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Sunday afternoon, about four o'clock, when I saw the
deceased, and spoke to him. He was quite well, and
was at the time playing with his master's child. Mea-
ghan is a married man, and this child is his only one.
His wife's sister, Catherine Singleton, is in custody as
well as themselves. Meaghan's wife is much younger
than her husband. I have heard that deceased
worked for Meaghan before the latter was
married, which is abJilt four years ago.
Mrs. Meaghan returned home from the christening of
her sister's child, between nine and ten o'clock on Sun-
day evening. She came to my door and asked if she
could go through my house, as her own door was
locked. I allowed her to do so. She was teone, and
went through and shut the passage door quietly after
here The 'door is generally kept on the latch, and'
only fastened at night. She went then to the front
door of her shop: I distinctly heard her do so, as the
partition is very thin. I heard her open the door and
saw the deceased Thomas Leary go in. I was stand-
ing at the corner of my window, which looks into the
street, and saw him then alone. After he had gone
in I heard her close the door upon them both. Ido
r.ot know whether Meaghan was at-home, hut think he
was not. I know that Mrs. Cotter was in the house
(she was servant to the prisoner), because Mrs: Mea-
ghan said to me, " I suppose the old lady has fallen
asleep, as she has not let me in." I have not known
Mrs. Meaghan let Leary in in that way before. I then
weritout, and did not return until after the cry of
"Murder"'was raised.
By the CORONER—I had been to the bottom of the
street to visit a neighbour, and as I approached my
own door I heard a bustle, and a man named John Rice
cry " Murder" three times, and then run up the street.
I did not notice any one running either way before I
saw Jack (Rice). lam sure I did not see either Sin-
gleton or Meaghan's wife. I should have known them
if I had. I came on the opposite side of Whiteeross •
street, in the direction of Chiswell-street, when return-
ing from my friend's, and there was sufficient light in
the street to see any one if they had been there.
By a Juror—Meaghan did not come into my shop
while I was there. I was going in to the next door
to see what was the matter, when Mr. Neville, a
neighbour, put me back, saying, " It was no sight
for me." I then went in through the passage door,
and saw the deceased with his head behind the
counter, and his feet towards the door. He had a
large wound beneath the left breast, from which the
blood was flowing copiously. The doctor was putting
brandy into deceased's mouth, to see if he was alive.
He did not speak, and it was only by his slight
gasping that I knew he was alive. He tried to turn
away his head from the brandy, but had not strength
to do so, and died in a few- minutes after.
William Darby, husband of the last witness, said,
•I did not deceased on Sunday till Isaw him wounded.
I did not see him let in, as I was in the bakehouse
at the time. My wife let Mrs. Meaghan through.
I should say it was about half-paSt nine then. The
partition is so thin I can hear everything distinctly,
and I heard, at twenty minutes past ten, the voice of
,Meaghan in his own shop, say, " Out with you, get
out with you," as if speaking to some one inside. I
also heard the voice of his wife, but what she said I
cannot say. There was a great deal of talking be-
tween two or three, and .quarrelling, but I could not
distinguish the voice of Leary, for the talk was so
low at some times. I had customers in the
shop, and' did not pay much - attention.
I heard several pushes against the partition.
as if of seuffEng, then a heavy fall on the ground, and
then some one ran out of the front door, and some one
said in the street, "A man's throat is'eut.” I cannot
say exactly what was the matter, but think Meaghan
and his wife were quarrelling. The words, "Out with
you," were befure I had heard a fall or groan. The
only, voices I heard were those of Meaghan and his
wife. I threatened the woman Cotter, when I went
in, to tell me the truth, but she could not answer me,
and I saw the deceased as described by my wife. A
knife was at his feet; it was much stained with blood.
The man, Jack, picked it up and laid it on the coun-
ter. lam sure it is not an act oT Jack's, but of some
other person's. -When I went in with Mr. Bland, a
tobacconist opposite, I saw Mrs. Cotter collie out from
the back, wringing her hands, and saying, " Oh, God,
who has done this !"
(The knife, with which the deed was committed was
shown to the Jury, and it seemed a common shoe-
maker's knife, such as is used for cutting leather; the
blade and handle were covered with blood.)
Mr. BAKER said that, in causepence of othr du-
ties, he should be under the necessity of adjourning
fie hearing of any further evidence till to-day.

