The New York herald., 1879-09-15
BRITISH GROANS.
Messrs. Read and Pell, the Assis-
tant Commissioners.
THE AGITATION IN IRELAND.
State of Scotland Panaceas and Pros
pects-The Grouse Season
LONDON. Sept. 5. 1879.

Since last writing on this important subject some
interesting new Developments have takon place
which materially advance the question toward
crisis. In the first place the two assistant commits
sioners appointed IN connection with the Royal
Commission upon Agriculture Mr.. Glare Sewel
Read. NJ. p. and Mr.. Albert Pell. NJ r.. sailed for
New York yesterday IN the lnman steamer City OF
Montreal. These two gentlemen are the only as
sistant commissioners who have up to tho present
been appointed, and as the appointments to such
posts in the hands of the government entirely
it is not expected that they viii show any great haste
in the matter their policy in regard to the state OF
agriculture being of Iaisse- fare. Indeed it is
understood TO be that very policy which has die
tated the speedy appointment and despatch their
mission OF Messrs. Read and pell paradoxical the
statement may appear The object OF their visit is.
am informed, 10 inquire primarily into the quan-
tty of live stock and meat which the United States
and Canada can export during the next four years,
and the cost ut which animal food be produced
upon the continent OF America. Another visit next
year. but earlier in the season. will be undertaken
for the purpose OF prosecuting similar inquiries
relative the production OF wheat and other crops
The government and those interested in the main.
tenance the land in its present condition, be it
understood, are pretend to be. very increduou
the ability of America to continue to send
to Europe such enormous quantities OF foodstufs at
their present prices. They pretend-and of course
they hope--that in the of few years time
the land will "gve out" something else Will
happen. to check the competition. which would. Of
course, enable thcm to continue in the
old rut. They seem to be blind to the
fact that even though tho United States and
Canada should fail to continue to supply as
at present there Australia. New Zealand, India
the Cape. to say nothing Of places ut hand,
all of which rapidly coming to The front corn
growing lands. The fact is 1t is simply impossible
for the old state of things to return The contest
the last few centuries has been between the "Havcs
and the "Havenoughts, Sancho Panza puts it; be-
tween those whose principle is monopoly and iner-
tia and those to whom inertia Is daath between
those. in other words, who live upon the soil and
those who have only the air to exploit These latter
out of the DIR have by their wits created s.sam the
telegraph machinery. and by these they equaliz
ing the world. The old order Of things must 10 to
the wall.
THE TORY COMMISSION.
Messrs. Read and Pell are well qualified for the
position in which they have been placed. The for
mer. member OF Parliament for Norfolk. is perhaps
the bettor known, having been longer before the
public. but he is by no means the ADLER man. Mr..
Pel who is one Of the members for Lcicestershire.
has long been identified with public business and is
we'll known in the idlands for his great adminisra
tive abilities his comprehensive grasp OF subjects
and his unquestionabe desire to promote the public
veal. But both he and his colleague are tories
welded the old fashioned state of things and little
likely to take up with new tangled notions, such
trade in land, peasant proprietorship and the
like. Those subjects will have to be ventilated from
other quarters. Both are farmers, and farmers on
very large scale. and quite able to take prac-
tical view OF things in that regard; and had they
been associated with another eentleman-say Mr.
Shaw Lefevre or Mr.. Barhain Zincke-with broader
views, their appointment would have been regarded
with much general satisfaction. AS it is there is .
feeling that much cannot be expected from their
abors as they 70 ayowsdiy in the interest @ OF large
mission is not regarded with favor in Ireland is be-
ginning to be pretty evident; indeed. it is only
lief that something" may out Of it. Some
thing undoubtedly will-nay has already come out
a ~ nastou on, n anI evsrx w a %
ton is being fairly ventilated. when therefore, the
next Parliament meets there will be public opinion
formed ready to evolve thorough action. But to
return to Ireland. 1t is significant of the feeling
there that the Saturdays weekly issue of the Free
mans journal adorned with large wood cut
representing an Irish peasant and his starving fam
lily asking Lord Beaconsfeld for bread and he gives
them stone labelled Royal Commission
PARNELL IN IRELAND.
But still more significant the meetings which
are being held all over the country. and at which
some very strong language is being used. Mr.. Par
nels Limerick meeting may be taken as fair speci-
men. In addition to Mr.. Parnell the folio wing
messy, Mr.. Gabbett and Mr.. W. II. OSullivan There
also some Roman Catholic clergymen Strong
denunciatons uttered against "tyrannical land
lords" and were received with shouts of "shoot
'em" and the like. Mr.. Parneil was more than
commonly outspoken. 1t was the duty, he said, of
the irish tenant farmers to combine among them
selves and ask for reduction OF rent, and il they
got no reduction where q reduction was necessary,
then 1t the duty of the tenant to pay rent
til he got it, and IL they stood together and IT, being
refused a reasonable and just reduction they kept
Arm grip Of their homesteads. he could tell them
that no power earth could prevail against them.
They were not to be exterminated as they had been
In ls47. They should ask for concessions in per
manner and the good landlords would grant them.
but for the who had always shown them
selves regardless Of right and justice in their deal
ings with these questions IT was necessary for them
to mai tain hrm ana determined attitude. II they
maintained that attitude victory must be theirs
This advice was loudly cheered and greeted with
CARNATIONS such az 'Shoot emf 'Give 'em an
ounce Of iead!" and the like. This. and speeches
and scenes OF u similar nature in other rs. have
brought down strong denunciation on the head Of
Mr.. Parnell and his colleagues at the hands OF the
English editors. cit seems. says paper, "al
most an atrocious mputaton TO suggest that man
OF education, gentleman 10y birth, property and
position. aud member Of the Imperial Legislature.
would set himself deliberately to work up
an aeraran rebellion, with its horrors
Generalization of perjury and connivance.
Mr.. parnell and his fr.ends. in point Of fact. re-
pudiatc any design to FIRE The tenant to the wild
justice or revenge But there is sinister incon-
sstency between their professions and the ruculent
overheated philippe of the Globe followed very
closely by some other papers. The Daiiy Netos
thinks Mr.. Parucn event very near jeopardzlng his
Celtic character should not be lost sight Of in judg
ing OF these outbursts. Probably when assembly
OF Irish farmers manifest their approval OF an ex
preston such that used by Mr.. O'Sulivan,
that he would protect the people from tyran-
nical landlords and hcartless agents" by cries Of
"Oh, shoot en-" Lots OF lead" and "More lead, :"
they do not mean much more than English
farmer would mean under similar circumstances
by sotto rocs. "Yes. damn en-" a Scotch
man with "Doii TAX EN-; II munna be;" and
many such CALCULATIONS the latter being just
heard over tho border. 1t should also be borne
in mnd-what. by the way, hardly ever is-that the
amount OF suffering In Ireland at the present time
through bad haryests and high rents Is enormously
great and that there is no immediate prospect of
Improvement, the potato crop. which they
much depend. being almost entire failure. In
some parts, 1t is said, the rot has taken hold OF
them much that it will not pay TO dig them out of
the ground. III Lancashire, By the way. and other
parts OF England, the same state of things exists
with regard to the staple tubcr.
scorLASD's GRoANs.
But badly of as the Irish, they in worse
q position than the Scotch, perhaps not quite 80
bad. Not only has the bad weather injured the
crops, but the grouse moors have been largely de-
uudpd pf 80 that this of prOht has