Railways In Ireland The Speech Of The Right Hon Lord George Bentinck In The House Of Commons On Thursday February 4th 1847 Etc

Author : George Bentinck
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ISBN 13 : 9781333031992
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Railways in Ireland written by George Bentinck and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Railways in Ireland: The Speech of the Rt. Hon. Lord George Bentinck, on Moving for Leave to Bring in a Bill "to Stimulate the Prompt and Profitable Employment of the People by the Encouragement of Railways in Ireland," in the House of Commons, on Thursday, February 4th, 1847 Sir, I cannot forget that England has had her bad days as well as Ireland; that we have known the time when the counties of England have been ravaged by the fires of the incendiary; that we have seen the time in England when the Sovereign dared not go into his own City of London. I cannot forget that in later times, so little while ago as the year 1842, England, though not supporting, as now she and Ireland together are constrained to support, beings in idleness in the latter country, did support, by her parish rates, persons; that of these no less than adult able-bodied men were actually confined within the walls of the workhouse, and adult able-bodied labourers were sustained by the parish. Well, then, it does seem to me that, when we come to estimate the condition of Ireland, and compare it with that of England in no very distant times, there is not so great a difference be tween the present state of Ireland and that of England in the years 1841 and 1842 that we need despair of finding the means to overcome our difficulties. (hear, hear.) Well, Sir, 1841 and 1842 were years of great distress and of difficulty to England, and what has occurred since to change the face of affairs in this country, and to restore England from a state of distress and poverty to a condition the most prosperous and most a uont that ever was known in the annals of her history? Sir, I am aware that there are some who ascribe all this im provement, and all this prosperity, to the operation of these measures of free trade which were commenced in the year 1842. There are some, I know, who have expressed it as their Opinion that the reduction of five-sixteenths of a penny of the duty on cotton, the free introduction of some head of foreign cattle, the admission of foreign timber at reduced duties, and last, but not least, Que {we Masks e. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."