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DICKSON ON POWER LOOMS IN IRELAND. 



men whose fortunes and position have been created by cotton- 

 spinning and weaving, it is against all reason and common 

 sense to expect Ireland to have any assistance from a 

 government having such a chief secretary. I can prove this 

 by his promises to deputations, and by his refusal to open my 

 pattern book containing cottonized Flax and Indian fibres, 

 yarns and cloth, which lay a whole week at the Irish office, 

 Westminster, and my letter requesting him (Sir P. Peel) to 

 have all sent on to Dublin ; the same book that the noble 

 Earl of Derby sent from Knowsley Park, to the Manchester 

 Relief Committee. 



