This issue was elevated in The Illustrated London News on thirteen February 1847: "There was no law it would not go at their request, and no abuse it would not protect for them." On 24 March, The Times documented that Britain experienced permitted in Ireland "a mass of poverty, disaffection, and degradation without having a parallel in the globe. It permitted proprietors to suck the very lifetime-blood of that wretched race". Stewart, Emily.