The Express.
London, England, 1850-10-08 00:00:00

lie Umbel labourers in nue nanliaity." "Be works
4181118, tier the railway usestereet, " I mold not
r 'Yoe reformed toy contrasts had it not bees
W its ble industry." "It may ba all very
Moe !eia W /risk proprietor, "but he never
„albrtienlietiitieirMipleiset tea Dem New.) works at fasserif Then, let me sok, why does he
~,seems obvious.—
Demmer. WON Wilk at home? The answer _ d
I bewWneer, I believe, al let conclided the task becalm be haa not the same indwell." Be
oes
which Ina hapostd upon me. I have endeavoured to ~___ „,__ him money regularly rid, and
not work at home, because he does not get paid at
. ere the British public some potholers of estates of '77... ~.•:,7
~..
work as wag.'.hard at es he will
Miry Oka sod charseter which within the ""'" 17 ""•inieLl• "";.17.
mum minmaeration abased?
few months will be for sale in Ireland. In my work .tir
money wages anywhere, why does be go abroad an-
ima !se
wabthsalleellidigar /be estereaministbe relirellail.pirteliManth. .n; idi =ally on the precarious chance of getting them ? The
' with, dawns haee been furnieerdof rumen°, Why should he eel.? If he is not iodised to work for
......i.....1M-' --- -----'------- --...... '.. .' r.”.. disporetion of eke Irishman is not a roving disponi-
t eel...we err the en mannucturer ;
assay -sods tar
and has no wish to rush to England upon the °bums of
bon •. he is firmly attached to his own country : he
and available
henmaeseengradilaudemeni de „ii,,,,,4gaillea I,l,mbirrt"i,Zid,,rt7A obtaining work, and the regalarity of his ieturn when
aid- -4
'Willi' ---ggidi— 117 —E./ „„,...,—•—'l,--„n;.;,-+Vo the harvesting time is over shows conclusively what
lie;adde, se flidelsion—enileportestetends-7.1-lakes and— it was
h.s Ireland that he has at harvest time in England and
he went for. Give him the same chance in
isireallievelesin, :=lllo44ralkewcieihu.mightlsaihat"almdoseeet described,
Not • bit of it. Pay him money wages at home ant
class of purchase% mid sufficient to exhibit how varied will soy one believe that he would emigrate at all ?
are the resooresSe et behind. and how great are the
will work as hard at h.me as ever he worked away
oppertanitiesidish she now throws open to capital from it.
he will prefer testy at home, end for those wages he
s,ad enterprise.
'Ana now," said I to Mr. Ellis, "hemn you grow
Before I codelade these knees, I am anxious, how-
ever to take an opportunity of showing what may posing," he replied, " that I cannot sell them to ad-
he lone is Ireland, and this I can best do by crops here what will you do with t ?"—" S up-
vantage in this °wintry, I have the best corn market
offenses to the case of one whose property
I bad ea opportunity of seeing „.,..,°4 my read tons can come up the bay within • mile
in the world open to me. Ves ell of 130
tbroolth Gaon en route br`"""• e'ae"e• . at of the house. For 10s. a ton, or 2s. a quarter,
Clifden a rumour reached me that at a short distance I can obtain any amount of freight I want to Liver-
from that town, along the coast, an English Quaker viol, and if I cannot sell my corn to advantage. there
gentleman had recently formed a settlement with his t cannot sell it to advantage anywhere else in the
family, and that he was employing labour with con- nom." This appeared to be extremely reasonable,
orderable advantage. I took an opportunity of visit•
leg the place, the particulars of which had, I found, and Iberia farewell to thiejeood eettlertin Connemara,
convinced of the sobriety and soundneu of his views,
been correctly **Ported to me, and where I was of the excellence of his intentions, ar.d with the sin-
hospitably received by the proprietor referred to. Mr. carrot prayers for the success of his truly benevolent
EllO, a member of the Society of Friends, and • mertiorie.
