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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY. 2, 1849.

After all that has been dune and suffered for Ire-

lard, Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL must come down forsooth
to the House of Commons whining about his ill-
treatment, and about what he calls the ill-treatment
of the Irish representatives. It is not enough that
England is to support the pauperism of the sister
island. It is not enough that we are to give her
inhabitants ten mill.ous in a lump, and supplemental
grants, and loans accompanied with very dubious
'securities, and importations of Indian corn and
Indian meal, and supplemental employment on rail-
ways, and a genepal exemption from taxation. It is
not enough that Administration after Administration

should have its back broken, and its energies
exhausted, and its reputation damaged by
endeavouring to conquer .the difficulties relat-
ing to the government of Ireland. It is not
enough that session after session should be monopo-
lized by debates on Irish Bills, by the presentation of
Irish petitions, and by the reception of Irish deputa-
tions. It is not enough that the English labourer
should be saddled with the burthen of supporting the
Irish peasant, year after year, harvest after harvest.
It is not enough that the attention of the public, the
time of the Parliament, the genius of the Cabinet,
the philosophy of our statesmen, the rhetoric of our
orators, the vigilance of our economists should be
squandered almost exclusively upon the one everlast-

ing theme—ireland—lreland—lreland. No : it is
not enough that all this should be done—
insomuch that the population is at last becoming
sick to very loathing of the monotony of that inter-
minable grievance. But Mr. Joas O'CONNELL must

come howling down to the Legislature about the

grievances of himself, of ,his Hon. Colleagues, and of
Ireland in the mass, io that matchless tone of dema-
gogic mendicancy, in the employment of which he
has long proved himself such a proficient. After all,
we repea►, that has been done and suffered by us for
Ireland, we are accused by this very brazen- faced
and importunate person, the Member for Lime-
rick, with treating' his country, and everything
relating to his country, with neglect. And
yet, at this very time, the public ear is
stunned with nothing but appeals about Ireland—

the public intellect is bewildered with its efforts to

The petition to the House of Commons from the
inhabitants of London and Westminster, praying for
a reduction in the import duties on foreign and
colonial wine, which we print in another column,
is well worth the attentio❑ of the public, not only
i❑ a political and economical, but also in a sanitary
point of view. The inhabitants of all great towns,
should bestir themselves, and give the Legislature
plainly to understand that they will no longer con-
sent to be poisoned for the sake of upholding
the landed interest. They should demand
such a reduction in the import duties on colonial
and foreign wines and spirits as would enable them to
substitute light and wholesome wine for heavy malt
liquor, of all beverages the most life-shortening for
persons who do not take an immense quantity of ex-
ercise in the open air, and in cases where spirits are
necessary, wholesome brandy, or sound old rum for
that most heating and delirium-exciting of all spirits,
gin, the use of which is forced upon the consumer
in order to enable the landowners to keep up
their rents. How many human lives are annually
sacrificed to the MoLoca of rent ownerism by the
protection still continued to beverages, the product of
barley ? This would be curious and useful matter for
statistical inquiry. The Protectionists hare, of late, set up
as " Colonists friends," and contend that our colonies
should, in all commercial matters, be treated as in-
tegral parts of the empire ; they cannot, therefore,
with any consistency oppose the first prayer of the
petition—" That as no duty exists on home made
wines iu England, and, as our best malt liquor is only
subject to a tax of twopence the gallon (regulated by
the duty on malt and hops), so the duty on our colonial
wines should, in no instance, exceed such an amount."
No measure could be devised more calculated to
develop the resources of our Australian and Cape
colonies than such a reduction of duty. The Australian
wine which has recently been imported as a speci-
men is of excellent quality; it can be procured in any
quantity, for the grape in New South Wales is more
prolific than in any other portion of the world, and
it could, if only subject to the same duty as
beer, be sold in England at tenpence a bottle,
which would leave a profit sufficient to pay the
grower, the importer, and the retail dealer.
Such a diminution of duty would also greatly de-
velop the resources of our colony at the Cape, and by
inducing settlers to plant vineyards on the Kafir fron-
tiers, would, by attracting there a large white popu-
lation, which would of course be drilled and disci-
plined, render a future Kafir war impossible, by ren-
dering an outbreak hopeless. The petitioners state
that—" As to wines, other than colonial, your peti-
tioners also humbly pray that the duty on them may
be lowered at least one-half ; and they have no doubt,
as in the case with brandy, that increased consump-
tion would prevent any diminution in revenue."
There cannot be any doubt but that the revenue
would be greatly increased by a diminution of ti e
import duties on foreign wines one-half, and as gee
have always contended that in the imposition of in -
port duties revenue, and revenue alone, is to be con-
sidered, we hope that the experiment of this reduction
will be tried, and that if successful a still further re-
duction will take place until we shall have reached
that point of financial perfection which gives us the
greatest amount of revenue with the least amount of
duty.

