The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1881-07-29 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

THE GLAMORGAN GAZETTE.  FRIDAY, JULY 29TH, 1881.  THE CONQUEST OF ENGLAND.  Tax time is evidently approaching when the British legislature will have to desist from labouring night and day for the welfare of the Irish and voting its millions for the relief of Irish tenants, in order to elevate its exclusive attention to negotiating terms of peace with The O'DoNovoN Bosse. That august personage has (so he informs his humble American interviewers) made up his mind, he will strike terror into the very heart of the British lion. He will blow up British ships, demolish public buildiugs, and frighten the five-and-twenty millions of English citizens out of their peace of mind. The O'DoNovoN Rouse, in fact, has declared war against the English people, and has presumedly opened the campaign by sending infernal machines to Liverpool. Certainly the ir conduct of this fir:t campaign has not been characterised by that striking ability which usually distinguishes great generalship. The infernal machines were enclosed in a consignment of cement, an article, the arrival of which at Liverpool from abroad could hardly fail to attract the attention of the Custom House officers. The arrival of a ball of cotton at New Orleans, or a box of tea at Shanghai, or the proverbial sack of coals at Newcastle, would not be more certain to cause remark. Why should our enemy have chosen cement l':—the act itself proves him to be an Irishman. He might have packed his dynamite in cheese rinds, or flour tubs, or under the guise of a hundred other article's, which arrive daily from the United States. But, to be sure, cement is cheap and it would nut occur to an Irish mind to credit the Saxon with ordinary powers of observation and reason. It would be interesting to know in what particular way the English people were to be terrified by these machines. If two or three public buildings were to be partially destroyed The O'Doworos Roses, no doubt, thinks that the British public would be frightened out of their wits ; and this supposition will perhaps be strengthened by the accounts which will reach America of the excitement and alarm occasioned in this country by the finding of the dynamite at Liverpool. But the truth is that while excitement may be said to have prevailed to some extent it has been of a very mild character, and rather pleasurable than otherwise, as all mild excitement is, but it would be a very difficult matter to find a single individual who had evinced the smallest symptom of personal fear. If The O'DoNovcw Rossa has undertaken to subjugate the British mind he will find the operation an exceedingly coatiy one, and not, perhaps, quite so easy as he imagines. If he has sufficient money (which the ingenious selection of cement renders very doubtful), he may possibly destroy a few barrack walls or prison gates, murder some peaceful citizen, and frighten a few weak-minded individuals into a state of panic ; but he will hardly be able to do more than this. Like a naughty boy who tries to terrify his grandmother with a farthing cracker, The O'DoNovoN Rosse seeks to upset the mental equilibrium of the British nation with a few pounds of dynamite. If the nerves of the nation were quite worn out he might possibly succeed, but we may hope that the country still retains sufficient vigour to maintain its tranquility of mind in spite iif tlii rderous intent and mischievous ingenuity of Die