Volume 25 — ANOTHER INSULT TO IRELAND.
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It is quite proper, but very distressing, that Ireland should know all the outrages perpetrated and planned upon her dearest interests. Not a day can elapse that is not notched, like Robinson Crusoe's, with a new insult from the Saxon. It ought to have been sufficient that the Camp at Chobham was commanded in order to destroy the Dublin Exhibition; the tents being pitched as strongly as possible in outrageous contrast with Dargan's Crystal Palace. But no: a certain illustrious personage—with whom it is notorious the sea does not agree—in order to frustrate an intended visit to Dublin, went and caught the measles! Fortunately, however, he is now convalescent; left without a spot, and consequently without an excuse.
An Impossible Commissariat.
The Emperor of Russia pretends to say that he will provide his troops, now occupying the Danubian principalities, with rations. How is it possible that any such promise can be kept by an old despot, who is so very irration-al?
ANOTHER POTATO BLIGHT FOR "THE KILKENNY CAT."
The Saxon has again cast his pestiferous blight upon one of Ireland's chosen potatoes; having withered the patriot Murphy into an Insolvent Commissioner!