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T H E H an N ];u}§‘...

0 CL FIt’E.L\'UII FRIEND.
F,-om Pilncfi. 4
"'lo‘s c. iii’-on is 13.3‘: ‘qiioiii 0111'-701111.
I"?-i lie ml in-,it till; beior-\.”~-
A_ ii l.-_ig.\ h»:- t".v  x"sl.l':.\l;;'i1l« UB0“
His stick behind the door. _
“ I V\'0‘.l(li'.l.' if ‘twoiilrl suit Our Friend
(Jolirfs face was i‘atliei' grim)
For me to Sl.\'C liis couiiiig here
By gcsiiig there to him-"’

“ B-c.‘.'.isc you I-2ll0‘\V, old girl.” says 119,
. .41 1,, h,_.«,.yt_‘,‘. sti-orig. and hale,
Ana pd 1,3 _-,11 the better to:
A lit-‘lo iii‘. Oi Fall-
I fi[lC.y. too.  iliiiiks I'm not
Quite sound in wind or limb :
1-‘v.2 really half a thought, old girl.
Of going there to him.

“ Besides. you know. I ~:-.houldi1’t be
A straiiger to the way,

I visit: d the spot before
In Bonypai-ty~‘s day.

That very stick I took with 1110
It hasn't groim: more Sli‘r'»‘? -' ,_

I swear, old gal. I'm half inclined
To go across to him.

“I hate to give a gentleman
More trouble tlian'there’s need.

And cro;-:siiig water makes our friend
Uncommon cross indeed.

And if’. as these here letters say,
To meet me is his whim,

Why, dang my _bu*«';tons, lllotlier Bull,

I’ll go across to him.

“ Mayhap he’d like to have a crack
About old days gone by.

Egy pt, and Spain. and Traf'algar——
‘If he would, so would I.

About those days I rather think
His meniory’s gcttiiig dim.

And that’s another reason, dame,
Why I should get to him.

-" '1‘here’s Master Jack may mind the house,
I’m glad he’s bought a gun,

If he don’t keep you safe and sound
He’s not his father's son.

So till a mug, Our Friend’s good health,
Yes, fill it to the brim :

If he‘ll but say he means _to come,
By George, I’ll go to him I"

GENERAL LAMORICIERE.

WE have a full confirmation of the report that General La-
moricier has gone to Italy to take command of the Roman army.
On his landing at Ancona and Trieste, he inspected the fortifi-
cations and the troops of the garrison. On his arrival at Rome

‘he had an interview with Cardinal Antonelli, and was subse-
quently introduced to the Pope. The General expressed his
opinion that there are sufficient materials in the Roman States
to form an excellent army, and that he would accept the com-
mand were permission demanded of the Emperor and granted
by him. A telegraphic message was forwarded to Monsignor
Sacconi, the Pope's Nuncio at Paris, instructing him to ask
permission of the Emperor for General Lamoriclere to command
the Roman army. The Nuncio did so, and the emperor, it is
said, has granted permission. The Emperor will, moreover,
ant permission to any French officer on half pay to serve
under General Lamoriciere, but not to any on full pay. Gene-
ral Lamoriciere has a special talent for organizing an army. It
was he who orgpnized the Zouaves. Spahis, and other native
corps in Algeria, and the Garde Mobile in 1848.

A little knowledge ofithe previous career of General Lamori-
ciere, of his position and his character, will. explain whatever
may be thought strange in the resolution which he has adopted
with reference to the Pope. Lamoriciere is a native of Nantes;
he belongs to an old Legitimist family, who were strongly pre-

ossessed in favor of the elder branch of the Bourbons, and who

fought for the cause during the wars of La Vandee. He was
born in 1806, was a pupil at the Polytechnic school in 1824 ;
he, two years after, entered the Ecole d’Application, at Metz,
and got his commission as second lieutenant of engineers in the
beginning of 1830. In the same year he accompanied the expe-
dition to Algiers, under Marshal Bourmont, who took the city
on July 5, only three weeks before the revolution, which over-
threw the throne of Charles X. Bourmont had hardly received
his marsha.l’s staff for the successful conduct of the expedition,
‘when he learned the fall of his master, and his own dismissal
from the post of commander-in-chief of the army in Africa.

