Lord Monteagle's valuable paper on the recent Irish County Council
elections, "After the Deluge in Ireland," in Wednes- day's Westminster Gazette, should be read in connection with the exultant peen of victory by " Milesius " in the Fortnighlly, noticed in another column. Lord Monteagle, who, though a staunch Unionist, stood as a non-political candidate and was returned by Nationalist supporters, declares that the elections "have taught us nothing we did not know before,—indeed, if anything, the number of the grand juror class elected rather exeeeded the general expectation." Among the weak points of the new system, he notes the simultaneity Of the elections for the County and District Councils, which operates to the prejudice of the latter ; the greater costliness of the elections and the machinery of the Councils; and the disqualification of the Roman Catholic clergy. In conclusion, he gives an eXcellent account of the treatment of the " noupOlitical " Minority, as well as of the practical spirit in which the proceedings have been so far conducted.
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