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IN our last week's answers to correspondents upon the
subject of Irish family names, a few typographical errors
occur :—

1. For “ C~'cu1'mac'l.s illilb/zeol Oarmod (M£Zneo!e),” read
Ceai-mad Milblieol, pronounced O-Jrmod Milveole.

2. For “C Catliarnough,” read 0 Oatharnafgh or
O’Cahariiy. V r

3. For “ Gilla gun-rnat/tar,” read Gz'lZa-gun-iiiaz’/‘arr.

JAMES Ecsris. Brooklyn.——“ Eustis” is apparently a
corruption of Eustace, which being a proper name com-
mon to all the Christian nations of Europe, it is not easy.
as you have furnished us no data as to the country
whence your ancestors emigrated to America, to decide
whether your origin is Celtic or not. The “ Eustaces," or
more correctly “FitzEustaccs,” ef Ireland, are sprung
and take their surname from Eustace Le Poor, a descend-
ant of Roger Le Poor, one of the early Norman-French
invaders of that country; which Roger Le Poer also
founded the illustrious house of Peer or Power. Roger
Le Poer accompanied John De Courcy in his invasion of
Ulster, where he greatly distinguished himself by his
knightly bearing ; but the county of Waterford, the
ancient patrimony of the O’FL-lans and O’I5ricks, princes
of the tribe called the Desi, was the territory in which
his descendants became most numerous and powerful——a
great part of this county being called Paeracha, or “Pow-
er’s country,” by the Ii-ish-speaking people to. this day.-——
Eustace Le Peer, the immediate ancestor of the Fitz-
Eustaces, lived in the beginning of the 14th century.-—
The chief of his house was created Viscount of Baitin-
glass, in Wicklow, by Henry III. His descendants be-
came also Barons of Portlestcr, in Month. and of Kilcul-
len. in Kildare. In the reign of Elizabeth, this family
suffered severely for its zeal in the Catholic cause.-
Tliough Roger Le Poer undoubtedly came to Ireland as
an invader in the train of Earl Strongbow, still he is
claimed by some Gaelic antiquarians as a descendant of
the Gaelic tribe of Dal g-Cas. They tell us that Don-
cadh, son of Brian Boroinha, and nominal King of Ire-
land, had a son named Domhnall. or Donal], by his second
wife, Driella, daughter of Earl Godwin. This Donall 18
supposed to have emigrated to Normandy. and i0 hafe
been the source of the family of Power, Fiiz-Eustace and
Plunket. Maeilin’Og Mac Bruaidin, one of the heredit-
ary bards of the O’Briens, mentions this tradition in the
following verses of his genealogical poem, commencing
“C'u'£7:fea¢l Cumaoin an‘ Uhlainn Tail

,“ Do sliliocht Dornm-haidh feaghazlflt
Puid/iearaigh is P£ainceaa'aigh,
Laoick toghtha nu biz.-fonn b/L-fasaigh,
’S an drong armtha 1usdasaz'gh.”

In English:

“ From Donncadh’s stock have sprung
The races of Power and Plunket,
Choice warriors from the upland fields,
And the martial race Fitz-Eustace.”

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NEW YORK OSSIANIC SOCIETY.

This Society held its usual semi-monthly meeting at No.
6 Centre Street, on the eveningof Friday’, the 14th inst.
The following gentlemen were proposed and admitted to
membership: Rev. Michael L. Scanlan, Beaver Meadows,
Carbon Co., Penn. ; P. W. Walsh, Tchoupitoulas Street,
N. 0. ; John II. Mann, Brownsville, Nemaha. County;
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VERMONT EMMET GUARDS.

The above-nam'ed company, just organized, are about
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THE PHCENIX.

niiw YORK, SATURDAY, snrr. 29, 1860.

THE FRENCH PARTY.

“La Question Irlanc_laise” was the offspring
of a. belief, that there existed in Ireland, a
French party, a belief born of the presentation
of the sword to Marshal MacMahon, which was,
and is, regarded, by some, as indicative of a de-
sire to raise MacMahon to the throne of an Irish
nation.

