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LITERATURE.
DUBLIN ItEVIE W. Na. XX.
The Dolnein London 1841.
objection which we 'have so often urged
likust this periodical—nainely, that it is heavy
and monotonous in the character of its articles—
ikitilies with less force than usual to the present
losmunher, which contains quite enough of variety
• aat'sfy all classes of • readers. Among the
fghter reviews is a notice of Moore's poetry,
sliggested by the late. Uniform edition of his
4rits) which is penned in, a lively, spirited man-.
et') hut • i • 1. f and indiscri-
is somewinit too lavish o ,
,at",,lnafe in, its eulogy. We believe, there is con-
able truth in the ReViewer's assertion that
ittie Irish Melodieshad a great share in preparing
eE°glisli mind. for the measure of Catholic
nlya
Iscipation; and we can readily imagine, and
aloutepathise with, the feelings of just and honour-
jio Pride with which Mr. Moore must look back
rhis exertions in this patriotic cause. In anl
irluent and even learned notice of Mr: Ha_
" Literature of Europe," the Reviewer, al--
sn'Af.'g incidentally to some of the religious ab
IDs ties of the last thirty years, observes that
doc-
trines 'fle° of education still believe in the doc-
osof;tisicoo.tfe,that crack-brained enthusiast, Joanna.
" having subMitted to the operation
h /s!'ing' sealed, and what is still More conclusive, faaving
wßiithtsht:
paid for it." We must' eg to doubt this
tiding it is so positively.
70fit:Irnv?it,
.great apostle of, the Unknown
fer:'gues, we are assured that " he was a man in-
Oulu f° no one in intellectual powers." This
Mo'vsl,v,ei.,rntist beg leave to doubt, for we have
tun: "411 once beard Mr. Irving preach iu.Hat-
spr "'lien, and 'never discovered aught in his
1,21,;tis but a certain. flashy eloquence, which.
ill e..lculated to stand the.test of rigid exa-
fr:"ltti°ll. It *as the preacher's manner that
gained 1.•
*as iot,a • ch.P9l. a 3
din su -ul tit ? • his niatter, when it
n -was seldom much raised above
i-et111111°11,Place: ". Mental Epidemics" is an ar-
ta de,1:11".1 of useful suggestions respecting the best_
heliet•lteepino• the- mind in a state of sound
thi,--";:, dO not, however, agree withd
toff- writer in his strictures upon tea an
toffee which, when not. taken to excess, are
'ions beverages, if not positively nutri-
tralft-• At on-.
y r..te, if they be poisons, they
laySt be, very `low ones, for Dr. Johnson, an
eterate tea-drinker, attained his seventy-fifth
cafaikr; 1"4 Voltaire, who was as inveterate a
N.(--,drinker lived to be an octogenarian...
of 4viglible Polar Sea" is a sketchy notice
41)1411 expedition undertaken to the inhospit-
littiatt•s of the. North Pole, by order of the
inr (ioveriiment, in she year 182.1. " Sport-
Ireland" is just one of those light, ram-
itttr!" entertaining notices which used to be so
zio,;lefl‘r:e in the -pages of Blackwood's Maga-
Joke 'the Reviewer remarks that to " give a
of t' arid take a joke" is the great secret
Irei'avelling happily and successfully through
sodat'd• Let the tourist be able to do this,
coin we. are told that he may go through the
eve-ritrY from Connemara to Cavan, and he met
repl'where with good-humoured kindness, and
wa-re're the hundred thousand welcomes of the
rar„ilfhearted people to every description of
P4rt in their vicinity. We quote. the
roav-eLwer'a directions to the sporting tourist who
O'C 17 anxious to have a day's hunting. with
he "I'ol, among his own wild native moun
ios
bre„Li,f Kerry. The sketch of the open-air
gives In this extract is so piquant, that it
-4,,ne -quite an appetite to read it:-
4' tourist must be stirring with the first light—
kroi, -'Connell • generally setting out for his hunting
Aare at four in the morning ; and, if he would keep
that with him in his walk to the rendezvous, he will find
f
thite.fs° Ine previous practice, under the instructionsble He
Wilir,rned Captain Barclay, is extremelybedressrealdem.
ex_
Ft„trind the hnnting-pack sma..lleitnhantu
amber, being left
keg pine couple, about twice
tiler business—that
; but he will see at ‘locnce that they understand
forr..uilsiness--that they are just. the description of dogs
1110untain country—well sized, but not over large ;
bell bodied, but deep chested, and not at a.llleggy—,
4firining about the head, and most musical in tongue
$1 °I Italian and German concerts ! never was such
ro°4l-n.uta... music as the cry of that little pack will draw.
her breast of the grey mountain, wakening Echo in
trethi,",waand caves, and seeming to make the giant crags
cool-„''' at the roar. They will not be long before they
tit4i t''),*'ll a trail, and the sagacity with which they un-
--e -ariutis Windings thereof, will delight the true
th'e'ir4j4.ll. They are never helped—never lifted ; and
7:flg a thing almost unheard of: Their
111"te as' o_l/L4e Irish, descending from an ancestry as re-
411'1 of- the Milesians who followed the chase ;
