The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-20 00:00:00

is computed, not lees than 27,
. .

tural capital. The twenty
141111 in the rate of wages, taking w. average
All Ireland, of nearly 60 per cent. ; and the Irish
Ifbourar ie immeasurably better fed, better
'clothed; better housed, than he ever was
before. The heart-rending facts disclosed by
•the Devon Commission have nothing cor-
responding to them in the Ireland of 1866 ;
and if Mr. HENNESSY does not know this, his
ignorance is culpable. Two millions of Irish
graves—these, he says, are the monument of Lord
Reassm. and the Whigs. Does Mr. HENNESSY
really think that the decline of the Irish population
between 1841 and 1861 is to be accounted for
solely by deaths during the years of famine I Are
Irishmen naturally immortal, or have none of them
emigrated 1 It is Mr. HENNESSY'S complaint that
they have emigrated in crowds, and for this, too,
the Whigs are to blame. He is apparently unaware
that this phenomenon of emigration is not a
peculiarly Irish, nor even British, but a European
phenomenon. A greet movement is going on
from the East to the West. To confine ourselves
within home limits, the last census showed a decline
of population in the agricultural districts of Eng-
land and Scotland as well as of Ireland. For the
famine and for the exodus, the policy of the
Whigs is not to blame, but the misgovernment
of previous generations, which allowed a thrift-
less and half-starving peasantry to multiply far be-
yond the resources of the country ; and
to become dependent on a single and
precarious article of food. If Mr. Hen-
name desires to bring beck the crowded
and hopeless wretchedness of the years before the
famine, Ireland has no worse enemy than he.
But all these accusations against the Whiffs
are but a preface to an eulogy on the
Tories. Mr. GLADSTONE would not stop the
emigration ; Mr. Duseasu is going to do it.
"Mr. Dtsnazt.t," Mr. HENNESSY told his
hearers, " not long since, speaking in his own
" country to • number of Englishmen, said the
" state of Ireland should receive the first coital-
" cleration of the Government. He differed with
" the Whigs on the subject of emigration ;
"he avowed that he deplored it sincerely,
" that he does not regard it as a
" healthy depletion, but as a fatal haemorrhage,
" a haemorrhage which should be checked, and he
" undertook that the Government would devise
" meaaures to stop it. Now, of course, he does
" not intend to lay an embargo upon emigrant
" ships, or by forcible means to retain the people;
" but he can carry out his !policy if he thinks fit
" to do so by legislation which will encourage re-
" productive labour and give security to the
" tenant. . . . What we want is something
" for the country, above all—for I am sure you
" feel as Ido that is the vital question—some-
" thing that will check the rush of emigration that
"is draining the life-blood from Ireland. The
" late Government deliberately refused to con-
" eider this all-important question. The present
" Government have wisely expressed their judg-
" went upon it, and have not shrunk from the
" undertaking. Therefore, I say, it is so far easy
" to choose between them."
This is Mr. Hermases account of Mr. Dm-
aar.ao intentions. Let us hear Mr. Disa.azia's
own explanation. He was questioned in the
House of Commons on the subject of the speech to
which Mr. HENNESSY refers. He disavowed
having any specific for checking emigration. All
that the Government was going to do was to pro-
pore a vote for Irish railways. This Mr. Dtsa•em
thought was a right, and, apparently, a sufficient
thing to do. " But if," he went on to say, "we
" are entitled to the merit of so just and expo-
" client a policy, I must say we inherited it fro.n
" our predecessors, and we intend to propose
" it, because we think they wisely decided it."
And yet Mr. HENNESSY can tell the too
credulous people of Wexford, who hailed his mis-
statements w;th repeated cheers, that "the late
" Government refused to consider the important
" question "—of the best means of checking
Irish emigration. " The present Government
" have wisely expressed their judgment upon it,
" and have not shrunk from undertaking a remedy.
" Therefore, I say, it is so far easy to choose
" between them." If the electors of the county
of Wexford are capable of being duped by the
falsifications of history, the economic absurdities,
and the calumnious mis-statements of Mr. Pops
HENNESSY, they deserve to have him for their
representative.

