LATE EUROPEAN NEWS. IRELAND.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 255, 8 November 1848, Page 2

LATE EUROPEAN NEWS. IRELAND.

We bel"eve that we may announce that th? Court will visit Ireland after the prorogation of Pailiamenr. Even at tins distauce of time— short though it bt — it is imposMbl" to speak with entire ceitaituy. But if no untoward event should occur in the meantime, and th'it the tianquility of the cou itiy he, not dishubed, it certainly is toe wish and the intention of our moit Gracious Sovereign and of her Royal Con^oit, to visit, the ports of Coik, Dublin, and L!elfrfS% and to make a s-ay for a few days in the metropolm of Iruland, where there is no doubt their presence w 11 ho hd'led vmli enthusiasm louJ enough to drown the noby ebul itions of dibcontent of the Jdcobia piess. Tiu-ie is o! course, no truth in th j statement, which has found its way into tome of the conn' ry p-ipen, that it is the i itention of her Majesty to procte 1 on her aqua ie tx- uroions to uny distance in the present month. "When the session ihdll be over, tli3 Royal progtess willpiobably be, as we have indicated, calling at the piiucipal In»h ports on the way to the east coast of SotUntl. Thede'aiis of the j mrney, will of course, be varied according to circumstances, which it is at present impossible to determine.— Observer, July 2.

(From the Morning Herald's Correspondent.) Dublin, June 24 —A great deal of rain has fallen during I lie past two days, and more is threatened. The fanners hail it with satisfaction. Everything must be reived by it but the hay crop, and that is of little importance as compared with all the otueis vt hich required moisture. Dublin, June 25,

CLUB ORGANIZATION. From town and count y all accounts concur in representing the rapid increase of the Confederate Club? and the enrolment by wholesale of new memiers. On Saturd .y evening no less than six addi i mill ones were established in the city of Limerick, and this daythere is to be a gathering of the fighting men on the c lebrated green of Donnybrook, for the purpose of finishing; the work c immenced last Sunday of enroling the inh.ibiUn's of (he metropolitan county into the ranks of the Irish National Guards. Really, as matters go, there seeuia to be no doubt that before the harvest is fit for the sickle we shall have the realization of Mr. Smith O'Ciien's plan carried out to the letter, and tbat the country will be g»rnsoned by some hundred thousand men with arms m their hands trained and disciplined to enter upon any despeiate undertaking v»hich may be dictated by either the folly or tli3 wickedness of the leaders of this, insane move ment.

TREASONOUS LITERATURE. There is> a plentiful supply of literary treason to-day, ami great is the demand for it. The iiist favourite is the" liisli Felon," the avowed, successor of the " United liishtnan." The leader by the proprietor, Mr. Martin, is quite enough fui'our Atlorney«GeiiPrai; but Mr. Uevin Reilly favours the honourable gentleman with food fqr contemplation in the shape of a letter thus addressed :— To the Englishman calling himself George William Frederick, Eurl of Clarendon, Her Mnjesty'i chiel legal murdeier and jury-packer-general of Ireland. The body of the letter is just as ferocious as the direction, as the follow ing exti acts will show :—: — Step by stop and week by week, free or chained, with pen in hand, by word cf mouth, in prajer to God, I williepeat your infamy, and mike others iepeat it, till the Ir sh winds that whistle round you day by day, and the scipent conscience which coils you round by night scowling on you, shall alike hiss in your ears the one word—" assassin. '

Suppose a dozen or two mote of us banished, or, for that matter, liangcdi for your farrago obout capital puniihments and blood-spilling, and the tl spirit of tfee age,' 7 is really very nauseous ; what, then— you have "governed the. couutry at last?" Go to the waving fields of wheat, and you will find blades there, some on straw, of vegetable matter, otheis on tish poles, of shining steel, — £0 to the districts under notice to quit, or inarrear, and by the idle spade in the chimney < nook or hidden in some ditch-side ni>h hand, you will find, if you are cunning enou;h, brown jbarreli with stock and lock, and their owners, connected in clubs, meeting, thinkinsr, brooding, looking down at "•latlsome crops, and then up to Heaven, and then Z —Yes! I have lived to see the Irish peasant lianir his weapon by his bedside, and utter Mir most feloniour prayer to God, by God's lips taught them, " Give us this day our daily bread !•' That country, were I not here to tell you, you cannot (< govern."' This letter concludes thus:— TCext week you shall receive some further practical instruction from, my Loid Assassin, your enemy to the death.

