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Since the Act of Union, it is plein that the Irish could not govern themselves, and now, let us ask, how have they been governed? It is sufficient to say, that it was not until forty-six years after the Union that the English Government recognised the right of the Irish poor man to be supported out of the land; and that right, though now recognised, has not, up to this moment, been en- forced. When England has given to Jreland, in practice, an eficient Poor-law ; when it has made the land—the title- deeds to which have been assigned not by Irish laws,

but English swords— responsible for the sustentation |

and the life of Irishmen; it will be the time fer English newspaper writers to descant upon the defects, the vices, the idleness, and the apathy of Jrishuen—but not till then.

We have shown, however briefly, that by the past his- tory of [reland, the present condition of that country has neither been the doing nor the choice of Irishmen ;

and yet this is the manner in which the Spectator, falsi-|

fying history, has the audacity to speak of the Irish people :—

‘The Irish preferred to live miserably on the potatoe, because it required the minimum of labour; they prefer now to live miserably on alms from England; they neg- lect the fish on their coasts to eat the bread of charity ; they strive to wring as pauper-squatters subsistence out of the soil, by deterring landlords from collecting their rents, or changing their tenants; and ¢f their destitution

is not in ali parts voluntary, the generally low condition

which subjects them to the chances of that condition has been the choice of the ignorant Irish, abetted, if not ap- plauded by those educated Irish who set up for patriots, and who ere now coming as sturdy beggarsto Parlia- ment.’

Thus, according to the Spectater, the Irish prefer bad diet, destitution, alms, and the least possible share of Ja- bour in Ireland to constant employment, hard work, high wages, and good food. Out of Ireland they have a different character. Ina debate in the House of Com- mons, March 18th, 1841, Mr. Wakley, a man who has great experience in the condition of the labouring classes, declared he never knew any class of men to equal the Irish people in industry the most persevering and un- ceasing.” But what is the character given te them in Treland where the poor can obtain wages? Sir John Macneil, a civil engineer, says,‘1 never found men more anxious or desirous to be employed than the lower or- ders.’ The misfortune of the Irish poor is that they cannot procure constant remunerative employment ; and their slanderer prefers as an accusation against them, as a crime in them, that which is a grief to them. They are censured as idlers because they do not work without object, or without reward. ‘T'o give constant employ- inent to the population, remarks a writer in the Dublin Review, ‘would be to confer on them the greatest of blessings ; that which beyond all others dhey most desire andto procure which they become lemporary or permanent

‘they will not allow others any liberty of thought or ac-|

lthe ‘liberals’ subscribed. Let us now see how that | SP testis TIS AME TY TER.

ition was fulfilled by those who are so ‘liberal,’|-—— cogntign [ges Same” A SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1848.

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ot 5 ereeee : | The liberals promised to respect private and public) THE CU RRENCY ; | property ; but the moment they got into the town, they | Since our last publication, it has been our anxious | pillaged the houses of four of the leading men of Fri-|study to make ourselves master of the probable effects bure, and that of one lady, Madame de Fegeley—‘the of the monetary scheme promulgated in the Despatch furniture was carried away, broken and thrown from the of Earl Grey, which we then published for general in- windows. The Chancery of State has been pillaged, and formation. We think it wise and considerate in the also the Cathedral of St. Nicholas; the silver vases and Lieutenant Governor to place the whole matter before chandeliers have been stolen. The convent of the Ligorians the public, that discussion may take place, and inen’s j\and the Seminary have been destroyed’ In the J esuit minds be prepared for those enquiries and investigations

remarkable manner; for ‘clocks, porcelain, broken |#!€ @ few observations which we shall venture to give looking-glusses strewd the floor. Paintings of the first our readers in this stage of the business; but we will masters were pierced with the boyonet, and pianos just remind them that the Despatch was, of course, writ- broken in with the butt-end of the musket. * * j|ten to suggest the adoption of some better principles ‘The books were torn and the library broken to pieces, than those of jmore. Comparary exp ediency +e which ‘The organ of the church destroyed. * # * |the Colony has hitherto acted, and that his Lordship ‘The villagers round about Friburg, where the soldiers could do no more than draw attention to the evils exist- ‘bivouacked, have been still worse used than Friburg |g, and their apparent remedy, leaving to the Legisla- itself, Everywhere the surroundiug country has been “¥€ any modilications or amplifications which familiar | devastated, the inclosures broken down, the houses en-|!0cal circumstances may render necessary. |tered, the furniture, with the carts, ploughs, and other | We are, therefore, inclined to view the subject ina husbandry tools, burnt for the fuel of the bivouac fires,|{riendly manner, for in the first place, we are quite ithe cattle killed, and the houses set on fire.’ jane of the unsound basis on which the edifice of our Such have been some of the doings of the Swiss libe- | WNancial system is built, which is, to say the least of it, rals;and the Daily .Vews, in referring to their victory at\*5 anomalous in the history of such things as the irres- Friburg, declares that ‘the Swiss Diet and executive | PUSibility of the advisers of the Crown in our Executive have shown themselves fully equal to repress, without | Council can be in the general political and constitutional much destruction to property or to life, the monkish insur- ‘sense. But before we enter on the details of the scheme, rection’ In itszeal, the same paper declares that this 2nd on those considerations which may guide our as- cause, and these acts in which the Swiss liberals are |S@Bt OF dissent as to the particulars of the means propos- so engaged and commit such atrocities, is so good, s o ed to carry out the desired end, the discussion of which holy, and so pure, that to attempt interfering with them) “€ Shall for the present postpone,—we feel bound, in in their spoliation of churches, their destruction of pro- Justice, to refer to the fact which Lord Grey himself perty, their robbery of private houses, and their burning |Stes, that to Sir Henry Vere Huntley's vigilance we of the implements and habitations of farmers, would be OW® the construction of the Commission on the Currency, tantamount toa declaration of ‘ Down with the Protes- iconsisting of Messrs. Hensley, D. Hodgson and Birnie, tants! Crush the Liberals. who are the authors of the report on which, it is evi- To spoliate a school is, with this Frenchified liberal | dent, his Lordship’s recommendations are mainly found- organ, ‘religious liberty? and the power to despoil and ¢d. What Messrs. Pope and Palmer consider the ‘destroy the property of a neighbouring state is ‘political °Xtteme point of gullibility of the public, it is difficult to independence.’ ‘Surmise, when they claim, or insinuate a claim, to any We hambly venture to ask what has Protestantism to P®'ticipation in the matter. Did they write that report? do with these atrocities, or why should it be made re. N#Y, more, did they not treat it with contempt, ridicule, sponsible for the infamies and barbarities of ‘liberal-|24 impertinence? Do they imagine the public can or ism ?? will forget the terms of reprobation in which they spoke It may serve to conceal] truth to designate the strug. |of every body who moved against their unprincipled gle made by the different States of Switzerland to niin: ‘scheme of issuing 15,0001. of inconvertible paper,which, tain their ancient independence,a ‘monkish insurrec-|if they understood anything of finance (a crime of which tion ;’ but we appeal to the people of England—do they |¥¢ certainly hold them guiltless), they must know would conceive their Protestantism is identified with such in- have been a robbery of the public creditor. If they want famies as these Swiss liberals have perpetrated in Fri- ‘0 know the difference between a note payable on de- burg? mand, or a cash payment, anda Treasury Note of the In consequer~4 of the atrocities perpetrated by these old sort, perhaps it would be a good expedient, by way base violators of .xe compact under which Friburg was|°f teaching them, to start them to Pictou, and thence

