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Foreign Securities in which English money has been expended Assurances of support to Lord George The Irish Members in a dilemma The Irish Party continue to meet Meeting at the Premier's in Chesham Place Smith O'Brien waits on Lord George The Government stake their existence on postponing the second reading of Lord Bentinck's Bill Why? Hudson's Speech The Chancellor going on no authority Mr.
But, poor fellows, they were hardly fit to be trusted with hasty messages, and here my poor services came in. One time I was to ride hard to Sir William Bentinck's, and petition for ice out of his ice-house, to put on Phillis's head.
"So I thought, and therefore I bought her," remarked the old gentleman. "It was my original intention to have made her a tender to the Shark in which capacity she would no doubt have proved, as you say, exceedingly useful; and I may further tell you that, subject to Captain Bentinck's approval, I intended to have put you in command of her.
But to all remonstrances, petitions, and proposals, the imperial economists had but one answer: 'They could not interfere with the ordinary currents of trade. O'Connell's proposal, Lord Georga Bentinck's, O'Brien's, the proposals of the society called 'The Irish Council, all received the same answer.
It was about the time of the Prince's perilous voyage to England to fight, if need be, for the Throne, that he poured out his feelings to his friend. "My sufferings, my disquiet, are dreadful," he said, "I hardly see my way. Never in my life did I so much feel the need of God's guidance." At this time Bentinck's wife was seriously ill, and both Prince and subject were anxious about her.
When we couple the delicacy of the Home Secretary with the admissions of Mr Sidney Herbert; and, further, take into consideration the statement of the O'Connor Don, that on his return from the Roscommon Assizes, in July last, Sir Thomas Freemantle, then Chief Secretary for Ireland, told him he was right in opposing a petition got up by the Grand Jury of his county, praying government to cause the enactment of some coercive law, "as ministers had no intention of introducing any such measure;" yet, at that very moment, we find, according to Lord George Bentinck's statement, that the crimes committed in the five disturbed counties greatly exceeded the number perpetrated now when they find it convenient to do so.
Pitt in 1793 Money spent on making Railways The Irish Vote on the Bill Names. No effort of statesmanship to overcome the Famine is remembered with such gratitude in Ireland as Lord George Bentinck's generous proposal to spend sixteen millions of money in the construction of railways, for the employment of its people.
The college and mission stripped of all their funds Failure of the six firms for sixteen millions Carey's official income reduced from £1560 to £600 His Thoughts and Appeal published in England His vigour at seventy Last revision of the Bengali Bible Final edition of the Bengali New Testament Carey rejoices in the reforms of Lord William Bentinck's Government In the emancipation of the slaves Carey sketched by his younger contemporaries His latest letters and last message to Christendom Visits of Lady William Bentinck and Bishop Daniel Wilson Marshman's affection and promise as to the garden The English mail brings glad news a fortnight before his death His last Sabbath He dies Is buried His tomb among his converts His will The Indian press on his poverty and disinterestedness Dr.
With the consent of his council, he prohibited "satí" absolutely, declaring that all who took any part in it should be held guilty of culpable homicide; and the native population acquiesced in its suppression. But this was only one of Bentinck's reforms.
The proposal of the Irish party to postpone the second reading of Lord George Bentinck's Railway Bill, does not seem to have had much to recommend it.
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