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Whatever may be the future prospects of the
Sister Kingdom—whatever may be the results of
the great social experiment now in operation in
that unhappy land—there can be no question as
to the amount of suffering that has been endured
by all classes, from the peer to the peasant, during
the state of transition. The owners and occupiers
of the soil have found their burdens materially
enhanced, while their resources have been dimi-
nished in an inverse ratio, if not altogether anni-
hilated ; and, as a matter of course, the cottiers
and labourers have fully participated in the priva-
Everything, we were told, was brought to a Wit- tions thereby occasioned. Even before the mys-
tisfactory settlement in regard to those unfortunate terious visitation that blasted the chief, if not the
differences between the Cabinets of St. Petersburg only food of the great majority of her people, the
and Constantinople. The country, in fact, was condition of Ireland was sufficiently alarming.
warmly and loudly congratulated on that happy Her landed proprietors were slumbering at the
conclusion of long-sustained, acrimonious, and edge of a volcano, and it required but a slight con-
complicated negotiations. It was asserted again vulsion to seal their fate. They were suffering
and again that the problem had been solved by deeply for the follies of their progenitors. The
diplomacy—that Russia had been satisfied—that profuse hospitality, the open-hearted liberality,
Turkey had been successfully defended against the the thoughtless generosity of preceding genera-
possibility of aggression through the Danubian tions, had entailed a heavy load of debt on their
Principalities that Moldavia and Wallachia successors. Even when the former owner had
were at once to be evacuated—that British in- lived within his income, a rare instance of prudence,
fluence had been effectually re-established on as those acquainted with Ireland towards the close
the Bosphorus—that France had been admitted of the last and the beginning of the present cen-
ts
by us to au alliance already fruitful in good con- tury can testify there were family charges,
sequences—that even Prussia, far removed as she jointures for widows, and portions for younger
was from the scene of anxiety, had participated children to be provided, which crippled the inheritor,
with the rest of the great Powers of Europe in and prevented him from acting fairly towards his '
supporting Austria in her mediation between the tenantry. Many a young man whose lot was envied
SULTAN and the AUTOCRAT. All these flattering by the thoughtless multitude, found himself but the
assurances were uttered noisily enough through all nominal owner of the wide-spread domains. Besides
sorts of mouthpieces. The community was stunned the provisions for past and future generations, he
with paeans of joy repeated on all hands with found himself unable to maintain the position he
" damnable iteration." As we have before ob- was expected to assume. Jointures and interest
served, we were not only informed that matters devoured his present means, while a stringent en-
had been conducted to a happy issue by the Four tail prevented him from affording any encourage-
Powers, but we were fervently congratulated ment to the occupiers of the soil, or from making
into the bargain upon the sagacity with any adequate efforts for the permanent and lasting
which they had crowned the peril and improvement of his inheritance. The difficulties of
the solicitude of their interference. The his situation rendered him reckless, and his own
Monitevr announced that nothing whatever in exigencies made him blind and indifferent to the
this matter now remained to be accomplished. wants of his tenantry-. In place of the interests
The Post exulted in the skilful manner in which, of owners and occupiers being one and indivisible,
according to its assertion, the Eastern Question as they ought to be, each endeavoured to extract
tad been definitively and satisfactorily answered the utmost farthing from the pockets of his op-
sr the Coalition Government. The Leader of ponent. The landlord would not improve, the
the Rouse of Commons averred as plainly as tenant would not pay ; the one relied on bailiffs
language could express it, that no further cause -1;
am. drivers, the other on his natural cunning
remained i this affair for' doubt or hesitation.
