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FORMATION OF A PIKE REGIMENT.

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THE LAND BILL. (IRISH.)

By latest advices from the London law-mongers,
we are in possession of information on this subject.
The Irish secretary gave an explanation in which
nothing was explained. He ushered in his “rz'dz'cu-
lous mus” with all the pomp and panoply of a l-ong
incubation and well aired baby-linen. He descanted
on the unequalled prosperity of the country. He
said the cattle, now raised in Ireland, and eaten in
England, were twice as many and twice as fat as
they were ten years ago. Unparalleled advance,
surely this! But it is not all,'nor half all; for the
secretary tells his admiring audience that whereas
twenty years ago the holdings, in Ireland, under
five acres doubled those over thirty, now the
latter far exceed the former. lVhoever fails to
be satisfied that this clearing out of the “small
farmers” is evidence of progress and prosperity,
may be fairly set down as incorrigible blind to
the lights of British civilization, and indifferent to
the behests of the British Numen. What? Are
not the cabins leveled and the green fields greasy
with their own succulence where ragged men and
Worhen lived and worked, and warped and died?
But the secretai-y’s benevolence, likeithe love of.
Juliet, increased by what it fed on, and he informed,
his wondering hearers, that it was his intention to
accommodate a beneficent law to the prosperous

much, being equal to a game of ball ; and in some instances

condition ol the country; and thereupon he unfolded 
his mystery of mysteries. His bill contains twoi
clauses. One enables a landlord, with the approval 
of a. county judge, to make a lease for 31 years, if,
the interest be less than £100 sterling and if overl
that sum, then with the approval of one of the ,
commissioners of the encumbered estates court. The 3
same power is also given to corporations. Consid-
ering the advance already made, even in the absence
of these most beneficent provisions, it may be fairly
assumed that progress and depopulation will make
wonderful strides in the next ten years.

But ’tis barely possible, “progress” may not pro-.
gress very long in this direction; for there are ‘those
who think it high time ‘there should be a little de-
poulation of an other kind, and not of the cotters and
small farmers this time, but of the robbers who have
so long blighted the fruitful bosom of the island by
their beggarly and baneful presence, with all the
cursed accompaniments of laws, spies, pimps, and
hangmen in their train.

