Irishman (if there be a wise Irishman) | of Bordeaux, whether all this be worth should be slow in separating from a while. What is the object of all gocountry whose spirit can produce, and whose institutions can admit, of such a result. Of his guilt no one doubts, but guilty men must be hung technically and according to established rules; upon a statutable gibbet, with parliament rope, and a legal hangman, sheriff, and chaplain on the scaffold, and the mob in the foreground.

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vernment? The object of all government is roast mutton, potatoes, claret, a stout constable, an honest justice, a clear highway, a free chapel. What trash to be bawling in the streets about the Green Isle, the Isle of the Ocean the bold anthem of Erin go bragh! A far better anthem would be Erin go bread and cheese, Erin go cabins that will keep out the rain, Erin go pantaloons without holes in them! What folly to be making eternal declamations about governing yourselves! If laws are good and well administered, is it worth while to rush into war and rebellion in order that no better laws may be made in another place? Are you an Eton boy, who has just come out, full of Plutarch's Lives, and considering in every case how Epaminondas or Philopomen would have acted, or are you our own dear Daniel, drilled in all the business and bustle of life? I am with you heart and soul in my detestation of all injustice done to Ireland. Your priests shall be fed and paid, the liberties of your Church be scrupulously guarded, and in civil affairs the most even justice be pre

But, after all, I have no desire my dear Daniel should come to any harm, for I believe there is a great deal of virtue and excellent meaning in him, and I must now beg a few minutes' conversation with him. "After all, my dear Daniel, what is it you want? -a separation of the two countries? for what purpose ?-for your own aggrandisement?-for the gratification of your personal vanity? You don't know yourself; you are much too honourable and moral a man, and too clear-sighted a person for such a business as this: the empire will be twisted out of your hands by a set of cut-throat villains, and you will die secretly by a poisoned potato, or be pistolled in the streets. You have too much sense and taste and openness to endure for a session the stupid and audacious wicked-served between Catholic and Protesness and nonsense of your associates. If you want fame, you must be insatiable! Who is so much known in all Europe, or so much admired by honest men for the real good you had done to your country, before this insane cry of Repeal? And don't imagine you can It is entertaining enough, that alintimidate this Government; whatever though the Irish are beginning to be so be their faults or merits, you may take clamorous about making their own laws, my word for it, you will not intimidate the wisest and the best statutes in the them. They will prosecute you again, books have been made since their union and put down your Clontarf meetings, with England. All Catholic disabili and they will be quite right in doing so. ties have been abolished; a good police They may make concessions, and I has been established all over the kingthink they will; but they would fall dom; public courts of petty sessions into utter contempt if they allowed have been instituted; free trade bethemselves to be terrified into a disso-tween Great Britain and Ireland has lution of the Union. They know full been completely carried into effect; well that the English nation are unan-lord-lieutenants are placed in every imous and resolute upon this point, and that they would prefer war to a Repeal. And now, dear Daniel, sit down quietly at Derrynane, and tell me, when the bodily frame is refreshed with the wine

tant. Thus far I am a thorough rebel as well as yourself; but when you come to the perilous nonsense of Repeal, in common with every honest man who has five grains of common sense, I take my leave."

county; church rates are taken off Catholic shoulders; the County Grand Jury Rooms are flung open to the public; county surveyors are of great service; a noble provision is made for

educating the people. I never saw a satisfactory answer to this, to a shrewd man who had returned to Ireland after man who is starving to death. four or five years' absence, who did not say how much it had improved, and how fast it was improving and this is the country which is to be Erin-gobragh'd by this shallow, vain, and irritable people into bloodshed and

Tamworth gives the word,-and in prevent entering into diplomatic enquick-step too, and without loss of gagements with the Pope. The sooner time. we become acquainted with a gentle

And let me beg of my dear Ultras man who has so much to say to eight not to imagine that they survive for a millions of our subjects the better! single instant without Sir Robert-Can anything be so childish and abthat they could form an Ultra-tory surd as a horror of communicating Administration. Is there a Chartist with the Pope, and all the hobgoblins in Great Britain who would not, upon we have imagined of premunires and the first intimation of such an attempt, outlawries for this contraband trade order a new suit of clothes, and call in piety? Our ancestors (strange to upon the baker and milkmen for an say wiser than ourselves) have left us extended credit? Is there a political to do as we please, and the sooner reasoner who would not come out of Government do, what they can do his hole with a new constitution? Is legally, the better. A thousand opporthere one ravenous rogue who would tunities of doing good in Irish affairs not be looking for his prey? Is there have been lost, from our having no one honest man of common sense who avowed and dignified agent at the does not see that universal disaffection Court of Rome. If it depended upon and civil war would follow from the me, I would send the Duke of Devonblind fury, the childish prejudices, and shire there to-morrow, with nine chapthe deep ignorance of such a sect? I lains and several tons of Protestant have a high opinion of Sir Robert theology. I have no love of Popery, Peel, but he must summon up all his but the Pope is at all events better political courage, and do something than the idol of Juggernaut, whose next session for the payment of the chaplains I believe we pay, and whose Roman Catholic priests. He must chariot I dare say is made in Long run some risk of shocking public Acre. We pay 10,000l. a year to opinion; no greater risk, however, our ambassador at Constantinople, than he did in Catholic Emancipation. I am sure the Whigs would be true to him, and I think I observe that very many obtuse country gentlemen are alarmed by the state of Ireland and the hostility of France and America.

and are startled with the idea of communicating diplomatically with Rome, deeming the Sultan a better Christian than the Pope!