To Lamoriciere’s honor be it said, that, though he was but
commencing his career as a soldier, he did not hesitate to testify
his respect to his fallen general, regardless of the consequences
to himself; he was, I believe, the only man'wlio attended him
to the ship that bore him to exile. When tne Duke of Orleans
was proclaimed king by a majority of thechainber of deputies,
mhny officers of the army sent in their resignations, and retired
from the service. It was expected that Lamoriciere would do
the same. His love for his profession, however, overcame his
dynastic partialities, if he really had any, and he incurred the
deep displeasure of his family by continuing to serve under a
prince whom they looked upon as a usurper. It was only after
a lapse of ten years, and when Lainoricierewhad already started
into fame, that his relations in the west of France would renew
their intercourse with him. _

Africa was the nursery of soldiers, and anion the chiefs
whom these c aigus have rendered illustrious, few had 9. bet-
ter title than ‘ amoriciere. His talent for organization was re-
markable. Soon after the taking of Algiers was created the
corps of Zouaves, now so well known to Europe, and Lamori-
ciere was named captain in that body, to whose formation he
principally contributed. In 1833 he was appointed director of
the first Bureau A7-abe, soon after appointed to _chef de baltaillon,
lieutenant-colonel in 1835, and, on the taking of Constantine in
1837, got his commission as colonel for the intelligence and
great gallantry be displayed on that occasion. He laid with
his own liiuids the powder bags to the gates of Constantine, and
the exp‘osion baviiig taken place too soon, was "hoisted wiih
his own petard and severely wounded.” In 1839 he was re-
called to Paris. ,
’“’He’retiirned' to Africa the following year, and again distin-

hed' himself at Mongaia; indeed, he appears never to‘-have

' béén présentin the field without distinguishing himself. In the

he was promoted to major-general ; in 1843'to gene-
in 1844 he was made commander of the legion
of honor ; and in 1845 governor of Algeria, par interim. Gene-
ral Lamoriciere shared, during his stay in Africa, in not less
than eighteen campaigns ; not one of his promotions and honors
but was the reward of some expedition planned by him, or some
brilliant exploit achieved. He closed his military career in
Africa by a double success. It was he who organized the expe-
dition which ended in the capture by the Duke» d’Aurnale of

same year _
ml of division ;

- Abd-el-Kader, who was so hemmed in by Lamoriciere as to have

no resource but to surrender. ,

It is not certain what were the political principles or prefer-
ences of Lamoriciere——probably _he did not know them himself.
He acted. however. with the liberal party, -and towards the
close of Louis Philippe’s reign, t_o<_>k his seat in the chamber of
deputies with the dynastic opposition; and was designated min-
ister of war in the Thiers, Mole, or Barrot combinations essay-
ed by the hip g in his last struggle.

In the sanguinary conflict of June, 1848, which deluged the
streets of Paris with blood, he offered his services to his old
comrade Cavignac, then at the head of the government. Dur-
lng those terrible three days, he seemed to multiply himself ; he
was first wherever the danger was greatest, and to his wonder-
ful energy was the suppression of that insurrection mainly ow-
ing. He remained faithful to the policy ‘and the fortunes of
Cavignac; be attached himself to the moderate section of the
Republicans and voted with the left only on the question of the
two chambers. He addressed the assembly frequently, always
with tact and skill in-debate which resembled instinct, and not

‘ ~ in;-ely with an eloquence which astonished even practiced ora-.

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tors. He stood in the tribune as a consummate rider masters a.
fiery charger. ‘ ' ‘

After the election of Prince Louis Napoleon to the presiden-
cy, Lanioriciere gave no sy steinatic oppo.~ii.ioi.i to the govern-
IIl=‘ll", fhoiigh lie disapprovrail the policy adopted on Italian af-
fairs, and he coiitiziued the consistent Sl'lp)I‘Ul‘LUl‘ of the Republi-
can constitution. At the period of the Russian intervention in
Huiigary he accepted a iiiis.-ion from the president to the court
of St. P€i;€l‘Sll11l’gll. where he arrived after the submission of
l-luiigary. and was received by tli<.- Emperor Nicholas with the
greatest distinction. On lc:ii'iiiiig the fate of the Odiéoii-Barret
iiiiiiistiy. he i'esigiicil his post of eiubass-mini‘ and returned to
Paris. He rcsuiiicd his place in the cliainbers, and devoted all
liis iiifliicuce to Cf)Il‘ll)l1l«i.ll+‘, policy and bafile the plans at the
lillysce. In July. 1.851, he recorded his vote nguiiist the revision
oi the coiisliiution, and in Noveiiibcr, following for the bill
which was to place ilie inilitai'y force under the control of the
assembly, in case of any attempt against the coiistitutioii.

