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From lilr Dablin Nation Ireland.-IHistory of Ten Years.

of ceatures Down those long hies Of lguteS on ! the census tale IS indesea one of theu1st rnouTn- fn natlonaf histories that the eye oi God has ever rested upun. within ten years the world has at-l yaneed greatly towards its goal-nobie thoughts and actions Keeping apt harmony with the nasic of her spheres. An9iea has doubled her power. and earned her banners 10 the golden waters oi 1 the Pacific; France has become republic; Eng l land has freed her trade, and increased m pcpnia- ion and prosperity. all Enrope has been in arms for liberty, and democracy eoped with deSpoiISm not in vain. From Inc Vistnla to the MeFsey, man has grown stronger, and freer. and litter Tor free dom; and lands have bcrn tiled to abundance, and the people have creaSed and multiplied. Bal Ireland has struggled aaa starved for ten years A worse desolashn than ~afssss scattered or slain our people And, Of all the wide world, ours k the only country that we know uf thtis darlng thus decade. has retIograded iu the scasc of na- tiopal strength, happiness, and liberty
 We are fewer now than we were thirty years ago. We have lost. within a few years, not alone the actual increase of population during tho last thirty years--net alone the probable increase ot the last ten. If the clrcumsl aaces ot the country had favored an inerease--but the prospective in crease for many years 10 come, by the exile Of tbe very generation who were belrS et the country, and destined to perpetuate it's people. As many of our race have fled away. carrying their energy stengh, courage and faith to the great republic Of tie west as would suffice to found new nation anywhere on the earth, and more than live within the bouHlarleS Of prosperous and independent Eu- ropean States, FarmDre have died by salvation and government than fell under rope and sw1Id m the boodiest struggle of our foreiathefsl aghlpsi England. There are as many paupers in Irish workhouses to- day there were people Tn all Ire iand at the beginning of tho last century. The
 landlords have leveited 28e, ,0e0 houses and driven forth as many famiIes-ony lOo,O0p less hearths
 eit deSoate than there were III all lteland cen tury ago. Connaugbt has lost 2S 6-10 per cent. 5 | Ulster. Leinster, l5 l0; Ireland, on an average, 20 per cent, or fifth of it's whole population. ot the other ffths, one at least IS pauper; one may be able to live by profession, property or nduslry and the others struggle hard between the extremes oi our social state Such IS he summing np oi the case f Ireland o-day. It Is very easy to or der the aemcimals and parallel the statistics. Bui what human tongue may tell all the woe and eFli, all the causes and consequences which these few figures cipher, aud preach tbe duty that lies upon us all before God and man thereby
 Ten years ago Inc world had great hopes of Ire land. More men and women of the irish race stood together upon Irish soil than ever before since the abounding days of Cahal Mor. strange moral TevoiHtipa, 10 winch there are but few par alelS in the history of mankind, had suddenly been wrohght in the habits oi a whole people young and old crowdiag ln uyIiads round a simple fTisr.| | as of youe, wben the hermit called Europe t9 save The sepulchre of our Lord The people were re- deemed in a simmer from the folIes aud vices of their slavery: temperance bands on the ToadSS temperance reading rooms in the villages; tempe rance and it's virtues in all the >acts and words of the people. Ii seemed as though one act of yolI- ton should lift them o the full stature of r, edon True, there was great distress in many parts of the country, there had been, indeed, for years even | of the most prosperous times; but 1t was borne with pnde and patience, and no one looked 10 the workhouseS, which were first beglnnlng to open, as the remedy or receptacle for it. Who should T k ed with the proud, hopeful, temperate Irish peas antryi The national schools had been fairly es- tabished, md buzzed by the high roads wllh their quarter of million of noble young children, whom one hoped yet 10 see the free and happy e. tizenS of independent lreiand-their quarter of million recruited by its little pfaitling hundred thousand year. Il is only an old maa's dream, perhaps that ten years ago the sun beamed bright eT and the streams ran with a more stlyery e,ear ness. and deeper yerdure was on he fields and the happy smlle of God Shone more often m the air over Ireland.
 And then the next year, when the great national agitation begun, how the people aroused to o'Con- nell < call, as clansmen wh1n the fiery cross Is on the hIsls How all Europe gazed towards tinS great movement, with it's proud, lmpetuous Ian guagc--wlth it's meetings of mlhonS-wth it's enormons treasuIy-with its great aggreeaie force, able to ayerwhehn all the opposition of England! And [" soul came into is}laad." That fiery na- tional spirit, silent since the graves Of the United l7iShmen had closed, or speaking oHS m rare aud
 ndIstinet muticrBgs echoed like thunder through the island again. And then followed Tara. Nal low, Mullaghmast, C!outarf; and England and Ireland were now surely free. And Peel Iecog nized the lsiSh difficulty.
 The State trials began in the Queens Bench, and ended al the Cdanceiiors WoolSack. And the day passed in winch the enthusiasm of the monster meetings could realize it's true purpose. The angel Of opportunity wants he'd. 4 dreary agi- of fgha anda leges2 followed, and men began to ask, would the repeal ever be gotl And then came the whlgs, DuBg0ran. the eleven meaSures,' the SeceS- sion, the famine. On single night the food Of the whole nation was bighted Since tAen we have lived among chaos and death. until we see hundreds killed every week in the workhouSe, aud thousands flying panic stricken across the seas, and the census returns leave us some three millions Of people less than we should be.
 The hand of God has lain heavy upon Ireland. For own sins and shortcomings | IS that Ire land Is lileless and desolate to-day, and that the flower Of our population have fled 10 distant lands. Contemplating that teTnble stale, the head reels as over a precipice. Rut when We are dead and gone, history shall paint our times III their trl and eternal ineanents, aud trace the cause and eliuet that we are blind io see God defend . the right n that judgment WhoSo renders '' Lss Dir Aas' iSA0-'5o irnly will teach a lesson line nations of the earth may listen 10 with fear and trembling; for never people of articulation, speaking men rulneti and overs he!med n short a space
 How IS t tlat even yet we 50 little realize tn ourselves the sacred. soiemE responsibility of po hteal aeiion} il IS vain 10 say that had Ire land foag4t for her freedom a lSi3 mili30ns Of lives would have been saved tu the country. But II is true II is ia vain 10 say tbal natloD never took pp arms on more solemn justification than Ireland ia ls4o. That, too, IS true aad pssi.- c BrleB is in daraaee al Port ArsAur and those oi f.fe 3 pn Bat ih the face cf 8 perising people and ot pei secaiea church, whea see Irish constituencies, ] nader Inc dteet fStigaiion o catholic elergymen, Ssaa the bassst AigS lo pafllan.ent--to ike paf- lianent that IS every day gsing iactcased facilities for starving the people, and laying the alshops at ;se mercy Of any yenmy Q Briea or Stephenson Dobbyn- how can we believe that eDnsceacc Is coaeerned-that religieu or the iaSv Of God i. Te eardca ln sneh itan actsonse And lh!s in the year of our Lord, te5l