Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-04-07

asked for an increase Of its members, nei
iher royalty nor aristocracy coald deny The
request. fet IT was IA great victory which
will serve as precedenl for grea, err limo
vaiions upon absolute or corrup, power. i,
is moi by any means true tina, republican.
ism must always take The form which !,
exhibits in the United States; in fact i, is
various even here, differing IN difIeren,
states as much as they all differ from the
monarchies Of Europe.
The character and principles Of peo-
pie must manifest themselves in the nstitu-
tons OF the country, and could we blot on,
every vestige oflhe Russian government.
the people would a, once create similar
one. So it was in France The people
could adopt our principles, but they could
neither comprehend nor embrace our form
Of government. Hence il was that The de-
struclion OF that monarchy failed al,ogeti.-
er to prepare the way for iepubicanism
and enemies Of royalty and rel gion rebuilt,
the throne and the altar Ru, great
change has taken place. Once the mon
arch ruled-the people obeyed; now the
people are sovereign, and the king is the
representative We do so anxiously in.
quire. "Wh hat says the king" as what
think the people. Oar revolution led to
that Of France, which prepared the way for
Napoleon. whose career alarmed all Eu
rope. Our example has wrought perma-
nent and important changes, and is now
operating silently but efficiently for the re-
demp,ion of man from servi,ude.
The CONDITION OF lRELANp.-The
speech of Sir Soben Peel during the great
debate in the House of Commons, on the
Corn Laws, revealed state of things in
Ireland Of which we had no previous con-
ceplIon We had supposed that the stories
OF the failure ofthe potato crop were much
exaggerated, but it would now seem tina, hall
has not been told Us. To show the fearful
extent to which disease has cut off the crop
in Ireland, Sir Robert in his speech, read
extracts from sund.y official reports made by
persons appointed for that purpose, and all
speaking the same appalling langnage.-
One return, embracing the particulars from
every electoral district in Ireland, set forth
that in districts the loss of potatoes, had
been . lOths of the whole crop; in 90, be-
tween and ienhs; in l25, ienths; in
l6, e ,enths; 500 districts onc-half; and in
562. four ,cnhs. The average loss is
therefore considerably more than one-haLf
the whole crop, and yet, as the Minister
stated, four millions of the British people
are dependen. upon this article of food for
subsistence!
We are surprised 10 find that in this hour
IF al .ho ~ h. hao
| introduced into the House Of Lords, osten-
sibly to render life and property more sc
cure in Ireland. which empowers The Lord
Lieutenant 10 declare any part of the coun
try under The operation of the act,and makes
it thenceiorth penal offence for the peo-
pie, within the prescribed limits, to be Out
of their houses between sunset and sunrise
| This IS as bad as any of The slave laws OF
the South. As NIL be supposed il meets
with little favor from the Irish press. An
other Circumsi ance which has aroused 4
great deal Of feeling in that unhappy country
is the execution of Bryan Seery for the al.
legged offence of having shot al (not killed
S,r Francis Hopkins. Seeiy was tried and
| acquitted once, but was indicted again,
tried a second time for the same offence,
COZ victed and hung He was Catholic,
and died protesting his innocence; the
priest who tended him in his last moments.
declaring thoi he was murdered man.
So general was the belief in bis innocence
tat though the execution WAS public and in
populous ne ghborhood, there was not a
solitary spectator but the military and the
police! The people staid away TO mark
their sense of ths leg mu der