The Sun. — 1846-07-06 (London, England)

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING  MAGAZINE.  There is in this number of Douglas Jerrold a most va luable paper, entitled Ireland and the Irish," which it would be well that all those who talk or write about Ireland should read, and that those who are called upon to legislate for that unfortunate and ill-used country, should study. That Ireland is suffering under great and intolerable evils it is impossible to deny, the question to be considered is, how are those evils to be remedied? " There is but one true remedy for the evils of Ireland, and it is comprised in one word—JUSTICE ; justice to her toiling, ill-clad, ill-housed, ill-fed children. She might, with a fair claim to being heard, ask of England mercy, and a helping hand as well. From her she has received the deer wounds that vet rankle in her sides; but let her receive justice, free and Unstinted justice, and rapidly will the evils of her condition disappear, and plenty and prosperity visit her. This is vague : I will explain what I mean. It is security for life and property—the cant phrase of some of her doctors, but not as they mean it :—security, not for the lordling in his castle, he does not require it, but for the peasant in his cottage ; not for the landowner, but from him ;—security to the poor man for the just results of his industry. There are robbers and murderers in Ireland who disturb its whole moral and physical constitution, and prevent its progress ; but they are not clad in rags or frieze, but in brocades and broad cloth, reclining in saloons, living in clubs and palaces, and received and acknowledged in the houses of the great—not the puny midnight assassin doing his solitary murder, but wholesale slaughterers, who sweep away whole families by tens and hundreds at a time—not the caitiff wretch, driven by penury to snatch from the traveller his gold, and trembling for the consequences, but men of titlekoblemen, as they are called, wresting from the trembling hand of penury the bread of life, from the toiling hand of industry its hard-earned profits, and doing the whole with legal sanction, according to Act of Parliament. " To do that justice, to effect that security, the whole system of landed tenure should be altered—it is at present most artificial and absurd. Improvements are proposed, and they show a disposition to grapple with the monster evil of Ireland, but they are but tinkenngs. It is not enough that a simple form of lease should be appointed ; landholders should be obliged to give them, by decreeing that in all disputes about land, where there is not documentary evidence to the contrary, and in all doubtful cases, the occupier should be deemed to be the owner. £his is the case with regard to all other property ; why is land an exception ? Thus would the granting of leases be enforced. These should be as simple as possible, and always at the expense of the landlord, as they would be for his protection, and not that of the tenant. With regard to the proposal to remunerate the tenant for improvements, the writer considers it good, as far as it goes, but it does not go to the root of the evil; to do that the writer says every encouragement and facility must be given to the purchasers of land : " The laws of entail and all the legal difficulties and tech •