The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-05-06

IHR CONDITION OF IRxIANp.-We perceive
that the revolutionary movement in Ireland
forms a topic for discussion in some of the
newspapers, which will doubtless continue
until we shall receive some conclusive in
telgence as to the result of the present struggle
for revolutionary principles, going on. in the
island. BY the latest accounts, it would appea
that the government and the Irish people have
joined Issue, at least that portion of the masses
that are favorable to establishing republic, and
total separation from England
We, In America, can form no adequate Idea of
the misery and restitution that for years past
have prevailed among the masses of the people
there. 1t is gratultous folly to taunt the Irish
laborer with disposition to idle, if he can pro-
cure employment. The best evidence that can
be adduced in refutation of such charge, will
be found in the fact that thousands of those
poor people cross the British Channe during the
harvesting months, presenting an appearance of
squalld wretchedness and poverty which does
not belong to any other people upon the face
of the habitable globe; and it cannot
be questioned, if such mass of misery
could find employment at home, that they
would notE gladlyEstop there. The average
daily pay of an Irish laborer who can
get employment, is from eight to ten pence
British. This sum, weekly, will scarcely support
his family ON the cheapest food that can be pro-
cured-the potato; and it was the failure of this
crop alone that produced the famine in Ireland
during the past year. Lord John Russell, the
British minister, was warned of this failure in
the early part of the preceding winter, and OBJ
atm yefuaed IN hv;uo q <;r,aIv sc
relief. The result was that famine began slowly
and gradually to NOW down its victims, until
pestilential disease expedited the work of death;
and while all this was going ON, corn and the
fat of the land were leaving for Liverpool; and
now, side by side with this minister, are to be
found the O'Connells, shamef ully bartering the
rights and liberties of people to whom they
owe the very bread they have fed upon tor so
long a series of years.
These O'Connels, in coquetting with the 90.
vernment, and obstructing the advance of liberal
sentiments, would fain have it understood that
they represent the masses but this is fallacy.
The electors are limited constituency, consist
ing of the flO and higher class of
freeholders, who have been cut up good
deal since the introduction of Peel's mea.
| sure of free trade. which has tended to de.
These very O'Connells, too, have reduced Con-
Citation Hall to the condition of large begging
shop, or depot, for the procurement of government
places, pretty much upon the same plan az that Of
the French noblesse, whose corrupt sale and bar
tering Of places under the government, undoubt-
eddy had share in sowing the seeds and expe-
dlting, if not exclusively laying the foundation
OF, the French revolution. The masses of the
Irish people, who see that land has been the
great fostering sore upon the body polite for
years, will undoubtedly join the standard of re-
voution; and if the bugbear of repeal were
granted tomorrow, it will only tend to retard
the final overthrow Of British rule-provided the
government cannot succeed in disarming tho
people, and effectually checking the revolution
Ary spirit. Indeed, If there were a parliament
in College Green tomorrow, the same spirit of
dlsunion and faction that has 90 long rocked the
island to it's very centre, would be carried IN
there, that the fate of Ireland just now, stands
in equipoise in the scale.
| If the government yield repeal, it will be
looked upon a. an ominous sign OF fear, and will
only sharpen the appetltes of the people for fur
Their concessions. If they succeed in disarming
the people, 1t will not be without bloodshed; 90
that crisis has arrived.
The jealous policy pursued towards Ireland
by the British government, has long been fully
discussed; but where safe medium of commu-
nicatlon between England and the old and new
world could be so easily effected, by establish
ing the terminus OF a railway at some of the
southern ports of Ireland, the refusal to
adopt SO manifest an Improvement tells
very powerfully against the British govern
ment.' Every year the British Channel and
the coast of Wales are the scenes of ship.
wreck, and immense loss of life aud trea.
sure, which could be easily avoided by establish.
ing depot for the transit of all articles of COM
merce to and from the English markets. through
ireland, from the terminus of railroad at some
of the southern ports of Ireland, and giving that
country some share in the benefits that must ac-
crue therefrom. Unless something is done-and
efectually and literally done, tco-provided the
crisis is not already past, Ireland will ever re-
main /" a thorn in the side' of England. With
Ireland united, England possesses power tina
she could WELD to her advantage to an unlimit.
ted extent and it is only to be wondered at, in
this age, how blind the British government seem
to below totally regardless of their own Inte-
rest-not to adopt proper measures to allow the
sister island to participate in the advantages of
that union of which we hear 80 much. But we
have our fears, that like the closing scene in the
drama that led the way to the French revolu-
ton, concessions from the British government
| will come "too late''
| The MORALS OF ROYALTY AND RKPUBLICANIsM
CoNTRAsTED-LouIs PHILIPPE AND MADAME TyT-
1Lz.-We give in another column, this morning,
several extracts from the National Police Gazette
ofthis city, and also from the Ne,c York Globe Civ
ing an account of a most extraordinary and afro
cious case, which give the condition OF morals
among certain classes of societyn this republican
| land Accordinu to these newsnaner accounts