The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-11-09

And will eat himself to pieces,
Plague personifed and famine
Devil, whose sole delight is damning!
For his merits, would you know EN-
Once he wrote pretty poem.
THE SEVENTH EARL OF DERBY-Of this Earl and of his
noble Countess the world has learnt muc through historians
through the story of the lady gallant defense of Lahom
House. and through such brilliant romantic pictures
Walter Scott has painted in Peveril of the Peak" The
great Earl undoubtedly accomplished gentleman and
dauntess soldier with of the ferceness about him
which characterized the soldier of that day. disciplined
naturally inclined to the future by going Thorough"
through his present work The most memorable of the Ears
exploits that which illustrated the celebrated
IN Wlgan Lane in August 1901 when with six hundred
horse he maintained fight for two hours against three thou
sand horse and foot under no less gallant and sk
mander than Colonel Robert Lburne Out that fight he
came battered Lismahago He carried away with him
fractures by shot his beaspate thirteen his
beaver half wounds on his arms and shoulders ard
the eed that bore him of the field the third he had
mounted that day. the other two horses being slain week
AFTER this soldier whom his enemies loved and respected
in the thick of it in Worcester fight But here his fortune
harder than at Wigan Lane The battle lost Charles
the Second escaped and better after captured
gentleman the scaold at Bolton And then, wth his
clothes upon him. he was put into the coffin there ready
which had abundance of seeds in to receive the blood and
he carried away that night to Omes Kirke to be
buried among his ancestors" The chvarous side of this
Ears character may be in the reply he sent Crom
well 649) when he offered pardon and full indemnity
if he would surrender the Isle of Man to the Parliament
forces After indignant refusal fierce scom dis
dain and adherence could make it, the Earl wrote If
you trouble with any messages upon this OCCASION
will burn the paper and hang the bearer And doubt
Earl valued other peoples lives as little as the enemies
who captured him valued has, In letter to his son. Earl
James wrote 1t is safer much to take mems lives than their
estates for their children will much forget the death
of their father than the loss of their patrimony Roche
oucauld never uttered more bitter human
nature and we fear that it is as true as is berLono
AMeneum.
ARABIA-Araba, from one extremity another, is i'll
habited bya single of apparently its aborgnes
The physical geography of their country have early
nomadic shepherds for the desert fixed agrcuturss
0r the bas part the c0Hny Lad the OF
may safely believe that in their nhosptabe land they
would have attained the modest of adj
vancement they have exhibited but the contrary would
have remained in the savage condition of Africans
Red Indians whose condition far suspicious But
the Arab is of higher Intellectual quality than any other
of Asia in many respects not being surpassed by the
Chinese and this superiority evnced by the predomnance
they exercise when they come into contact with any Of the
settlement of Arabs took place in the neghborng country of
Syria the evidence of which is the existence in Hebrew of
many Arabic words With this obscure exception the long
continued isolation of the Arabs continued down to the time
of Mohammed Under the inspiration of religion of
their prophet, they left their country and
menced of conquest which, for rapidy and extent
has parallel Transpanted to better lands than their
own the Arabs appear have improved fallen off, chiefly
in proportion the quality of the with which they
comminged They became deterorated amongst the Syrans
and Egyptians and their greatest social advancement was
probably when they came into contact with European peo
pie in the Spanish peninsula 1t in foreign countries
only that they made advance in civilization. Their era
ure and their architecture all rang up In foreign countries
They themselves discoveries inventors and the
benefit they conferred mankind consisted only in their
being the agents through which the discoveries and improve
ments of other nations widely disseminated 1t was
for example, through their active mediation that the of
distillaon and papermakng Chinese nvenons reached
Europe and the western world to them the introduce
ton ofmany useful plants, rice cotton, the sugarcane
the opium the orange and the melon. The number
of Arabic words introduced into foreign languages varies
with the influence exercised by the religion of the Arabs
and the capacity of the people to comprehend it. The Ian
guage has nowhere but in Syria Egypt and Barbary made
To tha COf
countries conquered by the Arabs The great disparity
which existed between the manners habits and
ton of European and Asiatic people made the number
of Arabic words introduced into the Spanish language
parativey inconsiderable and their corruption great al
though the powers Arabs in the Spanish peninsula
dured from first to last, 778 years.