In the coup dual of December 21, he was comprised among
the o:-iiiiiieiit men. civilians as well as military, who were cauglit
by order of the. new minister of the iiiterior, Ell. de Morny,-who
was then exercising the sublime vocation of saving his country.

ainoriciere had the bad izaste to attempt to resist the com-
maiids of tliat piiti-lot; aiiil his servaiit. who aided him in this
revolt against M. de .*\Eoruy’s agents, was wounded. Lamori-
ciere was oveipowr-.red by iiuiiibers, and conveyed to the prison
of MEIZAS. He was quickly transferred to the classic retreat of
Ham. and thence coniliicteil by the police to the frontier. Be-
ing still borne on the ‘st of general oflicers in active service.
he was Slllllllltlillllil to take the oath of allegiaitce to the new.
einper-or; he rirfiised in strong terms, in a letter which appeared
in l(il‘(*lgll joiirnals. From that period till 1857 he chiefly ‘re-
sided in Belgium. In that year the (3lllpel’Ol‘ SpOlli‘.lliC0l1Sl)' au-
thorized liiin to return to Fiance, on the sudden death of one
of his children.

The bitter-est pang th:-.t a man like Lanioricic-re could feel was
on the occasion of war being declared ugaiiiis-t Riissia in 1851.
He was passionately at-taclied to his professioii, he was in the
vigor of life and intellect, his old companions in arms were go-
ing fcrth to win new‘ distinctions in a war on a grand scale, of
which the duration was uncertain, and he, the bravest among
the brave men, was left to pine in an obscure retreat, all the
“pride, pomp and cireiimstance of glorious war” passing before
his eyes, and he not sharing in it. It was to him a season of
great siigiiish. It was at this moment that his thoughts took a
devotional turn, and in the practice of religion he sought con-
solation fer the (ll.°.‘<1l_)p0ll‘ii;lI'i:}llt of hopes and his noble ambi-
tion. A friend of his, a man eminent as a li£ei"ai'eur and a poll-
tician, and who was at one time a member of a cabinet under
Louis I-iliillippe, calling on Lamcricicre one day, found him
deeply engaged over some military maps and plans of the Cri-
mea, but he also observed, to his surprise, books of religion ly-
iiig'op-zn by their side on the same table. .

He rallied the general on the serious turuwhich be evidenced,
and doubted his sincerity. Larnoriciere assured his friend that
he was never more sincere, and that religion was the great com-
fort of his life.

The thought of asking L:imoriciere’s assistance in the organi-
zation of his army was not suggested by any one to the Pope;
it was entirely his own.

A HER [CA N ITEMS.

Anvaarisixo son A HUSBAND.~—A pretty but weak girl of
seventeen, the daughter of a. widow in Rockford, Illinois, re-
cently advertised for a husband! "just for the romance of the
thing.” She obtained not a husband but a seducer, in the per-
son of a. gambler named Moore, who had returned from Pike‘s
Peak for the Winter. He started recently to return to the dig-
gings, taking her (it is supposed; along; and the next thing
known of her by her friends is the discovery, near Ottumwa,
Iowa, of her dead body, beariiig~incontesta‘ole marks of murder.
We do not base so sweeping a deduction on a single fact, how-
ever significant; but we believe young Women in this country
marry more recklessly than any where else. In there a village
of fifty houses in the land wherein a plausible, well-dressed ad-
venturer, of whom nobody knows anything, cannot marry a girl
of spotless character after a residence of six weeks? Such mar-
riages——in fact, all marriages not based on iiitimate knowledge
and profound esteem as well as f'erventlove—-are somewhat more
reputable than what is called Free Love, but scarcely one whit
less culpable or perilous.

