. During the three months ending March,
would be squandered by the most reckless miscreants in 1848, the commitments to jail of boys thirteen years
thought!. as riot—the banks would become insolvent—the of age and under, was 50 per cent. less than in the
i
helpless inmates of poorhouses would crawl out from their corresponding period of the previous year, a result
• asylums seeking that sustenance which could not be afforded
to them, and dying by thousands on the roadsides—the ear of which the ofthe prison believes be ttri
governor -
man would be closed against the cries of his suffering fellow- butable to these institutions. The cost of a boy in the
man—morality would perish, and selfishness, cruelty and ragged school is 3/. per annum; in the Edinburgh
; violence would reign universally—and the overwhelming local prison, 11/. ; and in the Perth general prison, 171. ti
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power of union, wealth, and disciplined strength, would ex-
The Flax-Growing Society of Scotland are prose-
, tinguish the dames of an abortive rebellion in the blood of .
the misguided people. This picture is not overcharged. It cu-
'mg their vocation with some energy. They have
; would become an awful reality. Then would uottbe attempt, procured the services of Mr. Stewart, one of the in-
' by the instrumentality of a rebellion, be foolish in the ex- structors of the Irish Flax Society, wh'i is at present ~ 1
- treme ?" in Aberdeen, ready to give advice in all stages of the
I The rev, gentleman then briefly traces the causes which C 4 11 Rio don of this new branch of Scotch industry. 1
t have contributed to the misery of Ireland. On the one
A
- side, neglect and misgovernment •on the other, distrust meeting of electors was held in Paisley on the 1
• and disaffection. England relied on portal laws—lreland 14th inst., the Provost presiding, when the following
a sought a remedy is insane rebellions, which involved the resolutions were passed: : !
country in countless sufferings. An ardent and imaginative Thot this meeting loaf opinion, that the legislation of this country,
d people listened to an empiric, and neglected the gradual and by the several reonetey acts et parliament si hich have been pewit i
2 ipfaliible means of improvement. After stating the policy during the last 3tl years, has had the effectot aggrandising the moneyed
which the people should now adopt in seeking for political interest at the exprmie of the commercial and tudustrious classes of . .
reforms, of which he is the meet strenuous advocate, the rev. the community ; and that the continuation of un tuijust and unequal
d gentleman proceeds : system of oppressive taxation, whi h these claims are totally unable
longer to sustain, is certain to be productive of still more fearful met-
a " But let me suppose that a rising of the people against soieoocoo
k_ the sovereign were to take place on a large scale— In explanation, the speaker referred terwhat he considered to
o how and when would that most desirable improve- be the injustice of the several acts of parliament relative to
o, went take place? The present generation would pass i
the currency of the country and to the improved position of
A away before the Irish would even presume to enter- the fundholder, the tithe-receiver,' the placeman, and the
ji fain the question again. The population would be cut ioner, and, in point of fact, all parties who had their
me down by the edge of the sword, by famine, the constant
rcles fixed during the French war. With regard to the
ie companion of civil war, and by pestilence, the twin sister of
fundholder he held that the auvautages had been enormous
m hunger. fhe loss of human life would be hound to exceed
_-during the time that - f the • al debt
most u nationwas con-
k, by many thousands any calculations made oven by the traded, the price of funds did not average more than 60 per
Cr greatest alarmist. It would be a civil war, therefore a strug- cent., so that every person who lent 601 .to the government,
..i
le gle abounding in horrors ; and these horrors would be guarantosethat this 601. should stand for 1001., although •
la egtravated a hundred-fold, for it would become a religious got a
sterling was received by the govern-
x- war. lam satisfied that the English are at the present time
melt. In this way they had bound the nation to pay interest
more estranged from the Irish people than they have been
u n 800,000,000/. But that was not all, for since the ter- ,
es for many years. The English, as individuals, have acted
P.° ti of the war several acts of parliament had been
n- nobly by us for the last two years. But a few Irish journals,
passed,ruination
he by this.money had been so much increased in
t- and a small number of restless and vain men, pandering to
its the worst passions of the lowest and most ignorant of the
value, that 100 . wood now purchase as much as 2001.
