12 MARCH 1836, Page 15

ONE KING, ONE ALLEGIANCE,—AND ONE LAW.

of the pauper mass; to raise Irish wages to the English level;

• " Now he fearlessly asked the right honourable the Chancellor of the Exchequer, did be consider the English system of Poor.laws applicable to Ireland ? (4' Hear l" and cheers.) Would not the nett honourable gentleman at once avow that it was not; that Ireland was not in a condition to receive them; that it was not similittly situated with England ; that it had not the same machinery for its management, nor similar cheeks upon it, nor the assistance rinnuseers habituated to manage the peer—Speed et. Graham. to relieve the workmen of England from the competition of Irish labour; to force upon the Irish landlords some regard for the wellbeing of the peasantry ; to convert Ireland, as respects those laws which determine the physical state of the bulk of the people, into another Yorkshire. Then indeed, we shall have something like Union, instead of Dominion, which is the right name for the pre- sent relation of England to Ireland. When the landlords of Ire- land, like those of England, shall be compelled to prevent starva- tion amongst the multitude, then shall we be able to talk without. irony of one king, one allegiance—and also one law ; which last means one condition, one feeling, one people. Though an Irish landlord, or rather an owner (by confiscation) of Irish land, still,. as Lord MELBOURNE'S Chancellor of the Exchequer, I contend_ that Ireland must have the same Poor-law as Yorkshire.