The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-16 00:00:00

Lord Stanley in Tipperary.

We find in the Freeman's Journal a report of the annual
show of the Tipperary Union Fanning Society, which was
held at Tipperary on Tuesday. Lord Stanley attended
the show, and presided at the dinner in the evening. In
proposing the toast of the evening, the noble lord
reviewed at considerable length the present condition of
Ireland. He might be th ught too sanguine, tut he could
not bring himself to take a desponding view of the future
of Ireland, and especially of that part of it. Recent bad
seasons had operated against the farmers, and from all parts
of Ireland, especially from the south and west, there had
been a continuous outflow of emigration. They had no se-
curity against the recurrence of bad seasons, and the best
course they could adopt was, to guard against having too
many eggs in their basket. or, in other words, placing too
much dependence on any particular crop, (Rear, hear.)
The present year happily was the most prosperous since
1860, and the drought that prevailed had not been half
so severely felt in Ireland as in England. If he thought
that the drain of the population was to continue for any
considerable time, that the country was to become a mere
grazing field, and cattle were to take the place of men, he
would not be able to express himself hopefully, and as
an Englishman he should deeply lament that the empire
was deprived of so many/ stout hearts and strong arms,
so much capacity for labour, and the heroic courage
which had been tested long ago, and might be
required again. But his reading and observation led him
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to doubt that the tide of emigration would continue to flow
at the same rate, and although he knew that a country so
ndication of the approaching termination of that tremen-
ceased the release from the military service of about a mil-
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Moreover, he saw with pleasure the gradual increase of
wages in Ireland, which, as it progressed, must remove
ttadtnahurhlecewiemljoatfyhnited States, where there was a
many of the temptations to emigrate. As men became
abundant in America wages would diminish, as they de-
creased in Ireland wages would increase, and thus before
long the disparity of wages which existed would be in a
large measure removed. This led him to the reflection
that the low-paid labour which had been the- rule in
Ireland was not always cheap, and that the well fed
and well paid labourer was likely to do more work than
three men dieted and remunerated on the old scale,
Ireland, undoubtedly, was a prolific country. Within
the past few days he had seen many cabins, where,
alas I the occupants had few of the necessaries and
none of the comforts of life, He might ask why
then, if the population of Ireland had fallen off, that of
England had increased. The reason was that England
was a manufacturing country. Ire the English agricul-
tural districts the population had also decreased. Thousands
had been attract el to the large manufacturing towns. It was
a significant fact that there were about 100,000 Irish living
in and around Liverpool, and the calculation was that there
.
were over 800,000 Irish in the manufacturing districts of
England and Scotland, People ought in fairness to recollect
that these figures did not represent a movement from
this country as a whole, but only a movement from one
be received with welcome in England, d nEe
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iu Ireland, His Lordship referred to the
increasing culti-
vation of flax in the south of Ireland as an experiment which
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England and Scotland. The Irish climate, it damper, was
milder; the soil was more fertile, the beauties of scenery
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more frequent and remarkable. the days of Welence