The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-11 00:00:00

WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENTS.

Last night Mr. Wilson gave his first concert for
the season to a large and respectable audience in the
Store-street Music Hall, one of the best perhaps in
London for solo singing. We have seldom listened
with more delight to the Scottish minstrel. There
is an uniading freshness in the old Scottish ballad
music, giving it a charm, and securing it a lasting
popularity which few of the compositions of the great
modern masters have acquired with all the advantage
of art in orchestral accompaniment and vocal execu-
tion by the finest singers of the day. Many of these
have had their short and tinsel existence in the glare
of the " foot lights," and after a " run of unparal-
leled success," have been thrust aside amongst the
other scenic lumber to make way for other " novel-
ties." Not so with the simple Scotch ballad. It
scarcely needs the organ of a Grisi or a Mario to
sustainits popularity. Season after season its gentle
strains breathe on our ear still fresh, sweet, and redo.
'lent of hawthorn, or strong, wild, and vigorous as the
mountain blast as it sweeps over the heather. Nor is
this the mere response of Scotch love of country. It
is the language it speaks to every breast—the pure
inspiration of nature—intelligible to all who have the
soul of music.

Mr. Wilson was in excellent voice, and sang with
all the good taste and natural humour so characteristic
of his style. Among others he did great justice to
" Weel may the boattie row," " Saw ye my wee thing,"
" Oh Tibbie, I hae seen the day," and "Come under
my plaidie."
description, we could not keep remarking that one
In singing
secret in Mr. Wilson's success in Scotch music
consists in his singing such songs in the "lilting,"
" canty " manner of the Scotch peasant, as rarely as
possible departing from the natural rithm or time of
the tune ; thus while you listen, you feel an instinc-
tive desire to beat time, or even to start to your feet
and dance. Most singers signally fail in ballad sing-
ing without knowing why, disdaining to be fettered
by the natural time of the song, they indulge " ad
libitum ex-
hausted in extraneous ornament, and the original
spirit is lost.
" long cadencies, and the whole is
Other songs, such as " Auld Robin Gray," cannot
of course be sung in this manner, and may with
greater safety be left to the singers judgment as to the
time. W. e were much pleased with the humorous
k pen
falls,"
manner which Mr Wilson sang my " Spouse
Nancy,' "The married man's lament," and " The
Laird
though we thought, in regard to
th
of the proud laird.
short of Mr. M`Kay's deleniation
Mr. Wilson will excuse us if we refer to the
piano accompaniment department of his entertain-
ments. The songs of his country require but little
accompaniment, but that little ought to be peculiarly
rd°'
latter,eo hec
well executed.

WINDSOR, MONDAY.—The Queen and Prince
Co CIVICIRCULAR.
Albert took their usual early walk.
The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise
this morning on the Eastern Terrace and slopes.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by
Koval Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and
h
Princess Helena, left the Castle this afternoon,
for Claremont.
The royal suite consisted of the Lady in Waiting,
Viscountess Canning; the Lord in Waiting, the Mar-
cihuleefiirs re
odf R, oy
Ormonde ; the Beeper of her Majesty's Privy
Purse,efTrhe three o 'clock, inmr. G. E. Anson ; the Equerries in Waiting,
their
Major• General Wemyss and Colonel Seymour; and
the Master of the Household, General Bowles.
august party quitted the Castle at a quarter
several carriages and four,
escorted by a party of the Royal Regiment of Horse
Guards.
before

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary
Wood returned to their residence in Downing-street
yesterday, from a visit to the Marquis and Mar-
thinness of Lansdowne, at Bowood- park, Wilts.
His Excellency the Mexican Minister has left town
for the Continent.