A Baovza Dooa run run CAPITOL -—A'letter from Rome Italy,
says :—Rogers is ei.igaged'here_ upon a bronze door for the
Capitol at Washington, wnich is to cost $25,000. The first
scene represents Columbus before the Council of Salamanca,
unfolding his great theory. In the second he is just setting out
to seek royal aid. In -the third he is before the King and Queen,
laboring to convince them. Isabella leans forward and seems
interested, but Ferdinand scarcely deigns to heed the visionary
enthusiast. In the fourth he is confiding his son to the care of
the monks, while his ships wait. In the fifth he is landing in
great state upon St. Salvador. The sixth is at Hispaniola, Where
one of the sailors is bringing an Indian girl to the ship on his
shoulder. The next is the great navigator’s triumphal entry
into Barcelona on his return. In the succeeding one he is about.
to be sent home from _Cu‘oa in chains and disgrace. The “last V
scene of all” ‘is death. The priests have administered to him the
last sacrament; one holds a crucifix for him to kiss; friends and
attendants are weeping around, and the spirit of‘ the dying man
is about to start on that last great voyage from which none re-
turn. In niches surrounding these scenes are figures and busts
of various royal personages contemporary with Columbus, in-
cluding Ferdinand and Isabella, dcc.
A Gnnu SPECTACLE IN’ run Foausr.—-On the 6th inst., near-
Valpariso, 1a., the skeleton of_ an unknown man was found
hanging in the woods by a hunting party, suspended to a small
jack oak by a black silk-nec,khaudkerchief'. The skull, part of
the spinal column and ribs were hanging. the remainder of the
bones were scattered about, as they would naturally be by dogs‘.
The bones were perfectly bleached, the hair, which was a fair
auburn, had fallen off, the teeth, except three which was absent,
were but slightly worn, showing that he was not more than 25
or 30 years of age. His clothes, with the exception of his neck-
handkerchief, were decayed fragments of a jean coat, summer
pants, a woolen shirt, and a chip hat, were scattered around.
In one of his boots-—a thick pair of stogas little worn~-were
part of the bones" of the foot, the othe was eMpty. One pocket
containincd his walllet, containing one gold dollar, one Spanish
quarter, and small change enough to make $1 44 in all. The
other pocket contained a pipe. knife, plug of tobacco, and a
piece of paper, supposed tobe a wrapper from some patent
medicine. No one in that vicinity has yet been able to discover
who the suicide was. ‘

Pnnmous ADYEN'!‘ITRE.-—TIle propeller Bay State from Ogdens-
burgh, arrived at Cleveland on Saturday last reports that com-
ing through through the ice at Port Colborne, a man was dis-
covered standing on the ice, and through the prompt endeavors
of the captain and officers, was rescued, when nearly dead‘ in
consequence of the cold, hunger, and the wet state of his cloth-
ing. his name was Alfred Demon, belonging to the schooner
Geo. Thurston. which entered the ice on Sunday. He was very
kindly treated, and whorl thoroughly warmed, reclothed and
fed, was, in accordance with ‘his desire, put ashore, to make his
way to the canal for a tug, in order that the vessel might soon
have relief. He left the Thurston at 7 o’c1_ock, P. M., in com-
pany with the captain and another man,. stimulated by the sick-
ness of some of her crew, and the great scarcity of provisions,
to make the noble attempt to reach the shore, by Walking on
the lumps of ice, in order that assistance might be obtained.
After some two hours the captain and the other returned, but
Denton, being separated from them by the_parting of the ice,
could not, and was forced, to continue on his route, every mo-
ment being immereed to his neck, and sa_ved_from drowning only
by the use of a piece of board he had with him. He was picked
up about eight miles from the Thurston and two from the land,
at six in the evening. He declared he had about given up, and
for along time death appeared certain.

