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Ireland's Opportunity. Our Present Minis...
Ms proxy in that behalf as ^ ertgins that Parliamentwill not be drawn into 4 ^ ti-Mayiiootliism . After these two striking pieces of experience , stored for future use by the two [ premiers , late and present , while the pageant-skilled . Lord-Lieutenant is winning some popularity at Cork by his courteousmanner ' and his liberal adhesion to theQueen ' sColleges ; tyhen you would have * thought that they had attained a wholesome condition of mind on such subject ?—our blessed Ministers publish their proclamation against Popish processions and costumes in the
public streets . To all practical purposes , this is k wanton display of ill-feeling . \ J ? here are certain processions of E-oman Catholics which can no more be prohibited than omnibuses can be " put downs" you cannot , for instance , prevent charity-boys from marching in rank and file from school to Church , Certain processions can be prohibited- ^ -such as the more magnificent displays which are made in high streets of Roman Catholic cities : but they are not attempted . Members of religious orders have
ventured to wear hats , at their own peril ; and if the police aid the inherent dislike of the British to " outlandish" dress , by " putting down "_ gowns , hats > and bands—why Mr . Secretary Walpole may count as an ineffective Paul of Russia , who tried to put down hats , and was strangled for his pains . Mr . Walpole will not be strangled , but oniy laughed at . in Ireland , however , there is something besides laughter—contempt ; made more intense but not more respectful by bitter anger at the display of malignity- —of helpless malignity . In Ireland it is nicely timed , too , in another respect .
" The Gahvay papers , " says the Times , " are rail of the most deplorable accounts of wholesale evictions , or rather exterminations , in that miserable county . 1 The tenantry are turned out of the cottages by scores at a time . As many as 203 men , women , and children have been driven upon the roads and ditches by way of one day ' s work , and have now no resource but to beg their bread in desolate places , Or to bury their griefs , in many instances for ever , within the _ walls of the union
workhouse . Land agents direct the operation . The work is done by a large force of police and soldiery . Under the protection of the latter , the Crowbar Brigade ' advances to the devoted township , takes possession of the houses , such as they are , and , with a few turns of the crowbar and a few pulls at a rope , brings down the roof , and leaves nothing but a tottering chimney , if even that . The sun that rose on a village sets on a desert ; the police return to their barracks , and the people are nowhere to be found , or are vainly watching from some friendly covert for the chance of crouching
once more under their ruined homes . What to the Irish heart is more painful than even the large amount and stern method of destruction , is that the authors this time ai e Saxon strangers . It is a wealthy London company that is invading the quiet retreats of Connemara , and robbing a primitive peasantry of its last hold on the earth . The Law Life Assurance Company having advanced , we believe , # 240 , 000 on the Martin estates , has now become the purchaser under the Encumbered Estates Act , and is adopting these summary
but usual measures to secure the forfeited pledge . That gentlemen , many of whom have never set foot in Ireland , and who are wealthy enough to lend a quarter of a million of money , should exact tbo last penny from a wretched peasantry who had no hand or voice in tho transaction which gave them new masters , seems utterly intolerable to the native Irish reason . All moneylenders are hated except when they are wanted , and tho relative , or rather tho utter disproportion , between tho exactor and his victims , in this instance raisos those deeds to a climax of atrocity . "
All this , says tho Times , is so , but it could not bo helped . Perhaps not ; but it is an ugly coincidence . Say that Galway is mostly Protestant , it is still an unfortunate coincidence ; for Galway is still Ireland , still not unmixed with the Catholic faith . There is alike some ill wind to catch tho Irish , whether Protestant or Catholic , to make them hato authority , and to despise whoro they do not foar it . And it happens so just bofore tho election , when tho Irish aro on tho ovo
of ro-electing tho " Irish Brigade . " How admirable a recruiting scrjoaut for disaffection is your Orange-ProtcHtant Conservative Government ! Durham-lcttor-Lord John , and processionproclamation -Lord Derby , have equally earned tho derisive bate of the Irish ; wo of England , who do not wish for something worse than Repeal , had better look out for a Minister committed to none of those preposterous indiscrotioni .
