the paradise nature had intended it? The present Government has declared that it is the only one which ever really felt for the wrongs of Ireland. All previous Administrations-Whig and Tory alikehave been satisfied with that handto-mouth legislation which tries to deal with the grievances of the hour-that palliative system that never attempts to probe the wound to the bottom, nor assumes to confer a radical cure. These are very high pretensions; and certainly if we only regard the powerful nature of the remedies employed, one cannot deny that the doctors are in earnest. As for Ireland herself, she has been so long the subject of treatment, and with remedies so various and often contradictory, that she only follows the traditional lot of the invalid in coming at last to the quack. The present Cabinet, however, goes farther than mere claiming to be the first that ever sympathised with Ireland. It also assumes to be original in its plans; and it is this I deny, and this pretension that I now desire to stigmatise as a plagiarism. To ascertain how the Irish would wish to be dealt with, our rulers have set themselves to see how the Irish deal with themselves; and this inquiry shows that Pat, having tried many things, has found nothing that answers his purpose like TERROR! The denunciation from the altar, the threatening notice, the warning nailed on the hall door, with a coffin at the top, the intimation to quit a new tenure or, are all modes which aspire to considerable success. The denounced man in Ireland would not be an Irishman if he did not read in any misfortune that befel him the accomplishment of the curse pronounced on him; and thus it is that every possible accident of human life swells the list of penalties in voked on the ill-doer. Didn't he get the palsy for it? didn't his daughter die of the fever? didn't the smut come on his wheat? are the common expressions that show how the people connect injury with vengeance, and recognise the decrees of Providence as an agent to vindicate their wrongs. Terror in one shape or other is the motive principle of Irish life. The landlord withholds the lease that he may have the threat of eviction, and the peasant shoots the landlord to make his successor more amenable to argument; and this system of Terror, organised and disciplined to a high perfection, the Liberals have stolen, and proclaim they alone have found out the original method to deal with Ireland. Their language to the peasantI mean the language of that pacification on which they pride themselves-may be stated thus: We see the admirable use you have made of TERROR; we recognise in it a great governmental principle; and we own the admirable success it has been attended with. Still, as physicians are reluctant to employ remedies which of themselves are baneful influences, and do not like to cure even ague by arsenic, we on similar grounds object to the bullet, heroic remedy though it be, for Irish wrongs; and we would then suggest that you would leave the TERRORISING to us! We have already disendowed the Church. Are the landlords of Ireland so stupid, think you, as not to see that once we have gone so far we can go further? It was no easy matter, one might suppose, to reconcile a British Parliament to an Act of Confiscation; but we have hit upon happy times, and in this political millennium the old Whig lies down with the Radical. If the proprietors of Irish property are not alarmed now, they must be more or less than human. Here is an Establishment linked to the very hearts of all that was loyal in Ireland-the strongest bond that bound them to England, the main condition of the Act of Union, the refuge against the aggressions and extravagances of an intolerant Church, swept away by the triumphant vote of a party, whose elements, like those of a street mob, all agreed on destruction, and yet have no other tie between them. Must not estated proprietors see that, if pacification "call for it," they may be meted by the like measure? The Government that would introduce such a policy need not fear that worst of all political jibes-they cannot be called pedlars in politics. It will be assuredly a great measure;" the bonfires on a thousand hills that will hail the "first reading" will show the gratitude of that warm-hearted and oppressed people, who at length have found the man to understand Ireland and sympathise with Irishmen. The mighty newspaper, that rules public opinion, cannot but sustain a policy to which their ablest leaders have so long pointed. All who