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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , That by tb * recent Verdict obtained' by Messrs . Morison against pertain Impostors for counterfeiting their medicine * , all persons selling medicine * aa and for Momson ' s Pills , which are , in fact , mare spurious imitations , are liable to have actions brought against them for every box sold under that name , which * otiona Messrs . Moaisos will deem it their duty to en * force in every oase that comes to their knowledge . General Agent for Yorkshire ( West Riding ) , Mr . William StubbB , 47 , Queen-terrace , Ndrth-rd » 4 Leeds . " British College of Health , Htmilton-plaoe , New-road . Xondon , Dee . 29 th , 1840 .
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abominably detested by the people , for ¦ whose benefit it was said to exut ; and be bad actually sold the Tery Operatives , in whose causa he enlisted ; and had BUTrendered U the Lords upon tbe 4 uertion of English Corporate Reform . Bat yet , O'Maliey , bettering him true to Ireland , and losing Ireland , and wishing to tee her once more resume her proper rank amongst tbe nation * of the earth , they pardoned and absolved all taugreseons agalost themselves , and actually placed him , in tbe autumn of 1835 , in a position to dictate to Europe ; aye , to Eutope -, he might bare opened the asslon of 1836 , by proclaiming YniTersal Suffrage , and neither King , Lor&s , or Common * would have dared to reailtit ; but be wanted the moral courage , aye , and the personal courage too , to use hit poorer fir general good against an organised faction .
Well , but tbe English put no such tax upon the great pover irith-which they had inTested him . What , then , m his crime * Why , simply this , that he advertised hit power through a series of letters to Lord Duncannon , the then Secretary of State for tbe Home I > epaitineat ^ he compounded for a bit of tinselled vleeroyaity , to amuse the people , while he tru selling Ireland , and be bartered his gigantic power for pelf , place , and patronage . Some biographers may say , no , no ; not for place , for he refused it ; true , he refused fire thousand « -year and the shelf , for ten thousand a-year and the larder and the run of the kitchen for his dependants ; and all this was accomplished while Ireland was gaping , like a great overgrown gaby , at a tinselled fool riding in gimcrackeryand regimentals , amid the shouts and lianas of the slaves .
And now , in truth , the people bare run away from O'ConnaH . Ah . ' mj brare aad gallant countryman ^ there never yet was a sound principle hatched under the wing of fanaticism ; and the threadbare clsak of religion , cannot now , thank God . ' . be used as a mantle to coTer tbe body of civil corruption . Who was the most popal&r man in England , Scotl and , and Wales , while he was thought to be true to Ireland ? - Daniel O * ConnelL Who is now , beyond all comparison , the most unpopular man * Why , the same Daniel OConnell ; and why ! Because he has sold Ireland to the Whig faction .
• 'Malley , kingcraft , priestcraft , and paper money , craft hare been the ruin of every country ; but , thank God . ' all nations are now opening their eyes , and toe mountain of civil iniquity can no longer be obscured by the molehill of religious fraud . You will mark my words , —and I hare made some good gnesses , —that if tb Irish priesthood dont look sharp , their turn will come next The hierarchy of your Church is as much a state hierarchy as that of tbe Protestant Church , and is equally opposed to the extension of ciril rights . Ten know this .
I now come to the consideration of the great buggabbo , physical feree . Your moral-force Colonel of the Irish volunteers of 1833 , ( and in which corps I was a private , and paid £ l Is . by tbe Colonel's order , for musket and accoutrements , ) has charged tho English Chartists , in general , and Feargua O'Connor , in particular , with being torch and dagger men , pbysicalforceChartist * . O'Malley , I never , t # my knowledge , or belief , mentioned the words torch or dagger in
speech , or writing in my life ; but let me give my -undisguised opinion upon the subject of physical force . The whole mischief , treason , and illegality of the thing consists , then , in its -sr&nt , not in its possession . ' for , belle-re me , if I had Dan ' s 500 , 0 t 0 fighting men well armed , you never would hear another word of the illegality of physical force , nor of a single act of cruelty , tyranny , or oppression , nor of plunder , persecution or incendiarism . In fact .
The hellish thing so much belied Would lose its name when well applied . O'Malley , lisp not reproach of physical force in Tara's Hall , sing It not on Tara ' s Hill , or Vinegar Hill , or on the bridge qt Wexford , where the gallant Bagnell Harvey led his countrymen to death or glory against the proud invader . Let not the shades of Lord Edward Fitzgerald , one of nature ' s nobles , be disturbed in the tomb by the " hollow sound ot ' justice tot Ireland , " begged from a fiction with e » p is one hand and petition in the other ; apositi on beneath thedignity of anlriahmaD , Let not toe-mutilated remains of the murdered Emmett
be set wrhbing like the ssvered parts of the mangled worm , by hearing that his country begs in mercy for what she should possess in justice . He lies here and there , unheaded , unhowelled , an 4 . nntombed . but not nnhonbured , onregretted , or unavenged ! No , not I unavenged ! The malison has struck tyranny , and it must | fall with a hideous crash . Behold , it now totters . j Tbe first flash from the lightning of Knowledge b&s riven the temple of corruption , and it but awaits tbe thunder-bolt of Truth to proclaim its fall , and that tyranny is buried beneath the ruin . O'Malley , the traveller and the writer teU us our country is improved . Now , I carry them , not to Vhe back settlements either of Munster or Cocoauzbt ; I
take them , not to the wilds and mountains , nor yet far from town , - nay , not ten miles in any direction from the Post-office or Nelson ^ Pillar , and let us compare notes . Prom what do they draw their conclusions ? From the- painted figures dressed for the masquerade . They see the gay fronts oftbegorgeousshopsiu Sackvile-Btreet , Dam&-8 treet , College Green , Grafton-streek , Parliament-street , and Dawson-street , but many a painted face conceals the workings of a broken heart ; and even in the back settlements of those shops tbe visitor would find misery and destitution : the front is but a show-board to entice the purchasers and a balm to allay tbe apprehension of the creditor . Tbe shopman must be dressed and gay , bat g « to his family and ask them how they feel ?