A PLEASANT
VALEDICTION.—Befo
in taking
.Before Bishopknig
leave, affected
departed,
impress upon his friend the dangers of
his mission.
..You will find," he said, "-in preaching
to cannibals, that thsir attention, instead of being occu-
pied b.-, the ;spirit, will be concentrated on the flesh; for
of New Zealan
to d
I am told that they never breakfast without a cold DAS-
sionary on the side-board. ' In shaking hands with the
new prelate as he was leaving the brim, the Reverend
wit added, " Good bye. We shall never meet again;
but let us hope that you„may thoroughlLdisagren with
the seine who eats you. —Fornay Jo; Miller.
1

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORT SMOUTH, JAN. 10.—The Bonetta brigantine,
Lieuten ant-Commander Forbes, has had her com-
passes adjusted for local attraction to-day, but has
some defects to make good.
The electric telegraph which is used by the Ad-
miralty, was so disordered yesterday that no message
could be transmitted by its agency between this port
and London, and as the old semaphores are abandoned,
their Lordships found themselves in the predicament
we prognosticated they would when they closed the
old exclusive mode of telegraphing. This is the first
instance of the impolicy of the measure alluded to ;
we trust we shall not have to report some serious
consequences attending the shutting up of the sema-
phores, and the discharge of the veteran officers and
men who worked them.

The General Palmer freight ship received her
troops by the Echo, from Cowes, to-day, and sailed
this evening for Malta and Corfu.
Wind N.E. by N.—Moderate breezes ; weather
hazy, dark, and cold.
lhe following ships have served the usual term of
commission and will be shortly paid off. Those on
foreign stations which have been relieved are on their
way home :

Acorn, 16, Commanderßingham, station, East Indies,
date of commision, Dec. 1844.

Actwon, 26, Captain Manse), Coast of Africa, Dec.
844.

Albion, 90, Captain Fremantle, Devonport, Noy. 1843.
Amazon, 20, Captain J. J. Stopford, Mediterranean,
Nov. 1844.

Collingwood, 80, Admiral Sir G. Seymour, Pacific,
May, 1844.
Columbia, Lieut. Shortlend, Chatham, May, 1842.
Comet, Lieutenant Rigge, Tagus, July, 1843.
Comus, 18. (sunk), Commander D'Eyncourt, River
Plate, Dec. 1844.
Ddalus, 20, Captain M'Quhae, East Indies, Oct.
1844.

Daring, 12, Commander Peel, West Indies, Sept.
644.

Eagle, 50, Captain G. B. Martin, Brnzils, Nor. 1844.
Endymion, 44, Captain Hon. G. Hastings, Devon-
port, Oct. 1845.
Fantome, 16, Commander Le Hardy, Mediterranean,
Dec. 1844.

Firebrand, Captain J. Hope, Brazils, Dec. 1844.
Flamer, Commander Lavie, Mediterranean, Feb. 1843.
Flyingfish, Commander Dyke, Coast of Africa, Sept.
844.

- -
Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. Blackwood, Bait Indies,
Oct. 1843.

Hecla, Commander Starmer, Sheerness, Jan. 1843.
Lark, Lieut. Lawrence, North America, Feb. 1843.
Locust, Lieut. Power, Mediterranean, Dec. 1844.
Modeste, 18, Commander Macdonald, Chatham, June
843.

Nautilus, Lieut. Rivers, Portsmouth, Dec. 1844.
Persian, 16, Commander Cory ton, West Indies, Dec.
844.

_
Racehorse, 18, Commander Sotheby, New Zealand,
Dec. 1844. _ _ . _

Ranger, 10, Commander Anderson, Coast of Africa,
Dec. 1844.
Superb, 80, Captain A. L. Corry, Mediterranean,
Dec. 1844.

Thunder, Capt. Barnett, North America, Aug. 1844.
Vindictive, 50, Admiral Austen, West Indies, Jan.
845. _ _