would have done when the money WAS burrowed, and it
would now purchase as much manufactured goods as 4001.
en people, have taken on themselves to return contumely, in-
- I gratitude, and hatred, for the beneficent acts of those would havedone the . .
at mune poke]. It was true that the
so_ noble-minded individuals. The wreckers of the north,
manufacturing classes were beuehted by the cheapening of
rd 1 whose hands have with difficulty for years been ket provisions, and that the agricultural population were bens-
in from the throats of their Roman catholic neighbours, would ited by the cheapening of manufactures hut in both cases
at cheerfully enter on a crusade to the south; nor would I en- the wages of these clatses had been reduced in nearly the
he gage fur their observance of the laws of war between civilised • the thehad been in
same proportion as 1 trent commodities
he nations. The whole power and strength of the British no- which they
dealt, so that these clus•es were now in a worse
led lion would be put in requisition, and a blow sufficiently position alter 33 years of peace than they had been during
am heavy struck to crush the Irish people for the next fifty years. . . I bethat
in French war. t mustevident to every one the
rig, I may be told that the liberal journals, the watchful sentinels
wealth of the fundholder, the tithe receiver, the placeman,
sir- of the Irish nation—that the glorious and eloquent orators and pensioner, and every party whose income had been fixed
fell who stand forward to denounce the cruel Saxon, and to shed during ti beenincreased, the war, hest enormously and that
a a Irish blood for fatherland-speak with hope, encouragement,
certainly at the expense of the other classes of the commu-
hut and confidence of the issue of the contest. My dear friends,
li held the- • •that these 'ought be
nay. e opiolM mows to
led attach no credit to their assertions—confide not in their pro- made to large 'ofthe of
pay a very proportion
of rinses
ear not so helplessly credulous as to imagine that they „dry_
in fact something equivalent to the amount of be-
ra. are in earnest. The journalist who would urge you on teem- ''''
nefit which they have derived from the undue advantages
bark on an insane, ruinous, and unequal struggle,wishea to con- which the legislature hod bestowed upou them.
time and to increase the circulation of his journal : he looks . • •
for praise and profit, and those are his fatherland. The The subsequent resolutions were:
orator who would encourage you in the path of ruin, seeks
That the trade of the country, generally, has teen in a depressed
conditionfor the lam IS iths in the manufactuf di/needs par.
I. with a craving appetite for applause. Let this, however .tor Labour has been' buipartially obtained and poorly rema-
de_ evanescent, be conferred on him, he seldom cares what evils neratedY;end the working classes are seduced to a most melancholy
ind may befall his deluded hearers. An outbreak would in- and heart-rending condition. the owners of fixed property have had
evitably prevent for a very long period the enactment of to sustain a great roimtion in the amount of their income, whilethe i I
Di;"C those salutary measures. It would consign, very probably, value of their property is de reetated to a winos extent; and the
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ab- hundreds of thousands of different ages to a premature losses sustained tr i;,,tnior ~,n,„„fr,,,‘, ban.kr,..1.4tagtd,,,..,,`11.7f
ess. grave. It would kindle anew the unhallowed fires of reli- co e.
paisley, being entireiyof • rancy nature, of gloat value to the country,
idle genie rancour—it would perpetuate distrust, estrangement, but readily affected by internal depresaion, has hewn plunged into a
,eh_ and mutual aversion between both countries, and it would much worse state than any other town in the kingdom. The poor
f tomisery leave Ireland in her and degradation. Will any man, rates here have been increased to an extent never previously equalled
` then, be so weak as to doubt that a rebellion would be in Scotland ; while such is the poverty of cavern) thousands of the
the ruinous to the country?" population, that for the last eighteen mouths ifs have had to subsist
upon a meagre allowance 11101eil out In charity, that this meeting is
ii
nti- The rcv. gentleman then reviews the present distressed of opinion that these and other grievances under which are suffer will
the and discontented state of the country, an.; impresses on the never be radically removed until the country is inure generally rem*.
and legislature the necessity of timely and practical interference, rented in the legislature, and that the government should no longer
• The poor law, without employment, he says, will still fur- refuse an alteration of toe franchise, 0.10111( with an equal distribution
`ess filer depress the people ; and if the Irish landlords shun of ei.ewna district'.