We would particularly direct attention to the ac-
count furnished by ourselves, in another column, of
the address yesterday presented to Mr. HUDSON, at
Newby Park, by a deputation from the electors of
Sunderland. It will be observed that that address
is expressive of the fullest confidence of the
constituency "in the public and private
character" of their representative. And the impor-
tance of the document as bearing upon the estima-
tion in which Mr. HUDSON is held by the possessors
of the elective franchise at Sunderland, is enhanced
by the circumstance that the address is signed by
upwards of eight hundred of the electors—a
number constituting a majority of the constituents.
The circumstance of this address being altogether
spontaneous on the part of the inhabitants of Sunder-
land, cannot be overlooked in regard to its bearing
on the inquiries recently instituted. It is nothing
less than an emphatic testimonial, authenticated by
more than eight hundred signatures.
This fact surely speaks for itself. It cannot but
be regarded as a sufficient counterpoise to that
purblind and petulent animosity which has
recently been lavished upon a gentleman
whose misfortune it has been to have excited
the jealousies of persons setdom given to be
generous. The disinterested and uncalled for appro-
val of such a large number of Englishmen may be
surely taken as an ample compensation for the inte-
rested and splenetic opposition of a few personal
antagonists. We shall not be surprised ,
to find it something more than a compen-
sation--a full and complete extenuation. Without
seeking them, Mr. ilinosoN has now obtained his
compurgators. Let them speak for themselves.

alleviate the sufferings of. Ireland—the public eye is
fixed almost exclusively upon Ireland and upon Irish
questions—the public Leart is nearly broken, and is
quite nauseated with its eeaseless exertions to
confer happiness, and prosperity, and self-reliance
upon the people and upon the institutions of Ireland.
Mr. JOLIII O'CorrELL's complaint against us—a
complaint not at all mitigated in its bitterness by any
sentiments of gratitude to England—is briefly this :
That the daily journals of the metropolis, at the same
mthome heint that they are infringing one of the rules of
House of Commons by the publication of reports
of the proceedings in Parliament, refuse to give word
for word, and syllable for syllable, the speeches there
delivered by the Honourable and Learned Gentleman
the Member for Limerick. The complaint is at
once particularly Irish and particularly modest.
To condemn in one and the same breath the
infringement of the sessional order and the compliance
with the injunction of that sessional order, is a course
worthy of a fellow-countryman of the immortal Sir
BOYLE ROCHE. It speaks admirably for Mr. Jouar
O'Colsmitu:s ingenuity ; and it certainly betrays, on
his part, a modesty for which even his opponents
would scarcely have given him credit. Mr. Jour
UCCiNNELL is indignant because his sapient oration:,
have not been reported in extenso by the gentlemen who
occupy such an important post in the gallery of both
Houses of Parliament—gentlemen upon whom another
and a more illustrious Irishman, we mean the gifted
orator, the Right Hon. RICH ARD LALOR SHELL, as
far back as 1845, passed one of his most eloquent
panegyrics. Against the reporters for the daily
journals of the capital, the Member for Limerick
appears to have acquired a very serious grudge,
arising from the fact of their submitting his remarks
to a very wholesome and judicious abbreviation.

INDIA REVOLUTIONS.—On the sth of last Dec.
the Seneca Indians met in cot vention at the Catta-
rangus Reservation in Erie County, New. York, and
abolished their former Government, that of Chiefs, and
established a chartered republic.—.-Quebec Gazette.

