Mr. John Martin, patriotic person of Kilbroney, recently called on
all Irish patriots to raise a penny subscription for the families of the " Manchester martyrs." In Cork about 751. was collected, but in all the rest of Ireland barely 291. more, and in England 11/. 16s. Mr. Martin has therefore the manliness to acknow- ledge in writing that the country has rejected his appeal, and the reporter calls the failure an "unerring test" of the hollowness of Fenianism. It is dangerous to be quite so sure of anything Irish. In France it would be impossible to raise a heavy subscription for a cause which could draw 100,000 men " into the streets," and it 'may be the same in Ireland. The men who blew up the Clerken- well street appear from Vaughan's evidence to have been sorely pressed to raise 18s. It is not the rich who make revolutions.
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