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have at least protested against the atrocious crime of
the Absolutists, and we have protested with a dig-
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aggression of the former. If we have failed in bringing
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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCEL 20, 1847,
accomplish the object so long desired. If we have
failed in our proposition to arrange the differences
The Lords met at Five o'clock. which have estranged Queen MARIA DA GLORIA
from her subjects, we have at least protected our own
In the course of a conversation which arose out of
interests in Portugal, and preserved an honourable
e presentation of a petition by the Duke of Bleu-
)ND, complaining of the unjust operation of the Poor neutrality. In every quarter of the globe our pro-
amoval Act, Lord PORTMAN entreated the Govern-
ceeding-s have been creditable, if they have not been
out to introduce some measure to amend that Act
profitable or permanent, since the formation of the
shout delay. Russell Cabinet.
The Marquis of CONYNGIIAM complained that his In reference to domestic affairs we must admit that
.me had been improperly inserted in the list of the very much of an ameliorative character has been ac-
putation of Irish landlords who had waited upon Lord complished. No one but a maniac could anticipate
HN RUSSELL. He mentioned the circumstance in that such miseries as those which have descended
ler that he might not be supposed guilty of the upon the British islands during the past eight
surdity of appearing as a member of a deputation months, could be dissipated by the breath of the
favour of a measure to which he was opposed.
Lord MONTEAGLE explained, that the Noble Marquis Legislature like the winged seeds of the dan-
I attended the meeting at which the deputation had delion. No one but a maniac, we say, would
m agreed to, but had left the room before the pro- expect that further measures of assistance
:dings were over, and that his name had been load-
could, with any degree of security, have been adopted
by a Government under similar circumstances than
7tently handed in as a member of the deputation.
Their Lordships then adjourned. those measures which have already proceeded
The Commons met at Four o'clock. from the official chambers in Downing-street. Other-
Mr.
Bouveme asked for some explanation on the wise we might look to the performance of political bjeet of the wholesale objections which some of the miracles, we might hope to see a harvest germinate •;
ilway companies had made to the lists of Members to iend ripen at the beck of a Lord-Lieutenant, or t rye on Committees which had been drawn up by the
the empty Meal-bins of the peasantry be-
antnittee of Selection. The Great Western Com-
come replenished at the bidding of a Secretary 1
ty, he understood, had objected to three hundred
Imbers. of State, or the sunken cheeks of the famishing 1
Sir J. Y. BULLER said that the Committee of Selec-
plump and bloom at the announcement of a Parlia-
I had communicated to all the 'principal railway mentary division. What has been actually under- c
apanies a list of the Members appointed to serve on taken by the Legislature for the assuagement of i
ilway Committees, in order that the parties into- the existing calamities of the country has proved
:ed might object to any names they found in the list. to a great extent effectual, by
distributing
ay had only received answers from the Great Western public moneys to the penniless ; by giving em-
the
,m the South-Western Companies, and the Great ployment to the workless ;by facilitating the t
stern had certainly objected to a much greater extent introduction of food to the localities most affected by
1 the South-Western Company. (
the dearth ; by restraining the operation of those (
fr. ELLICE, as one of the members objected to,
stems, both agricultural and municipal,
injurious sy
t,
god to say he had not the slightest interest in either "
which have chiefly tended to produce the notorious im-
the companies, and he thought the Committee
election ought not to have entertained the objections,
poverishment of Ireland; by etrengtheningthe bonds of b
. a:
,ss the objectors had stated their reasons in each a common reliance between the tenantry and the pro-
prietary ;by encouraging agricultural enterprise, and 1
:r. WILSON PATTEN defended the Committee of Se- lastly, by rendering the poverty of Ireland dependent
on. A long conversation followed, in the course of for assistance upon the property of Ireland. This final h
:la it was stated that the objection was not to Mr. measure of the introduction of the poor-laws into the
rep personally, but to the place which he repre- four provinces of the afflicted island is, to our thinking, ,
ad. After which, the subject dropped. among the wisest provisions made by the Government
aam
. answer to a question from Mr. BORTEIWICK, for the moral and social elevation of the Irish multi-
vs
n-d PaeeteesToN said that the Government had re- tude. It will render asystematic mendicancy henceforth n(
id no official information of any intention on the impossible. It will ensure the application of all the c`
of the French Government to establish hospitals muscular strength of those among the able-bodied J°
coal depots at Port Mahon, and that the tendency re labourers who are thrown out of employment by
ich information as they had received induced them
:Bove that such a report was unfounded. elladverse circumstances, it will ensure the application
n the order of the day for the House going into of all that muscular strength to remunerative tli
anittee on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, tt
:r. CALLAGHAN, on the part of the gentleman re-
works, and especially to the farther cultivation of the
soil. These are the considerations which are ire-
in
lg at Mallow, who, it bad been stated, had 10,0001. vitable to every unprejudiced mind on reviewing the C
ar and kept hounds, and had yet refused to subscribe bygone labours of the session, and they are consi-
le relief fund, denied the statement that had been derations which necessarily demand from us an ex-
am
c. He certainly was indignant at the conduct of the pression of our satisfaction.
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