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‘try there was no distre
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VOL. 1X,
‘UNITED STATES CATHOLIC MISCELLANY.
temporary one, he trusted, ) of throwing an immense |bonorable gentleman said that great distress prevail-
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number of persons out of employment; and being |e
cast on the agricultural interest tor support, gave an
appenrance of immorality to dist tress.
$1 said, ift
a
ed sh the speeches of the mover and seconder of
the address, he would not quarrel with i The:
frankly admitted the existe
but the speech from the throne stated t was
ned to particular places. The peal said that
distress existed in in some parts, while even the mover
and seconder had declared it to be general. He was
astonished how such language could have found its
ways inte the speech. ‘The distress was general
hey.jthat ocarce
+ made on thet behalf to the charity of the public
in the city o blin. He was ready to admit that
Idistroee did exiat in the liberties of that .c city, but as
ung as he had been acquainted with Irelund he-ne-
rknew a wher the areal in that
art of _ were not in distress,—-so much s
& year passed without appeals being
heer - |—-No-dou! ubt distress prevailed in Ireland, und
od grant that some measure might be devised to
remedy it; but was there any proof before the house},
that the agricultaral interest of ‘[reland were suffer-
ing under univers al distress and de epress sion? - In
rence, fori instance, the cintreae had been in many
it was such i in the county with which he :
ed, and ifothe p y knew,
he should be confirmed. The guage put into the
is point was very tine falsehood. He ta-
ught to have been met fairly and;
truly; and as they ought to approach the throne with
something like truth, I he should move an amendment.
Mr. Western said, that the distress was univer-
sal, and more se ere than ever before appeared i
this c
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g
“et
taxation had, in effect, been d
suffering—what business had been done by them
out of their own capital. ‘hey must cons the feel-
ing of the people—their opinions were underguing a
change, and t they began to feel contempt for all au-
thori
n}even more logically true than the te!
y {advanta,
The industrious classes werc all} w
was tied fron
ere as in any part of this country.
p arts of the. United- States, the distress had been
equally as great as with u
Lord F.° EVESON
‘ters of his maje
fairly in (he amendment propose . Ba-
ronet. In his- opinion the ter! of ‘hie majesty" 8
speech, as far as they had refertnce to iretand were
erms of the Hon.
He thought too that unjust |
ken of the speech of his Right|
e Chancellor of the Exchequer. His
Righthon. friend had nat said that there was no dis-
tress in Tretan de ould like tosee the man who
enture to say y that there ever had been a pe-
the time of bishop Boulter, down to the
thee in wi Me h no distress existed in Jrelan
hear.]—If he had understood his Righ thon, friend
tt he had ‘ay the non-existence of;
istress among the aplicaltursl cleesee. in Ireland. It
was likewise true that distress existed mong | the, tma-
Baronet’s amendment,
ty.
The Crancetror ofthe Excuequer said, it was,
jnot.to be denied that there was @ groat t and
g population of the kberty—but wh
pressure of distress on the
cultural parts of the community in some parts of ‘the
tb e days of f' Chesterfield? The
noble nenber | for North thimptonshire said that no]
ited Kingdom; and ifhe excepted si
froni that summary, it was because he belived that
g visited with
such afiliction, were enjoying a coinparative state
of ease and of comfort. [hear.] It was o observablo|
that the honorable baronet had confined.his s
nts to England only; but he had omitted
reland had risen to deny the univer-
sality of distress in Ireland.
{country, but he, would take upon himself to deny
that it ‘eae universal.
. oe .
sheg h q fr h
oth
Gower contended that the
would not take up-| re
on himself to say that there was ‘no distress in that} -
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year 1677, was to sanction the. said establishment
aod to ensure its permanency,-‘and that this act o
legislative power and authority, ‘was founded on the .
nett Inco!
of the said seigniory,-and the increase thereof should
be emp pee ** for the advancement of the “
n
jesty’s august father of glorious memory, @
for more than a century before, had been peaceably
cou aa
That ‘the execution ofa project of this nature
with respect to an institution, the utilty and even the
necessity of wifich as respects ‘tho civil and moral
education of the inhabitants of the count ry, is ace
knowledged, would have the effect of placing you!
*~|majesty’s faithful subjects in a most critical situa
tion, and would moreover give birth to an anxiety .
but too well founded, 4s to the security of individu-
als which arein fact the property of the people, and
of which’ the pre: ent possessors could not be allow-
ed to disp ossess ‘themse ives. in favor of others, with:
out the intervention and consent of those for whose
jadvantage:. they oeey them, a which they have
received on the condition that they should fulfil with
rope rty in
question could not, under the laws of this country,
dispose thereof in any manner, without the concur-
rence aid consent of their immediate superiors i
sat part of the United Kingdow which at all times
had
d much of the.c
If the
found that great brosperity
- Mr. said, they were then told there
Was this the fact? 2? Was ita
ial? expressions
which fell from the honorable members on the other
side upon this topic were curivus,——' aid the
distress was general, the secund that it was extraor-
dinary, & the third th at it was overwhelmning. ([loud}in
cries of ** hear.” } So this partial distress was gene-
ral, extraordinary, and-overwhelming. A hanpy dis-
covery had been made by the Chancellor of the Ex,
-chequer of some cases in the desert. In one coun-
and that country—who
would have thought it twas Ireland. [hear.] He
(Mr. O;Connell) had recently come from that coan-
try, and hi ew that there had been a fund raised
by the lord. lnutcnan to ££3,50 0, and a second col-
lection of £3000; that these funds were all exhaust-
ed, & that 7000 perso: ns were subsisting upon three}
‘half. pene t atingy_ landlords ‘were the
agricultoral interest of Ireland, if, in the midst of so
much prosper ity, they refused to contribute tothe
necessities of the poor. ILe, (Mr. O” Connell) did
“ mot like to pledge himself to matters of fact, b
had travelled through the provinces sf Leiniter nad
Connaught, and Munster, and nN NO prov!
