The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-03 00:00:00

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4.'11. Ten years hence, also, e expect to see gi eati‘
traproyed system of farming in Ireland. The new lanai.) d
till enter into his possessions with capitAlat
gather round him an industrious yeom .nry ;
Qnild for them respectable 11011,30 S; interdict altogether
uoth uiering
b! Row
and the ennacre nuisance; and t. ash them,
,ly example and precept, to deal fairly by the
population. We know that Ow Irishtnap,das
16,Z)vf )1, deserves all the censure, on the score of in
tieh the Archbishop of Duig.liu has heaped upon
will not work a moment longer than is nece7;
Verdt earn the pittance on which soul and body can he
ith;,,,7gether. And the total abs,nce of forethought
" characterises him at home, is not left behind, by
thL.14.8,a,n at when he visits this country. But why should
encouraged,
be ? Because the Irish lab..urer has n,vp-
wioonea.ed, felt:
5 nor that was his interest,t toa elp7
Mahe°us- A resident gentry, with estates mo!
tiaahlwatsr-line, create of necessity a pauperised tt-
-147' who, in their turn, neglect and oppress the
gird rer—giving him, in lieu of wages, a miser able potato
tea, and training him in that school to habits of
ractical deceit as well as theoretical lying. How can it
he Otherwise, than that a people so circumstanced sh.;;ul
1:1; hi e3rn of attentive
savage, and chronically poor r
VI fact the whole of his article Measures not Men,"
attentive perusal. It proves that the old
TojatlrtY is completely broken up, indeed no
that— has ever ventured to vituperate the doings of
ti., Marty during the Pitt and Liverpool admini,tra-,
Cia lathe severe terms which the writer in Blackw .oa
nua;:"--, and that the real honest men of the party are
tt°-. Whigs and something more ; every measure of the
telillin !sell administration approved of—the necessity of—
uP the insolvent Irish landlords is not only
Mittea
but is urged as the only measure to he
--Pllowftecis :--
tii;rted for the permanent salvation of Ireland ; and
tr2vriter, after passing in review all the measures
fo by the Russell Ministry, concludes as
p: Thus far Lord John Russell has done well. Let him
choose as he has begun, and, by whatever name he may
2" to call himself, he shall have our support."
thine literary Legislators who sit for this publication
month are Mr. Smythe and Mr. Poulett Scrope.
aniostice is done to Mr. Poulett Scrope ; his physical
f.f,eets are exaggerated, while justice is ant re:dered
Ma mental merits. Mr. Poulett Scrope is a man of
much greater political importance than the writer of this
iele seems to imagine. But if he has been unjust to
at
Poulett Scrope, he has been more than just to
thmere schoolboy statesman Mr. Smythe, and he
calls Sir Robert Peel to witness for Mr. Silty, he's
because:statesof
Sir
R. Peel appointed him
tinder Secretary
ry State for Foreign Affairs during
the latter months of his administration. It has always
struck us that this was a negative ap. pointinent—an
appointment given not so much to secure the support
oof father,
Smythe, as to secure the neutrality
his ether, Lord Strangford. At the time
that this appointment took place, the utter
incompetency of Lord Aberdeen ha, I become
Painfully manifest. " The travelled Thane"
was the laughing stock of the diplomatic world.
cilantboozled in Spain, humbugged in Portugal,
cheated in Greece, laughed at in France, done every-
where, he was the mere brainless tombola of M.
mot. Europe had long been aware of this—even
flnAgwas beginning to awake, and Lord Strang-
land
„_ut who had strong claims to the seals of the
•ureign-office was on the point of urging those
and of "showing up" the utter inefficiency
11.11 u ignorance of " the President of the Society of
antiquarians." To show that we have fathomed ex-
actly the capabilities
't of Lord Aberdeen, we ask when
1 , Was that his Lordship was first cognisant
43' the existence of the island of Palls
111111SLoit:linlssiip will understand what we mean) when
8 aPpointenent was given to his son, and, of course,
Lord S
Ff ord was silenced.
We certainly do not
hold the
abilities of Mr. Smythe in such estimation as
dues the writer of this article. The other articles in
the number are all literary, and of a very high order.
)Ye have an admirable critique on the recently pub-
lished biography of Mr. Cary, the translator of
Zallt? ; a most interesting " Scene in the wilds of
story
'
ery zie°;" a pleasant six pages of amusing gossip
anent modern French authors • a capital Nova Scotian
(worthy of Washington Irving) from the pen of
Sam Slick, and a variety of Other amusing articles.

HOOD'S MAGAZINE.
One reprinted gem would alone have rendered
floods Magazine for May valuable, supposing the
rest of the contributions had been irredeemably bad--
:t a solemn, an exquisite voice from the past—the
Mynstrelle's Sonve," from the tragical interlude of
the immortal " :Ella." It is well that a popular pe-
riodical avails itself of its circulation to revive to the
irtultitude those beauties of our national writers
Which are buried in the literary catacombs of our
public libraries. Another poetical jewel is preserved
In Rood—the four simple but well-remembered lines
°f Darwin, on the present month :
" Born in yon blaze of orient sky,
Sweet May ! thy radiant form unfold ;
Unclose thy blue v. luptuous "ye,
And wave th' •ha,iowy loAts of acad."
Beyond these, however, the contents of the pe-
riodical is as evanescent as possible; the last two and
twenty pages, indeed, are filled up with the broken
bits from other and cheaper publications.