Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-05-23
Irsland.-we bad not room, in our summary

Ireland. we bad not room, IN our summary
Of the Foreign News brought by the last arrival,
published in Saturdays Gazette, to mention the
condition of Ireland, as represented IN the Eng
lish papers We deeply lament the unfortunate
state Of that country, and ardently hope Tor re-
vival of its peace and prosperity. The Li'erPoo'
Chronicle OF the 10th April, after giving mel
ancholy account of the ravages oi famine anu pes
thence in several counties, and furnishing de-
.crntion of the rapine and violence to which dis
tress has urged their population, goes on to say:
nThe Peasantry, and some, 1t Is said, above
them IN point of station, have adopted system
of terror, which prevents herds and shepherds
from acting. No cattle can be impounded, and
no urits executed. The quarter sessions have
been postponed for want OF magistrates and by
a letter in the Evening Post of Saturday, It APP
pears that there existed great d'tflculty indeed'
In procuring iuries to try the prisoners at the all
;ouroed assize of Clare. There have been re-
peated aifrays between the peasantry and the po-
lice: and, in one Of the most recent, i've OF the
latter have been killed, accompanied with circum-
,tapccs. il is said of great atrocity In the mean
time, there are upwards OF 5000 troops IN that
couaty alone, large force OF constabulary, ana
several stpendiary magistrates. But not the
slightest impression has been made on the people.
Even the presence of 4 most popular lord leu
tenant has had no effect. The very day the Mar
auis Of Anglesey entered the county Of Care
the murders to which we refer were commltteu.
..Iu the county of Galway, similar scenes are
nernreta:ed, and, though unattended with blood
she'd, still more daring The house Of Sir John
Burke. of Marble hill, has been attacked and
Numbered in the broad day, and several houses
in his immediate vicinity have shared the same
fate. II is to be remarked, that the peasantry
make no distinction whatever between Protes-
,ants and Catholics. Sir John Burke, the mem
Der for the county of Galway, is Catholic, and
uncle of the Marquis of Clanrlcarde. MIR. u.
I.ouohlin, whose grounds were recently turned
I'M in Clare, is also Catholic and the brother OF
MIR. OLoughI,n, his majesty's third sergeant at
law. II is not, therefore, sectarlan insurrecton;
neither is it political. 1t is rising ofPoverty
against property; the hungry against the we'll led;
the needy and desperate against the rich and the
crashing. 1t is dissolution, IN word, of the
ties of society, and an abrogaton, pro fanfo, OF
all laws.
"rhe strong arm Of power must, doubtless,
be promptly outstretched to repress, suDdue, anu
punish the partakers in those acts of criminal
outrage: but in the mean time, the attention and
solicitude of wise and humane legislation should
be engaged in the devsing of measures OF re-.
medal and healing nature: the savage spirit OF
the semi-barbarous despot Of the north alone
eould content itself with measures OF coercion.
The peasantry are ground down to the lowest
mitch OF misery. by the exactions for rent and
iitbes, and other assessments; the lives OF the
POOR are preserved by the voluntary offerings Of
The industrious calsses alone. The relative con-
d,tion of the landlord and tenant requires to be
taken INTO serious consideration; the gentry must
be compelled to furnish some mode OF relief to
the industrious poor. The establishment of a
sound and wholesome system of poor-laws, found
cd on a rental assessment, ought no longer to be
DELAYED, it would quickly operate, not oniy in
the immediate relief of the most pressing neces-
sites Of the udgent, but in Inviting to the invest
ment Of capital in useful and profitable works,
IN abat,ag that scourse aud scandal of the coun-
try-absea'esism."
The same paper quotes with appreciation an ar
gument by Dr. Doyle in favor of introducing in
10 Ireland system of poor laws similar to that
adopted in England. 1t adds:--
UThe MARQUIS Of Anglesey is represented in
the Limerick Evening Post to have said, IN an
swer to an address presented to him by James
Blake Butler, Esq. and several gentlemen OF the
county Cf Clare,-'with respect to the condition
of this county, must certainly admit that it is
unreasonable to suppose that the peasantry-and
finer or more vigorous peasantry than Clare pos
sesses have never seen-a IS, must sag, i'm
possible to erpecf that fhey CiH qutefty ne 0oton
and die Of starvation"
This is strong language, but it is such as the
occasion demands. In discussion on this sub
ect, which took place in the House Of Commons,
on "Wednesday evening, Mr.. O,Brien said, ''he
knew that it was the fashion in London, to attr,-
butte those Instructions to the misconduct of the
Clare Landlords; but he felt warranted in assert
ing that that suppostion was utterly unjustllable
The Clare landlords were not only not worse than
others, bat he believed in many instances they
we're more considerate. They only took hall OF
what was offered them for their land; for such
was the competition for land it that county. that
any thing was offered to obtain it"
IL is stated that from 8 to IL pounds sterling IS
exacted by grinding landlords for the rent OF one
acre of unreclaimed bog or mountain, and Rlo
DER acre for land MANFRED by the landlord.
A disturbance took place in Dublin, Clare
county, on Easter Monday. The police caught
two men in the act of administering the White-
boy oath to the inmates of house, took them
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