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LONDON. MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 18.

" Was, have seen on the other side of the
" Atlantic," said that good old Engliah gentle-
man and Tory, Mr. HENLEY, at the dinner of the
Theme Agricultural Association on Thursday last—
" we have seen • gallant people in the North
" =skies greet sacrifices for the greatest of all
" Corser►ative principles, namely, to maintain
" the integrity of a great empire." This
is not quite the language in which the great
sacrifices of our kinsmen in North America were
spoken of by most Tories and by many Whigs, and by
some "leading" representatives of our aristocratic
and middle classes in the press and in Parliament,
during the agony of that very "sad and bloody
"war." There is some ground for hoping and ex-
pecting, however, that our Pharisees will begin to
change their tone(let us doMr. HENLEY the justice
to say that he spoke during the American war as he
speaks now), and to look more leniently on the
strong measures of free governments which are
upholding " the greatest of all Conservative prin-
" ciples, namely, to maintain the integrity of a great
" empire." A year ago it was the fashion among
our arisiocratic and bourgeois Tories to declaim
against the despotism of the Government at
Washington which had actually confiscated
rebel newspapers and suspended the Habeas
Corpus Act, at • time when the Re-
public whose integrity it had sworn to maintain was
straggling against • formidable rebellion for life
and death, and President Liwconw was striving to
maintain the integrity of a great empire. Time
and circumstances are teaching some amongst us
to he • little more modest. It must be satisfac-
tory to so honest and patriotic • statesman as Mr.
HENLEY to reflect that he did not reserve his
praises for our American kinsmen till they had
victoriously maintained the integrity of the great
empire for which they fought.
Them can be but one opinion among all honest
and rational people throughout the United King-
dom as to the right and duty of the Government
in Ireland to put an end without further loss of
time to the raving fully and mischief of what is
called the "Fenian movement" in that self-
tormenting country. These Fenian, may be ever
so mad, their aims and ends, if they have any that
can be defined, ever so ridiculous, their organize-
+lon ever AG oouicmptible, their failure, U they
should really "rise," as inevitable as the fall of the
leaf in autumn, still it would be quite unjustifiable on
the part of the Executive to permit any longer the
peace and quiet of the island to be at the mercy of •
few malignant rogues and • vagabond army of
raving dupes. To play with these knaves and their
victims like a cat with • moose would be
unworthy of • great and generous administration„
whose utmost severities are sure to be directed by
snercy and tempered by compassion ; mercy for the
misguided, compassion for the ignorant.
It is very well for us in London, whose lot is not
cast in a land disturbed by evil dreams and deprived
of natural rest by • constant nightmare of abortive
insurrection, to say, "Why not give the fools rope
" enough 4" No doubt it is not easy for Englishmen
accustomed to order and prosperity, to a political
and social condition so calm, and regular, and
assured, that it seems like the order of nature
itself, to regard those poor deluded creatures
with anger or alarm, or, indeed, with any other
feeling than • scornful irritation which scarcely
rises above indifference. But let us not forget
that in our sister island there are hundreds sad
thousands of loyal, honest, law-abiding fellow-
subjects, whose lives, and families, and fortunes
are at stake, and whose nearest and dearest
interests are in suspense and jeopardy every hour,
while the crazy plotters of violence and anarchy
are holding midnight revels in cellars sad
garrets, and drilling their ragged militia on
the hills and the bogs. No man in his
senses, on either shore of St. George's Channel,
wastes a thought upon the probable or possible re-
sults to England of tie Fenian form of native
lunacy. History shows how England has dealt
with these poor fools whenever they became mks.
ohievons enough to make it an urgent duty to save
them from themselves. No one imagines that
the Channel Fleet is paying one of its occasional
visits to Bantry Bay for the sake of frightening
the inhabitants of that picturesque coast. A puff
from one of the Admiral's saluting gnus would dis-
perse all the Fenian forces that the slums of
American cities can disgorge. Bantry Bay is, in
fact, one of the cruising grounds of the Channel
fleet, and its presence there et this moment will,
we doubt not, be more then usually welcome to
the kindly and hospitable dwellers in those parts,
who take the money of the Seem, and eater for
his wants with the very best grace. The presence of
Admiral Dacaits' ships will help to impress upon
the mind of the population in the west and south
the obvious fact that Fenianism may be s fine cry, but
that her Diazesrv's ships are muoh better customers.
The simple truth is, that as we cannot sink Ireland
out of the way, as some Epicureans would desire,
nor part with her on any terms, however trouble-
some and vexatious it may be to keep her, as
she must be ours for better and for worse, we must
strive to make the best of the poseeesion which na-
ture, Providenze, and the course of history have
assigned us. We cannot, therefore, let the welfare
and property of the United Kingdom be shaken by
senseless conspiracies and agitations in one part of
it, which paralyse confidence, take from property
its security, from industry and COMMON*, that
confidence which is their life, and from all the
public and private life of the whole community of
comfort. We must, so far as in us lies, ensure to
Ireland at least the first condition of •
national and civilized existence-4 tolerable
certainty of not being the cockpit of all
the cutthroats in either hemisphere who have
nothing to lose but their own brainless skulls.
This is not the moment for estimating too nicely

