The State of Ireland.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 33, 14 March 1883, Page 2

The State of Ireland.

j A, correspondent, Vwritin^fo /{he> ' St. James's Gazette, Decemlwr'^. ; aes« ! .^ cribing a ;shoi;t visit to Ireland^sayß :-^ : ' ; " Though^ native ,of the Q]re^' v 'Isle; ;: - J and having spent forty yeaWpf'n)ylifa Lj there, and therefore well .acquaidl^ct^ with, its, people^., l. do not. remember eter to vhaye found intelligent ro^ ing Irishmen pf lafi' passes ; anot . r ' t creaf A^ . so hppejessj^ an«J. 'dbpirifed'. ' rl \ speak % not of landlords and agents, but "'"of .'; manufacturers, merchants, professional^* men-r'i.men of ; ligbjj and le^ding'-rp whpse futur,fl ,m, tpund' ) iip^ 1 "wi f t^''^K» country. ' :> fihk lawyers, -^ is 'irue^ arey 5 reaping a harvest!' The land 'law^'^re;^ occupying-, .every . apUcitor,.j and every solicitor's, clerk, m some 'places night and day ; but everything else is at a staodsiill. The labourers are unemployed . A II improvements t in h»ve leased. In the f airland "markets you see ragged dr£viQo-/ab. pigs to be sold ; the pigs arej&t, but the 1 men are half starved. . QraJßierS; and cattle-, dealers.. also s flourignj ' ' htiit', His potato! crp.pj[s.a failur.e, and th.c' ■fufei 'is . .^u-*; saved. .. Tpuse ai^cobamon^ expreßsipo^ • 6pd ; ojQly;):np^a'wbiat w 'tp' b'ecjoinp ;6f, \ the poqr, f *JLnp^erj^^ArreArs JBUl', wit^ bo/. | wanted' next year v 1 will give I ybtt ' twa.PErjthrepu facts of .anpth.^^k.ind, whichwill '.BhLp^,'.*t^e effect 'of' the jjeiga of terror and plunder. ;. Pirsfc,'' property J purchased,^ jtwenty . r y.ear^ ago , with : a■Parliamentary ,title, and costing twenfyl l 'Beyen^ear^'. purcha^e.y cannot now be sold forseve'ateen'years' 'purcKase. The tenants ypil.not are. : better off 'as "they ''„■.ss•.£ Capitalists ! ". wih' not buy. There Wno J3ettie^' and'"' civilised state m the world -wiieFe^prpperty is not more secure, [th^ ( |in' Ireland;". Secondly, jl haye^.applAeii, ■. to seVeral '"assurance companies i' 6 assure mills and other i property m Ireland on which I formerly had no Hifficalty ia raising a moderate amount (say one-third the value) en mortgage j now otif2"6t the largest dealers m trust slundajiri Lancashire publicly stated thit^a, would no more invest money iil^.feiana*tjian he would m the Turkish; debt^ or^Zulu bonds, if there were sucfcsecftritiesy' What is to become of my unhappy country ? At ithe present tiniA there is /not,, a single jgleatn oPligkti" j l " -- -*- i I

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