The Arkansas banner., 1848-04-25
IRELAND lyD ENGLAND.

Att meeting convened in Washington city, fer the purpose of expressing sympathy and interest n regard to the last glorious triamph of the pcope in France, GEN. LEWIS CASS. made sn eloquen, address, from which ws take the following short extract:
 "Eei!ow-citizena, do not deny that there is much to be commended in the institations of England, social and political. do not deay that she has con trlbuted her full share to the inielectuai progress of the age. do not deny that there IS great deal of moral worth in that eoustry, and many high traits of character well worthy of imitstioa. But inc practical administration of her government is entitled to such eommendatioa. It Is al bitra- " and oppressise-administered by q chosen class for their own benefit, and not for the masses It sits like an incubus upon the grrai body of the peo pie in two-thirds of the home emI ire; and in the other ihird-Ire!and-i has pressed down the peo- pie into a state oi humiliation elsewhere unk in Christcndom. It's right of primogeniture, its feudal privileges. and is aristocIaiic tendencies, have created such an inequality of property, that scenes of disress-aye, cf dls.=ess sn the largest scae--aTe passing ftere In . manner unknown in modern history. IL h very we'll to talk of the blessings of the English law -of trial by jury and the habeas corpus. These good things for those who can enjoy them. But bread is better thing for SarYing family than trial by jury. and house is better protection than habeas corpus. Probably on the face of the globe there is no such squalid misery in the novels of Ireland; nor was the spirit of man ever pressed down, as there, by the overpo~eFing evils which surround hirf, Ire. land Is scarcely the country of hishmen. 1t Is the country of England, which the sons of Ireland in- habit, and where they exist rather than live. And this pPp'e. sends thesn 10 every rexion of the globe; and wherever they go, they carrS with them an instnctve hatred ol tyrAnRy and the love cf lb- erty. They have made most valuable accessious 10 our population, and in peace and war have fuI-
 filled all the dssss sf Amercan sitizsszsas zeaIous, ly as those born m our coaatTy From the heights ot Abraham, waseFed with the Hond ef Moa. gom- cry. To the very last battle fsnght tn Mexico where Is the field crowned by the vaiot and exertions ot the American troops, in which the blood ol Ireland has not mingled with our ovn, and in which he. native. but our adopsd have no, nObly rallied around the standard of their ehosen homef
 England Is in that condition which requires but one firm effort on the part of her people to extend those principles of free government, which nomi- nally belong to the country. but which prsctic ally are con6ned 10 the few to extend them 10 the great bndy of the people, and thus to create govern ment for the benefit oi all, directed by all, and conntable 10 all.
 The fiscal oppression of England is of itself phenomenop, The sssn q Two hundred apd fifty millions ot dollars s every year ground out of the people, for tgeheral purposes, besides perhaps ar equal sum for the mainte nance of the clergy, fol the support Of the poor. and for vast vaiiety o oN1cI tpCai OuJcGtS mOfe tttan one h1It ot tQeSt two hundred and fifty millions q doilars s applies to the payment ef the intsre of the national debt large portion c! winch was contIscted by Pnt, ir his odious efforts to check the spirit of liberty or the continent of Europe. This system seems to bs approaching it's crisis; for, this year. in time o profound peace, the insufficient to mee the expenditures. Where is the true hearted Ameii can who does not long for the termination of such state of ehIagSs
 Oae of the strangest events, in tlis day of grea events is the origin of these movements favor o liberty upon the continent of Europe. Whesc, came theys From the Eternal City--irom the heac of the Catholic religion-'he successor Of St Peter Immediately on his elevation 10 fhe Pontifcsr, th, Pope ayowed his atachEsent to free principles anc from the Vatican went out the decree which Is now spreading through the earth. The PontifF, whs holds the keys of St. Peter, has found key to un lock the recess of haras heart. Ha msEal ssas agaa~as bat the more tried by the ditc Bities of hi position. The abuses of the gove -nment tn. work of ages, and had entered into ali the habits life and the rsH,ihsatioAs of society and he val surrounded hy despots goFe rnmens, jealous Of th, first aspirations of hbefty, and mashtaiBihg thes sway by powerful armies. The Aastrian. too. witi his PsndOSrs and his Greats fram the banks of tn. Danube, had descended the -iiges of the Aips ana had spread himself oyerihe suhny plains oi Italy. - Almost in sight of the dome Of St Peters he watch ed, with interest and many threatening word. th, progress of the Pope. But the work went on.- Naples is in state of revolution; Tuscany and Sss dinia n state Of reform; and France of apparentl, peaceful progress in the new career cpeued 10 her