The Irish republic., 1867-08-31


scuptured and ornamented The first effect which the sight
of these produced upon was one OF amaze
ment am no amateur to go into ecsasles over small
OF an immense tower situated eminence Arrived at
the summit enjoyed the sight of the ruins There are in
localities which have not yet penetrated palaces of height
and grandeur truly colossal With field glass examined
the details Their architectural richness is unrvaed and
they extend into the territory of Camboda distance of ten
twelve leagues Picture to yourself how Paris would
appear in ruins. few rough stones scattered
diameter of two or three leagues at the Here there
the ground and below its surface, marble already
hewn in sufficient quantities build the giants have
built here all the cities of the universe have the
leg of statue the great of which eleven times the
length of my hunting rifle 1t is in marble like the rest in
fact there other stone except the pieces of coored
marbeued for borders and for of their statues which
lofty and larger than Saint German pAuxerros
Think of octagonal pyramids cut off at the middle and all in
marble.
ENGLISH ENERGY TO POLITICAL PR1soNERs-The truth
is that owing nsucency of the prison dietary present
enforced throughout Ireland every prisoner in Irish Jail
exists in state of chronic semstarvaton; and cruelty
this circumstance affects prisoners OF the lowest Glass; who
when at liberty accustomed to live poorly affects with
double cruelty prisoners of better Glass; habtuay
toned to better food An abebodied prisoner in Ireland
receives for breakfast at am eight of meal made
into stirabout with water and half pint of milk and at
Pm INC S Of bread and pint of of milk Supper
undergo solitary confinement in unheated CELL the labor
of the tream and shot drill If his health breaks down.
the medical officer may offer him better food but not other
wise; and however strongly the medical officers of the Irish
a may dsapprove the existing dietary they cannot be
peced to incur voluntarily responsibility of changing
aogethera step which would render them unpopular
with the magstacy and the ratepaye by whose patronage
they exist It will be seen by reference to the report of the
inspectors of Irish a for 1867 that there is talk of revis
ing the present Jail dietary which arranged after
the famine years of 1867 when the starving poor in
the habit of committing crimes order to gain admission
into prison for the sake of the food be obtained there and
when the habual diet of the Irish peasant much
lower than it is.-London Saturday Reuew.
THE BRITISH ARMY-A London correspondent of a New
York paper thus writes Of the organization of the British
Army: "The plan for review in Hyde Park calls out
criticisms upon the organization of the army 1t pos
racks bring them by rail Hyde Park but totally i'm
possible it is sad to place the number in the field and
hundred or two hundred thousand men into the field with
every provision for their comfort at weeks notice In fact
the whole French army ready any day for the euo
We have how rapidly and how efficiently Prussia
Now, in England the regular of things is
first great and shameful disaster of the press;
breakdown of the mnsry removal of generals for
potency in higher quarters rally great sacrifices and
pulling through somehow perhaps ally to help them
of their difc1ty-and all for the want of some decent or
ganizaton begin with 1t is not for the want of inquiry
that this organization is lacking They have been at work
for twelve years In that time there has been in
eighteen select committees of the House of Commons nine
teen committees of officers connected with the War Office
this investigation far is n Nothing has been doneI do
that anything has been determined upon. An
officer gave lecture the other night upon the British
uniform, which he examined and condemned piece by piece
the worst in the world So far good but he may go
proving for twenty to and nothing will bedone
to reform it, There is lack of experience A 15-inch
Roman gun has been brought from Boston, and the Wool
wich authorities firing it with beautiful results with
American and English powder but will they adopt it? That
does not follow at all After years Of experiments they
dspung about the best plates and backing for ronclad
and the experiments at Vincennes in which French guns
pierced English targets by assuring And this
is the nation that calls itself practical
The HEARTLEssNEss OF PRINCE WALEs.-The
Prince of Wales is but following the footsteps of his ilustri
predecessors and he offers very striking illustration
the homey but truthful observation that blood will tell
The Guelph family have been consistently brutal in their
treatment of their families since the first George
left his loved Duchy to assume the of Britain. That
worthy German gentleman began his domestic tyranny by
mprisonng his wife Sophia upon trumped up charge Of
nfdeli after completely alternating whatever affection she
might have had for him. by his brutality and open unfaith-
unes Once rid Of her. he filled her place with the hideous
and degraded Duchess of Kendall with whom he lived un-
married for years George the Second hated by his father