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We All Me Bardan had been anobbed and booted down for randeng ir John Herschel a persion which he handsomely acknowledged, in him the opportunity of retracting basty, in- Comuiderate expressions, convering an unintended

Next year the Association is bound to inform the world more particularly of the nature of the fermentation excited in the mind by the disco. varies of Ocred," and of the effervescence' resul- ling from it, the scum, &c.

THE FRIEND OF CHINA AND HONGKONG GAZETTE.

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In conjunction with several of the best and most enlightened friends of Ireland, we advocated months ago a distribution of the waste lend amongst the people. It woos their willing arms as much as the untenanted land of America. They want food; let them gain it from mother earth. Teach them,

you will. to sow furnips and plant cabbages, to drain and till the soil; teach them, if you will and can. that oats, and wheat, and maize, and barley, o, on the whole, more profitable to cultivals than

sable, the Daily News speaks of the activity of Lord Braborough as teaching the Trinh that They here a Government." Wby, two-thirds of the military force of the empire kept at home, half diy proportion of the public statutes every year walun tind of every session of Parlatment, and as large a

our recollection, have impressed that truth or fish. There is no people in Europe, not even than Prussians, who have so continually felt the hand of the Government. Misgoverned hey have been, it is true, and we seo top file change in the pan. sent activity at the Castle to hope for anything bat miserernment in fure. The system is extoli rather than attored,

With still greater forgetfulness of all principle, the Examiner deeply regrets that the author of free and unbounded charity to the Irish in 1 hour of famines hould have been the Tory chief” It is enamoured of "coercion," applied to taking away the proporty of the rich. 11 condemns ther minksters for putting any slit to the measures of relief for the starving Irish" The present increase in the social dificulties of rolant is due to that unbounded and misapplied cliarity. Sir R. Pert pinetically impressed it on the Irish, that it was the duty of the Government to feed and employ them; and fed and employed they mow musi be, or the But the Examiner is empire will be convulsed. in extor. The author of the unbounded charity" plan was Mr Commissary Howataon, not the chief; and was carried out on commissariat principles. On other occasions, the Easininer has generally laughed at Hewetson's plan, when mentionail by Mr Deraeli as Popkin's plan, and has justly derided the want of sagacity and the want of sys. tem in the Tory chiot. Not it lauda it him for one of the most fatal of all his Tory errors. silly sentimentality, foreign to its nature, and whol ly unworty of its reputation, it has become all at once so blind as to praise Popkin's plau, as the master-stroke of human wisdom. In the name of Lord. John, Russell, it envies Sir Robert the honour of having been the humble instrument for executing Mr Hewetson's mischievous scheme,-Economist, September 12.

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THE MARRIAGE OF THE INFANTA OF SPAIN WITH THE DUKE OF MONTPENSIER. M. Bresson, the French ambassador at Madrid, has evidently stolen a match on the English aninis-

president sad Dr. Rothe Lord-Lioulegant declaro, by so many distinct and who are, according to its assertion, almost frantic with terror still less is it the business of confusion.

proclamations, that twentyfour districts in the

the goproductire landlords, to provide for the in- Robinson's, that I contics of Donegal, Cork, Mayo, Host

before he knew Sligo, Tipperary and Waterford, are in a mate of dustrions labourers. Nothing appears to us more I suppose in distress; and he requires extremos of nature, than the assumption as which this whole extrordinary selon to strange, or a more complete perversion of the order Zonly wanted meet in these districts, between Assen fous all on September, and make presentments for the execus policy proceeds, that it is the duty, or that it is even tion of public works to relieve the distress. In the roestble for the unproductive Government, or the Dublin Garste of the 8th thirty-four more districts de classes, to provide for the industrious and pro ductive classes. In fact, as Mr. Burke remarked, in the same counties, with Galway and Kerry in addition, were proclaimed to be in a state of dis- it is the latter who provide for the former. Those treas and require relief. Mr. O'Connell who des, who produce all, the wealth of the world, however, must repellest the very words, oribes these proclamations as the first bend over are supposed by those who produce none to be caped me, as words might from soon for the people, stated in Conciliation hall, on nable to get on without their assistance. This the moment, regre Monday, but this must be an exaggeration, that it we regard as a fundamental error, and till it be re- weld at ward a word which would take the whole rental of Ireland, 18,000,000 moved from the mind of landlords, theorists, and be supposed to reffect or at least from 10,000,000, to 12,000,0001, to statemen, the Irish will not be bought to provide I regard Mr. love and food the people during the impending for themselves They will remain as at present, of the highest power calamity. The larger the sum, the more welcome

