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spent has extended to us its protection and its means. Let us remember the length of time during which our civil | jist was paid from British taxes. Look at the protection af- | forded to us by the troops she has sent out to our shores. | Sook at the fostering care her naval force has extended to, the fisheries on dir coasts, Whenever and whereever if Was) requirel. Why, Mr. Chairman, gratitade alone for the benefits we have received should firduce us to vote a hand- | eoute sum for the relief and comfurt of the widows and orphans of those brave men who fit in the struggle for the | goud of us all, and Ji those in Britain. Sir, the very fact that among those who | have already met a soldier's death on the battle field, there , are td be found names of men known an] esteemed among | purzeives, should excite our sympathies, and induce us to, come forward in this matter in no niggard spirit, ‘Siz, the| batthe field bas its horrors and scenes of agony and saffering, | but let hon. members reflect for a mament on the spectacles presented at many a hearth-stone, now rendered desojute by | the casualties of war, and, sir, 1 do not think they woul! hesitate in supporting the motion for the whole amount el posed. ‘True, sir, we do not witness tle sad spectacle ot the | actual sufferings of the afflicted families, survivors of thos | who have fallen, but we can imegine the sad situation of) those whose guardians and protectors have lost their I ves in saeir country’s cause, and the searcely more distressed state of the wives and children of soldiers, left at home to live as best they can, while their natural guardians are risking their lives at the cannon’s mouth. |

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resolution, and shall record my vote against it. I do so on | principle. We have no right to vote the public monies for such purposes ; and the Fund is not entitled to be called « Ps triotic,” if it is to be made up ot the money taken from ) the people, without their consent. There iis very little patriotism in that. This resolution assumes that the people approve the grant by the House, of the public monies for this fund. Now what is the trae state of the case? In the first instanee, the people were applied to, and they responded genercusly to the call — but not content with that, we find, after getting all that could be obtained from indiyiduats, they | come here for a pudlic grant. It is simply asking a man, | did you pay? if he says, yes, * then we will make you pay | again,” if no, “then you shall be made to pay whether you|

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‘signs, is evident from the conduet and language of m

oa which we are equally interested with |

ad ; Sst the th i preparing foy offensive operations, were permitting the Ozar ‘ty seize advantages which would be of the utmost importance

| Hngland and France were disposed to humor the

, : : - eae a of the old treaties; and 8i—the communication of the fr- |

of negotiation a little more than a year ago. wbly ts oe L a but the Emperor Nicholas rejected them |ers of free institutions elsewhere. Opposed to each other, | by Catholics since the commencement of the war. Way, the, ™

in toto. It is well he did so; his power might still over-|they have fought the most memorable buttles recerJed in | fall of Silistria, in which the Turks displayed so much bra- shadow Kurope—the prestige ef his name still overawe weak history, and now joined by the closest bonds of frien

modified these terms,

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se ee ' ; 41, could not enervate or diminish—have given as| have been the result of a lamentable blunder on the part of interests oo ideas: is ca'cumated to seeurc - ar. ‘ter, | much surprise to the allies themselves as to the rest of the Lord Lucan, or of Capt. Nolan, whose life was sacrificed at stability of tie Cunpy'e. aud to Gevas a” SOE iedes oa Ieorld. Russia, baffled and beaten on her own territory— | the commencement of it; but it nevertheloss gives proof of re oe me "i I : tlie ‘a ' a she “ndther fleets rendered useless—her ports blockaded—her fort-| the most extraordinary heroism and self-devotion on the part eropriately deferred, ‘The war L be = ae oe ate eibice ; hitions de-| tendencies checked by the ingratitude of her ancient ally, 1 wi ‘wisters| Austria—while Britain and France, in close alliance, are the trespass upon your attention to recall any of the incidents at Westminster and Versailles throughout the protraeted and | authors of those achievements—are circumstances ee each Sn ae ged ms: exatious negotiations which pre seeded the expedition to| culated to fill with hope those other nations of Europe w nose Wea , ~ 2 1g . the allies we y as re : gariaye. ay tions of which the people of England and! liberties had been altogether destroyed, or trembled before if not greater than at the previous battles,—that the British iki Gad Ride hiaastlle aenes ene before the declara-| the frown of the oppressor. lt cannot be expected thes _ | aa a. wee oe emg oer noe opposed to tim of war. Never did the British “publie so vehemently | sia will display so magnanimous @ disposition as ee a. ae ree a tee - ft = , —— elamor for war—uever did they rush into a contest with so to back Austria in her erusades against liberty, and her stu-| who we £ i e presence of twosons of the Km. mach enthnsiasm, nov display such boundless liberality in providing the mcaus necessary to secure success. The British fey, proved them to be | longer

