New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-05-09
EARL RUssEILs SECOND PAMPHLET on
IRELAND.

IRELAND.
Earl Russels second letter Ireland concludes with
the following passage:
In my former letter had to notice personal at
tack made upon by Secretary of state before my
return the blow At present am glad to have no such
attack 10 resent But cannot forbear 10 notice mat
Gen. Peel April made biting jest on the party 10
which have the pride 10 beloug
'The liberal party have been referred to-" he said,
the engineers aud pioneers who clear the road but
/ rather look upon them as gnideposts, when point
out the roadand very bad road ~ often ls-Dut VINO
never advance one inch themselves Cheers ana
cen Peel is so honest and good humored that al
Hut lest his Joke should be taken in sober earnest ven
turo to put to him the following questions:
l. Was 1t not an inch OF advance TO abolish % close
boroughs sending Ill members 10 Parliament and 10 de-
priye 80 more boroughs of one member each
tiyes To Manchester, Leeds ana Birmingham.
sion which the Duke Of Wellington and SIR Robert Peel
O. Was 1t not an inch Of advance TO reform the Poor
laws, task which Sir Robert Peel protested himself UNI
able 10 undertake.
T. Was IL not an inc OF advance commute the 1.-THE
in kind. in England n vexa;on the clergy and laity
alike a task TO which Mr. Pitt found himself nnequal
s. Was 1t not inch Of advance 20 abolish slavery in
our colonies measure 10 which Lord Derby in his bet
ter days, greatly contributed
G. Was II gain religious liberty TO enable the Bap
sm in the Church, and the Unitarians 10 be married
without blessing In the name Of the Trinity ana TO re
eve an Protestant DsseuteIs from the yoke OF being
compelled 70 take the sacrament according TO the es
Of the Church OF Englandt
T. Was IL gain 10 freedom Of trade 10 repeal the nay
cation laws, To form commercial treaty with France
and TO reduce the tariff from The large volume which Mr.
HuskissOn boasted of digest. Into single page
Were the financial plans Of Mr. Gladstone IN inch IN
advancei
g. Were not the introduction Of Poor laws in ireland,
the communication Of 1.-THE and the act for the sale OF IN
numbered estates, an inch in advance 10 that country
pendence Italy inch inhehaf Of the great
cause of Civil and Religious Liberty al over the World
the old standing toast OF tho wing party can ,mhglne
that this list added TO Catholic emancipation and the re
peal Of the Corn laws, measures Of which the Liberal
party were the pioneers Will eye the heart OF many
old Tory and that Gen. Peel, on reading IT, viii FAY
with Macbeth:
Mss WI ,. I' I .i 9 q! II s9s si SS sss DOR 81
Ed 20 .S l6s ss ,gPt more Tlo bears glass
Yes many more !" The diseased mind Of Ireland has
Vet 10 Ice mnistered 10; sweet obhvious antidote
modern datc the perilOuH stuif' which weighs upon
her breast may yet be removed, and IN her ehuHaht
emblem OF new hope and the sign Of renovated youth
Yes, "many mOreW 70 name but one, National Ednca-
tOn--a measure really national perShulng the Mboe
people. and leaving IN tie shade the "a
the present GOyernmentwOud clear the way LOT tnat
long and fair am 81 iugi ds. 81 afiOt Ihe fuI@pS
When we reflect that for 20 years hhDeI-
force aud Carlson lab0red without success TO abolish
the slave trade, and that = years more elapsed De
fore Slavery was eXtinguished by law-when we re-
member that. although for more than 2 century inc
the grievances OF ireland yet waiting for fun redress
that for PC years tho cause OF Catholic emancipation
were ostracised-wc must acknowledge how slow and
feeble is tie progress toward knowledge and Justice even
of the hearted people OF this free country When
We perceive how many there are even who fan to
eefor the Infused IIthnan as their predecessors Jailed
to feel for the eDsaved African we must own mat VIC
still shrink from the light OF day.
''Wbsi from this barren beng do We Ieapl
Our senses narrow, and reason Ial;
And all things weighed IN customs sset scales
Msrtes the earth with dariness until hst
And wrong are accidents, and men gro" pale .,.
their thoughts hhu ehfh 100 btA tht