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customary energy and perseverance, seeing that its
great leader is still sojourning on the Continent, for
the purpose of recruiting his debilitated constitution,
the firebrand patriots, who are sticklers for physical
force, are endeavouring to filch from him that popu-
larity with the Irish multitude of which he has hitherto
been the sole object. An enthusiastic race like
the Hibernians must always have some medium
through which to express their political sympathies.
The sudden illness and retirement of DANIEL °SOON:
NELL have deprived them of the medium to which
they have been accustomed for very nearly half a
century. The Young Irelanders perceive the oppor
tunity afforded by this (to them) felicitous calamity,
and hence their periodical demonstrations at the
Rotunda, and their flagrant and hyperbolical speeches
at what is,
.no doubt ironically, called the Irish Con-
federation. If these melodramatic gentlemen really
imagine that a whole nation is to be deluded by
claptrap phrases and insolent boasts, they will find
themselves most pitifully mistaken. By the latest
intelligence received from the travelling com-
panions of the Hon. and Learned Member
for Cork, it would seem that the recovery
of that extraordinary man is now tolerably
I certain. On his return, with a renovated constitu-
tion, DANIEL O'CONNELL will have sufficient to ac-
complish in the way of pacifying his countrymen and
reconciling them to the dispensations of PROVIDENCE
and the efforts of a benignant Government.
Nothing has ever equalled the Young Ireland
braggadocios in violence of sentiment or bombast of
utterance. By their inflammatory orations they are
I assuredly numbering themselves among the most re-
prehensible class of juvenile offenders. They are
I drawing down upon their extravagant faction the
indignation of a stern, and powerful, and afflicted realm.
Instead of coalescing with the sincere wellwishers of the
sister island, instead of labouring practically to ame-
liorate the condition of the dying and neglected mil-
lion, instead of evincing a manly susceptibility in
regard to the sorrows of their fellow-men, they are
striving heart and soul to sow dissension among the
masses, to aggravate the sufferings of starvation by
the anguish of discontent, to cast obloquy upon an
Administration whose paramount anxiety is to assuage
the woes of a people of whom they are said to be the
bitterest enemies and the most ruthless murderers.
Can any man with a spark of the be-
nign fire of Christianity in his bosom, can
any man with a sound intellect, or a heart not
wholly hardened against the influences of humanity—
can any man, indeed, who is not entirely bereft of his
senses entertain the slightest respect for the political
ranters and jumpers of the Irish Association? Messrs.
O'GoamaN and MEAGHER may conceive that they
are acquiring a reputation kindred to that of ROBERT
'EMMETT. If so, they are labouring under a deplo-
rable delusion. They are so far from eliciting the
approbation of the sensible, that they are ensuring
for themselves the contumelious regard even of the
least discerning. Perhaps in their very recent
emancipation from the school-room these youths
may bear some dim remembrance of the masterly
de.,eription of CATALINE, written by the his-
tori In SALLUST. Should this classic reminiscence
have not altogether faded from their memories
through the ecstacy of their democratic ardour,
they would do well to draw an analogy
with that immortal portraiture, and henceforth
eschew the demoralising tendencies of their phre-
netic and fanatical doctrines. If they are not
actually playing such fantastic tricks " before high
Heaven as would make the angels weep," they are
certainly conducting themselves in a manner tha
must make all honest patriots grieve.

In support of the cause of civil and religious liberty
our earnest endeavours, have never been wanting.
The principle is of vital importance to the growth
and maintenance of civilisation. Man acts accord-
ing to his feelings, and he shows himself most rational
when these are tempered with judgment. The sen-
titnents of religion are those which influence the
human mind down to its profoundest depths. The
history of the whole world is fraught with terrible
illustrations of this truth. No political lever has
proved itself so powerful as that of religious enthu-
siasm. This feeling has demonstrated itself, when once
kindled, as the infallible precursor of most of the re-
markable events recorded in the histories of different
nations. Under its influence thrones and states have
been shaken to their foundations, and revolutions have
come and gone, resembling, in their rapid succession,
the repetition of the hurricane during a continuous and
desolating tempest. The potenc'y of this principle is
evidenced by the reflection that some of the fiercest
struggles between religious communities have turned
more upon the forms than the principles of their
different creeds. The comparative peace which has
so long been enjoyed by the world at large, and Europe
in particular, and the favourable rise which nume-
rous countries are making in the scale of civilisation,
are attributable to the homage which has been, and is
sow, for the most part, paid by their respective Go-
%ernuients to the benign principle of toleration.
Persecution in any shape, on account of a man's re-
ligious persuasion, is at length happily beginning to
be viewed with general abhorrence by all enlightened
people. Here and there we witness occasional out-
bursts of an intolerant spirit, even in England
itself. Fortunately these manifestations are of
an isolated character. They are, in fact, still-born.
The motives of public bodies, such as the Pro-
testant Association and National Club, are not to be
impugned; but their judgment is open to be arraigned,
their fears to be slighted, and their conduct to be
represented as tyrinnical in its effect. Were the
powers of the. Vatican exercised in the most arbitrary
and bigoted manner, they could not be more viru-
lently assailed than they are at this moment by
a prejudiced few; but as they happen to be
notoriously wielded by Pius IX. in a spirit
of liberality, such that Austria herself has openly
censured his policy, a more inopportune moment
could not have been selected fur attempting to raise
a No. Popery cry. Lord JOHN RUSSELL on Friday
took occasion to pay a well-merited tribute of admi-
ration to the course which his HowsEss has pursued
since his accession; and, in answer to a question from
Mr. TlonsmAN, whether the Government contemplated
taking any steps to place the British relations
with Rome on a more friendly footing, his Lordship,
after adverting to certain legal difficulties at present
existing in the way of deputing a Minister with cre-
dentials from this country, avowed his conviction of
the desirableness of establishing formal diplomatic
relations between England and Rome. YVellavb.no
doubt that this important subject will heseiftsorre-
ceive the consideration to which it is entitled.