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and years’ peace

its: prosecution with po mercenary, selfish or aw

(taly, Hungary and the inferior German Powers will peyaenynes as on any of the previous occasions. I must, how. nation thought—and events have since stand in such awe of Austria as they did while she re ee - a a words upon another richt—that Lord Aberd:en’s government placed too inuch | could lean upon Tussia for support. The heterogenous pepe es : a fa “e: tga of the su ject. Many persons

lt ae is diplomatic skill, and by their tardiness in ylation of Austria—if Austria desires to preserve the inte- seem o thin that this war 1s net a popuiar ene with Her

ee : ‘ovity of her empire, and desires to become stronger and | Majesty’s Lris-h Catholic subjects. If the allegation be un-

| mightier than ever—must be ruled in such a manner as to/ true, as I sineere'y think it is, now is the time to meet it. Turkey was not merely;secure th

Se ee ea diticath bur wie Yorshtory was | abate her iniquity to Hungary—she must discontinue eG c— Empire. At least one-third of the arin invaded and despoiled—the wuthority of the Porte over the discountonance such barbarities as have rendered the names a In - | ast are Irish Catholies—some of them being Ted ad, and its subjects mas- | of Hayna and Radetsicy ‘deservedly infamous in Hungary > the a rlest and most distinguished Irish generals, such as awoke and Italy. And surely these will be advantages to the Pennefather, Torrens and Sir DeLacy Evans—the latter:

to him in carrying on the war,

Creck population audaciously usurpec sucred, before Turkey and the Western Powers fully to the perils which environed them, i’rance—who were bound by éreaty to protect their invaded ally, but were more sol sense of what was due to the threatened liberties of BH to arrest the progress of the despotic aut

Cuar, and to restore peace on terms the most (isrepu

° . °° Bi ° and the most disastrous to their injared ally——tert aA tlO) 1 : A : ! i : eonecded every thing to Russi, and afforded no satisfaction | ritorial changes and alterations in the map of Kurope may their ancient glory in the Crimea—and the Welsh Fasileerg,

to Turkey for present injuries, nor eonstituted the smallest | be caused by this war, there is one change which we may all that were so desperately cut up at the battle of the Alma,

guarantee for future security. immediate evacuation of the Prine: 1OSt | ,' ened countries of Europe, with constitutions which guarantee | and routed a myriad of Russiameavalry at the battle of Bala

civil and religious liberty to all—and, united, constituting a} Clava—the warm Celtic blood fired their liezrts, and the

mains relative to the spiritual advantages granted by the | Porte to its non-Mussuliman subjects, ‘These were the bases i} are, Very : ka The Forte | other admirably fits them to be the guardians and encourag- | would be difficult to enumerate a tithe of the sacrifices made_

institutions-—the | of, interest, they have accomplished, side by side, feats of | poor James Butler, whose life fell a sacrifice in the gallant

ie and denoralizing attempts to perpetuate despotisin. | peror, but notwithstanding, the triumph of the allies was as |

. ‘ . « ° ° r . a “ : 4 ° : z * wer too mighty to be resisted, their proximity to each | ancient faith of the Celtic race beamed upon their souls It”

destroyed—her prestige departed, and her despotie | of the Bagiish and irish soldiers. | It is an episode in the ; ‘annals of warfare for which there is no parallel. 1 will not”

eir willing’ chedience and attachment. She must I cannot see why the war should be unpopular with the “*_

