The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

THE SU:N., LONDON SATURDAN EVENIANO3 AUGUST 16, ths6,

nothing wanting on the part of the Irih people,
and that all they do should command tie respect
of free-born Englishmen. On the contrary, there
is much of which we must disapprove, and chief
of all that baffling of justice, to which he peasant
population are still unfortunately addited. Eng-
lish patience, however, should not grumble if
called upon to discharge her " perfee work" in
in connection with Irish improvement when it is

remembered to what a depth of misery and de-
gradation poor Ireland had fallen order British
sway, and from which she has had t• rise.
For rising she certainly is—riser indeed won-
derfully. Agitation is as good as d3funct, labour
is improving in the market, the peasantry are fed

and housed, and crime is vastly de,reased. What
is best and most hopeful. of all is, the prosperity

which opens before her is based, ald being based,

on the most stable foundations, It is not, and
will not be, the result of chance, but of well-

directed endeavour. It has beer the curse of the

Irish people to have their best gils—to wit, their
quick susceptibilities and ardent imagination—
made instruments of their undoing ; and as if to
associate the land more closely vith the people, to
the very richness of the neglected soil and tho

abundant moisture are attributable the waste o

bog that disfigures and renders less prolific her

picturesque surface. It is now the blessing o
the Irish people that by equal laws the curse is
being removed, and by justice to the land it is
being rescued from waste and its exceeding fer-
tility insured. The soil of Ireland is being
drained. Since 1646; Lord CA.RLISLB tells us,
on official authority, 176,000 acres have been
drained by the Board of Works, and he imagines
more than double that area by private hands.
What an extent of progress do not these figures
present ? Yet how small an item of what during
the last twenty years has been done. In this
period—we have it on the same authority—more
than a million of Irish acres have been reclaimed
from waste. "In 1841," says the noble lord,
"to eight millions of people there - were thirty
millions of cultivated acres in Ireland. Now,
perhaps more than one million has been subtracted
from the population, and more than a million of
acres has been added to our cultivated area." We
should have preferred a coincident increase rather
than decrease of the population ; but we must
take matters as we find them, and content our-
selves with what improvement is to be met with.
To this rescue and permanent improvement of
the land we have to add an increase of cultiva-
tion and better adaptation of crops ; for, thanks
to the admirable statistics furnished by the con-
stabulary force, we are not left in the dark on
these heads. The returns for the year, not yet
given to the public, show, we are told, an increase
on the growth of wheat of 83,683 acres ; on the
growth of green crops of no less than 114,744
acres, and of flax—for which the soil is admirably
adapted—of 65,573 acres, against which, how-
ever, is to be set some decrease in oats and barley.
Coincident with this, we find an increase
•n the number of horses of 18,000, on the num-
ber of cattle of 25,000, and of sheep of 90,000,
against which is to be set an apparently large de-
crease, 250,000 head of pigs—apparently, we
say, because it is thought the decrease is not real,
but arises from the returns being made up sooner
than usual. , A destructive war is, at the same
time, being carried on against weeds, which are
being rooted out with relentless hostility. These
statistics, to whatever extent satisfactory, do not,
however, be it remembered, accurately represent
the progress that has been made. Time is re-
quired before the results of the extensive
drainage that has been effected can be fully
realised. Enough, however, has been set before the

reader, we trust, to convince him that Ireland is on
the high road toprosperity, and that as she becomes
a more and more integral portion of the empire
her value must increase. The people of England
have by no means a superabundance of ani-
mal food, and there is every reason to look
forward with hope to a period when, from the
green hills and vales of the sister isle, will be
poured into this country the supply we need,
to the advantage of both countries ; so that,
while Ireland prospers, through that prosperity
and along with it our over-worked population shall
be fed. It will be a bright day for the empire
when the resources of Ireland are fully developed.
May neither imperial misgovernment nor domestic
broils impede the advent of that long-looked-for
cperiod