Volcano, Lieut. Crang, Mediterranean, Nov. 1844.
WooLwicu, JAN. 10.-'-The Commissioners of the
Admiralty have appointed Master Commander
William Smithett, who has served in the Merlin
steam-vessel on the Liverpool and Holyhead station,
to be Captain of the Banshee steam-vessel, the Banshee
being intended as a mail steamer on that station.
Captain William Smithett came on board the Banshee
this morning at Blackwell on her coming down the
river from Deptford to proceed on an official experi-
mental trial to-day by order of their Lordships. The
previously announced speed of the ♦essel (about 181
statute miles per hour) caused a great anxiety
amongst naval officers to be present to judge for
themselves if this hitherto unattained speed by steam-
vessels was in reality possessed by the Banshee, and
at ten o'clock the following naval officers went on
board at Blackwell :—Captain Sir John Hill, Knight,
Superintendent of the Deptford Dockyard ; Captain
the Hon. G. F. Hotham, Captain Lord George
Paulet, Captain the Hon. Henry Keppel, Captain
H. T. Austin, C. 8., Captain Augustus Leopold
Kuper, C. 8., Captain Eden, Captain Caffin, and
Captain Dwyer, Royal Navy; Mr. Lang, master
shipwright at Woolwich Dockyard ; Mr. Atherton,
chief engineer at the factory at Woolwich ; Mr.
Lang, jun., assistant to the master shipwright, the
designer of the vessel ; Mr. Thompson, her constructor,
and the Messrs. Penn, who fitted her engines of 350-
horse power; Mr. Ravenhill, of Black wall, and several
other scientific gentlemen. The Banshee left her
moorings at Black wall, where she had stopped for a
short time, at 27 minutes past 10 o'clock, under the
charge of Lieutenant Robertson, with several of the
officers and crew of the Black Eagle, and proceeded
down the river at half speed, in consequence of the
' low state of the tide, as it is found that full speed in
shallow water raises such a commotion and so many
under or cross currents, that she does not then answer
her helm exactly, and it is now the opinion of many
that it was from that cause alone, and not owing to
blame being attached to any one, that she came in
collision with the Lightning steam- vessel on her first
trial down the river. It is also evident that the great
swell, within a certain distance of her progress
through the water, causes her to draw slower going
vessels within her track, and it would be well if this
effect was known to all the commanders of steam-
vessels, that the slowest should give way and keep
out of the swell of those able to pass them. Another
very important point in navigation has been estab-
lished beyond doubt to-day, that the common, or even
Massey's patent, log is no criterion of the speed of
fast going vessels, as after they exceed 14 knots there
is no dependence on them, as they actually in many
instances jump out of the water, although considerable
weights have been previously attached to them. The
Banshee went down the river about 14 miles below
Gravesend, and her speed, the easy motion in every part,
the stiff manner in which she answered her helm
when turning, and her qualities altogether, were the
admiration of all on board, and she was admitted to
be the fastest steamer yet tried. The official reports
will substantiate this statement; the Carradoc iron
steam vessel for the same station being reported very
nearly 17 statute miles, and the result of the trial of
the Banshee, three times up and twice down, giving
a mean of 18.50 or 18} statute miles. The speed
with the wind and tide was fully 21 miles per hour,
the measured mile having been run in 3 minutes 17
seconds the first time, and 3 minutes 15 seconds the
second, and in 4 minutes 20 seconds against wind and
tide, showing that she is the fastest vessel yet
constructed on Mr. Lang, junior's, diagonal principle.
The engines made from 30 to 31 strokes per minute
of five feet each, and were in excellent working order.
She is handsomely fitted up, and will be a great
acquisition on the Holyhead station. The Brighton
steam-vessels, designed and constructed by the same
parties, are represented by Captain the lion. G. F.
Hotham, one of the directors who was on board, as
answering the company's most sanguine expectations.
The Meander frigate, 44 guns, Captain the lion.
Henry Keppel, is under orders to drop down from
Chatham on Saturday next to Sheerness, and will be
ready to leave Spithead on the 21st of next month.
Previous to leaving this country in this fine frigate,
Mr. Brooke is to be (made a Knight Companion of
the Bath, as a mark of approbation of his conduct,
and the Meander is to be stationed in the Indian seas.