Wu were shown a day~or two since a great curiosity, says the
St. Johns (N. B.) Democrat, which was no less than a block of
wood taken from theheart of a white oak tree, in which was
firmly irnbediled an Indian hatchet of stone. It was found by
Mr. J. Everett in the township of Givenbush. who had cut the
tree. and was manufacturing it into staves. The tree was per-

a thing was imbedded therein, until it was struck upon with an
axe. Upon examination, it was ascertained that the hatchet
was stuck there. when the tree had about thirty years’ growth,
and that it had remained there more than two centuries, as
more than two hundred years growth of the tree was counted
out side of where the hatchet lay.

Tun Florence correspondent of the Newark Advertiser men-
tions that the wife and children of Dr. Achill, an apostate from
the Roman church, about whom some excitement was recently
created in Hoboken, and who has conciliated Protestant feeling
both in England and the l7ii.iiv~(l States are in a..p.‘-rice-tly desti-
tute condition, living on the aims of our countrymen. He
shipped them at New York last year. under a specious pretext,
with the promise to supply their wants monthly by bills of ex-
change, since which the only in‘elligei'ice they have had of him
was through the newspaper report of his having another wo-
man and child in New Jersey. Measures have been taken to
call him to account.

Tm-i Hartford Times says that a singular divorce is now pro-
gressing at Norwich, being a cross libel between. Mr. and Mrs.
Cook, she acciising him of compelling her to act the clairvoyant:
and spiritual medium to the manifest detriment of her health. and
he charging her with improper intimacies with a man named
Spencer. Some most singular‘ testimony has been and will be
given on this matter of spiritualism, and its effect on the body
and mind of those subjected to its influence.

A F.-\'i‘Al. accident occurred on the site of the ill~f-Lited Pem-
lierton Mills, 8} o’clock on Monday morning. Mr. James A.
Hearn. a laborer employed in rebuilding the mill, was iiistantly
killed by a deri-ick falling upon him, caused by the breaking
of an iiisiiiiicieiit guy, while hoisting a large fountain stoiie.~—
Mr. He-arm’:-i head was crushed. He was about 50 years of age,
and leaves awife and two young cliildi‘eii. He had a daughter
killed at the time of the great catastrophe.

THE now celebrated pony express, by which intc-lligence is
obtained from San Francisco in ten days, traverses 1,8ii0 miles
of unbroken country, infested by powerful tribes of warlike
Indians. Nearly one hundred horses are employed, and only
thirty-six couriers, each riding about fifty miles.

A'J‘3<AlN on the Hudson River Railroad recently ran seven
miles in six minutes. between Albany and Castletori. This is
believed to be the -fastest time ever made in" this country. being
at the rate of seventy miles an hour. Luckily. the train was for
the carriage of newspapers, and not passengers. '

A Miss MARY Suoor, of Kanawha, Va., while couutiiig some
money in the house of a relative one day last week, was sud-
denly seized from behind and choked until she became inseusible,
and was then robbed of $443 in $20 gold pieces. A negro
nauied Bill has been recognized as one of the perpetrators.

Ir is said that in Japan old niaids are unheard of—-do not ex-
ist. When ihe girls do not get married voluntarily in any rea-
souable time, the authorities hunt up husbands, and make them
marry, willing or not willing. An exchange thinks that the
Japanese know a thing or two, even if they have been walled
in for four centuries. The Japanese thought that the ladies
whom they saw at the Saiidwic-.h Islands wearing crinoliiie ac-
tually filled the immense skirts. One of the men, who happen-
cd to touch a dress in passing, was much surprised to find it
caving iii, and burst into roars of laughter at his astonishing
discovery. His ideas ofthe bodily proportion of the fair one
suddenly collapsed. _

Qurrn a desperate fight took place in Cornwall, Co., lately,
between a bull dog and an eagle. Hearing the noise, the own-
er of the dograu to his assistance, when the eagle turned upon
his new adversary, but after -a short fight was overcame, and
dcspatched. He measured nine feet from wing to wing.

A GREAT‘ natural curiosity, in the shape of an immense cave,
has been discovered in Kentucky, and explored for a consider-
able dist.-irice. It is located not many miles from the Great
Mammoth Cave, and is said to rival it in size and attractiveness.
_It goes by the name of the Hundred Drove Cave.

AMONG the curiosities. at Burden's nianufactory at Troy. is 9.
sleeping car with. a bridal chamber, and all the luxuries of
tables, closets, ventilation, water, towels, and other conve-
niences. .

