The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-14 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

expect what he would

talkers from America
changes u on the point
hibit their gold and
evidencse ; but these are not the Walk Fenian
eeleeit,
haowp drill,=y
and piny
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-"aii—poi-rcitoir who
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the leaders are--that --
the name of any one of the leaders ; that they
know nothing of the object of the invasion,
,exospt that it is to free Ireland, nor of any step
towards it. They are to prepare ; they are to told
themselves ready ; they are to obey ; and they
suppose that at the proper time they shall be told
what they are to be ready for, and whom they are
to follow. Meantime, all of them talk of glory
and freedom for themselves, and shame and ruin
for &resod ; aud to one this means an Irish
throne, with MISCIVILL or MZIONIR on it ;' to
another, a comfortable farm in the full poessation
of every Irishman ; to a third, the having his
foot on the necks of Englishmen ; to a fourth, a
republic at home, under which every man shall
,lave plate and power : and soon, through the
whole range of human desires.
If it Memo incredible that multitudes of men
should stake their all, and risk the life-blood of
their country, for such dreams as these, we must
consider another peculiarity of low Irish life—
that whole populations hear nothing but sedition Ij
all their lives through. They read only Fenian
speeches in the newspapers on both sides thf•
Atlantic ; they hear only Fenian oratory ; they era
brought up on the traditions of rebellion, sad i
their heroes are the traitors or the Misguided
patriots who have died by the halter or the arms
of the police. It must startle them now that their•
priests are against them—even to the point of re-
fusing the rites of the Church to sworn Feminist
but, thus far, the priests have the worst of it.
What compassion can be too deep for &tuition OF
strong as this !
Again, we must bear in mind the utter ignoo-'
ante in this order of minds of the scope of the
task of ruling • country—the absence of all oon-
ception of the qualities necessary for the work, of
the organization of a government, of the respec-
tive functions of legislation and the executive,
and of the very nature of • constitutional polity. I
They suppose that any patriot may govern a
nation, and make its happiness ; and it it has never
ooeurred to them, because they have not the
means of perceiving, that, in the pursuit of social
welfare, as much is required from the ruled as
from the rulers. After 1848 the sighing apology
--the melancholy justification offered, by even
well-conditioned citizens, for their encouragement
of the Repeal movement--was, that the country
was so miserable that they thought it right to try
any change, as it might be for the better, and
could not be for the worse. We must remember
that, in our time, Irish citizens of all ranks have
said this thing ; and then we may the better
understand the Fathers of this day.
There will be no question on either side the
Irish Channel of the necemity, as a work of mercy,
of prompt, careful, and complete prevention and
repression of rebellion—weak or formidable, spe-
cious or palpably absurd ; and it would be a
great mercy to Ireland if every Fenian leader were
put on his trial. It will soon appear what the
Government means to do next. It is clear that
there is no time to be loot.

Is it possible that, after all that we have en-
deavoured, and achieved, and hoped for the peace
and welfare of Ireland, we find ourselesi ono, more
pampering to quash rebellion, and in danger of
seeing more blood flow from the people towards
whom we have none but the kindest wishes and
designs ? There is something so shoved and so
hogeleas to the malcontent+, themselves
in this Fenian agitation, that we have felt
really unable to regard it as a serious practical
matter till the evidence of ;acts. Amager than
fiction has become too strong he Unlisted. It is
now clear that large numbers of certain classes in
Ireland are prepared for a revolt, that they are
deeply implicated in seditious plots and practices,
and that they are hourly on the watch for an in-
vading force from America or France, or both ;
sad that there is too much probability that new
miseries will break up the order and comfort which
we had hoped had begun to cormote that unhappy
country for its long course of troubles. It wee but
the other day that the Judges said the public were
congratulating one another on the paucity of crime
at the assizes. It was bat the other day that the
LOKD LIEUTINAST and all the best landlords in Ire•
land were rejoicing in the return of agricultural pros-
perity, after a series of bad seasons. It was but
the other day that we were hearing from travellers
in Ireland of the improvement in the fortunes of
the peasant clam, as shown by their improved
dwellings, and neat and even smart dress. It
WWI but the other day that we were cheered by the
evidences of the new intelligence and sobriety of
judgment which distinguish the riming generation
of the poorer classes, through the operation of the
National Schools. And now, we find ourselves
watching, as our fathers watched before us, for
tidings of an armed uprising of a malcontent people,
u eager for blood and havoo as their unhappy
countrymen of seventy years ago.