THE NEW CANDIDATE EGB THE AMERICAN ¦ ¦ . - ' . . ' ¦ ¦' ¦>)¦ PRESIDENCY . ¦ :. ' ¦; . .. ¦ ¦ ¦ - ; .: The list of candidates for . the presidency of the United States has been materially narrowed sinc 6 we last addressed' ourselves to the subject , the democratic party having concentrated its suffrages oil General franklin Pierce . ^ The selection is the more remarkable ; since it has ijakeii the very men who concurred in it by surprise , for the General has not recently been before the world as a politician . .
The various candidates still awaiting the selection ; of the Whig party are as well kffown to the bulk of our readers as the correspondingjclass of statesmen in tliis country . President JFillmprie needs no description . Daniel Webster is admitted to be ^ -neit toJ & enry Clay , who if disappearing from the scene—the ablest statesman of the Union ; but a want of faith with liis supporters at various tinies has damaged his chance or support at this most critical time . General Scott is regarded less as a statesman than as ah active
military man , whose name is associated with the most recent exploits of American arms , and his pleasant character makes him personally likedv He may have a considerable support from the " glory " party , which comprehends , within its own peculiar pale , sections of the different political parties in the republic . But the prevailing impression seems to be that General Pierce , adbptedby the Democratic Converitioti , is most likely to pe elected ; and he is already regarded as the next President . "Who is
he P To Americans , indeed , he is not unknown , and English readers may recall the name of an officer distinguished in the American war ; but otherwise withdrawn from public life he is a stranger to most persons out of America . A man of middle age—ie was b ^ oni in 1805—of middle height , and slightly built ^ of exceedingly nervous temperament , he bears a countenance much more than usually mud , pleasant , and genial . He is very courteous in his manners , but sometimes , when provoked , exLhibits flashes
of fire and energy altogether unexpected . Americans who" have been at Washington remember that unassuming and gentlemanly man as occupying a high position in the Congress , and they remember that lie was an effective speaker , especially in appeals to the feelings of his hearers . We notice that the American papers ares recalling these traits of the new candidate , who is once more brought forward into public life ; lmt even the American journalists find it necessary to
explain to their own readers who this elect of the people is . Franklin Pierce is a lineal descendant of our own family of Percy—the Percys of Northumberland ; whose place in the State is now occupied by tho House of Smithson . Franklin's father , Benjamin Pierce , was one of the heroes of the revolutionary war , and was Governor of New Hampshire . Franklin Pierce was born at Hillsborough in that State ; the birthplace also of General Cass and Daniel Webster . Pierce
studied for the bar . He was elected at a very early ago to the IJouse of Representatives in his own State , and was chosen Speaker in the twenty-fifth year of his age . He was elected Member of Congress at twenty-eight , and Senator in Congress at thirty . It was a career of political advancement seldom paralleled for rapidity in America . This steady progress , however , amply attests tho capacity which he must have shown for public business . Another trait is remarkable . He resigned his seat in the Senate before tho term for which ho was elected
had expired , and returned to tho practice of his profession ; declaring , however , when ho did so , that if hid country should want him ho should be ready . President Polk offered him the post of Attorney-General of the United States , or Secretary at War , with a seat in the Cabinet ; but ho declined ; and we think it lucky that ; ho thus abstained from committing himself to some of tho recent questions which have agitated tho Union . Not that his opinions are unknown , for it is notorious that he is a decided " Compromise man . " But ho has been out of tho more rodent quarrcls .
