Year: 1867




has had experience, and as such are en-


titled to fair consideration.


THE NEWS from Ireland show tina


armed bands Of Fenians have appeared


in various parts of the island and at


tackled the police and coast guard. Con


fiets have taken place near Dublin


aud also in the counties of Louth and


Cork. A severe engagement took place


between the Fenians and the military


and police in DrOgheda, in which many


were killed and wounded on both sides


There has also been fight at Castle


Martyr, in the county Of Cork. The


police at KiIlmallock were attacked,
and the police barracks at Dromore,
Down county, fred and totally destroy
I'd. Two persons had been killed by the
Fenians near Dromore. In counties
Glare, Wicklow and Tipperary, the Fen.
ians are well supplied with arms and
under good discipline. The communi-
cation by railroad between Cork and
Dublin was completely interrupted on
Wednesday last, and the telegraph wires
all over Ireland are said to have been
cut down. The insurgent army in the
neighborhood of Dublin is reported by
the Chief. Secretary Of Ireland, Lord
Mas, to number from one thousand to
four thousand men. All the dispatches
concur in the statement that the Fem
ians have risen in large numbers, and
it is highly probable that they aim at
obtaining possession of the important
cities of Dublin, Cork and Belfast.


The subject of Tenant Right for Ire
land is likely to be again agitated in
the British Parliament. 1t is time lsgis-
lation defined clearly the relations Of
landlord and tenant, and took from the
former the absolute power he has so
long exercised over the general welfare
of the latter. The tenant, at present,
has no lease, no hold on his land. He
may be evicted at q very short notice,
and he and his family be sent out on the
world to find a new home in the United
States, or if he cannot scrape together
enough to pay his passage to this coun-
try, his fate is paupers life and at its
end pauper's grave in an Irish work
house.. If the tenant spends years of
labor in improving his farm, he has
no guarantee that he will be permitted
to reap and enjoy the fruits of his labor.
The landlord may quietly get rid of him
by raising the rent to an exorbitant
rate, which the farmer cannot afford to
pay. The poverty of the small farmers
in Ireland, the miserable state of their
and the manifest want Of
care in the cultivation of the soil, arise
from the fact that there is no encourage
ment held out to induce them to be care
full and Industrious. On the contrary,
knowing, as they do, that the more
valuable they make their buildings,
the more sure they are of being evicted,
they naturally endeavor to defeat tyran-
ny by stratagem, and though
they have saved little money
which might be advantageously ex-
pended in improving their farms,
they will not expend it for that pur-
pose, or let it be known that they have
it, fearing the landlord would raise the
rent. The unfortunate people dare not
dress decently, or exhibit any outward
signs of prosperity, if they were pros
pering and for like reason. 1t is not
much wonder, then, that Fenianism,
and its prototypes in Irish history, have
received sympathy and support from
the mass of the Irish people. They
cannot, come what may, be much worse
off than they are, any change must be
for the better. And it is only when
the English Government have reason
to fear rebellion in Ireland that they
propose to legislate for the ameliora-
ton of the condition of the people. 1t
was policy and not honest intentions
that dictated the passage in the Queens
speech referring to the Tenant Right
in Ireland. 1t was written to counter
act Fenianisnl, and if Tenant Right
bill is introduced and becomes a law, it
will be owing to Fenianism, and not to
any inclination on the part of the
British House of Commons to do justice
to unhappy Ireland. Should Fenian-
ism, which appears to possess wonder
full vitality, become Immediately and
entirely played out, Tenant Right
hill, though introduced in Parliament,
via not be passed. ,Snch is the poor
prospect of the Irish farmer depending
for justice on English legislation.