Glasgow Courier. — 1848-02-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FIRDINILAD I."  We have addressed ourselves so lately to the general question of West India politics, that we have nothing to add to what we stated in our last publication; but as the mail, which has just arrived, has brought us some recent intelligence from the suffering colonies, we'beg leave to I refer our readers to the quotations which we have given elsewhere. It would be easy to moralise over the melancholy picture of colonial decline which these extracts display, but it would serve no practical purpose whatever. The rapidity with which decay of every kind goes on both at home and abroad, surpasses all that our greatest enemies could desire, or that our sincerest friends could have dreaded: but the worst of it is, that there seems to be no visible end to this process of exhaustion, since the same influences which set it agoing still continue to govern our councils. If ever an empire was doomed to destruction by sheer quackery and madness, it is Britain. The West Indies, at least, are gone, and that is a tolerable beginning.  The sanguinary scenes presented by the peasantry of Ireland to the wondering world are about to be diversified by a new movement in favour of "tenant right," as it is sailed; for the consideration of which meetings are being held in the different parts of the island, including the northern provinces, which have been hitherto free from that taint. The truth is, this is one of the legacies left to posterity by O'Connell, whose whole life was one grand and setdid imposture. That tenants should have rights as well as landlords is a position that is disputed by no one; but what the peasantry understand by the phrase is a transfer to them of the laud in perpetuity at a nominal rent, which It shall be optional with them to pay. lek eases of this kind the uses loci is of far more weight than general reasonlag, which is seldom applicable to particular examples; and it will be found utterly impossible to introduce into Ireland the system of either England or. Scotland without such a change in the habits of the people as it would be hopeless to look for. So long as the bulk of the populatiost place their supreme happiness in the possession of a soap of barren ground, which they may cultivate or not, and pay for Or not, just as they please, it is useless to look for apy permanent improvement in their condition from any modification of the law of tenure. That would not bring capital into the country, neither would it subdue the murderous propensities of a race who attach less value to the life of a man than to that of a bullock. How Ireland is to be regenerated may be admitted to be an unsolved, if not an . unsolvable, problem; but there can be no presumption in saying that it will not be through the instrumentality of so inadequate a remedy for such complicated evils as a law of tenant-right.  The Marquis and Marchioness of But are receiving a distinguished circle of visitors at Dumfries House. We understand that the Earl and Countess of Eglinton and Winton and suite left Eglintou Castle on Thursday, for London. - eEari most  t it itoi bratatta eir the B mpried, s journey. net bitual gravity, faaglied au& s,e fort were enrptised Indiana