KILKFIN Y QUARTER SESSIONS.

The Quarter Sessions which began on Thursday, ended yesterday at three o’clock. The following is an outline of his worship’s address to the grand jury :—'I‘he Recorder commenced his charge by alluding to a complaint made by one of the jury, as he was about to be sworn, that many persons in the city were never summoned on the grand jury, while others were compelled to attend that duty sessions after sessions. Adverting to the amount of business, his worship stated the number of cases to be twenty. Some of these. as they stood in the calendar seemed of a serious charac- ter, but might turn out, on investigation, of a less aggravating nature than they now appear. After some further observasions, the Recorder said he did not feel it neces- sary to detain the jury by any explanation of their duties, as he was convinced from their general experienCe that they required no instruction on these points. He should he happy at all times to afford them all the assistance in his power, should difﬁculties occur to them in business.

The following convictions, out of the cases in the calendar referred to by the Re- corder, took place :—

John Walsh and others—rescuing pigs— a week’s imprisonment

Anne Kennedy and Margaret Flinn—— riot~a fortnight’s imprisonment,

Patt Mather—assault on a city constable, two month’s imprisonment and hard la- bour. '

Peter Lacy—violent assault and attempt at robbery—seven year’s transportation.

Patrick Nixon—a boy stealing a. watch- six month’s imprisonment.

Micheal Irwin, a boy—Iassault -—one month’s imprisonment.

'I‘hus ended the Sessions of this Dis- turbed and Seditious city and liberties, containing a population of 25,000 inhabi- tants, many of whom are in a state of total estitution!

At the last Quarter Sessions, held in Ja- nuary, not one case was for trial, nor was there anecessity to swear a jury!!!

THE COMMON CAUSE. From the Dublin Evening F recmmi.

The cause of the people of Ireland is the cause ofthe people of England. Let there be nomistake on this point. With the English nation We have no quarrel. Our interests are theirs : our objects are theirs; our enemies are thcii's.~“'e both seek good institutions, and cheap and honest government; and in the _ prosecution ofthis object we have the same ob.

stacles to overcome, the same impediments to i surmount, the same foe to grapple with. The l two countries have a common enemy—that ma- ny headed tyrant the aristocracy. W'e are both alike victims of the insatiable rapacity and inexorable cruelty oftliat monster. Un- til we have beaten down its enormous power, there is no chance of'pesoo. freedom or pros.- perity for the one country or for the other.

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THE BRITISH AMERICAN.

We are, therefore, naturally, necessarily. 9.]. lies; bound together by the fastest of all ties—- community ofgrievous wrong. And let none suppose that in seeking the repeal of the inta- mous act of Union, we are pursuing a separate interest. It is quite otherwise. We are enga- ged in that cause with the most perfect good will towards our English fellow-citizens—What is our struggle for a domestic legislature, but a struggle for good government—a struggle for the regeneration ofIrelaud—a struggle for the general beneﬁt of the empire? We Wish to ﬁght the battle hand in hand with English- men. The repeal of the Union is to us what radical reform of parliament is to them. The remedy ofour grievances is Substantially the same. namely, the establishment of the demo. cratic principle as the basis of our laws and institutions. \Ve both want to be the makers of the laws by which we are governed, and the voters oftlie taxes we are called on to pay. For this the people of England require an ex- tended sutl'rage, vote by ballot, and triennial parliaments ; for this the people of Ireland de- mand the repeal ofthe Legislative Union,wliicli is in fact nothing but the adaptation ofthe com- mon remedy to the peculiar circumstances. of this country. We seek no separation from our gallant neighbour; We covet the fraternity of a high-minded people, we shall ever hold any attempt to sow discord or jealousy between 1- rishmen and Englishmen as an act ofTreaclie- ry, anda proofof disaffection to the popular Standard. What has hitherto suudcred us.— What, but the misrule of Whig and Tory; what, but the sway oftlie aristocracy : what, but the absurd and wicked system upon which the government of Ireland has ever been con. ducted by that implacable and eternal enemy of liberty and right. Provincial Ireland is no. cessai-ily at variance with England. In inde- pendent Ireland she will have a fast friend, a steady ally, a stay in her distress, and an or. nument in her prosperity. Legislative separa- tion wlll be true union. The union that exists at proscnt is union in name, and separation in fact. That is not the true marriage which the priest celebrates, and the law sanctions. The true wedlock is where the hearts of the man and woman are united; and it is with nations in like manner.

