The Press.
London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

IRISH PROSPERITY.

PRIVATE and public accounts agree as to the decisive
return of Irish prosperity. Its symptoms aro seen
in increased enterprise, and the resumpt. of the
old amusements 44 the people. Itailwas are being
laid Ilown in various parts of the island, and meet-
ings have been held to promote oievenvl other useful
projects. Pity that the brilliant measure pmpo%ed hy
Lord I iyouGy. llEsrtscw had not been carried out,
and that it hoes been left to this late period to achieve
what his vig.orons practical intellect had originated!
Hut the Irish are beginning to discern their true
interests, and to wee how much they have in their
own power. The plough and the spade are be-
coming moire objects of social faith with Paddy than
the bingttes of adventurer:, who talk of "the greatest
" Imprint:l3 of the greaunt member," but. Collin

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nothing else but " number one." The nett general
eleetion must show that the solid landed interest of
Irelatcl will recover its legitimate influence ; and it
HA Hot tht, least result of the onkel
through which Ireland has passed that the intrinsic
as Well as the relative strength of the l'nuestant
ilitewst has signally increased. lu the presence of
such tarts, Sir J I; it %II 414 Must never again lire •
stltile to AlWelthtle as "if we are all united."
Wino: has said that "it is a lead habit in politics to
" moot eases:" and the social facts to which we here
allude are patent enough to make the foreboding
fancies of the First Lord apish its rapidly as many
others of his sinister eonehtsions. • tsstson t 111H4
HMV lenVio and issue hit boding 'tows
through elarendonian protooits!

THE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR DUBLIN.
Tim coroner's jury have returned a verdict of man.
slaughter against two of the ty'r'ants of the corn.
patty. The subject is full of difficulties. If we
Attempt to snake a director responsible for the acts of
Lis sulionlinates, as Wlll4 NOY 111111 W in snows. and
he is indicted, the judges tell us be cannot he con
%ivied, and such no doubt is the law. The act
enabling surviving relatives to sue companies for
compensation for the loss they have sustained by the
deatlt of husbands and fathers killed 1m railways does
not prevent the constant recurrence of aecidents.
Like the falling stars, they come in showers and eon •
finite for days. Rot it doe's seem hard that men
standing on engines which they have to attend to,
and which require constant care, should be eitreeted,
with the Medal whir.ziug about them. 111111 the air
rushing past them with hurricane force and speed, to
see signals which may Is' thrust out anywhere in a
distance of a hundred miles or snore, in any light 4w
any state of the weather, which signals consist of a
flag about ns large as a p4icket•handkervltief, and
which may have, tweording to the wind, its edge
towards them ;—and theta, should it escape their
notice, an aign them on a criminal charge for not
doing that whit+ no merely human organs MI do
certainly. The remedy, it. app ear+ to Uff, 11,1 ohm e.
e.

PEF.WEI) ('UINS.

SINCE we 144 1i11e.11114,11 to this aubject many
instances of the harsh NMI vexatious working 114
the clause against which we protested when the hill
was la fore Parliament have Clime under our notice.
Ills` country the laltotirers tire in the habit of hoard-
ing up their small savings, and the treasure 14 never
resorted to eitectit in greet ettiorgoticios, Ithe poor
woman bad a bent sovereign, and several half-erowne
stamped with initials. Theo. she °MTN' in vain to
thews collector, her landlord, and '' the alai)."
mar appear trivial to some. but to the pw►r
woman it NAN important, and to !Inuit out Milt tocur
reel Mill...liee is not. trivial. It is unjust when II great
nutillll •makes an alteration in the value of
pall 11r itsefilli In the lolls to fall on flow., who
chance--like this Isla• woman—lto !Hold the essill
NllliCII Irian being current money is converted into
t.lil metal. The Ins xhould lw borne by the nation
at largo it• the I`llllllge was fur the national good.