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AN AMERICAN GRIEVANO.E'——-A NATIVE
AMERICA N GRIEVANUE.
Gnrnvxnons arerthings that we don’t like to hear
about. There has been any amount of _ Irish griev-
ances paraded before the world, until the nostrils of
men stink with their abominable odor; but they
were, after all, the echoes of the sla.ve’s whine, or
the demagogue’s buucombe; brave men never com-
plain of grievances._ They strike or remain silent;
they abolish the thing right away, or refrain from
making themselves objects .of scorn or pity, by pa-
rading their ‘sores to a callous and scofling world.
The true men of Ireland despise the grievance mon-
gers, and repudiate all such poltroonry; but an
American grievance is so rare a thing that it cannot
be so lightly disposed of. We have compassion for
the citizens -of the Great Republic when trouble
comes upon them, and more particularly for the
military portion of “them, to whom ispconfided the
honor of the “Stripes and Stars,” and the preserva.
tion of the Union~—for those magnanimous defenders
of domestic rights and thecver ready repellers of
foreign aggression, we have bowels of compas-
sion. We accordingly beg leave to draw the
‘attention. of the public to the following griev-
ance so opportunely set forth, by our able contem-
porary, the New Y orlc Leader, and recommend it to
the kind consideration of our .St_ateLegis1a1;u1-3
when it next assembles at our incorruptible capi-
tal 2"‘ ’ . — “ .. ’ ~--- 
“ It is yet to be demonstrated as to the. utility’ and applica-
tion of the double quick time to our citizen soldiery. As we
alluded in a. previous issue to Hardee’s Tactics, or at least so
much of them as suits, is practiced in some of our regiments.
Among the few that are culled from the large number in the
first and second volume, we believe there is none so useless and
so poorlyapplied as the double quick movement. There is no
utility in it for suppressing inurrection or riot, as the time
would be incompatible except for hasty retreat. The light in-
fantry drill, as arranged by brevet Lieutenant Colonel Hardee,
was designed for that class of troops in the army known as
rifles and skirmishers. In this capacity celerity is important ;
but to apply it to column movements we doubt its tfliciency.
Now, we will endeavor to apply the double to the Seventh,
Twelfth or Seventy-first as battalions, and by so doing we win
discover that the drill is an injury rather than a benefit. These
battalions we will presume, are assembled respectively for
drill either in a drill room or on a parade ground, and while
there the Colonel exercises them in thefdouble quick. They
execute it. What further is consummated‘? Nothing. They
cannot apply this, for the reason that there are no opportuni-
ties ofiering that call for its introduction. But if we look at
the other side of the picture we will discover that Hardee’s
double quick in theory is better jthampractice. The man who
leaves his business pursuits to attend parade or drill, and there
fatigues himself in a gymnastic drill is frequently unfit for some
days to pursue his avocations. The members of the Regiments
above named are men of sedentary habits, and a little drill
would set them up; but the extreme fatigue imposed by the
double quick is followed by aday or two’s pain, the resuu;
of extra exertions. We believe in teaching such parts of
the science asmay edify, but we disapprove of any drill that
prostrates the system or is followed by a contraction of the
muscles. Our suggestions with reference to this drill are
founded on the fact, that practice has demonstrafed in at least
one of. our regiments that members have suffered a gr. at deal
from practicing the gymnastic drill.‘ The exertion was too

 

caused the party to confine himself to the house. The principle
of the drill in theory is good, but we fear it will hardly repay a
man to suffer what he must after each parade or drill, in order
to be qualified to take a part wherein he may never be called to
act. *

It is too hard, certainly, to subject our spicy Re-
giments to such fatiguing exercise as this terrible,
double-quick, gymnastic step. It puts a fellow so
much out of wind, and then, if he be any way shaky
in the nether extremities, there is no telling what
evil consequences ‘may follow. Palpitations of the
heart, asthmatic coughs, wearin’ess in the legs, loss
of appetite, dyspepsia and doctor’s bills, are things
fearful to contemplate, and above all absence from
business, in consequence of this horrid gymnastic
drill. Cruel Mr. Hardee, you should be hauled up
before a Court Martial of the Regiments above
named, and adequately punished for playing off
your gymnastic tricks upon Young America mili-

AID FOR IRELAND.

We are not going to write about any eleemosynary
aid for Ireland just now, although down in the wilds
of Mayo a portion of the peasantry are said to be
again in the jaws of famine; for men who starve in
the midst of plenty deserve no better th_an a dog’s
death. We are about to say a word or two con-

cerningaid of another kind—armed aid to drive out-’

the land-robbers and their English garrison——with
a view of setting the minds of our people right, at
home and abroad, upon this question.

A large number of the Irish people imagine that
every 1‘evolutiona.ry movement on the Continent is-
undertaken expressly to free Ireland, and that the
crowned heads and cabinets of Europe are greatly
exercised about her present degraded state. It is
true that they allude to her more frequently‘ than in
the past; but that is only by way of menace to
England to show that thefy know where the vulner-
able spot lies. The aid for Ireland is within her own
four seas. She must help herself, as Italy has done,
and then, undoubtedly, she will have many friends.
There is not a keen Yankee in the United States
who will not findmeans to trace back his pedigree
to Ireland. Grandfather or grandmother was Irish;
came to the country when very "young, ,&c. The
Irish people must aid themselves with armed hands,
taking advantage of that indirect aid which the

involvement of England in the European conflicts.

will bring. We must look the existing state of
things unflinchingly in the face and prepare for the
worst. From her own sons alone must come the
immediate aid for Ireland's redemption, and her own
hand-must strike the blow that will make her free,
and whenever that blow shall be delivered, from
the four ends of the earth adherents of her own race
will gather’ around the green standard. Today is
the time of preparation, to-morrow may bring the
signal for action.

