In view of the facts
placed before the Commissioners by Mr. Gibson, which could, he says, be
verified on oath by every member of the Mallow Relief Committee, he
calls upon them not to leave the people to starve, their only resource
being their potato gardens, which are utterly destroyed.
Parliament rose on the 28th of August. The Queen's Speech was read by
the Lord Chancellor. Her Majesty referred with thanks to the public
spirit shown by the members of both Houses, in their attention to the
business of the nation, during a laborious and protracted session She,
of course, lamented the recurrence of the failure of the potato crop in
Ireland, and had given, she said, her cordial assent to the measures
framed to meet that calamity. After the fashion of most royal speeches,
she expressed her satisfaction at the diminution of crime--not
throughout the United Kingdom--but in Ireland.
FOOTNOTES:
[102] _Times_ of 31st July, 1846.
[103] The italics are the Author's.
[104] "Grand Juries feared neither God nor man."--_Times_, August 22,
1846.
[105] Mr. Mitchell evidently alludes to the passage so often found in
O'Connell's speeches, commencing--
"O Erin, shall it e'er be mine To wreak thy wrongs in battle line," etc.
Pages:
266
267
268
269
270
271
272
273
274
275
276
277
278
279
280
281
282
283
284
285
286
287
288
289
290