The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-03-16

hearE and within the last few years We
have heard from his very Treasury Bench
observations with regard to Ireland which
no friend of Ireland or OF England and 10
Minister of the Crown ought to have utter
ed with regard to that country. Hear,
bear Twice within my parliamentary
life these things have been done, or at
least by this day they will have been done;
measures Of repression-measnres of sus-
pension of the civil rights of the people
have been brought into pariiamen. and
passed with extreme and unusual rapidity.
Now have not risen to blame the Sec
rotary of State. or to blame his colleagues
for their acts Of to- day. There may be
circumstances to justify proposition of
this kind and am not here 20 deny hat
these circumstances now exist Hear,
hear But what l complain Of is that
there is no craftsmanship ia mere acts of
force and acts Of repression; hear, hear |;
and say further that, since have come
into parliament, have not observed upon
those IRISH questions anything that ap-
rroaches to the dignity OF craftsmanship.
There has been al improved administra.
ton Of 1reland-there have been Lord
Lieutenants-there is one now who is pro
babably in bis heart of hearts as anxious
to do justice to ireland as any man can be
We observe in the recent trials-1 60 into
no details, we observe generally better
tone and temper than have ever before
been witnessed Under similar circumstan-
ces in Ireland. But if 60 back to the
ministers who have filled the leading place
in the councils of the Sovereign during the
period I have been in this honse-Sir
Robert Peel first, then Lord John Russell.
then Lord Derby, then Lord Aberdeen,
then Lord Palmerston, then Lord Derby
again, then Lord Pa!merston again, and
now Lord RusseI-if we 60 through the
lis, of these ministers, say that with re-
gard to all these-tbe dead and the living
there has not been an approach to any
thing that history will think it worth
while to describe on the part of any one
of them. There have been coercion bills
in abundance, there have been arms bills
session after session. Hear, hear.
There have been lamentations like that
of the right hon. gentleman the member
from Buckinghamshire to-day, that the
suspension of the habeas corpus act to a
certain extent was not made perpetual by
a clause which he is sorry to find has
been repealed (hear, hear, there have
been acts for the suspension Ct the habeas
corpus act, like that which We are now
discussing; bu: there has been no states
manship whatever. Why, men the most
clumsy, and the most brutal can do
these things; but it requires a man Of
higher temper, of higher genius, and Of
a Higher patriotism (hear, hear) to deal
with the affairs OF Ireland (hear, hear
Now should like to know whether the
statesmen who have held higher Offices in
this country, have themselves comprehend,
ed the nature Of this question. If they
have not, they have been manifestly ig
norant of what it was specially incumben,
upon him to have known; and if they
have comprehended it and havo not dealt
with it, then | say that they have conceal
ed that which they knew from the people
and that they have evaded the duty which
thew owed to their sovereign.
The JAPANESE PEASANTS i have seen
the soil about Nsgasaki, Hukadade, Iedo
and kanagawa, and it is all the same,
yielding boun,eous returns onl, to pains
taking labor. And this labor the Jap
anese peasant faithfully bes,ows till all
the country lam CHS with fairness. For
him there are no ambitions bey ond honest
toll: the conditions of bis life are fixed
irrevocably be is haunted by no dreams
Of power pursued by no restless avarice,
and so his human machine runs or gently
without many frets or breaks. His wife
is industrious like himself her spinning
wneel sings 5v the door, ard the shuttle
of his daughters loom flies by the win
dow. In the rice culture and the cotton
picking they labor by his side. His chill
dren have full run of the streets for their
earlier vears-ths girl plays with dolls and
dresses, the boy snares birds, robs birds
nests, dams up the rills, sails is tiny boats
makes mud pies in the sun and tears bis
trousers-till such times as he is able to
90 to the woods for fuel, or TO the fields
to hoe and weed. But one thing is to be
remembered, TO school he must GO, al d
the sun is hardly UP before he is off to
school with shining brown face and the
roll of paper which makes bis copy book
in hand.
THE TuRUsu.-The thrush has for CEN
turtles been very popular bird in all those
countries of which j: is an inhabitant, and
as is we'll known to all those of our read
ers who may be skilled in classical lore,
was highly priced by the Romans, not
merely for its song, but also for the del
icacy of its flesh. Thrushes were as COM
mon in the Roman markets during the
reigns of the twelve Caesars as larks are at
the presnt day in our own Leadenhail, and,
on account Of the estimation in which
they were held, fetched on occasions very
respectable prices, frequently being sold
for as high figure as would be reckoned
by six shilings of our own money. The
fallening Of thrushes for these markets
was regular branch of trade with Roman
bird catchers, aud the chief ingredients
used in making the birds plump and juicy
for the table of epicures, we're ripe fresh
figs and wheat meal. Horace himself, a