The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-26 00:00:00

WANTED, A. BALLOT BOX.

WANTED, a Ballot Box for Ireland. The cruel
and oppressive sway of Queen VICTORIA over he
conquered province of Ireland hiving now reached
a climax, the brave and noble-minded Irish are
evidently about to thiow off the yoke which has
so long ground them and-their children to the
dust—expatriated thousandt of Ireland's bravest
sons—and in consequence of which, at this mo-
ment, may be witnessed so many scenes of misery
and famine ! Yes ; that monster of , barbarous
ages—famine—reigns once more in that beautiful
but misgoverned isle ! Behold especially the
counties of Mayo and Keriy, the sea coast,
and the mountainous districts of the west.
Has not Nature designed Ireland to be the
greatest country in the world? wh6 talks
sneeringly of bogs and bog-tiotters ? -Has she
not been endowed with a soil eminently fertile, a
climate temperate,,a position admirably adapted
for becoming the centre of the world's commerce,
and abundant natural resources ? Are not her.
people brave and intelligent, honest, affable, and
benevolent ; enterprising, lively, imaginative,
witty, cheerful, expansive, and gay ? What are the
ports of Liverpool, London, and New York, when
compared with those of Ireland ?.
Were riot the.
Irish seaports already famous in the times of
TACITUS ? Are her great ports now unfrequented?
Are ships in her beautiful bays only.
" Rani nantes in gurgite caste ;"

are her mineral resources unwrought ; is there
no traffic on her canals, or on, her many lovely
rivers ; is her population inactive and non-indus-
trious ; are her villages silent and in ruins ; and
has not England done it all ? Oh, ye tyrants of
the House of BRUNSWICK, how shall ye answer
for so great a wrong ; how deep and dreadful
must be the retribution that awaits ye !
Who does not know of that long series; of vio-
lence, of massacres, of confiscation, and' plunder;
of every sort of perfidy, of tyrannical ma sangui-
nary oppression which have been Ireland's lot?
What were the cruelties falsely imputed to the
generous native soldiery of our East 'lndian Em-
pire compared to the too real barbarism accom-
plished in Ireland by the Saxon Sepogs .of
England ? Have not the English systematically
devoted the conquered. Irish peasantry to a com-
plete extermination? Has not British legislation
condemned the Irish farmer to a worse condition
than that of the serfs of the middle ages, or
those of Russia in the present day ? Is it not
true that in Ireland the landlord has positively no
legal duty to fulfil towards his tenants ? Are not

the workhouseti of Ireland horrible 'prisons, in
which the inmates are doomed to a more mourn-
fulifatte than slavery, and a more lingering death
than starvation on the road-sides ? Who does
not pity the white slaves of Ireland even more
than.the negroes of America Driven to despair
by. such an:accumulation ,of oppression, humilia-
tion; and anguish, have not her children, in spite of
their love for her, bidden her farewell ? Exile !
last vicissitude of martyred Ireland !
Wanted, a Ballot-box for Ireland ! One of
French manufacture preferred. There is yet one
hope left for the emancipation of the " ould caun-
try." France has heard her cry of anguish ; and
is it not her high vocation to come to the rescue
of oppressed nationalities,—to assert and vindicate

the sovereignty of the people ? Is it not certain
that

"L'interet de la France est putout on it y a une
cause juste et civilisatrice a faire prevaloir ?"
Let England beware. A brief respite is granted
during which she may amend; but the limit is
fixed, beyond which concession will be unavail-
ing; the French Ballot-box will be introduced ;
and the great IRISH QUESTION will then occupy
the attention of the world. Such, at all events,
are the argument and prediction of the recent
French pamphlet on the subject. Of course we
are not for a moment to doubt the pretended orip
gin of the production,—seeing that it was written
in French as well as English, and published
in Paris and Dublin simultaneously ! It is
not to be supposed that the ultramontanists

