ttempt anything; they think the British
Government and Irish landowners alone competent to the
task.'"--_Times, 3rd of Feb. 1847._

"AMERICAN SYMPATHY.--We do not think we can better express the
sympathy which is now so universally felt in the United States, for
the sufferings of the people of this country, than by stating that
_immediately after the news brought by the Cambria had been
promulgated, 1,500 passages were paid for by residents in New York,
into the house of George Sherlock and Company, for the transmission
of their friends in Ireland to the land of plenty_. Through the same
house, by the last packet, there have arrived remittances to the
amount of 1,300_l._, in sums varying from 2_l._ to 10_l._"--_Dublin
Evening Post._--_Morning Chronicle, 5th of April, 1847._

As to the vices[2] of the Irish peasant, a few years since they might
have been set down as three--whiskey drinking, cupidity, and
combination. The first exists no longer, and if we seek for proof of
good intention and desires in the people, this gives it forcibly. Having
food of but one kind, and that possessing no stimulating power, nor
capability of imparting grateful warmth, such as the "brose" of the
Scotch, or the soup of the continental peasant; and the climate being
cold and humid to excess, they _naturally_, it may be said, used the
only stimulant they could obtain. And if we think how anxiously _we_
seek such, under the influence of wet and cold, (we, who have all
comforts and all varieties and luxuries of food)--can it be wondered
that the Irish peasant, who working for the day in a winter's mist, his
clothes saturated through, and none to change when he returned to his
wretched cabin, should have been tempted to take this stimulating
poison? But, by the gentle guidance of one good and great man, they have
been led from the evil, receiving no substitute for what they
relinquished; getting nothing in return, they gave up their only luxury
at his bidding. What may not be done with such a people?

But the peasant has two vices which still continue--cupidity and desire
for combination. Strange that amongst all the evils laid to his charge
the first has been passed over. It exists to a great extent, and in
place of being reckless as to money, he too eagerly grasps at it when
the opportunity offers; hence the combinations which have at different
times occurred in the accomplishment of public and