The Sun. — 1850-01-08 (London, England)

IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAN. 7.—The chief mischief which tim present landlord movement in Ireland will effect will r be that of- diSfracting the 'attention of the agricultural population from actual tillage work, end paralysing labour. Much of this mischief MIS been already done. .Men who are simple enough to be influenced by the arguments of the Protectionists must necessarily come to the conclusion that it is useless to cultivate the land at all—that the very best crops will not pay the cost of producing them, even vvith. out a shilling of rent being exacted. There are soma people wrong headed enough to swallow such Lbsurdities, end they will, no doubt, very largely swell the tide of the spring emigration ; forgetting that if agricultural produce be so much cheaper in America than here, that we can be undersold in our own markets, and if labour be some five or six tinat s dearer there than it is here, they cannot benefit much by the change. However, the evil is effected; and with good reason we may attribute much of the languor which pervades every branch of public industry here, to the infatuation and the uncertainty created by the landlord agitation. In the commercial article of this morning's Freeman, the circumstance is thus referred to :  " The general tone of buoyancy and hopeful anticipa• tion which sounds from all the principal marts of commerce at the commencemmt of the new year have not, we regret to state, found the smallest recompense here, trade having been rarely so dull even at this season of the year ; while is those leading articles, such as sugar and tea, which have sensibly advanced in the English markets, no improvement has taken place in this. The deliveries of sugar for the last four weeks have been only 699 hhds. against 1,029 hhds. in 1848, and 1,048 hhds. in 1847, and there has been a proportionate falling off in many other important articles. Money is abundant for want of employment, and in cons( q'ience all descriptions of good dividend-paying securities continue, as for some time past, to advance in value, while other shares, &c., are almost unsaleable. The fruitless and injurious efforts, too, to revive protection for corn are not by any means calculated to advance the interests of trade." The preparations for the aggregate Protectionist demonstration of the 17th are made without any noise. The rEquisition,has,riot yet appeared, but We may expect to see it in the Protectionist organs of this oif tn to,oiroW evening, he ..Evoy'ng. Packet men tione sotrip half dozen.fprther,signatures that have been added to the PrOteetiOuist meinorial to the Queen ;, ,amongst others; those .4 Lord Kinsale? the Hon: James Max*ell, 'Archdeacon Mannsell &c. At, ; the Porterlifig'on 'meeting, at which the Queen's" t Dunne, M.P. ad, length on his ParliaCOunV Protectionists assembled, and carried resolddt ireon,shi ocuottis inttueeriratisiati;o i souseC mentary .services.' Ur. Pike, of Cork, who A. s already,. built some fine , iron ships,—ani64 the the Blarney, which has been plying between Liverpool and Rotterdam—is at present engaged in building an' immense iron vessel for the New York trade. She will be screw propelled, and 1,400 tons biird,n; During the last week there was a heavy fall of snow, which became hardened by frost, and interrupted the trains on some of the railways. On the Cork line the Dublin train was unable to proceed further than the Blarney station on Friday night. Yesterday there was a c..implete thaw, but the frost this morning is as severe as before. A man named Ryan has been committed to Nenagh gapl for the murder of his child, about ten months old. The remains were discovered on New Year's day, near Finnoe, by the dogs of some persons who were amusing themselves hunting.