WHY WILL YOU BE DIDDLED ? [From the Galway Vindicator.]

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 105, 2 June 1847, Page 3

WHY WILL YOU BE DIDDLED ? [From the Galway Vindicator.]

" Men of Galway, Men of Ireland, — .Will you submit any longer to be tims befooled to the top of your bent t Is this empty clap-trap, this unmeaning jungle of words hebdomadal) ly made in Corruption-hall return enough to you lor your warm-hearted, open-handed contributions to the Repeal exchequer for the last live years ? What has Mr. O'Connell to show you in the way of matter tangible for all those tens of thousands —nay, for those few hundreds of thousands of sterling pounds? Where is the constituency that has been enlarged ? Where the county or the borough or the town' that has been joined to tlic popular cause by its judicious expenditure? 1 said in my iirst letter that too much stress could not be laid upoti the fact of the popular exchequer being exhausted, because of the outlay being in many cases made most liberally after the fashion •of secret service money.' And I expected an explanation from Mr. O'Connell of the cause of the astounding fact. But, no. With more than his usual coolness, lie tells you that he is sorry to say your funds are gone, and you owe him some shillings less than jtflOO. But he adds, what should be quite enough to comfort any miserable bankrupt — ' You have such a beautifully kept set of books, that no mercantile house could show a liner 1' — Your cush is gone— your manager lias made ducks and drakes of it amongst a pack of pa - rasites of his own— yelping curs, who may be loosed at you, or your too inquisitive young friends, at his beck or nod, at any moment. Jiut what is all that to the purpose, when you have ' such a beautiful set of account books?' " And then, there are ' the vouchers.' Don't forget that lie has vouchers for every sum expended to three half-pence! Fiddle de dee 1 What has the possession of vouchers to do with the real question of the manner —judicious or injudicious— prudent or squandering — in which the sums have been paid away ? How clten have courts of law — how often have the bankrupt and insolvent courts refused to pass accounts where all the ' voucheis' have been duly produced? But again, who dare look into those wonderful vouchers? Why, to demand a scrutiny of them would amount to a ' virtual exclusion* from the ' association' of the impertinent inquisitor. It would imply an adhesion to the principles of physical force? It is lrom a chosen joint of Mr. O'L (Hindi's tail that we are to expect a critical examination of those three-halfpenny vouchers ? " The fact, the great fact, that the money is gone, is all we are likely to get for it. It is gone, and there is an end of it. Well, there is a comfort in knowing the worst at once. ' People,' said a poor man, whose only cow was lound dead jn a bog-hole, ' people who have cattle, must expect at times to lose some of them I' The potatoes and the repeal rent got the rot, and were lost in the »,ame year. We'll remember them one by the other. Let's turn the thing round, and try if we cant't squeeze another little drop of comfort out of it. To be sure we can. See how it runs now. We have got by the termination of the rent, the disruption of tke old confederacy, the nucleus of a new and infinitely more a promising one. We have found a soul in Ire-

land. The world may now see that repeal was never a spirit conjured up by Mr. o' Council, but a principle, cither innate in every true Irish brain, or sucked in with the milk at the maternul breast, and diffused throughout the entire system; and that come weal, come woe, we are resolved to realise it. " We have refused any longer to be made subjects of barter or .vile by any man, or body of men j and with the loss, without exchange or remedy, of our national funds, wo have cast away the yoke of a despot, who, however terrible he might have been in England in former struggles, as wielding the vast physical force ef licland, has shown himself latterly altogether unequal to the picssurc of the changing times, Honour and gratitude be his for former services 1 His help, but not his management, may even still be useful. The new agitation assumes a shape already."

