18 MARCH 1854, Page 14

IRELAND IN AMERICA.

A Taevor.Lee. in the Western part of Ireland reports that the Cel- tic race is rapidly disappearing from its own peculiar province. For miles and miles not a trace of cultivation or habitation re- mains, save heaps of stone and unroofed huts. "The light and athletic mountaineers of Connemara," says the Galway Packet, "are nowhere to be seen "; "the working classes have gone "; and half-stunted, sickly, dwarfish relies, alone remain. The Far West of the United. Kingdom is desolate' and. emigrants from Eng- land begin to take possession of the solitude.

We all know whither those people have gone : some out of the world—by famine and pestilence ; but many more by emigration to America. The most Irish part of Ireland has gone from its own Far West to a further West; but there it stops, mainly in the Eastern parts of America. We have noticed it as a settled element of the American republic. It has established itself and its piggery in New York ; it has so completely taken to Easton, that the true American, it is said, has left the body of that town for the outskirts, abandoning the corporation to become a Western Dublin. How much of this account may be exaggerated we do not. know ; but if it be fiction it is founded on fact. The Irish party claims, in many instances, to turn the elections quite enough to provoke that reaction of Native Americanism which has appeared in a paroxysm, and then subsided, as if the Ameri- cans tired of their duty in preserving America for Americans and of not surrendering to Emigrant Ireland. If the emigrants aspire to command the balance in the republic, they are already making their influence felt, and after their own fashion. Attempts have been made in certain towns to take under control the management of the public schools, and in some way or other to bring them under the influence of Popery. Nay, Irish agitation of its own peculiar kind is established on the other side of the Atlantic. Mitchel and. Meagher, torn from their native soil —escaping from Australia by breach of parole—repay the welcome which they have found in America by. endeavouring to agitate against the Americans,—to undermine supplant, and super- sede the indigenous politics of the republic. They have under- taken to teach the Americans how to cut gordian knots that have perplexed the wisest and the gravest, from Jefferson to Henry Clay : thus, John Mitchel has set the example of breaking through all difficulties connected with the subject of slavery, by fulsomely praising the institution, to the horror and detestation of the very men who protest against Abolitionism. Talk to a man inconsiderately of the skeleton in his house, and he hears you with fright and disgust ; but worship his skeleton—praise his weakness and flatter his vices—and he recognizes the human devil who con- templates some trap to make him sell his soul. In short, having settled in the centre of the great republic, "young Ireland" is introducing the worst traits of " ould Ireland" —its Popery, its piggery, and its canting laxity of morals. We know well that the existence of this element, so extensively ex- hibited in the very entrails of America, is occasioning some anxiety to the genuine countrymen of Washington, Clay, and Jackson. The United Kingdom is doing better than annexing Ireland—it's assimilating that third kingdom to the other two ; and the dis- tinctive Ireland is reappearing in the midst of the Transatlantic republic. It is a great problem for the future historian—a greater and more urgent problem for the present American statesmen.