RAMPANT DISLOYALTY: SUCCOUR FROM IRELAND.
" RA mrANT," says a venerable " philologos," NICHOLAS BAILEY, " is when a beast of prey is reared on his hinder-legs, in a fighting posture." Toryism in I 839 is like unto the rampant beast of prey—and the intended victim of his fury ? Alas! that babe of grace gentle VICTORIA the Queen! The horrid Tories are eager to gobble her up. How they scowl and growl ! Beensnew at-Can- terbury and 'Rosie at Ashton personify roaring lions. O'Cossisse calls them " ruffiens." Ile shudders at the very echo of their names. The Agitator avouches that " Treason is abroad, and exhibits itsel: in open violence by one set of traitors, and in unmanly and malignant calumny by another set of traitors. It is difficult to say which is tlei worse of th,.• two. They have one point of unity and conne,.ion—namely, envenomed hatred to the person and the virtue of our youthful Sovereign."
Compared with such morsters, Chartists are innocuous ; and contrasted with Toryism, Frostism is amiable.
.. "-The danger, ti-n, is imminent ; the crisis i3 portentous. English gentry, clergy, military. act Pariktnentary vu, uttcr wit!t applause, and bv repetition, the most scandalous iil int.:mats the (Iwo: on the otis hand, awl against eight millions of tie en the other. It looks like actual madness, like a spet.i.:s of national h.,thity. But there is method in their nuttiness. The Tory plan semis avowed. It is to subvert the Royal authority-1O substut )h hoory tyra,,t of Hcawee?, for the Qua, ood to trample ittidee the cy 1/air cavalry the Caholie people of Ireland, as thee did before. ; to desecrate our altars and proscribe our religion, as they did beibre!"
Yet there is "beim in Gilead "—loyalty in Connaught. Bog- trotters to the rescue ! potato-eaters shoulder your pikes and your whisky-kegs, and protect your "beautiful Queen !"
But the work is arduous. " There must be agitation and organi- sation." Who can tell bet that, while we write, Beenenew, leading a brigade, with Reser les ffianizing in his ranks, (while THOMAS, the traitor, tampers with the troops,) is storming 'Windsor heights ; the ".expanse below" swarming with Eton boy, recently whipped for-letting offerackers, end Whig matrons and maidens hurrying to catch the Great We at Sleugh ! Indeed the " crisis is por- tentous." THOMAS stow towers oil his " hindcr-legs." Ba.inshaw braves the gallows. Roar raves like Pistol in the play. Many of our readers have been at sea. It has happened to some, that on a stormy night the AS'illd has suddenly veered round; the ship steadied hi the " trough," stopped in its rolling swing, and every soul onboard sick for a second. So it was with us. O'Cox- essaa:s picture of Iluasseuew's bravery, ROM'S ruffianism, and Thomas's treachery, all directed egainst our youthful Sovereign, produced for the moment
—"that chilling heaviness of heart, Or rather stomach"—
which, as Lord ByaoN, taught by experience, declares, baffles
e the best apothecary's art."
Yet, Leinster is loyal ; Connaught is Conservative—though
nobody would have guessed it ; the men of Munster will make " the fun stir" among the craven creatures whom CUMI3ERLAND coerces; and O'Cr)NNELL is abut to organize a standing army of half a million in defence of' the Throne and the Altar.
"The Queen's Government eat, if they please, have at their disposal, with- out delay,fire /math., The display of Irish readiness to form such a force, i:mict. the Luta:Ince and subject to the control of the con-
stitutimul Ill put :tn enl to nil danger of Chartist insurrection, and will r.t the sante tiie drive the spirit of dastard Toryism to despair." Tremble ye traitors on both sides of the Tweed! O'CONNELL conies- —" Sound the trumpets, bent the drums "- at the bead of' five hundred thousand descendants of' the Kings of' " ould Ireland," to cent the penalty of your disaffection. Being loyal ourselves, we cry "all hail to our Irish deliverers!" In our mind's eye we see the Saxon flee before the Milesian pur- suer. Hurrah for the Queen and DANIEL O'CONNELL !
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