brother of the sitting member tor the town of Leieet- They, then, is what may be done in sixteen months
tee. Mr. Ellis has been settled here only since lest is Ireland.An elegant villa built and inhabited—
April, bet be obtained his property and commenced
gardens
the work of reclamation on it 'beat sixteen months
laid out—a large quantity of virgin roil
reclaimed, and a portion of it rendered productive—the'
ago, and I will now proceed to tall you what he has people of the district improved in appearared and in
done within that comparatively very limited period- character, and the groundwork laid for still further
Mr. Elliespety is at a phase called Letterfrack, thugs, for the better.
about eight English miles north west of Clifden. It For Mr. Ellis feels that he has a duty to perform
consists of about 1,000 acres, which when he bought towards this poor and uninstructed population beycnd
it was ehlrfly reit, hill and bog. The property
....is the mere duty of employing them upon his land. He
situated at lit• head et • await arm of the see, celled is building a school in the vicinity, and a house to be
Ballynakill Bay, and the main portion of it is on the
hill aide, so that there is an excellent natural drain- used as a store for the supply of articles of necessity
is also in progress of erection. Both these will be
ape It is tow %beat sixteen .
_month,. ai"BMrt Ellis valuable to the vicinity, for there can, at present, be
commenced operations at lACCerttaCK• He began by neither the one nor the other within seven or eight
thorough draining the bog, which from its situation miler.
he did not find a difficult operation. The site which In the neighbourhood of Letterfrack there is ano-
ther property belonging to some English settler., the
he contemplated for hie house was reeky, but he blew
Messrs. Eastwood's, of Liverpool, who some years ego
up the rocks with gunpowder, and used the stone for
soaking hem and for building portions of the
pre-
mise& Upon this spot he has now a very elegant purchasedad a tract of land, and came to settle in tro-
d. As I saw this property only from the road I
villa, surrounded by a pries, which is well fenced
in. The house faces the bay upm the west. On the am diffident in raying very much concerning it, but
both my own observation and general cpinion justify
north it is approached by a read which will hereafter
be hidden by a ebrabbery. On the south there are me in stating that the site appears exceedirgly ill
chosen, and that if the land ever could be made pro-
wess, which extend to the foot of a range of hill',
sad which are watered by a stream which forms a Stable, it would probably only be at great expense.
The property is situated in the midst of the narrow
natural cascade, withia 100 yards of the windows of glen, known as the Pass of Kylemore. High chains
the drawing-room. A prettier situation can scarcely
be imagined. It combines views of sea, lake, aed of mountains form its boundaries on either side, and
their deep dark shadows seem to ba cast over the
estate full halt the ordinary time of sunlight.
mountain, without participating in the inconveniences
et either. The gloomy. grandeur of the place is undoubted,
I congratulated Mr. Ellis on the beauty of hie Fai-
lle°. He acknowledged its merits with satisfaction. bat the propriety of its selection as a place for culti-
vation is far less certain. The land which has been
"And yet, when I took this place," said he, "it was reclaimed is situated on the flat, and dor a not appear
not altogether the position of my choice. I could to have any good fall for purposes of drainage. A
have found others I should have preferred, but the
great deal of money has evidently been seeet in deep-
Encumbered Estates Act was not then in operation, ening trenches and cutting drains, but in a different
situation this expenditure might obviously have been
and the difficulty about title in Ireland was so great
that I was obliged to look foe land where I could get turned to far better account.
it with a good title rather than for that which had lam reticular in mentioning this property be-
merely a good position." This illustrates practically cause it is the same adverted to by the late Sir Ro-
ane of the great advantage* which the En- Pert Peel in one of his speeches on the improvement
cumbered Estates Act is securing for
cheerers in Ireland. They are not now exposed to
Pm' of Ireland. Sir Robert Peel held out the example of
the Messrs. Eastwood's to the imitation of other Bli-
the difficulties, delays, and extravagant costs at tie!, speculators.
