AWFUL PREDICTIONS FOR IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IX, Issue 456, 25 February 1867, Page 2

AWFUL PREDICTIONS FOR IRELAND AND SCOTLAND.

| Prom the Pall Mall Gasette.J For some weeks past a penny pamphlet has been hawked about Dublin containing what is called “ The original Propliicies of St. Culomb Kille, extracted from Irish Parchments of the year 275, and translated into English by the ilev. Mr Taafe.” The general tone and style of the of this popular work, for it appears Ip find * chasers, and is certainly most industriously distributed, fnay be gathered from the following abstract: —After an introduction predicting the most terrible misfortunes for Erin the corruption of social morality, rupture of domestic ties, prevailing dishonesty and vice, “ the Church the property of the powerful,” tempests and plagues, we have “ Notes ” which give a detailed accouut of a successful invasion of Ireland (it is not said exactly by whom), and the utter route of “ the red coats.” The English Parliament (from which all the Irish members will oy this time ba\e seceded), will pass the “ Black Bill, the purpose of which is to murder the Catholics, so far as the strength of the Protestant army can go over the kingdom aided

md assisted by ten thousand of a Scotch mob commanded by one Campbell, of the Argyll family.” A dark mist will enshroud the laud during the period of carnage, which will continue during four nights and three and a half days, “that is, from Saturday night

at eleven o’clock to the next Thursday between the hours of ten and eleven of the clock in the forenoon of that day,” and the region in which the slaughter will be at its worst will be “ the pans of tbs land called the Valley of the Black Pig, comprehended in the Province of Ulster, the counties of Sligo and Leitrim in Connaught, north of the Shannon river, and the county Longford and the north-west corne? of Westmeath and Easlmeath.”