Well , -where dow the traveller dine ? Why , in Merrion-square , oi Stephen's Green , or Granby-row , or ilountjoy-square , with a judge , a barrister , an attorney , a parson , a doctor , an officer , a merchant , a banktr , a stockjobber , or an exciseman ; all , all one , and all se many lice upon the back of the poor beetle . 2 ? ow , -O'MalJey , look on this ptatprc Let them take a walk with me along the qn * ys , up Bridgestreet , through James ' s-street , and visit the tipper stories en Christmas day , and to Rathcool , only eight miles . I will not Bhock any oae by taking him to Xaas , fifteen miles . Let us then come back , and go
through the Liberties , the Podale , Cork-street , Thomasstreet , Me&tb-Btreet , and on to Dolphin ' s barn , to Crumlin , Cimage , round by Green Hill , Kildalkin , and home by the Fox and Goose Commons . Let us then go out by Baggot-street , over Ball ' s Bridge , to the once celebrated Mfcrrion , tg Bootewtown , Black Roek , Mount Piiliei , and imnleary , ( now called King ' s Town , in honour of a king who was kicked out of tbe Jockey Ciub , being to « great a blackguard for that honourable society , ) and come home by Stilorgan , and Donnybrook . Let us
then visit the once renowned Clontarf . Then let us go up B&rr&ck-street , through Stoneybatter , and to Danbo yue , only seven miles . Then through Chapelizod , Lucan , and Leixlip ; and then to Maynootb , the residence of Ireland's only Duke , and nephew to the lamented Lord Edward Fitzgerald , -who lost his life in defending himself against a gang of police and your beloved Major Swan , to whom , if living , your moral force leader weald vote compensation . Poor Fitzgerald died in prison of his wounds ; otherwise he too would hftve had his head cut off , and his boweLs torn
out . Tiofr , caialley , I have not taken you more than nine miles in any direction from the Postroffice , and I ask you , as an honest man , upon your oath , b ^ your opinion , can an equal amount of destitution be found in any equal space upon any part of tbe habitable globe ? Well , but I have not done : that's for a day ' s recreatlen . Now follow me through the night Mighty God ! I am fearful of asking you , lest yoa forget tbe honest lesson taught by the honest Chartist Association . Well , then , I pas * the night ; I leave the scenes of open and
undisgaiscd iniquity and poverty-made prostitution ; I heed not the drunken row , the lordly spree , or the college-taught midnight amusement ; I pass all , and I come to virtuous modesty , seeking the hour betwixt suspicion and detection—that still moment between the owl ' s abandonment of light , and the hawk's relief of the night iratch ; and , O God of Heaven I Merciful Creator of prince and peasant ! and to whom both in nakedness return , what do I see here ? What hays i , many times and oft , seen in the cold and chilling frost of a Christmas morning , -when at least all should rejoice ?
I have seen this picture ,-O'Malley , and bo have you . Between day and dark I have seen the virUioug mother , with her group of legitimate little ones , —not a barefaced prostitute—no , no , O'Mailey , prostitution lives not so lowly ; I have seen the young mother , with a
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child of fifteen or eighteen months old , bundled in the tail of a tattered garment , and tied round the mother ' s seek for security , while one arm supported a helpless babe , pulling , in vain , at the tried up source of its natural fountain , while three or four nearly naked little innocents , from three to six years old , were nestling to the dam , looking , but In vain , for that heat and comfort which nature intended the mother to commtnicate to her young . I have seen the anxious mother balanced -with her dtuble burden , scratching , during the only hour allotted to virtuous poverty by tyrant man , in " improved Ireland , " among tbe cinders flung from the rich man ' s ash pit , for a cold potato , a
bandfall of cinders , or a bone , or anything , while her groap of younglings have kept up the heart-rending howl of " Oh , mammy , mammy , whatll I do , I ' m kilt with the could , I ' m hungry mammy , oh , wisha wisha mammy give me sunthin to ait" I have beard tbe mother , forgetting all her own wants and pangs , reply , with a forced smile , " Hould yer tung agra , hould yer tang , the pilliee -111 bear you , and take * z all to the watch house . " I have seen the mother , afUr finding a cold potato , divide it , and share it according to the respective sges , giving the largest to tbe least and youngest , and then smile , while , with famished look she enjoyed a moment ' s repose from the Mammy , I ' m hungry . ' I have seen the poor and squalid creature , after half an hour ' s scratching , and when full daylight warned her that her longer presence would be as
insult to the merchant in his morning walk , straighten her crippled back , and thus pour out her sorrows : — " Oh , wisha , wisha , a kulshla macree , com , cum my darlints , and don't you err , or tbe pillice 'ill hear too . Oh yea , Oh yea , God look down upon us this day , and provide for the poor ! Oh ! whatll become uv us » t all it all , « T what - way 'ill 1 turn this blessed day . Cum , juels , cum darlins , here ' s the gintlemen comin . Oh , yea , may God guide us this day , pray J&inu . Amen . " / hat * sees th at , O'Malley , within eighteen months , in " improved Ireland , " and within musket shot of the Liberator ' s door , and Ireland is " improved 1 " I have dose , for the present ; only " three cheer * for our virtuous young Queen , and the only Government that ever did justice to Ireland ! " If you are happy , why should I repine ?
