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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 66, 1 August 1874, Page 9

The New York correspondent of the ' Standard ' says :— ln days when the future of Ireland is a subject especially interesting to many people, a description of a Vision of Ireland, as given on the first page of an Irish National paper published in New York, ought to be read with some avidity. The Vision, or rather the picture of it, occupies two-thirds of the large page. The central figure in it is a young woman, dressed in a classsical negligee, standing in a fog near some ruins. She leans on the traditional harp, and holds in her hand a light cross. Behind her a gigantic sun is either rising or setting behind some mountains. Beneath her feet flies an ugly angel with trailing skirts, and holding a drawn sword in her hand, pointing the way to St. Paul's Cathedral and apparently directing the movements of a miscellaneous body of troops, cavalry, artillery, and infantry which, headed by the banners of Ireland and America, is on the point of immersing itself in the waters of the Thames. Meanwhile a flash of lightning breaking from the clouds over St. Paul's Cathedral makes as straight as a thunderbolt can for a flag-staff from which the Union Jack is flying. The flag-staff is shattered, and the symbol of the United Kingdom is falling.