This stage was elevated in The Illustrated London News on 13 February 1847: "There was no law it would not pass at their ask for, and no abuse it would not protect for them." On 24 March, The Times noted that Britain experienced permitted in Ireland "a mass of poverty, disaffection, and degradation without the need of a parallel in the environment. It allowed proprietors to suck the very everyday living-blood of that wretched race".