The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1853-07-06
Ireland and her Actual Condition

The transference Of the land properties so
encumbered as to be Of little worth to the
possessors. and incapable Of supporting the
tenantry, Is going on, notwithstanding the
immense quantities already sold by the En-
numbered Estates court, TO the amount Of
many millions sterling; and the emigration
from every port is continuing to such an ex-
tent, after the almost incredible numbers that
have already left the country, that every one
now sees that change in regard both to the
land and the people. was indispensable; and
that however awful was the visitation that led
70 il. nothing but some such catastrophe
could have effected it, and so prepared the
country for a new career. Now, the whole
aspect Of those regions that suffered is under
going change. The lands are in the hands
Of men who either cultivate them themselves.
or let them to others in such quantity and on
such terms as admit Of right cultivation.
Flax cultivation and stock feeding are sup
planting potato patches; and those who re-
main in the country are much better off as
farm labOrers, well fed decently clad, and
comfortably housed, than in the mud cabin,
with the pig, in rags, aud fed on potatoes
and point"
The education Of the people Is keeping
pace with the physical and social improvement
Of the country. If it be gratifying to sec
slated farm-houses and linen and sewed muslin
factories spring up in Connaught, not less 50
Is it to see the country covered with national
schools. But just now, the education sys.
tenn is in peril. The great body Of the estab-
lished clergy decline connection with it ; and
latterly, the Roman Catholic members Of the
Board have been laboring so to alter it as to
make it still less acceptable to them, and to
secure for it the adherence even Of the most
ultramoutane The Protestant clergy want
the reading Of the Scriptures as a part Of the
ordinary and daily education, to be compul-
sorry on all pupils The Board requires united
moral and literary education. through their
own books among which are Scripture Tx
tracts, approved at the establishment If the
Institution by DR.. Marry, DIR. Crolly, and
other Roman Calholie members Of the Board.
But, in these times Of hot controversy and
rivalry for the mastery, the ultramontanists
have got these Extracts put into the
LQdec ErpWgat0riUS at Rome. OF course
they cannot be tolerated for the Roman Cath
olic children Of Ireland. And now the effort
is to get a separation made. and the common
as well as the religious education Of the chill
drcn at the national expense, placed under the
priests. This would break up system that
has worked wonders already in educating halt
a million Of children annually. Of all classes
and creeds nnitcdly 1t is hoped the gov
ernment will be firm. and maintain united
education, unseciarian, for mind, and body,
and soul.
Railway communication continues to ex-
tend. The Boync Niaduct is At length COM
petel aud now the communication between
Dublin and Belfast is direct aud uninterrupt-
ed. From these two or there is communi-
cation to all parts Of the island. and there
with traffic is extending; and though there Is
growing in the Dublin patriOtic papers
about the Income tax-more, in truth, as a
means Of assaiing the apostate traitors "
than from any oppressiveness Of the impost--
the country at large IS so occupied with its
own improvement as to care little about it.
True. we expect retrenchment, from re-
forming government, in time Of profound
peace, and with a fourishing revenue, and mol
new taxes. But blessed are they who expcct
nothing from the promises Of those in power,
for they shall not be disappointed.