how much of the spurious seit.
disaffection springs from the ka5711119.W.,. t•-•
misrule sown by English Governments in diys gone
by. Enough to know that no real, no imaginary
griegaitoe can be cured by conspiracies, which, if
they suoneed in creating evens serious panic,
would drive British capital and enterprise, with
all the hopes and blessings of a higher civilirstioqt
frost the shores of Ireland ; torn its Beide into,
British camps, its mountains into British citadels,
its cities into British barracks, and its'
harbours into statiorii for British fleets.
Is it not lamentable, in the year when the opening
Illations' Exhibition in Dublin has been
greeted as the harbinger of • better future, when
in Parliament every Irish question has been dis-
cussed with the most anxious and attentive pati-
ence, that all these bursts of sunshine and all these
auguries of good should be darkened and perverted
by • gang of political swindlers and a multitude of
simpletons, who are bent onus more upon per-
suading even the sincerest friends and well-wishers
to their country that Ireland deserving' military
despotism f

THE FENIAN&
(From the Fier a)
It is greatly to be hoped that the Fenian leaders
still at large, whoever they may be, will now be inducted to
panes. Their enterprise may not be the wickedest, but, so
far &awe can judge, it is by far the wildest, emery. W-
ham, Smith O'Brien's, that has yet been planned by Irish'
agitators. Almost the only this; that we know for certain
&host them is that the establishment of an Irish republie is
coo of their main objects. Amore extravagant and chinieried
idea never entered the head of an Irishman. An Irish re-
public would, indeed, be a portent in history. Granted
that all Glaser in Ireland were united, leotard of being di.,
tided by religious, political, and social feuds—that Saxons,
could be distaugulthed from Colts, and then expelled from
the island—that Great Britain cculd be bumbled, with or
without American aid, and compelled to recognise Irish in-
dependenoe— what thee ! Is these any people under the
sun more unlit for a republican form of government than
the Irleh! Is there any character so deficient in those poll-
trail virtues which we the life of republics as the Celtic
Is there any country more destitute of those resources
moral and physical, to which the United States, for is-
stance, owe their marvellous success! Is there any more
inevitably doomed to be the dependency of some other
power! The truth is that Feetraaimii has not and could
cot have sprung up spostaneonaly on Irish buil. It is se-
Brady of exotic growth, an importation from Amain% and
entirely out of harmony with real Irish sentiniest. Ohs
prouf of this is the feat that it seems to have bees prow
gated chiefly from the towns. There is no such smeslder-
ing sod such a =torsi lawlessness moss the
Irish peasantry that ready instruments for plots et eery
kind may always be found among them. But, except
so fu as Feeiaoloi reproseate hatred of land.
lords. It is never likely to take root in this els"
soy is there any other elms of say laillIDOS in Ireland
which due sot reprobate it. The priests see that It breathes
• spirit at act ruby equally Lostde tooled cedar and spiritual
subordinatioo. They have therefore declared against it, and
by so doing they have earned the gratitude of the govern,
meat sad the public. The mischief dose by such mere
mints fs not to be measured by their strength. They may
be extravagant and hopeless is the bat degree, sod yet may
produce • sense of inyieurity ruinous to the welfare of the
country, driving away capital, increasing abaeotetram, sad
undoing the good work of many years. Now that it hair
once come within the gram of the authorities, Emeissithe
must be vigilastly tracked and resolutely put down.
(Frees the Mersin; Poe.)
It is now seventeen years since the government
deemed it necessary to adopt in respect to the Nation
newapaper precisely the same course which has now been
taken with regard to the Irish People, and as the latter is
not merely in its title the synonyms of the former, bet,
like it, has been published with the avowed object of sub-
vetting the existing government, it will scarcely be con-,
tended that the saute justification Is sot to be found for I
the &resent slop as for that which the severnoisni,
were universally applauded for te.kiss le the year
1848. There is, -however, so wide a difference be;
teem Use condition of things then and sow
that we tea wieraly be surprised if the prompt measures of
the executive give rise to much discussion, not merely in
this country, but abroad. Li ISM there wee scarcely a
dynasty in Europe which could be moldered meow% and the
tide of republicanism which then swept over the Contisest
shook the fonodatimis of every throne. Now, however, the
positron of affairs isdiffersuknot only in Europe, but to Groat
Betroth. Netersinc• the oonqoest of Ireland by Henry IL was
the lethal rule in that country to all appearance* more was
established than at presoak and never were the Irish
people more kindly disposed towards those whom they weal
accuitomed to tam their rulers, bat who are sow, is I
truth, their felloweittrena. Inlaid has now preiaely the
same laws as England, and the Irish people bays no more
substantial motive for overthrowing the established govern-
meat, and flingiag themselves into the arms of the American
republic, than the people of England. The cerffluoitaace,
therefore, that order reigns in Ireland, and that the mass of
the people are well affscrel, will invert the proceedings of
the police is Dublia oo Fridaf evening with a complexion
which moot fail to oentrion much comusest. Wes it rte.
censer', it will be asked, to enter the office of the Irish
People, arre,t its staff, end sequestrate its pleat, when It
is apparent that the views which it mimeses au never be
entertained by thy Irish native! The reply given to
this question wall be that although the govern.
moat gas afford to despise the Feliillll Brotherhood,
they would not be doing their duty in allowing
seditiousopteiose to be propagated which have a Wallow
to disturb the public peace, sad which would usqualre,
ably jeopardise the prosperity of the c vestry. It is oyes
more is the interests of the Irish than of the Eaglish people I
that the executive hate acted with this promptitude ; and
the fact that no elCiteMaDt was occsaicsoed is Dublin by the
sodden suppression of the offencliog journal ihowaihow
justly the people of that city have appreciated the conduct
of the goverment.

