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London, England, 1845-11-05 00:00:00

ready touched upon, the memorialists submit that, :" under
these circumstances, it becomes the dutyof Government to open
the ports for the free admission of food of all kinds." They
observe that " the success even of this decisive remedy de-
pends mainly on the promptitude with which it is applied; and,
therefore, your memorialists urge the imperative necessity of
adopting it without delay, by means of an Order in Council:"
which, they feel assured, " would hare the sanction of Parlia-
ment sztd the enthusiastic approval of the nation."
We print some portions of this passage in italics, with
the view of reminding the reader that both the measure
recommended, and the necessity for its prompt adoption, to-
gether with the means of promulgating it, are set forth not
only to the same effect, but in the very words employed by
us some ten or twelve days ago, in calling upon the Govern-
ment immediately to open the ports.
Now what is the Premier's reply to this anxious, this so-
lemn representation on the part of the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce ? Does it hold out one opinion, intimate one hope,
express one sympathy, announce one proposition, on the
deplorable state of the community on whose behalf the me-
morial had been specially prepared? Does it condescend
to intimate, on the part of the Minister who dates
from Whitehall, or on the part of the SOVEREIGN
whom it must have been his duty to apprise of the lan-
guage and objects of that memorial, a single emotion
of sorrow for, or condolence with, the masses who are, or must
be, the sufferers under, or the victims, even, of this dire ca-
lamity? Nothing of the kind. So cold and insulting
a common-place might have been whistled by any
sordid capitalist, in all the pride of recent realisation,
and to the tune of " Money in both pockets" as his
answer to the appeal of famishing poverty to his charity.
It is a regular stereotyped—lithographed—or cut-and-dried
billet-de-bureau, which might have been drawn from some
pigeon-hole, docketed for " Forms of Answer to Memorials
from Manufacturing Districts." Here it is—we reprint it as
a cariosity :

" Whitehall, Oct. 27, 1845,

" Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the
memorial of the Directors of the Chamber et Commerce and
Manufactures at Manchester, which bears date the 22d of October.
" I am, sir, your obedient servant,
" Thos. Bosley, Esq." " ROBERT PEEL.

Is this a hoax? Is it one of Sir ROBERT'S bad jokes?
Is it meant for the "cut direct" to all future impor-
tunity on so disagreeable a subject? Is it a petulant
betrayal of that vexation, and that sense of embarrass-
ment which the promised success—" so far as human fore-
sight could regulate such matters"—of his sliding-scale at
its promulgation, compared with the absurd and enormous
failure of its subsequent working, would be likely enough to
produce in the minds of any other statesmen, however it may
operate on that of Sir ROBERT PEEL? We really cannot
answer our own interrogatories, or arrive at any solution of
an experiment (as it appears to be) so ill-judged, ill-timed,
and ill-managed, on the indulgence and support of his here-
ditary Manchester connexion ; or the toleration of the coun-
try at large, for whose distress and apprehensions it manifests
so lofty an indifference !

Several of the large provincial towns have already railways
extending into their most populous districts, and thereby af-
fording great accommodation to a numerous and increasing
population. London has at last resolved to follow the example.
All fear about fire, and smoke, and noise, which, in the in-
fancy of railroads, created such needless hostility to their
continuation into large cities has disappeared, and in a few
years we shall have stations erected in some of the most
bustling and crowded thoroughfares of the metropolis. The
Corporation of London have acted wisely in adopting the
report of the Commissioners in favour of granting the sites
of Farringdon-market and the Fleet Prison for this pur-
pose, not only as a matter of convenience, but of
necessity, for otherwise one or other of two contingencies
must have been the result. Either some powerful companies,
backed by influential tradesmen and merchants, would have
formed a similar plan, or the trade in the heart of the City
must have greatly suffered, and new towns consequently
been raised in the environs near the stations of the great lines
running from every part of the country to the metropolis.
But in addition to the advantages which the plan will
give to trade in the proper quarter, the removal of several
filthy—almost uninhabitable streets, will tend to improve
the health of the community—the works will afford ample
employment to builders, carpenters, bricklayers, and other
labourers, and the City at the same time be greatly improved.
Farringdon-market at present is really of no use ; and
the outcry raised by some, therefore, against the
scheme cannot have the slightest weight with the Legisla-
ture. Besides the Fleet Prime was a greater nuisance than
any railway station can be even in the eyes of the
most prejudiced. Some plan like this has in fact become
absolutely necessary, for the termini of some of
the great lines were at such a distance that time
is wasted in reaching them, which would enable
passengers to travel some twenty or thirty miles, and for
short distances they were nearly useless. The proprietors of
railways on the south are also forming plans for extending
them across the river, so that in a very short period the lines
from the north and south will verge towards the same
centre.