Tun way passenger and freight train, on the Hiidson River
Railroad, that left New York Tuesday morning. met avitli an
accident in the afternoon, as it neared the bridge which crosses
the Red Mill creek, back of Greenbusli. The accident was
caused by the misplacement of a switch. The train was com-
posed of one passenger and three freight cars, also a platform
car. When the train left the track, the engineer and fireman
each supposed there was no possible hope to prevent the whole
train from' going down an enbankment some 25 feet high. Each
jumped from his position. The train kept on. cutting through
the sleepers and plowing up the earth. After running thus
about 100 feet, the platform and two of the freight cars became
detached from the tender, toppled over and went down the en-
bankment. Two of them were smashed to atoms, while the
other was not badly damaged. The third freight car fell over,
but did not go down the embankment, and the passenger car
kept the track. The locomotive kept on its way till it reached
the edge of the abutment of the bridge. At. this point it was
stopped by the wheels digging so deeply into the earth that the
cowcatcher came in contact with the stone work. Here the
locomotive rested. Fortunately no person was injured by the
accident. ‘

Ox Tuesday, says a Troy paper, an exciting and extraordi-
nary trial of skill came off between two blacksmiths in'this
city. A few days ago. J ohn‘ McKeunedy challenged Patrick

v Kennedy to compete with him in the number of horse slices to

be made in’, 10 hours. Kennedy accepted the challenge. and
yesterday morning the parties started for the championship, as
also a wager of $25. McKennedy was assisted by helper John
Hennessy. and Kennedy by helper John Doyle. Both parties
have blacksmith shops in the city, the former on Grand Division
street, the latter on Ferry street. During the day their places of
business were crowded by a large number of persons to witness
these sons of Vulcan at their work. A rope was stretched
around the forges, so as to prevent the crowd from pressing too
near them, and also to give them as much air as possible. «sch
one worked with a hearty good will, and the horse shoes fell
tiiick and fast from their anvils. At the expiration of 10 hours.
Kennedy had made twenty dozen—-two hundred and forty shoes
——and McKinney seventeen dozen and six. The shoes made
by each were decided by referees to be of excellent workman-
ship. Near the close of the contest, Hennessy, the helper of
McKinney, fainted from over exertion. The number of shoes
made by Kennedy is unprecedented, and we doubt if any one
man ever turned out as many in the same time. A large num-
ber of bets were made by the friends of the parties, and the
greatest good feeling prevailed ‘on both sides.

Tut‘. Japanese have discovered that a few seconds previous to
an earthquake, the magnet temporarily loses its power, and
have ingeniously constructed a light frame supporting a horse-
shoe magnet. beneath which is a cup of bell metal. To the

armature is attached aweight, so that upon the magnet becom-
ing paralyzed, the weight drops, and striking the cup, gives

the alarm. Every one in the house then seeks the open air for
safety. ' , ,

‘THE best fencer in Paris is a beautiful young lady - of Polish
origin, Mlle. Lenowska. At a soiree of the house of an aristo-
cratic widow in the Faubourg St..Honore, who, it appears, is
fond of fencing, and has an apartment in her house devoted to

that sort of exercise, the evening closed with a grand assault

at-arms. Dressed in the handsome costume of her country, Mlle.
Linowska held her sword with so much grace and precision that
no gentlemen-present was able to touch her.

Ir seems that the individual who attempts to mount the lad-
der of Fame from the area of the Prize Ring, has to climb by
many and very unpleasant “rounds.” A detailed account of
the Great Fight tells us that the combatants struck each other
with mawleys and bunches of fives upon the head, the nut, the

=c:.iie, the conk, the cannister, the noddle, the mug, the know-

lcdgc—box; the nose, the sneezer, the snorer, the snuffer, the
snuff—tray, the nozzle, the mazzard; the eyes, the iogles, the
optics, the peepers; the mouth, the kisser, the whistler, the ora-
tion-trap; drawing the blood, the clarat, the ruby, the crimson.
the home—brewed, the gravy; and in several instances knocking
the unfortunate knocker off his pins, his pegs, his stumps. and

fectly sound, and nothingwas noticeable ‘indicating that such

his foundation, to say nothingof boring, fibbing, and sending

him to grass. Who wants the Belt?