(From the Liverpool Mercury.)
Unless the 'rush government can distinctly show
(as we trust it can) that it hall good and sufficient legal grounds
for treating the prisoners as pr kid facie offenders against the
law, it has oommitted something beyond an indiscretion.
The forcible suppression of a seditious newspaper simply be-
cause it is seditious—that is, because it is so ooesidered
by the executive government—would he an act of illegal
and arheitrary violence, only to be excused In the presence
or immediate imminence of rebellion and civil war. We
can readily believe that the Irish People newspaper
is • mischievous and treasonable publication, though
we cannot speak to the foot from personal
knowledge; but that would be no kind of rea-
atm for summarily pattieg It down by orders from
Dublin Castle so loos as law and regular government
still reign is Ireland. The oourts are open to • government
prosecutor as well as to private litigants ; and we
have never sass It *warted yet that things are
come to such a pus on the other side of the
Channel as to call for in administrative vigour
beyond the law. Costinental governments have • short
and sharp way of dealing with delinquent journals sad
jmunsiists ; but it is not our way, sod it is to be hoped
that neither English nor Irish opinion would roan-
tetanal illegal violence against the perms and pro-
perty even of these silly and disloyal Amiss..
All this, however, we only my hypothetically,
so far es the particular transactioo of last Friday night is
acwassued. The preasat Lord• Lieut enact is • sensible and
right.minded man and • sound constitutiowal stratcammi ;
and it would be unjust to assume, io the at oases of eel-
doses, that he ham takes * step which will arit admit of •
fall legal justification.

THE EMPEROR OF THE FRDNCH AND SW:AR WANE.
—When the Emperor visited his paternel cootie of Alllll.lt.
berg last mouth, the Vocal Olub serenaded hint with a spur
eimen of their Waging. His Ila}sitty hquired whether**
wise of the country was good. " dim" replied the sprier,
w cho qessitity makes up for the quality." " Bet," mid
the ifeuperor. " bow do you 'MAIM. to Meg so well and
drink bad wiser " Well, Sire," allsweral tee Wedgy,
tutelmsbed. " we get good wine from Freese and mix it
with our owe prude" winch mass verr drhAmble mix-
ture." " Ab," observed the Binpart.r. ' see; that's
practial illustration of the value of the alliance bewail
Switzerland sad lonusee."—Wirts Trude Begins
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