ment has devised one scheme of emigration after another-has expended thousands in charter-school grants, and thousands in the draining of bogs; but misery still reigns predominant, and threatens, as it would appear, the very existence of the country. But parliament is to do no more: the efforts of individuals are to supply those of the great council of the nation. The administration of public affairs is to be a sinecure in regard to Ireland. She is to be abandoned in her greatest need to the frantic reign of Bible Societies, of reformation crusaders, and perjured conspirators. She is to be given over to a malevolent faction, which “like a raging lion, goeth about seeking whom it may devour;" which not only preys, but gorges upon its victims; a faction against which innocence is no protection, and a verdict of not guilty is no acquittal: and to brighten her prospects for the future, her avowed and determined enemies are placed at the head of the Government in England! Good God! when will the folly of our rulers cease? They drive the people into wretchedness by a long continued system of mal-administration, and then insult and mock them in their afflictions by the most obstinate and contemptuous silence. It is both sending them the sword, and giving them the arm to wield it ! Till the Catho

(2) When Scanderberg sent his sword to Mahomet II.

lic peasant be taught to regard the law as his protector, by finding himself on an equality with his Protestant neighbour-till all cause of irritation be removed, and the spirit of bigotry be laid, by rescinding all penal distinctions—no permanent tranquillity can be expected; and till tranquillity be established on a solid basis, to invite the investment of capital for the employment of the people, Ireland will be poor, and wretched, and miserable. It is a well known fact that, during the discussions upon the Catholic claims, in 1825, very large sums of money were only waiting for the security which the final settlement of that great question would afford, to be immediately embarked for Ireland. It has probably been lent to Mexico, and been lost; for in the present situation of things, our surplus capital finds a readier channel for investment in the remotest corners of the world, and upon the most shallow security, than in calling into action the fertile but latent resources of our own immediate provinces. Those yearly droves of ragged and hungry peasants—a faint portrait of the still greater misery they leave behind-who traverse the country in search of a precarious subsistence, ought to speak more feelingly to the

at the request of that monarch, Mahomet returned it, saying, that though he had sent him his scymetar, he had not sent him the arm that wielded it.

minds of Englishmen than they do. In wretchedness they outvie those "Papists of the East,"

(r) Nothing can be more unjust than the outcry raised against the Irish labourers who have followed their landlords into this country, to seek for that employment here, which the absence of these, their natural protectors, has prevented them from obtaining at home. Surely, it is but reasonable that they should be allowed to partake of the benefits dispensed amongst the people of England by their absentee countrymen, especially when it is considered that it is by the labour of these very men that the incomes thus expended have been raised. Besides, much of the food consumed by the English labourer is the produce of Ireland, and it is unjust to complain because the Irish peasant comes to eat here what, but for the unnatural union of the two countries, he would be able to enjoy at home. Independent of which, the necessaries of life would be much scarcer, and consequently much dearer to the English lahourer, were it not for the supply afforded him from the superabundant produce of Ireland. But the spirit which actuates this feeling of hostility amongst the peasantry of England, to the poor, wandering, expatriated sons of Erin, is the same which has ever governed the higher classes in their treatment of that unhappy country' To say nothing of days long since gone by, the bare memory of which harrows up the very soul, let us cast a glance at the history of times so recent as to be within the recollection of all, and when neither ignorance, nor barbarism, nor any fancied provocation to vengeance can plead an excuse, or even offer a palliation, for the wrongs we have inflicted. No details are requisite to illustrate

the very Greeks themselves, without being equally fortunate in attracting the compassion or good

the picture: the shades are so deep, and the general gloom which pervades the whole piece is so profound, as to be visible to all: goaded into rebellion by the wily policy of a wicked and ambitious minister, then terrified by the atrocities committed in her subjugation, she was inveigled into a renunciation of her rights, and a resignation of her independence. While thus captivated by bribes, overawed by threats, and deceived by promises, in an evil hour did she consent to throw herself upon the mercy of her relentless master. She has never ceased to repent her folly; for she has been a slave instead of a handmaid,—a servile dependant instead of an honourable partner. Though full seven and twenty years have elapsed, since her marriage articles were signed, and she became legally betrothed to her imperious lord, during which period she has ever most religiously comported herself as a dutiful and submissive consort, she has never yet been permitted to solemnize her nuptials but by mourning and by sorrow. As the note of gladness has never yet dwelt upon her ear, nor happiness ever settled on her brow, neither has she yet been decked in her bridal dress, nor partaken of her bridal banquet. The fruits of a happy union have never yet appeared; neither was it to be expected that they should; for there was too much of fraud and violence. necessary to effectuate the marriage contract,-there was too wide a departure from the principles upon which alone a happy alliance could be founded, ever to allow her to look to other consequences than those which have rendered this union so abortive of good, and so prolific of evil

will of the nation." The Greek dies nobly in the field, and his death is sweetened with the compas

Being only a union of words and not of hearts,-of force and not of affection,-deficient in all those qualities requisite for a lawful marriage, she has just cause to demand a dissolution of that tie, which could only have been valid and effectual by the free consent of the contracting parties, and by the strict fulfilment of the stipulated conditions. Let those conditions be fulfilled, and the union may still be happily consummated.

(s) "But why do I mention these things, and what have we to do with the Greeks? What, are we not Greeks also-western Greeks-(cheers)-and has not a sort of Turkish rule oppressed us also, and trodden on our rights, and robbed us of our national glory, and prosperity, and security, and made us a bye-word amongst the other nations of Europe, and-but I correct myself;-the Greek was not always under the blighting shadow of his oppressor. There were islands, which I have visited, where Greeks governed Greeks; and though ill-governed, no doubt, were at least their own governors, and ruled and obeyed after their own will, and for their own interests and use. The pacha came once a year, took his tythe, and church-rate, and cess, and then went home to sleep in his haram, till the appointed season for the spoil or the contribution should come once more. But with us the Turk has been always present, at our fire-side, beside our chambergrate, by the cradle of our children, on the grave of our fathers; within us, above us, about us; every where we have met the persecutor; at the very altar, where, with a blasphemy not to be endured by modern civilization, he interposed