The Sun.
London, England, 1830-07-02 00:00:00

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The svietehed eonditioti of the pooref Ireland at
Ale rrtnmeiit may be judged from the late dreadful
scene* at. Limerick, where, with hardly any es:cep-
Amt„.the Whole moss of the lower orders, under die
;pre srotre otextreme went, commenced a system of
onerillepredation,iticeompanied by nets of the most
lawless and fearless violence. That hunger was un-
happily the rause of these exeesses, is plain from
the peer creatures confining their pillage to bakers'
situps, meal rind potato stores, &e., grasping at every
thing that was consumable for food, and, except inci-
dentally, abstaining from every other kind of pr'-
petty. This is the consequence of potato-diet---of
1 the poverty which drove an entire people to cult'•
vote that as the most accessible species of suste-
nance, and of the vicious code of laws and habits
which entailed upon them that extremity of &stint.
hilts .The Irish peasantry ale not go to market and
lirty their food as the labourers of I:ngla,u have
'tone for the last thirty years. They raise it on a bit
,}f land, from heltan acre to two acres, contiguous to
their hovel habitations ; if they did not, they must
perish. Neither is the rotato-garden —our
English readers must not suppose we use the word
garden" in the English sense—an appendage and
auxiliary to the regoihr wages of the poor of Ire-
land. They have no regular wages; they catch a
day's work whenever they can find it, ike a glimpse
of sunshine in a winter's-day. The Ood.send
of a tley's wages is a happy variety in the pen-
stint's lire. It is not, as in England or elsewhere,
the rule and course of his existence, but work is the
t,sception—idleness the rule; and the potato-gar-
ri.en, with its produce, is the staple support of his
family. When the potato-crop fails, what becomes
of the wretched beings 1:1 Ray food with their
wages But they never have any money, except
from the periodical sole of a pig, which ulone pro-
vides the landlord's rent—the con-acre rent—lbw
times over what the land would be worth to the
most skilful farmer in the country. NVell, then, the
;mottoes failings and the means to purchase a supply
of food nut existing, the man and his family must
stnrve) or they must rob—yes, rob "have they
telt the parish-ollieers Why not come upon the
poor-rates " leerily this is the exact point tint
we have beets driving at..A man, with his wife anti
teat childreo,—whether in health or sickness, it mat•
tors tent,-r-may die of hunger, if not unpitied,
ant-
seveoured at least in Ireland ; for the law allows no
,Upper*, as in England, to the unemployed, and
diseased, and famishing Irish artisan or peasant. We
should mars-el much at erlett we See awl hear every
(lily in the tone and conduct of Irish landlardw, but
sett, like the sbioned eels, we are used to it. Their
poorer tenants have neither work nor food : there
is en absolute went of wherewithal to satisfy

hungq, for which there are three cutoes—a ddt-
eieut demand for labour, an excessive demand of
and a total absence of all provision for pau-
pers. We have been, Irish landlords persist in
exclaiming-that the rent was not too high, smee the
people offered it ; that there was work enough, but
that the Irish poor were idle, and that the poor laws
for Ireland were out of the question, because, Ist,
they noo)d burden the land too heavily; 2rl, be-
entme they had "piodueed so much misery in Eng-
lund Good and 'enlightened Irish gentlemen
there are, undoubtedly, who admit that the country
cannot go on unit is, and that food must be found
for the destitute, by some means or other, by gie.
log food to those who cannot find work, or by find-
ing work for those who cannot, through any exer-
tiro) of their own, find sustenance!. Assuredly, if
the alternative were put to us, whether to support
the idle poor, and get no return for the money, or
to exact hilmot from those whom we assist, and so
reader charity productive, the latter sch'cros is, an
thtl feco of is, that which any reasonable mind would
p efer without, hesitation. But if there be no other

