New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-06-23
The Doom Of Ireland.


...,....,,,.. -, F,s,ce-the muster and invsd
ioy march of the ssythians,-the Golden Cf1sade
o. c.Iif,,,is-oo. ongross the attention Of the
<;,,;iizad world Thoughtful men shVdder q tee
,,o.osct that re another year shall have ru1 it,
,oood not les. than Half Million Men all have
fallen ON the CORY fed 70 weller and die onaided
and. though amid thousands, substantially alone
Mo- fJr the.e The soothing ministrations Of moth
efs or sisters, or Hiies devoted love; not ior
many Of them the Surgeon hssty aid, the Priests
beseechiue prayers STIFF and stark and grn' the
morning AFTER battle shall reveal tue haggarf Tea
tures Of those y ho yesterday awoke 10 the buoF-
ant fullness Of iiie and hope, and now sinai never
wake again. Whether Rome shall remain r.
public or retain 20 her former subsection" be ther
Hungary shall gorousy maintain her indepeD
deDco or fall crushed and bleeding beneath the feet
OF the ferocio7s mynsds now overwhelming her
frontiers-whether Germany shall achieve the
Liberation Of her people, Or fall back into a VS.
sAlage more AFFECT ard hopeless than the last
whether France shail-bat noshs cqnA1t he much
longer dragged at the chariot wheels Of the Des
pots Alliance, bot rnu,t resume her natural post
IA the van Of the emsncipated NatiOns-wbeiher
California shall or shall Dot become as is now i'm
minentj the theater Of desperate struggle be
tween repugnsnt races-s struggle stimulated o.
extreme and universal ierocty by all the worst
passions whcn deform Humanty-it can hardly
be doubted tha, for carnage aud is attendant ago
MES the year lsi9 is destined b be long remem-
bered ia the annals Of our Kind.
Yet human life hes deeper tragedies than those
Of the battlefield. Her most startling are by no
means her saddest cslamities. Horrible as War
is, it seldom utterly dooms US to despair; but
bright vis,ss Of hope for Haman Progress aud Ne
Iteration are sometimes opened even by the can
mons blind. impetuo1s messenger ofdeath. War
sweeps over hspess nations like the hurricane
and the tbunder-storm. and like these its mission
has sometimes been to renovste aud purify. Bat
when the life blood OF People Is seen slowly
oozing out in quiet, aud the body sinking gredn
ally into atropby and ultimate decay, without
thought or hope OF resistance much less OF deliver
ance that is a spectacle which angels well May
weep over and good men must ia anguish deplore.
Turn not away impatiently, for we are not
about 10 harrow up your sensbllites with fresh de-
tails OF the horrors now eDactIng IN Ireland
OF bouseless wanderers, and fsmishiog babes
and cannibal orgies aud unbured corpses, the
world has heard enough Its feelings have been
rendered callous by the repetition and variation Of
the one unvar, lug tale until it IL hardly neces
sary longer to skip the news from Ireland 10 order
TO escape the sensation of horror that news Is cal
calated n excite. TO hear of the starvation Of
another lot of Irish cottsgers is deemed about a.
inevitable ss to learn that so many deaths occurred
last week in some distant city aud makes about
the same impression.
But there IL one important question We do not
ace considered even by the journals most voluble
Of details of Irish suffering and starvation II
concerns the ultimate c0Hses of these gigantic hor
rors. The fact that many men have starved to
death or died OF eating loathsome food, ia SIMPLY
revolving why should We knox It ~ all unless to
study its radical causes aud thence determine how
such tragedies may henceiorh be avoided Bu'
for this let us remain In ignorance Of lrelands
INCOMES unmatched In modern times. fthey are
to teach us nothing why should they torture US
There are great many hypotheses propeunded
70 account for Irclauds woes. One attributes
them to the unbalanced sscendency Of her Peoples
chosen Priesthood another lays stress on the cx-
actions OF the Established Church one tNclaims
against Foreign rule another against Celuc
sloth and mproydeLce. II strikes US that It is
sufficient reply To ali thesen denying that any
one or more of them may exert an unpropitious
inauenoe-that all OF them exist elsewhere with
out producing such calamities Poland 10 a sub
iugated country, It's Catholic people ruled with =
rod of iron by an anti Catholic desFot who sspe
cally DESTROYS Of moldug all his subjects Into con
formty with that Church OF which he IL terrestrial
Head French Bntsnny and other portions Of Con
tinental Europe are mainly peoped by Celtic
races but their people seldom stsrve. We sus
pect the Celts OF the Continent are Ms little ad-
dcted 70 starvation rs the Saxous or Danes The
moving cause Of Irelsnd's woes is other than any
OF these.
Let us here glance at few Iscts-hrst IN rels-
ton to the extent OF the prevailing desolatlon.-
The County Surveyor of Mayo was recently ex
amned before the House OF Lords and testified
as follows;
"In Mayo County alone fifty thousand acres oi
ground heretofore in cultivation. with al enormous
extent OF mountainous country, have been abandoned
In lSia the population OOOVO and upward u
has since decreased 10 3OJON OF the deficit. loOVN
about 5000 died through the effects OF the famine
~ 90 emigr ated the colonies, and the remaining
2oOO fed 10 the ncshooriug counties of England snd
Scotland OF the $4,000 sull IN Mayo there arc only
2OOOO families capable OF supporting themselves
Another witness testified that Mayo had form
erly possessed cattle t. the value OF S1ooo,oVo'-
Now he had Just ridden ACROSS the county without
seeing even a single COW.
One more circumstance will serve 10 point a
moral to the above. An English proprietor OF al
Irish estate last year got md Of all his Irish ten
ants, resolved to have his lands cultivated AFTER
the most improved English fashion lie took over
a thoroughly capable English farmer to examine
aud make an offer for the land. The farmer went
over il thoroughly, studied snd figured and msde
his offer lie must have decent farm house oant
for him. the land one year rent-iree get order
and then he would take the whole on a long lease
nj s.lss) per acre. But demonstrated the as.
tonished owner. "my Irish tenants that have
turned of paid me 81 i5s tssl per scre.' 81
can't help that said the basiness-hke farmer,
81 have counted carefully, and this land is " ortl
but -. per Sorc. II you can fluid men TO work II
for nothing aad give toe product for the privilege
OF STAYING On it, that is your luck; but can't
work land ON such terms.
One more fact. We lately convsrsed with one
OF the better class OF ugitves just from Ireland
hA Az