The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-04-18

of their devotion cause and country With such manly
sentiment the Judge reproved while he ped the misguided
honor and hapes of the prisoner and then passed
upon him the heavy sentence of the court, which was
that he should be kept in penal servude for the space of
twelve yearsa doom to such nature than the quick
release of DEATH since it the flower of manhood to
wher in the society of criminals amid cherries labors,
dull the prison wallis heavy the slow, IMPLYING football
of the bitter hours
Alas! "the pity of it ' Can any or any woman of
gentle and Just nature picture that Irish Court and feel
that in the witnessed there at the of Captain
ackeys sentence witness amoshe very saddest episode
of this long Irish sorrow? Justice herself, with
the tear of Mercy starting in her eyes, must grieve to
such pass out of sight into felons CELL Whatmght
the qualities displayed upon his trial have done for Ire
land and for all of properly used Here the splendid
Irish ardor which has written many British victories in
golden letters upon our baeags and the native eoquence
which glows Immortality in the oratons of Grattan and
Sheridan Sarshelds glorious manhood is in the man,
Fitzgerads proud contempt of DANGER Moores magic
derness-a ouch in effect of all the beautiful and rich Celtic
gifts gores the conduct and language of the criminal and
yet he must out of the life which he could have beaued
with noble civic services and perform the gloomy chores
of prison yard He must CO. too with these words of
demnaon and stern reproach sammng his prison door,
young and gallant he is and piteou must be think
of the Irish bride who the loss of all this noble love-
buried from her in living grave There is and
silent respect for him, but But the pity of it,
the burning pity of it Let statesmen, in Gods nameif
neither fear nor trouble argument the opinion of
the world move them-be moved by the paradox to
which brought of branding such characters those
with the feons stigma Let legislation have done at least
and emors and party excuses and
the last rags of from this unhappy conspiracy by
liberal and just changes; for the conscences of turn
sick with contradictions and doubts when UNsTAINED
and be sentenced by the angry law
and when the virtues that loveliest in a man only
enhance the guilt which scarcely dare to pardon and
cannot hate.
A meeting was held in Parsonstown, convened by the
Lieutenant of the county, Tuesday, for the purpose of
raising subscriptions erect the late Earl of
Rosse not in consideration of his scientific emnence but
resident landlord In this local capacity he said
have rendered himself almost remarkable in Ireland
the intellectual domain in which he achieved universal
reputation he having the Rev. DR. Egan PP de-
cared elected 1t would be we'll if other titled per-
sonages addicted themselves with similar public results to
those astronomc pursuits which, by widening reatona
views haveso decided tendency produce beneficial
action human conduct in its arisc aspect Lord Rose
appears have been accustomed to contemplate inny
that when he returned to earh the subsidiary purposes of
his life took too benevolent color to rackrep the enantry
the little speck of earh his estate in this little island on
this little planet Every has heard of the magnificent
telescope which he passed many years of his life con-
sructng of the immense difficulties which he perseveringy
conquered in forming the six feet reflector the largest in the
world and of the mechanical genius he displayed both in
the perfection of this process and afterwards in raising
and suspendng this tube between those walls nearly as
massive those of the gateway of Theban temple
and of moving it to command the the heavens by
means SO simple What the enormtes of ancient mag
nanimy Sir Thomas Brown calls the pyramids and such
like works. in which nations exhausted their energies to the
construction of such work the Parsonsown telescope
which enables to penetrate many myrads of leagues
further into space and bring its prodgous of
matter the homes of unknown forms of m up the surface
ofhe vision and how much be wished that men
of property here and elsewhere would devote least por
ton of to the accomplishment of such sublime and uni
versal objects 1t is indeed, of pride all Irish
men that he who formed this mighty telescope native
of the island which distinguished by possessing it. Lord
ROSES telescope brings the moon-whose disk almost
broad as the Atlantcso near that under the powerful mi
croscopes applied any object its surface large
Peters, it ad is rendered visible It's aspect when SO
viewed is at once interesting and terrible for is the run
the skeleton of world in which life is extinct the ocean
which 1t once possessed has disappeared through the
vases formed by the contraction of the mass and is now
thought occupy in the form of ice caverns under the