Amongst the fashionable arrivals at the Granby Hotel,
Harrowgate, are his Grace the Archbishop of York and
the Hon. Mrs. Musgrove, Lady Ross, General and Mrs.
Godby, Miss Godby, Major and Mrs. Msgenis, Colonel
and Mrs. Little and family, Colonel and Mrs. Richard-
sop, Major Cookson, George Macartney, Esq., M.P.,
Rev. Godfrey Wright, Rev. T. B. Wright, lady and
family, Captain Pearse, Colonel Brooke, Mrs. Colonel
Dickenson, Charles Dnyne, Esq. and lady, Miss Payne,
Hawkins F. James, Esq., Miss James, W. Rhodes,
E q., Mrs. and Miss Browne, Mrs. O'Connor, Went-
worth Esck, Eiq., &c., &c .
Mr. Disraeli, M.P., with his family, has arrived at
Spa.
The actors of the celebrated theatre of Inkerman have
just arrived at Paris, and intend giving representations
shortly at one of the principal theatres.
The President and Fellows of Magdalen College, Ox-
ford, have presented the Rev. J. B. Morris, 8.D., to the
vicarage of Old Shoreham, and the Rev. 11. Smith,
M.A., to the vicarage of New Shoreham, Sussex.
The Bishop of London has licensed the Rev. J. Ran-
dall, M A., late vicar of Great Malvern, to the incum-
bency of Eaton Chapel, King's-road, Chelsea.
The last accounts from Hungary are highly encou-
raging as regards the vintage, the vines being so laden
with fruit that the like has not been seen within the
memory of "the oldest inhabitant."
On the 24th of this month the Count de Paris is ex-
pected to publish a political manifesto, on the occasiou
of his arriving at the age of royal majorities. It is gener-
ally believed that the manifesto in question will be writ-
ten by M. Thiere.
DEATH OF DR. BUCKLAND.—We have to announce
the demise of the Very Rev. Dr. Buckland, Dean of
Westminster, after a lengthened illness which had
long withdrawn him from a sphere of public useful.
ness. He died at Clapham on on the 14th inst., in the
73d year of his age.
THE EARL OF CARDIGAN.—We learn that a sump-
tuous entertainment is intended to be given to the
Earl of Cardigan, at Leeds, on Saturday, the 30th
inst., on the occasion of presenting to his lordship a
superb sword and an address by the inhabitants of the
county of York, to commemorate his loriship's con-
spicuous gallantry at Balaklava and in the Crimean
campaign.
THE LATE MADAME VESTRIS.—The funeral of the late
Madame Vestris took place on Thursday morning at
Kensal-green Cemetery: The funeral was of a perfectly
private nature, there being only one mourning coach, in
which were Mr. Charles Mathews, the physician at-
tendant upon the deceased, and Mr. Morison, a friend of
the deceased.
THE OLDEST AUSTRALIAN CoLONIST.—The Melbourne
papers report the death, of one Henry Waller, aged 62,
the oldest Australian emigrant, he having resided in
that colony 37 years. It is melancholy to find that
Waller expired suddenly from a heart disease, induced
by excessive
FLOGGING AT THE tuARYLEBONE WORKHOUSE —Yes-
terday, at the weekly meeting of the guardians and d.-
rectors of the poor of Marylebone, Mr. Rae, the seers •
tary, read a communication from the poor law board, in
which the commissioners informed the guardians that in
consequence of statements respecting the flogging of
certain female inmates of the house at the bands of the
master, Mr. Byom, and the two porters, Green and
Brown, they (the commissioners) had directed Mr. R.
B. Cane to make a strict investigation into the who/.e
circumstances.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AT DARTMOOR PRIRON.—One cf
the convicts confined in Dartmoor Prison, named John
May, has been committed for trial at the Devon County
Gaol, charged with a murderous assault on one of the
warders of the prison, named Alex. Carrick, by striking
him on the head with a spade while at work on ground
adjoining the prison, on which the convicts are em-
ployed.
A letter from Sebastopol of the 29th ult. says :
—" The coffin containing the remains of General
de Marolles, who was killed in the attack on the
Malakhoff, has just been embarked on board the
Chaptal, a French steam advice-boat, to be con-
veyed to France.