THE IRISH CRISIS. BY C. E. TREVELYAN, Esq. REPRINTED FROM THE “EDINBURGH REVIEW.” No. CLXXV., January, 1848 . LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN & LONGMANS. 1848....

The time has not yet arrived at which any man can with confidence say, that he fully appreciates the nature and the bearings of that great event which will long be inseparably associated with the year just departed. Yet we think that we may render some service to the public by attempting thus early to review, with the calm temper of a future generation, the history of the great Irish famine of 1847 1 . Unless we are much deceived, posterity will trace up to that famine the commencement of a salu