The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-01-26

Tho Eject OF the Prssidsnt's Message In
E"gland.

The ERsct OF the Prssidsnt's Message In
E0gland.
From the London Times
II Ii now censdsrably more than year since We
brought upon ourselves considerable amount of
heavy dssiOn BY yenturing to suggest that the Irish
hsn II. o. winter Of W. ~srs then set down q:
alarmists and insnussd that We found our
account in the panic had created This day is the
last Of this most evsnul year, and that
those writers and those sodisans statesmen who aege
consequent distress were hoax and sham will admit
the event has borne out the proportion we denoted
csmy BUT The cris too s terrible for Claiming on
their own account the trumPhs Of forethought we are
clare to be sorrowful conviction that unless
very unforeseen circumstances some specially prov
dental Interference shall control the present Of
affairs the winter Of 1918 will be still more disastrous
than the winter Of 1867.
Is matter Of calculation, not of mere conjecture
Az an engineer said Of tunnel through the Alps its only
matter pounds hlDings, and pence We believe the
manageable and roduceabls problem as the construc-
ton OF railroads much more than the salvage Of the
Great Britain Of which Brunei has given confident
opinion We are aware that in respectable quar-
tors is considered rash to look for wards and prudent
is not our own feeling. We consider it the paramount
duty OF our statesmen and the whole enlightened public
our people, far horiz extends and partcu.
ary to consider how the people OF Ireland to be fed
| for the next two or three years
The main chance of Ireland hitherto has been the potato
II has failed partially last year, almost entirely this
Can It be depended upon for next year, No Is It even
probablenay Is there any chance Of anything but the
traction Of crop next year No. There not even
sound ubers enough for seed and there were they
would no. be sown There will not be the prepare
ton for that CROP But what will there be supply the
place Of the potato Not 80 much this year Every
from the BaInaso Star is 0nlytoo ordinary specimen
Of what we are informed from almost every quarter:
sss in this Country and ali did not avail
the information which the potato disease had supplied
the infatIson rests with the parties interested and
not be solely attributed to the circumstances of the day
sustained check which would cause to DO exceeding
~ doubtful whether or not another sowing Of that
cautiously and prudsntly to work in the spring Of 1915
many persons have to lament that they did quit the old
routine circle Of croppngb which their method
ing had been distinguished for several years variety
several instances but the green crop general wss
confined to the potato there other tributary from
should the potato fail We are now rapidly approach a
ing me season ior getting down the spring crops
species produce will 1t for human food in the sum
mer months - That is question Of paramount consid
ing the land for whatever crop farmers may decide upon
sowing AS yet there 10 not preparation on loot sui
70 give rise to the hope that the the land viii BE-
sonably expect to reap remunsrative return. With
some it is matter of doubt whether they command
the means OF cropping their farms but alas with 9th
ers, the means totally beyond their command
and, unless prompt and liberal assistance shall be goner
unculdvated during the If that shall be
the case, where is the look without dismay
Of the winter Of s47 The bare idea Of
the results which to be appreaended though
seen me long perspective Of several months is
can deliberately survey the long and dreary vista which
lies between tee present and the FUTURE
The same omnous fact presents itself at every
Turn, for instance TO irish Intelligence Of to day II
impossible to read private letter. string of public
resolutions official document o newspaper article
| nOtOrIety,
the most serious import that there adequate prepa
ration now in progress for the future necessities Of
people
circular letter to the east division Of the county Of Gal
way complains with just indignation that such persons
~ land surveyors with twelve acres, land Stewards
schoomasers farmers holding from ten to twenty Irish
acres In great numbers carpenters blacksmhs
taiiors, weavers hucksters shoemakos servant boys
&C. intraded by the corrupt influence of friends
the relief committee into the list OF aborers fu nished
his Office He adds that thc grave discrepancies which
comparison Of the poor law valustion books with the
different rolls presented TO has disclosed leads the
supposition that the aborers undoubted destuion
have to some extent been excluded in favor OF the
influential rivals Nay, even appeals that those
poyed to take down the applicants have soli
favor. All this leaves doubt that only i'm
Dense number Of laborers the public works. instead
other customary employ ment on the soil that many
farmers themselves leaving their own land for the
roads, The admission of this class the relief rolls
asked triumphantly the other day, whether hungry
man was 10 cut slice from his cows back, and eat
it And by others we are told that il man does hold
dozen acres he can't eat grass 1t is quite Unnecessary
Tor our present purpose to answer these questions Maj
Ainslee indeed ntmates that there ystemaic
thing-the universally admitted and publicly justified
c that for one reason or another fairly or iouiy from
necessity or from choice ulage neglected; and
every where striking and amsntsbls absence Of pre-.
| paration for next year.
Roscommon, Nr. f. French said that q" II was conclu-
sively proved that the public work had realised
all the evil antcipatons which conversant with Ire
land had oreseen 1t had completely upset the ordinary
course oil employment and not vigorously and speedi-
~ checked would render the calamity OF this year tri
Hing in comparison to those to be apprehended in the
next"
The fact and the foreboding accept. Mr. y. French
only adds aoother testimony to the above gloomy series
| ought not to have made employment public
works" the condition of relief that is sufficiently en-
poor law thing which cannot be made and enforced in
moment 1t Is impossible to employ several millions
tIare at the national cost and under the national ma
nagement. Why oven the advances fer private drain
ago spbsoiling and ,eclalmins Of waste lands adyo
reproductive in fact remedy whatever be Of
slant benefit in thoroughly i'll conditioned country:
it, Ireland has madly staked human existence one
anchor and that anchor has failed Each must
the present, be than the last Why, then, do
harp so gloomy a theme? II is that may establish
the reality Of these facts and the immncnce OF these da
gersl we presume, that if the present state of affairs
twelvemonth since would have been better ided
for Be warned by that Let not the same thing be said
| half and quarter measures, Who could have fore.
seen so horrid an extremity Full well do we
know that the Irish land owners will fight almost unto
DEATH and ready for repeal rebellion tse
off good poor law II is anticipate their interested
desire to establish the otherwise
| utterly hopeless prospects Of ireland.
! [From the London Cronicle.l
Never fear the omission Of equiv ocal expression
No knows the good things that you reject This is
good rule in rhetoric, and that both the lengthy
| and the br liant should keep before them.
Even under his highest inspiration, and during the
composition Of his most patriotic periods the American
President must occasionally have wished himself ber
ty to brief He must also have wished that spite
OF inherent love OF ones IDEAS which the rule
We have quoted is levecd sgeinst OF them might
be repudisted Little as his nationality allows him to
initiate Britain, or little his rcpublicanm recognises
the fashion Of either prince poentate, he may have
thought under the burden Of presidential of
the convenient brevty of Queens speech in the
Their country. 1t 10 great thing for with a bad
to find custom that dispenses with The details Of
exclamation. Pleasant things