A secret expedition has left Plymouth in connec-
tion with some supposed scheme of France against
Germany, whilst the United Service Gazelle says that
the government intend to call out all the militia
regiments. The political sky must be pretty squally
'when the regiments disbanded the other day are
about to be reembodiecl. Let the Irish people now

.look to the aid on which alone they can securely

rely, and sharpen their pikes, for their pith and
temper may be soon tried. '

THE POPULAR HEART.
-. There is thatlteating in the heart of manhood,
every where, which neither laws nor bayonets,
nor fiats of despotism can ever still. It may not
be, at times, visible or local; but it beats on. It
lives ever, though, like the ore in the mine, it may
be buried, fathoms deep, under coercion, cant, fraud
and sham. It lives even in the breast which cheats
itself into the belief, that subserviency is happiness
and degradation a virtue and an advantage. The
human instinct, to say nothing of the human soul,
must forever repel this conclusion as unnatural. We
were not born to how; our form and frame and look,
of themselves, attest our independence. A fortiori,?
is the doctrine of subjection, and slavery self-impos-
ed, repugnant to the human soul. God, himself, in
the exercis_e of his highest functions, by allowing

 

the soul free will, has s-tamped upon it indelibly the

impress of liberty, and quickened it with an eternal
yearning to attain it. This yearning is a principle
of our nature. It asserts its own preeminence and
control, even when we are unconscious of it-.
Like the elemental spirit of fire in the cold stone, it
is ever there, and chance as well as design may
cause it to flash forth. .

These observations may appear too didactic; and
we would be sorry to be considered other than
perfectly practical. Our first aim is to write-—not
Words, but things; for, we abhor more talk. Today‘
We write apropos, of the rising in Palermo and Mes-
sina, one of which is, it seems, already suppressed.
Twelve years ago, the children of the sunny clinic
of Palermo, answeredto the high instincts of huma-
nity, and hurled their oppresoors from their stools.
The valor, exhibited by them then, was unmatched;
nor does history record any instances of heroism
transcending that of Maria di Testa. For three
days, many a sure messenger of doom found its
way, from her fair white hand to the heart of one of
the janissaries of tyranny. Then, it was Sicily that
called on Italy to awake, unite and strike together
for freedom and indivisibilityl

Now free Italy invokes, by her example and suc-
cess, the golden Trinacria of old, from whose inex-
haustible bosom the conquerors of the world drew
their sustenance. In 1848 the re-action was as ter-
rible as the first success was marvellous. In giv-
ing the elements of reaction, direction, consistency,
and weight, crushing weight, the hand of England
was ‘busy, and her counsel inexorable. The irate
Bo‘-:.rbon at Naples was merely the blind and furious
instrument of her crafty policy. She invoked re-

tant.

volt in order to smother it in blood. She succeeded.

. many senses, an abomination.

Liberty lay buried under heaps of carnage, utterly
and helplessly cr11shed_

The despots thought themselves soouro The
spirit of the Sicilian maid, passed aloft from the
slaughterhouse. But there passed with it the dark
shadow of England, which was lifted up from the
face of the island, and the light flashed on the minds
of 1ts children. The struggle continued in Hungary,
and many a time had the double-headed eagle. to
bite the dust. The most exalted patriotism and
heroism were manifested in Italy and Hungary; but
unhappily, political combinations, rivalries and jeal-
ousies, reduced the former to the necessity of "seek-
ing peace. Austria dictated terms to her. The lit-
tle dynasties, that had fled like hares, came back
like lions, and put their heels on the necks of their
people. Hungary ‘yet’ maintained the struggle no-
bly; but the Czar threw his enor'nous weight into
the Scale. aI1d.Hu_ngary, though she made the noblest
stand in history, succumbed. The nightmare of _ir.
responsible power had come back upon the world
and almost crushed out the very heart of humanity.
“Hope bade the world farewell,” and seemingly, not
‘for CI’ 8€a}S0n,’? but eternally. C ‘