Comforts of the Army.— The 2nd battalion of Greimdicr Guards stationed at St. John's Wood barracks, commanded by Lieut. Col. SirO. Honyman, are now enjoying privclegcs formerly unknown mthc British Army ; tlicy have a library that would do credit to any institution m England; it consists of nearly one thousand volumes of various works (the battallion's own property) including ancient and modern history, naval and military history, including the whole of the lute campaigns in India, nearly all the new works of our modern writers, together with biography, geography, &c, with some most excellent maps, on « very large scale, maps of India, America, Great Britain, and all her Majesty's colonies. The men are furnished free of expense, with copy-books, pens, ink, and every acromodation, in the library, so that the man who objects to go to the regimental school may here improve himself. Those men who do not wish to attend either school or library, can have copy books in the barrack room, free of expense, by npplying to the pay sergeant of their companies. The daily and weekly papers are also taken in at the library, together with the monthly periodicals. Various sorts of games are also followed up in the barracks, such as cricket (of which there is an excellent club, including many of tiie ofikcrs), rackets, quoit, skittles, and loot hall, and in the evening 1 every accomodation in afforded in the library for chess, draughts, and dominoes, where tea or coffee is provided extra for those men who may wish for it. The members of the library (which is open to all) subscribe one hall-penny weekly, and u number of the ollicers have, subscribed most haiulbomely towards it. The Adjutant; (Captain Bradford) is unceasing in his attention to their comforts and pleasure. The men cannot but feel deeply indebted for the rapid progress which has taken place in the improvement of the morals, manners, comforts, and amusements of all classes of the battalhon, the result of which is, there is not one man in the mill* tary prison, nor has the commanding ollicer had oc* cusion to bring any man under the cognisance of a court martial lor tiiesc last three months.— Sunday Pa~ per.

The Hardest Hit om Record.— Our readers may have noticed a paragraph in which it was staled that Mr. S. Burgess, a well known cricketer in Bedfordshire, in a match on Duns table Downs, from one hit made fifteen runs, the ball requiring six men to throw it in. Some donbtedthe possibility of such a hit. JJentley said it was nothiag to a hit he was once so fortunate as to see ; to wit, he saw a ball tent four miles by a cricketer named Turner, in a match on Ripley Green, Surrey. " Un prix excessif '!" it was remarked. The fact was, just at the time Turner struck the ball the Portsmouth coach was i passing, and it dropped among the luggage. Tho coticlnnan doubtless with the intention of giving Turner "a good run," did not stop the ball till jti arrived at Cobham.— Observer. The Bankrupt- Law.—" Sambo, what your 'pinion ob dat "bankrupt law ;" " Tink him fiiBs«rate,Pompey; limply for the application myself." "Just explain him principles.'' " Why, you see now just lend me that half-dollar you got for whitewashing." (Pompey hands him tho money, and Sambo deliberately puts it into his pocket.) " Dere, den" says Sambo, " now I owes de shoemaker tree shillings, and you half a dollar, besides the grocer's bill ; now dis half-dollar is all de property 1 got; 1 diwides him accorning to my debts." Pompey— "l takes dnt half-dollar back." Sambo (with amazement) — " Do you tink dis child green? I'm a bankrupt ; you gets your share wid de oder creditors." The committee appointed for raising a fund for the widow and family of the late Rigjit Rev. Dr. Alexander, Bishop of Jerusalem, have received donations amount* ing to £3,500 and upwards. The ltcv. M, A Hollack, of New York, has offered a prize of fifty dollars for the best tract, not to exceed twelve pages, on the propriety of dancing by church members. A manufacturing wire-worker, in an advertisement in the Times newspaper, invites the public to come and sec his invisible wire fences. Remarkably Sudden Death.— M. Very » the son of the late celebrated restaurateur of that name in the Palais Royal, died on Sunday night in a singular manner. He had passed the day at his country house at Montmorenoy, but came to Paris at six o'clock, with his wife, and went to dine v\itb a friend in the ruede Richelieu. On entering the saloon, he became completely chilled, attributing it to his having, in the morning, stood too long on the bank of the Lake of Brighten, fishing. He placed himself close to the fire, became quite warm again, and afterwards ate heartily at dinner. In the evening* while he was playing at whist, with his wife for partner, and was talking gaily with a friend seated by his side, the gentleman said that he felt he was growing old, for he was already 63» M, Very laughingly repiied, " Why, at 50 year*, a man is still young. I have passed my 50 tU year, and never was better in my life 1" The words were scarcely out of his mouth, before hit lips became convulsed, and the company laid him upon a sofa, where the next moment he expired. — Gaiujnani Expei iments are about to be made, in order to ascertain whether flax may not be advantageously introduced into regular cultivation ia Aherdeeushire. The leading manufacturers have come forward in the most handsome manner to encourage the farmets to make experiments.