A bitter infliction upon the unhappy tenantry ! And
then, again, your " Scripture:re'aders," and " Tract-
distributors," and the entire bent of your disposition
is adverse to Catholicity ; and . the thousand shapes in
which that adverse feeling is exhibited towards, and
reciprocally felt by' the peon ,;: the Protestant pre-
ferences in all dealings, and the • inferiority which the
Catholic peasant experiences, both at petty sessions
and in the other manifestations of Magisterial with°.
rity. The vexatious power which the "Wilful Tres-
pass Act," alone gives, would, in order to make it
tolerable, require the utmost mildness and impartiality.
In short, in all the incidents of life, the Catholic
people feel deeply the effects of your unfriendly dis-
position. I much apprehend you are furnishing the
materials for a slumberin, volcano. The surface is
smooth and tranquil. But there may be fermenting
underneath the materials of a most destructive ex-
plosion.
Fourthly—Let me put a suppositious case. Let
me suppose that which, I thank Heaven, is impossible
ever to be realised—let me suppose that there were
selected for the highest office in your county a noble-
man •r gentleman, who, however amiable in private
life, was bigoted in his political and religious animosity
to Protestants and Protestantism. If the Magisterial
bench-were crowded with similar enemies to Protest-
ants and Protestantism • if all the Government
countenance, and every Government preference were
given to persons of similar sentiments, and if such
preference were aggravated by insulting pretences to
greatliberality ; if the Judges of the land, in whose
hands should be the lives and tbrtunes of you all, were
to be selected for having spent lengthened years in
bitter opposition to Protestant education—if men were
to he selected who had proclaimed that the Protestants
were perjurers in principle and in practice, idolators
or infidels, if Protestants and Protestantism had been
' treated in this manner—need I ask what impression
would be made on the minds of the Protestant people
of Ireland ? What would be the temper of that
people ? How they would laugh to scorn the hypo-
crites who, in such a state of affairs, should indulge in
maudlin pretexts of liberality and justice? Would
the Protestant volcano then slumber ?
Do but reflect. Turn these things in your minds,
and look back to the fate and destruction of empires
as recorded in history ; and with me then zealously
exert yourselves to avert events which, if they once
occur, will go far beyond human control.
Fifthly—To return to the immediate burdens upon
the land. Recollect there are such things as rack-
rents, which, of course, are payable by the occupiers
of the soil. Add to these the heavy county charges
which are enormously increased and increasing. The
roads—the bridges—the sessions houses—the court
houses—the polioe stations—the prisons--the expenses
of prosecutions—the police charge--in short, the
multitudinous burdens for which our counties are
mortgaged, and which are all payable by the occupy-
ing tenant who—let it never be forgotten—must have
land or must die ! Turn in your minds the curious
contrast, the centralisation, in one spot, of all the
power, and authority, and wealth-dispensation of the
Government, but no centralisation of the multitudi-
nous burdens which are carefully localised in Ireland;
thus placing upon our unhappy country as much as
possible of the expenses of the machine of the State,
with as little as possible of State advantages or State
emoluments. But, above all things, carry with you
the recollection that these burdens are all borne by
the occupying tenants, who, in their necessary eager-
ness to possess land, are not able to shift the load upon !
their landlords.
Sixthly—But, before all, recollect that the whole
burden of the Established Church—the Church of not
one-tenth of the Irish people--is now mixed up and
amalgamated with the rents. The tithe now composes
part of the rent which the tenant pays ; it is true that
in general he does not pay it to the parson himself;
'but you cannot possibly imagine that the Irish peasant
is ignorant that a portion of his rent goes into the
pocket of the Protestant clergyman, whom he thus
supports, as he does his lay landlord. The tithes were
considered by that peasant as as accursed thing. Is it'
safe or prudent to have the Irish peasant conceive
that his rent shares the maledietory taint ? Are not all
these materials for thinking, especially with the facts
stated by the Rev. Mr. Nolan staring you in the face?
Would to Heaven that I could induce the landlords of
Ireland to make peace with the Irish people; instead of
aggravating pressing evils by contumelious treatment
and the bitterness of bigoted oppresSion!
Seventhly—l come to apply all these reflections to
the question more immediately before us—that of the
Poor-laws. It would be easy to deal with those laws
if they were to be introduced amongst a peasantry
who had no other grievances to complain of, and no
'artisan hostility to render them dissatisfied and sus-
icious. But you must take them as you find them,
with every other cause of complaint existing; .with
the burden of the county cess • with the payment of
the tithe rent charge ; with die religious animosity
and irritating zeal of an antagonist creed. You must
also prepare yourselves for the perpetual recurrence
of a new poor-rate after poor-rate! If it were but one
payment, it might be enforced ; but it is the repetition
of the enforcement that will increase your difficulties
lot° an impossibility.