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Eyea then, England and | cause of freedom and civilization. The sympathy of Rusgia | having received in person the thanks of Parhameat for his 4 and defend | not only lost to Austria, but Russia irritated and ready to gallant services in the Crimea. A large contingent of the “4

emnly enjoined by a | take advantage of any outbreak in the Austrian empire—with | army are Scotch Cathoties—the 92d and 931 Highlanders, + Jurope, | [taly panting for an oppgrtunity to assert its independenee— | for example, who performed at Alma and Inkermann sugle | oerat—-even then | and no prospect of encouragement to her despotic views from prodigies of valour under their veteran and devoted leader, — *

ambitious | England aod france, Austria must either cease to be the | Sir Colin Campbell. Phe Fighting E’ghty-eighth —the Con

. . 1 2 . . 7 table | barbarous scourge of weaker nations, or must cease to be aj naugit Rangers—al¥ Cathoties, that have moistened every 7 ns which | nation of any considerable power herself. But whatever ter- battle field in Kurope with their blood, maintained more than @ —

. ° . ? ‘ ol ey 7’ : ° me a ‘These terms were: Ist—the! sincerely deprecate—a change in the mutual relations of | were nearly all Catholics. Then there were the Buniskillen + ipalities ; 2d—the renewal | France and England. ‘Two of the most polished and cnlight- | Dragoons, a mere handful of fire-eating devils whe charged @ ©

dship and | very, was mainly stayed by the arm of un [rish Catholice— | 9

° : . leabinets, am rot: he proeress f free like it or not.” It is very easy for hon. members to vaunt ' abinets, and retard the progr IN eS ee larkly . oo ' natar of cloud of despotisin would hover over the continent as dar . » - vy t ha | . 1cte yf ‘Ou { G pe 1 A 5 of their patriotism, when they can support the character ¢ ud 0 : ~~ oe ae Re ee oa Ot the nublie expense as it did when the conquering legions of the first Napoleon ¢ ots 1e a se. i i “or . os a patriots a l P wai swept its fertile fields and sported with the crowns of feebler Mr. [Lavinaxp.—Mr. Chairman, I must ee ve ro | despots—when unhappy Poland became the victim of a con- 2 - © > are ay . > prise at the Sy oe . the sah a ' 'spiracy the most foul that ever disgraced crowned heads and 2} - Wc : ‘ ane ‘ aee asconisae: iL ‘ e° ” FE *} ar » ’ > ¢ who has just oat cn ait’ shoald _ at se fl sa br ! ministers of state—and still later in 1848 and ’49, when that member of the epee, T hat — re : ee °! Austria, which, true to its old perfidious policy, is now ntiments ) , ‘ ( ay neve ave | ‘ ° ‘ ° > ° such sentiments. Althoug . saa? es sat ry Me ” - = !about turning its arms against Russia, found assistance in the honor of a seat in that Counce we ry ; “7 ceca ithe bayonets of that powerful, but not more despotic, neigh- and my feelings as a British meer eee Ae fo der} our to extinguish the flame of discord and subdue the spirit clare that the fund is eminently entitled yor the ny steer lof independence wth which the Magyars threatened to over- « Patriotic.” And, Mr. Chairman, in proof of that, 1 would : irae . - liberties and institutions stand, }: F pre ask, how long would our Ii 5 <r » Czar? - 1 I con.| Bt © clade g peace on the terms proposed in January, 1854 st ¢ suce al phe . AD sOnle- + . ° m opere . if Britain should have to succum® to | s : OF) the gallant and successful defence of Silistria would not tend that hon. members will be justified in voting the |, ‘

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vive occurred to raise tke drooping spirits of the Moslem

aut 2 iniples it and loss; that the in- ; sum of £2000, on principles of profit and loss; that the in troops—the Aland islands would not have been captured

vests we hav ake it iss e mighty strugule, |- : terests we have at stake in the issue of the mighty struggle, !- yt op apparently strong forts destroyed—nor would the

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eal ” tae enn of ape ate “sy . 7 eg f Crimea have been oceupied, nor the glorious battle of Alma — ‘rove the al and genuine love : 2

bers who, I hope, will prove their reat and ¢ ‘Ove OF tought and won, ner displays of heroism made, such as were

their country, by voting for the amount, and risking the approval or disapprobation of their constituents, znd regard. | vss of being returncd to seats in this House hereaficr.

