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sionaries all must go ; and then an Englishman may be able to live in 

 his country. 



From England we glance at the sister country. The Emerald Isle of 

 the two grand pacificators, the Duke of Wellington, and Daniel O'Connell, 

 by the grace of the Pope, chief nuncio of the Catholic empire in that 

 fortunate and pacific realm. Must we repeat our predictions of the 

 result of the virtuous measure which those two great statesmen generated 

 between them in the month of April, 1 829 ? The measure of Catholic 

 Emancipation will conciliate the Papists, said the Duke. Ij; will 

 not conciliate a man of them, said the Protestant, but it will turn 

 petitioners into threateners, subjects into rebels, and Papists into the 

 tyrants of Ireland. It will satisfy all the Popish demands, said the 

 Duke. It will satisfy nothing, said the Protestant ; but it will stimulate 

 every thing. It will tell the Papist that the more he asks the more he 

 will get ; the more he riots, the more certain he is of bringing the 

 country to his terms ; and the more he defies the wrath of the cabinet, 

 or insults the feelings of the country, the more he may rely on carrying 

 his favourite Repeal of the Union. He will do nothing, said the 

 Duke, but steal into Parliament, make a foolish speech once a session, 

 and be forgotten. He will demand a Parliament for himself, said 

 the Protestant, and he will have it ; he will rouse the Papist popu- 

 lation into fury until you have no resource but violence. He will 

 have a separate legislature, which will give him a separate kingdom. 

 He has pledged himself to respect the King and the Church, said the 

 Duke. He will value his pledges just as if he had been in the cabinet 

 of 1829, said the Protestant. He will overthrow the Church. He will 

 extinguish the British connection. He will persecute the Protestant; 

 and when he has frightened every man of loyalty or fortune from the 

 island, and cut asunder every bond of interest, affection, or patriotism, 

 he will have his choice of an alliance with republican France or despotic 

 Spain. And this result will not delay. Before two years are over you 

 will see the beginning of the business, and the first demand will be the 

 Repeal of the Union ! 



We were wondered at for saying this ; and now, in the first year after the 

 sublime measure that was to reconcile every body, Ireland sees the sum- 

 mons to a Catholic Parliament sees the proclamation of a Lord-Lieute- 

 nant declaring its meetings traitorous a proclamation from the Popish 

 leaders, calling for a general levy by the name of Volunteers, with their 

 badges of the old time, when Ireland in arms boasted that she had terrified 

 England into all kinds of concessions, and with the motto " Resurgam" 

 on their caps. These are to be the Regenerators these resurrection- 

 men are to carry the measure ; by what means, we are in no doubt what- 

 ever. And at this moment Ireland is in the most likely condition of any 

 spot on earth, except Belgium or Paris, to reap the benefit of the new 

 school of volunteer legislation. Nous verrons. Now, to other lands. 



France is convulsed with faction. The populace are masters ; the 

 Legislature is a burlesque ; the King is a cipher. The mob, in their 

 sovereign will, command the realm. The first fruits of the reign of 

 peace are a levy of 1 10,000 soldiers. The National Guards are to be 

 increased from one million to three. The ministry are quarrelling with 

 each other. The parliament is unpopular. The generals are sending in 

 their resignations. The priests are refusing to pray for the King. The 

 English who made .the chief revenue of the hotels and shops of Paris 

 are flying the country. Trade of every kind is at a stand. Insolvency 

 is making its rapid way through the manufactories and warehouses. 



