The Repeal a g itation has experienced 0 lull %vhilst (Yew:Nem. is
at Dorrynane Abbey with his beagles. The Irislt Government has taken the opportunity of his absence to show its teeth. The first hostilities commenced by sending an arneel body of Policemen to a meeting held on Sunday at a small place near Dublin. The more hot-headed of the Repeaters fired up at this demonstration, and viewed it as a violation of the tissedom of diseussioe. A dif- ferent twat was craftily given to the transaction by Mr. O'Co a - NE1.1„ unwilling that the Government should ;tppear to be acting against him : the Police-offieers were sent, eccording to his version of the matter, to protect the meeting from being dis- turbed by their enemies! 11 jut son intimated, indeed, that they CRIER there to imbibe Repeal doctrines : nntl he rejoiced that armed IrisInneu should have such opportunities allbrded them. A t?esh demons, ration, however, was made by the Lord-Lieutenant On Wednesday about which there can be Ito mistake. In his speech on the inauguration of' the Lord Mayor of' Dublin, he diverged en- tirely from the subject to give public and strong expression to his sentiments against Repeal. There is one part of Lord ERRING- TON'S declaration that will, no doubt, have a very tranquillizin effect on many of the agitators, if it do not affect the Great Agi- tator himself. The threat of withholding all Go% eminent favour and patronage front those who take part in this agitation, will startle many of' the office-expectants, who are already engaged in the work and pledged to go on. This is a " heavy blow and great dis- couragement." O'CoNNEsa, especially, will find himself in an awkward predicament : he must either abandon Repeal or desert the Government. As it seems iinpossible that he can now adhere to both, we shall perhaps soon hear of' another " experiment."
