The New York Herald

Condition of Ireland.-The condition of Ireland seems not to improve in the slightest degree. On the contrary, her fortunes seem to be getting dimmer and dimmer. Famine, murder, and assassination have full play, while her orators and patriots are divided among themselves as to the remedy for the evils under which she labors. The English government know not what to do--a majority of the Irish themselves think a repeal of the union would act as a panacea for all her sores and calamities: but they cannot agree on the proper means to pursue to obtain it. Let a nation, numbering as many inhabitants as Ireland does, be united on the attainment of any measure, and she cannot help but obtain it. Let Ireland be united in this way, and demand a repeal of the union, and she will obtain it; but what can be expected to result from disunion and confusion?
It is stated, however, by England and by her statesmen, that Ireland is a drag upon them-that she has exhausted legislation for her benefit; but yet they are not willing to sever the union.
Now, here is Ireland on one hand, with a majority of her people in favor of repeal, and England on the other, considering Ireland a drag on her-would it not be policy for England to get rid of the drag by consenting to a repeal of the union?
One thing is certain, that Ireland will be a thorn in the side of the British ministry, and a source of weakness to England, as long as she remains in her present dissatisfied state. She may find this out to her cost before many years have elapsed. Let England again be engaged in a war with France, and Ireland would. in all probability, throw its influence against England. Her commodious and spacious harbors would afford France opportunities for landing troops, for storms will not always occur for the especial benefit of England. There will be a crisis in European affairs when the present monarch of France dies. As soon as the nation is relieved of him, its young blood will again boil, and seek an opportunity to wipe out the defeat at Waterloo, and the treatment of its Emperor. If Ireland cannot be conciliated, it would be policy for England to consent to a separation.