The New Zealand Herald. AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5,1865.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 644, 5 December 1865, Page 5

The New Zealand Herald.

AUCKLAND, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5,1865.

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I>r other columns we publish extracts from the .English journals brought by the mail which arrived yesterday. The news is not of a very exciting, though it undoubtedly is in some respects of a grave and serious nature. Under this category may be named the murrain among cattle in Entail, the great loss occasioned by the terrible disease to farmers and owners of cattle, and the great rise it lias occasioned in two staple articles of diet, milk and beef. >"o etl'oris made have had any effect upon the disease; nothing is decidedly known as to its origin and causes. "Whether of home or foreign birth is still disputed, though there is no difference of opinion as to its deadly character. Cattle, carefully tended, well fed, kept clean, and well looked after in every respect, are seized with the 1113*3tcrious malady, and succumb just as do cattle deprived of all these advantages, and just as the cholera and tvphus fever of a malignant character are not confined to the localities in the neighbourhood of foul drains, open sewers, and squalid poverty, but visit the more aristocratic quarters where comfort, cleanliness. and plenty prevail.

It would appear that industrial exhibitions are becoming an annual event in England — a means of mutual intercourse between the varied classes of English society, and give opportunities for various localities to have a useful incentive to increased exertion, in order to produce excellence in design and workmanship in the various departments of industrial life. Doubtless great good in a social and educational point of view, accrue from these generous rivalries, and these meetings at which all the various classes of society are brought together, for the purpose of enjoying the inspection of the beautiful wrought out by their fellow meu. Labour is dignified when it can be thus enthroned, and have the worship of the rich and the poor, the peer and the peasant, the learned and the ignorant. Ireland has caused some little stir through the action of the Fenian brotherhood there, and the determination at last of the Government to quench the fires of sedition and treason that burnt in the breasts of the shop boys, clerks, labourers, and so forth, which formed the brotherhood. It appears there has been a good deal of drilling and meeting in various portions of the country, and the Government for some time took no notice thereof, thinking no doubt it would die •a natural death. At last, however, it was determined to pursue a different line of conduct, and secretly and quickly were the necessary measures talceu, and a number of persons were quietly lodged in jail before they ever suspected anything of the kind would be done. Arrests have been made in various places, but already the London press calls out for mercy to the misguided youths, who have preferred talking sedition and learning the goose-step to endeavouring to improve their minds and their positions, by good honest work, rather than giving themselves up to those who persuade them that they can sever the Union which exists between Great Britain and Ireland.

There can be little doubt but the Fenian brotherhood originated in America, and that the disbanding of large numbers of troops consequent upon the cessation of hostilities between North and South, has cast a largo number of men adrift who prefer the chance of war to the even tenor of the way they would have to pursue in following a peaceful calling. Hence, no sooner have they done fighting for the Federals, in order to compel the continued union of North and South in America, than they are extremely anxious to enrol themselves in any army haying for its object the disuniting of Great Britain and Ireland. They ought to have learnt the lesson taught them by the war in which they have recently been engaged, that it is much easier to talk about than to realise separation. They might have recollected that the god of battles generally marches with the largest and best equipped battalions ; that their puny efforts wight annoy, but could never seriously injure, Great Britain, and that the American government would not countenance their design. Another signs of the times should have been noticed by the prime movers in this affair, namely, that the Soman Catholic clergy have strenuously opposed it both in America and Ireland, that no respectable persons have allied themselves with the movement in the latter country, 'hat the gentry, priests, clergymen, tradesmen of all degrees and all sorts of political opinions not only keep aloof from, but Wrongly condemn, the proceedings of the ■teman brotherhood. -The only possible result from such, pro ceediugs will be that extra watchfulness will given by the Government, that distrust through the country, that capital will be thereby prevented from \rili lg + i lnvested in it, that labour itti, ereforo °e decreased, and with toe prosperity and happiness of the labour„s and trading classes, and that a few m. U i Dg i men will Set themselves transported f .'oclged in a felon's cell for a few years. 1 is> idle to think that Ireland which, under ine energetic eloquence of Daniel O'Oonnell, Z\ m l T the ] eadership of educated men helo l S - ho ' BrieD > Meagher, and others ]m/]"° ln °i to ie gentry classes could do "ojmng but disturb the country and per-v-itv ° """aosity, and put themselves laho gr;lsp of tho law > that a few ro,J lr ?- rs '- a ' lcl sll op-boys, and clerks can lanS * niße the c °uutry and wrest Ireuu n- om England, even though led by a few i'JiWlrish filibusters.

Ireland has suffered much, both from external and internal mis-government; emigration naa relieved the country of a large surplus population, labour is more plentiful to those who remain and is far better paid than used to bo the case; agriculture has been greatly improved, encumbered estates have changed hands and passed from the needy absenteo to the resident owner who has capital at command, and her manufactures are being gradually extended. 'What Ireland requires is exactly what wo require, peace and quietness within her borders, and the attention of her sons given to steady peaceful industry rather than to sedition and rebellion, and tho disorganization Mowing from such a course of conduct. Tho democratic Government of the Yankee Irishman would be. a" far more grievous yoke than that now borne by tho Irish. Now they have equal laws with other parts of the Empire, except that tho taxation of Irelaud is not so great as that of Great Britain ; they have equal facilities for steady progressive industry, and the rewards flowing therefrom can be as readily obtained by them as by others of their fellow subjects. The clergy of all denominations, the gentry, and all the respectable classes being strongly opposed to Eenianism. We may hope that tho energetic action of the Government will open the eyes of tho misguided, and cause them to give up their idea of cutting the painter which unites Ireland and England, and listen to the sound advice given them by both the clergy and the laity. It is worthy of note that the Roman Catholic Bishops and Archbishops have been the loudest in their condemnation of the purpose and objects of the Fenians.