There are essential difference, in the case, bow- The Prince of Wales, accompanied by Floe:
ever. All the cultivated intelligence of the Louie of He, vent shooting yesterday with his y
Rittman the Date of Cambridge, near Richmond. The
country is on the side of order now, as
Princess of Wales, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse
the wealth was before on the side of power. aid Princess Hilda of Aohalt, visited the Tower of Loodon
It is not only the landowners and government yessudey. Their Boyal Highnesses were attended by the
functionaries who are loyal and law-abiding, but Hoe. Mrs. W. Grey, Hareem de Schenk, Lieat.-Oolonel
the educated classes to a man ; and the quiet, Koppel, and Baron de Hemlock Rebuilds. Their Royal
industrious farmers everywhere, and the mandate Highnesses dined with the Duke of Cambridge, as Glon-
taring population of the North, and, above all, Mater-house in the nude'
The Duke and Duchess of Newcastle's party at
the Catholic clergy. This, and the fact to which
Chamber Park, near Worksop, for the Doncaster ram, in•
it is owing—that there is no galling hardship class Viscount Andover, Lord and Lady Bury, Lady Ross-
endured by any class through their connexion more and Major Staokpole, Colonel Centre Higgins, Lady
with England ; and the correlative fact that the Sawn Vane Tempest, Lord Arthur Clinton, &c.
malcontents have no slur aim before them, no The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland are eater-
definite enterprise uniting them, prevents the plot Wain a select party at Domain Castle, N.H. His
from being formidable, and leavers us at liberty to Serene Highness Prince George of Selma arrived there es
devote our dspassionate attention to the interests Monday from Lord 14vat'e °sat' Beaufort Cestlb rover.
. . .
of the rub malcontents themselves ; but it deepens isseiehlre Tim Hen A. and Um Egerton, and the Hoe.
Edward aid Mrs. Coke have also arrived at Demote,
the sorrowing compassion into something like eerie.
despair when we ask the question, "What can The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland has de-
"be done with and for these poor people, who Wed kee departure frow; Stafford House till to-day.
"will min themselves in spite of all that Heaven Earl Russell will leave New Berwick this morn-
"and man can do for them f " Ise to loin the rams«, at Balmoral, to be is &Urethanes as
What can be done for them depends, first, on Semetery of fthate. The countess sod family will remain
what they are, in their minds and characters, as at New Berwick till the earl is relieved of his duties.
well as their fortunea. Who and what are these Lord Lyons has gone on a visit to the Duchess
Friona Brethren ? We need not take into the in- of Norfolk and family, at Arnadel Castle, previous to his
departure for Constantioople.
quirt' at the moment the Fenian in the United
The Hon. Stafford Jerningham (the British
W
States and Canada. e should be glad to know -
Minister at Stockholm) arrived at Heiden Castle, Inver-
as meth about their comrades and dupes in Cork aegis. hire, on Monday last, on a vidt to Lord Lovat, for
and Kerry as we know about themselves. The the shooting s.nsoo.
Fenian/a, who are drilling by night, and looking A meeting of the magistrates of Cork has been
out for invasion by day, are, we are told, shoprnen, convened by Lord Fermoy, lord-lieutenant of the county.
small farmers, artisans, labourers, and idlers and for the purpose of considering what steps should be tarn
wanderers of low degree. We hear of a group of in view of the progress made by the Fenian movement in
agitators of a higher position, who manage " the the county. The meeting is to take place to-dx?y (Thom-
" centre " at Liverpool ; but our wonder is not d").