See how the difficulties will multiply. The harsh
conduct of the Commissioners, the suspicion of their
partisan feeling, the proofs of their bitter bigotry,
will 'increase the odium attached to this tax. Then
the poor-houses are, it seems, becoming the legitimate
successors of the Charter Schools for the maintenance
of orphans to be brought up Protestants ; although
the desertion of a child in this country is, to a think-
ing mind, rather a strong proof of the utter poverty of
the parent, and, therefore; of that parent's belonging
to the religion of the poor in Ireland.
Another fearful consequence of the continuance of
the Poor-law in Ireland is its necessary creation of a
pauper and helpless population. There are in Dublin,
between the two workhouses, at the present moment,
at least from 1,500 to 1,600 persons between the ages
of 10 and 18, having no friends and relations to fall
back upon, or to take them out of the workhouse.n
What is to become of these ? What is to become of
the accumulation of similar persons from the daily re-
ception of others into the house ? What is to become
of this " workhouse family," increasing as they yearly
must, in tens, in hundreds, and in thousand*? What
is to become of them ? Are they to be sent out to look
for employment ? Alas! there is but too little em-
ploynient-for those who are out already! Are they
to be dismissed and bidden to
go lok for waes?
Alas! there are but too little
wageso wh
o
are those who
are already seeking them, without ever having
gone into the poor-house ! Are they to live
" from the cradle to the grave" within the walls
of the workhouse ? It may be said the males
may enlist as they become adults, to furnish
soldiers to our armies. In this respect the experi-
ment has already been tried in the Charter. Schools,
and totally failed. There never were enough of their
inmates possessed of manly vigour to constitute a cor-
poral's guard. And yet they were brought up with
the advantages of open air and free exercise. But the
male and female youth brought up in the imprison-
ment of the workhouse will become driftless and un-
fit for any pursuit that requires labour and exertion.
The plant reared in the dark never acquires the green-
ness and vigour of fertile nature. This unhappy poor-
house population, totally disconnected from friends,
relatives, or motives for exertion, will display in the
moral world, what the plant brought up in the dark
displays in the physical.
This is a frightful prospect of a necessarily aug-
menting pauper population : a new class created in
society; idle, useless, driftless !
Another menacing consequence of the continuance
of the Poor-law in Ireland, must necessarily be the
giving of an absolute right to the paupers to be ad-
mitted into the poor house. It has passed unnoticed
that our worthy Poor. law Commissioners have strongly
urged, in three of - their reports, that persons should
be prevented from begging is Ireland; and Lord
Morpeth had atone time undertaken to bring in h
Bill for the Suppression of Mendicity. This, of
course, could not be done without giving to every
pauper an absolute right to claim and obtain relief in
the poor-house. If this law should pass, it would
be necessary to erect another workhouse in Cork,
and at least two more in Dublin.
And if the Poor-law contiuues, to- this complexion
we must come at last."
Another necessary consequence of the continuance
of the Poor-law in Ireland, must be the giving of out-
door relief; especially if mendicancy be suppressed.
In that case, out-door relief must, of course, be given
in all pressing cases. But after all it is monstrous to
talk of a Poor-law without out-door relief. If there
be a principle at all in the Poor-law, it must extend
itself to giving relief to all who want it, whether in
the poor-house or out of the poor-house.
Had not this letter run to such a length, there are
many other points relative to the Poor-law that I
should touch on, more especially to illustrate the dif-
ficulties which must arise in levying an universal
Poor-rate. Ideeply deplore that I cannot discover means
of avoiding the inevitable conviction that the Poor-
law will be in Ireland what Talleyrand called " the
beginning of the end." It will be, in my opinion, the

Morning 'Chronicle, December 2, 1842.—This important
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111,,rning Herald, December 1, 1842—This is the forty-
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tion, we find it improved even upon the former volumes. The
references are more ample, the general arrangements more com-
plete, and in all its details it is more elaborate. Extending
over a apace of upwards of 1,600 pages, it contains everything
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which accompanies it embrace.; a wide circuit, and includes the
most important suburbs of London. It is, moreover, very well
executed.