tignur, endurance, and instinct, are almost
t"rl • Some of the mountaineers always keep near
" th,',l.l' order to pick up the hare, when killed ; and
14. ki'livrator" is never far in tha rear. Two hares be-
Iporrsai'lled, breakfast is antrainced ; and the hungry.
'with a 411 fintls a clOth laid in some grassy dell, covered
nd n ProfuSion of cold Meats, hot potatoes, sandwiches,
ftom anfrOquently a dish of mountain trout reeking
taehtss°,2le cottage gridiron ; and copious acco.mpanli-_
Provided in the shape of tea, coffee, milk, co df
*hieh porter, cider, and spirits of various kinds ; of
this n atter articles there are now but few partakers in
‘vith„aetelibourhood, gentry and people being almost,
l)erane,:„"eepti(m, followers of the " Apostle of Tem-
sav 4tlt.
or Breakfast over, the stranger may amuse him-
lnadw,bile in reading the newspapers, or smoke a
utp " look forth, over abrupt precipices, and across
Ihitta,u,d tomantic glens, on the Atlantic, and muse on
sands Lrother, Jonathan" is about. But hen u"
all
aix 1. must be very very
kid re refreshed, he must be ready for. a fresh start,
Unlucky if he do not see five or
amu•if h'elitlai killed by fair hunting, and fastidious indeed,
n"t declare himself well pleased with his day's
s, SIIADOW,j AN]) REFLECTIONS
OF WHIGS AND TORIES.
The Boone, London, 1841.
to zukt e ri t that pervades this work is a manly,
ng itiff,PtchteUed one, and evidently the result of
of Id amts (it readino• and reflection. In some
the eliapters the. Anther goes over precisely
vette:ll,l'le ground. that Lord Brougham had
tra-
laglaCis't'fore hint ;. but we do not trace any
from his Lordship's " Characters of
I)4lguislied Statesmen ;'' far otherwise, the
Vivid :talearly written from the Author's own
tapre,Pressions of men and things. He
rest that' himself strongly, because it is mani-
heean"tit teels strongly ; and fixes attention,
,se he argues from conviction. Though
is ho'irl!).rk has a decided Whig tendency, there
it. ,"',"g of The thick-and-thin partisan about
toosidl'"e Author is superior to such petty
states erations, and passes judgment on the
whose characters he discusses, in an
ins ,14!'", uncompromising spirit, to the best of
With most of his judgments we
leoie,„4,l:' agree, but we think he has been too
The t°wards the notorious Duke of Newcastle,
'whet, iltentporary of the elder Pitt, especially
Prove 'e asserts that " the abuse of his Grace
blanks. n'Alling but the inherent baseness of
Duke fild, thereby making it appear that the
jast a martyr to his own sense of what was
ever theenlightened in leoislation. Now if
Nish `re was a narrow, ficrgetty, purblind, in-
Urer:tent statesman, disqualified alike by na-
'sPonslils'!l„caucation, for holding any office of re-
-154e '''.„l"t3', the Duke of Newcastle was that
°qv, -ue was a mere fussy, restless busy-
ter one leading feature of whose cliarac-
lie 'as ststek.rt itkatiable desire. for place, which
%101 l -to with'the tenacity -of a horse-leech.
oib,eieZ'has- lett-us a sketch of this political'
/r,l tnr,"'ul 1144 "*t'plbt, which though some-
-4,,,tt the' 7'.9,l„7.erOtiarg..ed in its colouring, is correct
date,:th • ow,. anthOr's character of Lord
e a' nAtsh severely, is justly, drawn ; and
theefluiest' iii the strict propriety
qeorf.;‘,
.ertkin which he . has passed upon
altlne.Third Of whom he says, in
IPate. ii4A a bigot ;_
_his soul :was des
hor his
heart false, he knew not. love
ale_ '::11"lsbi; Pity. nor remorse. Crafty, sub•
tsin't.4illidictive, he was never surprised
` into
tY, but
',.. wheßrin htain lie'
ies
ranks gave
he
amono• way. AS
oetr.u3iorsft
of. GreatGreat
t.
"flieruiotiarchs; the hollowness of diaries
irwiehout his liberality- or taste ; the hi-
fie Pia arnes the Second without his sincerity.
e-"tflge was at
te in which he appeared to the greatest
Th a Levee or Drawing room •
enn e„alone Ise sunk his political feeling
was.tile
pi!oPlY courteous to Whig and Tor
orb "gate dem 'gogne Wilkes was leo;eievveednwith
W,. may tidd, that George the
bettrliir° understood the temper of Ids conntryint'll
ps than any man of his day and this
is Perha
„„...4e (Cason why, in au age, conip,ar t' 1
re;zlloing, of political ignorance, he retainaed"ll3'
do,Pev et and love of the undiScerning man;,
wit.hti.; to the very last moment wheU
f iitraWri froM public life.' In his f
that
fru,l'ice, the author states it as Portraithis
pr„,,..`"" far-famed Letters of Junius were tiliek•
with him, who I_e°etion of this eminent statesman. Few will
are at all conversant with
.tuirjet.swritings, which are as different from those
thou'lts as can
be imagined. The former
deli2.lll:2l..eLc.an.
,be concise enough on occasions,
Unif,;.,..7.,c"nanN In amplifications; the latter is
polit,' filly sententious and epigrammatic. In their
014 setet
,urke was a Whig of the strait-laced
; • Junius. a demagogue, whose ideas
"s` to republicanism. We subjoin the au-