The gentry of the district of Killarney have set a noble
example, which we trust to see followed by the gentry of
every district throughout Ireland. Acting on the maxim,
" that propertyhas its duties &swell as its rights," they have
manfully commenced the performance of those duties. On
the 25th of October a meeting of the inhabitants of the town

and district of Killarney was held, for the purpose of taking

steps to avert the calamitous consequences likely to ensue
from the disease of the potato crop, At this meeting there
were men of all parties and all sects—Protestant and Catho-
lic, Repealer and Conservative, seemed" to vie with each
other in their endeavours to relieve the distresses of their
poorer fellow-wuntrymen.
The state of the potato crop in the district of Killarney is

worse than even the most desponding could have anticipated.
The following resolution, moved by M. J. O'Comizu, Esq.,
M.P., and seconded by J. CRONI3I, Esq., proves the fact, and
shows the necessity there is for immediate interference to
save the poor of this district from utter starvation :
"That it appears to this meeting that the potato crop in this
district has been, to a great degree, a failure, and that the food for
the population is so very deficient in consequence as to render
measures the most immediate and effective necessary to procure a
supply, and that a copy of the resolutions of this meeting be
transmitted to the Lord Lieutenant, with a request that the sub-

ject may be brought under the immediate consideration of her
Majesty's Government"

We cannot doubt but that her MAJESTY'S Government will
feel it their duty to lose no time in responding to this call of
distress, and that they will adopt immediate and effective
measures (and any measure to be effective must be imme-
diate) to avert the threatened famine. A committee was
then appointed to meet every. Saturday at Killarney to adopt

such measures as to them may seem proper to alleviate the

calamity likely to occur from the failure of the potato crop.
In this committee we find the Right Rev. Dr
EGAN, the Roman Catholic Bishop, co-operating
with the Rev. EDWARD HERBERT, the Protes-
tant vicar of Killarney, and all the clergy of the
district of all religious persuasions. We find Lord KENMARE

and HENRT Manua HERBERT, Esq., staunch anti-repealers
(the latter, we believe, an Orangeman), joined with Mr.
MORGAN JOHN O'CONNELL, M.P., and Mr. J. O'CONNELL,
of Grena, the nephew and brother of the O'ComiELL, and
aiding and assisting these in this labour of Christian charity,
is Mr. D. S. LALOR, the sturdy repealer. The very fact of
these gentlemen being thus brought together cannot but tend
to soften down asperities—to subdue party animosities—to
break down the barrier of social, or rather of party, exclusive-
ness, which is the curse of Ireland, and to teach men of all
parties to be more tolerant and more just to their opponents;
and thus, perhaps, this material pestilence from which Ire-
land is now suffering, may be the means of freeing her from
that greater moral pestilence under which she has for ages
suffered. One of the resolutions agreed to is as follows :
"Resolved,—That the Committee be instructed to take steps to
create a fund to purchase fall and to procure stores, and that they
do apply to the Commissioners and Trustees of the Irish Re.
productive Loan Fund for the sum of 1,0004, new to their credit
its Mis county for the purpose."

In pursuance of this resolution a subscription was entered
into by those present, and the following munificent donations
were made to the Provision Fund :
Lord Kenmare
Henry Arthur Herbert
Christopher Gallwey, High Sheriff
Morgan J. O'Connell, M.P.,
and 500
John O'Connell, of Orena _

Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B
John Coltsmann 3OO
John Leahy
Denis Shine Later 5OO
Rey. E. Herbert, Vicar of Killarney...".
Rev. R. Herbert, Cahiruane lOO
Daniel Mahony, Dunioe
Francis Bland
Rev. R. Hewson 100
T. W. Murphy
D. W. Murphy
Dr. Murphy
Denis Coghian
Arthur Lloyd Saunders ..... . .. ... 250
James B. Tyrwith 5O
Richard Murphy

Made. O'Sullivan 5O
Honour to the members of the Killarney Relief Com-
mittee, who have thus nobly done their duty. In the name
of humanity, we call upon the proprietary class; throughout
Ireland to follow their example, and upon the gentry of Eng-
land to be assisting—and that with no niggardly hand—in
this good work.

Madrid journals of the 28th October have been received,
from which we learn that a little affair at Court had afforded
a subject of conversation. Father FuLcosio, the confessor of
" an exalted personage" (we suppose the QuEsuc is meant),
had been ordered to quit the capital in twenty-four hours.
Some say he is banished for political intrigues, possibly for
some scheme of the Court of Rome, relative to the marriage
of her MAJESTY ; but this comes of Queens having confes-
sors. The following paragraph from the Eco del Comercio
accounts for the rise which has lately taken place in the
Three per Cents. "On Saturday a splendid banquet was
given at the Commercial Circle, in celebration of a union
formed between all the great speculators in Three per Cents.,
in order to raise that stock as high as possible, and afford
the Cabinet a moral support; but this scheme cannot be
realised, for the stockholders are on their guard, and it is not
easy to take them by surprise, by playing at either a rise or
fall. Among the principal capitalists who attended the
dinner were remarked some representative of foreign houses,
who drank to the union of the speculators in Three per Cents.
The utmost harmony prevailed at the banquet." The Funds