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London, England, 1822-10-23 00:00:00

Los often commit sets of cruelly from ignorance of
the state of the tenantry. and .a with to ingratiate
theimelves with their employers. When speaking
of middlemen we should add. that there are so-
mber description of them, who, from variations.
eurnstaints, have survived the shock of lint:hangs
if times—we mean an ignorant and 'unedecated
clan of them, denominated farmers, oho practise
towards their tenantry and labourers the most etre.
cious persecution—we know instances in which all
-ohatemenointee bent refused by .the Aran, and
webers the latter have been treated with unparalleled
croaky t ern charged au exorbitant rate for their
ieltfohlt"gregm,d, next a high rent for their wretched
Itn, gracing for their poor env, horse, pig, or ;
r stook,Ae.; finally, distre:sed. at the end of
title, twist, ee three year', if they felled to perform
Oen heed. coalition, send then compelled to quit
eisseeroe.. sad give Glace to smother set or Is.
Wirers, !fiewere destined, in their turn, to cape-
-I,loete the muse **end of misery and oppressioss.
Wesson odd. that these are ntit the educated and
/Idighteeed, het a class of middlemen, who cannot
. often end sad write, and who are frequently found.
feove adventitious circumstances. to be beiteficisl
!ewes of from forty to one hundred acre' of lund
to the tooth of Irehtod ; no persons meriting the
.poelpellotion of gentlemen, or educated men, de-
scend ter'this extreme of cruelty ; but of all the
daises c, wretched Irish. we repeat, the labourer*
are the most to be eyttiputhised with.
Theme have riot the chances of realising some.
thing by the produce of their industry, as the small
-fonners have.' and the bare price of their potato
rgroorni,in many imassces, countervails the an ttttt
a their sandal Ishour to their employer. Where
us, how, thew, ale the wretched accoiumminsents of
ia-lic and salt to he 'procured, together with raiment.
fuel, amid lodging for a numerous family. brought
together by the early and improvident mareiagro,
1.41 often coutracted among the lower Irish, end a
fruitful source of all our national mi-erits I A
sooderste (gouge for cottages and potato land, en
•che part of the landlords and employer., would do
;inch to ameliorate the situation of this unhappy
elms or persons, whose ease, we hesitate not to may,
is by far rite most pitisble and deplorable its the
et 00000 tty districts of Ireland. of all description of
*trfferers, amid the ruttedy fur which, and mein. of
improvement, are done so the hands of the Node
lords and Former..
. With respect to the rate of rents in the mulls of
Ireland, the Attorney•Greneral's alinement is much
.alculateri to mislead the public; when lie speaks of
41. lo int. per sere, we really do not know what this
•iilightetted and truly respectable gentleman means;
ism will assert, without fear of contradiction, that
the Remind average rate of rents in the large county
of Cook, and parts of Kit ry, is from 40a. to 30.. per
English slalom acre, sled it frequently descends to
tug. and Iss. In Tipperary and Limerick the
land is of coneirtrrably better quality. awl the
Inge plantation or Irish acre is the Measurement,
rand there we know the average rate to be 311 s.
a 404. stud Os: 61. per Irish mete for prime horde;
we speak of the prevent rates, and not of the high
wow mot.. a 'lir+ none but fools anti madmen could
think of asking, rod which they can only have on
paper, on raw tenant ern or sill i.ay them ; we think
it pomade, the learned and eloquent Gentleman
'night hare alluded to tl e rent of potato go.und,
*ditch was, a• we have before remarked, shamefully
high, hut which leay. in, the disturbed parts mil Li-
Merl( k, undergone a reduction of nearly 00 per
cent..
The prevent estbreriptions and charitable anocia,
lions throughout the costertry do the whore high
Knower mad credit for good nod benevolent inten-
t urea ; Lute as we soil before, we strongly doubt the
iletatryof The Irish (though often industrious)
are isatoratly an indolent people, and would hive
no objection to get food without labour. Already
every • passing stranger meets aloes the roads
Droops of well-fed and well-clad people of the
baser closers. ohri regularly and uublu.hingly oppty
tuts Mane, which it iv apparent they don't want ; the
efaialten tire begimting to lisp the fawning and art-
lest tutee said ',items prayer of the wandering men-
diem's and 'moldy beggar. We have our fears, that
IN. -arum will raisers the people into a nation of
peeper., and break down some spirit of proper pride,
sel.lels before existed. The Committees throughout
Imitssid have made the most praiseworthy and imle-
fatigable efforts to diffuse the roomy iu labour semi
Eatisi•ekerrity; but a load of money has found its
ear so alms, -in spite of them, and hence the mita
cinef. We rantior better illustrate this part of the
',object than by mentioning, that an highly respect-
alod. aoal hat-Hiked friend of ours, residing in one
ofitfie distressed districts of the county Claire. has
saihred us, thst he thought the distress would have
been mach more effectually and judiciously relieved
if they were left to do it silently and an 00000 gst
themselves. as in the year 1817, than by all the
noise and publicity on the present occasion, he-
because they weeld then have only, us in 1817,
those aliplying for relief who were actually ob-
jects; whereas, is the present instance, almost
«very man in the parish becamean applicant, and
marl of those who, to his own knowledge, rild'not
want, but re ho thriught that as money or food was going
in so many different directions. they ins; as well
get their share. %Ve are by no means seeptics as to
the esistenee of distress in some particular districts,
but we doubt its tiring so general and extensive as
same ',ermine imagine ; and the recently well-
authenticated fact, that upwards of our hundred
peousand pounds per annum is spent to the city of
Lurk in dram and porter drinking. amply proves
list it is not. inasmuch all both have been found
to lie on the increase within the last six mouths.
We yowled conclude this article without express-
ter our decided conviction that there never will be
I race, happiness. and prosperity in Ireland, until
ere is some mittertal modification in the manner
art cuhiecting, or an actual commutation of, tithes.
1V e know, on the mr4tority of rectors and unpropri-
aloes theimelves, that oil dry and barren lands. in
tie- county of Cork, eleven, twelve, and thirteen
sliiiitEge per English statute acre on potatoes has
been extorted front the imfortumste people, to the
disastrous years of 1890 and 1821, and so in prow.
'toil (sir wheat, oats, bailey, and other crops. Hear
this. Mr. Plunkett ! and you other eneni:es to coin-
causation !! Will one out of thousands of cases
trod further to coot inceyou I A semicolon of our
quelfiltilCe possesses elf estate between Cork and
Marlow. consisting of two ploughlands, the tithe of
winch wn valued at ninety-two roods, in the high

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