dent of the past session which will not soon be
forgotten. Mr. POPE HENNE.9BY is modestly
unable to understand his fame. But there
is not much difficulty in the matter. It
springs from the fact that he is unique as
a politician. A solitary specimen of any kind,
though not very valuable in itself, nor belonging
to an important genus, is interesting as a curi-
osity. An Irish Roman Catholic sitting on the
Conservative side of the House, and out-Torying
the Tories themselves, could not fail to become
conspicuous. "The thing itself is neither rich nor
" rare," but the wonder " bow the devil it got
" there" will keep people talking about it. It
would be unjust to Mr. HENNESSY, however, to
suppose that his reputation is limited to these
islands. He has visited European courts, and
had interviews with foreign monarchs. He has
talked with NAPOLEON in the Tuileries, and with The death of M. Thouvenel ;the shabby treat-
Lord PALMXazeTON in the coffee-room of the merit of M. Snider ; the catastrophe at Mont Blanc ; and an
House of Commons, and has been careful to inform explalsation by Mr. Stephens of th%.4.3ahl character of
(this
the world of both circumstances. Mr. HENNESSY'Sthe
c ascramsesentthwe
totpisswertess
thisrstood
ram'.
by respectingth the Church
surprise at the minute knowledge which the morning by the Times. In Mr. Snider's case, a letter,
priests and landlords of Wexford possess of his defending the conduct of the government, written by
public career is, therefore, only an illustration Mr. C. M. Clods, the Solicitor to the War-office,
of the modesty which generally accompanies true is pronounced by ocr contemporary to IMMO the
merit. charge of unhandsome behaviour where it was. When,
Every one can understand Mr. Hammer's die- after seven years' exertion, crowned by recognised success,
Mr. Snider applied for compensation to those authorities
comfiture at the annoying fact that just when the who at that moment were availing themselves of his inven.
Conservative party, which he has courted so tion with all possible actitity, it was no time for haggling
assiduously, is in power, he should be out of 1 over pounds and shillings, or requiring vouchers for Mr.
Parliament. He has served them, as Jacos Snider's attendances in the capacity of a journeyman.
served Laaaw, for seven years, and " wherefore 1 There was the plain, broad fact that Mr. Snider was the
" should it be for nought f" Much may be excused creditor of the nation for all the moneysaved by conversion
to a man who is bent upon retrieving desperate instead" oftimouarr :texture,
armament
althlethneeweesnrvidcenzpresented
model
political fortunes. But even the most liberal al- It was a shabby policy to ask for items at all, dill more so
lowance of charity is scarcely equal to the demands to cat those items down. What Mr. Snider may
that Mr. HENNESSY makes upon it. His violent I get for his patent is not at present discernible,
and unscrupulous speech at Wexford may, per- but when the poor man, in his helplessness, asked only
haps, gain him the support of the excitable and for 2,7001. as his recompense, it was the extreme of shah.
too esaily misled peasantry to whom it is ad- biome to dissect such a claim and strike off nearly two-
thirds of it. It was not thus that Sir William. Armstrong
dressed, but it must surely alienate all that is
was paid, and it will not be thus, we trust, in spite of Mr.
respectable in the constituency. Clode's special pleading, that Mr. Snider's remuneration
Mr. HENNESSY attributes all the evils of Ireland win ultimately stand.
to the Whip. Of the party which forced emanci- The follies to which Alpine rivalry leads are pointed out
pation upon an unwilling Government, and sacri- by the Tones, and the disregard of even the ordinary pre-
ficed office for a generation to this great cause ; cautions in the late unhappy calamity is noticed. Life, it is
which has reduced, and promises still further to added, presents many other opportunities than these for the
display of equal courage and manliness, more beneficial to
reduce, the wrongful predominance of an alien
the eh ter and to the world.
church; which has established perfect religious In Mr. Stephena's case it appears that his offence
equality in the common schools of the land, and against good taste was strongly exaggerated. He was
I
which, if it has erred of late, has erred in pushing retained to rapport the application of a churchwarden
concessions to Mr. HENNESSY'S church beyond the 'against some ritualistic practices in the diocese of Exeter,
limits of equity; which has prohibited the irri- 1 and it was maintained by the advocate on the other side
tating celebration and emblems of Protestant , that the term " wine" in the rubric mighitedbeh.held to.
wine and
ascendancy, and which has endeavoured to re- I :tie: we anasanw:lt:L" ger wine, = Stephenswas oftenteP t
calledt wieby a dif.
adjust fairly the relations of landlord and tenant— ,'tent name ; just es rum and water was no longer rum,
of this party Mr. HENNESSY feels no shame in but " grog." The illustration was certainly, observes the
saying that—" Not content with approving and Titus, in singularly bad taste, and was quite beside the
" promoting the decline of the population, the . mark, besides being wholly unnecessary ; but it is obvious
" Whigs made it a practice to sow discord between 1 that it does net bear the construction which was se hastily
put upon it. Mr. Stephens was simply arguing as to the
" class and class and fan the flame of religious
" animosity. To set tenants against landlords, t legals interpretatio
theological s: of a.e..otain
ous ootenrnisidearlt atogeTtkiher.filt.
" to ret Catholi...s against Protestants, to keep us I before solidi be was arguing was presided over by two
" disunited, and, therefore, powerless for national areladescous, neither of whom understood him in the genes
" good, has been their constant practice." The ' imputed to his words at York, or thought it necessary to
present embarrassments of Ireland are not the ' rebuke hhe•
consequence, he says, of three bad years, but of . The Daily News shows the way in which Holland par-
twenty bad years—they are due not todefective has nticl:Patel in the
The iri.i°"l".Ueneei 4 the
development
of
vests, but to Whig misrule. The three bad years ii..--.3ManembLl of the —deW,;ms GermanGdDlkneclof Luxemburg,
Tlieeond wenn-
of which Mr. HENNESSY makes light destroyed, it idea grads no longer. Has, therefore, Luxemburg lost its