thor's critical sketeh of this great unknown, with
which we close our notice of his lit4iit; desultory,
and amusing volume :—" No writer was at any
period, or in any country more popular than
Junius. A t this day, seventy years since he first
appeared, his fame is as enduring as ever. With
a power of condensation unequalled since Ta-
citns, a stab in every sentence, a sting in every
question, a darkness of colouring alMost ap-
palling, occasionally relieved by the ;scorching
blaze of a vivid indignation, he sometimes plays
with his victim, but only to tickle him to death;
he combines the sporting ferocity of a tiger with
the noble daring of a lion. His Letters exhibit
brevity without obscurity, strength without
coarseness, elegance without feebleness, great
depth with extreme clearness." Junius may not
be coarse in expression, but he frequently ex-
hibits great coarseness of idea, as may be seen,
passim, in his attacks on the Duke of Grafton.

MRS. HALL'S IRELAND.—Part.
How and Parsons, London, 1841.
In this number of the most popular work on
Ireland that has yet appeared, we find some
exceedingly curious particulars respecting the
state of the lace-trade in Limerick, whose- lace,
sayS the-Editor, " may vie in delicacy and beauty
of finish with anything . of the kind wrought
at the present• time in Europe ; while it is
infinitely less costly than that manufactured
in France or Belgium, and considerably cheaper
than that of Nottingham, or either" of the lace
districts. Of this country." 'The great attraction of
Limerick; however, adds Mrs. Hall, is its " ma-
jestic and beautiful". river Shannon, of which we
have an interesting account, together with short,
pertinent extracts from Mr. Rhodes's Report
on the subject of the Navigation of this noble
stream, whose naturai advantages,
„up to the
present . time, have been altogether ,neg-
lect( d; . its munificent wealth having been
" suffered to be as utterly waste as if its blessings
wereonly to an utipeopled desert."' The Number
is embellished with a clever engraving of
King John's Castle and old Thomond-bridge,
and also with a map of Limerick and the adja-
cent county of Clare.