Bala Clava and Inkermann, not surpassed for

, , their brilliancy and sueccss during the most warlike and

° ; ro) Ir hair nen -+ . eo 7 , e np , . ° a wo ’ Hon. Mr. Wuetay.—I have listened, Mr. Chatrman, with the Drincipalities—the first condition of the proposed treaty, surprise

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whelm the Tfouse cf Hapsbary. It is well that Russia did |

y° ‘ — a Ss TL, sales { “hivalrous period of the world’s history. The evacuation of

‘arms in the Crimea, which will not pale when contrasted | achievement with which his name is now inseparably con- | with the glories of Crecy, Poictiers and Azincourt. The nected. And in the wild charge of the Light Brigade as ‘French chivalry, with their countless hosts, did not confront | Bala Clava, how mony a Catholic spirit winged its way to the ithe armies of the Black Prince and the Fifth Henry—which other world—-poor Captain Nolap, who conveyed the rash bore about the same proportion to the numbers of the French | order to charge, being nearly the first Trish soldier that paid | armies as the allies bore to the Russians—with more assur- | the penalty of that disastrous exploit, But then there are the ance of signal triumphs than animated the hosts of Cossacks | French arniy—they are all Catholics. They do not hesitate é led on by Menselikoff and Liprandi at Alma and Bala Clava ; | to fight against the rathless oppressor of the followers of ‘hut the instances of persona) daring displayed by the allies | their ancient creed. It is impossible that Catholics, indeed, ‘in crossing the Alma, while its narrow stream, now become ; as a body, can have any other fegling than that of deep- ‘elassic, ran erimson with their blood, and driving the Rus- rooted aversion towards the autocrat of Russia, who has to- ‘sans from their almost impregnable position on the heights, | lerated, perhaps com:anded, the most atrocious barbarities, and their subsequent achievements at Bala Clava and Tuker- against Catholics in his empire. A monster that would allow | mann—surpass all that history records of Crecy and Azin-|a large number of poor helpless nuns to be publicly whipped court. The hon. member opposite questions the patriotism | at Minsk—to he le!t to suffer the most excruciating torments of contributing to the relief of the widows and orphans ct | from crueltics repeatedly inflicted—to he dragged and kicked % lthose who have been struck down in the terrific conflicts to | about by ruffian hirelings, and to be finally left to starve, be- l which I have just alluded. Was there uo true patriotism in pcause they would not conform to the Greck schism—can have the breasts of the gallant troops who, fighting for their Sove-|no claim to the sympathy of the smallest portion of civilized e ‘reign and their eommon country—for liberty and right, |sovicty. I deay, then, Sir, that this war is unpopular with : encountered and overcame the most appalling disadvantages | Uer Majesty’s Lrish Catholie subjects. Why, in Ircland the in their first battle in the Crimea? The heig'its of the Alma | Lrish Catholic Bishops and Arcibishops were the very first |_-whore Mensehikoff, with every assurance of success, had to lend their powerful influence to the movement for raising

° ? ’ ’ a - fs > rm 2% : . > / ’ . *. A cs lore sili g initeitiai a ‘ . >, sin » j . . . 2 * s and sorrow to the remarks which have fallen from of January, 1854—immediateiy followed the defeat of the entrenched his legions—w ere deemed inaccessible, o: from a Patrictic fund on behalf of the widows and orphans of the

. ® ° . one - ° ° j t : £ ° } —esar ie tame «a : a my hon. friend, the member for the Second Distriet of | Russians before Silistria, and must be regarded us the ime-/ which he thought at least the allied armies could not dis-! British and Irish soldiers in the Crimea. If the war were *