DEATH or SIR JAMES ANNESLEY.—We regret to
announce the death of Sir James Annesley, F.R.S.,
F.S.A., son of the late Hon. Marcus Annesley, county
Down, Ireland, who expired on the evening of the 14th
of December, at Florence, moat sincerely and deeply
regretted by his relatives and numerous friends. Sir
James was late President of the Medical Board at
Madras, served in the expedition to Java, and received
the thanks of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Samuel
Auchmuty, for his superintendence of the general field
hospital ; was at the head of the medical staff in the
Dekkan, under Sir Thomas Hislop, in 1817 and 1818;
was presented with a piece of plate by the Lords of the
Admiralty in 1823, for his services in the navy in the
Madras roads. Is chiefly known for his great work upon
the diseases of India.
BURNING OF 1 WADDING FACTORY.—Yesterday,
shortly after noon, the densely-populated neighbourhood
of Spicer street, Spitalfields, was thrown into a state of
alarm by the sudden outbreak of a fire upon the premises
belonging to Mr. Springer, a wadding manufacturer.
The flames originated in the stove-rooms on the ground
floor, at the rear of the private dwelling, from, it is un-
derstood, the heat of the furnace. Owing to the highly
combustible nature of the stock therein, the flames tra-
velled with unusual rapidity. The whole of the parties
upon the premises at once set to work, and threw a con-
siderable quantity of water, but the fire continued to
spread ; and a sister of the proprietor, in her anxiety to
save some of the property, was very severely burned.
An engine from Messrs. Trueman and Hanbury's
'brewery, in Brick-lane, was taken to the scene and set
to work, and several engines of the London establish-
ment arrived in rapid succession; and owing to the com•
bined exertions of all parties the flames were extin-
guished, but not before the stove-room was burned out.
the drying-room was gutted, the roof burned off, and
considerable damage done to the adjoinining store-rooms
and warehouses, by fire, water, and ',.novels.
TILBURY FORT, JAN. 10.—A detachment of the
95th Regiment, which arrived at this fort on the 30th of
lust month from Naas, consisting of 156 men, including
non-commissioned officers, embark to- morrow, the 11th,
on board the ship Hinnagon, for Hong Kong, to join
their head quarters. 13 women and 14 children embark
with the detachment, which is under the command of
Captain Rous, with two Ensigns. Mrs. Rous and three
children go out with the captain. A child belonging to
one of the soldiers' wives has sickened with the small-
pox, and to prevent the disease spreading, it has been
removed to the Female Hospital at Fort Pitt.
The overseers of Islington were engaged on Satur-
day last, from nine o'clock until half-past eleven at night,
affording out-door relief to the poor of the district, when
500 applicants received money, food, and clothing, re-
ceiving every humane attention from the whole of the
officials, from the highest to the lowest, for which the re-
eipieuts Waled gratem.

LATE FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE

EUSTON STATION.
Yesterday morning, at half-pest ten o'clock, Mr.
George J. Mills, Deputy Coroner for the western
parts of the county of Middlesex, instituted an in-
quiry at the University Hospital, touching the death
of John Shea, aged 47 years, labourer, who was
buried in the ruins caused by the fall of a wall at the
new works, Euston-square terminus of the London
and North-Western Railway.
The investigation took place in the commodious
board-room at the institution, Gower-street, Totten-
ham-court-road.

The jury having been empanelled,
Mrs. Charlotte Glass, principal nurse in the No. 1
ward, where the deceased was taken upon being
carried into Om hospital, deposed that on Friday last,
about half•past three o'clock in the afternoon, de-
ceased was admitted into the hospital. He died the
following morning.
Mr. Burk, the house surgeon on duty in the after-
noon of Thursday last, deposed to the injuries deceased
had received. They were very numerous, extraor-
dinarily severe, and undoubtedly caused death.
There never was any hope of his recovery after the
accident.

At this stage of the proceedings the jury proceeded
to view the body, which lay in the dissecting•room
of the establishment. The head presented a frightful
spectacle.

Upon the return of the jury to the Board-room,
John Hickman, a bricklayer, was called. Being
sworn, he stated that be was at work at the time of
the accident, upon a scaffold several feet from the
ground. He was just about laying the top row
upon a wall intended for the grand public vestibule
to the Euston station, when he suddenly observed
the wall to bulge in the centre, he sprung from the
scaffolding and escaped with a few bruises. He did
not see the deceased until he was dug out of the ruins
with others. He believed the whole of the work to
be sound and firm, both as it regarded the quality of
the materials and the excellence of the construction
of the whole work.

