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STATE OF IRELAND.

BALLOT.

PRICE sd.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN,. DEC. Q.
It is impossible to conceal the fact—that in Ireland as well
as in England, " public opinion," while advancing in the cause
of Reform, and strengthened in its progress by the events of
the new Parliament, is nevertheless unhinged by the different
sentiments that have been recently expressed as to the conduct
of the present Government. The Tories in this country are
alive to the circumstance ever since the delivery of Lord John
Russell's speech in reply to Mr. Wakley at the commencement
of the Session •, and they regarded it as the sure indication of
those growing dissensions amongst Reformers, which must ne-
cessarily injure their cause sooner or later. Many persons
thought that speech a judicious one, calculated to appease the
apprehensions of some honest Conservatives, who may be really
alarmed at the apparent advance of change in our institutions ;
and that it would be the means of gaining ever moderate men to
the Ministerial measures in favour of Ireland. But they
were mistaken. The faction in this country, and we fear in
England, have but one object in view—the restoration of Tory
power and ascendancy—and accordingly we find, that instead
of giving credit to his Lordship for a line of policy, at once
Conservative, constitutional, and judicious—such as some of
them profess themselves to be in favour of—they are gloating
over the prospect of soon seeing the Whigs become as unpo-
pular as themselves. It would be quite immaterial to the
community at large what the speculations of the faction
may be ; if the Liberals were united, and steadily pur-
sued that course of improvement which is consistent with those
principles of Reform already established, and which is per-
fectly feasible at this moment, notwithstanding the strong op-
position in Parliament. But, unfortunately, many efficient
and powerful friends of the people in Parliament, and con-
nected with the public press, are forwarding the views of the
enemy, by pressing upon Government the consideration of
questions, which certainly ought to be postponed until Ireland
'has had the benefit of equal laws with the sister country. It
is impolitic, if not absurd, to talk of making the " Ballot" a
Government question, before her Majesty's Ministers have
carried those measures to which they stand pledged on behalf
of this country: You profess to identify our cause with your
own, and to regard us as part and parcel of England. And
yet, before you have extended to us the advantages of that
Corporate Reform which we aided you in obtaining, and which
has continued as a remanet from one session to the other, these
three years past, you begin to proclaim the necessity of vote
by ballot and an extension of the franchise ; as if that neces-
sity, supposing it to be impera'ive and pressing, did not arise
out of the opposition of a faction to the amelioration of this
portion of the United Kingdom. It is confessed on all sides,
that Ireland has, within the last four years, attracted the
especial care and consideration of every Ministry that has
undertaken the management of public affairs—that she has
forced herself upon the attention of the Executive and the Le-
gislature—and that, in fact, she has advanced to a position ren-
dering it impossible for any statesman to continue at the helm,
who is not prepared to remove some of the evils under which she
has groaned for ages. Not only is all this manifest, but it is
quite evident, that Corporate Reform, a settlement of the
Tithe Question, and Poor Laws for Ireland—measures deemed
essentially necessary for advancing the people of this country
to something like a participation in the benefits of the British
Constitution—have during the last two years stood in the way,
and, as it were, obstructed the Legislature in the discharge
of other duties to the empire at large. And because Govern-
ment keeping this policy steadily in view, do not outstep the
progress of events, and put in her Majesty's speech, at ti .e
commencement of this Session topics better suited to some
future occasion, some of their most zealous and honest sup-
porters raise an outcry, divert public attention from objects cf
paramount regard, and embarass the present Government in
their endeavours to promote those objects. This surely is not
the course by which the friends of the people can procure the
greatest possible good for the greatest number of the commu-
nity. You may be assured that these sentiments are gaining
ground among persons of intelligence and influence in this
country, who care riot one jot for Whig or Tory farther than
they promote our public good, but who regret to see the
former impeded in the accomplishment of some utility to this
part of the empire which the latter never contemplated. Let
us have that measure of Reform which the Whigs only can
give us in time to avert great evils, and we shall, as before,
join you in seeking further blessings.
Mr. Sharman Crawford has addressed a letter to the editor
of the Wexford Independent, on the subject of landlord and
tenant, which deserves the attention of some of our represen-
tatives. However impracticable the Hon. Gentleman has
been himself as a legislator, no doubt can exist of his general
ability, and disposition to serve his country ; and it is much to
be regretted that he did not persevere, as a Member of Par-
liament, in obtaining such a law as he describes in the letter
alluded to. The principle he lays down is—" That the Al-
mighty gave the soil to the creatures whom he placed upon it,
to subsist themselves upon its produce by their labour • and
that the monopoly of the soil cannot be vested in individuals
as private property, except subject to this ordinance of the
Almighty." The plan he suggested in support of this prin-
ciple, without trenching upon the rational rights and interest
of the landlord, would greatly tend to abolish the exercise of
a right, which has in some instances been productive of the
most mischievous consequences. If it were possible for every
landlord in Ireland to follow the example of Mr. Quin in the
county of Wexford, the country should become almost a wil-
derness ; for Protestant tenants and husbandmen, cultivating
the soil with their own hands, could not be found fur the tenth
part of the lands—even though every Protestant was, like our
primeval parents, to become a ploughman or a delver I The
letter was properly addressed to the Wexford Independent, as
well on account of the well-merited station of that publication
amongst the provincial press of Ireland, as because Mr. Quin
is not the only person entitled to land in that county, who has
manifested a disposition to exterminate a class of Roman
Catholics, who are not only as useful, but as respectable, arid
much more independent members of society, than their lana-
i. lords.