¢ * . “ . aco n _—. 4 } ae 7 e ’ , at a. _ Queen’s County. Sentunents such as he has expressed would | mediate consequence of that defeat,—the otuer two con-

lodge bim if the conflict contiuucd for weeks; nevertheless, /wnpopular—if fatal to Catholic interests, the heads of the *

he ereditable to no man—-much less to a British subject and} ditions, if agrced to, would leave Russia as powerfitt in the | in three hours those heights were captured—the Muscovits | Catholic Charch would not be the first to manifest their dr= 4

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e : ; 5 P ‘ - ~ Rese , botr Car ites . P a member of this House ; but far, far less still to a member past as she had ever been; the “ renewal of the old treaties,” ‘hosts were scattered like chaff—-the valorous spirit of the | sire for its success, as'they have done, If there be, however,

of Her Majesty’s Colonial Government. Te says he is op- (the second condition) would only perpetuate the pretext Which | allies rose superior to every danger- dificulties of position on this side of the Atlantic any prejudice azainst the cause

posed to a grant in aid of the Patriotic Fund “ on principle.” | Russia had advanced for constantly undermining ibe uuthority | were forgotten, or if thought of, overcome as soon as thought , of the allics—and if there be, L ce.tainly trust ft is not wide.

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Sir, Tam in favor of such a grant “on principle,” arid 1! of the Sultan, and harrassing his subjects—treatics which | e's ~ ha sag es et

Sih willbe Read dtheh wp pomciple ls wile warc’S6fetleonred io: Tussia the ‘naviguttua of tho Danebo, aigi’ stich |

i : ¢ } j 2 ; ° : } x mw netinne fram thé Rac sible than that of the hon. membez’s. He says, likewise, that! oyeiyed the sh’) s of other European nations trom tie ib0s-

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of—the cool intrepidity of the British and the dash and en- | spread-~it must be cwing to the irritated feclings against the

. . , * i Mnolie! SAMMI ; ; : thusiasm of the French battalions, were elements of power | English Government with which the unhappy children of more serviceable than mere numerical strength or superiority | Erin so often fly from oppressien and wretchedness in their

voting away the money of the people of this Vulony to relieve) phorus. . The ‘co nmmunieation of firmans” regarding the! gf position. he valour which distinguished the knights of | native lend to find a ‘refuge and home in the New World.

the widows and orphans of our countrymen iu the Brittsa | Gpeok Ubristi.ns (ihe third condition), was a mere sercen, Islands, involves no patriotic feeling. I differ with the! fr Russia would still exercise as nuch contro! as ever over | honorable niember. I think that if any thing ever deserved | jhe Greet population, But sinze the war has assumed an) the name of patriotisua—and patriotism, too, of tle purest laspeet favoruble to the allies, not withstanding the disasters in and loftiest character—it is the spirit which has prompted, the Crimea—the sed consequences of no timely and efficient |

and the spirit which responds to, the appeal made by Her) provision having been made for the health and comfcrt of | Majesty to the benevolence of all her subjects, on behalf of | the troops,—sibee Russia has been defeated in every engage: | those who are rendered fatherless and husbandless hy the war} pont fought upon her own territory as weil as upon Turkish | now raging in the East, not for the honor and glory of her | soi], —since she has been forced to fly from the Pyrincipali-| own name alone, but for the maintenance of freedom aguins! | ties, been ejected from the / land islands, and her almost invin- |

the encroachments of a despotic and barbarie power, Low | citje fortress in the Crimea well nigh dismantled, which cost |

often ate we called upon to exercise the discretion With | ;illions of meney in its construction, and from which she|than their accustomed heroism—I have been proud to con-| brought to my recollection by an hon. friewd, some hon. which, as representatives of the people, we are invested, in | could securely menace the commerce of every other Kuropean | sider myself even a subject of the Sovereign who had such members have an engagement out to dine,