By the CORONER—How, then, do you account for
the accident ?—I am not able to account for it.
Edward Stanton, labourer, was next called— (This
poor fellow has suffered severely. He was wrapped
in a large flannel gown, provided by the hospital
authorities. He appears to have been much injured,
and evidently still suffers acutely.) He was with
Shea and others when the wall fell, and buried de-
ceased and himself, with several lads, in the ruins. He
knew nothing of the cause of the accident.
James Stephenson, foreman to the bricklayers at
the new works, Euston-square, being sworn, stated
that he had been in the employ of Mr. Cubit for 28
years. The work at the new building, which was in-
tended for a vestibule or public waiting-room, on a
very large scale, was of the best character, and the
proportions were very carefully adjusted. The bricks
were best " picked stock," and the cement and mortar
used was of the very best character. The pedestals
upon which the columns rested were commenced
upon the 21st of October last and finished upon the
30th. On the 10th of November the columns were
began, and on the 22d they were raised sufficiently
to receive the foundations of the superincumbent
arches. The pillars were about eighteen or twenty
inches apart.

CORONER—When were the arches begun ?—On the
11th of December last.

Why was not a solid wall raised instead of these
pillars of which you speak ?—I cannot say.
What was the thickness of the walls above the top
of the pillars—l mean those forming the basis and
crown of the arches ?—Five feet four inches at the
bottom, three feet in the middle, and two feet eight
inches at the top.
What do you give your men as wages? We get
th► best men we can procure, and give them 6s. 6d.
per day, and we have the best kind of work put into
all our buildings.
Have you seen the ruins ? I have minutely
examined them; the walls appear rather "mashed,"
but the bricks are not crushed or broken.

Can you, from what you have seen, give any reason
for the accident ? I cannot, Sir, in the least.

Were you there when the occurrence took place ?
Not at the exact moment; I was there about a minute
before.

According to any opinion you may have formed,
whereabouts do you think the wall gave way ? I
cannot, of course, say positively, but I should think
it gave way about the centre ; why it should do so I
cannot tell.

Stanton, the injured man previously named, was
here recalled.

By the DEPUTY CORONER—Do you wish to put
any question to Mr. Stephenson ? Ido not, sir.
Mr. John Butterwick, general foreman of the
work', being sworn, stated that it was his duty to
see that all th© materials used were of the very best
quality, and that the workmanship was justly and
properly performed. He believed that the whole of
the brick work and masonry in all the new erections
at the Euston• square station of the Londqn and
North-western railway were of the most substantial
character. The best men were employed, the best
bricks were used, the best kind of cement was mixed
for the purpose of strengthening the work, and the
best wages were paid to all the workmen.

CORONER.—What then could have occasioned the
accident ?—I cannot tell.

Did you see any danger f—No, I did not ; nor did
I appreher.d any. The work went on very slowly.
What was the diameter of the columns ?—They
were two feet four inches in diameter, and twenty
feet high.
Some other evidence of a practical nature having
been taken,
The DEPUTY CORONER said that Mr. Cubitt had
expressed his willingness to be examined. If the
jury felt satisfied they might return a verdict to the
effect that they had no evidence as to the cause of the
accident, but if they desired to have the opinion of
any impartial scientific men, he was quite ready to
adjourn for that purpose.
The evidence of one or two witnesses, as to the
perfect stability of the scaffolding, having been taken,
The jury consulted together, and in a few moments
found " That John Shea died from injuries in the
chest, caused by being crushed by the fall of a wall
and other parts of a building, at the station of the
London and North-Western Railway, but how the
said wall fell there is not sufficient evidence to prove."
The deceased has left a wife and six young chil-
dren. He was a steady man and an excellent hus-
band, and his wife is a most worthy object of public
sympathy.

