 LITERARY.

FROM THE BOSTON EVENING POST.

DERMOT McMORROGH..
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MT. J. Q. ADAMS Poem of ssDernaot Mc.norrogh, or, 1he Conque,t of Lrelaud," issues this day from the press of Messrs. Garter, Hendce & Co.

 ltis apparent from the dedication and preface, that the writer's object is to show "what sort of Philosophy would he taught by the eranaple of Henry the Second of England, or of Dermot Me Morrogh, King of Leinster, which re- anltei in the conquest of Ireland by the English monarch.n After quoting at full length from Huine's history what the historian says of the conGacs. of Ireland, of Dermot McMorrogh, and of Henry the Second. NIT. A. concludes his preface as follows:

 "So much for Hume's philosophy, teaching by the example of Henry the Second. If there be in the annals of the human race, d transaction of deep CT or more melancholy deprayity than the conquest of Ireland by Henry the Second, it has not fallen under my no- tlce. It would seem as if it could not be accomplished but bY a complication ot the most odioas crimes, public and private. Dernot Mac Morrogh, for ifsupportabie tyranny oyer his subjects, aggravated by the violation of the most sacred of human ties, the seduction of another's wife, is justly expelled from lhe kingdom. He immediately repairs to "the greatest prince of his time, for wisdom, virtue, and abilties,n and sells ais country for the price of being re- stored by the foreign invader to his prin- cIpality. The English King, to cover the basest of aggressions with the man. 'le of religion, applies to Pope Adrian the Fourth, an Enelshman, for author fly to ravagc Ireland withire and sword, under pretenee of reforming the intlab- itants, and reducing them to the ortho- iox faith of paying tribute to the Ro- man See. This authority Pope Adrian grants him without scruple. You may read in Repin the briefitself. And with this sacrilegious abuse of religion, Hen- y, recking with the blood of Beckett, and Dermot, the ruffian builder of mon asterles, achieves the conquest Ire land, in vassaIage to the crown of Eng lah'i. And this Is the tenure at whici, Ireland IS held as an appendage to the sister island at the present day.

 "History, have said, should be the school ofmorals. When l l6rst read this part of lInme's history, I was shocked at tue careless indifference vith which he tells this tale of wickedness and wo; and at the unqualified panegyric which ne passes upon the character of Henry 'he secohd-a great man, no doubt, and hero, but in the estimate of phi- ,,osophic virtue as mixed character as has appeared on the checkered scene 'f human aataiiirss. lie history of tic tic conquest of Ireland appeared to me to Oe ial' of instruction, by an exhibition