The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-01

pounds, the condition of getting the whole Of the
fertile lands, which they calcuatei at ten millions Of
acres to be divided among them in lots, as fol-
lows:--
For each adventurer of ECO, looo acres in Ulster
Do Do. DO Zoo eco, DO DO M Minister
The English parliament acquiesced in the propos.
al, only changing ten millions Of acres into many
millions Carte. in hishistory, states that Lord An
trims estate, consisting Of GIL acres Of improved
land, was allotted to Sir John Clotworthy, after
wards Lord Massareene, and few other adventures
and soldiers, in consideration of demand for expen-
SEES against the government amounting only G7 900
sterling. Suoh men and their descendants became
the owners Of the SOIL and the native inhabitants had
not right to single foot This state of things
together with the drain of the rents of absentee land
lords, spent in England, amounting to one third Of
the whole rental; also, annual taxation Of about
seven millions of pounds and, finally, the destruction
by law, Of the trade, and commerce, and manufac-
lures Of The country, constitute such mass of &C
cumulated evil that the Encountered Estates bill
only weighs as the dust in the balance against it,
The picture given by Dean Swift, more than
hundred years ago, is as true now as il was then.
In his "Short View of the State Of Ireland" he
says
A stranger would be apt to think himself travel
ling in Lapland or Iceland, rather than in country
60 favored by nature as ours, both in utfaness of
soil aad temperature of climate. The miserable
dress and diet, and dwellings of the people, the gen.
eral restitution in most parts of the kingdom, the
old seats Of the gentry and nobility all in ruins and
no new ones in their stead; the families of farm
ers who pay great rents, living in filth and
shoe or stocking to their feet, or house so con-
veDient as an English hogstye to receive them;
these, indeed may be comfortable sightsto an Eng
lish spectator, who comes for short time only to
learn the language, and returns back to his own
country, whittier he finds all our wealth transmit
ted
"Nostra misera msgnus es."
The rise of our rents is squeezed out Of the very
blood and vitals and clothes and dwellings, of the
tenants, who live worse than English beggars The
lo~ness Of interest, in all other countries sign of
wealth, is in proof of misery, there being
trade to employ any borrower. Hence alone comes
the dearDess of land since the have other
way to lay out their money. Hence the dearness of
the necessares Of life because the tenants cannot
afford pay such extrava rates for land (Which
they must take or 60 begging,) without raising
the price Of cattle. and OF corn, although they
should live upon chaff.
The whole population is thrown upon the land for
support in consequence Of British legislation; and
competition is thus produced which enables the land
lord to exact any amount Of rent When, by the
prevalence of the doctrines of Swift and other patri-
ets and by native militia Of one hundred thousand
fighting men, raised to repel threatened French
INVASION the legislative independence of Ireland was
extorted, in 1882, the oppression of the system of
landlordism was not felt to the extent for the
eighteen years that the lu sid interval in the dark
history OF that unfortunate country lasted, because
her trade and commerce were developed, and manu-
features sprung up and prospered under native legs
lation and national spirit, until the representative
Of the British government in Dublin Castle declared,
the country had grown Zoo great to be governed, if
any longer left Independent and free. But when
the Irish volunteers disbanded by fraud and this
prosperity struck down at one blow by the aunt
hilation of the Irish Parliament then the monster
evil of the land monopoly was exhibited again in all
it's horrors, while the whole population thrown
upon the soil for support. No tinkeripg or patch
ing will therefore, get rid of the difficulty. There
is but one way Of doing it-and 1t is strange that
this never occurred to the Times-and that is tho
restoration of the legislative independence of Ire
land, with universal suffrage This is surely ga
conceivable experiment" and one which, as long
as it was tried before, was found to be most sue
cessful. Let it be tried again. Should that day
ever arrive, from such combination Of circum
stances as brought it about BEFORE the law of pri
mogeniture would be speedily repealed and this is
the only measure that can break up the system OF
Irish landlordism, and distribute the soil among
small proprictors. Other ancillary measures would
of course, be adopted-such as tenant right bill,
protecting the cultivator Of the soil in his improve
ments, and in his tenure, as long as he paid fair
rent for tho land and not the present exorbitant
exactons Of luxurious idle aristocracy, who live
in regal splendor upon the unrequited toll of their
half starved sers Till then, law after law may be
adopted by British legislation, but ot best they
will only prove mere pallatves, and not cures; and
'fhe chief difficulty of all British governments"
will remain handed down from cabinet to cabinet,
as Legacy Of the injustice and cruelty Of other
times.
FARE REDUCED TO PHILADELPHIA 1t will, no
doubt be gratifying to q great portion of the ira