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No. 7
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Terry Driscoll’s Letters.
{The following amusing Letter is one
of a series which are now in course of
publication in the Deblin. Warder: They iavest the occurrences of the day with a peculiar interest; and in spite of all his bread humour, Terry Driscoll is, perhaps, the inost profound and instructive philosopher to be fgund
amongst newsmongers. We give this
letter as a fair sample of the whole.]
IRELAND AND THE IRISH--A WORD OR TWO ABOUT AUTUMN—THE DRAYMEN versus THE AUSTRIAN—-THE LATE JUDGE LOHERTY—TOUGH YARNS IN A TOWN COUNCIL—THE DANGERS OF DEBT—A SCENE AT THE S¥NOD, &c.
Sloneybatter, Sept. 12th, 1850.
Isn't it a downright murdiier, my friend Thady, to reflect that afther such weather aa we're at present enjoyin’, the time for damp noses and sore throats, and coulds in the head, will carry the sway? A fine Siptimber resimbtes the close of a good fellow’s life—clear, and hardy, and brac- in’—lookin’ the yellow leaf and the taste o’ moss on the bark cheerfully in the face, and meetin’ the waither that what winds up all, without shake or shiver. Even the farmers—tire chaos that never ceased grumbliw’ since the food—didn’t shake their heads, or insert their fingers undher the edges o’ their wigs so often, the rain is 80 much on its good behaviour. | You see a dea! fewer old women carryin’ big parasols cpen, when there’s no occasion in life for it, as if they wor chailengin’ a soakin’? shower to come down aud do its vest; and, im short, God 1s very good to us, Thady, in both field and city, sendin’ the smilin’ sunshine and the soft breeze to comfort and refresh man and beast, whether on foot or on horseback.
Why, then, what a mighty emall fea- ther entire!y turns the scale in the balance o’ human life—thavs so far, dy’e consaive, as prejudices one way or another is cor - sarne i. if any one tould me a fortnight ago, that a Saxon dhrayman id occupy au attic story in my good will, ’d be in- clined to think he was an economist 0’ truth toa miserly extint ; but) now, by dad, my gntinints are turned inside out. And whin I dhrov dhrinkin’ the health, on all reasonable occasions, of Barclay & Perkins’s bully-boys, you: may expect to hear that Counci!lor Williams, o’ the City of Dublin Company, and Mr. Mal- colmson, the opposition Quaker, wor caught dancin’ end carousin’ in the same tint at Donnybrook, or that the say-sar- pint is on a visit at some Kinsale gintie- man’s, who shot him six times running in the eye, and then harpooned him “ very ike a whale.”
They may say what they will of mobs, Afister O’ Donohoe, dnt in the main theyr’e seldom entirely wrong ; and if it be the case that there’s sartrons in stones, faix I think myself there’s mighty improvin’ discdourses in the carther’s whips that welted ould Haynau, and real eddyfiin’ lecthures in every handful o” grains that showered on him, and every hair that parted company with his countenance.
Oh, blaud alive! we can undherstand wel] enough shootin’? an unreasonable ‘andjord or prevaricatin’ agent in this counthry—thim’s matther’s o’ business that come in the nathural coorse o’ things, and can’t be helped, as Paddy Gibson said when his wife had twins twice run- nin’; but the notion of ordhring women to be sacrificed with the cat-o’-nine-tails, tfler their husbands bein’ butchered, the Times itself (with all the goold of Aus- ‘ia to Dack it) couldn’t soften’ down that.
Lookin’ to this side o’ the wather, the eleecshins for the wards, and who's to fill poor Judge Doherty’s vacancy, is all the principal considheration.
There’s moreof it, Thady, 2s. [, was ob- survia’ to you a short time» since, how death takes the fancy to thin the ranks in the high places; and, talkin’, o’ that, ‘pon my word it disgusted myself, so it did, to see some o’ the papers..makin’ light, as it were, of the departed jintle- inan’s quollyfications. He wasn’t larned —he wasn’t witty—he was promoted wheu he had no right to be—he done this, andhe done that. Weil, well, people must write, and say 2 great deal they don’t believe, whin paythriotism of the mere profit-and-loss school is in question ; and while the canopy and the clod lasts, we'll have the livin’ ass kickin’ at the dead lion.
