" N'arcissa's nature, tolerably mild,
To make a wash would hardly stew a child":
whereas your "gentle bashful Nora Creina " will cook a whole company of soldiers. At least her countrymen say so ; but we don't believe them.: we are slow to believe such things of women in any part of the world. For genuine Milesian coarseness, in a sentimental guise, a correspondent of the Nation bears away the palm. Mrs. Mitchel has been pensioned by the Confederates, and the ingenious correspondent seems to regard her as their property, duly purchased" Let Mrs. Mitchel attend public meetings in different parts of Ireland, and address them,--calling aloud for vengeance on those who caused her bereavement; use reproach for cowardice and tepidity; and work on the passions and feelings of all by her appearance and complaint—teping them why it was that John Mitchel as sent in chains away, with all the =utile of the treatment he received; and implore of them to prepare one blow for Ireland and fallen humanity. Such a woman, thus agitating, like Joan d'Arc, or theldshiof Saragossa, in such a cause, would lead the most apathetic nation likes child; but, in Ireland, the effect would be as that of a lighted match to a mine. But not to Ireland alone should her labours be confined; France and America should be visited in like manner: and thus, I do believe, by a woman's tongue, would England, notwithstanding her strength, her pride, and wickedness, be totally crushed and broken in a short time."
A stipendiary Boadicea I In savage countries, the women are made to carry burdens; in Ireland, it seems, they are put to baser uses. Mrs. Mitchel, " loveliest of the lovely,. is to be carried about, like the Fat Lady or General Tom Thumb, for exhibitioa, It is said that the civilization of a country is tested by the estimation in which women are held : we see to what uses Irishmen devote their women And the idea of destroying England by means of a scold!—
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