the continual reproach, as well as the continual lightning from a philosophising the measure to thein. Advance, in the first in-terror, of those who, without the means, persist in

1 regard him with a kind,

stance, by the Treasury and finally paid by the undertaking the impossible daty of providing for a lectional feling. I should regret landlords, the bulk of the Irish hail the announce

Thord who are in posscarton of wealth, and can informama occurences of my filament that they are to receive ton or twelve mil dropped agy expression that could affect ons with a treble dolight, as relieving their wants, aflied to be idle, may pass their lives in enjoyment, Beecing the Saxon state, and ruining their masters. but they should less their leas fortunate brethren (Cheers)"

On what this 10 000,000, or 13,000,0007, or

to the free exercise, unthwarted, anguided, ancon whatever sum may be required, will be expended, trolled, of their own industry. Their business and it is at present impossible exactly to say but it their duty is to enjoy, but they should not hamper appears from the words of the act, fimiting the the honest industry of their fellow men. They presentments to public works," that not ous farth should rely on that which supplies thom being also The mis medicatele na- ing is intended to be laid out for profit, or to pro- adequate to supply itself. Sir John Herschel had been over figurative lu maute private advantage. The money is to be ex-ture, which Smith refers to as the source of the ding honour to Mr. Oersted, and his figures had pended with no reference, to the well-planned welfare of nations, and which the elder Mirabeau certainly been rather disrespectful to the splendid disbursements of enterprising capitalists, to future speaks of as correcting the errors of statesmen, service of Mr. Wheatstone. Dr. Robinson of Argain. It is a specics of alme to roliere present ought to receive some little confidence from those magh, however, at once youched for the correct- distress. It is a forced kind of charity that offen- whose wealth it creates, and whose errors it cor. rects. Surely the healthy labourers of Ireland may mesa of the description, rebuked the objector, Mr.sive and rankling, oakum-picking, stonebrosking Sveing, both as unknown and unknowing, and relief, which characterises the workhouse system, be trusted by those who do not "bour" to pro- scientifically defined Mr. Wheatatono's discoveries applied to the bulk of a nation. It is wages distri.

vido for themselve

recommendation is, * the efferroscence of that fermentation which buted as alms. Already plenty of schemers, sug; give them room and let them try the discovery of Oersted had excited in the mind gest bridges, roads, and harbours, to be constructed of Wheatstone."

in different places; and on works of that kind, all yielding no income, and of life or no value to society, willá very large proportion of the national capital bo wasted. Present distress will be relie red; but, destroying the means of profitable pro

action, future distress will be augmented. The It is pleasant to see how frankly and freely Sir disbanding of a few thousand scemen at the end of John Herchel gave up the fermentation with its ef- a war, or turning off a number of "navies" on the furrescence so youched for by Dr Roberts, Like completion of a railway, is always pregnant with a man of sense and candour, retracted his words mischief, and excites alarm for the public and enm-watery lumpere; but let them have the waste landter, Mr Bolwer. But this has not been done wi pa thoughtleady altered bolin making the amende passion for the individuais, absorbed, as they speed to till, and let them cultivate it by and for them ly or nobly, but trickily, and in an underhand fo. he ran into the perilous path of figure again, and liy are, in the great society of which they form an acires, and for their own advantage. If the pre-shion. The conduct of M. Brersunt more resembles dubbed Mr Wheatstone a lightning conductor of the insignificant partion. Wast, the, wo ask, with sentment sessions shall consider that the portioning the practice of a sharp unprincipled London after- highest power. Is is a pity that these men of science foreseeing apprehension, is to become of the balk out of the wastes of Ireland freely amongst those ney, than the proceeding of a gentleman and a min gre not a little more prosaiq und exact in their lan- of the Irish, with no greater society to absorb them, who may be willing to till them, and the establish of honour and we greatly err in our estimate of the guage. There is a vast deal too much fermenta- when this expenditure, ten times as great, accordment of a general system of drainage, be arconget Spanish bubon if M. Besson will not soon find that lina and effervescence" in their thoughts and dic-ing to Mr O'connell's statement, as the sum an the public works for which they may levy a small he has made a falso move in this business. The tion 1 and in a speech which followed, Dr Robinson #ually voted for wages and victuals for the whole tax on landlords, we shall regard that mersure Progredicto