Sun, December 2, 1842.—We have had frequent occasion
to call public attention to the comprehensive plan and excel-
lent arrangements of this useful work, and in these respects
have hubs new to add. It is satisfactory, however, to state,
that Mr. Kelly, the proprietor, not ungrateful for he exten-
sive patronage it has justly acquired, has adopted many new
improvements, and by simplifying some of the details, and
making numerous additions, has this year rendered it the most
complete Directory ever published. Of these we select the
following :—The full names of each partner in every firm
appear at his proper alphabetical position, with a reference to
the firm, which likewise stopearsits before. This will remedy
ar.. inconvenience complained of, that unless the leading
partner's name 'was remembered, a firm could not he referred
to. A list of the principal hotels, taverns, and commercial
inns throughout England and Wales has been compiled,.the
landlord's name being in each case added. In the Trades'
Directory some new lists have been added, the longest of which
is Travellers' (Commercial). The Street Directory has been
much enlarged, and now embraces a much wider extent. The
Court Directory also takes a much wider range than in the
last edition, and includes some thousands of names not con-
tained in any other book. The propri?tor, from his access to
official documents, and the assistance liberally afforded by the
Post-office authorities, has great advantages, and consequently
has been enabled to furnish a vast amount of information, all
of which has been collected within the last 70 days, by re-
sponsible agents, possessing local knowledge. It is accome
panied by an excellent map of London. by Wyld ; it extends
to 1,558 pages, 112 more than in the edition of last year, and
forms altogether a most valuable book of reference.
Railway Magazine, Dec. 3. 1842.---This is one'of the most
extraordinary works of the day; year after year the Post-
office Directory grows upon us, not diminishing in value, as
its predecessors did, but each time presenting information
more correct and more copious. To.specify all, or even any
great portion of the improvemerits in the volume for this year,
would be impossible; for every page gives evidence of the care,
skill, and enterprise of its conductors. The Commercial Di-
rectory and Court Directory seem very much enlarged, and in
addition to the previous references and classification, are oc-
companied with an engraved Map of London. Among the
novelties we may specify the insertion of the name of each
partner hews firm at the place where his name would appear
were he in business for himself; the addition to the Court
Directory of the environs north and south of London ; the in-
sertion of the names of all Postmasters in the list, showing
the return of post • list of Commercial Travellers, &c. 'We
had almost thought that the Law and Conveyance Directories
had been incapable of improvement, but we were equally sur-
prised and gratified to find that great accessions hare bean made
to them. The Postage Directory is not only valuable from
its exclusive information, but from the exertions made to keep
pace with the improvements of that department and the
changes in it. The Banking Directory and the Lists of
Public Companies, with the names of their secretaries, the in-
formation as to the public offices of all kinds, are carried out to
such an extent as to be of the greatest advantage to those en-
gaged in the transaction of public or commercial business. The
Parliamentary Directory shows an equal advance with the other
departments, and indeed no department is behindhand with the
progress of events and the march of imprbvement. To detail
the merits of this work, in facie is to recommend it to public
support, which is scarcely necessary, for few'can f,il to appre-
ciate the energy, skill, and enterprise of its conductors.
The Spectator, !December 3; lB42.—This storehouse of
business information continues to enlarge. Among its addi-
tions and imurovements are a very considerable extension of
the " Court Directory" so as to include other points of the
compass besides the west. The north and south of London are
new of " the Court courtly," as well as the western suburbs
froireNotting-hill to Camberwell. All this is said to be pecu-
liar to the Post-office Directory ;•" other professed Court
Guides" are " exclusives," confining themselves to the west
end. A new map of London is another addition.
Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, December 13, 1842.
Each succeeding year seems to introduce some ne,v and useful
feature into this most serviceable compilation. Then there are
distinct Directories, under the respective heads of " Court,"
" Parliamentary," " Street," " Postage," "'Banking," &c.,
leaving nothing to be required for the most important as well as
for the most ordinary occasions for reference. It is mere loss
of time and space to commend the " Post-office Directory," for
all purposes, over every other. ,There is no comparison, nor do
we know of any pretension to compete with it.