yoting sums of the public money for purposes of which our | constituents have had no previous knowledge. But this hy her. ablest generals, aud stimulated to desperation by case is an entirely different one. Our constituents Were not) copious draughts of raki, were unable to bear up under the | ouly aware that this subject would come before the Liegisia- steady valour of the British and the dashing gallantry of the ture, but in many instances, at public meetings, they toux | Wyench, whose combined forces were hardly one to five of the | occasion to express their desire that the grant in uid vf the) enemy,—siuee the ports of the enemy have been blockaded, Patriotic Fund should be a liberal one. That proposed by hor towas bombarded, her commerce crippled, her magnificent my hon. friend, the Secretary, 1s indeed eminently so.

will, the concurrence of both sides of the House, I will hot | sults of the first campaign, it is no wonder that Russia is

ropose a smaller amount. I declared before now oy de'er= | now disposed io make peace on terms favorable to the allied Inination to vote for any sum which a majority of the House powers. ‘The last English mail but one brought intelligence might think proper to offer, and certainly I will net falsity i that Pringe Gortschakolf was empowered to negotiate a peace my declaration by asking for a less liberal grant. Nor Co L! oy the following terms :—

‘nation in the Black Sea,—sinee her hordes of Cossacks, led | soldiers in her service. It is an interesting coincidence that

‘fioet—the “invincible armada” of modern Lurope, partly | four hundred and thirty-nine years later—the descendants of | Lawson’s favorite quotation “ fempora mntantese.” ‘Tha inyself should not have ventured to suggest so large 20) sabmerged in front of Sebastopol, and partly powerless with- the two arinies, Bow associates and brothers in arms, achieved ‘times are changed, indeed, when that hon. member eer the! e mount; but it being proposed, and meeting, as I know it jy the harbour of Cronstadt,—since such have been the re-/a victory over the Russians which will shed a greater lustre | Hon. Mr. Whelan under bis wing. But he is weltotio to +

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‘troops, They, ineeed, gathered nearly all the laurels, as pathy and benevolence we can apply to their misfortunes

‘Creey and Azinecurt never shcene with brighter lustre than Iroland, unfortunately, has not been ruled as she oucht to have

when the same spirit nerved the arms of their descendants | been, at the hands of the Government whose supremacy her and their rivals on the blood-stained heights of the Alma. Is) loyal sons are now fighting to maiutain, and it may be natural it patriotism in as, then,,to refuse the widows and orphans of | en ugh that a sense of wrong and the remembrance of a cruel those valiant men the poor pittance that may help to keep | oppression should awaken feelings in the exile’s heart not favdr-

‘them from starvation? It is not necessary for me to remind | able to England, feclings which no change of time or scene ean

you of the still more sanguinary, and perhaps more splendid | obl-terate. Whatever iny own feelings may be as an Irish exile, engagement fought a little more than a month later at the | they never did and never can check my warmest aspirations now ruined village of Bala Clava. In reading, as I have for the success of the aiicd arms, and the complete and over- done, repeatedly, the details of that engagement, I have felt | whelming humiliation of Russia. Sir, I apologize for having proud to think that my countrymen there displayed more delayed the Committee so long, especially since, as just

: i ! IIon. Mr. Mooney.—Mr. Chairman, the hon. member the battle of Bala Clava was fought on the anniversay of the|may be ina hurry to go to Government Hopse to dinner battle of Azircourt—so often the theme of song and the | afier the attack he has made on me,-but I shall endeayor to groun twork of romance. ‘That memorable cvent occurred on | give him his supper before he goes. He secms to think the 25th of October, 1415—the French were more than five | more of the Czar than he does of his own constituents: and

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to one of the English, but they were signally defeated,-as |sir, when I heard the hon. member for Belfast ery “ hear,” # every schoolboy knows. Ou the 25th of October, 1854— | «hear,” to some parts of his speech, [ thought ‘of Me: 5 z