to party hore protested against the mai- went off in this grandiose styles-

Davy, shall be stopped, and the bulk of the Irish, much more favoumbly than at present but they riege of the Infuals with the French prince in Les no hold on our way sad be assured, though their food diminished, thoir dependence increased, shall confine the terms to bukling bridges and monk-strong and indignant terms, and their words Gad an fools may off and telers sneer, a time may coms, be again thrown on their own resources? Thating roads, when the pressing wint of the people is echo in every Spanish bosom. Nor is the opposi seken they shall have mosidered into dust, but when will be impraticable; and the almsgiving begun by food immediately and food prospectively, we con tien confined alone to this party. The Carlisis also the proceedia gr you have directed this week shall lice, Sir Rohort Peet, continued under another form by only expect from its operations the creation of a indignantly denounce such an union, and an im and figure times say. It was gell for us the British the present Ministry, carries with it a dire neces necessity to give up the whole occupied soil of Ire- portant section of the Moderados, headed by M. Pa Arreciation held a meeting in Southampton.'sity always to provide employment ad food for land, at no distant day, to a degraden and uncivichezo, join their along voices to swell the diapazon. (Cheers.

the ever increasing muhitude. The subsiding of sed multitule Imagina tutore times saying that-thanking the barbarians by the Roman Emperols was, in its bearon, and under Bit Hoderick Murchison, that principles and is fatal effects, a polley similar to the British Association held its meeting in South-

that of the Government now buying he content ampion to the bat week of September, 1946. Of ment of the Irish by employing them on works ccarse the subject of the world's gratitude will be that do not carry with them, like the undertakings the well on Bosthampton camion, the most inter- of private individuals, the means of feeding an in- saling topic of discussion, we are told, in the ever-creasing number of people The system, once ex memorable week's proceedings The saying for tensively acted on, must be continued till it end before quoted, "does not adequately convey their Their own hnguage, says the paper, we have future times should be inscribed on the pump, whose by placing all the resources of Ireland at the disapprehensions, Consteraction is too faint a word spout should anticipate the universal voice of pos- posal of an ignorant mnltitude of sturdy beggars, to impart a true impression. They feel like mori terity.

or bring into practice a systematic and cunningly

ners, under whose feet the deck sinks, and before contrived scheme of general extermination whose eyes the gulf is yawning. The negligence,

This policy is as contrary to the course which

the follies, the imprudences of paal years, perhaps is obviously dictated by the present wants of the

of past ages, for ancestral mismanagement is inherit people and the principles of freedom as it in fatal.

ed by some, crowd down upon,

their They want food, nat employment. Better were it restals but a bare thud or a to distribute the whole sum as aline, given as a posal. They solemnly avow to i right. If they are to be interfered with, put them titled, and they ask the B in the way of creating more food. The hareels latter ding upon them the inte appear to be deficient throughout Europe, and therechelming misery by which production of mare food is the one pressing, macesedi, and whole districte até à fer? By Last year, ander the pressure of a similar calamity, the peasantry of England, in various places, favoured by an open vintes, eked out the sgon supply by cultivating cabbages, turnipa, and similar esculenta. To encourage the Irish now to do something similac, and to extend the cultivation of the soil for their para ad rentage, so that, they may haxe food in future, in the dictate of common sense. The government has forsaken the plain path Acting on a false theory, it lins, be a round about way to give the Irish food by mens bf useless labour. It wastes their toi toy the failure of the harvest Toads, are not exchangeable.