Weekly Dispatch, Dec. 4, 1842.—" The Post-office London
Directory for 1843." published by Kelly and Co., Old Boswell-
court, is really a most gigantic undertaking, and has been ac-
complished with more than giant strength as regards increased
utility and general impprovement. In noticing the several di-
visions into which this really national work orrefeience is
classed, it is only necessary to take them seriatim as they ap-
pear in the volume ; and it is gratifying to state that in der
every head a marked desire to render the work most perfect is
visible. The Street Directory embraces a meek wider extent
than in former editions, and now exhibits at one view all the
inhabitants of every street; an important addition is made to
the Commercial Directory, by the insertion of the names of all
the partners instead of the senior only, as heretofore has been
the custom. The Trade Directory is enlarged for the first
time by a list of commercial travellers, which must be a deside-
ratum to all connected with the trade of the provinces ; a list
of the principal hotels and inns throughout England and Wales,
with the names of the present landlords, has been added ; and
in the list of post towns the names of the several postmasters
have been inserted. The Conveyance Directory has been en-
larged, and is made as perfect as the ever-chnnging and im-
proving nature of its subject will allow, and certainly affords at
the present time a very complete guide to the various modes of
travelling now in use. The Court, Official, City, Banking,
Postage, and Assurance Directories are equally entitled to en-
comium for the degree of labour that is manifested in the com-
pilation of each ; and it would be doinga great injustice to the
enterprising spirit and good faith of the Proprietors not to award
them the wed of our unqualified recommendation of this, we
might literally call it, stupendous work.
John Bull;December 3,1842.—1 n the Post-office London
Direc:ory for 1843 there has been effected, that which we had
thought impossible, an improvement on the volume of the pre-
ceding year. The Court Directory which it gives has been
largely increased, and it now includes residents in the northern
and southern as well as in the western suburbs. The Convey-
ance Directory is unique, giving information as to every pos.
sible mode of conveyance by land or by water ; and, in parti-
cular, every pains appear to have been taken to state the rail-
road time tables as correctly as their changing arrangements
wiltallow. A large, clear, admirably executed map of London,
engraved by the Messrs.Wyld, completes the work, which ought
to be called the Directory of Directories, or, in Eastern phrase
the Father of Directories.

LANDLORDS AND TENANTS IN
IRELAND.

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CONCLUSION OF MR. O'CONNELL'S LETTER
ON THE IRISH POOR-LAW.
When Sir Robert Peel said that Ireland was his
greatest difficulty, he dld not mean a difficulty arising
fro.n a Parliamentary representation. He knew that
some four harougns were already becoming cor-
rupt, and could be bought with English money. lie
knew that our county constituencies were fading
away, and that popular power in them was nearly
annihilated. Besides, he has now suck an overwhelm-
ing Tory majority of unprincipled English Members
that the Parliamentary force of Ireland is like chaff
before the wind.
No. It was not Irish Parliamentary power that
was his difficulty. It was the temper of the Irish
people • the millions who know of English rule no-
thing but its inimical tendency; who have no sympa-
thies in common with those rulers ; who have heard of
the wrongs arising from a hostile domination, general
and local, but who have never heard of any benefits
derived from English rulers; who know that the
present Administration belongs to that party who
have, for centuries, oppressed their country and per-
secuted their religion; who also know that from
English distress or difficulty opportunities may arise
for the assertion of Irish rights and the redress of
Irish grievances.
Yes. It was from this temper and disposition of
mind of the Irish millions, that Peel felt the great
difficulty of his Administration would arise. It is
thence it now continues to arise.
What I want now is, that you should take part with
that people; that you should soothe and conciliate
them. Ido not now speak to you of the restoration
of our domestic Parliament, although that would de-
stroy all the evil tendencies of the present system, and
amalgamate us all into one people. My present desire
is limited to obtaining your aid in seeking the repeal,
or, at least, the thorough remodelling of the Poor-law.
The people of the county of Cork have many causes
to complain of the great majority of their landed pro-
prietors, and of Peel's Administration that gives sup-
port and countenance to that majority. I will just
call to your minds some of their causes of complaint.
Let me try the numerical order. •
Firstly—The rural population of your county
amounts to more than 750,000 souls. Yet the number of
electors does not exceed, and scarcely equals, 3,000 !
What a frightful picture does this not afford of your
unkindness and want of generosity as landlords
Would it be possible for the power of language to dis-
play evidence more condemnatory of your landlord-
hostility or stinginess to the occupying tenants-of
your county than is afforded by this single fact ?
Three thousand persons only qualified to vote out of a
population of 750,000 ! The law which has thus
enabled you to restrict the franchise, and the spirit
which has induced to act upon that law, are, indeed,
melancholy proofs of the landlord animosity of jyour
county to the people.