PUBLIC MEETINGS-VOTE BY

On Wednesday a public meeting of the inhabitants, called
by the Lord Provost, in consequence of a numerously signed
requisition, was held in the large Waterloo Room, Edinburgh,
for the purpose of petitioning Parliament in favour of Vote by

Ballot.. -
The Scotsman, speaking of this meeting, makes the follow-
ing amongst other observations :
The meeting on Wednesday in favour of the Ballot, was,
with the exceptien of the disturbance that was created after
the material business had been finished, all that the best

friends of the cause could wish. We never, at any public mee
ing among the many which have lately been held in Edin,
burgh, heard the sentiments of speakers more heartily cheered
or resolutions more cordially acceded to. The presence of the
Lord Provost, Sir James Gibson Craig, Sir Thomas Dick
Lauder, John Robison, Esq., and several of the Magistrates of
Edinburgh, showed a hearty co-operation in the cause, which
many hardly expected at present. Among those who had first
suggested the demonstration, there were several who are partial
to the other measures generally associated with the Ballot--
an Extension of the Suffrage, and the Repeal of the Septen-
nial Act. Believing that the Ballot was a question in which
several who did not feel the necessity of these other measures,
might join them, they unanimously agreed to restrict the ob-
ject of,the meeting to that subject alone, and to invite all the
friends of the measure to a general demonstration in its favour,
in which it was understood that nothing likely to be offensive
to any branch of the Liberal party should he brought forward.
How handsomely the invitation wat accepted, let the list of
those present at the head of our report of the proceedings
testify. Such being the state of things, we feel deep regret
that even a small and very insignificant portion of our citizens
should have met their cordial aad public-spirited co-pperation
with an unmannerly rebuff.
Three resolutions had been carried in the most effectual
manner in which resolutions can be carried by a public meet-
ing, viz , by hearty and strenuous applause, which completely
drowned any attempt at dissent, if any was made. After the
3d resolution was carried, an individual whose name we under-
stand to be Fraser, aderessed the meeting. He was quietly
listened to, until he was heard distinctly to propose that an ex-
tension of the franchise should be petitioned for along with the ,
Ballot. This was out of order ; and the Lord Provost oh. I
served, that the meeting having been called to petition
ment for the Ballot, no other question could be entertained by
it. From the vast preponderance of the mai mit), which
passed the third resolution when the Lord Pre,vost put it to
the meeting—a majority of about nine to one- _there could be
no doubt of the general feeling of the meetly ; and all that
has been accomplished by the dissentients b -35 been, that, by a
singular happy device, they have manav,ed to put into the
hands of the opponents of an extension o f the suffrage, a de-
claration against it, by an overwhelming majority, at a public
meeting of the inhabitants of Edinburgh. There are some
who will feel grateful for this service.
GLASGOW.--A public meeting alsr ) was held at Glasgow,
last Friday, for the purpose of enforci, ig the adoption of the
Ballot.

SUNDERLAND.--On the same day at Sunderland, there was
a great meeting of the electors and . inhabitants of the borough
of Sunderland, to petition Parliami 'nt for the Ballot. Reso-
lutions, in consonance with the °kit cts of the meeting, which
excluded Household Suffrage, Wert unanimously adopted.
NEWCASTLIZ.—A public meetin g was held at Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, on Monday, in cons, quence of a numerously-
signed requisition of the inhabitant s, to take into consideration
the recent declaration of Lord Job n Russell against the Ballot
and the Extension of the Sufic: tge. The Mayor presided.
Several gentlemen deprecated is at declaration, and gave their
opinion that it was at variance: with the opinions of many of
his Lordship's best friends. h. • resolution was then agreed to,
the purport of which was, Oa; at the meeting had heard, with
the deepest regret and indign: t. ion, the opinion of Lord John
Russell against the progress o E Constitutional Reform ; that it
had diminished the confidence of the people in the Ministry ;
and that the people would the refore no longer rely upon them
but would depend upon them ,elves alole, A memorial to the
Queen was also unanimously agreel to, praying her Alajesty