The Irish Revolution, like the French, is beginning to devour
its own children. The Fenians of New York have not requested O'Donovan Rossa to resign, but have called a Convention, which has found him guilty of "fraud, treachery, treason, persistent violation of the constitution in financial matters, and gross indiscretions." They have consequently expelled him. O'Donovan Rossa says he is innocent, and refuses to return the accounts or the correspondence he has received. The Fenians have no guillo- tine at command ; but unless their Marat submits, he will pro- bably not be a long-lived man. If we remember right, the Terrorists were growing tired of Mamt when Charlotte Corday made him a martyr. The next step ought to be for the Irish Mountain, the Fenians, to abolish the Irish Gironde, Messrs. Parnell, Dillon, and the rest ; and then to be abolished itself, perhaps by some collision with American feeling. But history rarely repeats itself so exactly. It is, however, safe to predict, upon historical grounds, that it is from Irishmen, and not Englishmen, that the punishment of all who have sanctioned or profited by the Irish Terror will come. The justice of Heaven has often in it a trace of irony.
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