on re contrary, “had observed
iad heard of:one estate in ‘the
bi
ket and the potato-pot of thé tenant. Yet the distress
had, in all probability, reached Ireland ‘less rapidly
¢han other parts ¢ of the country, fur this season there
was a smalle: ency.
many places enust ‘be admitted,
ag it o
want of industry, intelligence economy, or perse-
t Cer
tainly not——the people} y,
the people, but in the misgovernment to which they |,
fad rs subjecte,
r. Peex said, now, with regdrd to-Ireland,- an
'
and attention off whic!
ar
ejland, was less
in [{he erection and establishment of the
in-his comparative examination of two propositions
distress, although pressing hard upon parts of Ire-
thero t than it’ was Found. generally
speaking. i in England.’ -Bonough, was, however ap-
parentin the stat of both countries to call for sym-
pathy, and he felt himself, therefore, under the ne-
cessity of voting for that declaratory resolution which |"
as more expressive of the gree of distress he be-
» Firzcenatp aid, thers 2 waa certainly great
distress i in Ireland, but nothing equal to the extent
which it- pervaded England. Let his honorable
friend therefore take care how he gave his support
0 men under the notion that he was serving Ireland,
‘rho might hereafter -turn round and object to the
importation of Irish produce, which ought to have as
free an admission into the. Engtish market 3 as that of|
Scotland, or of the counties of Engta nd.
eee
—_————=-.
_ [From the Montreal 1 Vindiontor]
~ GANA NA
“In the Provincial Parlteméi,
was'voted to-his Majesty on the subject of the pro-
perty belonging tu the “Seminary of ’St.: Sulpice a
Montreal, and ‘ordered to be’engrossed. ‘ Ana
©! dress was ‘oted to his Excellency praying he
will transmit the said -address to. His: majesty?sinin-
isters, ‘in order that it may ‘be laid at the foot of the
throne 8.»
the ¢ King's g ‘Mos Excellent Majesty.
Mayit plea se your majest
We your- "majesty" 8 "loyal ‘subjects, dhe Commons
of Lower Canada -in Provincial Parliament assem-
bled, humbly pray that we may be permitted to ap-.
toach your ‘majesty’s throne and to represent t to
in| your majesty:—
That the seminary or - ecclesiastical body: Jana !
under the e of St. Sulpice.at Montreal,
founded .in the ‘island of - ‘Montes and that ‘the
Seigniory of the said island and its endencies
wer nted in. mortmain by ie christian ma-
jesty, according to the provisions of the laws‘then
Jin fe far back as the year 16 a in ordér. to
aid conmuni- |
and .seminary in the said sere for ‘he education
Crthe inhabit: ants of the cou
That the object-of the edict or sr ordinances of the:
were’ before him, he believed, indeed, that the} f,,
. the
On motion of Mr. Viger, the following address
this province, nor with
prescribed by the
without the consent and concurrence of the provin-
cial parliament in which the people of this country
who have so just a claim on the said property, are
represented: by your faithful commons of this pro-
T hat none but the most distressing consequences
could follow the execution of a project of this na-
e, the tendenc ich must inevitably be to
ment unde
| their ven assured andi invio|
the opinions and. tel s in whieh axompts
y made
may have b e@ your majesty’s
ernment to papa fr the p purpose, of inducing
it to nance a project.ef si >a nature,
could, ave arisen solely, ‘fom stemenis in which
for want of precise-information, an ex: ct description
of the aetial state.of things and more. espe cially. of
°
it, and the rights of the inhabitants as connected’
with it was not.laid before your majesty’s -Buvern-
ent.
"Your d utiful « commona of Lower Qanada therefore’
pray your "mnajesty, to take this matter into'your se-
tious consideration ; to weigh the lamentable conse-
qu ences of such .a state of things,.and even of the
existence of a doubt respectin the ssecurity..of the
said’ proper, and of the rights of your faithful Cas:
nadian su'jects, and to adopt measures for pe/ma:
ently, quieting the alarm-which the apprehens sions of
the ‘formation of projects of this nature: has excite ted
through this province.
ga saturday Mar ch G
re Viger; ‘accompanie? by the other ‘Mescengors;
repaid the “deliv very ofthe address respecting the
prope ‘the seminary at Montreal aid the fol-
lo owing ‘answer from bis-exce: Me ency i
Gentlemen,—t shall not fail to transmit to hiss
Maje siy’s minister? the address of the House of As-
jeciubls to the king, on: the subject of the Seminary:
ates af: Montreal for the e-purpose of being:laid-at’
the foot of the Throne.”
| possessed aud employed by the said community, the
foarly aan of which is connected with and of .
neal ncient date as, the settlement of, the -
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