Society in nearly every other country has reverted back to its original foundations, and so remains firm and strong without dangerous rents or fissures.

No doubt, the operation is difficult and critical.

But what has been done once may be done again; and as it was England that kept Irish society so long rocking on its smaller end, it is her duty now to lend all her strength to help to seat it on its own broad foundations.

Giving up the Viceroy's dreams that the glorious mission of Ireland was to be a kitchen garden, a dairy, a larder for England, we must come frankly to the conclusion that the national life of the Irish people, without distinction of creed or party, increases in vigour with their intelligence, and is now invincible.

Let the imperial legislature put an end for ever to such an unnatural state of things--thus only can they secure the harmonious working and cordial Union of the two nations united together in one State--thus only can they insure for the landlords themselves all the power and all the influence that can be retained by them in consistency with the industrial rights and political freedom of the cultivators of the soil.