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

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, JAN. 7.—The chief mischief which thee present landlord movement in Ireland will effect v,il!! be that of distracting the attention of the agricul-. tural population from actual tillage work, and, paralysing labour. Much of this mischief has 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 crop s will not pay the cost of producing them, even with • out a shilling of rent being exacted. There art some people wrong headed enough to swallow such! absurdities, and 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 times 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 circumstancq is thus referred to :  " The general tone of buoyancy and hopeful anticipar lion which sounds from all the principal marts of com— merce at the commencement of tl►e new year have nor, , we regret to state, found the smallest recompense here, trade having been rarely so dull even at this season of' the year ; while in those leading articles, such as strgat and tea, which have sensibly advanced in the English , markets, no improvement has taken place in this. 'DA deliveries of sugar for the last four weeks have been on 11: 699 hhds. against 1,029 hhds. in 1848, and 1,048 hhds!,. in 1847, and there has been a proportionate off in many other important articles. Money a s abundant for want of employment, and in consequenet3 all descriptions of good dividend-paying securities con— tinue, as for some time past, to advance in value, whille other shares, &c., are almost unsaleable. The fruitletris and injurious efforts, too, to revive protection for cm)). are not by any means calculated to advance the interest: of trade."  The preparations for the aggregate Protectionist t demonstration of the 17th are made without an ly noise. The requisition has not yet appeared, but w may expect to see it in the Protectionist organs of the', 8 or to-morrow evening. Ihe Evening Packet men" tions some half-dozen further signatures that have beeca added to the Protectionist memorial to the Queen ; amongst others, those of Lord Kinsale, the Horn. James Maxwell, M.P., Archdeacon Mannsell, &c. A t the Portarlingron meeting, at which the Queen's County Protectionists assembled, and carried resolu tions without interruption, Col. Dunne, M.P., al dressed his constituents at some length on his Parlii mentary services. Mr. Pike, of Cork, who has already built some fin e iron ships—among the rest the Blarney, which ha s been plying between Liverpool and Rotterdam—is a t present engaged in building an immense iron vessa 1 for the New York trade. She will be screw propellei I, and 1,400 tons burden. During the last week there was a heavy fall of snow, which became hardened by frost, and into •rupted the trains on some of the railways. On tlhe Cork line the Dublin train was unable to proceed d further than the Blarney station on Friday nigh t. Yesterday there was a complete thaw, but the front this morning is as severe as before. A man named Ryan has been committed to Nenaill gaol for the murder of his child, about ten months ad. The remains were discovered on New Year's-da,;y, near Finnoe, by the dogs of some persons who wetre amusing themselves hunting.  ON