NEWS OF THE WEEK.
YE S TE RD A Y week, the Government served a notice on Mr. Dillon at Ballaghadereen, in the County of Sligo, requiring him to find sufficient sureties to be of good behaviour towards her Majesty the Queen and all her subjects, and warning him that in default of such sureties, he might be committed to prison for such a time as the Court might think fit. The justification for this notice was, of coarse, Mr. Dillon's speeches urging Lord Clanricarde's tenants to offer their landlord any reduced rent on which they may agree, and, in case of such reduced rents being refused as inadequate, exhorting them to pay these reduced rents into a common fund for the prosecution of the political campaign. On the very day on which the writ was served on Mr. Dillon, the same intimidation which Mr. Dillon had advo- cated in Lord Clanricarde's case was exerted on Lord Dillon's estates at Ballaghadereen ; and though the public meeting in Sligo on Sunday was not held, being prohibited by proclamation, a great number of small meetings of the same character have been since held elsewhere, Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien carrying on their agitation with undiminished energy. The Government, moreover, seem very nervous about prohibiting these meetings for the defiance of the law more generally. Mr. Dillon has been given time to prepare his defence till this day week.
