Another sweep of the unhappy Whites in that sink of
pestilence, Sierra Leone, has taken place. Mr. K. Macauley and twenty others, almost all of them old settlers, and hardened, as it was supposed, to the deadly influence of the climate, had perished within a few weeks revious to the date of the last despatches (on the 10th of May) from Major Ricketts, the Governor. We thought Mr. Hume had promised to investigate the case of this terrible settlement. The expense of it has been beyond calculation heavy, but the destruction of human life has been heavier tenfold. The financier, but much more the philan- thropist, is deeply interested in its abandonment.
A dinner was given to Mr. O'Connell at Limerick on Wednesday sennight ; when the orator declared his intention of bringing under the notice of Parliament the charge of Judge Jebb to the Grand Jury of Armagh. The Judge laid down that Orange processions were legal, inasmuch as they were celebration; of a legal event. Of the truth of this doctrine, there is little doubt ; but, looking to the spirit in which it was received by the Orange newspapers, its prudence may perhaps be disputed. The Assizes of Ireland have hitherto brought out very little to clear up the state of parties there. It is said to be the intention of Govern- ment to allow, if possible, the great factions to settle down without interference,—attributing, and justly we think, the recent disturbances in the North to the irritation of the one side at their unexpected over- throw, and the exultation of the other at their equally unexpected elevation, and deeming the influence of time the best remedy for both. There can be no doubt, that if Ministers do really act impartially by the Catholics and Orangemen, that the latter must soon be reduced to silence. Lord Rossmore would fain persuade the Government that very strong measures are required to preserve the peace of Ireland, but we do not deem his Lordship a very high authority,
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