00- their duties, the law must compel their ob-ervance. Go- A petition conformable to these views was ordered to
the vernment, too, should be more liberal in the means of af- be sent to parliament, and it was also agreed that an
lion, fording employment to the " millions of strong, mora, and address
should be pent to Mr. Hume, "for his noble
:hex hard-working men who :remedy to give their labour." The
etlOrts in opposing the extravageut expeudanie of
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e ..f• rev. gentleman concludes with the following forcible passage: ,
t and f me ts."
"It is truly a humiliating reflection that in our dear and the presen ormer govern u
iof suffering country men could be found so unnatural, so GAME Laws.—A farmer sends a subscription to the Anti-
and selfish, so unpatriotic, as to urge our noble and confiding Game-Law Association, with the following note to the
r re.. people to adopt proceedings which would largely secretory •
and increase their
amisery, and consign to death in the I heg to send you 4:3 to leeward the good muse. However, you
field, to strangulation at the gallows, or to • diuhonoured
fewmaca not let my name be knows, as 1,, in ---- dare not far our
I ~.. grave a a a penal settlement, those whom the famine and lives say anything about game, as the landlord, would not let us a
have
the plague of the two last years spared! ear
8 to friends, the advocates of guilty courses are sordid, selfish in the meantime, the oppressors are many of them lent*/ wmiewhat
octal men—they are false and cowardly advisers. For a little ..e hi where
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guowls • in lam, MeV" oat at
present
Ziltierlor‘ tbe g'ir figiyis,thmeTio poor
nr
the money, fur a miserable ephemeral applause, they would in- 0ri.....0
ouwo' ent capital and feelings will embark its tarrning, mew the •
ewer crease your present suffering, t'iey would p.unge a country arbitrary clause In the haws+ ; and, now, in V.... of the gentlemen
. , co deeply suffering before into anarchy and ruin, they farmers, they are glad to take any man that will ptonotw to pay •tiigh
toe would perpetuate your suffering ter many years yet to rent and submit op tbrir whims; whereas men id sterling worth will
him come, and they would close the gate against the improve- ;Arc nothing to do with soca devisee.
from ment, tranquillity and prosperity of Ireland. Then, have I FARM Ler:Lir:G.—The Duke of Duccieuch has lately in-
:nil ." not a right firmly, fearlessly and moat truly, to say, that an traduced a change in the mode of occupation of his extensive .
abortive outbreak, and it would be literally abortive, would, estates in the south of Scotland. Ma,,, of the tenantry 1'
!lacesl,l
must, lbe pregnant with long and incalculable misery to oar being in imy circumstances, were enabled to rent two or
","" native land ? Then, your sacred duty, your interest both for more holdings; those on which they did not reside being
tom- 1 this world and the next, your love or country, and your hopes termed led farms. This practice, coupied with the large size
area of prosperity fur your native land, point out a plain, sure, and of the farms, had been carried to moth au extent that wide
.er_ honourable course. If you be tempted by the apostle of re- districts of country were in a great measure depopulated. •
and bellion, consign him into the hands of the police—preserve The duke has now, however, determined to put a stop to this
, your loyalty to your beloved Queen inviolate—or anise a system, and at the recent let of his Selleul.. hire lands, all
pots. constitutional agitation to obtaiu good laws fur Ireland, to those tenants who did not personally reside received notice
Mem remove every remnant of kronor penal statutes, to increase to quit. Toe same rule wail shortly be adopted in the adja-
'lll
y to the number of your representatives, to enlarge the corona- cent counties of Dumfries and Roxburgh, when the present
chile tueney, to profitably employ the people, to make religion no leases expire.
