ENGLISH EXTRACTS. IRELAND. Dublin, July 1.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 259, 22 November 1848, Page 6

ENGLISH EXTRACTS. IRELAND. Dublin, July 1.

rw> doubt can any longpr exist with regard to the c bjecf for winch the Felon ncwspuppr has been esta« blithed, or to the principles which it intends to piopaj;atc\ The following, which nppcars in this day'a number, is explicit on the point :— "lnii; First Slur — Thu Fklon Club. " We liold ijic present existing government of this island, and all existing rights ef property in our sill, to br mere uniipation und tyranny, and to be null and void, as of rm.rnl eflect; ami our pmposo is to nbulish them utterly, or lose oui lives in the attempt. The light founded on conquest, and affirmed by laws made by the conquerors themselves we regard ns no other than the right of a robber on a Iniger scale. We owe no obedience to laws enncted by another nation without our assent; nor lespeet to asiumed rights of property which are starving and c\tcrininahn» our people. The picsent salvation und Juioie eecurity of this country require that the Engli h (•overnment should at once be abolished, and the English garrison of lundlords instantly expelled. Necessity demands it— the ureat necessity ot sell-defence. Solf.delniee — gclf-piotc-clion — it is the lust law ol nutuie, and the fust duty o( man. We iduse all ap }>e-il lo the Eugliih pAilintitent to übolUh Hsell. We v. ill not uppe.il against the robbei to the robhei's den, mr aerninft the lanaloid to a parliament of landlords. We ndvise the people to organise and arm at once in tlioir own (U'l'cncv. We mean to assist them, and to set example by organising and arming ourselves. " Such it, a brief stdtemi nt in outline of our piinrij>!es and put poses. It Jea\e« the ptiiuijilcs urulrlendeil, the put poses undeveloped, all objections unanswered, ail dcvi s unexpla'iied, and detuiU nre iifcjitcnlly as impoitant as principle or pmposc, bu> thi'se omission* are mailer of mere necesbity lor the prt bent. "' It re tnnins lo state our intended course of pioccediug, as far a^muy b" mcusary and expedient. "Wo have dciei mined to «t about cienting, ;n speedily as poshible, a military organization, of which tue Felon office shall be the centioaud citadel, "As oui first step," a<ldjs> that journal, "of proceeding, wp are now founding a club which it is intended shall consis' of one, two. or moio pei«ons from each parish tin oughout Ireland, who are to be m nninedinte coimic urn and correspondence wnh thu cflicc. "The number of mrmberß is not to be limited by ;u v positive rule. But every person is not 10 be admirable Certain qualifications will bo requited. " As a matter o( common couice, no man uill oft\r himself, or be accepted €iB a iiieuibcr, unless he hold our pnnciplcs, and unless Jio bo prepared to arm and light in suppoit of them when culled upon." " IJut this will not be enough, else a common Inborn er, unah c to lead or wnie, would be eligible. Such, ho\vtvei,is not the punciple on which we aie forming tlub club. " IJut <veiy man is eligible and acceptable who pns)Hib9 any one talent or other, or any one qualification which would cinibli 1 him to be of teivine in any civil, inihl.uj, or lilemry capacity, f.nd win lb willinc to (if vote (hat talent er (|ualification to the scmu 1 ot his (Oiiniry for the next mx monthg. It is not the common l'boiu, but the skilled labour ol the, countrj, wcdesnc to i!iicd»e and o'gani/ 1 in thi> dub. " Jim ztal tank* with us as the very chief, and is, of iibi'lf alone, a siiiffmcnt qualification. " Any ono who is qualified to foi in or lead aco'npuiy, 01 a section of pikeinen, or who is willing to lead a loi'oin ho|)P, of who is nble lo addre«.s a public meeting, or who is competent i« write a paragiaph fit to »P|hmi in priiii — rsny and r very such petbou will be ylutllv leccivt'd at i member, and vveicouied ds aluend and cimiadc- " In one woid, our object is to gather togcthci a number cf uiun ci mpelent to lead in cuseb of nei cssiiy, und a iiafl ol tonmbutora compeient to take the con(luctuit; ol this ji>ui rial, it ils ptesent cortductois should bu iKiimud by nci.lh or txile. " Jami;s F La lop.. 1 ' Tie Nation cf to-day hardy a, hides to the recent i tfruble doin^h in I'auji, the result of n system which H is lahouiiog with no muoli eneigy tv bring into opelntion in tins couutiy, uud devotes ibe greatest portion ol Us frfiuce to the demilb ot the club oigan zation, "Inch is spreading, 1 u-yret to s o y, with fatal rapidity. It has been iibsencd, and, indeed, put foiwaid, as an inducement to the Roman C.Uholic cletgy to join the ] nsli League, th <t thai body would have no connection with the clul's; but the Nation of this date dikaipates the dclu'ioti It says— " We look upon the clubs as the atoms whose co~ JieMoii muff form our new world. 'Jhereloie we nUddeu ut their increase in numbers and pioximity, and we watch with pluuai nt exteetaaoiib over their acUon and ie^ult. •' 'lonaub the liish League they will ])erfonn one set '.( offices, of it nature a.duoui but teniporHry ; to H.e I iB.i nation another. We must dibtmgui»h beIy/l.u tliLsc o^eratioub aad beiwceu ihvir timej.

