The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-19 00:00:00

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The serio

question presents itself to many of

the impoverished landlords—a question of life and
death—what course is to be taken with respect to
this extensive depopulation, which is rapidly in-
. How are we to replace the capital thus
ed from the cultivation of the soil, and to
restore it to something like its wonted state of cul-

creasing

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tivation, bad as that was ? In any other country,
where the rights of property were respected and
life secure, the remedy for such a state of things
would be easy. We should see thousands of
energetic men stepping forward to take the places
of those who had gone away, and able to develope
fully the neglected resources of the vacant hold-

But Ireland has not within herself such
men, possessed of the required means, energy, and
experience ; and there will be few found in Great
Britain to embrace the precarious and dangerous
life of a settler in that country, filled as its pea-
santry are with bitterness against all that bears the
Saxon name. Under the pressure of this difficulty
it has been suggested that a system of coloniza-
tion might be resorted to, of that portion of
western Ireland from which the tide of emigration
has chiefly proceeded, by- which many important
national advantages might be derived. We give
a portion of it without, however, expressing any
opinion of it, as it appeared in a letter from the
correspondent of the London Times of Friday last.
" Ddy idea is to establish 'colonies' of fishermen and

agriculturists of the Anglo-Saxon English, and of Scotch
of Teutonic and Scandinavian origin. Large tracts of
country are being abandoned by the farmers and deserted
by the peasantry ; and numberless excellent spots are to
be found on the coast, admirably adapted for first-rate
fishing establishments ; also great lots of land are being
sold at moderate prices. Now, supposing GoVernment
to acquire many suitable estates, would it not be very easy
to find amid the rather redundant maritime population
lining the north coast from Wick to Yarmouth, and the
Channel from Folkestone to Falmouth, plenty of hardy
Id determined young men, married, or anxious to marry
'r own neighhourhood, and willing to emigrate en
(in this case the pang of expatriation is compare-
light) to eligible spots on the coast of Ireland,

sere they would find comfortable cottages and gardens
prepared for them, and all the advantages of the finest
coast fishing in the world, as well as the means of explo-
ring banks, said to stretch far into the Atlantic, teeming

with codfish ? Intelligent naval officers might take charge
of these villages in the first place—gentlemen glad to earn
fully and honourably their full pay and allowances,
he comfort of having their families with them.
'egard to the interior, let Government buy up, cheap,
the unoccupied estates which you have so graphi.
lescribed, and subdivide them into farms of from
) 500 acres; then erect suithale steadings.' such
)e seen in the north of Northumberland, and
nith of Scotland, intended for the best style of turnip
7y, the basis of good agriculture, for which
s admirably suited with her lieht soil. shower
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Ireland

nd operi winter. Means would be found to
induce enterprising young farmers, gifted with skill and
) migrate to those spots, carrying with them
' hinds' and hardy labourers, with their fami-
having previously been married in their
You will smile at my dwelling on the
necessity of previous marriage, but were this not the
:e place with the aboriginal
vn that the moral cultiva-
ids of the mother, matters
tion or two,

lies, all part

:ase, intermarri;

and as it is well kno

tiott of

he child is in the I
would revert to their old state in a genera
Fliberniores,' &c."
We repeat that we can give no opinion as to the
feasibility of this scheme, although we really do
not see that, undertaken by a firm and resolved
Government, the difficulties are so insurmountably
great. Unlike the colonization of Ulster, there
could be no violent outrage or the feelings of the
population required, for the population of these
western districts are being self-expatriated. When
we bear in mind, however, that, as the lowest

estimate, it is stated, on compete

),000 sterling is the lowest

amount which

the fisheries of the west coast of Ireland are capable
of producing; and to this fact is added the con-
sideration of how valuable an influence upon the
habits of the native people might be produced by
the spectacle, thus placed continually before their
eyes, of the prosperity to be derived from habits of
peaceful industry, and from scientific and judicious
culture of the soil; it cannot be denied that the
suggestions above offered are worthy of great
attention from the real well-wishers of Ireland.

FALLACIES AND MISSTATEMENTS OF THE

PEEL-CURRENCY MEN,

We cull the following specimens of fallacious reason-
ing from an attempt of the Manchester Guardian to

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