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LONDON. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 30.

Ir may be confidently reiterated that the collapse
of the Fenian secession movement, and of that
brotherhood which has evidently organised itself
upon the model of the " Knights of the Golden
" Circle," will please the majority of the American
people as much as Englishmen themselves. The
Irish element in the United States has ever been
regarded as a difficulty, if not as a nuisance, by
the thinking portion of the Northern people ; and
the Southerners themselves, while using it for
election purposes in years gone by, made no
secret of their disdain of its pretensions. The
Know-Nothing " party, established with the
very object of neutralising Irish influence by re-
stricting the suffrage to native-born citizens, was
first started in the S,uthern States ; and it
found its first advocates along the slave bank
of the Ohio, and in the classic regions
of the Old Dominion. Immigration has been a
prime cause of the prodigious increase of wealth
and prosperity in the Northern States, and yet it
is well known to persona acquainted with the
Republic that associations have existed in the
North whose avowed object was to encourage
German immigration as an antidote to that from
Ireland. The Germans are a quiet, industrious,
law-abiding race, given especially to agriculture,
and spreading themselves over an extended area ;
the Irish, on the contrary, have, as an almost un-
varying rule, settled themselves in the large cities
on the northern Atlantic seaboard, and devoted
themselves mainly to liquor-dealing and rowdy
politics. The newly-arrived bog-trotter who ejacu-
hted on seeing • steam threshing machine at
work for the first time in his life, " Well, yez
" almighty 'throng, but, by Sr. PATRICK, yez can't
"vote," was a fair type of the majority of his
countrymen ; and it is not astonishing that such men
fail to understand the responsibilities of the suf-
frage, or to wield their newly acquired power for
the general good.
It is well known to readers of American news-
papers that the offenders in Northern police-courts
are almost exclusively Irish, more especially so in
regard to crimes committed against the person.
The "Bowery Boys" and "Dead Rabbits" of
New York, the "Plug Uglies" and "Blood Tubs"
of Baltimore recruited their ranks mainly from
the Celtic element ; and the most rowdy and
disreputable regiment of volunteers mimed during
the late war, " BILLY Wilsores &nixed," was
composed almost solely of New York Irish
bullies and "shoulder hitters." The conduct of
the Irish as a race during the past five years has
alienated a large number of Americans who were
formerly their friends. When General M'Cini.Lais
headed the Federal armies, and the Conservative
Democrats were not, as yet, supplanted by the
Abolitionist Republicans in the conduct of the cam-
paign, the Irish flocked by thousands to the Po-
tomac ; but when their idol, "Little Mac," was
ordered into retirement by President Lief our, the
Irish regiments quickly fell into the condition of
mere ccuirts, and the combativeness of the race
exhibited itself in noisy mass meetings in behalf
of democratic leaders like Vamaisntonsit, Cox,
and FERNANDO WOOD, and in riots against
the " sugars" in the Northern cities. Until
1860 they were acting with the po-
litical majority of the Northern people, and
would naturally be regarded with no unfriendly
feelings by the nation generally ; since that
period, American opinion has undergone a radical
change, and the Irish are not merely left in a com-
paratively small minority, but have incurred mis-
trust and disgrace by giving themselves up unre-
servedly to the designs of the enemies of the
Government.
Without confining ourselves to deductions
from the past, we already possess sufficient indi-
cations to anticipate what will be the verdict
of the American people upon the attempt
of men who, like the Confederates in Canada,
have availed themselves of the protection
of the Republic to plot and conspire against
the union of the Three Kingdoms. The
Catholic hierarchy in the United States
has, from the outset, shown itself not only alien,
but hostile to the Fenian organization and aims,
whether from ecclesiastical repugnance to secret so-
cieties or from moral considerations of a higher
order. When the " Deputy Head Centre" of the
Order died a few weeks ago at St. Paul, Archbishop
KENDRICK refused the use of St. Patrick's Ca-
thedral for the funeral ceremony, and closed the
gates of the cemetery against the procession and
the corpse. Moreover, he took the first opportu-
nity to declare as follows :—" I use this occasion
" to state publicly what I have uniformly stated in
" private conversation, that the members of the
" Fenian Brotherhood, men or women, are not
" admissible to the sacraments of the Church so
" long as they are united with that association,
" which I have always regarded as immoral in its
" object—the exciting of rebellion in Ireland,
" and unlawful and illegal in its maws--s quasi
" military organization in this country while at
" peace with England, to be made effective in the
" avant of war with that Power."
This is the language of a loyal and prudent
citizen, rendering unto C.esait the things that are
C.ESAR'S, and we are persuaded that it will be
found to express the feelings of the majority of