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STANLEY ( Edward G. G. S. ), Earl of Derby. Speech of … E. G. Stanley. M.P.

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STANLEY ( Edward G. G. S. ), Earl of Derby. Speech of … E. G. Stanley. M.P.

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
STANLEY ( Edward G. G. S. ), Earl of Derby. Speech of … E. G. Stanley. M.P., Chief Secretary for Ireland, in the debate on the Disturbances (Ireland) Bill, in the House of Commons, on Wednesday, the 27th of February, 1833. Extracted from the Mirror of Parliament … Printed for the proprietors … , 1833Pages 45, (1), 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good to nice copy.In 1833, when the young Charles Dickens was working as a parliamentary reporter for his uncle John Henry Barrow’s Mirror of Parliament, Stanley, then Chief Secretary for Ireland, brought his Bill for the Suppression of Disturbances in Ireland before the House. He gave a speech that was so long, that the Mirror reporters had to work in shifts to transcribe it. Dickens took down the first and last parts, and when it was published, all except these were found to be full of errors. Stanley contacted Barrow and asked him to send the reporter responsible for transcribing these portions to his house so that he might copy down the whole speech, as it was to be printed for circulation in Ireland. Stanley's very strong Peace Preservation Act empowered the lord lieutenant to suppress meetings and to declare disturbed districts under martial law. His dramatic description in the Commons, on 27 February 1833, of the murder and rural outrages occurring in Ireland secured parliamentary support for the measure. Lord John Russell regarded this speech as ‘one of the greatest triumphs ever won in a popular assembly by the powers of oratory’.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1) RUSSELL ( Robert ), FRSE, of Pilmuir, Leven. Ulster tenant-right for Ireland, or notes upon notes taken during a visit to Ireland in 1868. By Robert Russell, F.R.S.E., Pilmuir, Fife, author of "North America, its agriculture and climate." Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1870. FIRST EDITION, 59-pages, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good to nice copy. WorldCat and COPAC both have the BL copy only. An edition not found on-line in D or Dt. A second edition, not quite so scarce and greatly enlarged, followed during the same year. Black 8774 records only the second edition, locating copies at Dt and UCD.(2) CANNING ( George ) : -. The Grand Vizier Unmasked ; or, remarks on the supposed claims of Mr. Canning to public confidence : in an appeal to the British parliament and people. Saunders and Otley, 1827. FIRST EDITION, pages (4), 65, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good copy.Later editions, it ran to four by the following year, were signed 'A Protestant Tory'. It was answered by The Protestant Tory Refuted, and A Short View of Recent Changes, which provoked A Refutation of the Principal Arguments.(3) MACLAGAN ( Peter ). Land culture and land tenure in Ireland. The results of observations during a recent tour in Ireland. Edinburgh and London : William Blackwood & Sons … , Hodges, Foster, & Co. ; W. H. Smith & Sons, Dublin 1869. FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 78, 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good to nice copy. Black 8653.(4) RUSSELL ( John ), first Earl Russell. A letter to the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P. on the state of Ireland. Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868. FIRST EDITION, pages (2), 93, (3, blank), 8vo, recent paper wrapper : a very good copy. Russell (1792-1878) visited his estate in Ireland in December 1867 and was ‘determined to make a move about education’. He brought a series of resolutions before the Lords in which he asserted the moral right of every child to the blessings of education. He addressed a Letter to the Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue on the State of Ireland, followed by a second Letter and a third, arguing, as ever, in favour of concurrent endowment (ODNB).(5)IRELAND; LAW; DICKENS; HISTORY; ULSTER; AGRICULTURE; LAND TENURE; ENGLAND; ECONOMICS; LAND; LAND TENURE; EDUCATION