New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-05

IL literally covered with largo blocks and email frag-
mepis Of hluesh un. stone Aud yc; here, a. Eell
further n, rth wherever any wood has been planted,
Il grows uxuria, y. The rad passes through parss
ls,g,r and better kept than those we had seen the day
before; noT aid then village or even ht:ls Own,
foims an casa in the stony waste; and villages and
towns az is the rule in Ireland. are bedded in the
mid.t Of verdant foliage Agriculture there ia little,
and -t the spade p,edomlnates, though the plow "a
seen here ard there The greater part Of the surface
il covered with stony and healthy pasture land; but
like the County Galway, in Glare there are Al least
some cattle on ibrocd mares with tder foaIs, cows,
sheep and goats; while unianed animal nature is
rcpI,seiied by inpumerabe crows, and sometimes ~
Il large eagle slowly rising in spiral flight TO hight
olnt II too great for the eye II follow.
Az III C,hneDara the ruined firm houses form an
essential feature of the landscape but they are less
numerous, and they become more scarce as you get
away from Galway. There il hardly an instance OF
hall abandoned viIb &c; none Of village completely
deserted. Further west, in the mountains near the
ee, such instances may occur for emigration has been,
aid is going OF in Glare much as in Galway; but 1t
is .vioent that the famine has not operated In Glare
with the same acute violence.
The country seats and parks in this neighboThood
aJe more generally the property OF country squres
the awy els have not yet been able TO get hold them
completely. Here you begin TO meet specimens OF the
Irish soulrca archy of which more n But whoever
these country seats brong TO, there is the same ab
st1ce of cultivated land around them. Beyond the
paIk wall, tte desert begins. You plainly see how
the money is speIt, but not where it IS to come from.
There is DO wonder that all these beautiful seats have
to pass through the purgatory of the Encumbered
Estates Court
On approaching Ennis you first pass sn enormous,
handsome building, something between oarrack, u
palace and monastery. You Inquire what it is the
Workhouse. Next comes smother sth more handsome
il passipg by it, you perceive its splendid Grecan
'front.' facing the town. and the spacious md ofy ter.
race on which it is built. This is the Court House;
tn. re is not fuer Gecan budr in all ireland, and
exc, ptng St Georges Hall at Liverpool, scarcely
in England; and what a splendid, open, elevated site
il has Then you descend into the town. beautiful,
shaded avenue, ending in bridge, with ruined
abbey all covered with ivy, in the bsckg 'ound, leads
to it, altogether you cannot Imagine more imposing
and charming approach to town. and you are led to
expect something Ike decent city False alarm! you
find place holding at the best five or six thousand
inhabitants, with market place seven yards by
twelve not single tolerable inn, and no end of pigs
and hens about the streets
Whatever day of the month or hour OF the day
you may enter Irish town. is always m.rketday,
| and the whole population is in the streets. There
was market at Oug ghteiard when thither, and
the boe.trotters holding their pgs with staw ropes
by The legs stood waiting for customers There
every preparation for market day going at Gort,
and the town of Eons in the full enjoy yment of
fair although what on earth they were selling and
buyng nobody could tell. There also whole
regiment Of militia rifles in the streets; for Ennis,
beside the workhouse and courthouse, is ppled
with that other great lever of cvliz ,tion barack
iOt to mention the county prison and tn little dark
green English mlliti4men did certainly appear exceed
ing com ortabIe among this laughing and rollicking
people, whose principal occupation seemed to be the
dolce far nieate