New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-18
PUBIC MEETINGS.
LECTURE BY JOHN Mitchell.

On Wea,e-dsy pxhs IN the TAbesusele John Mitchell
delivered lecture on the Hpsnins 81 the hevosnton
in Ireland before large and enthusiAstsc audience
The church was ornamensed with days and MILITARY
4mblems. He commenced by commenting on the
powerlessness and aulesssess of the present. war N
Europe. He called it midsummer madness lie
knew Of no greater criminal snce Nebuchadnezzar
than the present Pentarchy who swayed the sceptes
and ,rampled upon the liberties of Europe. He alluded
70 Louis Napoleon in no very complimentary terms
No war he said Tad been 50 grea. a. this young
giant of war now rocking in the Cnmean cradle.
The loans Of Englani-a sad way of STAYING on bank
ruptey-rould turn out dsgaceful enough IN the end
From January to September last the war had cost the
English $3.50 Geo 600, and the Car was now preparing
for peace by shipping and powder from Amer
ica In Scotland the Highland clans-nuseres of SOL
ders-were rapidly disappearing before the march OF
Agricuhure-were twothrds gone. The clsymore was
rustpg on the wall and the coronach would soon van
;sh from the face of the earth The bare-egged Ces
were gone and their los was felt nowhere more than
in the Cr1mea. England could not even get Hesslan
cut-tbry ats 10 fight her battles now her power was
doomed 10 fall and would be regretted by no one
tut Sambo the King of the Mosquitoes. MT Mtchel
alluded in severe terms the assertion Of English ana
American journals that Ireland was now contented.
He gave thrilling and touching voice to the nintness
and
He complmented the noble mountaineers of tennessee
among whom he had been living. In speaking OF
Macaaay's History, he called il that volnminous
mo Popery pamphlet which he csls h l,srtsg
in Dublin whose avowed object was 20 prepare t1e
Irish people for insurrectoni II was called ne Ir1
une In a late number it had stated that Engiahu
difficulty had come-had not lrelands opponu-
pi,vi II also instructed its readers not so much
in the principles OF the English Government
AZ in field ratification and how to resist
cavalry and infantry They dared. as they said 10
run fhis weekly sheet of ours against the existence
. Of the British Empire" Mr.. Mitchell turning from
Dublin to NewYork proceeded to read from an article
which appeared in THE TRIBUNE of the sth insti ana
10 make sundry comments thereon which were rel
shed BY his audience rather less baS Dot
so long cooking. The English people ana anstoracy'
he continued would be on Que another throats'
Ireland would then be left to manage her own AFFAIRS
In TINT case Irshmen might find their way across the
ocean there 10 make Ireland free, or TO die lie hau
declared his intention 10 become citizen, and conse-
ouently should go, and would advise his friends TO 90
as-passeDgers, as saiois or a. tourists nut tne
! little bully Palmerston might provoke war WIN WIZ
America In that case 40 900 Irish citizens would
crave the honor ard privilege OF striking the oh nag
in Dublin or if the President ordered them, even III
| Buckingham Palace. Native Americans might take
care of the coast and Cuba and Central America, Out
40 600 Irishmen would claim the honor of crossing
| the water He discouraged the idea of collecting
money for this purpose. Why in such case they
could count on half the property of irlshmen III
America Irish would give their rings for this;
England as the VI Of the democracy
must have war; it would be the third wal
and the last war. And ifthe sneers with which the
English press had followed Irishmeu the world over.
il they did not thrust those sneers down tnglah
throat then might they dig railroads and carry hod
forever. He preferred military organizations to al
others by way of preparation Other organizations
led to personal rivalry and to an expectation that the
| fon Lett hem AIT
| ing for them; England every day growing
weaker. The storm was rising; clouds were gathering
around her, and in the words OF old General Simpson
the weather was magnificent.
The delivery of the lecture was continually inter
ruped by wells and Kisses and shouts, groans and erie
and whistles; most of the imaginable and many of tn
unimaginable sounds in which the grand Celtic nation
| is in the habit Of expressing itself.