tendant on critical investigations into matters of pro- And now that a favourable opportunity is open
prietorehip. Upon ore small skin of parchment, and
than
in little more half admen limes, the Encumbered why should not the example of those who have thou
purchased land and settled themselves and their fami-
Estates Colluololuders are able telt,. • Parliamen" lies in Ireland be extensively followed ? Is there a
tar 7 title, Prarrabt° before every claim of every sort single reason that should deer anyone ? I shill have
and kind; it may be drawn in an hour, and its cost written these letters to very little acoaant if I have
will not be a guinea. In fact, one of the not illustrated that the speculation is a good one—tleit
prevailing objections to the working of the Eu- purchases of land may be made in Ireland at rela-
tively cheaper rates than in any other part of the
cumbered Estates Act wires out of this very
circumstance. No body of men of recent years United Kingdom ; that property is safe, that labour
is 'headset and most cheep—that the price both of
have had so rich a harvest as Irish solicitors.
the produce of the land and of the land of Ireland
The property of the country has been in their hands,
and the complex asters of its position has been to itself, is certain, at no distant date, to rise materially
them a source of great emolument. It is a common in value.
61°11 to hear an Irish lawyer rail against the Earam- But it is said—and it is • strong indication of Irish
despair that it should be said—it is and in Dublin
breed Estates Act on the ground, not that it will rain
the interests of the nation, but that it will ruin the and elsewhere: "Oh, we shall have no English dpi
business of attorneys. A. regards the law of real tidies here ;if they had been coming they would have
Now, I think it is by no
mprofererttayd,dthLeriesttitedresthLillitwworldtulidtsbesimpopaidlitibealetiotot
mmeaadnespdairtfichimaieslt toasfreadhowy‘ow it has occurred that little
English capital has at the present time been thrown
work it by a thouand parliamentary enactments for
into this channel. The estates which have been
the amendment of the practice of the High Court of
Chancery. mold hitherto have mainly been of two detrac-
t/es : either properties, like the D'Arcy rime,
to ratans to Letterfrack. A large portion of
in Blare so circumstanced as to be nearly worthless,
this property has already been reduced to a state that
or else properties like the I:lopping estate in Meath,
admits of cultivation. Near the house a small plot of
Prim. the value of wbicti has been greater to a resident or
ground was town this season with rye gram.
tenant, than to any purchaser on speculation. Now,
to the beginning of August two crops of the grass had
neither of these ere the sort of properties an English-
been taken off the ground, and when I saw it there
man would look for. He wants a promising property
English-
was • third crop on it which would soon be ready to
at a speculative price. Where such have been offered
be out. The garden is already well stocked with
beans, carrots, abbess. and other vegetables, acid in the Encumbered Estates Court, there have not
Clove, consisting of six hundred
there was a capital gathering of strawberries bee* wanting speculative purchasers. An estate
ben not many weeks ago. At the rear of cad Harding
the house is a large field which Mr. Ellis acme, nearchnrievate, in the
county
of
coucil:teed reclaiming on the 17th of May. This Limerick, was pot up for sale last July. It
was excellent land, unencumbered by tenente, but
Geld was sown with turnips. Half were sown in
beyond this it had no particular advantages. This
gum, hall in sea weed obtained from the bay, at •
estate was sold to a Scotolunan, a sub-railway con-
disease. of not more than half a mile. The turnips
tractor, for 6,0001. Every one says that he got it
sown in guano have failed entirely : but those sown
particularly cheap. The purchaser intends to come
is ess-weed might be exhibited with a fair chance of
cultural show in England.
obtaining prizes at an and settle on the property and to farm it himself. He
In fairness to those who y agri have an affection for guano,
has already takes possession ; he has plenty of capital
I should state that, in this particular cue, the guano to commune operations, and there can be no doubt
was purchased at a country tows, and that it may but that he will sawed. This is just the sort of
case in which an Englishman or Scotehman would
have 'been indifferent is quality. Foe the purpose of
feel justified in purchasing. He wants a property on
my argument, however, this is of little consequence ;
which there is a probability that he can lay out his
for what I desire to show is, that an Irish proprietor
situated ita,r ttneles real__, has .__ltt )ands hand,, the brat money to advantage, and he wants it at • moderate,
'Mat" it is possible to obtain fa 1.4 U. which, like though he by no means demands a disproportionastly
Mr. Ellie s, present beg ew melsees. low price.
