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SATURDAY NIGHT.
The general convention of country gentlemen in Dublin has been aban- doned. The committee 'intrusted with the arrangements for summoning the convention, issued a resolution on Thursday, to the effect that the course taken by the Lord-Lieutenant in sanctioning presentments for "reproductive works" has rendered it unnecessary to act upon the requi- sition.
'From a communication which has been addressed by Commissary-General Hewitson to Major Beamish, it appears that Government have actually commenced operations in accumulating a supply of food, but that their de- pots will not be opened so long as the market prices remain " within mode- rate bounds."
'‘‘ John, Archbishop of Tuam," has ejaculated a fierce letter, denouncing the inertness of the Government in providing for the starving people.
A rumour gains ground, and we believe not without some good reason, that it is the intention of the Government to permit the use of sugar and molasses in distilleries and breweries, by an order of Council, on the ground that it becomes an imperative duty to afford every facility for economizing the use of grain at this juncture. This rumour has been accompanied by another, that the Government will prohibit the use of grain for those pur- poses. This rumour, we believe, we may safely take upon ourselves to con- tradict.—Morning Chronicle.
The latest rumour in circulation asserts that Parliament is to be assembled next month, but solely for the two purposes of—first, passing an act of indemnity for Lord Besborough's transgression of the strict letter of the "Labour Rate Act;" and secondly, suspending the 4s. duty now pay- able upon- imported grain. The opposition in the Cabinet to the assem- bling of Parliament is said to have had reference to the difficulties which such a step would oppose to the intended dissolution; but as the project of a dissolution has been necessarily abandoned, from the manifest danger of a general election in the present state of Ireland, these difficulties have necessarily disappeared.--Standard.
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