-Ly.“ L . .—

want‘. 19.11:.» -is A.

IREL./lND’S REGENERATION.
ro rm: miiv. PATRICK MALONE, r.r., or BELMULLET.

REY. SIR :—In the Nation of the 7th April, I find a letter
from you, complaining of the hardships cruelties, sufferings. and
exteiniiiiation of the Catholic and Celtic race by a minister of
the robber church, as by law established in Ireland. Your
letter contains the old and often complained of grievance, land-
lord law in Ireland! and your remedy for this monster and
gigantic grievance~—extermination—is the old, and often-tried,
but hopeless plan, a general meeting of priests and laymen for
petitioning and speccliifying purposes to this British House of
Commons. Haveyou not been petitioniiig. praying, and solicit-
ing from this Saxon Parliament for the last fifty or sixty years,
and at the end of that period your people, your parishioners,
as well as the parishioners of other Catholic priests of Ireland,
are being driven out of their homes and land by this same land-
lord law, and still your remedy for this monster evil is a gene-
ral meetiiig of the priests and laymen in Diibliu to petition Par-
liament? As a layman, it strikes me very forcibly the Catholic
priests of Ireland have the power to prevent this monster evil.
extermination, by a bold, manly, and independeiit discretion of
the minds and will, of their Catholic parishioners generally.
Let them once and forever ignore parliamentary agitation, or
voting for and returning members of Parliament to this Saxon
Hall, styled the House of Commons. Give up praying and pe-
titioning to this Saxon or Anglo-Saxon Parliament for this sham
and liumbu g Tenant-Right, Reform, vote by Ballot, and the
many other clap-trap grievances of the present (lav. Some of
the Irish newspapers, I perceive, are advocating an Irish brigade.
for the Pope ; charity ought to begin at home. The Italian
people are not driven out of their homes, or country, to become
hoiiseless wanderers on the world, as the Catholic Irish are;
and instead of abrigade for the Pope, I would say to the Roman
Catholic Piiests generally in Ireland, you have sufficient power
and influence with the Catholic youth of Ireland to form an
Irish brigade, not for the Pope at present, but for Ireland. Are
we not in danger of invasion, you know, and would we not want
a volunteer brigade to protect us? Our miserable and wretched
country, today, requires willing hearts and strong arms to re-
dress her monster» grievaace, extermination. This more than
Irishman. the noble Vere Foster, has saved many of the Irish
race by his many acts of kindness and charity ; but this drain-
ing of the Catholic and the Celtic race by emigration from the
land of their birth, is only giving additional strength to our
arch-enemy. If the Roman Catholic Bishops, Priests, and
those men professing to be the leaders of the people on practi-
cal matters, as well as the Irish press, who also profess to be
national, are only true and sincere to Ireland and her cause,
they have now a glorious opportunity of testing that sincerity.
It was often said by that most able lawyer and orator, Daniel
O’Conuell, that England's difficulty was Ireland’s opportunity.
From the thunder-cloud that hangs over England at present,
that lightning opportunity may yet leap forth to quicken with
its electric fire the fainting heart of Ireland. I put it to those
Catholic priests, editors, and proprietors of what are termed
National Journals in Ireland, as well as political and flattering
speechifying agitators. Will they allow this (it might be the
lasti o ortuuity to pass off without redeeming Ireland, and
particu arly Catholic reland '3 It is for this purpose alone that
st general meeting of the priests and laymen in Ireland should
be held in Dublin, and no time should be lost for holding that
general meeting. The coast and harbors of England have been
fortified. Volunteers are every day forming. But Ireland and the
Irish people are not even thought of by this benign English Gov-
ernment. We are still to remain so. while every other people and
country are preparing for this great struggle, the liberating of
all down-trodden and enslaved nations or principalities. “We
are said to be part and parcel of the British empire : have we
or our race or creed been treated as such? The Catholic priests
of Ireland (not place-hunters), will answer “No.” Two mil-
lions of our race and creed who had been starved or banished
could also answer “No,” ‘if they had power to speak ; the ex.
termination, by a minister of this robber Church Establishment,
of a large number of our race and creed, will answer “No -7"
this greatest of shame and hunibugs-—this Tenan1- Wrong pl-Q-
gramme, as introduced by this Anglo-Saxon Peelite Chief Secre-
tary, Mr. Cardwell, will answer “ No,” I would again say to the
Roman Catholic priests of Ireland, if they love and respect their
flocks and pririsliioners. as their parisliioners generally love
and respect them——“ save them and keep them in the land of
their forefathers, in the land of St. Patrick, in the Green Fields
of Ireland.” You have the power, Roman Catholic priests to
save your people. Use that power. Use it wisely and we11_
Use it as the priests of old have done,—for the Glory of our Re-
ligion. and the Regeneration of our Country. Yours. &c_,

