The Government of Ireland, acting like all other Governments, has
signified, in answer to the application lately made to employ the mili- tary in collecting tithes, that it does not deem it expedient that the mili- tary or the police should be called out to enforce civil rights by distress. In case of actual riot or breaches of the peace the military and the police will, of course, be available ; and the utmost care will be taken by the Go- vernment to repress and punish all attempts to disturb the public tranquil- lity. This is thawing a very proper line, and making a just distinction. It never could be bor e that the military should be engaged in serving civil processes or recovering debts. . . . We have the fullest confidence that the wise and constitutional conduct of the Government will be at- tended with the happiest effects. We shall have no more Ratheormacs, exasperating a whole nation, and rendering compromise and conciliation hopelessly impossible. On the contrary, we shall have one winter passed in tranquillity—one winter in which the majority of the people will not be harassed by force—in which the exasperation on both sides may have time to calm, and both be ready to consider, when the Par- liament shall again assemble, what ik really due to both.—Courier.
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