SIGNS fOF .AMENDMENT.
Awn the gloom that still hangs over Ireland, some faint but en- couraging signs of amendment make their appearance. Those trusty registers of the condition of the community, the Bank cir- culation and railway traffic returns, tell of returning health, though the actual amount of -way made is not as yet very great. There has been an increase in the circulation both as compared with last month and as compared with the corresponding period of 1849. In the former case, the increase amounts to 79,000/. ; and 7..ins. the latter, - to 343,000/. ; while in both cases there is nearly an equal decrease in the quantity of bullion in the banks. Nevertheless, the total average circulation is still below what it was in the same period of September 1848, and nearly one third less than that authorized by certificate. There is paper money in use to the amount of 4,153,979/., while the banks might issue notes to the amount of 6,354,4941.: The diminution of the stock of bullion would be of better omen as going to prove an increase in small dealings and wages were it not pro- bable that a considerable quantity has been exported by emigrants. The railway traffic upon all the Irish lines has considerably in- creased in the last week as compared with the corresponding week of 1849. - On the Great Southern and Western line, it has risen from 33891. to 5061/. ; on the Kingstown, from 785/. to 1058/. ; and on the uthers to some extent, more or less. Some of this in- crease is, no doubt, owing to the inroad of pleasure-seekers facili- tated by the numerous and cheap excursion-trips -which characterize the present autumn. But even in this circumstance there is ground for hope. The casual English tourist will often turn out to be the avant-courrier of the investing capitalist or commercial trader—if the Synod of Thurles and the demagogues of the Tenant- Right League do not'warn them off.
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