11- R Now we would, without any more ado, have Mr. l' 11E FRENCH EPUBLIC
.
J JUN O'CONNELL to know this, that there is no au-
thority, either in Parliament or out of Parliament, papers of
which can compeilthe reporters for the press to Monday c
write out all the twaddle that may be übsidy to
spoken by him (Mr. Joule O'CONNELL) in destiny of
he reign c.
the House of Commons any more than there rournal clew
is a power in the Legislature to inflict upon the popu- able place 1
lation the misery of wading through the iteration of
a employe
commonplaces pronounced by the Honourable and ,SSAIGNACS,
Learned Representative of Limerick. That matter JVALLONS 0
of real interest and importance should be excluded dirty wor
from the newspapers for the sake of finding room for he Reactio
whatever nonsense may be articulated; by gentle-
e is under t
men like Mr. JOHN O'CoeeL, who are not only . MERRICA/
fond of talking nonsense by the hour, but are
; the Gove
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vetted as Sec
also particularly fond of seeing that nonsense ;eine, and of
printed off on the same evening or on the flow in theird
out on Mo
following morning, by the column, is rather !s at the Port
too good a joke both for the public and
for the journalist. When Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL 'rived in Pari
can contrive to deliver long orations, worthy in any several of tl
suggestion (
respect of being reported, or likely in any degree to ssetnble a coi
be subsequently perused, then, but not till then, will date the affair
he find himself treated with the same elaborate atten- rope.
tion that is lavished upon such orators and states- aris have ado'
men as the Prime Minister, or the Foreign Secretary, nt major of ti
as the Right Hon. Baronet the Representative of I EDMUND Rt
of the Line,
Tamworth, or the Hon. Gentleman the Member for resentation of
Buckinghamshire.
Bat that the egotism of Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL ; M....M..AEMEMIII
is transparent throughout the whole of his very , SPAIN.
ridiculous complaint—but that he himself made ; Madrid journals of the 26th ult. have arrived.
an acknowledgment of his overweening self-suffi- t The Finance Minister was to propose the new
I Tariff to the Cortes on the day following. •
cieucy when he confessed last evening that "it might MADRID BoLSA, APRIL 26. Fiveper Cents., 10}
be said he thought too much of himself "—it might ' paper; Three per Cents., 24 paper. Exchange on Lon-
almost have been imagined, from his indirect eulu-
:don, 50 20 paper; 50 35 money.
gium upon the verbatim employment of the art of
stenography, that he was personally interested in the GERM A. N Y
success of that typographical eccentricity the Fortelle 1 AND
Nuz. One would have conceived that Mr. JOHN , THE NORTHERN STATES.
O'CONNELL might, without any very extraordinary
effort of intelligence, have learnt by this time that
even a larger discretion devolves upon the gallery of
reporters in the Lords and Commons than that of ab-
breviating some of the speeches delivered in the course
of a discussion. He might have found out that it is
frequently necessary for the occupants of that gallery
not only to suppress large portions of irrelevant or
unimportant harangues, but to impart to their resi-
dues some at least of the more essential elements of
composition, the proprieties of grammatic construc-
tion, if not the graces of syntax or the adornments
of rhetoric—and this not only for the convenience of
the reading public, but for the sake also of the re-
putation of the debaters. Had Mr. JOHN O'CON-
NELL been a BURKE or a GRATTAN had
he possessed, indeed, but one tittle of the
genius, of the eloquence, or of the influence of
his great father—it would s till have required a mar-
vellous degree of assurance, and a very large share
of vanity, to make the complaint wlaich he Mr.
JouN.:O'Corcleet. (with all hie painful deficiency
both in genius, 'in eloquence, and in influence) had
the effrontery to make last evening, and to'Make, too'
without the apology of a blush. In conclusion, we leave
the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to the full enjoy-
ment of that harmless acerbity which has arisen from
the spitefulness of his wounded egotism.

\_-
.We have received the Paris papers of yesterday.
The National Assembly on Monday determined to
continue the payment of the subsidy to Monte Video.
It would seem to be the destiny of France to be
governed by newspapers. The reign of M. GUIZOT
was in fact the reign of the Journal des Debats, and
the Epoque for every respectable place under the Go-
vernment was filled by some employe of theDebats,
while the GRANIER. DE CASSAIGNACS, the D'EcQui-
vlLLys, and the DE BEAUVALLONS of the Epoque
managed the duelling and dirty work department.
Under the real Republic the Reactionaries accused
the Government of being the Government of the
National, and now France is under the government
of the Constitutionnel, M. MEBRICAN, the editor of
that journal has been gazetted as Secretary• General
of the Prefecture of the Seine, and other employes of
the Censtitutionnel will follow in their order.

The troops were ordered out on Monday night, but
there were no a3semblages at the Porte St. Denis, or
elsewhere, to disperse.
M. DE LESSEPS has arrived in Paris.