test for cherishing one religionist and neglecting the other,
to make the laws the same for England and Ireland, to make PROVINCIAL. I
and
.early the union a reality, to bring the artificial means of supporting LANCASHIRL
, can the people to this country, to promote charity, affection, and
AITIMPTED MURDER IN LIVIIIPOOL.—Off Wed-
n the confidence between the Celt and Saxon, stud to amalgamate • -
Scott, was
5 are all into a single, loyal, and united people." nesday a female, who gave her name Mary Anne
charged with having made three several attempt! to cut the
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if re-child five years of age, with a razor.
throat of her daughter, a .
Tao HaVINO9 Boosts.—The Cork Reporter explains,
f the very satisfactorily, that it is not the small depositors who The principal
witnesses ago vest the prisoner wore her husband
ag
'flee evidence of the latter
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l and I are withdrawing the money trout the savings banks, coin- and her eldest daughter .Lary.
he effect that on that morning her mother ran down
writ,. ! parati;eall few holders are of the htunbler classes—they are west° i
. . stairs in a state of teensy, and declared that the deed was
hated mono y persons in retail trade, and these persons find it
done. Witness immediately went up Main, and beheld her
ie the I more protitable now to purchase at present quotations, 81 or
I.lf
bleeding from wounds in the throat, infiitted evidently
182 stock with deposits made when the funds were at 92 and sister .
or the - and h the the • banks, which led to with some sharp instrument ; and a cry of " murder t" hay-
! 9') ; hence run upon saving' s'
such unnecessary remarks, vergingon alarm. In proof of this Lag . raised, .
said .. • .
ho at- I the editor of she Cork Reporter rays he is acquainted oith the the Winer was taken into custody. Dr.
I
• razor had been drawn emcee the most dangerous part of the
mtion 1 name of a family the different membenof which have given that
of
the . had been incised,
the
I ,
notice The throat, but as none
tze re- , for withdrawing not less. thanb4aonOkina one
awteetak. a
bout child's life might still be saved. The prisoner was remanded, 1 i
M a whole depoost!iiia•ititteaaCtork
moreia savings
blink
belongs to the and as there were some reasons for believing that she was
go INoe, twos eons wore directed to examine the state of
iirg
*solo- working classes. The Tralee savings bank still excites much. 1
soiree attention, and suggests the necessity of additional legislation her mind.
Hall to secure poor depositors against freud. It appears the true- CLAY TONS AND WILSON'S BANKRUPTCY.—The es-
to ea. nd Wilson Prestos, which was at
tees did not require of Mr. Lynch the securities enjoined by tate of Messrs. Clayton.) a
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law, which is considered sufficient to charge them with first expected to realise 15e. in the pound, a not now
cheater Court
great and wilful negligence," and thus render them re. petted to yield more than Soto 10e. At the Man
of
ainfal• no" lle There is grievous hardship on every ride Mr. of Bankruptcy, on Friday, further debta to the amount
in the prim, the arbitrator undr the act, is to be in Tralee to-day, 22.0001. were proved, but this does not carry the liabilities
d dead to institute an inquiry. beyond the amount they have before been estimated atoit
,in 'rag Monte HEDITIoN,—On Sunday last there was a repeal the Express. The first dividend biota
p.
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I bee, meeting held at Templederry, under the auepices of the Rev. in the polind.
,_ J. Kenyon, a parish priest, who, booboo, taken the chair, NORTWLILBEHLAID.,,... . -low,.
hoer 0; mid ,—Friends and fellow-countrymme, you have solemnly basil, SCOTCH, el; li EziGLl3l4lfatG. "l. 90
t, laden pledged yourselves this day to stew'. by and support John order to arrive at an estimate of :la& 4mattal4ll4lllM
1.
Mitchel, Thames Francis Mese.er, and William Smith relief afforded by the people of Lofklaid It IfillgoAlllg
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