New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-13
IRELAND.


lis all up with the League" say one class
of speculators Look at their failure 10 Limerick.
They concentrated ali their force, yet could not
turn a Tenant. Leauger. Their candidate was
beaten by both the Tory and Wing Landlord can.
didates. The people are not with them. On the
other hand, the through and-through Leaguers
in whom-as in all who embark heart and hand in
any enterpise-the swish is often father TO the
thought" or, as an older poet said, "hope is the
offspring Of desire"-are confident that they shall
so carry with them the voice of Ireland and the
sympathies of England and Scotland, when they
address Parlisment-to meet "for the dispatch oil
business within six weeks-thst said Psriis'
ment will not dare to separate without embody-
ing the principles of the League in law.
Now, Us long ago set before the readers OF
The Tribune the principles OF the League, aud
expressed my conviction that it was likely to
work out much practical good for this county,
distinguishing, at the same time, those portions
Of its plan which were not likely TO carry with
them the approval of the sound-thinking In Great
Britain. any more than at home, and so not likely
TO succeed with a majority, even considerable
minority, of the House of Commons, from those
that are so righteous and reasonable that hardly
the most INSCRIPTIONS advocate OF Irish landlord
ism dares to controvert them-and as see, by an
article in the Nee. York Family Courier, that this
subject is becoming more interesting to Ameri-
cans than had ventured to hope-I feeIincned
10 state how things are with the League and how
they are likely to be.
And, first of all, the failure to return Mr. Ryan.
the Tenant candidate, last week in Limerick. is
no criterion of the Leagues popularity or power
10 return future members OF Parliament And the
simple reason is that the bill for the extension OF
the franchise passed last session, has not yet
come into operation The lower class OF voters
had been swept away by famine and emigra.
ton-not above 500 voters in the County OF Lime
rick the ESQ and ECO freeholders always went
with the arstocrats. To many, therefore, it ap.
peared hopeless from the first, and il was thought
unwise in the Council of the League to make the
attempt especially to attach so much importance
to the result. 1t will be quite a different affair
when the great body of the tenant farmers come
TO be possessed of votes.
The first principle of the League is, rent to DO
fixed by valuation, regulated by the price OF pro-
duce. This, though precisely that part OF the
principles Of the league which has few or no advo'
Gates in England and Scotland,-perhaps not one
within the walls of p arament-is the most popu
lar with the small farmers of Ireland; and in
of general election, after the Francise Extension
act has come into play that class will be even on
this ground, heart and soul with the Leagues
candidates.
The second principle, however, is the one that
must insure the success OF the League sooner or
later-that is, compensation to the tenant for his
outlay of science, labor and money, in farm i'm.
provements And this too, is popular with the
farmers-nor less, that which follows IL, that IL.
restriction OF the landlords power OF ejecting, 30
as to secure to the tenant txity OF tenure while
he paws his rent. IL is obvious, therefore, that
whenever the tenant farmers OF Ireland shall have
got the power Of voting, mighty change will
take place in the returned to Parliament.
But il is far from certain whether a bill emb0dy
ing the Sc so equitable prinoiples-which are not
distinctly denounced, even by the Landlord Press
will in the approaching session, gain the sano-
ton of Commons, Queen and Lords-whether it
may not require Parliament returned by the ex
tended franchise, that the battle OF the Tenant
right may have first to be fought at the Hastings.
And recent events peril the efficiency of the
League The " No Popery" excitement in Eng
land has flung the brand of controversy into
Ireland. The Roman Catholics sympathise with
their English brethren,-regarding the outcry
against their newly organized Hierarchy-by the
Pope, who alone has the power of organising il,
and which they declare niece ssry tothe full exer.
else Of their religion-as persecution. The Protes
portunity to which they are called by their English
bretbren,-whose berality is the chief support
OF their Home Enthusiastically with the I'M
usual phenomenon of the First Minister Of the
Crown reckoning them to embrace it,-of setting
forth the errors Of Romanism and the aggressive
enormities OF the Papacy. There 10 danger,-in
the ease OF clergymen especially-of men coming
hot from these discussions, eyincing spirit un.
favorable to cordial union for common country.
Then, another element Of danger TO union has
arisen from the course matters have recently
taken, regarding United Education in School and
College. As long as the Roman Catholic Primate,
and the most influential bishops and their clergy
were for 1t, and the opposition was mainly con-
lined to DIR. Machae and those he could influence,
things went on smoothly. But now the Prmate
and the whole body Of Bishops are pledged, by
the Pastoral OF the Thures Synod 10 oppose any
education which they do not exclusively super
intend and coDtrol,-which they cannot impreg.
nate and pervade with the principles end spirit Of
their religion. On the National Schools and
Queen Colleges, the Government the liberal Pro.
testants end the whole Presbyterian body have
set their hearts 1t would be blind absurdity TO
deny that the discussions that are rife en- this sub
ject have chilled the ardor for operation, so ex.
tensive as to deserve the name Of National, on
any subject.
Still, in spite of the attempts of John O'Con-
nell to scatter the seeds of religious strife over
the field occupied by the League-the with.
drawment Of the Freeman-the taunts of the
Orange Press Of Ulster at the disciples of Knox
uniting with the Repeaers who want the Church
OF Pio Mono established on the ruins Of Protestant
sm,-and the efforts of the Aristocracy, and
those who confound responsibility" with shaking
hands In the marketplace, and dining at times
with the Aristocracy, the League is working
unitedly, vigorously, and successfully for the
emancipation Of the commonnty of Ireland from
the feuda yassalsge Of AristOcrstic landlords. aud
Herewith q new career Of social and moral Ma.
tonal prosperity.
HOW THE ENGLISH CRUSADE is LIKELY TO
TELL ON IRELAND.
1t is pity that the Pope's decree and Dr.