This was the condition of mankind when the coup
d’etat, of the 2nd of December, startled the world ;
and. gave indications of a new career for Fra,nce_
She appeared chained to the car of one unscrupulous
man, who fashioned his own ‘destiny. He has since
given ample proof, how deeply he considers that

‘destiny involved in hers and inseparable from it.

The result is the consolidation of the most of Italy:
the spirit ' of independence, manifesting itself
throughout the remainder,_’in ‘Sicily, in Hungary
and even in Poland. The insurrection may or may
not be suppressed in Palermo; but its lesson is im-
mortal. The fact that both Messina and Palermo
rose together is proof that there was concert of
action, and wide co-operation._ The fall of Palermo
may be more than counterbalanced by success else.
where. But success or not, we accept the fact as
an assurance and an omen. In ether case it is
equally valuablejas evidence of the undying spirit

of resistance‘ in the heart of man, whatevegfbef s

the shapein which fate may seek to crush him}? _
We invoke this spirit, too, to. silence an audacious

calumny, circulated diligently by the spies and I

sbirri of England to the effect that Irishmen are
content with servitude and garbage. It is false, 5,3

any invention of the ource of all untruth. There.

are in Ireland, as everywhere else, men who would
munge their meal immendicancy and subserviency,

who" would kiss the hand that goads them and flat- 

ter the tongue that speaks them foul. There ‘ are
such men; but if therebe, they are the exception_.
decayed rubbish, that time and slavery and a beg-
garly nature, have corroded and mouldered; while
the great young heart of the island is untouched,
defiant, confident, and indomitable. Even the very
men, in many an instance, who affect contentment,
are gnawed at the heart by an inward sense of their
own degradation. Slavery" defiles whatever it
touches, and those who have tasted of it bitterly
and deeply become reconciled to it as we do -to

nauseous food. But against this feeling our nature I

and instincts silently protest, and there is not one of
those most habituated to it, that would not, if he
got a fair opportunity, burst its detestable shackles.
Let us hear no more of those beggars’ boasts.
They are in every sense contemptiblef they are, in
They are a libel on
the Irish nation, and often on the men who make
them. With reference to all that is young, and
brave, and generous, we know they are foully un-
true. At this moment the spirit that broke out in
Sicily is- as eager, as highly wrought, but more
under control, and better disciplined in Ireland. Lt
has been hiding and will bide itstime. It will not
strike until the blow will be inevitable death.

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THE CROWNED OONSPIRATORS.

THE cabinet of Vienna, in a spirit of little petu-
lance addresses a‘ solemn protest to the courts of
Europe, against the annexation of the Duchies to the
Kingdom of Piedmont. There are two main grounds
relied on, for this-protest. They are, first the ‘guar-
antees of the treaty of 1753, that of 1817, and even
that of Zurich. The second ground is that the rever-
sion of these thrones vests in the House of Haps-
burg. Great stress is laid on the fact that the first
treaty was manipulated and signed by George II. of
England, as the head of the house of Este. lVl1at
peculiarsaiictiion this fact imparted to the treaty we
confess our inability to discover.

It would seem that the dotard conceived the

phlegmatic idea that he owned, not only the thrones,
but the souls and bodies of the people, these living,
and these afterwards to be born there, for ever, and
that he hadypowcr to mortgage them eternally as
the thralls of vvhomso he mayindicate. And now his
title and authority is evoked in favor of the chance
reversion—claimed by the Hapsburg dynasty.

The imperial protest appeals to “the conscience of