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JUDICIAL STATISTICS of FRANCE

The ilioniteur publishes a long report, addressed by
M. Martin du Nord, Minister of Justice, to the King, and
containing a general account of the administration of civil
and commercial
.jukice in France during the years 1837,
1838, and 1839.
The 2,846 Justices of the Peace throughout the
kingdom were called upon, in 1837, to decide on
603,898 affairs ; in 1838, on 655,046 ; and 702,423
in 1839 ; in all, .1,961,367 affairs. The proportion of
affairs, as respected the population, was 1 for every
32 inhabitants. Of these-affairs, 496,927 were adjudi-
cated upon after discuSsion; 289,150, by default; 842,534
were terminated by a transaction or arrangement in
Court, and 309,695 were abandoned by the parties with-
out trial. The affairs carried before the Justices of the
Peace experience little or no delay, for only 8,368 re-
mained unsettled on the 31st of December, 1839. The
786,077 judgments, after discussion and by default,
gave rise to 13,580 appeals, or 1 for 58 judgments.
9,007 of those appeals, however, were alone followed 'up,
5,244 of which were confirmed and 3,763 set aside.
The Councils of Prild'hommes, sixty in number, who
are appointed to decide in contestations arising between
merchants, manufacturers, foremen, workmen, appren-
tices, &c., pronounced during those three years on 44,531
affairs, or, on an average, 14,844 per annum. 4%-?.08
were amicably arranged by the private board, and the
4,323 remaining Were referred to the general board.
There were but sixty-two appeals atinst these judg-
ments.

13efore the 361 civil tribunals of first instance 372,153
affairs were entered for trial in the same interval-viz.,
126,694 in 1837 ; 126,086 in 1838 ; and 119,373 in 1839.
If to these be added the 60,379 lying over on the 31st of
December, 1836, the total will amount to 432,532 affairs.
Those Courts terminated 127,548 affairs in 1837, 132,111
in 1838, and 124,454 in 1839- in all, 384,113. The pro-
portion of suits was, one per 270 inhabitants. Of these
affairs, 196,907 were adjudicated upon after discussion,
83,817 by default, and 103,389 were terminated by trans-
action, renunciation, &c. On the 31st of December, 1839,
48,419 civil cases were lying over unsettled.
The increase of commercial affairs already noticed in
the statistical account for 11335 and 1836 still continued in
the three following years. The 390 tribunals, both special
and civil, appointed to try commercial cases despatched
156,875 in 1837, 147,280 in 1838, 162,487 in 1839, or
466,642 during those three years, or on an average 155,547
per annum. This average had only been 112,362 in
the preceding triennial period. Of these, 126,581 were
adjudicated upon after discussion, 270,334, by default, and
67,727 by transaction, renunciation, &c. ; 8,847 were still
pending on the 31st of December, 1839. The average of
commercial cased, which was upwards of 40,700 per an-
num in Paris, 8,000 in Rouen, and 6,900 in Lyons, was
only 1'55 in the department of Finisterre, 146 in Morbi-
han, 147 in the Lower Alps, &c.
Before the 27 Royal Courts 11,064 cases were entered
for trial in 1837, 10,622 in 1838, and 11,095 in 1839. If
to those 32,781 affairs be added the 9,179 pending on the
31st of December, 1836, the total will be 41,960. Those
Courts terminated 11,303 in 1837, 12,259 in 1838, and
11,460 in 1839-in all, 35,022. 24,234 affairs were ad-
judicated upon after discussion, 2,885 by default, and
7,903 by transaction, renunciations, &c. ; 6,961 remained
unsettled on the 31st of December, 1839.