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
THIS EVENING
VFW be performed RITIII ; or, The Lass that Loves a Sailor,
Berria rd, Mr. Hicks ; Ruth, Miss Vincent.
Afji .r which, the Farce of the '.OTTERY TICKET. Wormwood,
Mr. ki ardner.
'Pt iconclude with THE WIZARD OF THE WIVE ; or, The Ship
of tb,o Aven*ez=► Captain-Fattiltuer, -Mc ky f
Boxes, ls.; Half Price, 6d. Pit, 6d. ;

•• ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOOICAL CARD 365,
Und.eethe patronage crt,lror Majesty, ,Isla Royal Highness
• Albert, the Queen Dowager, &c. ,
'Open avery.,Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday:-__*
The rroprietor begs to announce that he has, at -a -considerable.
expefole, erected a new Entrance, and a magniffeetieWalk." Whir
borders, statues, tfurt a Central rountain, in front of tl.e
grantifflctoria) Representation of
THE 'TOWN AND ItAir OF GIBRALTAR.

Madrid journals of the 9th and 10th ult. have bean
received.
A letter of the 9th gives the following particulars
relating to the late alleged attempt on the life of the
QUEEN, and to Don ANGEL DE LA Rive, the supposed
assassin, and his accomplices :
" The attempt upon the Queen's life on Tuesday evening
continues to monopolise public attention. The affair is un-
dergoing a very serious and active investigation by the ma-
gistrates ; but nothing transpires either to confirairior dispel
any of the reports in circulation. Don Angel de to inv.,
who is said to have fired the pistols, is in custody ; he is
an advocate, and was lately employed in editing the nou-
velles dicerses of the Clamor Public° ; but the politics of
that paper did not exclusively engage his attention, for he
was at the same time intimately connected with Don Diego
Coello, editor of the Faro, an ultra-Moderado journal, es-
Wished under the auspices of Senors Mon and Pidal. Senor
Coello has also been questioned by the examining magistrate.
The official statement is anxiously looked for by everybody,
f•.r regicide is deemed an impossibility among Spaniards; ft
it not therefore surprising that many persons persist in doubt-
ing whether the pistols wers loaded with ball. Since her
'Majesty's arrival at Aranjuez she has repeated her in •
vitatious to Don Francisco to join her, but he is in-
fl,''.cxible. I am assured that he has written to his cousin
liii-piei of
in oo r 9 'am ilenaileOlutsi o
h :nsion of
t_.,:;BoC.4Tnet de Montemolin, declaring the date of his last
~•red absurd by cnhawriatcht e rt:h the
II Queenalso ;exPlreicshsessuapppporsee-s
some attempt upon his life—an insinuation ren-
( i iss o r society, it
j,:b.ieen's well-known amiable disposition.
tears h ave arisen re=s
i Intense anxiety which pervades every
.pecting the tranquillity
X. twit hstanding
gratifyingweih to be able to state that no
`l;,a money crisis Ild
iris, bas natura'lly preduc dg* 8
e iaa.osfes
hthais.ecpalpeintat3l..
so 'heavily on London and
owns effect here, and our corn-
ay.eor,uthere is at present great
Intl cial. horizon isgg,lsooomthya;:htho
Coello has
bSalesnroomrtgh a
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14etand is still the region of famine, of pestilence, of work..
. " P . S
;and.—l
is h
agcyaN have justin h
prison,eard andt ht
of arson, of insurrection, of incendiarism, of stabbing, re,,ted,leen ar-
of pistolling, and of brutal murders. Mr. WILLIAM itnlividi tals are implicated, as having institg:MeVortant
SMITKI O'BRIEN seems to be solicitous to consummate I to his c riminal attempt:" . a Rivs
' The QUEEN has invited Generals SERRANO and
the wf?tchedness of his country by rendering the I
: CoaDovAt, together with the Marquis of lvf
—IRAFLOR
allegiance of its inhabitants to the Government '
and im- , Senor PACNECO, to the Court at Aranjuez.
iiss
possifile by exciting them to insubordination with
. • '
the vituperative patois of Billingsgate, and by kin- ? The Gazette publishes royal decrees, appointing
filing the animal passions of the multitude by ' '
' G- nerd RICARDO SCIIELLY Captain-General of An-
the breath of his inflammable egotism. Now that the dAusia, in the room of General PEZUELA ; General
Repeal Association is incapable of acting with its B Aroii DEL SOLAR DE ESPINOSA, Captain-General of

Tb.s Menagerie contains many specimens; including the Giraffe,
Gazelles, &c.- The Promenade Concerts, conducted by Godfrey. A
reprikientation of the Porcelain Tower orNankin. The Gothic 'Bridge
of Statues. The grand Pyrotechnic 'Display, representing the
SIEGE OF' OrBRALTAR.
Shoviing the commencement of the Bombardment, partial destruc-
tion-ot the/Palm,. anctiflowing up of the Battering Ships.
rhiring the season, M. JULLIEN will give a series of Concerts;
the Band will consist of one fr Inked 40,ertoamere.

Adalission, One Shilling.
e__RoY2,l South London Floricultural Society will hold their
Gran a.spring Flower Show, on Wednesday, May 26.

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TH OcuoNETnit, Lowest, 50 ; Highest, 66 ; Noon, 65.
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