I am , Tour faithful friend and countryman , Feargus O'Connor . York Castle , Felon ' s side , 16 th of 11 th month of solitary confinement , but yet an Irisman and a Chartist P . S . O'Halley , the English p ress will say that mine is " a rale Iri ^ h epistle be Jalsus , " because I commenced with the intention of expounding the principles of tbe Charter , but have not said a word about them . The / act is , that when I got upon the subject of Irish patriotism and Irish destitution , I got so hot that I bolted from the course .
I have only a word to say now -, banish from your mind and for ever the notion that the English people either hate Ireland , or that they are ungrateful or fickle . Can you have a stronger proof of the very reverse , than the fact which my own case furnishes f I was sent here to be ruined in character and health ; my bands tied up while all were pelting me . Well , I have been here for now nearly eleven mouths , rigour increased , sot diminished , as Mr . Dunoombe seems to think and would wish ; but here I am a stranger , an alien , and the ungrateful fickle blistered bands fustian jackets and nnsfcorn chins , have saved my life , by defending my character against Whigs , Tories , tbe whole press , the higher and middle classes , and Mr . Bums . Look at that !
I have spent thousands upon them and yoa ,. for you cannot be separated ; but mark the difference—while fickle England has paid my poor service with confidenee and gratitude , which If invaluable ; Ireland , grateful Ireland , has paid me with kicks . But never mind ; I told you six years ago that " we want you , Feargns , " would yet be wafted across the channel ; and then no personal feeling shall warp my mind from my country ' s cause . I will heap coals of fire upon yojnbeads , by repaying your revillngs with acts of # absUntirfpatriotism . *— ,. v ,. While humbugs look for land to give & Vote , I look for the vote to give the land . What I was when I
was borne on the people ' s heads in 1832 , the same I am now , and the a&me I will be until death . Ireland is my country , but tbe world is my republic . O'Malley , Ireland bis been our mother , ^ pcradle , our nurse , ^ td our protector . Her anxious heaving bosom has been tile pfflow of out infancy . Should - # not , 414 * honour her , that our days may be long in tbe land which the Lord our God has given us ? She will , I trust , be oar grave : shall we not , then , prepare her for our reception , that our memories may luxuriantly spring through her pure and hallowed mould , and long live green in the land of our nativity T I love my country above all earthly things j her oppressor I hate above all hellish tend ; . F . O'C .
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HOUSE OF LORDS , Fridat , March 12 . The Sisbop of BaSGOB . presented a petition from Wales against the bill for uniting the see of Bangor with St Asaph . Tbe Doke of Richmond presented a petition from an individual named Carr , who had been for 49 years Judge of tbe Court of Ring's Bench in Quebec , and subsequently in the Vice Admiralty Court in Canada . He had been deprived of his situation without trial , and prayed an investigation . The Marquis of Normasbt said the petitioner had been very ill adviser ! in bringing his case before the House . In the year 1815 a sum of j £ l , 200 bad been paid into the hands of his Tegiatrar , and transferred by tbe petitioner to his private account From that time till 1834 there bad been no account of the money , tbe petitioner stating that he bad been compelled to appropriate it from pecuniary embarrassment . In 1834 tbe money wan repaid , and the petitioner was then dismissed from his office .
In answer to the Bishop ot London , Viscount Melbourne said he should lay the correspondence snd documents on tbe of idolatrous worship in India ou the table in a few days . The Earl of Moe . ntcashel gave notice that , after tbe Easter recess , he should call the attention of tbe Houss to the subject ot duelling , and move for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the best mode ot putting an end to the practice . If such a course were not adopted it would be better to repeal the act of Victoria altogether . Aa the law at present stood , individuals did not know whether they were justified in fighting a duel or Rot Lord Ktane ' s Annuity Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed on . Monday . The Copyholds Enfranchisement Bill was reported , and ordered to be read a third time on Monday . Adjourned . Monday , March 15 .
No other business of importance was transacted than tbe getting rid of the motion of the Bishop of Exeter for an address to the Crown to withhold its assent to the inordinance , far incorporating St Sulpice . Toe Rev . Prelate supported his motion by a long snd able address , proving his consummate ability as an orator tuid an advocate . The Marquis of Norm an by answered the Right Rev . Prelate in a Epeech full of matter , but in places some--what personal , reflecting on the good faith of tbe Right Rev . Prelate . The Earl of Ripon and the Duke of Wellington spoke against the motion , and the Noble Duke recommended the Bishop to withdraw it The Bishop did not Venture to divide the House , bat withdrew hia motion . Tuesday , March 17 .
