The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-02-08

to the child Christmas Day. said twas "dyng from
want OF nourishment and did not want physc but,
being asked to give order for nourishmen replied No.
O II ne ala 1t In one case he would have to do it in ALL
me coroner remarked that 1t would be better to give
all rather than have people die of sarV
atlon-an opinion in which the jury concurred.
Ageneman, writing from London Scottish newspaper
describes the following scene
There has grown up custom of late which to
every way pleasant 1t for those who can afford it give
entertainments New Years Day those who cannot In
London to-day there have been several gatherings of this
Kind In the east of London tonight Mr. William Cevery
Alexander of George William Alexander the great
Quaker bill discounter of Lombard street, has fed less
than 1000 of the poorest people They wanted good meal
sadly The distress arising from scarcity of employment in
that district very gentleman who has just been
to the dinner given those poor people by Mr. Alexander
tells that he has rarely painful spectacle
Strong men, who have been strong gaun, wan
and weak with sheer hunger there and pale famine
marked women many of them sucking Babes and stuned
sicky children whose eyes lighted with almost wolsh
glare as they the bounteous provision made for them
myself went to-day to comparatively small dinner party
We had only hundred and twenty children, gathered
from one of the poorest of poor neghborhood The frost
and northeast wind were bitter and and then slight
feather fakes of fell Yet in ten of these
children had shoes to their feet Very few had clothes
enough to them All looked blue and cold and OH
hungry shall not forget their rrepressble shouts
Of delight dish after dish of hot roast beef nesting in beds
of baked potatoes passed along the amateur
The slices cut would have shocked the gentlemen who used
make sandwiches Vauxha but the happiness those
note Of Pumpudding followed the beef and then oranges
and apples and pears. declare enjoyed New
Years Day so much in my life though the enjoyment was
sadly marred by the thought that these children, well fed
for day. must have many hungry days yet before
them
Spain.
On the 18th utmo her majesty Isabella IT, opened the
Parliament Cortes of Spain in person The speech which
she delivered that occasion is before 1t is brief but
unusually interesting State paper Spain once the most
ptfuly low in all that constitutes national greatness With
territory of 176480 square miles, and population of over
sixteen Millions it is only fth-rate power. The Queens
address to the and deputies of Spain
with devout recognition of the goodness of Divine Pov
dence especially for the amcable settlement of the revolution
of last year. The people have also for gratitude
the for while Isabella fortunate enough to
her head and her crown the people extord from her
the surrender of Imperial prerogaves General Prim
failure but not complete failure The rotten throne
still stands and the dissolue Queen quean still fills it,
but she does not rampe mercessy before upon the
sacred rights of her subjects The Government is more
cautious in the of extraordinary power While cngng
the pencous union of Church and State the Government
is inclined to be tolerant of heretcs than formery it
will also encourage popular education before and
thus quote the language of the address, attack its root
the pervesy which hardens with ignorance originates in
immoral and anregous doctrines re-esabh the respect
OF the laws and OF the authorities and prevent the
disturbance of public tranquility The Queen the
cortes that the condition Of the finances has considerably
given in the Chicago Evening Journal few days ago of the
national debt of Spain, infer that they must improve
great deal the Government will be hopeless bankrupt
ignorant of the real condition and chronic msrue
of the country would suppose Isabella hardly less deserving
of the econate homage of her subjects than her usrous
namesake whose alliance enabled Columbus to discover
America; but matter of fact she is the most infamous
sovereign in Europe Ascending the throne in 1885, when
infant she has been guilty of all conceivable abom
nations and would have been hurled from power long
but that her tenure of authority repose solely traditional
veneraon and hedged about the arstocracy which
stand fall with the Spanish last house of Bourbons
Abyssinia.
Abyssinia, the land of superstition has, of course it
witches of Endor We heard good story the other day
illustrating the popular feelings Of the country against Theo
dore and the result of advent The King the story
sad heard the with troubled counenance and deter
mined to consult the spirits of his fathers They
moned and appeared before him. The King-Tell my
fate Shall conquer have ALWAYS conquered? Spirits