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the official or personal respect due to the Sovereign.
Indeed, nowhere has " our beloved Queen" been
more eulogised than in Ireland, where her name
was required to supply an antithesis, or to modify
a sentiment of rebellion. That transparent policy
is now rarely practised. The guide in politics, as
well as in faith, is admitted to be Pio Nono ; ex-
cept with those whose religion is not mere bigotry,
and whose loyalty is more than a name. The name
of this new principle, or old principle newly drag-
ged to light, is the somewhat un-euphonious one
of "ultramontanism ;" and the revival of it will
not he without its uses, as it will draw together
Protestant hearts long disunited, and men will
solemnly ask themselves what they have gained by
the expediency which has brokeu down the battle-
ments and unbound the gates of the citadel.

itself down the hill-sides, and spread over the low.
land plains, of England ; and our blood and pedi•
gree, as well as our national resources, have been
enriched by a union with the Joneses, Hugheses,
Robertses, and Williamses. There was a barrier
to be passed, too, more difficult than Offa's dyke,
and that was the more than Shibboleth of a dis-
tinct language; but what are difficulties to deter-
mined minds? In Scotland, the tendency to emi-

gration has always been strong and unvarying.
The young men pass readily to England, America,
and the colonies; so that Dr. Johnson was fur-
nished with the taunt, that the pleasantest view a
Scotchman ever saw was the road to London. The
result is, that while agriculture, commerce, and the
arts are in a flourishing condition in Scotland, the
entire population of the ancient kingdom is equalled
by that of London and its environs. But when a
people set themselves down, like the Chinese or the
Irish, with a stolid determination to increase and
multiply within a ring fence, without regard to the
laws of nature or the circumstances of nations, it
requires no second sight to predict that, before any
long period has elapsed, the beginning of the end
of this s 3 stem must come.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

DIMINUTION OF POPULATION.