Thomas Devin Kfilly. The " Irish Felon" has also a letter fiom a Mr. Lalor, of A.br>e\leix, in the Queen's County, su which the following neat passage occurs : — A mightier question moves Ireland to-d,»v than that of mciely repealing the Act of Union. Not the constitution that Tone' died to abolish, but the consti- j tntion that Tone died to obtain — independence, full and absolute independence, for this island, and for every man within this island. Into no movement that would leave an enemy's garrison in possession of all our lands, masters of our liberties, our lives, and all oui means of life and happiness — into no sue h movements will a single man of the grey-coats enter with an firmed hand, whatever the town population may do. On a wider fighting field, with stronger positions and greater resources than are afforded by the paltry question of repeal, must we close for our final struggle tvith England, or sink and surrender. Ire'and her own— lreland her own, and ail tlietein, from the *od to the sky. The soil of Ireland for the people of Ireland, to have and to hold from God alone, wlio can g} ve j(, — to ha\e and to hold to them and their heirs for ever, without suit or service, faith or fealty, rent or render, to any power under heaven. From a woise bondage than the bondage of any foreign government— from a dominion more grievous and grinding than the dominion of England in itn woist days— dom the crudest tyrannj that ever yef held its vulture clntch on the body and soul of a country— from the robber rights and robber mle that have turned us into slaves and beggars in the land which God gave us for ours — deliverance, oh Lord ! deliverance or death ; deliverance or this island a desert. This is ihe one prayer, and terrii le need, and real passion of Ireland to-day, as it has been for agt's. A letter, beaiing the feminine signature of Eva, utters theae not very feminine sentiments :—: — 5s there hope no<v from au^ht but bare hearts and strong hands? Ifihese be not ready to back your <lematuls, then make no demand at all. Arm yourselves, arm I You shall never, you may be sure, get anything uultss you <»re able to take it. Come, then, th nk of the " one tiling; nccesqiry" namely, pikf-t., guns, and pitchforks— before yon thnik one word ol repeal. Arm yourselves. When yon are armed, ask for it ; if you are lelused (which is unUki'ly), take it. This you can do ; and all else is labour in vain.

The Nation.— This journal is not so lampantasits newiival, but piotmhly moie <lanTetous, for the very assumption of moderation — jliishfnoder lion. Talking of the tieafinent in store for the liish aiistociacy " aitsr hai veM," the •< Nation" sajs — And yet if there lud been any merit in tbe*e wen — but it i» idle to look back, lit-lnnd has chosen her Mart and they theiis. h was not Igh ly this nation came to make, up her nvnd to the alternative — repeal or revolution- But it is indubitably made up. The aii'tocracy are for the union and i>s lnsirunons, for England and their own inteiest3. They have choceu according to their instinct, and me now swimming against the current to the great danger of cutting then own throats. Well ! we could have wibhed it other* wi^e. For five yeais we have waited for, warned, petted, and appealed to them, and this is the result. Henci forth we adopt a new war ciy, and while we sliout "Dowu with the .English," we will not for«et to add, " and the anti In-h aris'ocracy !'' 111 the poetic wd), the" Nation" is inorespicy. Here aie a couple of verses from a national ballad for the millions:— Down Britannia ! — biigand down ! No more to rule with scepued hand ; Truth raises o'er thy throne at last Htr exorcising wand. I see " the tinge rs on the wall"—The proud, the thrice ar-curs'd 'hall fallDown Britannia, down ! Yei ! dow"— if Heaven will aid the brave ; If life and strength have hut this aim. Accounting blood and toil as naught, So trampled be thy name, God grant to us the final blow, "Unto the dukt to strike thee low.

Down Britannia, down !

