STATE OF IRELAND.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 286, 24 February 1849, Page 8

STATE OF IRELAND.

" ANofnrn whitei is approaching, and Ireland again appeals (o the 'iy iiipatliirs ami solicitudes, ot her more piovidcnt ami moie fortunate sister. The rebellion had been suppressed, but not Iho famine. Throughout extensive diuncM, there is a J,ieikt failure of the potato vi ops, a8 there was two yeara since, and with a return of the cause, we must c\pect a rcnc.val of the disaatious consequences. There aie, ps it is, some circumstances now in our favour. Tlio white ciopshve not been deficient as in IS tfi ; tlievo is not a Karopeaii famine, wr is lli^re likely to lie; we have »lno the bcnofir of our fortu'T experience. AU tilings (Jieie'ore con.sideied, the difficulty will confine itself fo the reliel of ccit.im district?, will) c\Llinj; agencies, au>l ns niuth as p)Fsible, i'roni local icfcourjee. * * Itnuy servo to show the exaggerated notions current upon In-h impoverishment, just to mention one fact ; during the last four yrais, or rather tho four ywirs <ndmgia,t Jaiui.,ty, the total of Govcuunent stocks, on (he books of the Dublin Bank, and stnndm-r psobabh, n ihr na'-s's of ii.ah lts'i't ills, lud uicH'.\ r rd five millions Li othti wr>i(ls, lu'l.md pos-.es-. now fin 1 millions moie oi" funded piopfit" than she did in January, ISM, and lu-rivP', iheiefoM-, about J. 200,()«;0 more uf the annti'jl dividend.. What is i>\oio remarkable — .uul what certainly laiggests some unpleasant suspicions, ihr. increase of funded piopcrty was fjic.ittbt, in fho year of the famine — the ever memorable j ear 1817 ! * *' " * Tncre can, wo think, !>e do doubt that li eland can fiunpoit herself. Indeed who doc doubt it, the veiy ciy ol lcbellion is, that she should keep her produce at, home. We have, therefore, only to set the wealth of Ireland against ils poverty, and draw from the more favoured disluets, the mateiialand moral assistance required by the red. There are two alternatives bo IWe us, and only two ; either we must have an Irish System, amply sufficient lor Ireland, without the perpuuil recurrence to English bounty — or the Imperial System must be applied, without rcicrve. — Either Ii eland must be distributed fairly, over all her resources, the burden of the gieat lazar houses and plague spots of misery, by the operation of a property tax, or other comprehensive means, or &he must sub- j mit to Imperial taxitiou, as tlu condition of Imperial relief." Sir Aubrey de Vere has published a work under the title of " English Misrule and Irish Misdeeds," which is exciting considerable attention ; but from the extracts and reviews we have glanced at, it would appear that, under the guise of inapailiality, it seeks to trace all Ii eland's sins to England's juovocations, and the worst traitb of Jiibh national chaincier, while admitted, are laid at the door ol English misgoverument. An able discussion as to the ixpcdiency and practicability of lio-atory Pdiliamcnts was going on between Lord William Fitzgerald, in their favour, aud Lord Liii'ord, as opposed to them. A letter from Cork, dated October the Ist, announces the arrest of Mr. Robert Lambkin, of that city, under a warrant of the Lord Lieutenant ; he was a piesident of one of the confederate clubs, and had at (irst wisely made liimscll sea ice, out returning from France before the sore luuled over, he was immediately taken. He was in the same gno! with Mr. Denny Lane and the Messrs. Vanan, while Mr. Barry, editor of the lie' porter, was confined in the county gaol. Mr. Dillon was said to have arrived on the eoist of France. Me maJc his eseaps fiom Ireland through Belfast. Mr. Ivavana'.'h, whose anest had been attempted ft Havrp, was about to mil from that port for Nsw York, with eight other Ii ish political refugees. With regard to the blate Trials, the issue of which, as to tho first and most impoitant case, we gave in our yeste> day's supplement, we obseive, that previous to the conviction of Mr. Smith OBrien, aiiangements word in progress to sue out a Writ of Error, but as in a case of felony this process can be denied, it \va q doubtful whether the Government would consent to it. A letter from Limerick, dated 2Gth of September, announced theauestof nine persons in that place upon the charge of having committed treasonable offences— hcivni<, it is said, cnlmuined Mr. O 'Gorman and assisted in his escape. Suspicions were entertained that j thai gentlemiin was himself in the neighbourhood of L'lueriok. More than fifty parties were in the Bridewell of that city for offences unussigned, and further arreßis were duijy expected. X.SCAPE OF MR. nOIIKNV. You aie already aware that Mr. Duheny has arrived in I'diis. It may be interesting to your readeis to know that lottcis h ive been received from this grntlcm.m, auuounciiig his safe air'.v.il in France, and giving some of the paitieulais of the latter part of his sijouin in this country, which, were it not that ouriti» formant does not feel himself at liberty Io communicate them at length, would posse:s much interest. We have, howevei, learned that the last foi might which Mr. Dolipny spent in Ireland was passed in tho Wist Riding of the County Cork, in the district extending between Maerooin, Goujan', Bana, and Duimianway, and occusionuliy further nc-tWtird. The disguise hs wore was the ordinal y chess of a peasant of the humblest class, with his whiskeis shaved off and his hah cut close. On one occasion, when the police was laiily on his track, and had made a very close seaich for him, he was enjoying a good supper in the house of a poor man, not twenty yards from where his pursueis were consulting as to the direction they would tako next. Having finished his meal, he got a glass of punch and lotii cd to ieat. Next day he moved to nnother part of the country, distant about twenty four mile. Ilerc he made liimsolf known to a person who supplied him wit'i a change of linen, aud offered him money, which, however, he declined, stating that ha did not require, it, and in fc day or two after, he proceeded to Coik, aa a common caiman, passing along the hied) road s<;>t d or the slia\s i<f Ha car, with the i\ i.i (!D!uj ami uii'p i.i ii.b h mil, no one. in his company, and only a piece of old bail-cloth on the car, as if to cover the goods Jjc* was going to fetch. In tint, manner ho passed nui'iei ens police stations P. 10113 the road wi'hout <ittiacli<i v ; ilv least notice from thegieeucoated grntiy \v!'o ou-upu'd them, and aniv.'d m Coik late in ihv! tvi'i'iu,, and put up his horse and car al a ptngo, v>lieic boino othei peuou took charge of them. Nczt day he kjulcil as nu ordinary deck-pus, >spger in tlio steamer foi London, whence, utter applying to soi.ic Irish pcojilu who loimcily liv d in Ca>lu'l for slulle', aud Kce.Mn; it foi onr. m»lit, he made his nay to Louh'giu' llfu 1 he \v»s ttco^nised by Mi. O'lJw\er, buriMci, bill hi? ivcogiuiioii di I not much al.um him. A few d !j' N aftcrttciids ho i>roceeded to l'aiis, lioai which (i v lih Ihsl kncra to lieiuml were dated.— x'un^i tuucsiijiuliUl,