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     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-