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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 26, 1870.

UNDER the title of " The Irish Cauldron," the
Quarterly Review publishes an article on the present
state of Ireland. The purport of the article may be
judged from its name. It is written by one of those
gentlemen who are never happy except when they
are miserable. They are artists who never use any
colour brighter than Indian ink. The lights are
merely less intense shades of black. They
gloat over every gloomy incident. They rejoice
in outrage, they glory in murders. Hint to
them that there has been some slight exaggeration,
that in the list of agrarian crimes there are some
which have no more to do with the land than the
Pantin or the Finsbury murder, and they will 13'3
seriously angry. " Agrarianism " shall stalk through
that unhappy land ; the whole tenant class shall be at
war with the landlord class ; and the life of the
kindest hearted nobleman who ever had the mis-
fortune to possess Irish property shall not be worth a
year's purchase. For instance, the reviewer gives a list
of all the agrarian murders and attempts at murder
which have been committed during the past two years.
This list gives just twenty-four, or one a month. They
are twenty-four too many we admit; but whether they
are all agrarian may fairly be questioned, when we
find a note suggesting that the murder of Mr.
ANKETELL, the station-master at Mullingar, by
the porter whom he had dismissed, " must be added to
the list" because of its "analogous" character.
At this rate it would be easy to show that nearly
every murder in England is agrarian, notably
the Norton Folgate murder, in which a London
pprentice killed his master's wile for dismissing him.
the Dallycohey affair is, of course, included in
the list ; yet though murder can under no
circumstances, except that of self-defence, be justi-
fied, it may fairly be asked if the forcible resistance
to Mr. SCULLY'S tyranny was not a less heinous
crime than the attack of the Chapeltown colliers,
and the murder of one poor woman. The reviewer,
and those who think with him, take for granted that
"agrarian" murders are the most atrocious of all mur-
iers, whereas they are not seldom the least atrocious,
because committed, as at Ballycohey, under the
influence of strong provocation, under the prospect
3f being turned out into the world homeless and
Starving. Of course we find Mr. O'CoNNoit's case
duly recorded, with the statement that he was
" brutally mutilated." Yet it turns out that he was not
mutilated at all, and the Dublin papers which pub-
lished the sensation story about his nose being cut
off, have been compelled to confess that he is suffering
/lily from a slight scar received in a fight, waged on
le part of the assailants without the smallest
intention of murder, but simply to obtain
possession of arms. Within the last day or two
another "agrarian outrage" of the most formidable
;liaracter turns out to be nothing. more than one pane
of glass broken by a stone. Far be it from us to
extenuate the offences which have been committel
But there is no reason why they should be exagge-
rated. And when we remember that the total of
crimes of violence of all kinds is infinitely below that
of such crimes in England, we see no reason to take
the gloomy view of the former country wherein the
Quarterly Reviewer revels.
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