school, these liberals distinguished themselves in a very | Wich we trust will lead to sounc conclusions. There

eriles. None feel more bitterly than the Irish poor, that |Yielded to them; it would appear that three of these sol- onward to England, with nothing in their pockets except one of the greatest misfortunes of their country is, that diers were put to death by the exasperated inhabitants ; their favorite Notes ; nay, we are afraid, though they its industry is, like its epidemic fever—intermittent ; that/2d then these ‘liberals, who had agreed to protect life, had another Governor to remove, they would not reach is perpetually oscillates between compulsory idieness| liberty, and property, declared the place ina state of the other side of the Atlantic if they hed the whole

and insufficiently compensated toil.’ (No. XLIII, p. 57.) Let punishment, the most seyere punishment, be in-

flicted upon the homicides of Ireland; but let it never! There was no proof of

be forgotten that they are a few, amid millions of men patiently enduring the worst afflictions to which human| nature can be subjected. But, above all things, let not! the crimes of those who killa few be a pretext for those who. would assassinate the character of a nation; and deprive the humble, the honest, and the suffering of the, aid, the sympathy, support, and respect ofthe good, the humane, and the generous,

THE WAR IN SWITZERLAND.

One of the morning papers of Tuesday last congratu- lates its readers on the fact, that Friburg taken possessian of by the troops of that party in Switzer- Jand which calls itself ‘liberal, and which has made war on its neighbours because they choose to maintain themselves in that local independence which they have

has been | of the Marats, consists in

‘siege, and (we quote the words of the Daily News itself) 19,000 for their own share. ‘proclaimed martial law, and immediately expelled some| Dut we will now point out two respects in which Lord five or six hundred suspected persons from the town? Grey ’s recommendation iss our hearty concurrence, and guilt—no accusation of being deserves that of the public. In the first place, the sub- partcipators in any crime; but those who yielded to the Stitution of Notes payable on demand for Warrants, cuts Swiss liberals, in the expectation that they would keep the whole ground from under the feet of the present race their words, were, because they were suspected of being Of money dealers. It will be in vain, that Government adverse to the new order of things, deprived of their Officers and their subordinates or friends knowwhatWar- homes, banished from their native town, and sent abroad, ‘ants are about to issue from the Government. They will wanderers and beggars upon the face of the earth! ‘start hereafter fair in the race of industry and money Will the Protestants of this country sanction this per- making with their fellow men, and banking operations, fidy by their approbation, or identify their creed with| Which would be an inestimable boon,might fairly be ex- such atrocities? No, They will, as they didin the pected to commence. first French Revolution, denounce the miscreants who| ndly,—The poor man coming from the Country to perpetrate these crimes, and whose liberalism, like that Tealize payment for work performed for the Government, the toleration of Atheism, and| be it under a Road Cortract or any other head, will re-

ini the Persecution to death of those who are ministers of a ceive Notes payable on demand, or cash. He will have Christian religion. |

‘the full amount of it in his pocket wherewith to pay his

ileal ii |debts or to lay it out at the store,without discount or de- A Poser.—Ata deba

; oe ee ; ting club one eveni . ducti i inherited from their fathers, and to worship God accord- ition was discussed, whether there is ee wee on as a ay wii, home if he ile and Jay it ing to the dictates of their conscience. Let us remark | te possession or the pursuit of an object. ‘Mr. Presi-| ere without going to some money speculator to get

in the first place, that Friburg capitulated on the condi- tion that life and property were to be respected by those

dent,’ said an orator, * spose I was courtin’ a silendl it cashed. The public,perhaps,little knows how poor men,

she was to run away, and | », till of late,in spite of the efforts made by Sir Henry Vere 1 be happier when P was to run arter her, wouldn't >in Sp made by Sir Henry

. , : aa I cotched her, than when I wag run-, Huntley to ameliorate their condition in this matter, as who gained possession of the town. ‘T'o that condition ning erter her?’ we | well wid Mr. Cole’s interference ave dil’ They ; ; ; '