The New York herald., 1868-03-15


Th0 Aeal Condition Of Ireland-Purty
Clamor Impeding Progress.
Our cable telegram reports of the proceed
ings which have taken place in the British
Parliament since the reconstruction of the
Cabinet under Mr.. Disraeli, indicate very plainly
that the Irish party leaders in the House Of
Commons have seized the opportunity Of the
ministerial crisis to raise a grand political
whilabaloo about the grievances" wrongs"
''taxations," 'land tenure injustices," s'viola-
tions of the rights of conscience" social dis
tress," 'pauperism," and other severe endu-
RANGES which the people of the sister island
suffer at the hands of the executive. The
speakers recapitulate previous sorrows and
tribulations, and appear to demand that the
new Premier shall, even before the ink is dry
on the royal commission of his appointment,
commence to legislate in the way Of reparation
for the effects Of governmental system admin
istered according to local circumstances before
he was born, the working of which, in the
majority Of instances, eventuated merely in an
emigration which has elevated hundreds of
the martyr exiles to the enjoyment of the most
lucrative public Offices in the United States,
with the return Of millions Of pounds sterling
to the parent land within the space of few
years. The science of party tactics has been
studied deeply by public men IN Ireland, and
is ever used with great rapidity and effect by
her legislators on all new ministers of England
in moments like the present for their own pecu-
liar profit in the way of seizing good share OF
the government patronage through the timelv
terrorea of s'Irish difficulties"
Mr. Disraeli is officially and painfully cogni-
zant of this Irish plan of warfare for the spoils
but although warned by the Cabinet fate OF the
late Lord Melbourne and some few others of his
predecessors who succumbed in face of it
since 1929, we are sorry to observe in our de-
spatches symptoms of his own inclination to
yield, and forget, apparently, in the premedi-
tated noise about the wrongs" of Ireland, the
important matter of the rights Of the people Of
the United Kingdom.
Earl Mayo and others, speaking for the gov
ernment, have already sketched out pro-
gramme of legislation for Ireland, including
church and land reform plans, Catholic
university endowment promise, general rail
road subsidy idea, franchise reform bill, with
some few hints on national education, which,
if matured, developed and debated, would de-
mand for their due consideration the exclusive
attention of the present Parliament to its close,
even if general election should not take place
until 1870. This is a great mistake, which,
should Mr.. Disraeli choose or be forced to per-
severe in, will lead to great public error-one
which will prove fatal to his ministry and in
fict a measure of causeless injustice on the
British people.
We use the word causeless advisedly; for
there exists in reality no greater amount OF
public distress in Ireland at the present mo-
ment than what prevails in Scotland and Eng
land-a perfect famine pressing on the poor
of the east end of the city of London at mo
ment when, as shown by mail report pub
lished in the HERALD on Friday morning. Off
cial English returns relative to poor rates and
pauperism, show that the number OF paupers,
excepting lunatics in asylums, and vagrants
in receipt Of relief in England and Wales, on
the last day of the fourth week of December,
1867, was $50, ,42l, the corresponding number
for the year 1866 being 9O4, ,392-an increase
Of 76,9O2 paupers, or at the rate of 8.4 per
cent When we recollect that an Engishman
almost prefers death to the poorhouse, we are
forced to the conclusion that should Mr.. Dis
raeli neglect the immediate consideration Of
the case even Of this one million of his fellow
subjects, in order to ride on in Office on the i'm
probabilities Of Ireland, he will excite very
serious commotion, or, to say the least, raise
very unusual fuss, it may be a row, around
her Majesty the Queen. This vast amount Of
English suffering, with the pinchings and
pangs of classes just removed from pauperism,
is borne in silence; while the Premier must not
forget that the Irish are an excitable, vocferous
people, who, even in the hands Of skilful politi-
clans, constitute merely o sectional force and q
minority, people who have frequently laughed
and danced and gone to battle with empty
stomachs and ''cut up very ugly subsequently
on roast beef
partial legislation by Mr.. Disraeli just
now will bring an incalculable amount of
trouble on England without effecting the slight
of the Irish opposition seek only for govern
ment patronage and Offices. In this pursuit
they are encouraged, aided, to some extent, by
the reflex across the Atlantic Of an Irish senti-
ment from the United States, made up of fuss,
war feathers and Fenianism, and manufac-
tured to subserve exactly the same ends here.
With us the Irish ''leaders" manage to obtain
''vote," manipulate It, speechiy about it,
recite and sing Of It until they sectionalize a
good many Of the Irish here, delude still larger
number Of the Irish in Ireland, and wheedle
some few well meaning men into the belief that
they can WELD very large power at the Ameri-
can polls. Thus they tide over Presden-
tial or municipal election to learn, even before
the ballot boxes are carried away, that Mr..