THE HAMPDEN CONTROVERSY.
The following address, connected with the move-
ment respecting Dr. Hampden, has been presented to
the Archbishop of Dublin, to which his Grace re-
turned the subjoined reply :
" TO lIIS GRACE, RICHARD, LORD ARCHBISHOP or
DUBLIN, &C.
" My Lord,—The strong expression of feeling to
which a portion of the Church in England has given
utterance, respecting the elevation of the Rev. Dr.
Hampden to the see of Hereford, is calculated to
produce considerable anxiety in the minds of per-
sons not fully acquainted with the circumstances of
the case.
" As members of the Church, we cannot but feel
deeply interested in a manifestation so decided in its
character, and so unusual, at least in our times.
Being aware, therefore, that your Grace's former
connexion with the University of Oxford has afforded
you ample opportunity of being fully acquainted with
the sentiments of Dr. Hampden, and with the cir-
cumstances of the question generally, we respectfully
beg leave to request (both for our own sakes and for
the sake of the laity of our several parishes) that you
will be so good as to favour us with your views on the
various bearings of this important question.
" CHARLES STRONG,
" Archdeacon of Glendalagh."
(Here follow the signatures of the clergy.)

" Palace, Jan. 5, 1848.
" Dear Mr. Archdeacon,—Under any ordinary
circumstances, I am convinced that neither you, nor
the rest of the clergy who have signed the application
to me, would have thought) of making any inquiries
of me respecting the appointment of any one to a
bishopric,
or to any other situation in the patronage
of the Crown.

But I cannot wonder at your doing so in the
present instance, for the occasion is no ordinary one.
The commotion connected with Dr. Hampden 's ap-
pointment is of a nature to effect very materially the
credit, the peace, and the:safety of the United Church,
and the cause of the Christian religion altogether. I
shall be ready, therefore, to give you such informa-
tion as I am able on all points connected with the
present most extrraordinary and important move-
ment, and to offer such remarks thereon as may tend
to dispel the misapprehensions that are afloat.
" As it is probable that besides those of the clergy
whose signatures are before me, several others also
would have affixed their names to the application bad
they known of it, I will in a few days lay before the
clergy generally of all my dioceses such a statement
and observations as the occasion seems to call for.
" I remain, dear Mr. Archdeacon, yours very faith-
fully, " RICHARD DUBLIN.
" The Venerable Archdeacon Strong."

RAPID SPREADING OF INFLuxrzza.—Between the
years 1830 and 1834 the influenza twice traversed
Europe. This epidemic attracted the notice of medical
writers more than the cholera, both on account of its
speedy recurrence and because the cholera, which had
diverted their attention from the previous epidemic, had
then ceased. The chief difference between the two
epidemics consisted in the greater intensity of the disease
of 1830-32 compared with the greater extent of its suc-
cessor in 1833-34. There was but a few days' interval
between the appearance of the latter in St. retersburgb,
moloolv, Odeon, Alexandria, awl parie,

IRELAND.
ROWS OF THE REPEALERS.

DUBLIN, JAN. B.—The Yourg Irelenders are now
at loggerheads. The war editor has retired from the
Nation citadel, and taken to the open country. The
commander-in-chief, deeming his lieutenant's plan of
operations against the Saxon enemy rather dangerous,
adopted certain measures which show that he is not
unmindful of the adage—that discretion is the better
part of valour. The following dispatch from the
retired warrior appears in the:Aation of this morning,
it is addressed to the chief of the Young Ireland
brigade:—
" s, Ontario-terrace, Rathmines, Jan. 7, 1848.
" Dear Duffy,—lf the public has any curiosity (of
which I have seen no symptom) to know why I re-
nounced connexion with the Nation—or if you
desire on your own account that a statement of my
reasons and motives should appear—l will make
that statement shortly, and you can do as you please
with it.