After the flourish we have quoted, Dr Robinson proceeded to boast that the Association acknowledg ed on aristocracy no rank but that of intellectual power and scientific merit, which seemed bardly consistent with his contemptuous address to Mr Burling, as of nøknown name an unknown name being sometimes the lot of men who have been more ancicosto deserve.fame them to obtain it. But after this disavowal of homage to tenk, we were quite sure of a prostration to it, and we were not mistaken. See what follows, and not from the pen of the Court beraman, though indisputably in his best manner: Had the Prince Albert comesmong us with an expression of indifference, as discharging a more poitical Enly, to song sorcething which he thought raight acquire for him an ephemeral popularity, in that case, though I should have welcomed him with the respect due to his rank, to his position, and to BY OWN Begues, yet that respect would have termicated there

Hembo aended the ched him parrow

To buy maize of wheats they

markey. They may, perth

tion, but they seldom blic works, and not Fantages. They a what society rants, food here

To the landlords of Ireland we would fain address an earnest word, Mr O'Connell exults at the In bour rate, because it will confiscate the property of the landlords, and bring them to Conciliation ball or induce them to make common cause with him, The landlords themselves dread the measure.

M. Pacheco is one of the most eminent of the Spa. nish lawyers, and enjoys general esteem at Madrid. He u distingue

distinguished not more by moderation and frmness thair by ability, and his opposition in the Cortes may be formidable, and is sure to be su out of doors. Long, however, before his voice sha!! have been heard in the Cortes, the populations of this marriage; and the national will, thur express- the different provinces will have pronounced against ed, may neither be trifled with nor despised. The bands, we think, will be forbidden by the nation at large. If there be one thing which a Spaniard bales more than another, it is foreign interference or dictation; nada de estrangeros is his ́matin and vespar sung; and French interference is, to a Spa- niard, more odious and unpalatable than any other. In the teeth of this expression of a nation's will, w Louis Philippe persevere in forcing his son on The the Spanish people? We are of opinion that he will urder of the persevere to the very last moment he can do so with ghbobsate for the intended bride us a large dowry; and if there be a thing on earth which the crafty Monarch of the Barricades loves better than power, is money. He has also a great passion for match- a vehement desire to settle his family well, and has always cast a longing eye towards Spain. He will, therefore, resort to overy art of flattery, Juriguo, and negotiation to every scheme, fir and foul, short of actual war, to achieve his during

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Threatened, therefore, on the one har conscation of their property and on the reheat which will be confiscation too, Baving no loving, copfding, and honouring people to fall back on, what can they do so certain inmediately to relieve them, and to enable the pesantry here- after to provide for themselves what cen they do so sure to reconcile the breadless population to their keeping unquestioned possession of the pecu. pied and cultivated soil, as for going all their clain's to the uncultivated, and unoccupied soil, o ddition |ing themselves instrumental in dis

bors, and without claiming manoriat hig ce sole amongst the people. There is no lo the people feeding themselves.

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Will he succeed? We really think it very doubt- ful Numarely will be have to encounter the ra- pugnance of a nation of vehement men, but the op-

ogion of courts and cabinets.

England can see with no pleasure, if she does not view with absolute jealousy and disrelish, such amtriage. It the union were unobjectionabic in thalt und boopposed to the spirit and letter of trea- bron is not, still the mode and manner in Fehow been brought about, has been disre-

genuous, and to the last degres mean Already has the English Ambassador on the subject, and that noto may be

stronger missive from Viscount Pal is a man of high spirit and great firm- bout the least likely statesman living to power in Europe to take

a sharp advan

age, too, may be disagreeable, and pro- usigin, Russin, and Prussia, none of Are represented at the court of her and these powers may join, we

join, our Fa

Forelga Secre- norance, With the Spanish

powers of Europe against not the man to persevere in

Treaty of Utrecht, end

House of Orleans; The Riven' the

law, or the roaun-

bld our readers agnolation in ex- difficulty, and of

brid

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