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    Irish Exports . —The ' Hampshire Telegraph' has done a most useful thing—given a statement of the exports from Ireland to England in the years 1790 and 1830 . The increase is enormous , and this clearly marks a corresponding increase in Irish civilization , whatever may he alleged to the contrary ; it marks increasing power , and power is never increased where the condition of the people is deteriorating . The total amount of exports to England in 1830 is 13 , 571 , 500 / . ; of this 5 , 200 , 000 / ., is in linen , cotton , and horses ; the rest , viz .

    8 , 371 , 500 / . is provisions . This , say such folks as edit the Morning Herald * is the amount of the robbery perpetrated upon Ireland , for the benefit of the absentees , for it is clear that their rents must ^ be paid out of the exports . But stop awhile good people . Let us first ascertain the amount of the exports from England to Ireland , and then the amount of all the Irish emigrants maintained here , and the amount of provisions they consume , together with the cash carried back by the reapers and others . Let some M . P . move for the papers necessary for this purpose , in order to set off against the statement of the

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    Editorof the ' Times' is dubious about the tack he is to make in a public question , whenever he wants to know which , way the wind sets , he inserts his article * from a correspondent / If it takes , he lauds his correspondent , and proceeds in propria persona ; if it fails , he abuses his * man of straw' who has been put forth for the nonce .

    kennel , nor hunted home to their garrets . The insertion of the word 4 scaramouch ' marks this article as being by the same hand as the lecture on ' hats , ' and surely there is but one man can write thus . Did the writer live so long in garrets * ere he became the in-dweller of a rus in urbe , that they always strike him as the very aemoof degradation . What makes the writer so peculiarly sensitive on ihat

    sub' ' ' I 7 This conduct was remarkable in the case of the St . Simonian lecturers . First came the correspondentfeeling his way , and then thinking it all right , the Editor launched what he called a * thunderer . He certainly did his best to get the poor harmless people massacred by the mob , but the rhetoric , which neither the city fish-market nor the rish colony could match , was utterly harmless ; the intended victims were neither fc spat upon , nor pumped on , nor dragged through the

    ject ? Is it so sure a fact that the greatest philosophers have always been the richest men , that it may be taken as a general rule , that the in-dweller of a garret must necessarily be a rogue or fool ? Had the writer no knowledge on the subject of ' hats' till he removed to •* ¦* •* •* •* *? Mark , too , reader , how angry he is with the St . Simonians , because they advocate greater freedom of divorce . I once heard

    a * respectable ' old gentleman use the following argumentum ad hominem in opposition to the legality of divorce . * My good Sir , elderly gentlemen , like myself , prefer young wives , now what chance should

    we have had they the power of leaving us at their own discretion ?' The acuteness of the remark , I confess , staggered me ; it at once showed t ' nat there was a strong vested interest to overcome , which is the strongest amongst the usual depositaries of power . It is owing to such modes of ratiocination that we have so many sticklers for the ' basis of all social happiness , ' the privilege of making women a ' property . '

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    8 € MS Notes on the Newspapers .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 866, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/62/