A noise is made in the United States about an
"Irish Brigade" and subsidies levied by voluntary contributions to aid a war of Irish independence ; and the noise will probably increase. It is the product of an electioneering ruse. The next Presidential election is a matter of more doubtful speculation, perhaps, than any which has occurred ; and the man who is really to be ad- vanced as the candidate of the majority is positively unknown. All parties desire to secure to their own side any floating capital of the electioneering kind, and therefore all parties will flatter the Irish residents in every possible way—beore the selection. Hence all the Union will flame Jaith chivalrous orations of an Irish crusadi—beore the election: After the slection, Native Americanism" will revive, and the "Irish Brigade" will find abundant ediployroent in the work of self-defence.
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