they work well everywhere but at home because they everywhere else find the more powerful class ready to employ them instruct them pay them in ireland alone are they required to work for six pence to eighteen pence per day and even at these stand idle half the year for want of anything to do so that the rent which they would readily double for better if they were fully employed and fairly paid now and them and their little patches of land which ought to be in the highest degree productive are often the worst cultivated of any this side of the ignorance want and have their energies and the consequent decay of the has involved most of the aristocracy in the general ruin the estates commission is now rapidly passing the soil of ireland out of the hands of its into those of a new generation may these be wise enough to profit by the warning before them and by to the condition of the laboring millions place their own prosperity on a solid and lasting foundation general aspects the south of ireland is decidedly more fertile and inviting than the north or west there is a deeper richer soil with far less stone on the level low lands the railroad from to runs throughout over a level plain and though it passes from the valley of the across those of the the and the to that of the no perceptible ridge is crossed no traversed and very little rock or required although the are often carried over the track at an absurd expense while the principal d p ts are made to thrice what general aspects should i still cannot account for the great on irish they would have been built at one half the cost in the states where the wages of labor are thrice as much as here who pockets the difference of course there is stealing in the of land but so there is everywhere when i was in way a case was tried in which a proprietor whose was crossed by the railroad the company for more than the had him and it was proved on the trial that his utterly worthless before had been partially drained and considerably increased in value by the railroad there seems to be no conscience in of those who invest their money often most reluctantly in of which the main benefits are universal in ireland they have and greatly every class but the and these they have well nigh ruined there are fewer remains of dwellings recently cleared and thrown down in the south than in the west of ireland though they are not unknown here but i saw no new ones going up save in immediate connection with the in either section if government and ideas are to remain as they have been the country may be considered absolutely finished with nothing more to do but decay i trust however that a new leaf is about to be turned over still it is mournful to pass through so fine a country and see how the hand of death has it even at the head of ship on the glorious of the with through the heart of this kingdom for sixty or eighty miles above it shows scarcely a recent building except the railroad d pot and the union poor house while its general aspect is that of decline and decay the smaller towns between it and have a like gloomy appearance � with its deserted and its towering ruins looking most dreary of ice at all happy is the who in a new land and amid the and hopes which it is spared the daily contemplation of his country s ruin and yet there are brighter shades to the picture nature and imperative does her best to remedy the ills created by man s to man the south of ireland seems far better wooded than either the north or west and young forests and tree soften the gloom which and would naturally suggest though the railroad runs wholly through a tame dull level sweeping of hills appear at intervals on either side exhibiting a lovely of cultivation grass and forest to the delighted the hay crop is badly saved so far and some that has been cut several days is still under the weather while a good deal though long ripe remains the wheat looks to me thin and the principal grain here are short and generally poor but i never saw he more luxuriant or promising and the area covered with this noble root is most extensive the poor have a fashion of planting in beds three to six feet wide with narrow between which though extra labor must a large yield and presents a most luxuriant appearance little was sown but that little is very good is suffering from the stormy weather but is quite yet there is much land either wholly neglected or only yielding a little grass while i perceive even less than in the west i did not anticipate a tour of pleasure through ireland but the reality is more painful than i anticipated of all i have seen at work in the fields to day cutting and carrying turf potatoes shaking out hay fee at least one third were women if i could believe that their fathers and husbands were in america clearing lands and for their future homes should not regret this but the probability is that only aspects a few of them are there or employed anywhere while hundreds of neglected patches of cultivation show that narrow as the mainly are they are yet often cultivated the end of this is of course whence the next stage is the union work house alas unhappy ireland prospects of ireland tuesday august of irish irish irish irish misery the world has heard enough i could not wholly avoid them without giving an essentially false and account of what must be 