IRELAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 207, 6 September 1860, Page 4

IRELAND.

2’he Hiberno-Aoman Brigade.— Letters from the crusaders who have already arrived in Home have reached Dublin, and are published in the Ultramontane papers. One of them, bearing the signature ofEdward Patrick Naughten, appears in tlie Catholic Telegraph, the weekly organ of Archbishop Cullen. 2’he writer says:—

“ I arrived in Rome on Wednesday. Monsignor Talbot presented us to his Holiness on Thursday. We kissed his foot and received his blessing. He presented us with a medal, with his likeness on one side - on the other is the following inscription “ 2’he Roman citizens dedicate this medal to the Irishmen who came to Rome for the purpose of defend-

ing the Rights of the Roman Pontiff, the common Father of all

“ And there was only one heart and one soul

of all the multitudes of the believers.” ; Pius IX.’

The sign upon our hats is to be the Papal arms, with the harp of Erin underneath. The uniform is to be green. We are to be a national regiment, and commanded by Irish officers only, of whom several in Ireland have volunteered to join us. As soon as our regi-ment-is organised we are to remain in Rome. I think that our regiment should be named ‘ The knights of St. Patrick,’ or ‘ 2’he Pope’s Own.’”

Irish Agricultural Prospects.— -The Dublin correspondent of the Times writes:— “ The despondency created by the unexampled duration of the winter of 1859-GO. lias given way under the influence of one of the finest months of May that this country has been favoured with for many years past. The last provincial accounts are* one and all, most satisfactory; and, notwithstanding the harsh weather which prevailed up to April, vegetation is now fully as forward as it ever was at this period of the year.” The Clate Journal says :—“ Notwithstanding the numbers leaving the country, who are all of the agricultural, small farming, and labouring classes, when, one would think, whole tracts of country must be untenanted, the competition for land is as great as ever, and land.is as difficult to procure as when the rural population was twice as numerous; from which'it appears that there were formerly too. many depending on the land for subsistence, while the emigration prevents' the labour market from being overstocked, and farmers find hut little difficulty in getting their land tilled ; of course, they have to pay higher wages, as labouring men can earn nearly double now what they did formerly.”.