The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-04-05

the pending crisis, her Majesty is amusing herself
at the Isle Of Wight instead Of watching over poll
teal disorder, pregnant with important conse
quences and being on the spot to decide the struggle
OF contending parties. II is no secret that Queen
Nictoria's medical advisers recommend that her
mind should be necessarily diverted and amused, TO
check tendency to melancholy that might dege-
nerate into feebleness of intellect, pcrchancc in
sanity-hence the ingenuity of the court y taxed TO
devise some novelty and the Crystal Palace Is be-
lieved to derive its inception from that cause. Her
life is one round Of visits; and when the attractions
Of Europe have satiated her, the chances are that
she may fancy trip to America. Ii may interest
use of knife when eating her fish, but the knife is
n silver She has thus the merit of introducing
fashion that will contribute to the comfort Of fish
eaters, though she is not likely to patronise any al
teraton in the long skirts as her feet and ankles
are less admired than her arms
While adverting to the fashions, it is not out OF
place TO remark that there is disposition to revert
to the hat which was in vogue during the reign Of
Charles the Second, instead Of perpetuating the
use of the present chimney pots, with which Eu-
glishmen, much to their discomfort, cover their
heads. Some of the journals have taken up this
subject, and urged an alteration, having perhaps,
discovered disposition on the part Of Their read
crs to receive such proposition favorably. Your
Cafornans with their broad brimmed sombreros,
have thus anticipated the proposed alteration in the
head dress.
You must make up your minds for an overwhelm-
ing importation of Irish this spring. There are
various causes which combine to swell the tide, aud
with its golden dreams and fascinating realities; the
unbounded prsirics Of the far West; the high wages
and substantial food of the cities the cheapness of
the voyage to the United States, ms contrasted with
other places open to the emigrant and there IS the
despair which has seized mems minds of never being
able to better themselves in Ireand-but far exceed
| ing all these causes in its motive power, may be
named the stream of remittances poured into the
country by those Irish who have already estab
| lshed themselves in the United States The fa-
miar expression in the mouth of the peasantry is,
"Sure it must be good country when they can
| send home SO much money! and they not there
| twelyemonth." Every parish in Ireland can pro-
duce one or more families, who receive from an ABB
sent brother or sister in America, gift in money
| or an order for passage. The generosity those
distant relations evince while it rebounds to the
| honor Of the national character, stimulates emf
grafton already sufficiently active You may smile at
the statement but it is not the less true that very
many of the remittanccs from America are forward
ed by girls to their Irish lovers, to enable them to
emigrate and consumm ite attach nent which has
| stood the tests of time and distance.
The Encum bered-estates court is moving on at its
| ordinary pace, but so enormous is the amount of
work before it, that it will require four years from
this date to bring to sale the properties already
gstered; and il is said that there are, will be-
/ many more properties to be sold by the Court as
| have been yet registered. There will be about
ith OF the landed estate in Irea I'D which will pass
through this process the reason is obvious enough
| Ireland is an agricultural country. The English
legislature withdrew from it all agricultural protec-
the value of the land falls, and the first mortgage
eats up the property. A legislative reduction Of the
value Handed estate in New York to the extent of
oneiourth would be productive Of like results. Here
| land which formerly sold at 5000 per are, is
now offered for 800. The change in the ownership
Of land, the breaking up of Large estates. and the
creation Of class Of small proprietors will be
Of the fruits Of free trade; and the prospect is re-
| garded with favorable eye by the conservatives
calculated to strengthen their interest and swell
their ranks. One Of the most dangerous fea-
| lures in the social system in Great Britain is the
inequality in the numbers Of those owning property
contrasted with the masses. Ia the United States,
| twenty per cent of the population have tangible
ftake in the peace and welfare of the country. In
| Great Britain not more than onetenth Of the peo-
pie are so circumstanced hence the occasion for a
powerful standing army and police force. There
has been but slight introduction Of wealth, not
outstanding all the sales-thc buyers usually hay
| ing some lien upon the lands sold. As an excep-
! ton. may be mentioned the purchase by Lord
| Gough-the hero Of hundred battles in India-of
! property in the county of Tyrone. for the sum of
ninety thousand pounds; the rent-rol is only
three thousand five hundred pounds, but the man
| zion and domains superb.
The hustle of spring planting has subsded--the
farmers are anxious 70 give the potatoes one more
trial, 81 they have strained their purses to bay
seed. The question il good deal del ated amongst
agrgubuEists, whether it Is profitable for Ireland
10 Conn., to grow wheat in the face of the ccntinen-
tai competition. Many Fropretors think it is not;
and acting upon the dea they feeling their poorer
tenants to leave for America, pulling down their
| cabins, and turning their lands into large grass
farms, to supply the nufacturing cities with fresh
beef and nut ton. They thus lessen the poor rates,
and reduce the outlay for labor but even success in
| this direction does not save them from some of the
consequences of free trade for the foreign cattle
imported have brought in their train diseases hth-
| erto unknown amongst cattle, and a form OF small
| poN from which the sheep have severely suffered
| There il atmospheric influenza very prevalent
just now, from which many families suffering
The attack is severe and prostrating often proving
| fatal Horses likewise subject TO a disease
| which assumes the character OF swelling Of the
| glands; IL is weakening, bat not dangerous.
ct. Patricks day celebrated by the custom
| airy ball al the Viceroy's Sixteen hundred we're
invited, Of whom the m aiority attended. The men
dressed in the old p,um-colored court dress; the
dresses Of the ladies well got up, bat they are
always year behind the New York ladies in fash
ION. The ball opened with the ancient country
dance, and then modern dances followed until five
| in the morning. There was but one Greek in his
national costume, which, from IL richness wa much
admired. Lord Clarendon continues Vieeroy while
| Lord John remains minister; but he asprcs, him
| self, to be the future Premier.
The studied silence Of the English press upon the
subject Of creating Ians- Atlantic packet station
somewhere on the western coast a. Ireland, il signi
cant Of the ordinary treatment If this country. IL
IL doubtless true that stations like Liverpool and
| Holyhead have witnessed the growth of Interests
! which would be damaged by transfer Of their
traffic; but a. surely as the west coa-t OF Ireland Is
| one hundred leagues nearer America than any other
European land certainly viii tie tide Of passen-
gers set in that channel. The large steamers
would save not only that distance. bat they could
carry goods ut 80 per ton, instead Of Goals which
cost them money; and when they had reduced the
voyage TO eight days steamng, ninety per cent OF
the passengers would give them the preference. IL
/ must be evident that any competing company try
ing the Galway line, would labor under serious disa-
| bilities, inasnuah as the respective government
| lines are sustained by liberal grants. The fret
effort must be made by individual asganiza,iou and
combination actively carried cut in both countries
hon Qrds ham IA ,Yh.
ehserfuly subscribe their funds merely to let the
scheme in motion, and give Ireland a chance
The old Mansion Hou-e in Dublin has been deco
rated and adorned that it, former friends would
not recognise, in the modern front and Plate
glass cid acquaintance The Thea, res arc silent
IN the metropolis; and whether from The poverty af
the country or the indifference Of the people, we
rarely have the pesture of seeing fret class per-
farmers. Dublin, in word, i perfect blank in the
theatrical world. Heusehod property has declined
n rauc fully twenty-five per cent within the last