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Of other news from Great Britain, there is not much. A large company of
London merchants waited upon Lord JOHN RUSSELL on the 9th, to complain of
gross mismanagement and inefficiency, on the part of the Commissioners of
Customs, and asking the appointment of a Select Committee of
Investigation. The Minister replied to many of the complaints, declaring
them to be unjust, and declined to say that he would move for a Committee.
The whole matter, however, should receive his attention.
A public dinner was given at Manchester, on the 9th, to Mr. R. J. WALKER,
formerly American Secretary of the Treasury. In his speech on the
occasion, Mr. W. elaborately argued the question of Free Trade, saying
that he was in favor of a still farther reduction of the American duties,
and calling upon the English to aid them by reducing the duties on tobacco
and other imports of American growth. Referring to recent events in
France, he avowed his apprehension that a man who had proved himself a
traitor, an insurgent, and a military usurper, would not rest content at
home, but that England herself was in danger from the progress of
despotism upon the Continent. Whenever such a struggle for freedom should
be waged in England, he promised them the support of the United States.
In IRELAND a good deal of interest has been excited by the return of
emigrants from America. In many cases they were returning for their
families—in others, from disappointment and unfitness for work in the
United States.——A Mr. Bateson, manager of the great estates of Lord
Templeton, in the county of Monoghan, was shot at, and then beaten with
bludgeons, so that he died, by three men in the street; the act was in
revenge for some evictions he had made against dishonest tenants.
In SCOTLAND a very large meeting was held in Edinburgh on the 9th, to
protest against the grant to Maynooth College. In the course of the
debates it was stated that 540 petitions, with 307,278 names, had been
sent in against the grant. A resolution was adopted, promising to use
every possible effort to “procure the passage of a bill for the entire
repeal of said grant” at the next session of Parliament.
The events of the month in France have been of transcendent interest. The
Constitution has been abolished, the National Assembly dissolved, martial
law proclaimed, and the Republic transformed into a Monarchy, elective in
name but absolute in fact.
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