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/£ <$£ -rf ^ TO THE IMPERIAL CHARTISTS. A et**^ support. (Hear, hear.) I must also say, aft& all the ve tried are by our side, excitement ,which has taken place, and after the The friends we' stagnation of The foe we hate's before us. 011trade consequent upon our protracted discussions, it did appear to us that this whs a period 16tt be to take t ^f,^ ^ "ot judici ous such' a My beloved Friends.—Never in the Mhole course step. I Cheers.). - .Upon- these grounds, we preferred feelthe importance and res- instant resignation to the alternative of a dissolu- tfmylife did I so truly turn. We were left as at the present time. in a minority on a question con- ponabfflty of my position nected with lreland. (Hear.) NowIshouldlament, not Some people foolishly imagined that the Land toy merelybecauseit is an Irish question, but 1 should most ueepiy lament it it would divert me from all thought of politics, but, if could be thought that the measure which we proposed for the wiflime,I feel convinced that the Land repression of outrage all think AND NATIONAL TRADER m Ireland was an indication that her Majesty's ser- ~ ~ OR ¦*"~' ~' " " ~ ' ii i ¦ ¦ J0 NAL'~-| -*iiiiii ' . " H l^yI M .-in. ' ii i'¦ i plan, so far from damping the Chartist spirit, will " %. ' j ' . ' ' ' T- _ _ _— vants held any different opinion with regard to the ~ policy to be pursued add new and increased vigour to the cause. I feel, in Ireland from that which I VOL. X. NO. 45L LONDON , SATURDAY, 1846; *££~*w*^S1T declared towards the close of the last possible, more a Chartist than ever; and if -we JULY i W1Vive : ShilHugii mid Sixpence per Quarter session of Par - if ^ liament, (Hear, hear.) To the opinions which I may judge of the sack from the sample, I must pre- then avowed—to.thesejop inions which had calamity has overtaken the nation. A government sic, yet it becomes the property of the THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO THE MINISTERIAL a practical sume the same of all disciples of the principles. A than intrin EXPLANATIONS. effect given to them by the Charitable Bequests has assumed office, which hopes to rule the country sucessful candidates. The following then is the CHARTISTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. The Duke of WELLiNaio>f._M new era, although partiallyantici pated, may never- ar- y lords, I have to an- Act, and by the additional vote for the endowment of upon the principlesof FREE TRADE and JUSTICE rangement that the directors propose, namely :— nounce to your lordships that Her Majesty's servants Maynooth—to those opinions I, notv about to relin- theless be said to have hurst upon «s. Henceforth Fellow Countrymen,—The *' Corn and Customs' have tendered to Her Majesty their to IRELAND. This I anticipated, long before it was That the thirteen hundred and fifty pounds resignation ofthe quish power, entirely subscribe. (Great cheering.) we mnst STAND ALONE. profit Bill" is now the law of the land, and its authors offices winch they held in her Maje sty's - expected that the Corn Laws would be repealed. I service in We brought forward that measure, believing that All signs of the limes give ample proof that the shall be equitably divided amongst the number of have paid tho penalty of their hardihood by expul- consequence of which Her Majesty has sent for to the contagion of ccimo and the vi told you a much sion from office a no- resistance gorous new Ministers intend governing England through thousand Itimes, that I did not so shareholders that the next 130 acres will locate, , at the very moment when, by the ble lord with a view to form another Administration repression by law of the offences which disgrace some dread the princi did dread the triumph of their measure, they had laid prostrate at for the purpose of conducting the affairs of the medium of Irish patronage, and English mid- ples of free trade, as I in the following manner :—Tho society, according , govern- parts of Ireland, were not measures calculated pre- the had carried their feet the " Proud Aristocracy" of England. ment of this country . My lords, this information assumption of power by the parties who to a scale laid down for the The fall of the manently to improve the social condition of that dle-class influence. The centre of society has was said price of land and cost of Ministry has been more immediately will probably induce your lordships to thiiikit would be country ; but we thought they were measures which " the measure. Free trade in the abstract, occasioned by a combination of two opposing factions, desirable to suspend the discussion of measures severed itself from