New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-05
New4lurk DAILY @ibn'te
SIX DAYS IN IRELAND III

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~"s'ory O" ',oe With IRON bais, So as to enable the
Nnoo"' s,he, Oasr,son, 10 resist sudden att@ck,
hna'es' y, a., 6,r a few days il beSeged by mon
@o " cua,d houses are stationed IN the open
o""'e v =. ,bc ou,rts ef the principal towns forming
'0u""y A.,ocb.d Gmts in the villages they mostly
"'O'' ,.p,r,l poslti N Each Of these posts IL oc
~ -, ,ouad (bigaie, ss the French would saw
- Az men pnd,r n corporal or sergeant several
.an.ds hong urdei the command Of a Lieutenant OF
,so,a,, TIE whole force thus spread over Ireland,
ascilv over tie west and south, was stated al the
h,;,;, {, of the sar with Russia 10 ba bo less thah
"A COO men or more than ta To every Thousand nhao'
asu,s. proportion far grenter than even tha' eSIao
xhaa =; Antrim O, Fra. CO. the two countries posses''
= ro-,sns the most numerous gcAdarmcrte OF the
90, In France there were, in 1850, hui two
.snas,mes TO every 5000 inhabitants
The men are on the whole far better looking than
.he present average of the English infantry. They
are A. least as tall and well made the English c4val
~, snd many Of them gre very soldicr-hke fellows
Their duty requires, of course men OF considerable
bodily strength combined ~ith agility dthey appear
No pOr ess both. Trey sTe far u could irn all
Irishmen II is proof of the reduced state Of the
national energies that such body, created espectllY
tor internal ssOn could be formed from the very
nation whose national aspirations it is intended to keep
down The organization and distribut on OF the con-
sabuaIy is modelled, every respect, upon that Of
the Continental genda,mere and IT was curious to
ob.e1ve that the d.sgustiUgly arrogant and pryng
e,mes>ion Of cOuntenaDce peculiar 10 the police
soldier in all Continental countries, and especially de-
veloped in the Prus-ian etnddrm', had been most
strk Il, and perfectly reproduced in the older men,
hrs e his Iish force. As the coach passes
through vi lage s'Ops TO change hores, the com
mental traveller finds himsef at surrounded by
weDkpown faces which he distinctly recollects having
seen loi sgo in French, Belgian, Prussisn uul-
h,r1n; in the midst of their dleness, walking round
and round the coach pryng into its inside, into the
hggsge compartment aud the letter bag, eyeiDg the
coacf msn or guard with an air of authority, and star
i1g every pa-senger in the face, in such way that
every mouent you expect them to call ut" Your
pat sports, geDtlemenp y
They are veiy well equipped. Their dark green
jackets rowsers and caps without any party colored
facn gs or oil aments except of brass buttons
on the jacket very suitably mede and at the same
kme live them far m .re sO)ier.ke look than all the
dazzng coloIs and ugly fnery which are the fashion
m the hne. In fact take away the repusive gem
dorne lock and there is not body in the BrIt,sh
army that has such really military appearance.
They are srmed with cavalry car blue and bayonet,
cartridge pouch, pocket for percussion caps, and
aao'heI worn a; II wai'tbet the contents of which
1 was at a loss to divine. On inquiry was told,
though rather reluctantly that it contained pair of
hndcuff,.
Beside the Constabuarv, there is another armed
repressive force. the Revenue Police armed like the
first, but accoutered in blue They are employed to
ferret out the illicit stills, which very common
even Low among the mouutains aud bOgs. Their
nunbtis do not appear to be considerable. At any
rate az the Prussian gendsrme has been reproduced
in Ireland 70 has the French armed dDuanier.
What with the COLssbulary, the Revenue Police,
and the 20 900 sodiers the hne generally qutrtered
b. Irelm o, the country is much under per nanent
nihIsry occupation any portion of the "oppressed
Contn It, and the proportion of police troops is larger
tan in auy other coun ~, Lombardy not accepted.
Tbst is the diverse Of what Engshmen 70 fond Of
sallrDg British liberty.
Taking Of military matters, one cannot travel
through Ireland with an eye to such things, without
Noticing the uncommon aptitude of the lrsh for light
inisnuy They may well be called bOg-trOtters; their
trO,tng capacities indeed extraordinary. We have
often seen scores of lads run beside the coach for
thre. sro four miles, without single minutes walk
bart ct they wee-aud not for begging, but 'or the
mer. fun of the thrg; and sometimes it took them a
Of miles Deble lney Sot oI dii "oiui AHNo VII
duraDce IL accompanied by the natural agility and
quick int. Digtnce OF the Celtic race. A better na-
teria for sku mshels than sach men it would be diff
cult I, fno; yet the E. gllsh, with their clumsy sys-
I'm OF dill aud tactics, contrive completely to undo
their natural capacities aud TO render them unit idr
any ytbing but the slow movements and uDwiedy iue-
hghtrg of heir owu troops. This u;er contempt oi
the specific military qualities Of the Irish is decidedly
. ,ha of he mill of
Great Bdtan.
But to return to our tour. We left Galway by the
Emerck coach, the road leading round the head OF
sbe magnificent bay, that bay which, according to
Irsh fancy il to become tie center Of al European
busr. s. nd intercourse with North America IN virtue
of she fact ba its dauce to Cape Race is but l,t5O
mill, What a series Of castle III the Air have been
boil, upon this tact winch might have been discovered
on " ten wears ago. Not Ouly does the Great Western
Railway Oi Ireland part OSe is ex-tence TO this
Circumstance and TO the hopes Oui ded on III not salts
fed with that the company already built, in con-
necton with the Galway station monster hotel,
with above hundred bedrooms for the accommoda'
tsD Of all those nu nbeloss travellers who will have TO
swoit 4 ere the departure Of the future Irish Ameri-
can Mail steamers. These travellers appear however,
TO have got tired OF waiting, for at our arrival he
hotel hsd just been shu, up-at the begnning OF the
fIe s.as,n too. And, unfortunately, Galway Il
n1 alone putting forth such claims to
mail station There IL another small place
en- The Sputh side of the shannon, half way
dow nom LIMERICK which fully expects to be seec~d
sa The purpose; tfen there the Island of Nalena
and Iiarbor OF Cshnciveen, in the extreme south
west, putting forward Their claims through the
ne olum of pint-, views and prospectuses Issued by
JOINT rtock coinpsny TO be dtfntyely instituted