COI'I{,    EDWARD SULLIVAB-_

THE’ WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN IRELAND. 
THE Cork Exanziner of Friday contains a statement of the
effects of the weather in that part of the country. That jou;-.
nal says :—-
“ We may hope that we have at leniz th reached the close of
a winter which in this quarter has had no parallel for severity
within the memory of any living man. Storms have been the
almost normal condition of the atmosphere for the last eight
months, and a fearful list of shippiu g disasters has proved their
terrific power. Rain is no great rarity in the neighborhood of
Cork, but so copious and incessant was the fall, that the river
up to within the last month was not for a single day of the
winter free from a flood of greater or less volume. Despite
of this, we have had more frost and more snow than is usual in
our remarkably mild climate. Indeed, so extraordinary has
been the condition of _the weather, that on more than one occa-
sion it was remarked that it was freezing while snow and rain
were falling hogether. The effect upon the sanitary condition
of our population has been very bad, all the diseases resulting
from severe weather with rapid change of temperature having
been very rife, and deaths amongst invalids.infirm and old per.
sons, very numerous. Medical men remember no season free
from any actual epidemic, in which mortality was so greaf. A
great deal of agricultural distress has been also caused, as for
at least three-fourths of the winter season, all out-door work
was suspended, and of course day laborers suffered severely
from want of employment. In fact, the whole spring operations
of the year may be said to have bee confined to the last three
weeks. The cattle have had no pa urage of any sort, and bay
has risen to such a price and has become so scarce that farmers
cannot procure it. The enormous price of pork is too wen
known already to need special mention, but all other descrip.
tions of butcher’s meat. command proportionately large rates.
Corn, after having been for months a drug to holdcr’s, got a
sudden impulse about a fortnight ago, mainly through the state
of Continental politics. However, it is asatisfaction to know
that the prospects for the coming harvest are considerably bet.
ter than they were a short time since. Great apprehensions
were entertained from the severity of the weather, and in fact
heavy losses :were sustained, as seeds sown during the Winter
were for the most part destroyed by the unnatural coldness of
the season, a_ matter hardly to be wondered at when it is a fact
that so recently as Monday, we had snow upon the mountains,
in this and neighboring counties. Nevertheless, during the 19,15.
ter part of the month of March the cold wasaccompanied with
a drying wind which facilitated work, and the very delay of
vegetation seems to have made it more ready . to spring forward
with rapidity. The past two days have been soft and genial
and the spring green has spread itself over the fields as if by
magic. We may fairly hope that with a gontiiiuance of favor-

all probability late." ,

The Waterford New reports as follows :— - '

“The ground is i-n fine order for tillage ; the wheat crops look
strong and healthy ; but grass lands are still unusually bare
and-cold. Fodder being out of the way dear, and grass being
so bad, the result is that we never witnessed the cattle, of the
country so bony and miserable-looking as they are at present,
The late rains have, however, effected a wonderful improvement
in vegetation.” -- ' —

Other accounts complain of the great backwardness of til-
lave. The Limericlc Examiner says :—-“The laboring classes are
ill ed with dismay, and cherish emigration as their only hope_:;

 

A nuxoav iuryman ran out of acourt-room in Taunton,"Eng.
land, during a trial, to get his breakfast. Whcn~he' returned
the learned Baron fined him £20 sterling for misdemeanor,

which made him consider his morning meal expensive.

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able weather We shall have a harvest fair in extent, though in