<c To ihe League the clubs will be as the constituency is to the legislature, or the wardmotc to the corporutii n. Tlipv will be minor organizations, cinbiuc* in« the inlinbitants of a neighbourhood, and giving B\Btcm, deliberatiwi, and auth'Mity to Hie locul fft'«| t '« will of t)i ir mcmbeis They will prevent; (he movcn ent bring lelt at the will of the majority of any iuidicnrc in Dublin, or of any committee or any man. Whoever would shapa the policy 01 the League lias but to join a club and fiist shape lU policy. No one, or two, 01 tin ce club's, cuu make or uiu.iaKe the course, ol the League; but a fjenpi -«1 <\pres*ion of opinion by the clubs must be tcken as the opinion of the Kingdom, since those are the only assemblies in Ireland «uen to all dashes of the people. The corporalious may be biased, 01 the conferences silent, on a disputed point, but I In* nggr<gati" sentiment of the Ucpeal Clubs will be a guide (o the League and to success" The ailirle from which I have taken the foie^oiiv cMuclh concludes by saying, " almost eveiything we hear or run l convinces vi th.it tho club system is the leal hop<> of the cause, and that in proportion ««, it b'Tomcs e\teiisi\c, aciive. lesolutc. and well connected, 'O precisely will success become inevitable, easy, mid long endutmg. If success be out object, cubs must be our means." As, doubtless, many of our readeis nre interested in the subject on which the fallowing article treits, I send it 10 you lor their particular mfoimation. It is likewise Horn the Nation— '• Tun Valul or an Irish IlAnvrsr. <( There is growing to day on Ii isli soil .£80,000,000 worth of puducu, by the reckoning ot the b( bt accountant There are beugmg to day between the hedge row-, th it f-nce lit (lii">e treasuxs two millions of the Irish people ; there dwell next do >r to l> ggary and b itikruptcy in the towns and ports tluonghout which, it is said, this vast hoide of wealth, must be sinti{,{>led away belorc Cluistm.ih liext — uuothei inferable million. " I\> our minds, if these .C 30,000,000 wrc boldly taken advantage of, a new foundation for life mi Jn !>e laid in (reliind. Lit u-i suppose tl.e i lung about to be tried — let Us suppo c a thousand clubs ot ;j()0 men, spiead over let hi. d — their club looms ovei agaiut,t every barrack in town and country — tln-ir seou h ftjiyinpr thiough eeeiy |)a,k — (heir thousands b/itt»lioned in every city — their hiah Li-ague, or Council of 1 luce Hundred, hones'-, clear-headed and biave — whnt gicut uuiposi'S might rota fund of X 80,000, 000 be turned to? " Less than oiu-half of it would feed the people ti.l fi'iotl (r harvest had lorccd its way into the light. "It i-> the opinion even ol English economists, that one yeai's pioduce in Ireland is two j ears' food. Upon tli- iippiopriutinn of I his firbt p rt there could be no quibble, and shuulJ be tolernL d no nigumvnt. It any mini said nay, and put loith Ins hand iii'on the people's food, their answer should bo i lie juke point or the bullet. " Tlie uses of the surplus pioducc is a ligltiinate subject for dehb rit'on, und will indeed th'ilknge, all nur economic knowledge, seeing the Statistic bociety mi. l Dr. Whntely will lend us no light in its distnbution. To di.ect the expenditure ot ,£10,000,000 of money to an Irish Government just come to |owei niubt he .i task ol great comp e.uty and anxiety, llow much of it shall be diverted into the long diied channels ol native ti a le, and how — what ] oition of it slnil be apttiopnated by the state, and lOr whit piirpoci— wh a ba ance of it may go to pay a fair ieiu c > resident pioprictoM and buy out, those who wish to ba quit of Ii eland— all these will be vm> \ital and punuij eon ° swleiationfi. Bnt. whereas the rental of the countiy i but X'H, OOO, OOO, mid its iMiul imports o' manuhctmes not veiy iruuli nioie, this Miiplus I'lii/ht hu made to covei all otu actu.il icijuireuicnts fiom haivtst io linneM, tuough ol romse tlie lDoitgngei'd, Jews, and absenlcvs would buftci by the nev/ cuuibes out expenditure wo lid lake. However, they must suffer. They must be cliptff their ruck rents and usuiioiis per centiigea, or the people mus. die or be bani«heJ. 