" Our differences of opinion, as you well know,
are not a matter of yesterday. For some months
past I have found myself precluded from speaking to
the public through the Nation, with that full freedom
and boldness which I had formerly used, by
objections and remonstrances from you, to the effect,
that what I wrote was 'seditious,' or impo-
litic.' This kind of restriction, slightanindycoapsuinailoant,
first, became gradually more constant and annoying;
and that, while the times demanded, in
more and more unmitigated plain-speaking as to the
actual relation of Ireland towards the English Go-
vernment, and the real designs of that Government
against the properties and lives of Irishmen.
"The failure of the 'lrish Council,' the hurried
calling together of the English Parliament, the Bill
for disarming the Irish people, and the horrid delight
with which that Bill was hailed by the landlords of
this country—these things rapidly brought our dif-
ferences to an issue. The effect wrought upon me
by all the events I saw passing was a thorough con-
viction that Irish landlords had finally taken their side
against their own people, end for the foreign enemy
—that all the symptoms of landlord nationality'
which had deluded us into the 'lrish Council,' and
had kept us so long vainly wooing the aristocracy
into the ranks of their countrymen, were a deliberate
fraud—were, in fact, a demonstration intended to act
upon the English ; and that tho Dic.rm;n Dill wt.,
the first fruit of a new and more strict alliance be-
tween traitors at home and foes abroad.
" I desired to say all this to the people plainly. I
de
fas
alsely
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eng uef to
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to crush
thee them hu esmh prevention that
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crime,'
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other popular right, and to enable the landlords to
eject, distrain, and exterminate in peace and security.
I desired to preach to them, that every farmer in
Ireland has a right to his land in perpetuity (let law'
say as it will) :—" that no landlord who denies that
right ought to receive any rent—that tenant-right,
however, though the universal right of all Irish
farmers, never had been, and never would be
recognised or secured by English law—that there
was and will be no other way of establishing and se-
curing that right except, as in Ulster, by successful in-
timidation, that is to say, by the determined public
opinion of armed men, that, therefore, the power calling
itself a Government' which called on the people of
Ireland to deliver up their arms, under any pretext,
must be the mortal enemy of that people, their rights,
their liberties, and their lives. I desired to warn my
countrymen accordingly, that if they should carry
their guns to the police-stations when ordered by Lord
Clarendon, they would be putting weapons into the
hands of their deadly foes, and committing virtual
suicide. I desired to preach to them that the coun-
try is actually in a state of war—a war of property'
against poverty—a war of 'law' against life; and
that their safety lay, not in trusting to any laws or
legislation of the enemies' Parliament, but solely in
their determination to stand upon their own individual
rights, defend those to the last, and sell their lives and
lands as dear as they could.
" I desired also to show them that the new poor-
law, enacted under pretence of relieving the destitute,
was really intended and is calculated to increase and
deepen the pauperism of th country—to break down
the farmers as well as thepsdlords by degrees, and
tugoolands of i
uproot them gradually
pass,all
yfroumtchuemsboeird
soil,
so
as to
by excessive
population, into the hands unencumbered
of English capitalists, and
under the more absolute sway of English government.
In short, I wished to make them recognise in the poor-
law what it really is—an elaborate machinery for
making final conquest of Ireland by law.' I there-
fore urged from the first, that this law ought to be
resisted and defeated ; that guardians ought not to act
under it, but in defiance of it; that ratepayers ought
to offer steady and deliberate passive resistance to it ;
and that every district ought to organize some volun-
tary mode of relieving its own poor; and for this
purpose, as well as to stop the fatal traffic with
England, that the people should determine to suffer
no grain or cattle to leave the country.
" With reference to the future direction which
should be given to the energies of the country and
of the Irish Confederation, I desired in the first
place, once for all, to turn men's minds away from
the English Parliament and from Parliamentary and
constitutional agitation of all kinds. I have made up
my mind that inasmuch as the mass of the people
have no franchises, nod are not likely to get any, and
inasmuch as the constituencies being very small,
very poor, and growing smaller and poorer continu-
ally, are so easily gained over by corruption and
bribery, and inasmuch as any combination of the
gentry' v‘itli the people is now and henceforth im-
possible—that for all these reasons any organization
for parliamentary or constitutional action would
be merely throwing away time and strength, and
ensuring our own perpetual defeat. Therefore I de-
sired that the .Nation and the Confederation should
rather employ themselves in promulgating sound in-
struction upon military affairs—upon the natural lines
of defence which make the island so strong, and the
method of making those available—upon the construc-
tion and defence of field works, and especially upon
the use of proper arms—not with a view to any
immediate insurrection, but in order that the stupid
'legal and constitutional ' shouting, voting, and agi-
tating that have made our country an abomination to
the whole earth, should be changed into a deliberate
study of the theory and practice of guerilla warfare ;
and that the true and only method of regenerating
Ireland might- in course of time recommend itself
to a nation so long abused and deluded by legal
humbug.
"These are my doctrines, and these were what I
wished to enforce in the Nation. I knew that it would
be illegal' to do so; I knew that it would subject
You, as proprietor of that paper, to prosecutions for
`sedition,' &c. I knew, besides, that your own views
did not at all agree with mine ; and I could not as-
suredly expect you to incur legal risks for the sake of
promulgating another man's opinions. Therefore,
when I found—which I did during the progress of
the Coercion Bill--that no one journal could possibly
represent two sets of opinions so very incompatible as
yours and mine; and when you informed me that the
columns of the Nation should no longer be open even
to such a modified and subdued exposition of my
doctrines as they had heretofore been, I at once rr.-
moved all difficulty, by ending the connexion which
had subsisted between us more than two years.
" I have not entered into any details of the difficul-
ties and disagreements that preceded this final step
but I cannot avoid mentioning the circumstance that;
Nationdwspu her
iei ceng
hh delivered,hooe r
uu vfeel
consideredty last i
tbnecessaryy wm ek
eei
n of
seditious
t tohlney
suppress
anconnexion
Irish
iil Confederation
oopnloiftrei wtcdi..eoi
rtnha
io,t,ol.dannoe,
not impugn your motives for this, but if theta* had
been no other reason urging me to the course. I have
taken, this alone would have been enough to make
me resolve on never writing another line in the
Nation. lam bound to add that I did not discover
the fact of this suppression until the next morning,
after I had finally closed my connexion with the
Nation; so that it did not actually influence me,
though it fully justified me in what I have done.
" In this letter you will observe that I have not
attempted to describe or characterise your opinions.
I leave that to yourself. You have the Nation at
your command, and have had five opportunities of
expounding your own policy since I had one. It is
enough to say that the present policy of the Nation
does not suit me. If you publish this letter, I hope
there will be no possibility of any future misrepre-
sentations and vague rumours about the causes of our
y
differences, such as you say are now current.
" I remain, faithfully ours,
" JOHN
MITCHEL,
" Charles Gavin Duffy, Esq."

