Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-17
AUsTR1ANIsN IN IRELAND.

One thing in the tate Parliamentary cleo
tions in Great Britain is worth some attention.
In the constituencies of six of the Irish mem
bers, there was a sudden and very remarkable
change. The Boston Pilot notices this cir
cumstance as follows 1t is worthy of re-
mark that the ministry has made a gain Of
six members in ireland from Catholic constit.
uencies." And the Pilot attributes this polti-
cal change to a disposition of the Catholics to
uphold the Derby ministry, on account of its
Austrian proclivities; that is to say, the Cath
Ole vote given so successfully for the six Irish
Derbyites in question was intended as vote
for Austria.
1t is alleged by some of the London papers
that this sudden change was due to the influ-
ence of Cardinal Wiseman and Archbishops
Cullen and MacTIaie, who are accused of be-
ing Austrian emissaries." 1t is unquestion-
ably true that these gentlemen did something
to produce the result; and the intensity of
may be inferred from the fact that to serve
Austria they gave their potent influence to
elect Tory Protestants and Orangemen. Clare,
from which the illustrious O 'Connell was first
returned to Parliament, is one of these changed
constituencies. 1t has until now been one of
the intensely liberal sections of Ireland, full of
the bravest kind of O'Connellism, and thor
oughly disposed to annihilate the Tories. And
it has been just as strongly Catholic. Now
Clare has elected Tory a Protestant, AN Or
Il -
angeman is Derbyite and will vote in Parlia-
ment on the Austrian side. And so in other
localities. Tory Protestants have been pre-
ferred to liberal Catholics. Irish gentlemen of
the Catholic communion, who have always
been true to the church and to ireland, have been
voted down by potential influences in the
church itself, which, in this case, has not hes
itated to be more Austrian than Catholic
These changes are observable only in those
sections of Ireland where Catholic influence is
strongest, and zeal for the freedom and indie
pendence of Ireland the most intense those
sections which were most devoted to O'Con-
nell, and where Tories have been detested more
than all things else in existence The Tories
lOuSiiI W tic HiSt against OdluOllC elnanClpa-
ton, and they have opposed obstinately every
measure ofjustice to the men of that commuu-
ion in Ireland and O'Connell fought them to
the day of his death. But all this was for
gotten.
This remarkable demonstration in Ireland,
is one OF the many testimonies to the fact
that the present war in Europe means great
deal more than struggle between two despo-
tisms. 1t is one of the bloody outbreaks of
that war between the Old and the New Spirit
Of the Dark Ages and the claims of absolute
Truth and Justice, which in some form
goes on always, and must go on until the
right wins the victory. Toryism, bigotry,
and hoary despotism, all belong to the
same family. They are drawn togeth-
er by elective affinity, and must fight on
the same side. In Italy the King of Sardinia
and his minister, Count Cayour, are the recog-
nized champions of religious liberty They
have established it in that part of Italy which
is subject to their control. And this, added to
their implaeable antagonism to the Austrian
despotism, draws upon them the tireless enmi-
ty of all those devotees of ultramontane priest
craft by whom the numbering Austrian despot-
ism is so infinitely beloved.