Mr . Stanley , the Secretary to the Poor Law Commissioners in Ireland , was examined at the bar of the House at great length , relative to the falsification of the returns from the Ctonmel Union . The alterations which had been made in the records of the Union were admitted by Mr . Stanley , who declared , however , that he had no improper motive for so doing . intimately it was determined that the presence of Mr . Phelan , the assistant Poor Law Commissioner , would be necessary , and it was directed that he should be ordered to attend on Monday aext , —Adjourned .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS , Friday , March 12 . Petitions were presented on the subject of church rates , and against various provisions in the Poor Law Continuance BUL In answer to Sir Robert Inglls , Lord Palhebstok ( tated that the Government bad turned Ity attention to the position in which Protestant ! werv Jjj&beft ip . the Lev&nt , and they had impressed opftf toe Porte the necessity and good policy of placing tbe Christians of every religions denomination on the same , or , if possible , a better footing than before the recent events , Mr . Easthoi-e gave notice that on Thursday he should call tbe attention of tbe House to the petition of William Bziaes , confined in Leicester gaol for refusing to pay church rates ; and that be should postpone bis motion for leave to bring in a bill to abolish the psymtnt of church rates till after Bister . In answer to questions from Lord F . Egerton , Sir R . Feel , Lord Sandon , and other Hon . Members ,
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Lord Palmsrston « ald he had received a copy ef the batti scheriff issued by the Sultan « n the subject of the hereditary pachalie of Egypt—that instrument had been issued by the Sultan on hia own authority , and he apprehended It was a question between him and bis subject Mehemet AH . He could not , with any precision , state to the Hooae at present whether the foul powers approved of the firman , as he had not had an opportunity of communicating with them . In answw to Col . D . : Damer , Lord Morpbth said
that the differences between the Irish Poor Law Commissioners and the Guardians of the Poor tf the Mountmillick Union were chiefly on the subject of the rite for a workhouse . A letter had appeared in the papers from bis secretary , Mr . Macdohnell , addressed to Dr . Jacob , and stating that if be again became a member of the Board of Guardian * of Mountmillick , his Excellency , the Lord Lieutenant would feel it his duty to remove him from tbe situation of medical attendant to the asylum , as he considered the two appointments iftoompatihla He believed that letter was authentic
Mr . F . Kiely postponed his motion on the subject of the abolition of the punishment of death till after Easter , when he hoped the Government bills would be before tbe House . Lord J . Russell gave notice that on Monday he abould move that her Majesty be authorised to grant ft loan of £ 240 , 000 to the South Australian Company oat of the Consolidated Fund , to be repaid at'JjafflTttfriois as the hoase might deem at ^' On tbe motion of Mr . LABOUCHEBE , the fionse went into a committee on the subject of the trade with the West Indian and North American colonies . Mr . Labonchere moved a number of alterations on the tariff , which were read over and reported , and the committee asked leave to sit again . Oo the order of the day for the second reading of the County Courts Bill being read ,
SirF . Pollock took a review of Ihe proceedings that had taken place ia that House for the last ten or twelve years on the subject of giving a more extensive jurisdiction t » the court for the recovery of small debts . There were several details of the present bill which appeared to him decidedly objectionable ; but it was not bis intention to oppose the second reading , m those objectionable clauses might be dlscusMd and amended in committee . One of the clauses empowered the Government to appoint fifty new officers , with salaries of £ 1 , 50 * each—that was a patronage which exceeded that of the whole army , and Hon . Members w » uld bear in mind that such a > tep was about to be -taken with an extremely narrow majority , and with almost the certainty of a dissolution of Parliament after Bastes .
The Attorxet-Gexebal thought it very extraordinary that his Hon . and Learned Friend should approve of the principle ef the bill , and express bis determination not to oppose the second reading ; while at the same time be attributed the most improper motives to the ( Government in bringing it forward . If « rrer there was a measure in which party feeling should not be allowed to interfere , It was the present , and he regretted to observe bo much of It in tho observation his Hon . and Learned Friend lud just addressed to the House . Sir £ . Suodsn objected to several of the details ef thebilL Mr . F . Mauls said , although there had been a good deal of objection to the details of the measure , the principle had been admitted on all hands , and he should object to such amendments in committee as would not be likely to meet the views of tbe Hous . * .
Mr . Hawks said it appeared to him that the object of the H on . and Learned Gentlemen on the opposite side was to delay tbe passing of tbe bill until they came into power themselves , and by that means they would secure the patronage which they found fault with the present Government for attempting to exercise . The bill was then read a second time . The Bankruptcy and Insolvency Bill , and the Ordnance Survey Bill , were severally read a second time . The Mutiny , Bill , and th * Marine Mutiny Bill , went severally through a committee . Adjourned at a quarter to one o ' clock .
Monday , March 15 . Mr . Fox Maule assured Mr . Wakley , in answer to questions , that there was no intention whatever to exclude the public from the Green Park , or to alter the hours of Admission . In a Committee on the South Australia Acts , Lord Johk Russell moved a resolution , guaranteeing a loan to that cojpoy of £ 20 , 000 , and making provision for the payment out ot tbe Consolidated Fimd . Lord Stanley had thought that this subject was one which ought to have been brought before the House , on the responsibility of the Government , before it vraa referred to a Committee . U was the duty of Government to come to Parliament with a definite proposition . He described the self-supporting principle as a bubble which bad burst . The revenue of the ctlony was , he ** ! & jCSO . MO » ear , ttarexpeaoTtuTe £ 100 , 001 i Ukd * fee GoveMUMat-Hoaie cost £ 24 , 00 t .
Lord Joan c » uld not acquiesce in delay , because the colony was perishing . Sir Robert Peel suggested that the resolutions should express that the loan should not be immediately paid . Lord Howrt ; K explained that bills had already been given , on the fkith that the Treasury would pay them . He suggested _ that . Government should receive the authority to raise some money to meet the present ' difficulties , and take time to adjust the affairs of the eolony . Mr . Hutt defended the Australian Commissioners from Lord Stanley ' s attack . Mr . Vebnon Smith thought the afiairs of the colony were not so discouraging . Sir Robrrt Peel pointed out a contradiction between" two statements of Colonel Torrens , which shook his confidence in what was reported of the colony .