Secondly—Another exhibition of your landlord-
hostility towards the people of your county is to be
found in the opposition given by the resident propri-
etary of the count' of Cork to the Government plan
of national education. The Catholics have no great
reason to applaud that system ; yet it was so much
better than any former plan, that the people, with the
assent, in your diocese, of their clergy, very generally
availed themselves of it. What has been the conse-
quence? Why, we hear it from the first authority
that not above ten. national schools have been openedby the Protestant proprietors in your most extensive
county. These were, of course, liberal Protestants ;
and whilst the smallness or their number affords a
melancholy contrast with the greater multitude of
illiberals, it imposes a duty on the people to enhance
their gratitude to the Liberals in the same proportion.
But that is not the point lam labouring at. I labour
to show how rancorous must be that hostility to the
people entertained by your landed gentry, which would
deprive that people of all chance of being educated
without danger to their religious belief. Those who
suoh hostility are not at all aware of its perni-
cious, though secret, effects upon the minds of the
general population.

Sunday Times, December 11, 1842.—This extraordinary
work is at once an Official, a Street, Commercial, Trade, Law,
Court, Parliamentary, Postage, City, Conveyance, and Bank-
ing Directory. Thos..) accustomed to laborious compilations
can alone form a conception of the enormous industry requisite
to the production of such a work. Amid a countless variety of
matter we find named every inn throughout England and
Wales, a list of commercial travellers, the names of the post-
master of each town, the names of each partner of every firm—
(a most important addition)—for instance, Few, Hamilton,
and Few will be found under the respective letters F and H.
The Court Directory is the most perfect yet produced. In
this extraordinary work we have 1,635 pages-of important
matter, and on an average 160 names in ei.ch page—i. e.,
261,000 in all—a prodigious undertaking.
itanria, December 10, 1841.—Napo!eon, to whom we are
indebted for some very smart sayings, as well as for some
hundred millietis of debt, used constantly to exclaim, when his
projects were treated as impossible, 4. Impossible ! that word
is not French." Every day we are becoming mere strongly
convinced that it is not English either, when employed to limit
the progress of human exertion and industry. Of all springs
of action enterprise appears to possess the most expansive
power, and to be the most constant and persevering in its
movements. No sooner does there seem the slightest possi-
bility that any object of general utility may be accomplished,
than it is at once undertaken, and, in nineteen cases out of
twenty, successfully prosecuted. Only a few years ago the
publication of such a book as this would have been pro-
nounced to be . Think of a volume composed of
upwards of 1,600 closely-printed pages, and containing twice
or thrice as much matter as Johnson's Dictionary, beirig
completely produced in the space of a few weeks,
! though every house in London and its suburbs has to be vi-
sited to procure the information it embodies, and every pub.
lie office that can be named has to supply its list of officers,
hours, &c. Conversant, as every person connected with a
newspaper must be, with the interior of a printing-office, wa
own to a feeling of surprise at the rapid production of this work,
ard view it as the greatest marvel typography has yet achieved.
As for its contents, we leave those who have more talent for
detail than we pretend, to describe them. From experience
we know that there is no information which a directory can, by
any stretch of imagination, be supposed to give that is not
readily found here, and found almost in an instant. The ge-
neral arrangement, the indexes, the classification of names and
trades, all aid the wQr4 of reference, and help to effect a great
saving of time. In many respects the volume is superior to its
predecessors ; the information is more copious, the details
more exact, and the several departments more conveniently
arranged. Besides these improvements, we have a large and
beautifully executed map of London, which has been drawn
expressly for the work, and, for its size, is perhaps the most
comprehensive and exact that has ever been engraved. Alto-
gether, it is one of the most surprising' books which the inces-
sant activity of this age has called into being, and one of the
most useful that an inventive mind could devise for facilitating
the dispatch of business and securing aecuracy. We give this
praise freely, because we are sure it is deserved.

Thirdly—But it does not rest there. Ynu not only
discourage education wneu unconnected with prosely-
tism, but you carry on a direct crusade against the
religion of the people. You wield your landlord
influence and power in that unholy warfare. -The
compulsory process is used in the vain, but irritating,
endeavour to make proselytes. That process is more
successful in compelling your critbolio tenants to
semi their children to the school called Protestant.