Here are many mistakes. The presentation
of a sword, by the Irish people, to one of their
blood and race was natural. It needed no cal-
culation. They are decried and slandered, said
to possess no practical ability and to be devoid
of the great qualities, essential in a. statesman or

a general. Heidisproved this slander on a terri-
ble field. He won the highest distinction, and
his praise ran through every community of civil-
ized men in the world. Was it wonderful that
the people of whose blood and name his was-
a people so derided and despised——should spon-
taneously offer him a token of their recognition ?
That was all they did. That was all they thought
of. That is all of which anybody need be afraid.
Nobody, we presume, ever ‘dreamed of making
him king. Not one. The idea is a chimera. '
But supposing for a moment it were a possi-
bility, or even a probability, what then? Is
there anything so preposterous in having an
Irishman, by blood, reign over an Irish people
and nation? There is nothing in it, surely, to
shudder at. French invasion, __in the minds of

some people, suggests something detestable

The mere name of France is repulsive to them.
’Tis not so to us, by any means. ’Tis always
dear and welcome to our ears. ’Tis most inti-
mately associated with Otll“ sorrows and our
hopes and all that we have, as a people, of fame
and history. France gave an asylum to our
exiled chiefs, established colleges for the educa-
tion of our youth, opened a way for our litera-
ture and a field for our heroism. For centuries
our memories, our glories, our very name, as a
people, had existence only in connection with
France. There alone had we vitality-—-there
alone, upon the carth, were we recognised.

But, in saying this, we do not in the least de-
preciate the services of Spain, who had always,
for us and ours, still warmer -Welcome, and a
nearer place at the hearth. We speak of France
because she alone stands out as a tenor to per-
sons of doubtful patriotism and undoubted fee-
bleness of nerve. France is the bugbear of
every little heart. France makes the timid
tremble and the aspiring jealous. “foe! to her,
for the number of hearts she has made white is
incalculablc. Her havoc in the field is trifling
compared to her havoc in the closets and garrets
of the cloudy isles.

The “ French party” is in fact merely a bug-
aboo. There is not one man in Ireland that
sincerely desires the subjection of Ireland to
French domination. RN01; one. The thingis
preposterous. But this is not because it would
not be better, more tolerable,rnoi'e congenial and
more conducive to the happiness ofthe Irish
people ; but because it would  impracticable,
and to France herself undesirable and unprofit-
able. The intcrcst and desire of France would
be to have Ireland, strong, free, self-governed and
self-reliaiit. She could nowhere find a more
faithful ally, and Slle\kIlOWS it- All her history
attests it, her most brilliant fields give abundant
proof of it.

It has been the “mode” of late to sneer at
France for “submitting to a despot.” This
sneer is, at once, unjust and illiberal. France
submits to her present ruler because he leads
her to the destiny her traditions, her history and
her aspirations point to. She follows him be-
cause by doing so she consults her glory, and
occupies the position among the nations to which
her greatness and her civilization entitle her.
She follows him because through him she asserts
her just pre-eminence, and advances to the high-
est position in the van of mankind. Let us
not be understood, in decrying the sneer, as ap-
plauding or approving despotism. VVe merely
exclude from consideration the government of the
hour, when dealing with the French nation, al-
ways the same, whether under Louis Le Grand
or Napoleon, always bound to us by the same
ties and obligations ; always ready to accord to
us a place in her councils and on her battle-
fields. , ,

And she is the nation we are forsooth to
meet with battle brand instead of an open
hand and heart. And that is not all. We are
called upon to arm, to drill, to warp our minds,
as the bodies of our whole people have been
warped in the name and cause of England.‘ Bah!

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The First Irish Company in Vermont.

——The first company of Irishmen has just been organized
in Winooski, Vt}, as will be seen by a special notice in
another column. They have taken the name of “The
Vermont Emmet Guards,” and elected a staunch and t
patriotic Irishman—John Lonergan—as captain. We
wish the company the amplest success, feeling that they
will discharge their duty faithfully, as citizen soldiers,
and do credit to their nationality.

guilty of habits of this kind.