Lord John Russell expressed his surprise at the course adopted by Lord Stanley , who in Committee had proposed a resolution that delay would aggravate the evil . Mr . Grote was for dispatch , that the news might go out to the colony . Lord Eliot concurred with Lord John Russell in feeling surprised at Lord Stanley ' s conduct , and said that then was no difference in the Committee as to the necessity of immediate steps . Ultimately tbe House rosumed without the Committee having adopted any resolution . On the Report of the Ordnance Estimates , Captain Boluero drew the attention of the House to the supplies we had furnished foreign States ; when Sir H . Vivian assured tbe Hon . Gentleman that we had only furnished tbe Sultan with 24 , 000 stand of arms , with ammunition .
The Report on the East India Rum Bill was received , after on amendment had been introduced including date-tree sugar . The Registration Of Voters ( Scotland ) Bill was read a second time after a short debate . The Drainage of Lands Bill was opposed , and the second reading was carried by 31 to 19 . On tbe motion of Sir W . Rae , leave was given to bring in a Bill to erect a monument to Sir Walter Scott , in Edinburgh . Mr . Fox Maule supported the motion , which has the consent of both parties . Some other matters of course were transacted , and at half-past eleven o'clock tbe House adjourned .
Tuesday , March 17 . Mr . Hutt brought the question of the Sound dues under the consideration of the House , and moved a resolution to the effect that the present tariff wee one which the King of Denmark had no right to maintain , And that such a revision should take place as would tend to facilitate the trade of Great Britain with the Baltic . Lord Palmerston admitted the correctness of the Hon . Member's statements , bat hoped that he would either withdraw his motion , or assent to the previous qnestion . . . After some conversation , Mr . Hutt agreed to the previous question . " Mr . EasthoPE moved that the petition of William Baitves , p prisoner in Leicester Gaol , presented on tbe 2 nd of February , should be printed and circulated with the votes .
Sir R . Peel contended that such a motion could not be received except made on the same day , as that op which the petition had been presented . Mr . Broth erton thought , under the circumstances , the petition could not be printed . On the suggestion of the Attorney-General and Lord Stanley , tha House assente < yto the printing of the petition , on the ' uiidtrstandin&ghat it was to be circulated amongst tbe mtnibers only . — Adjourned .
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The Poor Law Continuance Bill . —In tbe House of Commons on Monday night , Lord J . Russell announced bis intention of making some changes in tbe Poor Law BilL la the first place , he suggested that the duration of the power of tbe Poor Law Commissioners should be reduced from tea years to five ; he also proposed to abandon the clause for" attaching to Workhouses separate burial grounds for paupers . " Tbe BUI in its original shape contained a clause to prevent tha interment of the Workhouse poor in Church burial grounds , lest their bodies might contaminate the earth or tbe carcases of their richer brethren in death-Lord John Russell also modified the clause which provides for the union of Unions , so as to withdraw the power of locating infirm paupert , who have no
permanent ailment Ot mental defect , in separate establishments ; and to glV 6 a fifth of the Guardians of any Union a veto upon its combination with other Unions , for the management of pauper children . Sir Robert Peel said , " he heard , with great satisfaction the statement of the Kobte Lord as to tbe changes proposed In tfceBillj" and Mr . Wakley " had no doubt that the alterations would be very acceptable to tbe country . " If we thought Lord John ' s alterations of tke slightest value , we would give them our hearty concurrence ; but they really are not of any moment ; inasmuch as they leave tbe working or the BUI precisely the Bame . The pauper will continue to be fed upon rancid bacon and belly-griping park-water ; he wilt still be immured in a miserable Bastile : no communication with Ms wife will
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be be permitted to hold ; and his children willjbe located in a distant establishment . The question is not whether the' services of the Commissioners shall be secured for ten or even five years , but whether the poor shall be better fed ; whether they shall be treated as human beinga , and not as dogs or hogs , and whether poverty is still to continae a crime in the bye-laws laid down by the Somersetrhouse Bashaws . There is no remedy proposed for these abases . We cannot see the slightest room for congratulation . Lord John Russell ' s alterations are put forward as a means of moving the position whichfthe oppoaeru of the measure have taken , and with the Ultimate expectation ot carrying the diabolical Whig project Into full an * complete effect We nope the House of Commons will not be taken In by the JToMe Lord ' s sophistry . Whatever
opposition was intended , ought to be directed towards the measure with unrelaxed spirit . The country ought not , even for five years , to be-obliged to " kiss the hand of despotism , " seeing that whereas , the Commissioners have become a ' rank nuisance , and that tke hand of opprobrium is pointed at tkem whithersoever they go . Not one moment ' s respite J » there from absolute independence upon theunderbreadcrew of the Strand Union . Bat the main question Is , what does the present BUI concede to the poor and to the country . To the poor and the country ft concedes nothing . Every oiaue of the BUI remains , as before , of a simply and purely * : aggressive character , a mere ulterior developement of the existing system . It proposes solemnly to ratify and continue that system , with additions and variations , but without any relaxation ,
even in the minutest particular , for five whole years . The choice of that period is as distinctly oontradittory to tbe wishes of the people as the former period of ten . The principle of perpetuity is in It stUL The alterations whioh have been made in the Bill leave as completely untouched as before all grievances relating to the diet and treatment of paupers within Workhouses , or the prohibition of out-door relief . The powen of Boards of Guardians are still taken away from the general body elected by the rate-payers , and vested exclusively in the few-wbo , having nothing else to do , and throwing themselves with eaal into the system of the Poor Law Commissioners , attend upon all occasions . The way in which this clause will operate may be understood from a recent occurrence iu the Eton Union , where the working Board passed a