THE IRISH ABSENTEES—THE POLITI- {CAL ECONOMISTS. From the Quarterly Rcriew.

The mention ofabsenteeism reminds us that Miss Marlineau takes up and defends Mr. M‘Cullocli‘s stupendous, and, we had really thought, exploded paradox; and since that egregious doctrine is still in fashion among our rulers, we must take the liberty to say a single word on it. Professor M‘Culloch, and his dis- ciples, male and female, forget wholly one very simple fact, namely—that the distress of the Irish arises from a mm! of food. The mass of ti e inhabitants of Ireland are starving; and her friends congratulate each other on the in- crease of her export: of corn, beef, and bacon ! ls Ireland turbulent? The Lord Lieutenant threatens her with an embargo on her ports, which shall force the Irish, as the ne plus ultra ofpunisliment, to eat the produce of their own fields and their fatting-stalls. And Mr. M‘Cul loch in his turn declares, that the abseneet

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landlords, by creating a foreign demand to this produce, and causing eight millions’ worth other primest eatables to leave her shores for the markets ofLondou, Bristol, and Manches- ter, confer an extraordinary advantage on hei- fasting inhabitants, who have enjoyed the in. estimable privilege of raising all these good things, for English epicures, upon a diet of potatoes and skim milk, varied with sea-weed and nettles! May we venture to hint to all these reasouers, that what the Irish want is the privilege, not merely of raising so many millions worth of corn, and beef, and bacon, and butter, but of eating more- over as much of it as will appease the wolf in their insides. As long as there are fer— tile farms, and stout arms in Ireland, so long will there be plenty of food grow/n init- but the great questio“ is for itsinhabitant; who are to eat it? If the landlord lives abroad his share of the produce of his es- tate—(and living out of sight of the dis- tress caused by the exorbitant rents, he will generally, exact a very large one) is sent to him in the shape of food for the foreign markets, which he (indirectly, if not directly) exchanges there with the natives ol'the country for all the comforts and luxuries he consumes. Were he to return to reside on his estate, or at Dublin, he would exchange this produce with Irish shopkeepers; artisans, and labourers, for their services in supplying with comforts and luxuries, instead of with British or French shopkeepers, Ste. And thus, were all the absentees to ieturn, the entire amount of their rental [with the exception only ofthe prime cost of what foreign pro- ductious they would still consume] would be spent in the employment of Irish indus- try. The greater part of the food now exported to pay these rents would remain at home, and be consumed by the Irish themselves; and the landlord, moreover, when resid nt on his estate, would find it impossible to exact such exorbitant rents as at present from the tenants among whom he lived; but must allow them to retain a somewhat larger share of the produce of their labour, and eXpeiid a portion of the remainder in eniployingthem to improve his property. Miss hliirtiiieau, it seems, following Mr. M‘Culloch, actually believes and insists, that every landlord gives em- ployment and :i maintenance to his tenants by the act rifle/ring his rcnlsfrom them; but confers no beneﬁt on those among whom he spends his rents, because he lakes an equi- valcnlji'oin lhcm.’ [[i. lOl.'_] So that if the race of Irish landlosz were extinct, and. their tenants were forced to eat or pocket the value ofall they grow, they would be ruined!—wlii|e the shopkeeper’s of Bath or London, among whom Irish landlords now spend so many thousands a year, would lose nothing by the withdraw of their custom! Are these opinions accor- dant with observation, experience, or rea-