The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

best of piibiic works

ing out of an

poor law, and even of the res.tri
f

ed one

wernment

amount of

for the pu

&c., will 1

of no mean assist
to the landowner, cramped as his efforts are by

and of tenure; and ti

an ult

_...,ate improvement of his Property may
tempt him to do more for the advancement of that
-lilt by his own means than he might otherwise
' The influx of English capital into Ire-
ant advantages, would be

1, and its concomi

s secu-

)3,- the

;e's participation in

The politico-economicsl objection we do not re-
gard as at all tenable. Private enterprise, to which
it is urged that the improvement of the condition
of Ireland should be left, has been tried for two

centuries and failed ; and such private enterprise
need not be hindered by the Government taking
into its own hands the maturing of the railway
system in that country. There is still a vast amount
of work for the capital and the industry of the
country to do before Ireland can be enabled to take
up her just position as an integral portion of the
empire, or to develope the vast resources of her
soil and of her geographical location. The abstract

theories of 13

litical economy are totally inapplica-
le in a country whose evils and mise
complicated and so accumulated

ries are so

It is more, however, as an aid to the measures
of Government for the permanent improvement of
Ireland, that we regard with favour the present
lb .1

Enalan

ias converted the

3arren soil

1 fertile

ias made the green blade

ring up and the corn crops wave, and planted
- 4 man where, of old, was to be

vious morass ; if commerce

ias made, by its assistance, vast strides in advance;
f the buried mineral wealth of our country has by
t been made conducive to the wants and the corn-
E'orts of man ; if the locomotive has borne civiliza-
tion and improvement in its path—as who shall
deny that it has ?—if it has brought the unin-

icial contact with those of the populous
iring town or the busy port; if it has

ndustry of vast masses of

)ur population

itherto shut Out by nature he

;elf from a participation in the benefits of our im-
)roved commerce, what is the same cause not cal-

3ulated to effect in benighted and unhappy Ire-
and ? Spend a million sterling in reclaiming
Jogs and wastes, in making roads and building
Farmhouses, for the permanent improvement of a
country, whose population has not capital to stock
Ind crop above a few roods of potatoe ground !
Faugh: Give Ireland railways, and her bogs and
vastes will reclaim themselves under the awakened
mterprise of her own people. A railway never ran
hrough a country the most uninviting, in which

t (lid not startle indolence from it,

slumber, and

develope, not only in the soil but in man, resources
and energies of which neither ever made use or

were imagined to possess.
There are, however, some modifications in the
scheme of the Protectionist Leader which we think
might be made with advantage, and would be cal-
culated to win for it a more extended approval
from the public. In a measure so extensive as
this, which calls upon the State for so large an
advance of -

'bile money as £1650005006
+ha ty'rnen,

)wn t

hat many of the

Irish lines, for which acts we
sion, were hurried through Parliament

ith much

ungracious to op-pose the declared wishes of Irish
communities, although doubtful of the correctness

tta upon which they were formed, and
;o the representatives of Ireland the moral

the suggestion of Lord G

lallwav

hould reconsider these measur

being ca
evil. 'S

'led out by Government aid, will meet the
should suggest, however, that the ad-

not one-third, as st
a bett

iOnld be one-half the capital,
d by his lordship, by which
derived by the state.
er, that the present
claim now made in

!curity would

not certain, moreov

and

,ehalf, do not afford a f
rninent to undertake ti

Iting opportunity for

duty, which has
by in this country, of

s own ma-

nagement, or the management of an Irish Board,
the profits of which should be devoted to purely

either in cheapening the

s traffic inc

seal, or in the formation of

increased accommodation for the country. This
subject, however, is too grave a one to be discussed
nd we only refer to it as deserving of serious
nt crisis.

Government,

.1 s Drew

;ely what we

:ct in the