The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-10-15

comss-s feat Of no dinesl.y. for Insh pdyasssss-
sn sSs aries supplied With few thousand pounds could
more particularly Il they thought that the government
sufficiently embarrassed by the Irish war 70 grant
Finally, London is more Irish than Dublin; 90 is Man.
chester and OF course, Liverpool There can be half
dozen British towns named that have greater Irish
ireland Itself There are a Isss. two millions Of the
Irish people there and this portion Of hs British pop
ar, n
organization and ths whiie rendering their efforts
effective. would serve e grand nucleus N case the
people against her enote rule 81 e.*af
stopping here !. y perfectly plain that the pompous
Irish war; scarcely ten millions Of compact, self
feeding. enfranchised and martial people.
AS AN ARMY RAIsER-CoLONIAL.
Engands record proves that she e very feeble q an
she could not furnish enough troops 70 with three
million inexperienced Americans Governor Carleton and
his loyal Canada were with her. were the Indians
were Irish conscrpts still she compelled hunt up
Hessians and purchase their butcherng legions.
In 1855 the allies required her to contribute forty
all her might 70 raise the number. Bounties werc
trabled c and drum, gay lace and Haunting sreamers
tain sufcent recruits ireland was then ct her COM
mand and was made TO yield the greater portion but
sary 10 empty every fort through England Scotland and
ireland Of It's garsons very invads being taken
away the police appealed 70, and possbl, means let
uned to raise the quota and avert shame 1t was safe
and popular war; too for France by her sde but all
efforts proved an utter failure and the Hessan market
being this time closed she was driven 70 puoin men
from America till her agents detected and expelled
from this very city.
One Of her own statesmen writing in Fras RS Maya
sine that Of the twenty thousand troops required
annually 10 sustain the Indian army, she able to
ra SO only fourteen thousand last year And she has
ireland all this time, sher best recruiting ground"
the writer concsses Should she lose this recruiting
ground she would evidently DO much embarrassed to
operate matters even as they stand now.
But the shock Of an Irish revolution will be felt all
through tho British domn ons and nccess tate larger
armies abroad. She cannot get them from the peoples
could stir up revolt In the most Of her foreign pos
sessions The Canadians will quarrel for the homo
government the Australians will not volunteer the Now
might Half her entire army eighty thousand) al
ady required to keep down The sepoys. If MS it pro-
bab the central Irish revolutionary arm in Ireland
WELD weapon in each colony, Britain must go out to
loose her possessions her prestige and in
Gale liable commercial advantages and wealth.
Some Of her colonies she can, and probably will, let
go but she cannot afford to release others Rich az has
been tho field for plumber in Ireland India Is of
ten times the wealth to England 1t Is too the grand
basis from which she can operate on the immense field
which Asia presents for the prosecution OF her peculiar
lose India for Irelands Consequently shs will
have to send least thirty to forty thousand troops
there every year That the Irish war is waged
The army of England is at present about one hundred
and forty seven thousand men. Dcducting the eighty
thousand located in India she has sixtyscycn thousand
Ie TO take care OF New Zealand Australia the West In
dies. Canada England, Scotland, and finally Ireland
Possibly half the number, thirty three thousand five
hundred win do for all the other places enabling her to
send the other thirty tree thousand five hundred at
once to Ireland. Twelve or fifteen thousand recruits
may be obtained in about six months or year; then
there will be fifty thousand British troops to operate
against Ireland Perhaps the most superhuman exertons
would result In raising her Irish invading army to
hundred thousand men, This would be more than doa.
bic the strength of either her Waterloo Crmean army,
the greatest force she has ever been able TO concentrate
in any war.
IREIAND's NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
There are in ireland day about six millions of pco
pie. They not all identified with the Fenan move
cnt some for instance the remnant of Orangeism
do not wish 1t to succeed or SUCH however, Their,
perhaps twenty thousand and in revolutionary times
these would be absorbed by the national army. At NIL
events the anti naonaiss IN Ireland are not more num-
in America similar rerogressionsts in other countries
striking for freedom and new institutions
As for opposition OF other kinds IT VIII necessarily
disappear the initiation Of the leaves but
two sides to the son The opposition OF the Roman
next 70 ina. ay n ,ne 81 oax
will eventually into acquicscence whom 1t is seen
that trial OF strength the battle ed Is now newt
able II thcrs any clergymen who's, opposition to
the Irish republican body proceeds upon apprchen-
son that the conagion OF revolution In Ireland would
spread through the Continent and agitate the uneasy
spirits OF Italy they would assurcdly b. left alone in
their position for once war RACES between the native
republicans and the foreign monarchis no possible out
cry would then DO, lreand republic, or the world
in blaze!"
movement the capitalists. But capital has always
the privilege Of waiting till the revolutionary workers
demonstrate determination skill and power BETTING
the part OF the body Of the people, tho objects they
propose themselves and the country These men viii
accept the new government as soon ms It has fact,
existence and should any refuse allegiance they would
OF coarse experience In property ut least at the hands
Of tho national government the usual treatment OF
refractory citiz
II il the organized minority that generally effects
revelation, its combinations, II worth anything
tuay embracing the whole people In their operation.
The Fen an cment has already the bone and sinew
oil the land its numbers large as tho projectors
desire and s system OF plans is OF the most elaborate
and consummac character The whole six millions,
then, are TO be included in any calculation to tho
strength Of Ireland within her own shores. x millions
Of IN Irish population accord ng TO the usual estimate
per OF the aggrc aic yield six hundred thousand
lighting men Englands chequcred populat could not
yield that many aid she cannot at any tome, devote
ireland than half her strength, for the other
half In seen, " II largely n'cract dcmonstra-
tons melted In other lands by the suffering and dis
affection of the subngaco encouraged as they viii be,
not directly inc ted by Fcnan branch movements.
The resident population OF Ireland which VIC have
thus would prove powerful and possibly vi torons
antagonist 10 rsh rule IN Ireland only PORTION,
aud scarcely tho larger one Of the ish race That rae
Is located as iol,ovF:-
ireland. ........ 100000 Austraa...... 100000
America ........ 1900 0o0 Other cou tries
Canada. ........ 100000 at least. 600, 900
England ....... .uo0toO -
Scotland ...... 1000 0C0 Total ........ 900 900
SO closely all these portions OF the Irish allied
in low AID ardent desire for the opportunity o. enable
the parent nation 10 rcs me us ndep ndcnt fpncons
that they VIII vie with each other In forwarding the
the lag ~ rails d. The 100000 then for all
possible revolutionary purposes form people More,
such is the ardent faith ~ have ia the justice and final
trmph o. the Of Independence at home that the
respective peoples among whom they live have become
less mprcgnatcd with their ideas ana in every
country there millions 81 nonIiish population
advocates a. Irish Independence. These may be made
avn liable for many practical purposes and tits no exag
geion TO place tho Irish population IL favor OF expc
ing English rule and ins.ituiing free, republican gov
eminent In ireland at 20,000000. We have that
England has virtually counter population of not
than one half that number And shall glance
at the probable warke operations of both parties
THE FiGHT-THE BATTLE GROUND.
The expulsion OF 'hc British garrison will OF
be The first work attempted by the Fcnians They
confident OF doing that without difficulty. Their speak
have announced that the IRISH republicans cold at
any time during the past six months have obtained pos
session of the land BIT the policy was not to do until
they should have aggregated sufficient to hold the
country In despite Of any force that could b, directed