The gome inand the assistance of his neighbours, who, being
Secretary endorsed this official state- similarly circumstanced, naturally sympathised
ment, so to speak, by words yet snore explicit,
all tending to with the opponent of legal process. The attempt
the reasonableness the public mind in to distrain was met by the lifting of the crops, and
that pleasant convic-
tion. Nay, ministers
course of
so far as to intro- the removal of the stock—a successful capture
duce in the
the Royal Speech by a rescue—a declaration in ejectment by agra-
a paragraph expressive, ofuthehapppayrtof her MA- rian outrages, and the progress of Ribbonism. An
JESTY, of a confidence in the close of past eviction, too often resorted to on a wholesale scale,
negotiations. As if to illustratethy,
-let more mark- by the murder of landlord, or agent, or incoming
declarationsestion-
esily the force and sincerity of tenant, and the execution or expatriation of the
ac
ably delightful and acceptableoutgoing tenants, or of those selected by the autho-
Emperor of the FRENCH, accompanied 1 ' the of the " Black-sheep office"—the Irish
sy his the `'`ties
Aerial spouse, hastened from Paria. to The Veh»bgericht"—as the avengers of the grave in-
while the Queen of ENGLAND, together • Dieppe fraction of some of the leading provisions of the
with her
Royal Consort, proceeded across St. is Agrarian Code.
—eorge g
Channel to the capital of Ireland immediately The numerous and complicated limitations and
after the prorogation of the Houses of Parliament. reversions prevented the inheritor from raising
Everything appeared
to combine in establishing loney by the sale or mortgage of any portion of
the truth of the Ministerial statements,
that the
his propert y for the improvement of the re-
mainde ,:-
tlly reconciled the diffe- 1 ; and even •
if he was so favourably cir-
Four Po WerS had actut cunistai a
-lee`‘ as to
-1 • 11 had suddenly estranged from each be able to borrow anything by
rences n Inc means of insurance
Cabinets of St. Peters- his col
.en his life-interest—his duty to
other the hitherto friendly nparatively dest't
edu-
burg and Constantinople. sated with the notio i ute children who were
it will be remembered by our ofsupporting tl •
ns, but left without the means
Nevertheless, „, le.position of -
ventured to call in him from applying , gentlemen—prevented
readers, from the first we
to which
elusive benefit of his
question the accuracy of the assertion heir, from
d repeatedly claim no compensation whom he could
our rulers 'had so vociferously allfor the
in-
given utterance, to the effect that the Ecapacity was the -
'astern was leas regretted byoutlay. The
the genius of Western , inasinue 1, as the name of " • the occupiers
problem had been solved by improvement"in '
in which it was the
diplomacy. We presumed at once to avow our ! few instances
conviction
. zit] associated with the most as
--
conviction that in this matter the community was I too filAille y
cruel and
being rather prematurely congratulated. And, 1 heartless evictions, carried on under the pretext of
,z clearing the estate," and " enlarging the farms,"
already so doing, let us ask even now, have we not 1 arms."
already received from events the most ample and i Even the profuse reckless spendthrift i
svao,
deplorable justification ? Examine the • telligence ! while oblivious of his "duties" was not too stria
received in
if t .
received from Constantino enforcing his 4, rights," was, generally
le, and answer we:; 'Vent In
have reason to count Positively preferred' to the cold-blooded "Negur"
pacification, upon this boasted I speaking, .
Naturallyagainst the complaints and
ginning to spring up at last
enough doubts are be 1 who closed his ears
t the sufferings of those
heretofore 11108 t sanguine in the minds of those steeled his heart against
as to the the altar of his
satisfactory settlement. reality of this ' about to be sacrificed on .
People are • • as r impediments in the
accept as Gospel tlte delectable • less willing to cupidity. There were many
promises tenant. The power
DEEN A dministration. And no of the ABER- i way of any improvement by the
wonder, aft • was wanting—but
startling advises from Constantino _ , el. those of effecting any great change
ple• Why .ue . d was wilfully
cording to the information received from the 'S‘ - even what little could be achieve
Sub- 1
, neglected. And wherefore ? Because a well-cul-
lime Porte, the diplomatic negotiations are any- tivated and car full -attended farm was regarded
as conclusive evidence that the tenant had a great
CZAR may have aceipted the proposal of the Four b .
argam, and could afford to pay a higher rent. A

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