La Presse states that several of the Sovereigns of
Germany have, at the suggestion of the King of
PRUSSIA, resolved to assemble a congress of Sove-
reigns at Gotha, to regulate the affairs of that portion
of the Continent of Europe.
The Socialists of Paris have adopted JEAN Bar-
TISTE BOICHET, sergeant major of the 7th Regiment
of Light Infantry, and EDMUND RUTTIER, sergeant
of the 48th Regiment of the Line, as two of their
candidates for the representation of the Seine in the
Legislative Assembly.

Intelligence has been received from Vienna to the
26th. It was rumoured on the Bourse that the ma-
gazine of Comorn had been blown up by a shell from
the besiegers. It turned out, however, quite the
contrary. There had been, it is true, an expiosio❑ at
Comorn, but it was an Imperial vessel of transport,
with 300 cwt. of gunpowder, in tow of a steamer from
Presburg downwards, that was blown up by the can-
non fire of the Magyars, who had a battery on the left
shore of the Danube, opposite Gonyo. Many houses
in that town bad been destroyed by the explosion,
and many lives were lost. The whole line of the Im-
perial troops have now retired to the position of
Raab, their left wing lying still near Comorn, and
sending at intervals some shells into the fortress. All
regiments are to be increased by the addition of one
battalion, each battalion consisting of six companies
of from 150 to 200 men. A complete regiment will
then number above 13,000 men. The Magyars are
advancing towards Vienna, on the left side of the
Danube ; they were partly arrived at Tyrnau three
days ago. Probably the Imperial army will be
obliged to retire to the Marchfield, near Vienna, as
the only means of resisting the Magyars. The im-
perial troops are entirely disorganized; the sergeants
and officers of most of the companies are new men,
and the leading principle of the whole Austrian army,
that of confidence in their superiog, fails entirely at
this moment.

On the evening of the 25th ult. the following bul-
letin was published by Burt :
•• According to official reports just received the corps,
composed of six brigades, under Field-Marshal Lieut.
Wohlegemuth, occupies the whole terrain' from Sel
lye, Eperiess), Nyarazd, and Bus, with its left wing
resting upon the Danube. Nothing new has occurred
on this line.

" According to several consonant reports, the ' gross'
of Georgey's corps was advancing in the direction of
Cumorn.

" The concentration of the main army on the right
bank of ,he Danube is proceeding without intermission,
and news of decisive import is to be expected shortly
from the scene of war."

Pesth was evacuated by the Imperialists on the
25th Ult. BEM has gone to Temeswar, WINDISCII•
GRATZ has arrived at Prague.
We read in the Austrian Lloyds—
" The Russian Legation has informed the Austrian
Government that 50,000 Russian troops have entered
Transylvania in two bodies, the cne coming from
Wallachia, and the other from Buckowine.
" POSEN, APRIL 18.—Our eastern frontiers have not
long been relieved from the presence of the Russian
troops, for Kols,t Kanin,; and Kalisch have within the
last few days been again occupied by considerable
forces, and new regiments are daily arriving by forced
marches. The Russian generals have quitted the
frontiers of Lithuania, and are now in Podlachia.
Warsaw, Al delin, and Zemnoes, the principal
fortresses of the kingdom, have received new garri-
sons, of such immense strength that it is very evident
that the Government expects a new rise in Poland. It
is impossible to be blind to the tact that the successes
of the Magyars over the Austrians in Hungary has
provoked a lively agitation among the Poles, as welt
in the grand duchy as in the kingdom, and that they
consider the approach of an insurrection very near.
Everywhere there are preparations fur war, and it is
said that vast quantities of arms are introduced se-
cretly. It is, therefore, of great moment to Russia that
the war in Hungary should be quelled as speedily as
possible. It would appear by the vast accumulation of
corn aad other stores, that they are looking forward to
a long struggle. The country people are obliged to de-
liver immense quantities of grain, for which they receive
treasury bonds payable in 1850.
" PRESBURC, APRIL 23.—N0 less than five steamers
and several brigs have come up and gone on to Vienna
since noon to-day. All the steamers, instead of lying
to at Vienna, will in future stop at Linz. Three new
steamers and a number of tugs are expected to-day,
and are immediately to proceed to Vienna. They are
all heavily laden, but it is not known what their cargoes
consist of.

" A very bloody engagement must have taken place
at Neuhasel, on the Waag. Since noon yesterday, no
leis than forty or fifty waggons have arrived here by the
Jyrnan Railway, bearing lamentable proofs of the terri-
ble accounts received of the battle."

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