Mr. Trevelyao, the member for Tynemouth, is
about them, any more than our wonder in 1848 about to take • into Greece, where he will pm-
was about the clique of gentry in Dublin who drew haply remain for two or three months.
on their humble neighbours to their ruin, and then A banquet was given at Hawarden yesterday,
stole away into the darkness. Our amazement is by the parishioners, in celebration of the return to Who-
that the shopmen, and boatmen, and crofters, and went at Mr. W. H. Gladstone, son of the Chancellor of the
artisans of Cork and Kerry can expect any good Exchequer. The proceeding were of an eothusisatic
from a rising at this time of day, and can suppose character, but by s special arranomeot party politics were
themselves to have any grievance which "1.:1. .`lad
from
tea to Mr. GladetoUe jusow
t, auwbtaobime address
ade a speechij pea
in so.
justifies such arising. Yet if we would recall what knowledament. The Chancellor of the Exchequer also
WO have known, we shall consider that this is delivered a brig widtetc. is which he „asegad upon tbs
what has happened again and again, with only the benefits of a p mileometer, oppoiition, and the indebted-
difference which is so small to the less educated awes of ach politics: party to the a, imadversions and aiti•
Irishmen—that there is not, this time, any reason duns of the other.
or pretence for what they are saying and planning. Mr. Henley, in a epeech at Bicester, has bespoken
In 1848 iron hoops were to be heated red hot, the cooperation e the breeders of stock with the tonne
and dropped from balconies on the shoulders of :inaptit ruspa-deresons made* the
goodt-reattilnegdflosear
tshe.e
"Hie to d
emals 4%1
the English soldiers as they marched east.
- end this 1 s green crops, which he said would help to keep
molten lead was to be poured on their heads. This down the price of most, which the disuses would tortaisly
was strange enough, but it was more strange that, mad up. The right hoe. pattern= alto bore testimosy to
five years afterwards, when all was peace and the desire of the agricultneal labourers to Improve their
quiet, and the country was thriving, the Dublin children in education ant position, if they had only wages
sbopmen by hundreds were talking of the 41 gk, sough to ens' le the r.
A sudden and melancholy death has occurred at
" sloes days "to onne, when they should wade I
Whitby. A few days sg s the Rev. Wm. Collett, of More.
ankle-deep in British blood in the streets of Dub -
I don College, Blackheath, went to Whitby for the benefit of
lin. When we consider what the mode of his health. On Monday evening, after tea, he left his
patriotic talk is in Ireland, we shall lodgings for a walk across the fields, feeling at that time
marvel the less at the expe:;tations of better for his visit to the seaside. Be, hemmer, appears
the Fenians of what they are to see in I only to have proceeded a abort distance before he fell down,
a month, or in a few days. They expect to sad was • few hours afterwards found dead.
see, before the days get much shorter, a fleet from A young lady, named Kate Simpson, died at
America (some add a squadron of French ships)
yesterday,
in
°DssegTvehne°9da tr:42:l7:icOat:Z
bringing an army of 50,000 men, and the means ladies being driven out by Mr. Naylor. surgeon, of
of arming 200,000 more, who will assemble to Halifax, en Saturday, whew the hem wek fright in the
join them. There is to be plenty of gold, and of neighbourhood of Queen's-reed. Mr. Naylor retained. Ids
everything else that can be desired ; awl then the seat, and at length brought the horse to a stand ; bat,
united forces will carry everything before them. , meanwhile, all the ladies jumped out of the vehicle. Miss
To what end t That is the question which —acme fall Prwlwasd "letiMen of the brio, from which
A died. The deceased was Id years old
brings us to stand, as it would them, but for A
the perfection to which the managers have wrought " Argus" states that Count Lagrange has told
the stewards that in the amid of Mr. Osslism still being
up the main peculiarity of Irish plotting. Nothing the me of °whets.; he eseeeut
is told on official authority of the aim and plan of have him examined by any mehient veterinary be
the enterprise ; and every man is encouraged to may choose to appoint.