Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-09-14
NUMBER 25s.
Correspondence Of the N Y. Courier and Enquirer
Ireland.
DUBLIN, August "a, 1851.

DUBLIN, August "a, 1854.
Charles Gavan Duffy is leaving our shores in de-
spair--considering Ireland sunk in degradation be-
yond recovery. But others think her rapidly cul,
minatng, and say that he, without meaning il, was
one main agent In her career of prosperity. He
broke up the mighty organization, that, under
OConnell, united the great body Of the Roman
Catholic clergy and laity. His own substitute for
il Is scattered to the Winds Young Irelandism i
now educating for competing for high positions in
the East India Companys civil service, and closer
intimacy and more rapid communication with Eng.
land, and thereby with the world at large.
Instead Of hordes ofagricutural sqaatters. which
Mr.. U. would have located on lands bought by
publc company TO prevent emigration, Ireland Il
rapidly undergoing cultivation by substantial
farmers, who study agriculture MS a science. And
as for an Independent party in Parament-to
sway the destinies Of Wing and Tory, and be moth
ing put lrish---tfat too has vanished as vision
nor is y nkeiy to DC ever revived, though two or
thfee aspiring barristers, unwarned by the fate Of
Duffy, with few Of the more restless Of the clergy
are trying TO raise Presbyterian Representa-
ton" party
The Presbyterians have just one representative
OF that denomination in Parliament Mr.. Kirk. Tho
member for Newry, and II would be Gar from, snr.
prlslng u at the next election, the Presbyterians
OF that borough should join in oustng him, IN con
sequence OF his moving the Adjournment 81, thr
Maynooth discussion, which shelyed that snb;act
ior the session; for the whole Presbyterian BODY
Is strong for the abolition Of the Maynootb on.
dowment both as objecting to the national sane
ton poing gwen IN any form 10 the Roman Catho
lic religion, and because their own endowment hoa
been made to give color to that of Maynootb. II
would surely not be more strange than that Mr..
Duly should be succeeded In New Ross by M
Tottenham, conservative
Our Viceroy is as active and ponnlor os ave,
lie visits the camp on the Curragh, attends college
examinations, visits shows of cattle and farm rro.
once ana howers, examines hospitals and other
sanitary establishments, and Is equally al fa;I I,
all In these, and in answers 10 addresses f.on
public bodies, you would suppose he had made The
particular subject his special study. Gqnerally
speaking, he is complimentary but occasionally
he meets assumption with quiet by.blow Thc
other day, an address was presented from uThe
Nonsubscribing Body" which is made up Of the
" Remonstrant Synod, Of Ulster,n the .Presb,.
tery Of Antrim and the "Synod of Munster -
the whole, not numbering, perhaps. more Than
forty congregaions--an most of these ,nares
handsfull for the rising generation. In this eoau
try ls rapidly abandoning Unitarianism IN ali as
forms.
In their address, they referee, religious lib
erty, free education and .he right OF adhering to
conscientious convictions; but as they alone OF all
Others, do not indaige In propagandism, having no
missions homo or foreign they get credit-wl ether
justly or nnfoundedly--for indifference more than
zeal In his reply, his excellency gave uttcrance
to Of those antithetical aphorisms that become
of the "household words" in the literature of n
nation. Religious earnestness Is the breath of
life TO churches; religious liberty is the pulse of
health TO nations