The Chronicle, two or three mornings back, delighted, and to
say the truth, astonished us, with a catalogue of improvements now on foot in Ireland, which might do credit to the happy commonwealth of Utopia. Our excellent contemporary appears to apprehend the rea- der's incredulity while he enumerates them.
"The reforms in the Law Courts, and in the nature and amount of fees, founded on the suggestions contained in the Reports of the Commissioners, have been in many instances carried into practice, and are in progress in others. A similar observation applies to the two great leading branches of the public Revenue. The Post Office system has undergone revision ; and very many important alterations are in a course of experimental probation. An accurate and scientific survey of every county in the kingdom has made considerable advances, under the auspices of the Board of Ordnance; and in that portion of it which is completed it has already served to correct innu- merable errors in the antiquated Down Survey, which has hitherto been the standard authority on the subject of the territorial divisions of the kingdom. An inquiry, entitled at least to the appellation of semi-official, into the state and amount of Church Property, is quietly progressing ; and, not unneces- sarily to extend the catalogue, we shall observe generally, that a system of consolidation with, or assimilation to the English practice, has almost univer- sally been resorted to, in all possible cases. When, in addition to these ex- tensive innovations, made with a view to practical amelioration, we add that we are assured by well-informed individuals that the system of Grand Jury Presentments, and County Burthens of all descriptions, is to be subffiftVt„ to the consideration of Parliament early in the next session, by a gen't*inw-c of high official station, who has been for some time in Ireland collect4 fInglIOQI4 914 tbgN bapKtAllt alittjeg1,5A-e4hAt i till wore e5sel1ti4 irepc*,. ment. the introduction of a modified system of Poor Laws, will be ably urged, and strenuously supported in quarters and by persons entitled on all accounts to respectful attention,—that the Irish Banking system is at this moment undergoing a minute and critical examination by the President of the Board of Trade,—we think we have established our assertion as to the variety and importance of the measures either in active execution or in a course of preparatory experiment."
There are some other particulars noticed this morning by our con- temporary, which are not quite so satisfactory. He thus describes and comments on resolutions said to have been passed by the Tipperary Magistrates at Thurles :— " The Resolutions of the Tipperary Magistrates state, that bodies of armed men have appeared lately on several occasions at noonday, for the purpose of obstructing the execution of the laws ;' that such is the demoralization of the lower classes, such their confederacy, and such the prevailing system of terror, that all endeavours to procure information to convict and bring of- fenders to justice are vain and futile;' and' that it would be expedient at the present juncture to establish military posts throughout the country, to aug meat the police stations, as a measure calculated to prevent the further ex- tension of the existing system of outrage.' All comment on this is superflu- ous. The collection of the rent of the Tipperary landholders will, at this rate, cost the country almost as much as the amount of the rent itself. The reduction of Tipperary to subjection to the laws will, we can see, be an expen- sive undertaking. But such a state of things must not be suffered to continue."
Ex officio informations have been filed, or rather notice of an inten- tion to file them has been given, against the Dublin Evening Post and Freeman's Journal, for some remarks in which they indulged respecting the trials at Borrisokane. It is not the least curious part of the affair, that the remarks in question are said to have been written by a gentle- man connected with a London Tory journal.
The latest accounts from Barnsley describe the position of the masters and weavers as in statu quo. No approach had been made to an ac- commodation, the latter insisting on wages which the former were un- able or unwilling to give.
