The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-11-17
WHOLE NO. 100.
A Glance at Ireland.

If the British Government do not
make an objection, one of the compa-
MES wholly Irish J of New York regi-
ment, will 60 over to Ireland, next
spring. in Galway steamer, to make a
tour through the island. Three months
it is supposed, will elapse between the
day Of their departure aud that of their
return. -.. ........ ..s .r-n
Such Of these citizen soldiers as have
been ten years on this side Of the wa
ter will find Ireland greatly changed.
The Encountered Estates of le49, which
authorized the compulsory sale of land
ed property, whether held by peer,
squire, or squireen, to pay the just debts
Of the nominal owners, has wrought a
great change. 1t has substituted a sol.
vent for an insolvcnt proprietary, pay
ing foa much indebted dynasty of
landlords, The measure, originally
temporary, is permanent now. and the
Landed Estates Court is as much of An
institution as the Court Of Chancery it.
self.
In the nine years since the Commits
sioners first sat, 8, SAT absolute orders
of the sale have been made. The es-
tates thus sold were disposed of in H.
O24 separate lots the number of con-
veyances executed leach giving an in
contestable title } was 1864 there were
8,268 Irish purchasers, and only 324
English, Scotch, and foreign purchasers
The money produced by the sales of
Encumbered estates was over f93, ,OOO,-
900.
Large as this amount is, eco. 600, 600
have been paid by Irish purchasers
Here is the cause of the happy change
which has improved Ireland so very
much of late years. The former tenant
has become the purchaser of his own
holding, in numerous cases, and doubly
thriving under the change. Political
a. citation is at discount--a nation
which is prosperous does not care to
go in for rebellion.
The following, which we take from a
Dublin paper, shows that even railroads
which are Improbable in England, are
renumerative in Ireland. 1t says BE-
Coed dividend paying Irish securi.
ties, as we'll as government funds, arc
improving in price; and we may re.
mark that Dublin and Kingston stock
has experienced still further advance
the quarter shares (fl2. los. paid
having reached E23, exclusive of the
dividend, at the rate of f9 per cent
just paid. At the recent price of the
quarter share, the value of the old flOC
share of this company is El84, ex div
idend. The Dublin and Kingston is te
be sure, an exceptional stock but it i:
our conviction that other Irish line.
would, before long, pay dividend o
six or seven per cent, if the evils nov
SO much complained of, in the shape 0
imprudent competition, and unwarran
table meddling one line with another
were effectually got rid Of"
Who will despair. after the chang
which the last ten years have seen, of &:
bright future for Ireland |? Not we
Had Moore lived to see this day, how
proud would we have been of the pro
phetic character of his patriot strain
The nations have fallen, and thou art still young,
Thy sun Is but rising, when others are set
And tho slavery's cloud DER thy morningi hung,
The full noon OF freedom shall beam round thee ye,
Erin, oh Erin, tho long in the shade, .
Thy star viii! shine out when the proudest shall fade