All that’s the desatefulness o’ the world, appealin’ to the sinses, as it were, just as vintilators are left ordher the ground- floor -vindies'o’ some taverns, in ordher that the savoury scint may intice people iv, all’s one as the Norway whirlpool sucks down muisforthunate ships,
Great amalgamation is going on, any- how. Dublin, Cork; and Limerick is on visitin’ terms ; though, beteune ourselves, conshumin’ to the three cities undher the awrora-borealis (whin it happens to be in the ascindant) require more \ookin’ afther in regard o’ studdy behaviour. Noto mintion the tournyment that takes place now and again in the Royal Exchange Lere, and the tattherin’ work in; the town- council, that ought to be ordherly, con- vaynient to the * Blarney-stone ”—isn’t it downright demoralisin’ to read in the last Limerick Chronicle how the guardians passed the he about so free and easy: 1istead of distinguishin’ one another by the familiar appellashins of “Jack,” * Tem,” or “Charley,” made use of such flat:erin’ distinguishin’ marks as“ ruffian,” “jobber,” “low fellow.” If Irishmen get on that way, Thady, the Americans won't have all the bowie-knife dally- raggin’ to themselves much longer.
By the by, I see that they made Misther W ebsther “ pull hemp” on that side o’ the wather, and indeed not sayin’ anything conthrairy o’ the man, now that he’s dead aud gone, he was as well entitled to go out o’ the world inthe same hurried neck- or-nothing fashion as any play-boy [ ever hear tell of. "Lis bad enough, dear knows, to owe people money, without makin’ ruince meat of ’em whin they come to ask for it. Dear me, but thim exthremely useful artisans, the tailors, would soon be excommunicated, if they wor to be cut up into nine parts and conshumed, whenever they called for the amount o’ that “ little bill.” Aye, faix. and in the coorse 0’ time you'd have the ladies thinkin’ the fashion mighty convaynient, and takin’ a troublesome dress-maker to pieces on the sly, instead of one another’s reputations,
Remimber the ould sayin’. Thady, “ out o’ debt out o’ danger,” and ifever you get into the kite-flyin’ line don’t be invai- gied into the company of a big knife and yer creditor. ,
The great committee at Thurles is over, and Docthor Cullen is gone off to lay the proceedin’s of the canonical coort- martial, that was held on the Queen’s. Colleges, before the sov’rin pontiff At ther he signs the paper condimmen ’em, you’!) find the chimnies o’ the same buil- din’s ’*ll never dbraw again, if ali the smoke-docthors on airth wor te pass thro’ em, and build curyfxes the boight ho’ Nek son’s pillar on the top of ’em. Billy Ryan, that keeps the Cat-and-bagpipes Public-house at Thurles, writes me word that only one bishop out 0’ the whole boilin’ had the timmerity to 8ay @ Sintince in favour o” the seme univarsities; and if |
he had, the Word wasn’t out of kis mouth whin both the primate and Docthor Mac- Hale took a studdy survey of the foolish man for just six sueconds, and he was never the same since. He tales Latin thro’ his sleep, and doesn’t shave regular “not to mintion that he turned such a variety of colours undher the hierarchy’s gaze, that not less than ten women fainted, and the mother ofa large small family isn’t expected to get over the thtansaction. irra, man, ’twould be almost safer for you to cross the channel in one o’ the compe- tition staymers of a night they’d be racin,’ than to fly in the face o’ the clargy, much less the heads of it.
I wouldn’t call the Queen my aunt this minnit, if 1 only had a row] o’ notes on my groin, and could just tatther off to Belfast, where there’s a power of divar- shin’ goin’ on,in ordher to gratify the Lord Lieutenant; bonefires and dancin’, and speechin, and eatin’and dhrinkin’,of coorse (that’s a fayture people never omit in any sort of a jubilee), and signs on, take my word for it, the *heredithery bondsmen” will catch it from some o’ the papers next Sathurday, for offerin’ to throw up their caubeens, or look Clarendon’ straight in the face. But ‘that’s all moonshine, Tha- dy , for when they thried their hands the other way, what did they get by it?