The mode of exacting clerical dues in Ireland is quite arbitrary and capriGive what you please to the Catholic cious. Uniformity is out of the quespriests, habits are not broken in a day. tion; everything depends on the disThere must be time as well as justice, position and temper of the clergyman, but in the end these things have their There are salutary regulations put effect. A buggy, a house, some fields forth in each diocese respecting church near it, a decent income paid quarterly; dues and church discipline, and put in the long run these are the cures of forth by episcopal and synodical ansedition and disaffection; men don't thority. Specific sums are laid down quit the common business of life and for mass, marriage, and the adminisjoin bitter political parties unless they tration of the Eucharist. These authohave something justly to complain of.rised payments are moderate enough; But where is the money-about but every priest, in spite of these rules, 400,000l. per annum-to come from? makes the most he can of his ministry, Out of the pockets of that best of men, and the strangest discrepancy prevails, Mr. Thomas Grenville, out of the even in the same diocese, in the depockets of the Bishops, of Sir Robert mands made upon the people. The priest Inglis, and all other men who pay all and his flock are continually coming other taxes; and never will public into collision on pecuniary matters. money be so well and wisely em- Twice a year the holy man collects ployed! confession money, under the denomination of Christmas and Easter offerings.

It turns out that there is no law to

extort from six millions of beggars the little payments wanted for the bodies of the poor, and the support of life! I maintain that it is shocking and wicked to leave the religious guides of six millions of people in such a state of destitution ! - to bestow no more

He selects in every neighbourhood one | but by setting a high price on their or two houses, in which he holds sta- theological labours, and using every tions of confession. Very disagreeable incentive of fear and superstition to scenes take place when additional money is demanded, or when additional time for payment is craved. The first thing done when there is a question of marrying a couple is, to make a bargain about the marriage money. The wary minister watches the palpitations, puts on a shilling for every sigh, and two-thought upon them than upon the pence on every tear, and maddens the clergy of the Sandwich Islands! If I impetuosity of the young lovers up to a were a member of the Cabinet, and pound sterling. The remuneration met my colleagues once a week to eat prescribed by the diocesan statutes is birds and beasts, and to talk over the never thought of for a moment; the state of the world, I should begin upon priest makes as hard a bargain as he Ireland before the soup was finished, can, and the bed the poor peasants are go on through fish, turkey, and saddle to lie upon is sold, to make their con- of mutton, and never end till the last cubinage lawful;-but every one pre- thimbleful of claret had passed down sent at the marriage is to contribute; the throat of the incredulous Haddingthe minister, after begging and en-ton: but there they sit, week after treating some time to little purpose, week; there they come, week after gets into a violent rage, abuses and is week; the Piccadilly Mars, the Scotch abused;- and in this way is celebrated one of the sacraments of the Catholic Church!—The same scenes of alterca- | tion take place when gossip-money is refused at baptisms; but the most painful scenes take place at extreme unction, a ceremony to which the common people in Ireland attach the utmost importance. "Pay me beforehand this is not enough. I insist upon more, I know you can afford it, I insist upon a larger fee!"—and all this before the dying man, who feels he has not an hour to live! and believes that salvation depends upon the timely application of this sacred grease. Other bad consequences arise out of the present system of Irish Church support. Many of the clergy are constantly endeavouring to overreach and undermine one another. Every man looks to his own private emolument, regardless of all covenants, expressed or implied. The curate does not make a fair return to the parish priest, nor the parish priest to the curate. There is an universal scramble; every one If I were a Bishop, living beautifully gets what he can, and seems to think in a state of serene plenitude, I don't he would be almost justified in appro- think I could endure the thought of so priating the whole to himself. And many honest, pious, and laborious how can all this be otherwise? How clergymen of another faith, placed in are the poor wretched clergy to live such disgraceful circumstances!

Neptune, Themis Lyndhurst, the Tamworth Baronet, dear Goody, and dearer Gladdy, and think no more of paying the Catholic clergy, than a man of real fashion does of paying his tailor! And there is no excuse for this in fanaticism. There is only one man in the Cabinet who objects from reasons purely fanatical, because the Pope is the Scarlet Lady, or the Seventh Vial, or the Little Horn. All the rest are entirely of opinion that it ought to be done-that it is the one thing needful; but they are afraid of bishops, and county meetings, newspapers, and pamphlets, and reviews; all fair enough objects of apprehension, but they must be met, and encountered, and put down. It is impossible that the subject can be much longer avoided, and that every year is to produce a deadly struggle with the people, and a long trial in time of peace with O' somebody, the patriot for the time being, or the general, perhaps, in time of a foreign war.

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