Show AND THE irish IBISH r ENGLAND by to days dispatches we learn that there was considerable excitement in some parts of england ovar over tho the execution of the condemned at manchester and who were hanged on the for murder queen victoria refused to reprieve them notwithstanding large public meetings had been held and petitions numerously signed had been forwarded soliciting a reprieve their execution seems to have been demanded by the full course of law in england where the majesty of the law is maintained with almost sacred inviolability A policeman had been killed in open day in the streets of a large and populous city while in the execution of his duty and prisoners set free this was the act for which these recently executed feniane died they were tried by special commission convicted of murder and hanged that such a thing twing could occur in a city crowded with people like man chester that a released prisoner could successfully make his escape as relly kelly di dand that the irish should attempt insurrections in england might well excite surprise in those who are unacquainted with the peculiar mixture of population in the I 1 large 1 rge cities there A very large portion of the inhabitants of many of the towns and cities of england are irish there are said to be more irish in london than in dublin the capital of their country and its population ia is in the neighborhood of of the irish in those towns many have been born in england who yet retain all the peculiarities and idiosyncrasies which mark the race bla nin many ny have emigrated to edgland england from the southwest south west and west of ireland after having passed a youth of poverty toil toll and semi barbarism they enjoy all the rights and privileges under law t enjoyed by any other portion of the inhabitants of those cities but centuries of misrule on the part of england have produced the very degradation ra in wh which I 1 ch they have beau raised they are sunken as a race and they know it they are viewed with scorn and treated with contempt by their english neighbors which they cannot but keenly feel this scorn is repaid with hatred and existing anti fathies keep growing in intensity the english as a nation know nothing practically of ireland separated by a little over a hundred miles of water they have been as far apart for all tactical practical knowledge so far as the bu bulk buik lac rac of the english people is concerned as though they were divided by an ocean the irish people are judged an ani 1 an estimate of them formed from the denizens of the lowest quarters of crowded cities or the who leave their homes to make canala canals or cut down the harvest where money is more plentiful than iu in the vicinity of the little cabins which they have been accustomed to love and reverence as home the result is contempt entertained on one side bide hatred on the other the rhe leaders of the feniane entertain this hatred as strongly as men can do i they foster I 1 it t among the their r cou country men they see that in a population almost one olne fourth of the entile entire inhabitants of many of the large 14 angrish lowns owna they have a power which can be used for disturbing the luiet luiel of the nation they cannot possibly hope to make siny any successful outbreak in england but they may by these irritating disturbances so work upon the british government t hat that troops will be kept in england Engla rid or drawn from Irela trela ireland treland nl which otherwise would be employed in the latter inland wand and thus thua increase their chances for an insurrectionary movement where a tho j possession of the soil A disaffected population in england and adl adi in scotland ready at alt an any Y I 1 moment to break brak out in open rebellion and a large organized force of feniane in the uni ted leli states threatening the border of the new dominion of of aanada tanada canada would divide attention with ireland the chief point pat of attraction and it seems probable that the fenian leaders imagine thy they can harrass the british government in this way until they can secure moral support and practical aid from some of the great powers designing then to strike an effectual enec enee tuai tuni blow for the establishment lish ment of an irish republic however wild their schemes may be they are evidently bent on making trouble and may be ranked among the great disturbing elements of the gage jage |