Oa another Po_ etiree.erMtvitieLeetate ao opera Now that a clam of properties of this description
tics was going !broads which afforded me eVelt a still are likely at no distant date to come into the market,
farther measure atiaseneagement. In a field of about it may be hoped, I think, that Englishmen with capi-
tal will not neglect the opportunities which these
8 acres from 26 to Noble-bodied Irishmen were hard
at arra tango, up the hitherto unturned sod. It sales of encumbered estates open to them. It is very
desirable, however, that the nature and character of
was begyfklat, through which drains were ran last
year. the whole is turned Mr. Ellis intends tba different estate,. to be gold should be sufficiently
to let the land lie until the spring, and thee to sow it made known in &egad. s. I ham" writes a ma,
with fives crops. spondent of the Daly Nara, "that your correspond-
" Bat bow is the I ohierweil "Them Irishmen ant in Ireland will sot meth& his series of letters
are hard at work, every one of them, and yet I am without calling attention to the conduct of
'
told everywhere that they are an indolent race of puts, in Dublin who are entrusted with
people who ma be got to do nothisir , the carriage of estates for sale. There
"These wee: said Mr. Billet. the cheerful ca
seems to be absolutely a disinclination to afford
both six ill the Mapridili to six In PM' "lain* with publicity, at this side of the channel, to the rentals
IMO, intervals for breakfast sad &now, for meet's and particulars. There are estates for sale in °do-
me/Ibl anordialto their several _ _
_,_._eaPteitia,_frew 7d. her and November, the particulars of which, though
to 9d. a day. are Pala refraranY to 00,7 eagerly sought after, are not obtainable in London.
'wades. and they show themeless not eddy coatenneas It is idle to inveigh against the hesitation evinced by
bat grateful" Englishmen to embark their capital in Irish purr-
-1 I obsoreod that their re sulirrilir to chases, if the opportunity is not to be afforded them
that of the_
_peasantry to last with generally In of obtaining information with respect to them."
Oliva/. mr. Elliessid that both their appearance Naturally cautions and prudent, the Englishman
*sir eiathiall had hen very greatly changed for has been narrowly orafthim ths sales of encumbered
bettor sines they had obtained es t. The estates which have taken *or daring the list flu
ma were waetias very hard, and that the months. He has had an opportunity of seeing the
iiffiffiff was in the field I suggested that they of the act : he cannot fail to me how adm-
irer, labouring on that amount with unload sea- taiwc=y he may tarn its opeetta tof sooi:ant.
daffy P "I same thee," said this excellent gentle- Clive him proper information and due Ibiemillitare
doubtve
"that I have frequently set the bailiff oat of ligation and inquiry, then can
y, and haverne
could watch
the top that fetus sales of rnputy salted to English par.
Wilhelm whores a
Mlag datereed, and I never cum saw any their meets to tsz greater extent theta heretofore:
Illassese itbstirese in the way they worked. There And inntig woken of di wow', emtedto English
age as heft, wevatscrybawaeztresidetrid;thrthes6 run
wardsthes:munselpartfes rt
I! :milt, to address a few
gaSteuula,,,„ to ....i this genthelatt's experieses high" alivalaweatimmi""and that; be
iss°l.'
tisk per- misdealt@ to thrust upon purchasers
. ' ebee'Xitittiem' red cal
cal e°
possible
• silt far too deseription of estate, whether v-'
a mantsasanamengst certain Irish land- wise. Now I mast say I
that the w ertil set work at home. lug at Irish estates goreurally,
warps abeoadf says the English farmer, " I them ss properties which mot, ty,
le Iridh reapers bat year, and they worked saleable at the prices which land
bine, tbsa say other seen in my field." "He And. If I taks the very bun sr'
sthebn abroad,* says the American thterehant, "the with in my journey, what do 7
Islii lames% ea the wharfs at the New Wed ate has been la Omen dime

THE ENCUMBERED ESTATES
' • OF IRELAND.
No. 111.

aii'd who seem to final
sold is to be bought at
is the duty of the cora-
stratagem any sort aad //, fit
her valuable or ether-
frankly tbat,
ally, I cannot . • t7;:ili ity
or which coed to
sad will realise in ).,1
estate that Iha • Ai
I dad P Why, that Ad
aveikai4lratty parart„-w,. a 47