THE " great difficulty" of a deceased statesman
continues to be the great difficulty of divines,
moralists, statesmen, and instructors. Temperance
has done its best in improving the habits of the
Irish people, but there is an intemperance in their
feelings and dispositions that no pledge has ever yet
eradicated. Warm in their attachments and anti-
pathies, quick in their emotions, generally light-
hearted, and with a violent party spirit pervading
almost all classes of the community, it is not won-
derful that plausible impostors were eagerly listened
to, till the people had sunk to a low level of de-
gradation. But when the night is darkest the
dawn is nearest, and the facts which come hourly
under our observation show us that the crisis of
ignorance, calamity, and misgovernment is past.
The evil of a redundant population, for example,
has been met in a manner that was at once unex-
pected and irresistible. A succession of years of
scarcity, which in particular districts amounted to
actual famine, sent thousands to premature graves;
and disease following in its train, made sad havoc
with the debilitated constitutions of others. Want
of health, spirits, and capital, led to a partial
abandonment of cultivation ; and thus the evil of
deficient supply was aggravated instead of reme-
died. Landlord and tenant were involved in
a common misfortune ; and the large increase of
helpless poor pressed with increasing weight upon
such as were still able to pay. It is an old saying,
that "where nothing is to be had, the king must
lose his right ;" and the utter inability of large num-
bers of agriculturists to pay rent, especially in dis-
tricts where labour had greatly increased in cost and
diminished in remuneration, left many landlords at
least as helpless as themselves.
In these circumstances, the emigration panic set
in. A land of suffering and despair contrasted but
unfavourably with one of almost boundless terri-
tory and resources, and every one seemed anxious
to fly from the doomed shores. It is only those
who have known the country intimately in its days
of prosperity and rejoicing, that can understand
how strong a reaction of feeling had taken place.
For centuries, the Celtic inhabitant had regarded
himself as the rightful lord of the soil, and the
Saxon as only a temporary sojourner; nor is the
day very remote when a political demagogue traded
in this hatred of races, and raised it to a pitch of
excitement unknown since the close of last century.
" Ireland for the Irish" was the motto of their
hearts, if not of their banners; and the ancient
glories of the country lived in the vivid recollec-
tions of a numerous and sensitive people. Twenty
years ago, and even much more recently, emigra-
tion was comparatively rare among the Celtic or
Roman Catholic population; among the Protes-
tants it took place as a matter of course. The
latter possessed the means of removal and com-
fortable settlement ; the former were often desti-
tute of both. In the one case, the traditions of
home and of fatherland, of religion and political
associations, ran back to England or Scotland ; in
the other they were redolent of the soil. The
Protestant changed his abode, dealt with a new
set of tradesmen, visited with new friends, and
attended the ministrations of a new clergyman;
the Roman Catholic severed some of the ties which
bound him to life and happiness. In the southern
and western districts, the feeling was increased by
the gradual disappearance of the Protestant popu-
lation, who, in addition to these causes, often
found the district " too hot for them." Church
services were abandoned when the population fell
below the stated number, and the parish was added
to a union already inconveniently large. Now,
the prestige of blood and religion, the hopes of
nationality, the pride of patriotism, the delusion
of insurrection, and the promises of politicians,
are all gone. The dread reality stares them in the
lI(3Yn
nweSingidnagy machine,nightg
ANOTHER GAROTTE face. It is no longer a question of victory or Samuel Barlow, of the
superiority; it is one of life and death, of actual ,
ticarseermeturnitng
—two him by the throat, and
Prince'sn Dock
home from church, he was attacked by
subsistence. The newspapers relate that, within a held him thus robbed him of Ils. 6d., !-!/
hadEE A inL t his
Apocket.
WATCH.—Lucy Grady was yesterday sent
portion of the past year, the emigration ex-
he
seeded a quarter of a million ; and in all pro- to prison for fourteen days for stealing a watch, value
bability the spring will show not only that there £14.103., from the pocket of Manus M'Namara. The
parties were talking to each other in Whitechapel, on is no abatement, but a positive increase. The Saturday night, when the woman made a grab at com-
plainant's watch,
. and ran off with it. On being pursued
Editor of Blackwood's Magazine says that the she dropped it in the street, but was immediately appre-
emigration for 1851 will be at least 300,000; and hended.
adds, "being probably the greatest exodus recorded a man
SERIOUS ACCIDENTI YESTERDAY.—As John Cunan,
of mankind, since Moses led the children of Israel Duckintle Tde-rs t rieye te, nwgeasg ea si as
tsi
nag
inn() Tlteeirs ,t
eagn de
ergeesri d
yinesgteirn
day, with a windlass in Bath-street, Prince's Dock, from
across the Red Sea, and far exceeding anything
down caanuds
severely he cliinTuerreydg a vfiewasyu, narrated in a similar period of the Goths and sustained a compound
Vandals." fracture of the skull, and the collar bone was broken.
That we may not be met b the He was removed to the Northern Hospital, where he now
y imputation of 1 lies in a very dangerous state. The accident occurred
giving mere general statements, we have carefullythree o'clock in the afternoon.
about half-past
compared the returns for 1841 and 1851 in nine the
gTHEliFeßnc:l3elion. Ningoiwngtr.G.o-P—riCncaeptrdwO—
ardl ryslPanard4aosf
drownedsi ohn Saturdaye B night, whilst going on board his
important unions, viz., Ballina, Carlow, Castlebar,
envseiveTtks
ee
tDeceased.street
v,washe
where
sit seenilat
Clonmel, Kenmore, Kilkenny, Killarney, Tralee, ininFletcherr'
and Wexford. The result is a decrease of 92,514, been drinking. A labouring man, who was passing by the
or an average of more than 1,000
dock about midnight, heard a splash, and, after fastening
per annum, for a rope round his body, lowered himself into' the water, but
each of them ! But the curious fact is, that while without being enabled to rescue him. Police-officer
rSeoeuetvheivreecli l,
the
who
with as on theth the beat, was called, and he
the population of unions has diminished, and ofaid of grapnels. It was at
every county in the island but one, there is an once removed to the Southern Hospital, where every
increase in certain electoral divisions of each. The rendßeduywTays tTroied
,but without effect.
EL
ANIMALS.—A gentleman appeared at the
explanation is, that the poverty and destitution of Police-court yesterday afternoon, to charge an omnibus
the rural districts finds a temporary home in the driver, named Andrew Williams, with cruelty to a horse.
Whilst passing along Dale-street, about two o'clock, he
squalid portions of the great towns ; it is not observed Williams jerking the harness violently 'and
the nose and forehead with his
striking the animal or!
wonderful, therefore, that they exhibit an anoma-
closed fist, and otherwise behaving to it in a most brutal
lous and unhealthy increase. manner. On remonstrating with him, the unfeeling
To this must be added the Malthusian fact, that, ruffian became, if possible, more violent than before, and
threatened the gentleman with like treatment. Informs-
gsoncedtaketn before the
in circumstances so unpromising, marriages have ton was given to thee of and he was apprehended and
been unusually rare ; so that the population would magistrates, where he was fined
s.
egaileestobjleervgear
of itself naturally decrease rapidly, from non- STEALING CANDLES.—On Sunday evening, as Mr.
reproduction, (as in the case of the American Thomas
the
w3ofuridl., ohvaevlea diyl gdave chase, his arm inside the
Le otvee I add yorwilsi
being
atthiimhei his
pseheo pi in Copperas-
hill, the Indians,) were there not one of the external and
frame.bo y
an named
dmsreeolao
Soon
afterdwooa rdh
eseAsviagewnr gtaphnoeun boyleaning
peatf
t chaen
young iv thief ic h wit:tier e.
powerful causes which we have noticed. In a few
years, the diminished population will reduce the hanging near the door, with whi
value of land; there will be ample subsistence for mcaamnpege. but being an elderly
'Rile chance of capturing the
all, and remuneration for labour; and when the runaway, but for the assistance of a youth named Barron.
idle and worthless are withdrawn, it will be a more felloresztotrhewoccurrence, and ran after and secured the
h 9 was
easy task to inculcate lessons of industry and en- before the magistrates taken to bridewell, and brought
terprise. for trial. yesterday morning, who sent him
A " SWEET TOOTH "—A youth, named John
t Ferguson,
It is interesting to see how a nation of spirit was brought up yesterday, at the Police-court,
is maintained in independence, while at the same of stealing a quantity of ys'ugar. The prisoner
oeneadcheeareigee
time the population silently regulates itself, In
tolfl e his csowmeeptasn ioo
thist appearedan ,dhandeta longing Scisrpseosma of
the twelve counties of Wales we find only a obtain them by what they, no doubt, esteemied the usually
million of people, though there is reason to believe victimising
epgroeceemsse oufnwhoetnessthei industry, tinheyerddeetrertmined ou
that some centuries ago, when the feuds of the their wants. AccordingYly the prisoner and someo ()Turley
marches were still raging, there was little short of ;11eowawrreanortocaeprp
rinehGnraltod'n-
esnttreereetd
on
esshop of Sarah
the same number. What, then, has become of the and asked to purchase a candle. Whilst the the
atucordmapyizingahnti
natural increase in all that time? It has poured wind stooping under the counter to get the candle, the
prisoner made off with the sugar. He was sent for trial.