elflike than to leave the,poorof Ireland mdded,
or to introduce the British poor !awe into the
emititry,--metining thereby the principles of those
wa, unembarrassed by some of their detailed abuses,
tee ebOlibl berthed', *Olt less in preferring the
grmuitosis Hipport of human heinge, though in
idleness, to the opeetscle of their cruel death by
hunger, than we should in preferring their main-
teurinee by the. wages of labour found for them, to a
maintenance from poor , rates without any such con•
dillua, Witlt regerd to the English poor laws, it
ill becomes an Irish landlord to talk of the evils
"‘ which they have produced," when the miseries
within sight of his own habitation are sueb.as, even
muter the mast extravagant inisepplieation of the
poor laws, never mold have existed. We Speak
from what we have seen valet, we say that with
acme exceptions, the Irish landlords are the very
worst that exist in any countty—we daaa% P4l of
the civilised, but even of the teiliNteoll* portions of
thu world, Their tenants, epitheipieSirly, are the
I most degraded and wretched of auakind—we might

almost ray of the animal kind. (".lertainly, in Eng.
land and France eve.; -pip; htad an existence of
ittcater comfort nod plenty than the Irish peasant.—

I Uwe.

The intentions of the Ministrri concerning the
hooloefli in Parliament were explained on Wednes-
day to both. Houses, It is the intention of "the
Nlioharek to pass the Due Bill, and Spirit Duties
1)111; to drop the Stamp CA'mbolkintian Bill, and
Out New .Bquity Judge Bill; to abandon Mr.
tioulburn's graduated scale of Sugar Miles' and
to pass instead en' Act to reduce the duty on West
Witt Sugar :lc, told that on East India sa, per
rya, Having done this there is to be a temporary
voto on the Account or the Civil List.r, The Dill for

ineorporatirm Wei with the Englis.h
cults, the Minieters trust will piss. The -Bill. for
srertniping and fixing the incornee of the pi tent
i,Moror connected with the administration of mike,
Sir It. Peri elso,hopes to get through the two
louses. , All the other Bills which he been
111600 by Ministers or other Members, are 'inst.
potted till the meeting of another Parliament. The

,clisosts given b 7 the Minister* for not bringing •for.
ward the liiiibitloll* en the Civil List and the Ito•
gooey, is the inconvenience of propotnuling topics
which trill require so much discussion at this season
of the year, and with tut imminent dissolution in
prospect.; On the question of the Civil Litt, .Sir
R. Peel alleged that the Civil Litt admitted of so
merit irnproreincnt, that it, would be it:possible, for
the. fjoverntrient to prepate a well-digested plan be.
core tinttints for the dissotution arrived, We NM*

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►i.'s Widiti 119 t Are 'say great difficulty:it) the ease
thatigenciy, till we reed. sotee,of the operates
4,11. the Opposition Ittembers7 We ronehicre4l, *tnl
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still consider, the cuss u straightfor*sid onc but if
so trail peintirns-nrefultad' by leveriii speakers in
lioth Howes are ro bis tioluttati# Mioisti4l muse have

seen hopo of termination ot the discussion wit bit)
qny rtlhOntildid or definite time...4llnm
'rho Sale of Beer Bill wit* passed last night in
the Commons, after on inettectital attempt by Mr.
.1401,11/ to postpone ill operation for two years.
eitinse in the Forgery Bill, Abolishing the
rititsbottrit of death, oral rap t.:Nil by n considerable
Imo* in the Lords. This result TIO &Mini

the able and striking ststement of the
andirtnod by Ow important judg.
4'ol.l.orsuch caltroinintled ntid tliscrinitristinc oh-
survor thy lAird Chlef Justice' of the King's
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do, the deeislon of the Ilerra must have
flett (Mooted oa cottviiitimo : it will be necessary,
fur 'ha ktlVeir4likv of the rneasiire Ip thoke
atrovict ion. pot by ato rtuvent exposition of
iiiisloact 01110114 s, nor by rtforither to thy, opinion.
gobs liartially eon VerAitrit With oho g,tobje,co, but
th„ ",filonioro elf enbral 4rtft tiaigitterieti
4,4*i groolkiirti ort Ime oxpotietteftat praeiirtal men
who undo-Stand the /iiibjert on, it, hvatirlio, if
iriatioari of petition! (rum whore'
thittilitt lam rompatati 'rely i c.int, a majority
of tin, principal haiihars and turtrhants of I.oodoo
had petitioned ry. -arirornant;' the qiisstion wtnill have
in.trt fet it rest. Till this itopt, is
it little tittgli of art kdriil 01,4111,
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