New-York tribune., 1867-02-19
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
IDiIRIlN.

| DUBLIN.
| 1IIE SIEPHTNs TxPosE-ETIECT or IiiR NEWS IN
| IRELAND AMERICAN INFLUENCE IN IRELAND
THr EEAssfMpIING OF rArIiAMEST-1Im nApEAs
| CORPUS ACT-AS IRISH IulsIBFNCE foK TIlE
| rRINCE or wALRs-Iusu CRIMINAL STATISTICS.
'''' ''' DunIIs. Feb ?. 1867.
So the gIories Of the c. o. + X. are departed! The
news "a that effect. brought 10 us by the Austril
asian has oCcasOned every sort Of feeling in thi,
| city-cxcept regret. | say except regret, for Mr..
Stephens had made no friends for himself. outside
the ranks Of the Fenian Brotherhood and hcy wero
his friends only while they believed him to bo sery-
ing the csuse truly and well Their faith in his abil
itics if not in his integrity. died ont with tho
old year: and thus it happened that even
among those men there was no sympathy
for him, when they found that the indig-
nant Irishmcn of New-York, on whose creduliy he
had played 80 long rcCkies5ly, unscrpulouSly,
had risen and hurled him from the position Of trust
and power in which for years they had maintained
him Among tho loyal classes. Of course. the feeling
was one of satisfaction; they experienced such
Of relief people do on waking from troublesome
and hdcous dream. The reaction among the landed
gentry, who for months have been living III n state
of anxiety and alarm. IL now plainly manfcstlng
itself They are going i'll for one OF the PayeSt Of
seasons" Never were balls parties. reunions and
all suC things more numerous than they nave lately
bccomc and in this respect Dublin Castle Is leading
We'll then. however they feast and dance in Dublin
profound in lreand-and that is the raw material
oat of whisl Fenianism is made Fenianism will
survive the downfall of Hcad-Center Stephens, and
So most probably. will tho Fenian organization. But
Mr. Stephens never more be ITS prophet and lis
guide. If his place should be supplied by some
one who 20 such organizing talent as stephens
unqucstiOnably possesses. should unite SOIno OF the
higher and better qualities Of which he IL def
cient-some one combining the fertility of resource
nd
| high sense of honor and the fine moral character
of Smith 0Brcn, John Martin, and Others of the ,ls
| eaders-then the latter stage of Fenianism would
become worse than the former for the British Gov
eminent The deficiencies alluded to IN the charac
ter of James Stephens, ms well as IN the characters of
! some Of his foremost men III Ireland, were we'll
known, and rendered it impossible that they
could ever be tI1S trusted hY the M classes
a still greater horror of anarchy. If Smith 0'Bren
and his party had succeeded, property, social order
religion would be safe Every one understood that
and the prospect, therefore, not very alarming
The existence of free America, with SO large sec
ton OF the Irish race in her midst il one Of those in
fuences. The popular mind and heart Of Ireland are
every day turning more and more TO your republi-
can modes Of thought and manners. II is curious
that with all the intercourse between England and
Ireland, and with all the command which English
literature has of tho Irish market there seems To be
an uncOnquerable TepulsiOn between the mind
of the two countries Whatever ~ peculiarly En-
glish in tho books and papers that come to
us across the channel il unwelCome, disagree
able, or hateful to the majority of Irish
readers and Englishmen say quite as much, and
more of what they receive from this side Yet onr
people seem TO take TO American ideas and TO the
American cast of thought and style of expression
readily. They feel no interest about English proyln-
Cal news, and prefer to read about what Is doing in
the most remote parts of America If the postal reg
ulatiOns reformed as to cheaper the cost OF
transmission, American newspapers ana books would
divide the market in this country with the English.
Newspapers at present manage To procure, bnt
at greatly increased cost books are almost entirely
shut out from ms by the high rate of postage. Is It
not time something were done toward its reduc-
tiOn
We are now drawing close unto the time for the
reassembling of Parliament TO which event wo look
forward with no great degree of hope, but with some
but it is rather an English than an Irish question,
and occasions comparatively little excitement on this
side of the water. What We want to know Is, VIII
anything be done TO amcliorao the condition OF Ire
land There is reason to believe that the Govern
ment intend TO make purchase of the whole of the
Irish railways, improve the management OF them,
and reduce the fares. This would, indeed bo ser
yico to tue public, Tho RAILWAY sharchold-