vote of censure upon the Hon . ' and Reverend S . G . Osborne , for prosecuting the oppressor of Elisabeth Wise to conviction before tbe county magistrates ; which , at a subsequent meeting , was ' reversed by the votes of that etas * of firasittians whom toe present Bill proposes to disfranchise . Instead of any abatement of the severe and un-Christian discipline which separates the husband from the wife , and the parent from the child , this Bill establishes a new principle of classification and combination , which , in many cases , will have the effect of distributing the different members of a family into different Workhouses situate in different places . Finally , ia this Bill , aa Lord John Russell especially informs us , " no change 1 « contemplated as to a reduction of the ska of Unions , " and no remedy is provided for the enormous Inconveniences and evils accruing from this source both to ratepayers and to the poor . We feel no surprise at the observations that fell from Sir Robert Peel ; be was just as likely to have
condemned the alterations proposed by Lord John Russell as he was to praise them ; bat we must confess our astonishment that Mr . Wakley saw matter for congratulation in the speech , inasmuch as the poor wilt continue to be exposed to the Infernal dietary laid down by the Commissioners , and the system altogether will operate with as much severity as ever . With regard to the opposition got up to this measure by Walter , of The Timet , we look upon his interference as any thing but calculated to benefit the poor . There is no honesty in it . With him it is a party measure . He perceives that the damnable Act has damaged the Whig cause ; and in the hope of further Injuring it , to the admission of the Tories to power , he and his paper render their opposition , theirs is no real humanity . If tbe Tories were in office to-morrow , The Time * would applaud the Poor Laws to tbe skies , and rejoice that the Bishops had assisted in giving to the country a measure full of so much justice to the rate-payer and the labourer . Out . upon such consistency , say wo I—Weekly Dispatch
Destitution Abroad and at Home- —With all due respect for the motives of the parties wh » subscribe towards Missionary Societies , we ask them whether physical destitution ia England is not more urgent than spiritual destitution abroad , and whether It is not more fit ,, that the claims of the former should be responded to , instead of those of the latter ; what candid man will not agree with us , that it is by far more humane and more in accordance with our duty , to feed the hungry and clothe the naked of our own country , than to send missionaries into distant parts to alter or change the religious opinion * of their inhabitants ! We have now before ua a circular of these association * , which bewails the fotal destruction of the many souls Whose bodies have died * in ignorance of Christianity , '' who perish , for lack of knowledge . " It would have gone more home to the feelings : of all , had it pointed out the thousands of poverty-stricken wretches who swarm tbe back alleys of our large towns , if it had advocated a
philanthropic mission , to cleanse these abodes of misery , crime , and disease , instead of a religious one , to break in upon the peace of the contented Indian . It will be said that both these , objects should be provided for ; yet can this be done ? If it cannot , at least the more Important should have precedence . What man in bis senses would bestow a sixpence upon the conversion of Mahometan * -whilst the same oouid be employed to buy brea 4 for a starring family , possessing a natural claim upon his bounty I With what feelings does the poor man behold large Bums of money expended to furnish him with Bibles , whilst be and his family require the necessaries of life . The truly religious will feel more sympathy for the bodily sufferings of his fellowcreatures than for their mental darkness ; the former renders them miserable , the latter hardly iuterferes with their happiness , but the biget is in a great measure cruel , and cold to the sufferings of his fellow men — Weekly Dispatch .
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SPRING SESSIONS , 1841 . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN , that the Spring General Quarter Sessions of the Peace will be holden at Ponxbfrac p , on Monday , tho Fifth day of April next ; on which day the Court will be opened at Ten o ' clock of the Forenoon , and on every succeeding day at Nine o'clock . Prosecutors and Witnesses in prosecutions must be in attendance in the following order , viz .: — Those in felony , from the divisions of Strafforth and TickhiH , Lower Aj ( briitg , and all places within Ten miles of Tontefraet , and also theso in respited Traverses , are to be in attendance at the opening of the Court on Monday Morning . Those from the divisions of Barkstonash , S aincrossand OsgoldcroBs , ( except such parts of
, those divisions as are within Ten Miles of Poutefract , ) are to be in attendance at One o ' clock on Monday Afternoon . Those from the divisions of Upper Afibri /? # , Mor-Jey , and Skyrack , are to be in attendance at Nine o'clock on Tuesday Morning . Those from the divisions of Stamoliff and Ewcross , Claro and the Ainsty , ( being the remainder ot the West Riding , ) and those in ail eases of Misdemeanor ( except in respited Traverses , who are to attend on Mondav , ) are to be in attendance at Two o'clock on Tuesday Afternoon . After the charge to the" Grand Jury has been given , Motions by Counsel will be heard , after which the Court will prooeed with the trials of Felonies and
Misdemeanors , until ( he whole aro disposed of , commencing with the trials of respited Traverses . The hearing of Appeals will commence , at all events , on Friday morning , in case they shall not have been begun on Thursday ; but parties in Appeals must be in readiness on Thursday morning , and all Appeals must be entered before the sitting of the Court on that day . Coroners and High Constables must be in attendance at the sitting of the Court on Tuesday morning . The names of persons bound over to answer in Felony or Misdemeanor , with a description of the Offence must be sent to the Clerk of the Peace ' s Office seven days at least before the first day of the Sessions , togeiner with all Depositions , Convictions , and Recognisances .
The attendance of Jurymen will not be excused on the ground of illness , unless H be verified by affid avit or proved by evidence in open Court . And Notice is also fierehy given , that the PCBLIG BUSINESS of--the Riding will be transacted in open Court at Twelve o'clock at Noon , on Wednesday , when Motions for Gratuities , and the Finance Committee's Report will be received and considered : and on the fame day , the rules for the government of the House of Correction at Wakefield , will bo taken into consideration ; and the subject of enlarging the present Honse of Correction , or of building a new or additional House of Correction in or near to Wakefield , will also be considered ; and if necessary , a grant of-money out of the public evock of the said Riding , will be made for carrying the same into effect . ADjrOirKNMENT FROM PONTBFRACI TO WiKEFIBU ) .