For atrocity, I think the following article has never been surpassed. I ta«e it literally from the Tribune— Blood for Blood. — Ouv souls are daily harrowed with accounts of the wholssale assa-bination of our rapidly disappearing peasantry. Men have beard the story of extermination so often, thut it palls upon the ear. Tne famine—not sent by heaven, but deliberately made by our English tyrants tmd their land ord stuvedrive.s—and plague, the msut of famine, left a wretched remnant on the d«s>olat<'d phuns ; but these too, apparently must perish. li\ety ditch has its corse, and every lording Moloch his hcctaeouib of murdered tenantry. Who, we demand — are the murderers of tiioso thousand*—- if not millions — of our lellowcount'ymen who have shrunk daily by btaivation into the shioud]e?B tomb? Who are the guilty, who the blood stained, who the crimin.il Cains ot to-day, more cruul and more wicked than the murderer of Abel ? Who Lave shed the blood of the innocents ? Who have saturated our soil with the blood of the people ? Who called forth the cries of (he widow m desolation, and the orphan in despair ? Who have made the stionq man fei-ble, and the young muu wax lauit ? Who have denied food to the hungry, and hire to the labourer ? "Who, in a word, have deum-itid tin, l'a\rtst ot lauds, and nude her children aliens and outcasts on the very fields that God gave ihem to conqnor and bubdue, and to pat the fruits thereof? Who — who art; the murderers? Is the m.irk no. indelibly sfamped on their foreheads by winch they shall be kn«»wn ? Is not the hand of every man against them, and theirs agaMißt every man ? Will the caiwpy ot heuven covei, the depths ol hell hide, or the remotest corner of the earth conceal, the lit objects foi the vengeance of God gndaian.- 1 No; they aze known— bclore the world

they stand condemned— the sun never sets on their infamy— and wherever man is, there the command of God has made them a foe. Shall we, the brothers of the slain, not execute that command ? Shall we allow the murderers to fatten on the field of their ciimes, to rankle in our very bosom ? Shall we allow them to corrupt this island with their presence — again to call down the vengeance of heaven on our apathy ? Shall we participate in their crimes ? Shall we not expunge the libel of these ' images of God' from existence? Clearly we are guilty it we do not turn our hand against the foes of our raee — clearly we arc imbecile if we fail in striking to the earth, yet reeking with the blood of their victims, crying aloud to heaven for yen» geance, twos 0 enemies of God and those destroyers of men ! Shall not the wicked and the evil-doer be overcome ? Shall not the God of battles prosper our arms ? Yes, there is might in a righteous cause, and ours is holy. Then, ' scourge the spoiler fiom our coasts,' exterminate the English despots, and crush with them the anti-Irish aristocracy for ever ! Under the head of our " war department," in the same journal, the subjoined fiendish recommendations occur : — Citizens have been advised to use vitriol, in a way which we do not at all approve of; in fact, we may lack that important article yet, for making gun cotton, if we wssto it in burning a few holes in a soldiei's coat. But as some may object that we should diminish ths usefulness of our female patiiots by tlcpmingthem of fciuh an excellent missiye as vitriol, we have considered it our duty to provide them with a substitu c, which we shall now offer to tluir notice. Let them procure a number of hoops, the laiger the better —three or four feet in diameter, if possible; but even those on common herring barrels would do, if the large ones could not be procured— still, we say, if possible) get the la-ger ones ; the hoops should then be covered with hemp or tow lowsely twisted round them, or even old cotton lags would answer (liven should always be kept for the hospital for the wounded). Let them next procure a basin filled with oil of turpentine or tar — but the turpentine is fir piefeiable — the hoop should then bu placed on the basin and turned round until the tow is fully impregnated with turppntine.When thus prepared, the hoop would be fit for the last operation — namely, setting fue to it and throwing it lonzonully on the red coats, whose bayone s wfluld very conveniently serve to catch it, and ihu* allow u to pass over their necks, when it would do its busineiss. The great advantage of large hoops over small ones is apparent, as the former would promote fraternization between two or more of the enemy, by encircling them. There is no novelty in the matter — for, unfortunately for our inventive repuUtion, it was tni'd 'jy a grand master of the Knights ot Malta, a long time ago, and was found an admirable connivance, having burned some thousands ot Turks with such hoops. We can therefore, recommend it in prefeieuce co the viliiol, (or though red coats are not so in flammable as Turks, yet they are capable of being looted »t least.