IRISH GEMS. (From the Benighted Irishmen.)

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 243, 27 September 1848, Page 3

IRISH GEMS. (From the Benighted Irishmen.)

Ova troops Laving annulled through that castle, and pulled down that flig, which now floats over the butcher Clarendon and his minion*, a flood of prosperity will ruih into the country, such as only the annuls of the Four Masters gives count of. Since the duys of Brian Boroimme such days of peace, plenty and civilization, shall not have been known, as those that arc in r tore for our liberated Erin. There will be a Capital. The Ambassadors ot the Foreign Powers will bring their suites and their splendours to the Court of the Republic. The nobility will flock back in crowds to our deserted .squares. Irish poplin will rise to ten shillings a y.<nl, so vast will be the demand for that web by the ladies of our city. Irish diamonds will reach the price of the inferior Golcondu article. Iribh linen and shirtings will ribc immensely. Indeed, all hish produce, not being depreciated by the minous competition for gold, will augment in value. Debt at home, and absenteeism, have been the curses of our country. Henceforth, there shall be no absenteeism, and no debt. Ho who rofuses to live amongst us is not of us — tho (oil is for the inhabitants of the soil. I have already my dear friends, instructed you in the manner in which uvciy one of you may get u chenp and handsome property for himself, namely, by holding possession of that which you at piesent occupy.— For, as every man hut an indefeasible right to subsistence, and as Nature produces for the good of all, it is manifestly right that the many should have tho posseslion and not the few. If a landlord should object to this arrangement (who ii but a mere accident on the face of the curth), for the love of God, boys, blow lvi brains out. Uis much better that a few landlords should perish, and their families (who have been living on ihe fat of the land hitherto, and may therefore take a turn of ill fortune) should starve, thun that multitudes ihould die of want. And thus the curse of quarter-day will be removed at once from this island; and after a veiy little necessary slaughter. For depend upon it, that when two or three landlords have been served in the wuy recommended by me, the rest will not care to be pressing for rents. The butchers who govern us instituted the system of hanging for this very reason ; arguing that one example before Kiltnninham deterred numbers of waverers ; and we muy bo sure thnt the rifle, rightly employed, will act upon an aristocrat just as well as upon a housebreaker ; for arc not men men, whether clad in Saxon ermine, or in the rude frieze-coats of our miserable fatherland ? Out with your rifles, boys, hi the name of humanity. They say that the property oi Ireland is mortgaged in a great degree, and for the mos>t part to the bi ulul Saxon shopkeepers and pedlars. You will have the advantage of getting your lund entirely free ; theie will be no manacle ot debt to weigh down the free arms which arc henccfoith to till the beloved soil of our country. And, the land being unencumbered, you will have the farther advantage of being able to invite capitalists to aid you with money to conduct the operations of agricultiu'c.j Glorious America, which sympathises

with you sincerely, will be much more ready to lend its capital upon unencumbeicd, tlmn on encumbered property. And we shall negotiate loans in her magnificent commercial cities, where I have no doubt there will be a noble emulation to come to the aid of a free Irish nntion. The iilea of sending cattle and pigs to England, to feed) Saxon ruffian*, is then to he scouted henceforth by all honest Irishmen. We will consumo our own beef and pork by our own fireside!. There is enough live-stock in this island to give every regenerate Irishman good meals of meat for ilia next year ensuing ; nnd our lands, notoiiously the giecnest and moti fertile in the woild, will have fed up a similar (juantity by the year 18!>0. Thus, we shall never want henceforth ; and, while we fatten and flourish, we shall see the Snxon enemy decay. And, as the beef-fed scoundrels connot live upon cotton nnd hardware, wo shall have tliu satisfaction of reducing the prices of those commodities, and getting them at a much more reasonable rate than that at which tlic accursed money-mongers now vend them.— Punch.