The Dublin Evening Mail controverts the opinion given in the
last Spectator, that, generally speaking, Ireland is more tranquil than it used to be under Tory rude; and refers us to Sligo, Longford, and Tipperary, which counties the Alai! declares to be " in a state of dis- turbance bordering on actual rebellion." Our Dublin contemporary then gives extracts from a Sligo newspaper, and a letter from a Longford correspondent in confirmation of his statement. We may be excused for believing the picture he has drawn to be exaggerated, the practice of Irish journalists and their correspondents being to colour highly their account of "the state of the country ;" and we prefer as our authority the charges of the Judges during the last circuit, which almost every. where mentioned the material decrease of crime. It is not quite fair to select two of the smallest counties, (fur no particular outrages in Tipperary are cited,) in both of which there have been fierce election contests, to represent the whole island. We did not assert that there were no disturbances in Ireland, but that the country generally was more tranquil now than under the rule of the Tories.
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