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THE VATICAN AND; IRELAND.
Extract From the New Journal,
The "AurOra,- ON the Present
Difficulties in Ireland.


Correspondence Of the London Times.l
ROME, Jan. 10, 1880.
The new Vatican organ, the Auro-
ra, which has for its direct aim the
following Of the Pope's movements
that is to say his spiritu-
al and political movements =
without anticipating his attentions or
having the air Of Forcing his hand, and
which is justly considered as drawing
at least the main part of its informa-
ton from the supreme pontif himself,
publishes a remarkable leader on the
actual difficulty in ireland, Of which
send you the following comprehensive
digest without further remark:
Although it appears that the news
Of a rebellion in Ireland is unfounded
il is, at any rate, certain that Eng.
land is beginning to experience the
difficulties and dangers, or at least
the inconvenience, Of the principles
the late Lord Palmerston's govern
ment potentially contributed TO Diff
fuse through Europe. Ireland has
for a long time been a country agi-
tated by many passions, for the reason
that the most sacred rights of the an
cient inhabitants were violated BY
Anglican intolerance and rigid laws,
and that the oppression of the Catho-
lies had the effect Of causing them TO
seek to obtain Justice through secret
associations. To-day the injustice has
in great part been redressed, but much
remains to be done for the poor Irish
despOiled of their land. Nevertheless,
that agitation which appeared to have
considerably diminished since the
days when the celebrated O'Connell,
by his Catholic principles and religi-
Gus faith, quenched political ire, is
again bubbling up. And in truth ii
is not strange that the Irish, knowing
what the England of Palmerston has
done for the constitutions of various
countries, are unable to understand
why she will not give to them what,
with 80 much i%nsistancc, she asked
not long ago for Hungary. Ireland,
therefore, asks for a parliament of her
own, as she had in time past, and
maintains hat it is neither Just nor
reasonable that the laws for ireland
should be made in London instead of
10 DUblin. Canada has obtained from
England what Ireland desires. Eng
land has favored elsewhere the doc
trine which irish people who cry
Ireland for the Irish" now hold, and
what is more, the Irish cannot forget
that the land they now see in posses
sion OF others was taken byforce from
their ancestors, who legitimately pos
sessed it. The flames are spreading.
inasmuch as other persons, who are
less for Ireland than for the triumph
OF revolutionary and radical princi-
pies, fan them. But these flames must
one day or another break out, and
may extend to ediGces deemed secure.
The present condition of Ireland is
the result, not only of the conquest.
but of the wars of religion and the
wars Of legitimacy To remedy entire
" this condition is impossible, but it
is necessary to prepare or allow liber-
ty Of legally forming a more equitable
and more tolerable state of things for
the people descended from the an
Gent proprietors. This many men OF
sense believe cannot be obtained by
better means than a parliament of her
own for Ireland. And, perhaps, this
will be the best remedy if that parlia-
ment, which it seems the English now
incline toward granting, shall be com
posed Of upright and religious men
who forget the past and its hatreds to
think Of the future of their country.