The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1871-08-31
FOREIGN C0RREsP0NDENcE

Irish Eehoes-0oe q Glaassoae's SPies
N6Oe.-TAe Princess H1sDeA.-The
Green Ssill Fiyis9.
English politics has been more than usu-
ally interesting of late, but neither the de-
bates in the Lords, nor the discussions in the
Commons have sufiiced to prevent the Eeg-
lish people from attending anxiously to the
sounds that within the past few weeks have
come to them across the Irish Channel.
have already told you of the OMNIBUS discon-
ten, of the Irish with the working of Mr..
Gladstone's cham land reform, and Of the
powerful and eloquent voices raised in sup
Dor, of the demand for Home Rn'e. In
this letter shall confine myselftO two more
recent events.
When in the ordinary course Of telegraphy
the news came that an e1-policeman, named
Talbot, had beer shot by supposed Fenian,
in the streets of Dublin, very little curiosity
was excited. By degrees, however, as the
facts became known, public interest was kim
died, and the case became one Of the sensa-
tions of the day. Partisan feeling has been
aroused, and the character Of Talbot. the
conduct of his employers, and the merits OF
his taking of are matters of daily cOntrover-
sy. The story il short and sad, but it il
most emphatic.
The man Talbot proves TO have been a
wretch of the vilest sort. Spies are neces-
si,y to such a government as that under
which lrelan groans, but Talbot was more
and worse than an ordinary spy. Govern
ments have an admitted right to employ
agents to discover the plans of their enemies,
but that right goes no further. Only under
Castlereagh in England, and under the Sec
ond Empire in France, have the agents of
desrotism dared TO imagine that it would
please their employers for them to manufac-
ture conspiracy in order to secure victims.
Such, at least, was the common belief here,
until Talbot's tale was made known. That
person, it now appears, was used as pro-
vocative agent. He gave out that he was a
Fenian, and employed himself as the organ
izer of an instruction movement. He Gre
ated conspiracy, telling, AZ he himself
boasted, "plcnty Of lies" and then, having
emeshed in his net large number of patri-
otto Irishmen he betrayed them. Be it re-
membered that his victims, many of whom
are rotting in prison, were not cOnspirators
when he first met them. He persuaded them
into conspiracy, and betrayed them. He
was employed to do this, and received sub
stantial reward in British gold
for doing it. Reprehensible as political
assassination al all times is, there can in this
Gaze be no sympathy for the victim. That
he met death in an agony Of fear is not
strange to any man who believes in con-
science, ard that even the police refused to
dig his grave is honorable to the Irish char
acier. There is almost wild exultation over
his departure, and these terrible lines have
been revived in vindication of the popular
feeling.
- II heaven is pleased when sinners cease from |
II hill is pleased when sinners enter in,
II earth is pleased for riddance OF knave,
Then all are pleased, for talbot in his grave
Whether Kelly, the man arrested on &C.
count of TaibO,'s death, had any concern in
the killing is very questionable, and it is
almost certain that the immediate cause of
death was an injudicious surgical operation
Tor the extraction Of the bullet. The Con-
sentative Standard has, however, judged him
guilty, and he has small chance of escape,
being poor and friendless, unless his country. |
men bestir themselves. Irishmen in America |
should at once send their subscriptions to the |
proper quarter. An appeal for funds is
published in the national papers this week.
The Prince Of Wales, the Princess Louise, |
The Marquis of Lorne and their sublimitIes |
have been on "a visit to the Green Isle in |
order to compensate for the prolonged
absence of the Queen from her people. Even
he government papers have been compelled
o admit that the naughty Irish boy who
gives Mrs. Victoria SO much trouble has not |
,een so pleased as he ought to have been.
III truth seems to be that the reception &C
corded to the royal party was cold and, in
'ome case., hostile. Detectives, policemen
md soldiers were massed around the car
.iages to protect the royal personages from
he dear people who have the blessed privi-
eye of feeding them. Cheers were scaniy,
Kisses we're plentiful and daring Celt even
houted the question "where is Lady Nor
launt?" On Burgh quay a large green flag
loated bearing the immortal legend "God
save Ireland" and beneath it the crowd gave
he cheers they refused to Princes and
W. SHARMAN.
SHEFFIELD, August, 1871.