The Matin, a Bonapartist journal in Paris, publishes an extraordinary
outburst of hatred against England. It pro- fesses to be the work of a Committee of Irishmen in Paris, who demand the sympathy of the world for their " war " against England, declare that the Parnellites are to them only what artillery is to an army, i.e., a force clearing the road—(the writers are thinking of a siege and stormers)—and that their attempts shall never cease till Ireland is independent. We wonder what independence would be worth to Ireland, even from the Nationalist point of view, with England roused, as such attempts would rouse her, to a policy of non-intercourse! The writers add that they shall win at last. "We will, therefore, keep the knife planted in the side of our enemy, and will turn it from, time to time, to make her feel it, till, losing her sang-fraid, she shall be driven mad ; and then when the nations shall administer justice to England we will be the first to mete it out to her ; for we shall have most powerfully aided in preparing the way for its administra- lion. It is for all that, for the noble and very generous aim we are pursuing, that we merit general sympathy." And these men are part of that Humanity which Mr. Frederic Harrison tells us we are to worship ! Rather Kali.
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