-1849.] 



J^faUsiinTeT^^ 



B ^^u^rphTspha1e of Lime, 'which is prepared with the 

 t>ftg ^2« ind sent out in a very fine, dry state, perfectly 



•^ST^^'whfchthey will deliver direct from the ship or 



THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



U DENCH invites the attention oi Lrentlemen about 

 ^^posseMed" hy U h?s 8 PATENT HOUSES^ which 'he* win 



J?,up«rficial foot, according tosize ^quantity ; one jnn- 

 ft ptodpto bring ™d\at^rs°\ndThe g\|s put in with 

 ^ HEATING BY HOT WATER. 



BURBIDGE and HEALY respectfully 

 ices, where they have erected r 

 ■ hardens, Regen 



pLARK'S METALLIC HOTHOUSE 



5Hie aBttcuitutal (Sajttte, 



SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1849. 



The Potato Blight and Ireland— Ireland and 

 ie Potato Blight !— These are topics of which 

 ost readers are doubtless heartily weary. They 

 topics, however 



aSftL 





;rnal. The condition of In 

 : .jnestion. Improvement in the social 



The breaking up of a social system 

 based upon the Potato reacts on the 



" tards its improvement. It perverts to evil all 

 »ts to mend the state of that unhappy country 

 by legislation, like the mysterious influence of which 

 Spenser complained in his day, that it marred all 

 ' " ;ood plots " devised to the same end. 



ryone in Ireland, who had Potatoes to plant, 

 has again planted with them every available acre. 

 There are unequivocal symptoms that the Potato 

 disease has now become chronic, and that we are on 

 eve of another failure more or less extensive both 

 England and Ireland. Appeals are even now 

 making to the humanity of Great Britain for aid to 

 the suffering Irish— the Iri.-h who are suffering from 

 dind adherence to the Potato. How shall the 

 appeals be met ! In a recent article we declared 



CHEAP AND DURABLE ROOFING. 



p M'NEILL and Co., of Lamb's-buildings, Bunhill- 



A • row, Lotidon, the Manufacturers and only Patentees oi 

 _ THE ASPHALTED FELT FOR ROOFING 



y Fa™ Buildings, Shedding, Workshops, and for Garder 



tflwwjjir": Wlth P irecti <>ns for its Use, and Testii 

 bw^i^ hUects ' and Guilders? sent free to any par 



st executed. 

 w 6re»tBrito C h Cautioned that tne onl .y Works in London 



CV^rf 



ORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION 





PARIAN CEMENT, for internal Stucco, instead of 

 common plastering, may be painted and papered within 



;:;>;. I 



rthey 

 '-exertion — the sooner they would cease to 

 l that broken reed which has gone into theii 

 nd pierced it. This proposition is advanced. 

 B r. with some limitations. If all aid be 

 Shall 

 pensn tnat tne survivors may learn 

 Shall famine and pestilence be left 

 to do their work in reducing the population which 

 the Potato has called into existence 1 We advocate 

 no such horrible doctrine, although we have heard it 

 coolly maintained by Irishmen, and although Irish- 

 men appear to be acting on it, from the ruthless 

 mann. ' in which they are clearing their properties 

 of tenants, now burthensome but once profitable 

 under the Potato system. We are no enemies to 

 the Irish peasantry who, with all their faults, possess 

 many qualities which we in England may admin 

 and imitate. We would not withhold British aid, 



Potato famine, even though they have to thank their 

 own improvidence toi it. ii n t taking w in ng I , 

 the three which preceded it. We protest, however, 

 against aid being given in such a form — +" 



; v.h'i.h 





ie latter body 

 our Journal. 



ment, by the 



Society of Friends. The _ 



was published in a recent number of 



' uted, they say, food and clothing to an 

 enormous amount, and feeling the demoralising 

 effects of such h they en. 



voured to encourage reproductive industry; 1 

 aided local manufactures and fisheries by gl- 

 and loans, thev supported industrial schools, 1 

 distributed seeds of Turnips, Carets. I arer 

 Cabbages— we fear we must add, seed Potatoes als 

 the temporary cultiva 

 itiflfy. The amount of relief admi 

 es and other el. 

 i million and. a half, and the ad- 



the melancholy con- 

 tions, no permanent 



(.'.aid ,.r-. 



ide 1 



■ 



I of the Go 



s expenditure they 



given from funds not raised in In 

 be given as a loan rather than 



iiv.le 



not raised in Ireland, and let that 



gift, in order to 



possible that spirit of inde- 



ice and self-exertion which ii 



importance to encourage. We know, from experience 



on the Temporary Relief Service, that the peasantry 



eager to emigrate ; that if there were a bridge 



America or Australia, they would rush across it 



masse, and that they would hail assistance to 



conferred upon them. " I'd be a happy man, 

 ' * but get to America ! " is an exclamation 

 eard from many a starving cottier. We It 

 ?er, from the same experience, t t_i 

 begged or borrowed out of Ireland 



inistered as relief in Ireland, holds out temptations 



too strong to be resisted ; that the only 



•' • ' ■ 



relief funds in the locality wherein they are to be 

 expended ; and that even this is not a sufficient 

 guarantee, because those who have an interest in 

 abusing, or whose indolence connives at the abuse, 

 ' the relief funds, are more numerous than 

 ose whose interest lies in an opposite direction, 

 -lief in aid of wages (the monster evil of the un- 

 tiended English Poor-law), and relief in aid of 



rned, that law was a stranger), present themselves 

 Ireland under disguises so numerous and so spe- 



dent. There are plausible 



:ed in their favour, and plenty To ply th 



ounds of humanity and economy. B 



the jobbers of all shades and classes, whose 



requires no explanation, there are 



pseudo-philan- 

 of a people by 

 i in alms, and 

 interested mo- 

 seized on the Poor-law as an engine for; 

 •he ruin of the present race of land- 

 owners. The most vigilant inspector will be unable 

 wl 11\ v >Mu tli ten-en: ating in from these 

 . lax, or not very determined inspector. 

 have on bis 

 i i e population 

 I . This has happened in more instances 

 than one, both under the Temporary Relief Act and 

 the permanent Poor-law which succeeded it. The 

 -uted to the 

 population 





be in such a condition that the greater port 

 population must have out-door relief or starve ; a 

 with each Potato failure, fresh numbers of the n 

 payers will be dragged down into the class of p 

 pers, while the resources for supporting them i 



grate, if not wholly exempt 



to abuse, presents smaller temptations to misappro- 

 ting it The 

 lief hitherto tried, costly as they have 

 been, have barely sufficed to keep the recipients 

 Assistance to emigrate 

 ■ reach comfort and inde- 

 pendence, the means of acquiring property, and be- 

 coming employers of labour, unattainable by the 

 present generation of the peasantry of Ireland, or 

 of England either. 



We shall resume this subject hereafter, for the 

 purpose of showing the importance of emigration as 

 a preliminary to the establishment of a healthy 

 Ireland, and 

 of pointing out means by which assistance to emi- 

 grate may be afforded win 



deep and rapid .dequate to 



restore the equilibrium, if such it can be called, dis- 

 turbed by the P jj ich, from want 

 in some de- 



THE FARMER'S PROSPECTS. 



CZl « unex! 



to of the 4th inst. on the 

 Britain," and hope that 



IbytheGc 

 e Society < 



