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

toil. What

. --
1-hearted want of c

and comfort of our 1

uit of

there is not

e Californian ad-
venturers who does not value his spade or his
pickaxe at ten times the worth of an ounce of gold ;
and yet the poor working -people of England are
made to supply either utensil for a fortieth part of
that ounce of gold !

IRELAND has ever been an anon
of the world, and the " greates.
Statesmen. Under whatever polic
been governed, the result has beer

naly in the eyes
t difficulty" of

he may have
variably the
chief

same; and _ as
feature of her social condition, a spectacle of waste-
ful improvidence and riot, pandered to and preyed
upon by griping avarice, and producing, as their
fruits, squalid pauperism, professional mendicancy,
turbulence, and crime. She is at length showing
-ce in her character—a fresh page in
-nr. Her substantial farmers, her
-1: of her peasantry—the very

las still prese

us a new ph
her sineular

yeomanry, and the -1

blood and s

to avoid an

-are running away,
iz winter of
pent in

. .
famine—the natural result of a

drilling and midnight out
fill induct rv—a n 4

of in peace-

,-, • - •
ceeds of the harvest,, and of the
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lale of stock

the property of
landlord. Whole Baronies

some plundered and impOverishe'd

lave ti

been d

populated, and stripped of every available article of
food, the pauper class and the labourer being
driven to the towns. As an aggravation of the
wrong committed towards the owner, in many
cases the farms thus abandoned by the proper
tenants have been handed over to the occur
of some third party, for sc

consid

era-hen re

pretended ; and se-ea has thus been sown for future
outrage and crime, to result from any attempt to
dispossess the parties thus unjustly in possession.
The serious 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-
creasing. How are we to replace the capital thus
abstracted from the cultivation of the soil, and to
restore it to something like its wonted state of cul-
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-
ings. 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.
"My idea is to establish colonies' of fishermen and