The Chamber of Requests of the Court of Cassation
received 573 appeals in 1837, 588 in 1838, and 550 in
1839—0 r 1,711 during the three years. It delivered 443
decrees in 1837, 614 in 1838, and 519 in 1839—in all,
1,576. Of these, 864 rejected the appeals; and 712 ad-
mitted them, and sent the parties before the Civil Cham-
ber. The latter pronounced, during the three years,
655 decrees, 248 rejecting the appeals, and 407 breaking
the judgments.

The demands to be separated addressed to the Courts
were 643 in 1837, 807 in 1838, and 772 in 1839 ; in all,
2,222, or, on an average, 741 per annum ; as compared
with the number of marriages, returned in 1836,
the proportion was one demand for every 8,360 mar-
riages annually. During the three years only one
demand of separation was made in the department
of the Landes, two in the Indre, Corsica, and the Lower
Alps, five in the Correze, Ardeche, and Upper Loire ;
four in Arriege, five in the Lot, Lozere, and Cantal ; 113
were instituted by the husband, and 2,109 by the wife ;
seventy-three were entered into against the wife by the
husband, on the plea of adultery, four on account of her
having heen condemned to some degrading penalty, and
thirty-six for illtreatment and severe injury. Of the
2,109 applications made by the wife ninety7five were
grounded on the adultery of the husband, forty-five on
his having been sentenced to a degrading penalty, and
1,969 for illtreatment and serious injury. 430 were with-
-drawn before trial in consequence of the reconciliation
of the parties, or the death of one of them ; 1,618 were
admitted, and 174 rejected.
The number of legal adoptions during the three years
was 257.

The applications addressed to the Courts to the effect
of interdicting persons from managing their property
were 2,583 ; 978, in_lB37 ; 986, in 1838 ; and 619, in
1839. Of the 2,583 applications 1,568 were made by re-
latives, 1,279 of which were admitted and 289 rejected ;
and 1,015 by the Attorney-Generals, 708 of which were
admitted and 107 rejected. Only 70 appeals were tn-
tered into against those 2,583 judgments.
The marriage dispensations granted under the law of
the 16th of April, 1832, was 251 in 1832, 686 in 1833,
692 in 1834, 549 in 1835, 516 in 1836, 457 in 1837. 571
in 1838, and 597 in 1839.

NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.—DISTRESSING
A CCIDE NT.—An accident of the most distressing nature occurred
here on Saturday, which has caused a gloom to pervade the
whole town. As Miss Cook, the amiable and accomplished
daughter of John Cook, Esq., of Belle Croft, was Superintending
some favourite flowers in the greenhouse, which, having been
attacked by the green fly, the gardener was smoking with
tobacco, her dress came in contact with a lighted candle he had
placed on the ground, and was in a moment in flames. In her
fright she ran out of the greenhouse across the lawn, ere the
gardener, and a man who was assisting him, could overtake
her. She was so dreadfully burnt, that she expired on Sunday
morning. The young lady was in her 20th year. This i•
the third child, this respected gentleman has lost within a few
months.

SUICIDE IN A STATION-HOUSE.--MOlldaV
night a man named Samuel Byford, about 30 years of age, who
had been brought to the B division station-house, Elizabeth-
street, Pimlico, upon a charge of insulting females, committed
self-destruction, by hanging himself from the circular grating
of the window of the cell in which he was confined. The
charge was taken at a quarter to eight o'clock, and it was ob-
served at the time that the deceased did not appear to be
Ashamed of his disgraceful situation. He was visited several
times between that period and half past nine, and betrayed no
agitation whatever. At the latter hour the constable found
him haning by the neck from the grating. He was cut down
immediately. Mr. Fowler, the surgeon, was sent for, who
opened the deceased's arm, and he bled freely ; the body wa,
quite warm, but life was extinct.. The deceased was described
upon the charge sheet as an artist.