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‘though our French allies at Bala Clava evinced no lack of { am sure I do not dare what he makés of him.” But I can

their ancient spirit when brought into the heat of war, the | tell him that charity begins at home, and there dre plenty of ‘brunt of battle bore upon the arms of the British and Trish | widows and orphans ia the Islaud who require all the sym-

believe my constituents will censure me for sancitoning 6] «phat the protectorate hitherto exercised by Russia over the they sustained nearly all the loss. We all remember the! [t js only the other day t!

large an appropriation of their money. It is often Wastel | eincipalities of Moldavia, Wallachia and Servis, shail ceasc; and that, maenificent charze of the Inniskillen Dragoons and tint } oS >

y , hat a tree fell upon a poor mau and kiiled him ; that man’s family needs our sympathy quite

for far less use ; C * aes . ; : : Ld ; } | tue of an arrangement with the Sublime Porte, be placed under the eol- regret to say, that are too ofiea made subse: vient to the elec- | i eeive guarantee of he Powers.

tioneering tactics of some hon. mem\ers. Sir, ! did NOt CX- |. Sond, That the navigation of the Danube, as far as its outfall into pect that there frould be much, if any debate on this saject, | the Black sca, shall be delivered of ali restriction, and submitted to the and consequently came to the House unprepare | for it. || princi; les consecrated by the acts of the Congress of Vienna.

knew that the praposal for a grant of money wis to come | * Third, That the treaty of July 13, 1841, shall be revised in concert . f h Government and was sati-ficd that it by the high contracting lowers, ia the interest of the European equili- from a member of the . ove om . q - +. y+, brium, and in the sense of a limitation of Russian power in the Biack would be agreed to without much discussion. | jeiucd in}! goog,

the hope expressed by ihe hon. and learned memer for; & pyyth, That no Power shall claim the right to exercise any official

(,corgetown, that whe we came to discharge a duty sancti- | Protectorate over the subjects of the Sublime Porte, to whatever sect they |

. oe . Lge ete ., may beleng; but that France, Austria, Great Britain, Prussia and Rus- tied by the me spirit of charity, and which: appealed - th i} sin, shall lend their mutual eu-operation, in order to obtain from the in- holiest feclings of our nature, the demon of discord would i itiative of the Ottoman Government the consecration and observance of have vanished from these walls—our rivalries and party the religious privileges of the ar a ee wen turn

‘ a a wa ehns}-] | the generous intentions manifested by his Majesty the Sultan to the ac- fecling would have heen forgoticn, and that . SRD ONE | conat of their various co-religionists, so that there shall not result have cordially united in performing au honsrable aud therefrom any infringement of the dignity and independence of his generous act. Bat since the opposition to the proposed | Crowa.

t comes from my own side of the House, aid fiom) My hon. friend opposite favours me with a sneer, and is grap wee: o eeaat re i oe cne whom I am ashamed to see differing, on this su’) perhaps, inclined to ask, whut has all this todo with the

ject, with the Government of which he is a member, question of providing for the relicf of the widows and orphans |

I shall take the liberty, sir, of saying something about | of those who have fallen during the campaign? It has this the war, and more particularly about the brilliant achieve-| to do with it: the war being a necessary and righteous one ments and dreadful sacrifices of those brave men who have) —a war fureed upon Great Britain and France, and on the fallen in battle, and whoge widows and orphans os: thrown! suceeses of which depends the liberties of Murope—it is well upon the bounty of the British empire—trustins tht my | we should bear these facts in mind, because they are ealen- honorable friend may learn to ontertain more generous senti- | lated to induce on our part a more liberal spirit in throwing ments than those he has expressed to-night, and that he may in our mite towards the relief of those whose holiest ties have form a more correct opiuicn as to what really constitutes been torn asunder, and whes? humble homes have been ren- patriotism. It is not necessary to cuter into a review of the derod desdlate a drear bz the cruel amitien of the Czar. ‘causes of the war, nor yet to criticise the management of it) The close alliance which has takea place between France and —an humble member of a Colonial Legislature ike cu*smay | Envland, and the recent entire severe entertain as ‘strong opinions on these points as any caer sub-}Ru-sia, are not the least momentous eveuts of the present ject of the Eumpire ; but he feels that, as the rosult ef his de-! war, The magnitade of the resources of the two former “pendent condition, his voice can exercise no iuftuence over! countries those of each being doubled, as it were, by the the counsels of his Sovereign, nor leave any durable innres- | allianee—the readiness¥ith w hich those resourees could be Flou on the minds of the nation. Whether this isylation of ‘directed agilust & cometoi foe, aud the yalour which a forty 4 raat : roe

