New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-22
IRELAND.
DUBLIN, Friday, Feb. :, 1851.
To tie Editor Of The Tribune
THE QUEENS SPEECH

as can be collected from the sayings and doings
that usually follow its delivery at the opening Of
Parliamentary Session, the chances that, at long
and last there will be before its close the legisa
ton that the country needs-has ever needed, and
which, had it been given in time, would have made
it the counterpart of England n0u instead Of being
the facsimile Of the original Of Macaulay's picture
of Yorkshire hundred and seventy years ago.
But first OF ell must tell you Of the condition OF
the country for which, as far as legislation can
remedy it, legislation is regarded-of the attitude
the people have assumed-and of the favorable
position of all things for right legislation, ii the
British Ministry and Parliament mean ever to do
Justice to Ireland
HOW THINGS ARE-THE LAND.
Large portions of the richest parts Of the coun.
try, in the West and South, are absolutely waste;
the people having died off them, or been evicted
and crowded in the poor.h house. or emigrated, they
are either sold, but the new purchasers are afraid
to do any thing with them, till some final settlement
is made about the poorlaw and tenant right, or
await the leisure of the auctioneer In the En-
numbered Estates Sale Court. Where things are
otherwise the people are grumbling at having to
pay rate In aid of these destitute Unions; and
wondering when Parliament mean TO leave them
nothing TO do with the produce OF their laoor and
industry but support their own poor-enousn In
giving employ ment to the people
There is this advantage-if the Government
avail themselves Of it-that whereas, heretofore,
when there was an Irish cry for legislation, and
that cry was from the landlords there was the un-
reasonable expectation that Parliament should 90
every thing, achieve impracticabllltles- legs
lation should accomplish those practicA results
which only the cordial working together OF the
owners and occupiers of the soil can elect. NOW,
when the cry is that of the people, 1t IS moderate
and reasonable; 1t is, merely that Legislation
remove obstacles and restrictions that former
bad legislation imposed and by giving to the culti.
vator and improver a right to his own industrial
labors secure the full development OF the re-
sources of the land. to the benefit alike OF the
! Lord of the Soil and the tenantfarmsr. When
this is done with the lands already reclaimed
| the idle lands given TO the idle hands-the way
will be opened for bringing under culture the mil
lions of acres that are still In state oil nature
! TIE PACKET sTATION-RAILwAYs.
There will be no dificulty,-f fair play be the
order,-in establishing Western Atlantic Pack
ct Station, where Nature-or the God of Nature,
meant it to be,--On the West Of Ireland by
placing Ireland, between England and the West
ern Continent. And, while different ports are
putting forth their rival claims the voices Of Ire
land is that that station shall be an Irish one II
Galway q mile of railway will connect the Great
Western with the Dublin and Belfast And
few links will connect Cork and Galway and
Belfast and Galway, by Londonderry and Ennis
killen, in another direction. OF course, II the
| Parliament like, they may make legislation on
the subject as complicated and unfair, as they
did that regarding the LAND, by listening to Liv
erpool and Manchester, as they did 10 the land
lords and making Holyhead the Western packet
station. But justice and facility coincide In the
one case as in the other and, IT Ireland be the
English difficulty and if the English Parliament
wish to make that country that their own partial
| and perverse legislation has hitherto kept an To-
| cumbrance. q powerful and valuable assistant,
! the Packet Station will be, where reason and JUS
! tce demand it and Herewith will be Improved
inland navigation, improved fisberies, increased
manufactures, emptied warehouses, and an EN-
ployed people.
THE LEGISLATION NOT WANTED.
The Minister threatens legislation on subject
on which some, not unwise people, think it were
better there never had been any legislation at
| all-the conflicting claims Of religious sects all
of which, bad they ever been left to themselves
none Incorporated with the State, as avorlte TO
domineer over the others, aud It's clergy to lit
their mitred heads In courts and parllhments II
! would have been better for the religious peace oil
| the country; aud legislation wOuld have had lei
sure to direct its energies to its Legitimate OBJ
iects the physical and social interests OF the pe0-
pie. 1t will create mischief enough IN Eng land -
| if we may Judge by the prellminarles, an aSlta'
!
same cities and districts-but, extended 20 Ire
land it would be convulsion. The Clergy OF the
Established and Roman Catholic Churches meet
! in their respective dlOceses, pass resolutions,
and address their Bishops, who in return address
| them-the Professionals louder than their Engslsh
Brethren against the " aggressive lnYaslon' ana
calling for legslati that shall include Ireland
and the Roman Catholics casting in their lot with
| their English Brethren, denouncing any attempt
TO control their communication with Rome or TO
interfere in the nomination Of Bishops, as worse
than new penal law, and declaring their deter
ninaton to join the English Catholics In resist
ing TO the death any infringement upon the fullest
exercise of their religious rites and discipline.
But the wise of the laity, OF both creeds, nope
| the Government will at length see the aosurdity
of forsaking their proper sphere to egisate about
religion and leaving all religionists tomnd their
own affairs legislate for the common interests oil
all-seeing that representatives OF all are IN Par
! lament, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Quakers,
Presbyterians, Independents and, by and by,
! Jews-the diminution of burdens the promotion
! of social economies the development of the Ma
tional resources and the Advancement OF Ma
tional education unsectarisn and secular, leaving
the clergy to teach Theology
FAcILITIEs-PEAcE AND UNION.
The pretext for doing nothing used to be-The
country is disturbed, agitated party factions and
| sgrsran outrsges require coercion first. Wen,
that system has been tried-coercion has been
applied, not TO Orangemen or Ribbonmen only, to
Irishmen: pretty well of coercion for half cen
tury-and nothing else: or if there was S some
Now there is perfect peace-the Judges con.
graduating the Grand Juries on the absence OF
| crime-no political agitation; Orangesm and Rib
bonism obsolete the people merely united for
/ having the landrights adjusted-and of late, FOR
having the Lord Lieutenant continued l am stll
e A.. IS cir
all other subjects, Ireland would be better with
out her Viceroy bat as Capitalization has been
going on--all public Boards transferred to London
it is not unreasonably feared that the Courts OF