are sick of Ireland, tired of her importunity, and wearied and worried by the contradictions of her condition, all these will be delighted to know that here at length is finality. There can surely come nothing after extinction. No small merit will it be, besides, to the Premier to outbid Mr. Bright, and leave him halting lamely behind him. How meanly will any measure of leasehold or tenantright seem beside the grand bill that sweeps away the proprietor like the parson, and tells him "that his mission has proved a failure;" that the happiness of a people is of more account than the "integrity of a system;" that there were two barren fig-trees in Ireland, and that he is one of them ;-in fact, that he was the last remnant of a penal law which the enlightenment of the age repudiated, and that the hand of the clock can be no longer held back, in which Ireland must be treated with justice, and Irishmen be the owners of their own soil! INDEX TO VOL. CV. Abraham de Sta Clara, the sermons of, 214. Addison on the immorality of the Airolles, Beaumarchais's exposure of, 39. Americans, the, their want of rever- André, Father, the sermons of, 215. Anson, General, his march on Delhi, 583. ARMY ORGANISATION, ON, 152-causes ARTS IN THE HOUSEHOLD, THE, 361. Auckland gold-fields, the, 305. lation in, 469-its cost in, 472--its Austrian military system, its failure in 559. Balaklava, the battle of, 75 et seq. Ballet, the, general fondness for it, Ballot, the, by O'Dowd, 446. Barnard, General, 585. Barrow, Isaac, his sermons, 225. -the position of philosophy, 1--his Bernard, St., as a preacher, 209. Bismark, changes in the Prussian mili- Blache, the Count de la, his persecution Brahmo Somaj, the, in India, 100. Breeze, S., a Welsh preacher, anecdote Bright, Mr., his position in the Ministry, Burlingame, Mr., his mission from Burma, policy of Sir John Lawrence Burton, Mr. Hill, on Hume's philoso- Campbell, Sir Colin, at Balaklava, 76 final subjugation in by Russia, 710. Chaulnes, the Duc de, Beaumarchais's Chih-Tajen, one of the Chinese am- CHINESE MISSION TO CHRISTENDOM, THE, 194. Christianity, introduction of, among 'Clarissa Harlowe,' the publication and Clergy reserves in Canada, the, 502. Columbus, views of, in his voyage to Conneche, Friar, the sermons of, 222. CONTINENTAL POWERS, ON THE RE- ORGANISATION OF THEIR ARMIES, 466. mutiny, 589, 591. 580-during the 580-during the County elections in England, their re- Crimean war, special lessons from the, Dalhousie, Lord, annexation of the Pun- DECORATIVE ART APPLIED TO DOMESTIC Delany, Mrs., letter to Richardson from, Delhi, Sir John 'Lawrence at, 418, 419, DISESTABLISHMENT, MR. GLADSTONE AND, 238. Divorce, frequency of, among the Domestic architecture, development of, Donaldson, Mrs., letter to Richardson Doré, Gustave, his illustrations of the DOUBLES AND QUITS, Part III., 50- Drama, the censorship of the, 354-its Drill, distinction between it and dis- Dubois, the Abbé, on Indian missions, Duverney, Paris, his connection with THE CAMPAIGN, 112. DWYER ON SEATS AND SADDLES, &c., GAIN OR LOSS? THE STATISTICS OF Edwardes, Colonel, afterwards Sir H., seq. Electric telegraph, progress of, under ELIOT, GEORGE, HOW LISA LOVED THE Eloquence for every one, by O'Dowd, - England, reception of Berkeley in, 12- Etawah, administration of, by Sir John Europe, previous missions from China Extempore sermons, early prevalence of, Fielding, his Joseph Andrews' a parody FIFTEEN LOUIS D'OR OF BEAUMARCHAIS, Finances, state of, in India under Law- THE REIGN OF-No. IX. The Philoso- GLADSTONE, Mr., HIS BILL, 498-his Goezman, Judge, Beaumarchais's law- Goezman, Madame, 31, 36 et seq. pass. 39. Gold, recent discoveries of, 298-exports Goolab Singh, fidelity of, during the Gothic, the, as applied to domestic archi- Gowan, Major-General, 580. Grey, Sir George, his government of Haight, Mr., his speech on the Chinese Heavy cavalry charge at Balaklava, the, Hill, Aaron, on 'Pamela,' 260. Flécher, bishop of Nismes, the sermons Hill, Rowland, 222, 224. of, 219. Hindooism, Dr. Macleod on, 97. Forests, measures of Lawrence in India Hochstetter, Dr., account of the hot Forster, Anne, marriage of Bishop Berke- France, the Court of, in the time of Frederick the Great, illustration of the French army, the, its reorganisation, Froude, Hurrell, Newman introduced to lakes of Rotorua by, 309. Honoré, Father, the sermons of, 216. Horsley and Thurlow, anecdote of, 207. Houses, on the planning and building of, HOW LISA LOVED THE KING, by George HOUSEHOLD, THE ARTS IN THE, 361. |