And whereas ia pursuance of a requisition delivered to me , signed by five Justioes acting for the said West Riding , Notice is hereby siven , that the same General Quarter Sessions of the Peace will ba holden , by adjournment , at the Court House , in Wakefield , on Tuesday the 13 th d » y of the same month of April , at the hour of Twelve o'Clock at Noon , when and where the Report of the Committee appointed on ihe IOth day of February last , " to consider and report how many constables , in their opinion , should be appointed in the West Hiding , under the Acts of 2 and 3 Victoria , cap . 93 , and 3 and 4 Victoria , cap . 88 , and what rates of payments should be made to suob -onstables , " will be presented and taken into consideration ; and such further proceedings reia : ing to the adoption of the said Acts throughout the ta . d West Riding , will be taken as shall be then and there deemed expedient . GH . ELSLEY , Clerk of the Peace . Clerk of the Peace ' s Office , Wakefield . March 12 th , 1841 .
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TO MB . O MALLET , OF THE DUBLIN CHARTIST ASSOCIATION . " Alas ! poor country , jjjnost afraid to kaow itself * i DBABO'aULl . XT , —I am like the weattar-beaten ^ B-pelted mariner , standing upon the deck after the ^ " ^ a * passed away , and steaining right in search of tS ! whereon he may place his foot once more in ^ V ^ - - ^— 1 ^ A ^ B ^ - ^ k ^^ kmi ^ M ^^ h ^ tol ffcfca ^ . % i anxicras 1
. . \ L , , lodeed , my »» » even more ; ^ 1 q overboard from a mutinoM crew , and was ^^ up by &W& 7 h * ' " ud taougn I & * te the ' ^ ves I l ° ve tbe baik in -whist I have had M many fTJ ^ j jk Os , »» d I l 0 T * tkftl P *« engers who have f ^^ feBoT voyagers . Ireland is the bark , and her l ^ Iie , nottt * present race of fUded patriots , but her *" o » feffl * ** " h * l * ^ ia 7 bo » d » men /* were my *? L--fooa For the last six years I have been speak-;^ j «^ *** **** „ -Off * iiold Ireland , aad kow does aha atand ,
ljj how i » cW Ireland , ttv own old native l » nd »~ , tUs ! wail has foOrwed woe , and sigh has rolled ' ^ gj , a qoiek « aeeession . Many an aching heart jj ^ g ^ nisny a mortal designed for a longer sojourn f fifc fcwl of trial has been nipped of his original ^ - ssd prematurely consigned to the cold yave ; « % spirit wiU * account unsettled , " Wihooaeled , ¦^^ tad , BBMneslled ,- has been honied into the —ad eraseaoe of 1 »» G 0 ^ " &H * & *» mrvivors have ¦ id eM pny ® 1 tat **• * * ti 0 B » ¦** * tUi Ut « "d thetoeMe that killed
^ a ^ on Mm . AH this , O'Stalky , I have witnessed . I have been ! ben observer of aD tbt * has passed , and O . » how yM B * A ib » a 8 * ** **•* * **** ceia < to CTthat , •* last-si Jong last , —the bieeaa , farwhfch fcbs * been tag whistling , has at length sprung op , -a fas fi » ri * &t qairtaf—from the legitimate sooree tf « a p « w « . Yes , my friend , tb * T « y fret ofapur > M ^ of yonrsebfB * sad forjqBHtfves , witboSfihe jLffiMal mHfirati ^ Ti of my sane being once more aptf by Irish Hps , shews ¦» the land , and tell * me that t firritfia iiMeingis .
O'MsQsy , eu you . Inform me how it is that Irish ., ^^ 01 , thrive , while tilie Irish people perish of want » cJa ^« solw for me the knotty problem of men ban * cheered ia their deagpcistiofl of physical force , ^ iSe jfcej have filledtheii country with tbe very worst dMBspttsa of a standing , armed , trebly-paid , spy force , vteie service * cease when peace prevails , and who fc ^ Jberefore , an interest in civil commotion , f « r $ 3 ire bat to-, the dvfl « erTi « s ? Can you ojfeii ho * it i » that every paper throu * b-«* -tbe empire greedily seizes upon and fully WJjA- every word spoken by Irish " patriots , - , $£ tbe Irish people are obliged to send their news fej ^ liation to the Irish " traitor ' s" paper ! Can you ^ tor * it is ^> t » , with such a liberal press as
Ire-Wtastsof , we never hear of a single meeting of the wrkhg dsss& convened by themselves , addressed by ^¦ sdvea , or rawing resolutions upon matters in any ¦ n ? eomecUd with their interest *? Can yon tell me * tathsibecn done with all the money collected in fated within the last twenty years ; and point oat to at&e people ' s or tbe martyr ' s share ! Can you infarane why it is that men who were hooted from the fessSzgimlSSS , as falling short of the popular stanted of . fitness , are bow beiag dignified with tiUae , pirn , sad pensions , ss a reward for meritorious ser-TJaiitiwr country ' s cause ! Can yoa inform me how fcntia * Ireland , after tea yeazs ' growth from her new
bird into righteoBsaefls , has beetme more lisping ass d fpffrgt tjbsa she was hi her cradle t Why does shew * hug , ss a cherished boon , what she then un-Tffliajiy bore u a badge o / slavttjr ? Have the znansda fayed by " tyrants " become less galling because rtiziied by " patriots" f Are the millions better fed , better dad , better boused , and more independent ! Do ywa " patriot" judges abate a jot et the law * rlgoor ? Do your " patriot" landtods abate a faeta sf the rest compounded fac , or do they oompoond for less . ' Do your " pa-W 0 W" BOfce , now composed of » " doe share of Caiholics , " put the ha&d-cnfii on with more tenderness , or with more eomptmctioa ; ssd are they less
watchful and tyraoniea ! . ' Does tbe Lsw Church , ender its * as composition , appear less hideous , because presented in a new asd lew known form ? Do your K ps 4 ri 0 tic n barrister * plead the * martyrt cause for saaBs fees , or isyosr attorney's Wll docked of any of Us customary charge *! Is tbe many associations which have bees called into htsty existence , and which have it busily died , have yon been represented , or have you bees allo-wed only the poor privilege of paying T
CXtSsy , I speak of poor Mr . O'Conoell now , as a thiij that hat been , bat has passed away ; I merely use i&& » i £ iilnsiraiion . Whonrdid he denounce aa "bus , brats ! , ssd bloody ,- " and who does he n » w ties , sad is what have they changed r Who are ttepntjes now in Ireland from wboee ranks candidates aRdtcam , and how did Mr , O'Connell stand affected t& * Bdi those partias , even at the ganenl election of is-35 ; ia * i » Te ttieyaU changed , aod his he remained fcatofiw ckw which he then espoused * Who are flsjntiaselected for promotion to all offices ? Are thsj ioi the most unmanageable yd apparently independent members , in order to make way for others jwwoed of a pliancy of principle and disposition capsbfeef bemg moulded into any shape best suiting the vkrj of the political mechanic ?