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last drop in the filling up of the waters of erness
to make them overflow the land. It will give to
Whiteboyism and to Ribbonism another and a most
melancholy feature. It will give the last worst phases
to the agarian system of disturbance; the warfare
between landlord and teriNant.
Shall you ask what is my remedy 1' My remedy
would be-the restoration to Ireland of her nationality
—of her domestic Legislature. Ireland is, by nature
and natural advantages, the richest country in the
world ; the best situate for commerce and manufac-
tures; infinitely the most productive of all the neces-
saries of life. It therefore appears to me plain as the
clearest demonstration, that her people are poor and
wretched only, because they are not well-governed ;
and above all, because in the present system of the
Union, the resources of Ireland are drained out of her
as fast as they spring up.
But there some of you whom I do not now expect
to make converts to that national sentiment. There
are, alas! amongst you many that are nationless ; as I
ri ar there are some who. are creedless, save only"
in a creed of hate. I cannot, therefore, expect to
make you love Ireland, or to become Irishmen. All
that belongs to another (and Itrust not a distant) day.
I, therefore, must propose to you my present re-
medies. They are two—with an alternative.
My first is, the total repeal of the present Poor-
law. Ireland was not worse before the Poor-law was
enacted than she is at present.
My second is, to follow up that repeal by aug.
menting the present medical charities, and extending
the same principle to the multiplication and manage-
ment of other charities.
Or, in lieu of both—and if we are to have a Poor-
law :

To make the poor-rate an income-tax—all persons
to be exempt who have not an income 'of 5001. per
annum. The Poor-rate to be, say 1 per cent. upon
5001. a year, and to augment in proportion as the in-
come augments, until, if. necessary, it should be 50
per (mt. upon the enormous incomes of absentee prb-
prietors.
• An experiment of this description, but not carried
out to the extent which I propose, has mitigated the
horrors of the tithe system.
. Let it be distinctly understood that I propose no
man should pay poor-rate who has not 500/. a-year ;
but that the owner of .500/. a-year should pay 1 per
cent., and that such per, tentage should increase in
the ratio of one for every additional hundred per.an-
num. The actual per tentage, however, could not be
an essential part of my plan. The principle of that
plan is, to exempt all persons under 500/. a-year ; Itra
to levy the poor-rate by a graduated income-tax lipon
ikvery person having that income, with an ae-,emuja..
ting ratio for greater incomes.
It is quite clear that no violent resistimce, no insur-
treated by the plan
rectionary movement, would be
which I propose. It is the wealthy alone who would,
on my plan, be coinvlle:i to support the paupers.
w h
Andch the sel—interest; ef that class, with the power
ily I.:elongs to them from their station in
the State, Mold effectually protect them from the
faults and the follies of the Poor, law Commissioners.
I have only to add these two sentences :
Firstly—That lam ready to attend any day In
January before the 22d, in the City of Cork, to iniet
any of my constituents who ma :desire to confer. with
me upon the .subject of Poor-laWs, or to obtain my
assistance in Parliament to promote their views.
Secondly—That I have heard that the Governnaent,
so far from checking the authority of our worthless
Poor-law Commissioners, is actually mad enough to
think of placing under their control tlie, medical
charities of Ireland. That is to say, in other words,
!
to annihilate nine-tenths of our meclie9l charities
I have the honour' to 'be,
• My Lord una Gentlemen,
• Your faithful humble servant,'
DANIEL O'CONNELL.
" TRANSFERENCE OF THE PAYMENT OF TILE POOR
'RATE TO THE LANDLORDS.
" We lave a communication to make to the country
—anti we have ftill confidence in the quarter whence -
we
draw our information—which, whether it prove
acceptable or not, will be regarded as of considerable,
indeed great importance.
" We believe, then, that the Governmthit has a Bill
prepared, which will be brought in after the meeting
of Parliament, making Hu landlords liable, in the first
instance, as in the case of the tithe rent-charge, to the
payment of poor-rate.
" That this will be the only object of the Bill we
have not been informed; but even if it were for this
special purpose alone, it would be an important
change; and, looking to what has passed, and what
is every day passing, it is one Avilich the Government
probably deems essential for the maintenance of the
law, the preservation of the
.public tranquillity, and
the most judicious way of preventing such collisions
and homicides as those of which the neighbourhood of
Skibbereeu has been lately the scene, and something
like which has been threatened elsewhere."—Sonikern
ReporteP.
