The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-07 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DECEMBER 5.
TaERMOMETER, Lowest, 29; Highest. 38 ; Noon, 34.

BAROMETER, 30.—WIND W., fine.
DECEMBER 6.

THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33; Highest, 40 ; Noon, 40,
1311031ETER, 29.75.
WIND, N.N.W., tine. Rain in the night.

111,411 WATER AT 1.0:s DAY.
Morning .. 25 minutes after 4. Evening .. 43 minutes after 4,

In inning it

LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1846.

Among the numerous propositions for the relief of
Ireland, among the divers schemes which have
been propounded in succession for extricating that
fertile but misgoverned country from her enormous
national embarrassments and for enabling her popu-
lation to work out their own prosperity and happiness,
the minority have been specious and illusory, the
vast majority impracticable, and not one—no, not
one—calculated to effect any permanent or catholic
improvement. The removal of disabilities upon those
who might enter upon leases equally profitable to
landlord and tenant is, unquestionably, a propitiou.
and important plan. The encouragement of agricul-
tural' enterprise, of tile draining, of extensive liming,
of scientific irrigation, of employing chemical and
artificial manures, and of cultivating something more
nutritious and remunerative than mere esculents, is
likely not only to turn a naturally fruitful
soil to the greatest advantage, but to afford
an extraordinary amount of employment in farm-
labour. The removal of the taxation upon foreign
speculation, by the free-trade measures, in itself
is
an enormous boon. Temporarily, again, the public
works undertaken by a paternal Government have
materially benefited the destitute. In striving to
prevent the wholesale evictions of the peasantry, to
compensate the retiring tenant for the improvements
effected upon the land during the interval of hi,
lease, and to render absentees and resident-landlords
severally interested in the welfare of their subordi-
nates, the Legislature has been both benevolent and
sagacious. Admirably, however, as these arrang--
rnents were suited to the more immediate exigencies
of the people, there has still remained a necessity for
the adoption of some more comprehensive system
for their general and perpetual advancement.
Their ambition must be excited by emulation.
tThe love of exercise engendered in their
reasts by the climate must be developed into a con-
tinuous and organized industry. The Irish must be
by some means remowvehdichfrom the political and mer-
cantile isolation in
not by their geographicalthey have been plunged,
position,Th but by the mere
-casualties of circumstancey must be placed
-somehow in the crowded and stirring
Zion—once placed there, withdrawa,torra''swkluh(g)foTeelisvhinlie.zass,
01' eiestitution will be impossible. The
-will Y44:-.eive an impulse which cannot be rensiasttiedi,
they will he carried away in the whirl of commerce •
'the blood of the world—money labour, and provisions

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