Ireland news notes on rents laws and Ulster affairs
The Limerick Examiner cites Major for a bill to bar landlords from collecting non poor law rents. Torrens M’Curtairs argues free trade and tenant compensation as remedies. Ulster Catholics petition Lord Clarendon over Dolly’s Brae. A Protectionist meeting in Dublin urges reform and a Queen’s petition. Killarney workhouse fire kills 27 girls and 2 women. many injured. Ulster constituencies see £10 freeholders collapsing under rack-renting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roumourgey Ministerraal
Limerick
Major
Clare
Clare Grand Jury
Londonderry Journal
Torrens-M‘curiacs
Dundalk
Ireland
M‘cullagh
Tracy
Ulster
Dublin
Rotunda
Marquis of Downshire
Marquis of
Westmeath
Shannon
Glengall
Roden
Mayo
Bandon
Howth
Castlemaine
Clements
J.p.’S
Esquires
Earl of Glengall
Marquis of Westmeath
John Russell
Killarney
M‘clean
M‘donald
Madden
Murphy
Deolinz
Down
Antrim
Calamitous Hull loss of seven fishing smacks and thirty seven crew
A Hull dispatch reports seven fishing smacks with thirty seven men and boys missing since before Christmas after gales on December 27 28 1849. Foundering likely on Lemon oar Sand due to drifting light. A public meeting seeks relief for thirteen widows and twenty five orphans.
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Hull
Hull Advertiser
West Rivina Faesnoirp Lane Society
Leeds Mercury
Cavers Hay Park House
William Crawshay
Packer-suir
Henry Walsh
Dublin
Messrs
Fielden Brothers
Liverpool
The Protectionist Agitation in English Counties
A report on meetings led by Earl Yarborough and Earl Stanhope detailing protectionist arguments for tariffs and fears of a social revolution under free trade. The piece cites tenant concerns, rent losses, and attacks on Cobden and Peel amid protests by free traders.
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Lorp Yarnonoves
Earl of
Lord Yarborough
Basingstoke
South Hampshire
Shaw Lefevre
House of Commons
Pyle
Tufton
Robert Peel
Cobden
Peel
Stratton
Protectionists
Sevenoaks
Earl Stanhope
Robert Holds
Lord Stanhope
Sir Robert
Sir Robert Peel
Mr. Cobden
Buckingham Palace
Parliament
Atkins
J. Bell
England