Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-10-07
RECOVERY OF IRELAND.
IRON THE NEW YoRx JOURNAL or CONNER,

FROM THE NEW YORK JOURNAL or COMMERCE..
That America has contributed most successfully to
the recovery Of Ireland from that at one time hopeless
state Of depression dsorganiEation and degradation
which made her once the and the shame Of Eng
land is fact that will admit Of no dispute. Anne
RIGA has offered asylum to her redundant population,
without which, is than probable her recovery
any advance towards it, could have been effected
During the last years this country has been recev
ing the poor Irish at the rate of about 100000 year.
About million and half of her population has, during
that short period found home in our happier land-of
that very population which could scarcely find subsst
ence of any kind in their country, and which
felt incubus and did indeed constitute canker
upon the United Kingdom. We gave them liberty pro-
lection and comfortable to which
they had in great measure, been strangers all their
lives before. We afforded them the opportunity not only
of helping themselves but of assisting also their poor
ations and friends whom they had left behind. The
amount of money sent back from this country Ireland
by her poor emgrants for the assistance Of their
ions there is Of the most striking phenomena which
her strange presents is ascertained through the
medium Of Anglo-American banking houses, that from
the year 1848 to 1858 the amount has gone gradually
increasing from about millions and half upwards
of eleven millions of dollars year! return be-
fore makes total Of 900 sterling for that Pc
rod the amount for the last year alone Of the return
being FL 600 sterlng or upwards OF seven millions
Of dollars Thus, in FIVE years, have these poor people
been able to out Of their earnings and send back to
the old country about twenty-one millions and three
quarters Of dollars calculation has been made that
supposng these to have been sent by the emf
grants Of six months twelve months previous dates,
it amounts to about twenty dollars transmitted by each
emigrant-a sum quite sufficient, with that which is
known to be transmitted by private hands, to dey the
whole cost of emigration that America not Ireland
practically pays the expenses of Irsh emigration to the
United States Thus in two-fold degree, are we aid
ing in the recovery of Ireland fm the sad condition into
which she had sunk.
hat in ndi rip,in ate
against England the oppressjr and degrader of Ire
land England, it is true, has, in former times by no
means been fautess in her conduct towards Ireland.
Still there great allowances to be made and many
provooaons to be considered. The Irish themselves
have been the drest enemies Of Ireland We know from
experience of them in this country how difficult
is to keep them in order when Interpreted with
and overpowered by camer quieter, and more self
disciplined people. How much greater, then, may we
not reasonably suppose the difficulty to have been when
they people by themselves, and were placed
der the thraldom Of religious system which
set them against the Government and against the laws
under which they lived?
The British Legislature and Government have, within
the last few years. been doing great things for the regne
ration Of Ireland They have effected for instance, i'm
mense improvements in the face and the fertility Of the
country the drainage lands They have further aided
materially in developing the Of the country BY
the dredging deepening widening, and Strengthening OF
rivers the formation Of harbors docks and piers and
the construction Of various useful public buildings Upon
all these objects the public money of England has been
literally expended by the Imperial Government Loans
from the same source have also been freely granted for
land improvements Of every kind that is to say when
landowner has desired to improve his estate either by
thorough draining, by subsoing by farm yards any
other outward and visible means but has not had the
capital required he has been enabled to borrow from the
Board Of Works. under certain arrangements for the u
mate return Of the loan, with interest Upon internal
drainage and navigation works alone of public
nature above million and half sterling has already
been e1pended and where private property is benefit
ed the owner pays back fixed proportion in hafyeary
in periods varying from twelve to twenty
three years.
All these improvements, however would have failed to
have their full effect upon the condition Of Ireland but
for another important public measure, the Encountered
Estates Act as, unhappily most OF the Irish estates
grevously encountered and not only but there
nsuperable difficulties in the way Of their transfer
from hand to hand to rid them Of such encum
brances. If encountered land owner wished to sell
his estate to capitalist there were legal dhculues IN
the way which virtually disabled him from doing,
and thus the country suffered But by the act in ques-
ton commissioners are appointed and empowered TO
conduct the operations Of sale and transfer and the nd
dance Of every burden and obstruction. The act has
been in operation for about four years. and already have
commissioners effected the sales Of estates leases
burdened with encumbranoes to the extent of between
thirty and forty millions of pounds sterling The lands
thus disposed Of have mostly fallen into the hands of men
who have set vigorously to work to improve them and
have obtained bona de capable and enteprsng tenants
and thereby broken that whole vicious system OF sub
Of Ireland Colonies of indolent squatters and other
pauperpeasanry had thus to be removed and made to
look about thema necessity which has doubtless contr
buted in slight degree swell the tide Of emigration
this country. The value Of these farms has already
increased amazingly, and their increasing produce is
rapidly enriching the country.
Nor the material improvements OF Ireland by any
confined to the cultivation Of the land The mine
raj wealth, COAL iron, copper, lead marble is being
rapidly developed; her staple manufacture OF flax in
spinning weaving is being vastly extended her hshe
res beginning be carefully attended to and
her imports well her exports are now becoming
much considerable, and affording better evidence
iusry Not only the art and industry but the general
trade Of the country much assisted by the Dublin
Exhibition last year. That interesting enterprise at
raised the spirit Of the nation, which was itself
great gain and its beneficial effects assuming
settled and permanent FORM The railways, too, of Ire
and are aordng facilities for Intercourse and traffic
which give impetus to every thing else and thus
tribute important share the general improvement
And when, in addition to oil this we find that it is not
ndustrialy merely not simply in her material interests
her agriculture her manufactures her commerce. that
Ireland improving, but also in her POLITICAL moral and
social interests think it is not too much to hope th
last her national regeneration has in good earnest be-
gun America we repeat has had much to do with it.
The very circumstance Of the greater freedom Of action
and finer field of enterprise here having drawn off so
many of her turbulent spirits and extracted so much of
her discomfort is of immense advantage to her. In pro-
portion therefore, Ms Ireland advances in prosperity
should be the feeling Of gratitude of the United Kingdom
to the United States.
MI DRspERANDUM there is life there is hope,
is old adage, and it is sometimes curiousy illustrated
Persons given up die often saved by the superior
energy Of who has hope, but many keep off the
king Of terrors, for time at least by their superior de-