The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-12-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE LONDON TIMES ON THE STATE OF IRELAND.— The following graphic description of the state of Ireland appeared in an article in the London Times of Friday last. Our readers will perhaps think the expectation rather a Quixotic one, that a catalogue of evils so awful can be wiped out, either by the tampering truckling measures of whig - radicalism, or by the payment by the state of the priesthood of Ireland, as recommended by the Times, and some small journalists who pipe in echo of the " Thunderer" of Printing House-square :—" The main and chronic evils of Ireland are defective laws, defective sustenance, hostile classes— which latter may be resolved into enmity of races—and hostile religions, all deeply interwoven with each other, and all aggravated by ignorance inveterate and endemic. Organised or institutional power has for centuries been in the hands of a conquering race, which has until lately used it to the detriment of a defeated people, having still the preponderance of elementary or physical power. The laws of the 17th and last part of the 18th century were made for the enjoyment of the armed few, and for the endurance of the multitude disarmed—a state of things which could not have been lasting. This opposition, therefore, between the nature of the laws and that of the community, has been one cause that retarded the growth of civilization, being in fact a state of legalized oppres sion, which fretted and ulcerated the mind of the whole natio i—of one part through the thirst of change, of the other through jealous dislike of the purposes for which change was demanded. The uncivilized habits of the Irish have made them callous to so much of their poverty as does not press upon them in the shape of actual hunger, and have therefore tended to perpetuate that poverty through successive generations, Dirt and squalidness in all their abominable influences—rags even to nakedness—daily irregularity, disorder, and confusion in the household—boundless ignorance, yet unbridled curiosity—fawning endurance of insult at the time, but a spirit of foul and insatiable vengeance afterwards—rancour and attachment, each carried to excess towards their respective objects—insolence alternating with adulation— cowardice wreaking its cruelty in murders of the helpless, exhibited by one and the same person, with daring courage in the field of battle, against the brave—incessant loquacity, with profound secrecy—treacherous baseness held in no dishonour towards a foe, nor barbarity towards a  he closest intercoiuse of life with nearest  ;—such  lawsuits, with abhorrence of ti re of lies, yet prone to lying he medley to be found, of  sion, mixed with physical agony  The decision will not, of course, be known for the present. The land in dispute comprises one-half of the area of Prescot township.  NATIONAL SOCIETr.—A circular has been issued by the bishops to the clergy in their respective churches, inclosing a copy of the Queen's letter, requiring in each church or chapel a sermon in behalf of this admirable society, from the operations of which the children of the poor derive such unspeakable advantages. The sermons are to be preached on such Sunday before the Ist day of June nest, as the clergy may judge most favourable to the purpose.