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ground for looking to

duty, as it is our interest,
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- The motion was seconded by Mr. G. Bankes, (Protec- - -
tionist) who intimated that no opposition would be offered manifest responsil
by the country party to any measures having for their ob-
ject the relief of the-existing distress in Ireland. A some- welfare of its vast •
what long discussion, however, took place, with respect we think justly, th
to the mode in which relief had already been distributed the pamphlet hefts
in Ireland, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer h! the administrati

proved with teicrable clearness that Lord Grey was a very
dear bargain to'the Premier, at the price put by himself ,
upon his official talents, viz., the privilege of bringing in

intercourse bi

into one of the- most, important not, since the op
the very mediocre and bungling to have done
that riffire—Sir Wn.ii from /31

of ,KovernmOit

ges urged by ports of cotton varn
dthe in 1844 to 14,116,23
.

An episode from his speech, in reply to
the Irish members, that government had neg.

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""""`" " L"' ' in mind
esta =at o epots in various parts of the country, bear that cotton
will show the kind of aid which Lord John Russell is facture, and not one in
likely to derive from this luminous personage. Govern-
labour is employed. Is
ment, he said, were disinclined from interfering with pri- 18.15 ; and barely regain'
vatc nitirc,antile enterprise, by coming into the market as shipments.. In our ships
avowed purchasers of food, from a fear lest, " instead of the latter year, the ' '
having to support a large number of poor in Ireland, they 105,490,275 yards in 1
would have to maintain those whom their own operations a portion of this def
had deprived of a supply of food upon reasonable terms. by Chinese imp
The orders therefore given were, to buy, always following, sumption of H
but never leading the market." A pleasant kind of oper- year than eithi
ation this for the speculator, who knew that for every goods—anotlx
-s filling fell off from 2i
iilling per quarter extra he gave for a cargo of grain or '
-rice, he had a government buyer "following " him ! But, in 1846. We h
what was done with those purchases ? is the question. that country will show
profits during the yE
We quote from the
.right hon. bart., as reported in the

icourag

".At an early period nine large depots had been.esta-
Wished in different parts of Ireland. Up to the prese.
time there were 26- depots in.all : 25 of which were to the
east of the Shannon. There were two in Galway, one in
Clare, three or four in Cork, besides one at Banager, &c.
Therefore, as regarded either the supply of food or the
.management of depilts, which an hon. gentleman seemed
to think the government had entirely neglected, measures
it appeared had been taken for meeting the emergency
when the time arrived to fall back on the resources thus
provided. It was perfectly true that, generally speaking,
those dep6ts had not recently been opened. Last year
there was a pressure to open the depots at an early period
of the year, which was resisted by the Government. It

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statistic

nt I respect to the gro
bearing' upon the

are especially

Shipiiients

to 30th June

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v.,. ...usu.. ...4.czuctutu mi., Lue aepots should be reserved These were,
....
for the coming emergency; and that so long as the peo- "
In all 1843
pie could they should be left to maintain themselves.
Some of these depSts nerer had been opened throughout 7 9 1844
"
the whole autumn. The depots in Galway were opened 1845
Our
from time to time in the course of the autumn, as were rat;
also those in Westport, Sligo, and other places. But in
. ..

Lthor trace:

many cases it was louna .tn.. .. ._
anent interfered all private enterprise ceased." these c 4,
Clearly, whilst . the people of Ireland have been dying
of hunger by thousands, and food has been at fa- India is car
view to the a.
mine prices, the Government has had an ample supply by the holders qf slot.
stored up in their depots; yet they have looked calmly on, of the resources of list
waiting until the last penny of the famishing population the chairman at a meet
was exhausted. They kept their stores closed "in reserve
House on the 28th Feb
for the coming(!) emergoncy"—could there be any greater country, in the shape
emergency than that of the people dying of hunger in
considered the annual t
their miserable cabins or daily poured into the li
-dropping exhausted to perish on
the roads or the ditches-? Can §kibbereen be expected nual stream of wealth
to outdo itself? Can any population be in a much Tore And this, Mr. Marriott
dire emergency than when the emaciated living have-4ot system radically o strength left to than 1-1,.4. A... 4 ---

e momen

the Govern-

-
I and in their ability to

ied on and
mount of i

) neap' of the peol

une grave, or ..
the earth over their collinless remains? Political •ecc,
nomy—what amount of cold-blooded policy may not b€
done in thy name !

grade coniequences), by i
of capital in the cultivatio
favoured b

But the 'Chancellor of the Exchequer and his fellow-WE -
afraid that -4. 4, --1

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