When tho war broke out with Mexico , ho onlistod as a private in a volunteer regiment ; and , if wo may trust a current anecdote , tho modo of his first appointment is eminently characteristic . Ho supplied a friend with a lottor of introduction to tho Secretary of State , at Washington , recommending that mead as Oolonol of tho regiment
in wluch lie had enlisted :. " We > cannot give you the appointment , sir , " replied the Minister " since it has already ^ peen given , and a letter is now on itsfway appointing Mr . Franklin Pierce . ' * Soon after he arrived in Mexico , a post of Brigadier-Creneral became vacant ; the commission , was entrusted to { Monel Pierce . He accepted it iii March , and in the Mayfollowing he led lug division in thsit series of victories bit which Cherabusco was one . From the incidents and traits which we have so rapidly sketched ; the character of the democratic candidate can readily be collected . We
should have been well pleased to see Judge Douglas chosen , although he is said to have a bias against our country ; for he is too hearty and intelligent a man to take any course detrimental to his own . ~ y Ve are without information as to the views of General Pierce on the subject of co * operation with England ; but we cannot say that we feel any apprehensions on the point , and we shall await the final election not without share in the confidence of manv American friends that it will result well . It is evident that the General ' s
unassuming depaeanpur covers an ardent and energetic capacity , which , has" always risen with the occasion ; and it would seem that possessing in a moderate degree the ambition of the official man and the power-hunter , lie possesses , in the very highest degree , the ambition of the citizen arid the patriot , the servant of his country .
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A PLEA FOR THE BETTER OBSERVANCE OF ¦ . ' ¦ '¦ ¦" ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : -y ; - v ' *^ .. sABBXi ? jpt ; : . ^ . . ' . 7 * Iif alluding a few weeks ago to the fact that the Crystal Palace Was to be removed , we pointed out that the great and permanent advantage which would be gainedhj ^ he people out of the new destination of the building was , that it would furnish week-day workers of all classes with an innocent and a useful recreation on Sunday . Believing then , as we believe now , that tHese week-day workers would be devoting their one day of leisure for breathing fresh air to
a good and wholesome purpose , by enjoying such , sights as the wonderful works of nature in the vegetable world , and the ennobling achievements of hurnah intellect which proclaim the Creator who made us!—failing to discern tlien ^ as we fail to discern now . any very rampant impiety in the act of walking , on Sunday , among Shrubs , flowers , and fountains , stopping occasionally to admire by the way the produce of arts and manufactures —we certainly never anticipated that the use to which we have referred aa the best use of the Crystal Palace , was likely to be opposed altomistaken
gether in its carrying-out . We were : it has been so opposed—opposed on " pious , ' saDbath-observance-mongerihg grounds , in tw o or three directions . The principal attack has been led by the Archbishop of Canterbury himself at the head of a deputation to Lord Derby . We have always treated , and we wish always to treat , the religious convictions of others , however opposite to our own ideas , with unvarying respect ; but there is something so cruel , so foolish , so dangerous , so thoroughly unchristian in this demand lor the closing of the Crystal Palaco
on Sunday , that respect for the opinions or uw Sabbatarian agitators , even though an archpisliop is at their head , is impossible . Their object is cruel , because it is tantamount to shutting up tho beautiful building from the great bulk of tho people . Their object is foolish , because no men were ever yet made better ( but , on the contrary , have oiton been made considerably worse ) , by being deprived of harmless enjoyments . Their object is dangerous , 'because' to take away from the people an mwhich wi iuu " "
nocenp recreation \ o uj ' ^" v p ward as promising an increase to their StooK pleasure on tho only day when pleasure is attainable ^ by them , is to try their patience and tftow long-sufforing in tho fast way in which it ougu to bo tried ; to rorriind them of their depondonj anc ] inforior position , in tho mbst ofl 0 . Xj manner in which they can possibly bo reimnaou of it . Lastly , the object of this ag itation is m r . ki-ici + imS lii- > r . oiia / v tin Ti-ni * rnnf , wliatOVOr } OV w
to be discovered in the teaching and ° xampi <' the Founder of Christianity , as commnnicateo ^ usinthoNowTostamont . From the Archbwrn downwards , not ono of tho " pious" ^ P oS that waited on Lord Derby , can quote a K toxt out of tho Christian text-book which a ^ J and plainly authorizes tho ( so-callod ) principle Whlcn they aro koting . « The Sabbatli was nwOJ for man , and notriian for tho Sabbath " - ^ 2 tho Arohbi » h 6 ^ B Watchword wUti ho ww ™ 1
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Leader (1850-1860), June 26, 1852, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26061852/page/14/
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