Mr. O'Connell's recoannendation, which is as fol-
lows, coincides in sonic measure with the principles
of the plan announced by the Southern Repotter
:
"To make the poor-rate an income-tax all persons
to be exempt who have not an income of 500/. per
annum. The poor-rate to be, say, one per cent. upon
500/. a year; and to augment in proportion as the
income augments, until, it' necessary, it should be 50
per cent. upon the enormous. incomes of absentee pro-
prietors."

" An experhnent of this description." he adds, " btu'.
not carried out to the extent which I propose, has mi-
tigated the horrors of the tithe system.
Let it be sufficiently understood that I propose
that nu man should pay poor-rate who has not .500/.
a year; but that the owner of 500% should pay one
per cent., and that such per centage should increase
in the ratio of one for every additional hundred per
annum. The actual per centage, however, would not
be an essential part of my plan. The principle of
that plan is, to exempt all persons under 500/. a year;
and to levy the poor-rate by a graduated income-tax
upon every person having that income, with an accu-
mulating ratio for great incomes.
" It is quite clear that no violent resistance, no in-
surrectionary movement would be created by the
plan which I propose. It is the wealthy -alone who
would, on my plan, be compelled to support the
paupers. And the self-interest of that class, with the
power which naturally belongs to them from their
station in the State, would effectually 13rotect them
from the faults and the follies of the Poor-law
Commissioners."

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
The lessee of this beautiful theatre has begun his
career with spirit. He last night produced two new
pieces, both of which were completely successful. The
first, which is entitled She's not to Blame, is a do-
mestiejrama, adapted from the French, and intro'.
duced, for the first time to a London audience, Miss
Amelia Mercer, from the York theatre. This young lady
is, we suppose, to be the heroine of domestic drama at this
house, and she is well adapted to sustain that line of.
character. Her person is good, her features expressive,
her enunciation distinct, and her action appropriate. She
was last night evidently suffering from the nervous-
ness necessarily attendant upon a first appearance, but
she gave indications of talent which promise much 4lnr
the future. She sustained the plat of Matilda, the
daughter of Sir Thomas Dudley (Mr. P. Williams),
whose character having been unjustly slandered away in
consequence of the more than imprudent conduct
of a young officer in a Ilusar regiment, Captain
Pemberton (Mr. J. S. Balls) has been cast off by her
father. The old man becomes blind, and needs some
one to attend to his comforts, and under the name of
Ellen Courtenav, the cast-off daughter takes upon
herself this filial office. The old man becomes at-
tached to her ; she takes an opportunity of revealing
herself to him, and declares her innocence. Captain
Pemberton has in the meantime become acquainted
with Sir Thomas, but the old man knows not that it
was owing to Pemberton's conduct that he had beers
induced to "cast off his daughter. The Captain now
demands her hand of her father in marriage, and all
ends happily. This plot affords situations of the
most intense interest, and Miss Mercer, generally
speaking, availed herself of them to the utmost.
There was occasionally perceptible a want of
power, but that we attribute to nervous-
ness, and when she gets , more accustomed to
her audience she will no doubt fully carry out
the intentions of the author. Mr. F. Williams
acted the part of the old man. Oxberry, as a sporting
Baronet, afforded, by his drolleries, an excellent relief
to the serious business of the piece. The second piece
was a laughable interlude, in one act, entitled A Welsh.
Rabbit, and the fun turned upon the difficulties of
Balls, as Snobson, a ltwyer's clerk, in getting time
to partake of the savoury dish from which the piece is
named, which had been prepared for him on the sly
by Betty Bright (Miss Emma Stanley), the lady-love
of the said Snobson, and maid-of-all-work in the ser-
vice of Mr. Crowquill (Salter), an attorney, residing:
at Highgate. To attempt to describe the many slips:
betwixt the plate and the lip, would be like attempting to
count the bubbles which effervesce on the surface of
a glass of Champagne. Balls was exactly fitted in the
part, and he sustained the whole, not weight, but
lightness, of the farce. He bustled through it glo-
riously; and all those who desire, " good entextain•
ment " should assist, as the I rench would say, at the
Welsh Rabbit at the Princess's. It is served up at
nine o'clock by Miss Emma Stanley
who bids fair to
be one of the most espeie
eof Blnibi.eites. We admire
Mr. Snobson's taste exeeedin-;iv. B
quite sueoessf4l. The horase7 although pieces were
was well filled.not crowded,
oth

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