'iheie is no alternative. Thct rutibl be in lie and u social levuluiion oi a wilderiKSS Italy, England, Fiance, and Tii'ma, all have had tluu pia-aiu ni'uiieefioria, then rev lutions in tenuie, their w.us for the possession of the Riil. lieluKl'd is, at lust, at hand. Too long too long has it been delay* d, and huwivur quickly ie muy be aceompliihed, it cannot fully seive it» puipose smce it cannot call the dead to life. Hut it can, at leu'-t, prcbeive i!jc survivors. Come it miul, and soon, il enemy, tiulli, and couiagc hinvivc among us." On the same sul>j<c; the, Irish Tribune comes out in a far mote explicit manner. Alter a highly colouud pictuie of the pie»ent eoiiuition of the people, it tuKs, will they allow tiiDiiitlrcj patienily to be depiived of the produce of ihe.i fields that their " Jacl al loe m>ty thrive and fatten upon it, and thus unswers the quest ion :—: — "Fo b d it Heaven. No; the ftrong men of thin land, who, despite tlie almost, nipti human efforts of tlie enemy, are the million still — whose souls at e not yet l»-t to Ihe dignity of manhood by the 8 avi-,h contact with the pound of ytllow mtai — uhos" hearts have not yet wilheicd into decay under the blighting influenne of the sickness niu! whose blood quickens with i he long pent up hie of re\enge; these men have rent the uir with one unutumo'i} n.n<\ delinut shout— and again gladilen our eyes by displaying the bold front ot '43 Uigul foiwaul bytedoubled energy, and by the conceiitiHtcd file of uvenge, to nave the coming harvpjt, und c ise tin ir longing thijbi, deep, deep in the blood of the litiglhh foe. '•Two klmrt months will scarcely elapse until tl c period foi this lilt 1 or death utrugglc will be upon us, and it behove^ cive;ry man who bus, or who is e'eterminul to stake In* life upon the issue, to bee that no coward policy ol li3ii(i<'iu pifvcnt the execution of Ins last will and testament. We are not ol those who believe thut the people me not prepined individually to enter upon tbis ttrujjiilc. We assert that they" are fully prepaiesd, and have been long ]>repared ; ami coninleimg the uiiigutiudc und the justnes-, of the cause, we maintain that one hour should not be, lost after the tying of the lust sheaf of coin to invoke the gnl of b.ittles, aiid tmst to his mercy for aid to a people 6trui;!}lmg for the last remnant of life und liberty." The article concludes thus— " We: full upon the people ol Dublin, as they value their lues, their Itbcilics, and the happiness ol their homes, and would desire to see famine and pcs>t'lenee Initialled lor evei fmia their soil, to take this mailer into their band", and if their leaders will not move, to take the lend theinoi lvcs, and prepare, in a fitting manner, thiougb the mouths of their representatives in this council, to tell this iojul ludy, who we are told is about l> visit thii ill fated shore, by blandishments to soothe us into contented obedience to Mntish mle, —that the, Crown which will st..nd in the way ol the Irish peop c rigluiii" and tilling tlieinsclve«, and saving the harvest of this ) ear ot 1818 tor their use hiiU benefit — musi I'kkisii."