"
DOVER, JUNE s.—Yesterday a report was dr-
culattd that a corporal of the 34th Regiment had been shot by
one of the privates of the same corps on the road between here
and Sandwich; but we are glad to find, on subsequent in-
quiry, that the manner in which the man met his death,
through of a melancholy description, does not bear so criminal
a Complexion. From the evidence at a Coroner's inquest held
yesterday at the Little Rose, Whitfield, it appears that the
deceased had- been sent %Nab two soldiers as an escort to con-
vey three prisoners to Sandwich, and on their return home
'they Went into the public-home, the George, at Welder-
hare, in company with two females, where they indulged in
intoxicating drinks until they all became drunk. On leaving
this plate to proceed towards Dover it would seem that de-
ceased turned off the road into Hazledean-wood, and shot him-
for he was found there two hours after mortally wounded
from a musket shot, which had passed through his body.. One
of the feinales was lying in the wood beside him, but she was in
mid} a state of intoxication that she could give no account of
the'melaneholy affair. Verdict of the Jury—" That the d‘,-
teased &tattled himself while labouring under a fit of tempo.
riry insanity."
ANigitICAN FIGURE OF SPEECH.—The verb
"to fix" is universal, It means to do anything. " Shall I fix
Your coat or your breakfast first.?" That is—" Shah I btu II
your coat, or get ready your breakfast first ?" " Right away,"
forim nediately, or at once, is very general. " Shall I fix it
right away ?"—i. e. I do it immediately ?" In the
West, when you stop at an inn, they say_" What will you
have ? ..Brown meal and common doings, or white wheat and
chicken fixings." That is—" Will you have pork and brown
bread, or whim bread and fried chicken ?" Also—. Will yon
have a tied or , cheek ?"—a dinnfv or a luncheon ? "In full
blast"—som, thlsg in extreme. ‘.‘ When she came to the meet-
ing, with her yellow hat and feathell, wion't she in full braes ?'

IMPERIAL PARLIA.MEINv?.

HOUSE OF LORDS, June 8.

Their Lordships assembled at the usual hour.
Messengers from the Commons brought up several
private .13111 s, .prineipally Small Debts' Bills.
The Court Houses (Ireland) Bill passed through Com-

mittee.
The •Militia Ballot Suspension Bill passed through
Committee.
The Assessed Taxes Composition Bill passed through
Committee.

The Ordnance Survey Bill passed through Committee.
The Jews Declaration Bill passed through Committee.
The Sugar Duties Bill was read a third time, and
ordered to be committed on Thursday.
The Marquis of WESTMEATH would put a ques-
tion relative to a matter that had that day come to his
knowledge. A person of the name of Connor
had been tried and convicted, and sentenced to
execution, for the forcible abduction 'of one
Jane Matthews, some ears ago, and he had been
just•appointed by the Irish Poor-law Commission as a
Returning Officer for the Union of Athlone. Now he
(the Marquis of Westmeath) wished for a return to be
made to that House of the conviction. of Robert Connor,
late a sergeant in the 73d Regiment, in 1825. •
Lord DUNCANNON, in the absence of Lord Nor-
manby, said he thought there would be no objection
to the return being made. .
Lord ASHBURTON presented several petitions
against the Corn-laws, upon which a discussion arose, and.
The Earl of RADNOR took occasion to allude to a
speech of the Marquis of Westmeath, in which he read
him (the Earl of Radnor) a lecture regarding his state-
ment that wages in Ireland were never higher than 10d.
a day, and he (the Earl of Roden) had ascertained that
to be the fact. _

Earl FITZWILLIAM said he thought it very desir-
able . that no error should go uncorrected, but he
thought it equally desirable to prevent any error being
committed. He was himself an employer of labourers
in Ireland to a very great extent, and the wages he paid
never exceeded 10d. a day. That was the established rate
of wages. It appeared to him (Earl Fitzwilliam) that
the Noble Marquis (Westmeath) thought that some ad-
vantage accrued to the labourers from occupation of.
land. • Now, the Irish labourer generally occupied land
from the farmer who employed 'him,. and with whom he
had a running account, and this running account was
generally paid for with labour done by the occupier, and
he (Earl Fitzwilliam) did not think that the labourer
.was benefited by this system of occupation of land.
. The Marquis of WESTMEATH did not think the
system was advantageous to the llbourer;.he (the Mar-
quis of Westmeath) would rather see the labourer paid
in money for his labour.

