Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-11-01
Matters in Ireland.
Characteristics Of the People--Ihe
Giants Causea0ay.
BELFAST, Ireland, Sep. 80, 1857.

~ Iu6 VI the DOSlOu JOurnal:
Since writing my last letter the re-
port Of the Emigration Commissioners
for the United Kingdom has made its
appearance, for which at a glance we
can see how Ireland is pouring its
best population into the United States.
The total emigration during 1866
from the United Kingdom was 204,-
8S2. OF these 10000 were Scotch,
$4,000 English, and $4,000 Irish
The report states that the best of the
people of Ireland are taking their de-
parture, leaving dependent popula-
ton behind them-old and poor
This is manifest from the increase of
paupers. Those who 90 take with
them more or less money, and the cap
ital of the Island is constantly dimin-
ishing. There is a stagnation of bus
mess and no inducement to enterprise.
OF the emigrants from Ireland S5,-
594 went to the United States, 5000
to Canada and 5000 to Australia and
New Zealand. Thirty-six thousand
of those emigrating were unmarried
men-not boys, but young men in the
prime of life. The Manchester Ex-
aminer, commenting upon this feature,
says that it is political rather than
social movement; that the emigrants
which have left Ireland the past year
are not those pressed by want, but
men who are determined to shake of.
altogether the rule Of Great Britain.
Nearly all those who left during the
year went by steamship-81 per cent.
The Examiner says: ave cannot ac-
count for this except on the theory,
which unfortunately is borne out by
too many other facts, that diSaffiection
is on the increase in the sister coun-
try, and although we may boast of the
facility with which we have put down
the Fenian insurrection the hearts Of
our fellow subjects are more than ever
estranged from us"
True, every word. There is uni
yersal discomfort in this land. 1t is
under military rule, held by 10000
or more soldiers. There is a close
system of espionage. Strangers are
watched, their steps dogged. Those
who arrive from America have their
luggage examined with a scrutiny and
zeal equal to that of the police Of the
Pope, upon entering Rome.
England holds up her hands in hor-
ror at the military rule exercised by
the United States in the South; cries
out against military despotism, forget
ting that there are more troops in Ire
land in proportion to The population
than in the Southern States-that the
habeas corpus is suspended, and that
there are more people disfranchised
here than in the United States. What
voice have the five million and half
people IL government here? The
majority are disfranchiSed. They are
taxed to support an alien religion
The land tenure is such that it is next
to an impossibility for a poor man to
obtain a spot which he can call his
own. No wonder there are deserted
cabins-that people flee from such
deSpotism.
THE IRISH CHURCH.
| In my last letter I gave some ac-
count of the positions of the different
churches in this island-the enormous
revenue Of the English church-the
donation of royal gift, called Regium
Donum, to the Presbyterians, while
the Catholics support their own church
on the voluntary principle. The meas
ure proposed in the last Parliament
was to make a donation annually tC
the Catholics. Some of the liber
ais in Parliament would cut down the
revenue Of the established church and
give the sum thus deducted to the
Catholics, but the clerical party of
the established church will oppose the
proposition to the better end. The
, Catholic hierarchy, at a meeting helC
,, in Limerick this week decided tina
they would not accept a Donation
: They demand equality with the eStab
. lished church. That demand strike
! at the root Of Ecclesiastical power
= The logical result, if granted, woult
, be separation of Church and State
, Intolerance is so fierce, and bigotr,
so rampant, power so delicious, pat
o ronage so sweet and living SO com
: Portable, that the bishops and clerg
Of the Church Of England will fight t
the last to retain their places. Fo
! intolerance see the following, which
i cut from the morning paper:
o "No BAPTISM, NO BURIEL.-The so
of Mr.. James Coad of st. Newan die,
few days ago, aged fourteen years
o The body was removed to St. Newa
. church-yacd for burial. The Rev. Z
y [. Wilson Taylor, the rector, inquire
if the deceased had been baptized
The bereaved parent answered Yes
i The next question was: Where
IS and the reply: AT the Wesleya
Methodist chapel. The clergyma
+ then refused to read the burial servic,
J. and the corpse was buried withor
,- any religious rites"
n For comfortable place | point to tf
,e Bishop of Armagh, with his salary O
n SAL 900 per annum. The Beresior
= family, it is said, has received owe
is one million dollars from the State fc
n Ecclesiastical service! There are
IS Ireland livings where there are L
/. churches, the pay continued when I'll
re churches have become extinct.
th gentleman informs me that he know
IN a rector who goes out In cleric
IN robes with his clerk once year to