the two ends. The body BREAD, AND building a house, charges JE5 a-year for two acres which could be taken in conjunction with oAhcva necessary to mean HIGH WAGES, CHEAP neither olV which have the least sympathy for the might become matters of controversy in this house, has cast off the head and tail, and hopes to and a cottage, £1 10s. for three acres and a cottage, people. They were for the purpose of giving effect to legislation upon PLENTY TO DO; free trade in practice, means defeated on the second reading until those who are to have the honour of being tier that subject The house has live independent of both. The Whigs, "as I have and £10 for four acres and a cottage, giving £15 of the " Irish Coercion Bill" . (Hear, hear.) , how- the subjugation of labour to the caprice of capital, by a majority of Majesty 's servants in public olfice should have an ever, decided, and I about to impeach their seventy-three, and thus, by one blow both parent opportunity of forming am not often explained to yon, relied solely upon 0'Cou- the labourer COERCED by the ORDINARY LAW capital to the two acre occupant, £22 10s . to the , their arrangements, and decision. I only deprecate any inference, which and offspring have been annihilated. should be able to come down to this house and trans- ncil's support during their last lingering life ; and to starve or make a stipulated amount of profit for three acre occupant, and £30 to the four acre oc- would be unjustifiable, that, because we profosed The measures of the late cabinet, in our opinion , act the public business. My lords, there is one ques- those measures O'Connell's last letter to " my dear Ray," gives evi- yet I rejoice that the measure has cupant, instead of which, preserving the same scale, have nothing to , which some called measures of coer- his master. And intrinsically valuable in themselves, tion fixed for consideration in this house on Thursday cion, winch we call protection of dent proof that Repeal and progression are both to trade whi the forty-three recommend them to the people—they have not a next, I see a noblefriend nearme measures for the passed, because you required the free p, the occupants selected at the next ballot (tbeEarl ofPowis), hie, therefore our vlewa with regard to the policy to fee-sacrificed to that description of Irish justice, free trade goad, the free trade spur, and the free will pay £3 19s. for a house and two acres, £o 19s. tendency to free labour from the merciless grasp of who has given notice of his intention to move the se- be pursued towards his capital, nor. in the slightest degree meliorate the cond reading of the Bangor Ireland have undergone avy T»lu&-5§B confer patronage upon him, his relatives, trade lash, to keep you up to the trace, by which for a house and St. Asaph's Bill on change. Speaking for myself, I do not hesitate now noisy party. REPEAL and three acres ; .and £7 19s. for a house condition of the operative and labouring classes, but, Thursday next. I would submit to him the expedi- ^d iffie^fiost of IS alone you could hope to extricate yourself from class to say that, in my opinion , there ought to be esta- tha and four acres, or, if it appears more judicious to the nevertheless, there was a boldness in their concep- ency of postponing his motion for thesccond reading blished between England aSaJ^QNED; t is, as far as O'ConnelbJscon- legislation. their execution that and Ireland a complete directorsand satisfactory to the society, they will re tion and an earnestness in of that bill till Her Majesty's servants should be in equality—(great cheering)—in 'all civil , cerned rand in order to justify his course, he makes lish challenge our admiration and bid us hope for the the house to attend to the discussion , municipal I also rejoice in the coalition between the Eng ceivethe £1,350 as follows :—Instead of £15 capital which may be and political rights. (Renewed cheers. ) When I the simple demand of equality, for the Irish people— free-trade government and the Irish place-hunters, time when equal energy and talent will be employed expected to take place upon it, as Her Majesty has say complete equality, I don e the two acre occupant will receive £36, the three within the walls of Parliament for the advancement an interest in that measure. 't m an , because it is that is, that they shall be put upon an equality, so- because it will compel the crest-fallen, humbled, My lords, there are impossible, to have a literal equality in every par- English people. acre occupant £53 10s., and the four acre occupant ofthosegreat principles which alone can ensure the some measures which require your lordships' imme- ticular.