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Colonist, Volume III, Issue 294, 14 August 1860, Page 4

The Exodus from Ireland.—Thß Dublin Nation, speaking of the renewed stream of emigration setting out from Ireland, exclaims:— " And, God of Justice ! this goes on—this most mournful spectacle of all modern times—proceeds without a voice being raised in Europe, where crowned gamblers load the dice, and play and cheat with 'Italy's cry of anguish' on their lips. What grief has Italy to compare with this ? What testimony of oppression has ever been seen upon her plains to compare with this exodus of a whole race? It is one of the penalties of misfortune that the lazy beggar may mimic by his whine the cry of actual suffering, and parody the words of its petition. So Ireland, while her hard-working, patient, faithful people prove daily the depth of their anguish and the reality of their oppression, must hearken to the indolent compounds of half beggar, half highwayman, who calling themselves f Italy,' shout to Europe about their ' cry of anguish.' Anguish ! In one hour upon our quays during the past week more anguish might be seen, the result of heartless misgovernment, than in Italy during half a century. And this steady disappearance of a whole people, this flight without a parallel in the records of oppression, goes on beneath the hand of England—England that meanwhile swaggers in Naples as a monitor of rulers—a friend of suffering subjects? Is there no sovereign in Europe with humanity enough left to raise a voioe for a brave and virtuous nation perishing —disappearing for ever from their own land— while the power that sways their destinies with brazen hypocrisy struts abroad a firebrand revolutionist, inflaming populations as against their legitimate and paternal native rulers? Is there no sovereign in Europe with chivalry left to tell this false-faced incendiary to look at her own shores —to look upon her own subjects flying heartwrung and despairing from a land which it is to them all but death to leave ? Will ho humane king tell her to listen to the cries, to mark the tears, of those poor emigrants, and account before God and man why it is that they must quit for ever the.land of their fathers ? Is there, oh! Europe, no one of all your princes to hearken to ' Ireland's cry of anguish ?'" Palmerston. —The Palmerstonian hygiene is becoming a matter of as much curiosity as was Wellington's for the last ten years of the F.M.s life—only " how he eat, how he drank, how he slept, how he snored," is not yet noted down by such large numbers of " BoswelPs so small" as chronicled the minutiae of his Grace. If the Duke was iron, the Viscount is certainly Toledo or Damascus steel, with a : spring in, it that brings the rapier's point to the hilt without flaw or fracture. Just think of the " horrible and heartrending," half-a-dozen years ago. Aberdeen astounded at the reproach of being rather elderly when only in the heyday of seventy, and when the Juvenile Whig, his formal jackal in Holy Alliance diabolism, was called vigorous, and elastio, and buoyant, and all that, exclaimed before Tear'em's Balaklaya Committee, " Why he's within a couple of months of my own age : here's his letter refusing the Foreign-office because its too much for him, and taking the Home as more Buited to his time of life and enfeebled powers. Artifulest of dodgers, Yiotor in the Isthmian Game of gamemaking !It was another case of Caffarelli, who; while a cardinal, pretended to have one leg in the grave, and to be (tying to put in the other, but was no sooner made Pope than he threw a somerset like a bounding Bologna ball, of the order of Trappe, and knocked his bewildered brother eminences over his nine pins. The six years have fled. Poor Aberdeen is on the eve of joining his imperial " friend of forty years," where " the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at tesiV M it is to be hojied that

Nicholas is posthumously indifferent to the coal duties, which would fire him with ardent approbation were his spirit in the flesh fand to see the- thitig done by the Comic Old Gentlemen calling himself-"a truly British minister " primmest joke of all! And how wags this iniquitous world with the disbeliever in original >iv. Why has paradisically as did Eden with Adam ere the first man knew the difference between a; figleaf and a Moses' peg-top. When Finality, by direction of V.8., kicked1 him out in '52 for " setting aside the crown, and putting himself in place of the crown," in reference to the surreptitious recognition of the coup ■ d'etat, doctoring despatches contrary to Queen's orders, and other Tower Hill business, the old stage of ten verily looked like a stricken deer, and the old heard of former fawners fled from him. It was then said it was all up with him, that he couldn't hold out sis months. But those few, and the readers of this Gossip ought to be acquainted with one, who knew the " inevitable man, 3 ' as Thiers long ago called him, said " there's ten years " work for him to do, and he'll do it." Crimean wars of credulity and connivance, greased-cartridge mutinies, Bernard conspiracy bills, Compiegne picnics, detonating peace-trea-tiea, Cra'orowizing of Savoy, and tumbling 'the. House of Commons out of the windows, three times, with a fourth now impending, were all as much undreamt of as whether his sacred cannibalistic majesty, Hoky Poky, will have boiled babbies or roast grandmothers for dinner tomorrow. Eight of the prescribed decade have rolled away; but instead of P. appearing to have only two years to totter along the crazy plank that divides three score and six from eternity, he looks as if he meant to trip with his customary fantasticality and airiness over the next two dozen years.