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11
Month
September
Year
1843
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Public Domain
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The lust orrivuls from England bring no news of special importance. Moiiey w;is becoming nearly as abundant in the east of England as it was in London, and in conscquence Messrs. Gurney of Norwich, nnd most other leading bankers in that part of the country, have reduced the rate of interest theyallow on deposite, to 11 per cent. It is stated that n tteaty of Commerce has been entered into between France and Brazil, the terms of which are at present secret. Father Matthew appears to be his temperance career almost as triumphantly in Ennrlund as lic did in Ireland. Thousands,heretoforc, votaries of Bacchus, have signed the pledge. Tlie South of Wales continúes in a disturbed state; toll-houses and toll-gates are constanily coming under the new reign of "Rebecca nnd her Daughters," ond the government seems to possess no energy in maintaining the iaws. The Minister of War of France has received Jespatches from the Go.ernor General of Algeria, dated the 19th of July, onnonncing the submission of the Flittas, a tribe which reckons no fe ver thau 40,000 foulf, and also diñerent successesin that. part of the Province of Oran, which lies on the confines of the Dcsert. . The Emancioator savs:The Canada corn bilí has been approved, nnd is now a laiv. It admits wheat from the United States into Cunadn, at thrce shillings per qoarter duty - about equal to nine cents per bushei - and Canadian flour into England ot one shilling perquarter - equivalent to three I and a half cents pr bushel. This will make the duty on flour not fur from sixty cents per barre), and then it must be shipped only in British vessels via Quebec, and the freight and ollier charges are so much higher than via New YorJ{, that I do not believe tho people of the North-West will be much bencfittod by- thís notable dcvice. " The followirto; notice .of tbo present tuU ï of Ireland is from the same paper: The state of Irefand involves the British Government n the deepeat perplexity. O'Con' "e".13 Pressinff on hifi agitations, ünd is now r begmn.ng boidly tirunfold sonie of hi3 ulte, ior ?la„s. One 'is, tl.e virtual nssernbW of n sort of provisional convenlipn as the ma tenalnfaparliament. He aid, in a speec, JafeyatDundalthataflouspofthreehundred mrmbers vvould be made by one member to ench county, and one to eachtown of mne thousand ínhabitants. He proposes thateachtownshall select a person and furnish L100, and that theseshall come together m Dublin- nll by accident (!) and Mr. O'Cunneil is to invite them to a public banquet, where nobody shnll qtiend but Ihemselves- not as n pariiament, by no mcans, bwt as a conciliation board, and tfien, if the Queen should choose to issue her wnïs to the same gentlemen, withoutgoii.gr to the BritiBliParliament would be created as leally and constituüonally as the Qucen's title to the throne. O'Connell declared that he could easily drive lis three hundrerl men through the act of Pariiament which prohibits seditious meetings, ie has alse recentïy slated an ou:line of what be proposes his independent pariiament shal) do to remedy the real canse of the chief s.iferings of the poor- the uncerlainty of the tennre of land, and the arbitrary conduct of the I iandlords: "Yon know that the Iandlords have duties os well as rights, and I would estnblish the , fix.ty ot tcnure [loud cheers.] to remind thetn of those dut.es. I wil! teil y0 what mv p!nn ' 's, and yon can consider it ainono-st yourselves ! My pian is, that no landlord bhould recover I rent nnless he made a lease for twenty-one , y-ears to the tPnant- no lease or no rent,suy I [ Loud cheers.] Unless he made a lease, he would have no more business looking for his l rent thnn n donr woujd hnve barkinff at the t oon [Cbeers and laughter.] It may be 8 nidv-tftè landlords would, in that ense, put oo high a rent on their lands, but 1 have a emedy for thaf too, in niy plan. 'fLauirlfer. ..nnrf cries „f More powerJ At a man goes to register hls vote, he muse prove on oath , wl.at a solvent tenant could pay to his landlord for his holding, and in the same manner I would give the tenant an opporlunity ofprovmg what a snlvent tenant ooght to give for his land, in order 10 fix the amounl of rent lic hnd to pay. [Clicers.] I would mve the poor man the benefit of a trial by jury in such case, so that it would be in.possible Ibr a landiord to get more t'hari the fair value of his land. It may be sair!, the poor mnn would be turned out of his holding at the expiralion of his lease, and his land given to another, but ] have a cure for that also. [Cheers.] I would ! allow the tenant by lawevery year to retrsier, I and he can now register trees that he plañís! i nll the inprovements that ho makes on hia holdinjr, and if the landlord does not pay l.im I the full value of these improvements, he could not turn him out, but would be oblicred to tnve nm a new holding. Every teninl tvould the., be buildmcr n better house for his pia than he now iííhabita Imnself, a he would be snre to get every farthing he laid out on his bblAn before he could be deprived of-posseseion at the end of his lease. [Cheei.] Is it not worth while. I ask you, to lodk for a Repeal of the Union for that alone? ' [Cheers. ")"

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