Speakin’ of axcitement and divarshin’, I declare I wouldn’t wondher ifthe ears of the admiralty and ofthe Enelish men- o’-war builders wor 2s hot as the hinge of a lime-kill door, the way some o’ the London papers pitches into ’em every opportunity. If a war steamer bursts a boiler, or a petty officer gets dhrunk, ’tis allthe faulte’ the round starus or the square starns, as the case may be, and John Bull is assured that he’s piundhered beyant conception by such stnupidity.
Now that the Frinch tleet is showin’ off, the ullagone is fifty times greater, and the dockyard people are ecatchin’ it because the Frinch presiuent fancies a cruise, But, [ think myself, gramblin’ and growlin’ is constitutional, and that the Londoners could no more get through the peice without such a resource than they could without beefstakes and bottled stout three times a day.— Yours,
TERRY DRISCOLL.
Mr. G’Donohoe, St. Gilles’s, London.
G@he Cxraminer.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1850.
Europe.
The Royal Mail Steamship America arrived at Halifax on Tuesday last, by which we have received intelligence from Europe a fortnight later than our last advices,
It is stated that the America, shortly after leaving Liverpool, ran into a brig and cut her in two—the crew of which was saved with much difficulty.
_ The Royal family were still at Balmo- tal; it was announced that they wou!d return to the Metropolis on the 10th inst.
Traces or Sin Joun Franxuiy.— The North Star, which vessel went outin May 1849, with provisions for Sir Joha Frank- lin and the Arctic expedition, bas arrived at Spithead. She brought no tidings of Sir John. Her hands suffered much from the extreme cold, four having perished. The Prince Albert arrived subsequently
ROMER rer details of whieh we are unable to give this morning,)—suffice it that. traces of encampments, five or six tents, which from certain peculiarities were known to be these ofa vegsel in Her Majesty’s service, were discovered on Cape Rielly and Beachy Island, by Capt. Ommany of Her Majesty’s Ships Assistance and In- trepid.. Captain O. had. proceeded to Capes Hotham and Walker in search of further traces of Sir John Franklin.
Stream Communication wren Ame - r1ca.—By the tenor of the recent advices from America, the means of steam com- munication between the old and new worlds appear likely to meet with a very considerable and speedy extension. The enterprize of the Cunard. company, which bas at present in hand the construction of several large vessels propelled by the screw, to be placed on the line between New York and Liverpool, in addition to the splendid steamergalready engaged on that service, has, as we expected would be the case, stimulated the Americans to a similar competition. Itis stated as a fact, that the immediate construction cf two large steam propellers, to run be- ween New York and Liverpool, is con- templated, by a party in the former city, who have long been engaged in the carrying trade on this line, In addition io the two steamers of the construction above noticed, there is also. another ves- sel far advanced at New Youk,and it was expected the impertus given to the con- struction ofthis class of steamers in that city will resnit in the building of many more of them. At Philadelphia the sub- ject has been taken up in a very energe- tic manner, and Messrs. Richardson, Watson, and Co., are preparing two pro- pellers, each of a 1000 tone burden, to form a monthly steam line between that city and Liverpool, It is estimated that the cost for building will amount to £320,- 090, will be contributed by the above firm. Thus New. York and Philadelphia will, inall probability, have their respective lines of steam propellers running to Eu- rope within a few months; and it is be- lieved that Boston, the secoud commercial city in the Union, cannot for any length of time do without similar vessels. From New Orleans, we Jearn that the import- ance of steam communication between that city and Europe is attracting much attention, and has resulted in the forma- tion of a plan for the establishment of a line of steame:s running to Havre. It is proposed to commence the line, in the first instance, with only one ship of 2000 tons, and to add others as the business may require, which there can be little doubt will soon be the case, considering the extent of commerce between the two ports. The facilities which sucha line would afford to the French Correspon- dence with New Orleans will be great, and our New Orleans advices represent that it wonld, in addition, monopolize all the European passengers going to or from Mexico, particularly when the line of steamers is established between New Orleans and Vera Cruz, as is expected to be the case in the course of next year. Parties are actively engaged in pushing forward the scheme, 70,000 dollars had already been subscribed towards it.
Execution or Pirates aT Brest.— The three negro sailors, Domingo da Salva, Jose da Costa, and Falle-Fon), convicted of having assassinated the capt. of the brig Adele, during the shipwreck of that vessel on the African coast, July 28, 1849, underwent their sentence on Friday last. Two ofthem were executed, and one sent to the hulks,
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