— Liverpool AY bion. Conversions in Bohemia.—The number of Roman Catholics who have since the' beginning of this year deserted the ranks of their church to pass iuto those of Protestantism, is considerable. In the neighborhood of Odlerhosteletz, Parthelets, and Kooeniggraetz alone, they exceed, it is said, 500, of whom 300 belong to the class of peasants. Fatal Fight in Lisbon-grove.—On Tuesday, Mr Wakley held an inquest at the Crown and Anchor, Hereford-street, Lisson-grove, on view of the body of Charles Dixon, aged fiftyfive, a general dealer, residing at 19, Harrowstreet, Lisson-grove, whose death is supposed to have been brought on in consequence of an injury received during a pugilistic encounter with a man named Thomas Woolgate, who was apprehended on the charge by Sergeant Norman, 12 D, and Everet, 20Q D. Mr. Robinson, surgeon, Lisson-grove, was. sworn. He said he first saw the deceased on Thursday, about eight a.m., a few hours after his death. Externally he saw a bruise over his left temple;! internally he found the whole of the bowels, the liver, the intestines, &c, in a state of recent inflammation, and which arose from the rupture of one of the small intestines. This was the effect of a blow or of some external violence. The other vital parts were generally in a healthy state. At the conclusion of the medical testimony, the coroner observed that he thought it no'; right toward the accused to proceed any further with the investigation in his absence. He suggested an adjournment to Tuesday next, remarking that in the meanwhile he would apply to the Secretary of State for his (the accused's) presence. He saw no reason why the police should not be empowered to bring their prisoner to this court, where all the evidence is received as it is at a police court. Besides, he bad more power than a police magistrate, as he could direct a post-mortem examination of a body, which a police magistrate had not the power to do, and who must wait for his witness, (the surgeon).—The jury consented, and the inquiry was adjourned. Our, Naval Reserve.—Lord Lvndhurst in the House of Lords, and Sir Charles Napier in the House of Commons, drew the attention of parliament to the present state of our naval reserve. The revelations that ensued are of a nature to inspire terror throughout the country. Great preparations are making in our dockyards to put our fleets in a thorough state of efficiency, and our naval authorities are pressing forward" the launch of new war-ships. This activity is provoked by the Emperor of the French. While he coutiuues to strengthen his navy we must continue to strengthen ours. Our existence, as an independent nation, depends upon our power to sweep the channel clear of an enemy at any moment. Fleets^ without men, Lord Lyndhurst tells us, are watches without mainsprings; and we have ships, but lack hands to man them. While France could, in little more than twenty-four hours, concentrate a naval reserve of between 30,000 and 40,000 strong upon her war ports, England shews a reserve of royal naval volunteers, 1000 strong ! We should have empty ships to shew against French fleets, efficiently manned, and the consequence to Eugiand of a single reverse in the channel would be incalculable. Lord Lyndhurst and Sir Charles Napier do good service to their country when they point out this formidable danger. It is true, that pressgangs, with all their old horrors, might be revived, in a grave emergency; but they would not produce efficient seamen. In these days of scientific warfare and big guns, seamen, to be efficient, must be.carefully trained. To do the service England requires of naval voluuteers, they must be accessible at a few hours' notice. Pressed men make bad sailors. Then why have we only 1000 royal naval volunteers ? Lord Lyndhurst thinks that the bounty offered is insufficient. He reminded the Duke of Somerset that the bounty of £6 would amount to only if the entire 30,000 proposed naval reserve were obtained. Out of £12,000,000 naval estimates, this 'is a trifle. But we believe that naval volunteers are obtained slowly, rather because in many respects, the service is unattractive. Above all there is the lash.: Above all, there are ships known, as flogging ships. Abolish the cat in the navy, ye awful authorities of the Admiralty, and the. volunteers will come in, fast enough. 1A £3 bounty, and the cat abolished, would bo more productive than the present c£6 bounty with it.— Lloyds. The Growth of Mormonism.—lt.appears from recent emigration returns that 583 souls, repi'esenting 500 adults of tho disciples of Joe Smith, left Liverpool in the ship Underwriter, for New York, en route for the Mormon settlement at the Salt Lake, Utah territory, United States. Of these, 18 males and lift females had been married, 138 males and 100 females were single, 60 males and 44 females were children, and 14 male and 7 female infants. A glance at the nationality shews that Mormonism has'a strong hold in England, a good footing in Scotland, but little-or none in the sister isle. Of the Mormons by the Underwriter, 475 belonged to England (366 adults, 82 children, and 117 infants,) 33 Scotch. (19 adults, 33 children, and 1 infant), 1 Irish a.dult, and 74 foreigners, chiefly (Germans, 52 of whom wew adults, 19 were children, and 3 infanta.