Having been detected in the design of driving the Irish
into rebel. lion, and finding that the country thinks a civil war too high a price to pay for the blessing of Tory domination, the Standard and the Times now turn round, and charge their r pponents with plotting to do that which they despair of being able to effect themselves. A few days ago, trusting to their army, they were " eager for the fray," and spoke of a rebellion as a blessing; but now they loudly exclaim against the wickedness of the attempt to inflame the Irish people, profess a marvellous love of peace, and preach submission to the laws. But this plan of bullying one day, and sneaking the next—this compound of cowardice and bloodthirstiness—will not serve the turn of the faction. Their real object is seen through in Ireland, as well as on this side of the Channel. " The Standard," says the Belfast Northern Whig, "gloats like a fiend over anticipated rebellion. The organ:and the faction would delight in the spilling of Irish blood, in the hope that Ireland, weakened, might o ice again come under their hoofs. But the fiends will be disappointed."—Thus we see that the Tory incentives
to rebellion have only served to put the Irish on their guard. The "dust " in Ireland will not "be laid in blood" this summer.
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