of the " Emerald Isle had anything to do
with its inspiration! Under any such blighting
patronage, its fate, in the estimation of
Englishmen, had been sealed from the first.
What more likely, then, to secure a passing hear-
ing and produce a momentary sensation, than the
manoeuvre of issuing another French pamphlet on
the "Irish piestion," after the fashion of MM. de
la GUERRONIERE and. ABOUT? It were impossible
not to admire the ".dodge ;" but, unfortunately, the
character of the authors is too clearly stamped
upon the document to leave a moment's doubt as
to the fact that the pamphlet in question is no
better than a ruse ; and as such we would con-
sign-it to a top shelf as a memorial of one of the
latest and least successful efforts to turn the

present invasion panic to account, by way of
frightening Protestant England into still further
concessions to the never-satisfied and-unreason-
able demands of a certain Irish party of
Romanists. The pamphlet is a libel and a farce,
unworthy the attention of enlightened Roman
Catholics—a class whose loyalty and patriotism
we do not question ; and in the minds of English
and Irish Protestants its deformities are calcu-
lated to defeat, rather than to aid, the disloyal
Ultramontane objects of its brazen-faced cou-
coctors.

That Ireland endures evils that may be reme-
died, and that the present Whig Government
have been remiss in dealing with them, may be
admitted. A protracted winter and a backward
spring have spread much distress throughout the
three kingdoms, and Ireland may have been
seriously affected by the common calamity. We
believe, however, upon the whole, and as com-
pared with the sister countries, that she enjoys
at the present moment a fair share of happi-
ness and prosperity ; and that the great body
of her people are peaceful and contented.
Her greatest bane, and the true cause of her
greatest miseries, may be found in connec-
tion with those bastard grievance-mongers who
have now assumed the guise of Franco-Irish
advocates for .the Napoleonic ballot-box. Let
our sound-hearted Roman Catholic fellow-
countrymen, on either side of St. George's
Channel, beware of them. Their real policy is

neither patriotic nor religions. They would make
a tool of both sentiments ; but they care for
neither. Their object is more political than
ecclesiastical, and their sentiments more Ultra-
montane than Irish.

THE VOLUNTEER REVIEW.

GENERAL ORDER.

HORSE GUARDS, June 25.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has
received the commands of the Queen to convey to the
several volunteer corps reviewed by her Majesty on
Saturday, the 23rd instant, the very great satisfaction
with which she observed the rapid progress they have
made in military diseipline, and the degree of perfection
at which they have arrived. The steadiness and preci-
sion with which they performed the parade movements
leave little doubt in her Majesty's mind that if they
continue to be actuated by the same zeal they have
hitherto evinced a moderate degree of drill (interfering
as little as possible with their usual avocations) will
render them a most valuable auxiliary to her regular
forces for the defence of the country. Much as her
Majesty's admiration was excited by the • soldier
like bearing of the various corps passed in review, a
still deeper impression has been made on her
mind by the proof which the volunteer movement
throughout the country affords of their devotion and
loyalty to the Throne, and their anxiety to second her
endeavours to ensure the security, and thereby the
prosperity, of the kingdom. The General Commanding-
in-Chief is further directed. by her Majesty to mark
especially her sense of the zeal displayed by the officers
of volunteers commanding brigades of corps, and to
notice particularly those battalions and companies
which, regardless of personal inconvenience and expense,
came from distant counties to join in the display of loyalty
and patriotism which will render the 23rd June, 1860,
memorable in the annals of our times. The General Com-
manding-in-Chief, having thus given expression to her
Majesty's sentiments regarding the volunteer forces,
commendation on the part of His Royal Highness would
be superfluous. But he desires to offer his thanks for
the support and co-operation he has received on this
occasion from the officers of the regular army employed
during the day; and more particularly to refer to the
excellent arrangements made by the inspector of volun-
teers and his assistants, which were so well seconded by
the intelligence and orderly conduct of the various corps
presented.
By command of His Royal Highness the General
Commanding-in-Chief.
JAMES YORRE SCARLETT, Adjutant-General.

THE REPORTED RESIGNATION OF
MR. GLADSTONE.

The Birmingitriin Post of yesterday says:--" A private
telegram from London last night states that the long-.
expected rupture of the Palmerston Cabinet has com-
menced. The course which Ministers purpose to adopt
in reference to the late vote in the House of. Lords, and
to questions of finance generally, has caused Mr. Glad-
stone to determine to resign. Our correspondent says
he is virtually out.' He adds, 'No other resignation
'as yet.' "