The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-08

hospital and . great cemetery. And even o04
aisd in he street and in the gut md at the door,
h. m when and how they could. lie siege Of Jen3
salem must be called to mind to Fe an idea OF n
Jayaees which famine made amor t that wretshss
population. The English, VIII. 70 is known, 4
great amateurs OF statistcs cslcu ed that oo0c&
persons in twelve months gave 10 day, 22S x
in tbc midst Of the nineteenth cttary In the midst
Of established society and in fur European equhi.
brium there was country IN WITCH four person..
er mir ute died Of hunger literally OF hunger II
w0uld have been difficult to have lg preserved this
state of civilization and besides, Ln9and ruined her
felf in maintaining it. After every crisis Of this
nature, England regularly found herself with some
millions Of Irish on her hands, ana she c0sid noI
abandon them for they were Of her family. Tha
Irifbman was always for England poor RELATION:
ard Bazac might have found IN i'm the snDlecs o.
ole of his most painful novels. The greas menGi
cant, the man eernsy iamshed cams ,,;os ~srs
gwen but the thing had always t oe recommended.
thus, in 1s47, the English govern ent caused soup
to be distributed in Ireland every day 70 upwards
six hundred thousand men in the profitable occupa
ton of breaking stones on the highway. But With
the Irish, aims had only one effect-that OF keeping
up and perpctuating -pauperisnl. The greater the
quantity of soup distributed, the moro were the poor
multiphed-nay more, seeing that soup was gwen
to them at home, the Irish remained there, instead
OF going AZ before TO seek work III England: Ihey
them. Content with their pittance, the ,workmer
seated themselves by the roadside with their arms
folded; the fishermen abandoned Their nets and
their boats, and lay down on the shore Ike hne az-
ZsroDe. A man who knows the country WELL the
Archbishop Of Dublin, rsaid on this SUBJECT, The
rishman is always on the brink Of ruin, and contents
himself purely and simply with w quantity Hsces-
work at all" The same Archbisho offered to fisher
men to equip them and give them provisions,
but he was obliged to abandon Ri, design. "if,,
faid he, provisions be given to iheni, they wo9ld
their boats stored they would return ashore the st
night would bring back their provisions TO their IA
miles. and, counting on public charity, would remain
Of bread to such people," In reading this portrait Of
the Irishman, drawn by Archbishop Whatelp would
not one believe that he wes talking OF Neapoiitans?
Another writer sad Also in speaking Of his country
men Q4etters from Ireland, by Aubrey de Vere);-
:" What can be done with people who are 30 savage
and devout, that you were to give them pipe to
smoke, they would have the impunence to consider
themselves happy and would digest the easerfr mott
having The stomach laden; who at the same thing
have perfectly Oriental belief that what must hap
pen will happen; and who to all that join a sort
epicurean Platenism, mixed with a little cynicisrn
which makes them lind comfort IA the damp straw
on which they spread themselves In the SUD, aban-
doning themselves TO visions Of future world
which resembles neither England nor Ireland, act
which floats before their half closed eyes," HeS
again we find the true lazzarOne we have seen ths
lrshn8n on the port and 1uays OF Naples lying at
full length in the sun living halfpenDy Gay,
without caring for toInorrow, and leaving Prov-
dence to act with thorough Mussulman Indifference.
We should find him again without any doubt OIL
the quays of COnstantinople, looking half asleep al
the ascending smoke Of his pipe anu dreaming
The NeapOitan and tie Turk however have always
sunshine and never require spirituous drnksywhiEt
the hisbman ia often cold and hungry, and vixen
imagination does not feed him ENGLAND must do 30
The reader then that England in yiciors
circle. The more money she gave, the more the
demand increased. II was the oask OF the Danaides
the stone Of Sisyphusit was anything we please
borrowed from the symbolism Of mythology. The
English had poor law for themselves the Irish had
none: so that in ireland, the INDECENT, instead OF
beng at the charge Of parishes and Of landowners,
were at the charge of the public treasury. The Eng
lsh had a tax on incomes, the Irish were exempt
from it, and yet they cost the State fl,O00,O 900
month and after year Of labor and commercial
prosperity, in which she energeticsly restored bef
finances England found herself obliged TO make q
loan of fs 900 to feed clothe and Lodge three or
four millions Of Irish gaping III the air. The excess
Of evil caused the repression Of it, and England felt
that at any cost she must violently shake Off the ever
increasing burden, which became accumulated on
her, snd which would have ended by crushing her.
1t was then that the British Parliament voted mea-
sures which legisatrely and penceab]y effected a
radical revolution in tho territorial property OF Ire
and, and changed the situation Of the country sroa
op to bottom.