The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-06-11 00:00:00

Eke (*loarlyi;)ic jiper`der.

SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1870.

IRELAND.

With the best wishes towards Ireland, we have
so often occasion to Outs painful featUled in the
current news frow the nmerald Isle, that it is
cheering to bud cause for congratuiation on
wino, us believe to be her brightening prospects.
Agrurian crime has certainly not been so ire-
qinJut et late as it was not so very long ago,and
the whole country appears to be in a more set-
tled state. Very favourable reports have re-
m ntly been rectived with regard to the Irish
fisheries ; and more vigorous attention is being
devoted than hitherto to agriculture. The two
great political measures which have bueu
planned for the amelioration of the condition ut
Ireland—one of which lies become law, and the
other being destined, we trust, to become law—
are of good promise for the future of the coun-
try. The Irish Church Act is gradually but
surely working out that equal religiutia justice
.which it was designed to illect ; and the Inch
Land Bill is already looked forward to with hope
and expectation by the majority of the ouuntrj.
(Me very satisfactory feature in the news from
lreiand is that agitation on the subject of tue
laud question is dying away, or at least eubsid.
lag ; and the Irish generally appear quite con.
tent to wait and bee whether the Irish Lana
Bill will be passed, sod whether it will reined
toe agrarian evils trout which they have so 11.0. k,
suffered.

Discouraging news, on the other hand, arrives
with rcgaru to the emigration of tue farmers.
A Dublin correspondent writes, •• So indecent.:
do tlm small farmers teel theinseives teat limy
are voluntarily giving no their Laws, and onn.
grating by the hundred. From Queenstown
alone more than a tuousand nave saiied timing
the last tortnigl..., daa many iuui noLere
waiting for a passage. I know USC fact that ot
the holdings .2!ich they Lavv. given up many ot
them consisting of laud swim they have them-
selvesieviaiiod, at their eau expense, and, for
Which they uave hail no comisomeion, auw„
have been already conse.ilited into iurg, graz-
ing lams, whid-t timers have taeu in, by tue
latidloril at rates varying from 2E3 to 50 per cent.
of increased rental, this increase accruing tu the
landlords at tee expense of the out-going self-
evicted tenantry'. iii some cases the laud held
at such a rent will never pay the in•comiug ten.
ant, in Lamers the well have simply given place
to cadae." This is much to be re6retted, and it
is nut easy to see the reason for it. In connec-
tion with tile past injustice of the land laws to.
wards tue sniail tariaers, and in conjunction with
them. jeut ?1./billion so lug as the law relilaths
unaltered, this wholesale emigration is easily
expilesole; but on tile eve, as we may hope, of
the law being in the interest especially
ot the farmer.teuuut class, it is strange that
emigration suould be so rife among that class.
It is by 110 means certain, nunever, that this
voluntary emigration al ises Dom the alleged in•
secnrity of the position of the emigrants. It
possibly is ocessioned to some extent even by
their prosperity, for it is well known that this
class of men frequently carry out considerable
minis of money. In any case we trust this emi-
gration will niake it better for those who remade.
It is not pleasant to hear of men giving place to
cattle, though even that is not a wholly unmixed
evil ; but the lettiog of the abandoned farms at
au increased rental on the weole speaks hope.
fully for tile future of Ireland, taken in cunuee-
timi with time rmw conditions under which the
incoming ;, hunts %via, we trust, hold their land
under the Irish Laud Bill.

«; us tree of lecnianism docs not appear
to 11 Jar:. ou Irish soil. It is certainly
hot dead Oa a, app._ ars ill 1: rather sorry coodi•
tida. td, r i b that the AVISU FellllllB art
isdw dir,attt a:tell/it/11, lib NUllle thhlk, ttr
iney are iiip.o6.ed by the
loot.hLa oil in Cauada, curtaiu it is
that ia Irela ; ; herself the Feitkus ars quieter
and 'era r • -ativ,• ,han t iv b vu fdr ts how
time hith . o,eu. Of course, it may be thi
quiet that des the storm, but we have little
Cit., • . • tal lt failure of to,

Few ••• r .. • ,; i.i tot 11 TU abULlPfiCillii
elfeet on t rdatllie Tint Irish
National paper, uontit,s t 1. 'as a hltuvier
and a fitutee. Not' : no re tiAlt. end fuoliala,"
sayo the whoa, olLeat attempt at Ull
invasion of Canada has been attempted in the
liane of the Irish pi °pie since time out of mind."
Remembering the wild and foolish things that
have been done in the nmae of Ireland, this
i & nOt I • f .i.ur
i: • .i. :an,. • lace a goo,t
•. • i „tot hi i tc.-
t .y...1,as -,tAL circa ~thiuced would
be ,any attempt to invade Canada. however

bombastic Fenianism may be in America, the
United States on the one hand and the Demi.
on the other are utterly opposed to the Fenian
policy. We have no hope that Fenianiam will
die out gradually without some desperate effort
Wonld that we could think this were probable.
We are rather inclined to believe that the mad-
brained Fenians in America will still aim at the
carrying out of their insane designs upon Can-
oda, and perhaps the sooner they put these do
signs into execution the better, for the Ronne'
will their miserable discomfiture arrive. But iii
Irelond herself Fenianisin seems to he well nigh
ployed out, and this fact added to many others
indicate an approaching era of tranquillity and
prosperity.