so3 —nurnecses ivtleges granted by the Sultans hose dependencies shall, in vir- | ., ‘ : ‘yl and less honorable purposes — purpeses, 1 | the privileges granted by the Su tans to thos spendencics shall, in vin | Seoteh Greys—when they rushed at the compact lines ‘of

| Russian cavalry, twice as long and thrce times as deep as ‘their own, the latter affecting to despise and threatening to annihilate the dauntless hearts of the Greys and Hnniskilien-

as much as the widows and orphans of the soldiers who may die during the war. The hon. member has been very liberal of late years, but I remember in 1853, when it pleased the

Almighty to send hail-tones through the length and breadth of

‘ers. But with a cheer which thrilled to every breast, and a! the land; that hon. member could not succeed in getting cvén

shout that rang out through the valley, they dashed into the

| £30 for some of his own constituents, to enable them to pre

nidst of the enemy—his flanks closed upon them—for a mo-' eure seed grain and: potatoes for the ensuing spring, as the ‘ment they were lost, bat in the next, with uplifted sabres, | destruction of their crops had left tuem destitute of. both;

the remnant of them were seen eutting their way through his broken aud confused squadvons. » {t was a wonder that even

_yet he can stand up in his place in the. Ueuse and waste our time in long speeches to persuade us to give £2,000 to the

one of that little band escaped through the apparently solid | Patriotic Fund, as~it is called. Why, only the other da

rock of Russian cavalry. But British valour had not yet|he opposed the grant of £7,000, for sii ae und bee 7 been put to its severest test, until Lord Cardigan’s Light (being more than we could afford. but now. ve dais "nd a Brigale—eouuting only six handred sabres— 0 de that stu- spare £2,000 to send to England , Bat oitidie te iain iy Re pendous charge upon the Russian gunners, wiich was the! cation is made to the charity of the House on belialf of dy mg crowning feat of the battle of Bala Clava. poor cripple, then his cry is—* Oh! we cannot give mon a

« Then shook the hills with thunder riven, Then rushed the steeds to battle driven, And louder than the bults of heaven,

Far flashed the red artillery.”

With thirty guns, belching forth destrugtion in frout, and an oblique fire from the batteries on both sides of them, which |mowed down rider and horse at every stride they took, that /handfal of men rushed into the smoke of the batteries, cut- ting down the gunners at their posts, and returned, all that was left of them, breaking through a column of Russian in- fantry, and scattering them like chaff. I need not remind you of the fearful loss sustained by the gallant brigade on that occassion. We all remember it too well, Of six

| The heroic exsloit of those who survived, as well as of those |who. perisued, will live in the remembrance of posterity as long as the language survives which chronicles their chival- rous deed... "This disastrous charge may not have been neces sary ty bind yjctory to tlie banners Of the allies, and may

for any such object; if we do, we shall be ruined entirely?” And, Mr. Chairman, I do say most distinetly, that no Irish Catholic ever dictated to me how I should vote, nor even asked me what course I intended to take. I oppose the grant on my own independent conviction that it is wrong to support ft.

Hon, Mr, Wurtan.—Mr. Chairman, the hon. member for the Second District of Queen’s County has thought proper to censure my conduct for the vote 1 am about to give @

is the ease, | have little respect for the censure of the hap. member, When rising to address you he promised to give

and rather unsavory hash which the hon, gentleman is £0 wuch in the habit of doling out to members of this House,

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and administering, perhaps, with a little additional cooking, — to bis admiring friends at Flinty Glen. He charges pe with baying wasteFithe time of the House in makjog @ long