The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

FRENCH SYMPATHY FOR IRELAND

PARIS, JUNE 5, 1843.—0ne of the cleverest things lately
done by the French for keeping up the population of Algeria,
and which is nothing more nor less than " Byking " on a
grand scale, has just been perpetrated. Perhaps the publi-
cation of this letter may save the lives of other hundreds or
thousands of our poor countrymen, whose poverty and whose
industry lead them to accept employment, no matter how
laborious or how dangerous.
You may remember that towards the finish- of the works
on the Rouen Railroad considerable numbers of Irish labour-
ers were imported by the contractors from Enaland to enable
them to complete the undertaking within the prescribed
period. The job over, the poor fellows were, of course, left
to shift for themselves, which (voluntary immigration from
France being at an end) presented to this wide-awake govern-
ment a capital opportunity for supplying the vacuum hourly
occasioned by fell disease in the European population of Al-
geria. Crimps were employed,
and with so much success,
that already 200 of those poor men—all Irish, let me ob-
serve—thave been carried off to Algiers, where they are sure
to be carried off fur the last time, in ri few weeks, by another

This experiment is about to be repeated on an immense
scale. Will your government sanction it? Or is there any
law or any reason to oppose to it? There questions I leave
to you to answer, addipg only
correctness that I pledge myself for the
of my statement.

Ritt.wAy TRAvrtc.—The following is a calculation of
per ' mile per week. The traffic, there-
the last weekly returns of 43 railways, 1,561 miles in length.
.
Number of passengers on 28 railways, 372,526, consequently
the total for the week must be above 500,000. The receipts
for passengers on 43 railways, £75,372 16' ;
d;tto for goods
on 38 railways, £23,558 8i 2d. ;
is at) average of £63- i
total, £98,931 4s. 4d. This
fore,
.is certainly at the rate of about £4,500,000 a year, and
carrying 20,000,000 of passengers.

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HOUSE 00 LORDB,—Faw

In the House of .Lords last night ihe-ii;i(l CHANCELLOR
laid upon the table a letter from the Governor-General of
India, acknowledging the thanks of the house for his services
in India.

The Earl of ABERDEEN postponed until Tuesday his bill
respecting the Church of Scotland.

Lord fiROUGIIAM postponed the second reading of the
Slavery Bill until Monday week.

The Lord CHANCELLOR communicated to their lordships
a message from her Majesty assenting to the nuptials of the
Princess Augn.ta of Cambridge with the Hereditary Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and relying upon Parliament
to make suitable provision for his loyal highness.
In answer to some remarks of the Marquis of CLANRI-
CARDE,

The Duke of 'WELLINGTON said that the government had
received the written opirion of the Lord Chancellor of Ire-
land to the effect that the meetings held in Ireland for the
purpose of obtaining a repeal of the union had a tendency to
outrage, and might be dangerous to the public peace, and
that therefore it was not proper to confide in those magis-
trates Rho attended those meetings. There could be no ob-
jection to public meetings to repeal any act of Parliament,
but it was obvious that meetings such as those held for the
purpose of repealing the union might result in blocidshed,
and should, therefore, be discouraged.
Earl FORTESCUE explained that on a former occasion he
had said, while Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, that he would
confer Government patronage or honours on no persons as-
sisting in the agitation for a repeal of the union. This, how-
ever, was very different from depriving persons of honours
and appointments already conferred.
Lord BROUGHAM contended that those meetings were
illegal, inasmuch as they were called, not for the purpose of
discussion, but with a view to intimidate by a demonstration
of physical force.
Their lordships then adjourned.