The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN. MAT 6.
The claims of the distressed protestant clergy have
been brought with great force-before the p•blie by
the Irish &daiastical Auras& A subeeripoon has
been made for them, and the Arehlgshop of Dublin
heads the list with the munificent 90111 of 1371. Mr.
Arthur Odessa costribetes 401.; Lady Arden has
gives 601.; six leaden have been appointed for the
Lad sad subscriptioes are received by the Rev.
Cherie' Wo/seley, 133, fitephen's•green. Amongst
the came brought forward into public notice is that of
• clergyman whose income was 3671. yearly. Of
that sem OIL was assigned to pay ael ergs
1.600 t on the glebe house. His poor rates for
last year were 1601. He had • rent of 471.
to pq far the glebe, =defter paying an insuranos be
W a Ukase ottltfarnm to support his wife,
himod4 •d mosei
A address of congts'ulation was
last Tasedq by his former pupils to the
v. Dr. Wall, theVies-Proved of Trinity College.
It was signed by a most distinguished list of sub-
scribers. The ssmetaties who had charge of the ad-
dress were Dr. Ceske Taylor and the Rev. Samuel
O'Sullivan, D.D.
In the Daily News of the 20th ult. I forwarded to
lee some information relative to the painfully visible
decline of animal vigour observable in the surviving
Idle population of the lower classes. I have
dues dna otinnumicated with medical observers, and
the isimmation I have obtained is not without he
vales. I have been told that the physical decline of
animal vigour in the living paupers el the workhouse
is not to be attributed to mut at bed, bet rather to
the total change in the nasal hulls d the people.
In ordinary years our plesantry were a light-hearted
happy race, of '
tsg hails and mercurial nature.
They bad much social led mil enjoyments
altogether peculiar to tssir Itemorwleving character.
Now they feel like rimless—degraded and unfortu-
nate—no longer their own masters—without any, joys
—without " home" (and to an Irish peasant how
mach is there in that one word !)—their ties of kindred
violated—huddled together like cattle in a great
pauper boss—without hope for the future, without
sejoyment of the present—with sorrowful recollec-
tions of the past
To prescribe outdoor relief is the same u prescrib-
ing communism. There is a class antagonism, and
re'igious opposition between our proprietary bodies,
and those who lead on our popular muse., which
would render it unsafe to trust the power of taxing
property ad Odeon into certain hands. There is too
mach reason to fear that in some quarters the out-
door relief would be zealously demanded, not so much
out of love for the population as out of hatred to the
proprietors. There is danger that a terrible retalia
tion would be exacted fir the relienis servitude and
social oppression of former timer.
Bat though out-door relief may be impossible, can
nothing be doze to set the people at wake Mr. Butt,
Q.C., in his recently published pamphlet (" The Rate-
in-Aid"), says, "I would amend the poor-law by bas-
ing it upon the principle of the good old poor-law of
Queen Elizabeth, via., that the people of each /wish
should be compelled to find employment, or at least
were, for every man in it, willing and able to work."
Sir John Romilly's set for creating a commission will
still require time to come into extensive operation,
and in the meanwhile thousands of the population
will be destroyed.
The observations of Mr. Serjeant Howley, in his
recent charge in the county of Tipperary, give sew
firmation, it it were required, to what we hear from
all sides.
It is generally said that the crops are looking very
well, and that there is plenty of seed sown, if ilfoVl-
dance will bless us with a favourable semen. The
effects of a good harvest would be most reviving, and
as the season has set in delightfully, we may have
hopes of emerging from our present depression.