A FENIAN ATROCITY.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2747, 12 January 1882, Page 2

A FENIAN ATROCITY.

The “ New York Times”, writes : —-An incident has occurred in Loudon which has caused the cheek of even the most hardened Radical to grow pale and the frame of the stoutest Briton to trenible. A mosquito has attacked a loyal . British subject in broad daylight in a London street.' : There, can be no doubt as to the fact. ‘ The' brutal assailant was caught iit the act and fully identified. He was proved to be a American mosquito, and it is universally believed that he is one of tba gang of mosquitos stealthily introduced into England by American Fenians. No one doubts that the Fenians have” introduced mosquitos into England with the express purpose of overthrowing the British Empire. They have noted the fact that the decline of Venice was coincident with the appearance of the so-called Venetian mosquito in the lagoon. That devastating insect is merely a gnat, and is far inferior to the true mosquito of America, but under its attacks the Venetians lost their energy and courage and fell first under the yoke of an oligarchy, and then under that of the Austrians. Had the American mosquito been carried to Venice by some subtle and fiendish enemy, itis probable that the ruin of the republic would have been hastened by at least a century, and it is doubtful if even one stone of the magnificent palaces of Venice would now be left standing upon another. Tho Venetians, however, were by nature far more impervious to the attacks of mosquitos than are the modern inhabitants of England, and it is by no means certain

that the entire population ot England will not be literally bled to death within two years from the present time. Humanity shudders at the latest atrocity of the Irish fanatics. Dynamite was bad enough, but it is merciful compared with mosquitos. If the Fenians have deliberately introduced mosquitos into England they have done a deed without a parallel for pure fiendishness, and infinitely more inhuman than the worst massacres perpetrated.by Cromwell in Ireland.