The Sun. — 1848-01-11 (London, England)

GERMA... NICUS, the antagonists of those who have originated these ideas as to our national instability insist that a moderate augmentation of our present system of defences would be sufficient to render our p)wer terrible, ourselves unconquerable,ind our island impregnable. How far these latter arguments are based on reasor we shall hereafter take into consideration.  A division has taken place among the Young Irelenders that bids fair to occasion a secession from the Irish Confederation similar to that which took place from Conciliation Hall about a year and a half since. Mr. MITCHEL, one of the most eloquent, but also one of the most indiscreet of the physical force party, late editor of the Nation newspaper, has again spoken out and repudiated the timid course "pursued by his quondam friends and associates. He manifestly pines after the honours of martyrdom, and is taking, the most certain means to attain his object; AsLila nßCgtiMes...,ttutt, whose notions are of so warlike a character, who will not be restrained or remain contented to bide his time until a fitting opportunity. Mr. Duerr has already had too painful an experience of official prosecution, and Lord CLARENDON has too clearly shown that he will not permit the laws to remain a dead letter in his hands, and that it is not merely the misguided wretches who actually commit outrages and thus subject themselves directly to the penalties of the law that will be brought to justice, but that their instigators and abettors of a superior class will also be compelled to answer before a jury of their countrymen for any offences of which they may be guilty. There can be no mistake about Mr. MITCHEL, and he is fully resolved that there shall be no mistake ; indeed, it is impossible for any language to be more explicit than that which he has used. The domestic traitors and the foreign foes are too clearly indicated ..to admit of any doubt as to his meaning. Every constitutional mode of ameliorating the condition of the Irish people is denounced as a palpable humbug, that should give place to instant preparation for war, and a regular organization of a force to resist the domination of the Saxon enemy. He tells us " that all the symptoms of landlord nationality, which had deluded us into the Irish Council, and had kept us vainly moving the aristocracy in the ranks of their countrymen were a deliberate fraud—were, in fact, a demonstration intended to act upon the English, and that the Disarming Bill was the first fruit of a new and more strict alliance between traitors at home, and foes abroad." He then states what he wished to have said through the columns of the Aation, " Sayings which must speedily have led to very decisive doings," had not Mr. DUFFY wisely demurred and ,refured to permit the paper, of which he is the proprietor, to be made the medium for the publication of such doctrines. He also gives a rather startling exposition of what he conceives to be" Tenant Right," and the only means by which it can be obtained, in which we doubt not that the views of many of the frieze-coated assistants of the Holy Cross demonstration are set forth. We must, however, suffer the Learned Gentleman to speak for himself. " I desired (said he) to preach to them that every farmer in Ireland has a right to his land in perpetuil, (let law say what it ill)—that no landlord who  denies that right ought to receive any rent—that tenant-right, however, though the universal right of all Irish farmers, never had been and never could be recognised by English law—[we should think not, if his definition is to be received as the correct one] that there was and will be no other way of establishing and securing that right except as in Ulster—by successful intimidation, that is to say, by the determined public opinion of armed men ; that . therefore, the power calling itself a Government,' which called on the people of Ireland to deliver up their arms under any pretext, must he the mortal enemy of that people, their rights, their liberties, and their lives. I desired to warn my countrymen accordingly, that if they should carry their guns to the police-stations, when ordered by Lord CLARENDON, they would be putting arms in the hands of their deadly foes, and committing virtual suicide. I desired to preach to them that the country is actually. in a state of war—a war of property' and t' poverty'—a war of 'law' against ' life t hir safety lay, not in trusting to any laws or legislationtat of the enemies' Parliament, but solely in their determination to stand upon their own individual rights, to (Wend those to the last, and sell the"i' lives and lands as dear as they could." This is speaking out with a vengeance. Itwould indeed be impossible, as the Premier might. say, to intimate more plainly Ha intention to violate the law himself and encourage others to do likewise. There k no concealment or mental reservation here : the farmers are to hold their lands in perpetuity ; any landlord who ventures to dispute this sum- I [nary alienation of his property is to receive no rent._ I trifling return that for a tim© may be made merely as a favour is to be withheld, and the right is t. he secured by " successful intimidation," or, in uther words,.a repetition and increase of those agrarian outrages that have already brought disgrace-on too many districts, and for the practice of which two