The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-08-12 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1871.  ENGLAND AND IRELAND.  WOULD that the inhabitants of these two fair and fertile lands, politically, and, let us hope, inseperably united, were better acquainted with each other! In our remarks on the agitation for "Home Rule" in Ireland, we had recently occasion to deplore the want of a good and handy history of Ireland. If our pecple were better acquainted with the antecedents of the Sister Island and the sad misgovernment from which she has suffered, they would see something more than mere " Crooked-stickedness." as JEREMY BENTHAM would have said, and disorderly eccentricity in the Irish character. On the other hand if the discontented Ilibernians could be got to understand the earnest anxiety with which all good Englishmen, from the Prime Minister to the newspaper-reading costermonger, desire to do ample and generous justice to Ireland, we should not have such conflicting accounts of the reception accorded to the royal party who recently crossed and recrossed t. George's Channel. Nothing is more common than for Englishmen to say," What does Ireland want? She has the same laws, rights and privileges that Englishmen eujoy." They are not quite sure that, owing to recent legislation, she has not more. They know that her commerce is DOW as free as ours ; that she can, if she likes, weave the wool of her own sheep to any degree of fineness; (it was not always so) that Irish Catholics can now worship according to the dictates of their own consaience and the rights of their own churf.l; that they CRU acquire property; become members of any learned profession, and educate their own children. There is not a prerogative enjoyed by the rent and tax-paying citizens of England that they do not pcssess. All this may appear to be hue, and Ireland ;3 red: yet governed el; we b. Here Englisk,ltm scich her to be. The laws of the two cotitariee are not the same, especially in political casee, mid the administrative of them is indeed, according to OPHELIA'S canon for the wearing of rue, "with a differtece " Take one use in point as to the law. PATRICK COOMY was hanged in the county of Monaghan, on the.fith of March, 1834, and he never was even charged with murder. He was executed for conspiracy. When,threeyears afterwaids, Lord PALMFMSTON endeavoured to enact a similar law in England, to that under which COOMY forfeited his life, the Commons hurled the great " PAM " from ' his throne, rather than say "fiat" to his ; "Conspiracy to Murder Bill." As to the ad- I ioi:iisnt.tion of the law, there is a degree of , htringeney and Ligh-handcd tyranny in Ireland, 'nutty tint:nowt', we are thankful to say, en this side of the ehstinel. Nfessrs. °nom and BLADLAUGH hei,l their "great demonstration " the other day within ten minutes' walk of Westminster Hall. Atheists and Communists swarmed ar.niii.l them, “nd we would venture to say, that more treason and troaition viere given vent to than at ally meeting in Ireland since '4B. Yet there were no policemen making them afraid, although GEM= ODGER talked of that woman—the QUEEN," and BRADLAUGH said they did not intend to petition the House of Lords, as possibly the Lords would not be long enough in existence to consider their petition. Such is the liberty en joyed by the residents of London. But Dublin sees another sight when a meeting is attempted o be held contrary to the views and feelings of, as