~would term a regiineiit.

FIELD DAY or run rounrn BRIGADE.

The ‘Fourth Brigade, under command of Gen.
Ewen, consisting of the 11th Regiment, Colonel
Bostwick ; 23d Regiment, Col. Halsey (one
company only being present) ; 69th Regt., Col.
Corcoran; and the 79th Regt., Col. McLeay,
assembled at East New York, on Monday, the
17th inst., and performed some twenty-three
movements, finishing up with a review to the
Brigadier-General. The 11th Regt., having 268
rifles present, performed the movements rather
in a hurried or confused manner. All seemed,
from the private to the Colonel, acting on their
own hook. Col. Bostwick should try and keep
the members of his command from talking in the
ranks——for good soldiers will never be found
The 11th are a.
fine body of men, and with a little care and at-
tention on the part of the Field Ofiicers, it can
be made a very effective regiment. The 23d
Regiment, or one company, as we might say,
and numbering about eighteen or twenty mus-
kets, appeared on the ground, and acted as sen-
tinels during a portion of the day. The uniform
of this regiment, or company, is very pretty, but
we are very much afraid that it will be a long
time ere it will muster anything like what we
Something “is out of
place, and we fancy the Brevct Colonel and the
real Colonel are both in the wrong place. With
all respect to both of those gentlemen, we would
say it would be better if they would resign and
let some new man take hold, and try what can
be done ,for the building up of this skeleton
corps. The 69th Regiment, Col.,Corcoran, num-
bering 223 muskets, looking like a regiment of
regular troops, performed the movements with
confiderable promptness ; yet we would like to
see those movements done with a little more
care on the part of the line otiicers. Some of
them, trying to do it too well, went a little over
the mark ; and we noticed some of the members
in the ranks ‘talk more than what was necessary

on one or two occasions, which should not be the *

case ; and we hope a repetition of this will not
be seen again, as the men of the 69th know bet-
ter, and it only requires a little more attention
on their part to do away with this most unsol-
dierly habit. The 79th Regt., Col. McLeay, and
numbering just ninety-nine muskets, looked very
well, but we are sorry to say the movements
were not executed as we expected they should
have been, and We must say it was all the fault
of the field officers, not knowing anything of the
movements, or how they should be done, or what
_commands should be given. Such ignorance on
the part of the Colonel'was really uifipardonable;
but if Col. McLeay had just spent the time at
the third volume of Scott’s Tactics, he spent rid-
ing at'ter the Prince of Wales’ carriage (on that
splendid ‘charger, he speaks of,) through, the
streets of Montreal, he might have been able to
give the proper commands to his regiment, and
be able to tell when a movement would be pro-
perly executed—--which would have been much
more creditable to himself, and looked better in
the eyes of General Ewen; and we would ask
the worthy Colonel if he learned to salute while
passing the second time in review from his R.
H., the Prince of Wales. Take our advice, Colo-
nel, and apply yourself in the proper quarter,
which is Scott’s Tactics, and don’t apply to be
the guard of honor to his R. H. when he makes
his appearance in New York.

The 69th Regiment will be inspected at Ham-
ilton Square, on Wednesday, the 10th day of Oc-
tober next. Line will be formed at half-past
nine o’clock, A. M. i - '

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.3.
THE POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS IN
EUROL-“E—IRELAND’S TURN NEXT.

The political changes ‘which have been made
within the last few months on the continent of
Europe, far transcend-the marvels of romance.
They did not come of their own accord, however,
nor were they brought about by any miraculous
interposition of Providence. They were made
by the daring hearts, noble . aspirations, and
cleaving sabres of brave men. These are gene"
rally the usual elements through which freedom
seeks a nation. Long did Sicily pray unto her

 

, tyrant in vain ; many and dreary were the years

that the chained patriots of Naples pined in
their diingeon captivity ; but the volcano being
once tapped by the adventurous hand of a liber-
ator, nothing could stem the lava of revolution,