The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-06-13

hksl That Is the everlasting fact of the mat
ter trne to-day as il was at the beginning OF
the world and only overlooked (for reasons)
70 certain confused heavy laden periods, which
By their nature are either fatal or else transto-
~. Constitutional men, believe, will gradu-
ally become aware of this and once well dis
corning it, will find whole unelaborated
world of practical reform, on that unexpected
side Of cnrtailing the suffrage again!
In brief bis lordship's bill for improved reg,
istration OF Irish county voters, which Is sad
10 be good OF its sort, and bill for improved
ditto in Irish municipalities, which has not yet
come into the light, 90, to impartial extra par
liarncntary persons, seem as strange PAIR OF
bills as were ever propounded on such an oc-
,asion. Our impious Irish Iocer Of BdbeL,
built high for centuries now against Gods
commandment. having at last with fateful shud-
der through every stone of it cracked from top
to base; and bending now visibly to every
eve, and hanging in momentary peril Of tumb-
linz wholly and Of carving our own dwelling
place along with twill his Lordship, with
these two exquisite Whitechapel needles, bring
the imminent bullying masonries, the big beams
and deranged boulders, into square again !
This it appears are his first croubars; with
these he means to begin and try.
Is bis Lordship not aware, then, that the l.
IRISH potatoe has, practically speaking, fallen
extinct; that the hideous form Of Irish social
ed social existence" sustained thereby, has
henceforth become impossible THAT some
new existence, deserving little more to be
called social will have to introduce itself
there; or worse, ever worse, down to some
nameloss worst of all, will have to follow
Il from
where il can. is indispensable for the human
beings that inhabit Ireland That on the
whole, real government effective guidance and
eonstraint Of human folly by human wisdom,
Is very desirable for all manner of human be-
ingsl That, in fine, the King Of the French
drove lately through the Barrier of Passy in
a eae horse chaise ? And Furthermore that
Europe at large has risen behind him, to testi-
fy that it also will, at least, have done With
sham government, and have either true gov
ernment or else none at all? These are grave
fa:iS, and indicate to all creatures that neio
and very ominous era, for ireland and for US,
has arrived.
ireland, which was never yet organic with
other than make believe arrangement, now
wIithcs in bitter agony, plainly disorganic
from shore TO shore its perennial hunger
land has her Chartisms, her justly discomfort
ell work-peope countable by the million; re-
pressed or extinguished by the glorious 10th
Of April. fer ghich a monument is to be built.
No and Europe, We say, from Cadiz to Cop
enhasea has crashed together suddenly into
the bo.tonl!ess deeps; the thin earthrind, who'll
" ar i'icial, giving way beneath it; and welt
ers now one huge Democracy, one huge anarchy
or king ,ssness its kings all flying Ii Ike set Of
mers play-actor kings, and none now even pre-
tending to rule, and herocally, at his life's peril
command aud constrain. Does our chief govern
er calculate that England, with such Chartsm
under 1--k and such fire ship of an Ireland in
dis5oubly chained to her, beaten continually by
IN nnarchic Europe and its all-permeating infu
cuces anl impulses, can keep the waters on these
germs BY her old constitutional methods, of
producing small registration bills, much Parlia-
mcntars eioquence. and getting the supplies vot-
ed.-in which latter point, itwould seem now, ow-
in. TO increase of Parliamentary eloquence, the
chief governor finds difficulties Is it by such
alchemy that he will front the crisis A chief
governor of that hurnor, at the present juncture,
Is surely rather al alarming phenomenon