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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVIII, Issue 24, 8 October 1886, Page 9

A. Dornwell solicits the custom of all who appreciate a joint of the best quality at the lowest remunerative price for cash, arid who like their sausages made of such meat as is cut up before their eves ana id a cleanly manner. — [Advt.] This is how the immortal author of the "Fairie Que-n" spoke of the heroic qualities and noble physical conformation of the Irish people, whom insolent and lying Salisbury now compare to Hottentots :— " I have heard some great warriors say that in all the services which they have seen abroad in foreign countries they never saw a more comely man than the Irishman, nor that cometh on more bravely to his charge."-'' Spencer's Ireland." O'Gonnell after quoting the testimonies which were borne to Irish nobility by foreign and prejudiced writers thus sums up the result :— " These now are all noble traits in the character of the Irish people. Fidelity— proof against every temptation of biibery or torture ; fidelity which nothine could buy, and which nothing could intimidate. ' Piety and g-ood-ness whilst her people adhered' (and they do yet adhere) 'to *he religion of their forefathers. 1 But above all, transcendently sounds the glorious title, « Lovers of justice— lovers of equal and impartial justice Lovers of justice, not only when they obtain it for themselves ; but loving it so dearly that they are satisfied with its execution even when against themselves. Military valour not excelled by any nation in existence. And upon whose testimony is it that the Irish c aim the glory of these qualities ? From the testimony of atraneera aliens, enemies. I challenge the world to produce an instanc! of such praise bestowed on any nation by persons not themselves interested m or connected with such praise."— Nation.