The P.arl of RADNOR begged leave to state, that
there might be no misunderstanding, that when he
stated that wages in Ireland were not more than 4d. a
day, he did so from recollection. But his statement
was now obtained from the Poor-law- Commissioners.
He had that morning looked at the Report, and he
found that the statements contained in it completely
bore him out in what he had said. It stated that the
wages of labour varied from 6d. to Is. a day ; that the
general average was Bid. a day ; but it appeared that
taking the whole year together the average of the wages
amounted to 25.• 6d. a week, which fully bore out his
statement that the average amount of wages was front
4d. to sd. a day.
Thu Marquis of WESTMEATH explained.
The Earl of HAIWWICKE said that in all'
those sort of discussions the Noble Lords who began
it always had an 'advantage, because they came down
ready primed to the House. The Noble Earl had yesterday
brought forward evidence to show that the labourers
were better off with corn at low prices than with
Corn at high prices. Now it appeared, on the autho-
rity of the Noble Earl himself, that such was not the
opinion of the labourers; The Noble Earl had given
evidence before a Committee in • the House of Commons
in 1836, in which he had stated, in answer to questions
put to him, that he believed the farmers were under a
general impression that a rise in the price of corn
would be beneficial to their interests. The Noble
Earl had the following question put to bim.—" If they
could get 60s. a quarter for their corn, do they not
think that there would not be so much distress
in the country ?" To which 'the Noble Earl had
replied " They do, and the - labourers thirds so
too." In reply to another. question ' the Noble Earl
had stated that the labourers throughout his part of the
country were of opinion that a rise in the price of corn
would be advantageous to them. "It is very absurd,"
said the Noble Earl; "but they think so."—(Cheers.)
The Noble Lord had. last night entered into a statement
with a view of showing that in 1836, when the price of
bread was low the condition of the labourer had been
improved, but in his examination .before that Committee
he had said that it was to the operation of the Poor-law
that the rapid improvement of the condition of
the labouring classes was attributable, that before the
enactment of that law there had been a great scarcity of
work, but that whenever it had come into operation then
the demand' or labour had increased ; so' that at that
time the Noble Lord was of opinion that the improvement
in the condition of the labourers was a consequence of
the Poor-law Amendment Act.

The Earl of RADNOR was glad to hear that the
Noble Earl was so satisfied with the high value of his
testimony. Not one word of that testimony was he in-
clined to withdraw.—(Hear, hear.) He would not deny
that a great improvement had taken place under the
Poor-law Amendment Act, but was that improvement
the less, because the poor man had a cheap loaf instead
of a dear one? That was at that time the opinion of the
labourers, because they were then still under the effect
of the mode in which the Poor-law had been admini-
nistered before the introduction of the Poor-law Amend-
n.ent Bill. Under that system every labourer received
parish relief, and as the amount of relief was always re-
gulated according to the price of bread; the labourer had
an idea that it was for his advantage that the price of
corn should be high, because he then received a larger
amount of money for parish relief ; but if the labourers
were asked their opinion now, they would not state they
were benefited by high prices.

The Earl of STRXDABROKE said that it was but na-
tural to suppose that when the price of corn was high,
there was a natural desire on the part of the occupiers
to employ more labourers. Allusion had been made to
the rate of wages in Ireland. He employed many la-
bourers in that country ; their work was princpally
underground, and their wages were never less than from
Is. to Is. 6d. a day throughout the year. The Noble
Earl then presented several petitions against any altera-
tion in the Corn-laws.

The Earl of HADDINGTON presented a petition
against any alteration in the Corn-laws from some lace
in Roxburghshire. lie had been entrusted by a Noble
Friend to present two petitions against any alteration in
the Corn-laws. He at first hardly knew whether he
ought to present them, seeing the scheme for an altera-
tion in those laws had been abandoned by those who,
notwithstanding they had not the confidence of either
House of Parliament, still continued to be her Majesty's
Ministers.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Earl then presented
a petition from the Grand Jury of the county of Dublin
against any alteration-in the Corn-laws ; and another to
the same effect from the inhabitants of the city of Dublin.
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.

Messengers from the House of Commons brought up
certain Bills.

EMIGRATION.

The Earl of FIT ZWILLIAM presented a petition
from the Emigration Society of Paisley, praying their
Lordships to promote emigration, as a relief for the
existing distress.