t itut i
-------------, SOCIETY.—
TEE HOME AND COLONIAL oCIIOOL
offereden larg 0 blyh 13 is Governmentori.
A grant of 2,4001. has
towards enabling
and at least to double the present number. of trained
will bo required. Ilis Royal
teachers of both sexes. T.o complete
.the object in view
a further sum of 2,000 Z
hsaosciebtyeanto
Highness. Prince Albert has forwarded a donation of
201., besides accepting the office of patron with her
Majesty. An anonymous individual, signing " A Thank-
offering," has also subscribed 2501. Three individuals
(the executrix of the late Rev. Dr. Mayo, J. S. Rey-
nolds, &q. and Miss Mayo), have given donations of
!
2501. etueachtor the purpose of having one student, free,
always in the institution.
Tim LATE ACCIDENT TO LADY ZETLAND.—We
are happy to learn that Lady Zetland has nearly reco-
vered the effect of her fright on the railway, and that
.her maid is also in a fair way of recovery, and that,
instead of her hands having been cut off by the engine,
she has only lost two fingers, that were amputated. It
is now fully admitted that, had her ladyship and her at-
tendant remained in the carriage, no accident would have
occurred. Still we think that the melancholy occur-
rence should induce the managers of railways to adopt
some method to prevent fire escaping from the engine
to the carriages, and also to devise a mode of com-
munication between guards and passengers. York
,Harald.