"iUBey , let as now pas * over the seven centuries of IrAnii dark night cf oppression , and b&si in the sabiae which was to have shed its rays upon the ^ fckred patriot ' s grave , to have cheered the wintatf tt » life of the survivor , and to have illuminated thsjoajsg patriot in Us ftrture comtsq . TThaf WOS to fcffl bsea ihe promised change ? Let us speai of hex EfcEefonn Biliww to have resuscitated Ireland , t * ^ her vowed patriots in tbe EDglish House of Cw ** sa . The foEffwing was our Charter , which , before 6 > fl ad the people , we swore to maintain even to the ^ i : —Universal Suffrage , Annual Parliaments , Vote " 7 Ballot , Btpeal of the Union , total Abolition of - " * " « , in name aad nature , Appointment of ilagis-< ai * ' b j the people , and removal of the Bishops from ti » Sense of Lordi Such -was Treland- g Charter .
" **» now see hex " patriots '" performances . Trniver-¦« Se&agB hss d-vrindled into the most "practical j * ***"; " Annual Parliaments has been relinquished r * Triennial Parliaments ; Bepeal of the Union has f ^ tfteoed mto " justice to Ireland ; - the total abo-^»* titha * into " appropriation point ; " tbat is . the WfcMiifta to zatioaaj purposes of a Eurplns , which ** to be found after the church maw was j T ™** 15 * ad than the patriots commuted every Khes iate 25 a . tent The appoinment ot magis' ¦^ 7 8 » people has been lost sight of , and the ^ * 1 of the bishops thought of no consequence . I * 81 we fiad undefined terms have been substituted for
^** Principles , and the only pledge which has pr * QTe ^ . u , the old cloak to throw over the the km !"" 1 Ot * di « D 0 DOttred faction : " the Ballot : " joint ' s ! . lriUiOnt ^ 8 Ot 2 P ; th 8 di 8 h lritboat the hia fc ^ l 4 Bt «« l & the assassin's hand to a 71 ow ttjtt > *> i > coward-like and unseen . Is this a ^™ f « oward ? is this the reward for the ^^^ aiproTed state of society , when iaMhe darittWi ? 1 Saaaace t ^ Je * n »? o , we were promised so **» « i * fo ! CT 2 r 3 cnowIed « a bat feaght m to take IXsj ^ Z * for **» substance ? and , above all , aad P « e » S e ^ P ^ Tement of the people hel d p J ~ tt » increasing power of the faction who
naow ^ ° ^ ka « y , what is tbe faded old gectleft ^ V" ^ ^ ¦ Why , that the people of g ^ ^ ytm , and bate everything Irish , and Worato !* 1 * 41011 ** " Sondi 7 anticipated , and his pSet % j ~~*> n short in consequence of the nnexiti ^ CT : " ^ oPPorittoa of the English people !!! b *» £ *\* . » damned lie . But it his recently 'K ' ta . ltt *^ ( t ° * CrTe * F arPose ) to Tory hatred . S ^^™^ ' * e « J » ay » knew of that , and . it was * ** { T * ™ to *« ount and , therefore , should not be *« sZ * T < mr ° reteo « r 8 uion - ^ ^ ^* ' le * m test the ehsije by l » ci » ZsgaatTZr 1 ' ° ' Goim * U the moii popular man iu whji ( s ^ ^ ° ^ clo « e of * the Session of 1836 , and tliioj ^ T ** aim to make a tour , like a conquerer , k ^ nsT * " md Scotknd ? Why , nothing that And jaVf iT 8 for -the E 1 * 15 ^ and the Scotch . 6760 k ^ ftod Pr ° Te ^^ ^ P 61 * 0 * ! oTe for Ireland , Bogi , ^ ^ J self-consideration . He had betrayed ** b » d w ^ tte ^ r ^ ester Labourers' question j ^ * aca praised the English Poor Law ,
Grnsmal Corre^Pontictuc.
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West Riding Of Yorkshire.
WEST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE .
Caution To Medicine Vendors And Others.
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Northern Star (1837-1852), March 20, 1841, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct847/page/7/
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