The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-17

Cured until the report Of the committee shall be made
when each subscriber will have the option proceeding
with the undertaking. or not, as he shall then consider
desirable.
When we reflect that the traffic would necessarily
pass over their railway, that passengers would be
dependent upon them for their safety and comfort
that they could alone enter into those combinations
with other lines which would secure the certain
transmission Of merchandise from the continent and
the English manufacturing towns to Galway, it is
obvious that the steam line should be under the
auspices Of the railway company until all doubts
were removed as to the capabilities OF Galway har-
bor have had several interviews with the acting
directors Of the railway, who are promoting this
project and can, consequently, speak with certainty
The leading men are wealthy, and able and willing
to carry out the scheme; and the public mind ID
ireland is ripe for the undertaking. It is intended
to reserve one-half of the stock for the American
and colonial market. The shares, i2o ana the
shareholders empowered to vote by letter. Ihey
don't contemplate any rivalry with other compa'
MES, but holding, as they do, the keys IN their
hands Of the Galway Railway, they desire to deye--
lope its superiority They wish to prove that !he
Galway route is the shortest and safest. and having
accomplished that mission, the public are free t.
buy their stock They invite men of both nations
and all parties to cooperate in work so cminenti
calculated to lessen the objections to ocean travel
ing, and accelerate the rapid and safe communica-
ton between Europe and America. They count
upon an expression OF sympathy and friendship on
the part of America towards Ireland, of which so
many substantial proofs have already been funishcd
and they enlist the interests OF Your mighty cotton
dealers in project, which, BY the all Of the electric
telegraph, twenty hours later intelligence
than any other route
The report of the society for the encouragement
of the growth Of fax in Ireland is not satisfactory.
lister is the only province where preparations have
been made upon large scale: but even there only
fifty thousand acres arc reported as sown and To-
the rest of Ireland about one fourth more it would
require above five times that extent Of land to b,
sown, to supply the import turnis he'd by foreign
| countries; aud as it is only when that stage O.
cultivation has been reached that fax can distur,
the cotton trade, you may prehcnd the Sigh.
| prospect there is OF rivalry. There is more proba
bty Of the beet-root sugar trade being establish
ed. The soil and climate favor the growth of tbs
root, and the patentees of the process consent
| to establish works in any locality where they can
| be secure of one hundred and fifty acres of beet
| root. Flax is not so exhausting a crop many
people fancy, but it returns no manurc and foreign
manues little used here, in consequence OF their
| cost compared with the returns from the land.
On the other hand the debris from the beet root,
after the sacharine properties had been extracted,
would be servceable on the farm.
There is much to battle spectator of the strug-
| giles between free trade and protection. In the
| highest quarters, and from the mouths of men re-
puted statesmen, the veriest twaddle issues. In the
| Lords last week, Grey, the colonial minister,
gued that the British millers could not suffer, as in
the long run their skill and coal would give them
the vieory-that just now the French mil.crs might
monopolize the trade but that the high prices they
paid for coal must drive them out Of the business.
Now, it is notorious that the French milling is per-
formed by water or wind power-that they neither
purchase nor burn coas-and that Lord Grey was
talking upon subject of which he was profoundly
ignorant. The fact is confessed by all parties
that the French have walked off with the mill
in neat small packages of Is lbs, a better and
cheaper article than either Irish English mllcrs
can furnish. The large mills for Touring COM
paratively idle, and moreover the cultivation Of
wheat is being gradually relinquished. Ii the pre-
sent policy be purs ued few years longer, Ireland
speculation does not pay. 1t is more rcmancrative
to aten cattle, though that trade is depressed by
the foreign competition. There was cargo OF
Egyptian wheat landed at Dundalk this week. 1t
Is selling at fifteen shillings the Irish barrel, which
Is equivalent TO seventy five cents the bushcl, ship
ped from New York, freight paid; or scycn,yGv,
cents; less freight and charges The lowest price
the Irish farmer ever imagined was twenty shil-
lngs Per barrel, and that price would not pay for
the labor leaving rent out Of the question. You may
fancy the CONSERVATION the import from Egypt has
oecasioned. The Dundalk Democrat is furious with
the wing free traders, and many other journals
fess that Ireland has been sacrificed to enrich few
Manchester cotton lords. The work Of ruin is adj
vancing steadily: It is creeping into the manufac-
turing towns, andf were in Lee l. and looked at
he vacant tenements and listened to the language
Of the workmen, whose wages have been reduced
and Who cannot command continuous employment
you would doubt the boasts Of the Times. The cots
ION lords have not escaped unhurt. True IL Is, they
get labor on lower terms and dream that they can
supplant the American fabric but their hcme con-
sumption is declining; and the home goose was al
ways better worth plu king than the foreign goose.
The Vice Royalty OF Ireland Is not 10 BE- di--
cussed this session. The process of pro, incalxny
the country Is delayed, while nighfier matters
gage the imperial mind, but in all the detail Of
governmt mt a parsimonious and upyencrous spirit
animates the cabinet. Dublin has long been cole
brated for lis hospitals, and her medical men enjoy
European fame. These hospitals are to be quietly
extinguisbcd. At the time Of the Union, they re-
ceived grants OF money; and the clear understand
ing then was. that the allowances were % be con
tnued; but in violation Of the implied obligation.
ten per cent has been deducted this year from the
grant 10 the hospitals and the crtailmeBt pro-
ceed year after year, ut the ut per cent per
annum; thus in ten years they will be come extinct
anu then Irish students must resort to London TO.
hospitsl practice.
There Is river in the suburbs ofthis town, called
the river "Dodder;' it flows rapidly from the
mountains IN the vicinity OF Dublin, and, in it,
course, furnishes abundance of water power. IL
you trace the banks Of the stream you will en-
counter twenty vacant and dilapidatcd buildings,
with broken mill dams in front. These were facto.
ries OF cotton and cloth, which constantly
ployed and furnished work to thousands when the
mon was contaminated. They are now idle and
desolate; the owners ruined; the worlpeople dead,
in foreign lands. Such Is the history OF Ireland
everywhere repeated. Dublin was once famous for
its cutlery. The trade is suppressed English
capitalists combined, and actually sold articles,
like the balanced-handlc knife, in Dublin, below
the cost price. They pursued this plan for many
years broke up the local trade-in,itcd tho sslfu
rivals.
That gifted and extraordinary man. Gavazsi.
Is pouring forth his torrents Of indignant c,oqucuce
in London: he startles the idle dreamers by the
ooidncss OF his conceptions, the exquisite skill %
his orations, the sublime and elevated ,loctrnc,
he inculcates. lie has nobly vndicated the cha
racter Of NlaElini from the calumnics Of The ultra
montana school. Miss Talbot divides with him the
public attention. The victim of that perverted
understanding, Lord Shrewsbury, shc has repud,-
atcd the sentiments attributed To her. aud involved
the Bishop Of Clifton and the Priorcss in the mazcs
Of their own weaving A friend Of mine. who
at school with her describes her anything bat
clever, or sharp; but circumstances ut her time Of
life, rapidly alter the character.
The Glass Palace has proved lcaky, much 10 the
amazemcnt Of the committee. The irh con.ribu-
tons win include beautiful copies Of the ancient
golden ornaments discovered at various cposhs.
They have been faithfully reproduced by West,
the well-known goldsmith. Some OF the t-1binets
are gorgeou-ly worked with silveraud gold threads.