Every letter from Ireland is full of the good effects
already apparent from the destruction of ascendancy. The governing Board of Trinity College have formally signified through Dr. Ball that they are willing to admit Catholics to the government of the College, and, though the offer, to be useful, should be accompanied by half-a-dozen resignations, it is graciously intended. The Liberal majority of the Corporation of Dublin have agreed, in token of amity, to elect a Conservative Lord Mayor, Mr. Pardon, and his election was accordingly seconded by Mr. Alderman Plunkett, "Radical and Repealer," and carried without a division. The Catholic Bishops everywhere exhort their flocks to consider Pro- testants their brethren, or, which is much more important, their brothers," children of the same mother, Ireland ;" while the Orange- men, instead of driving the Queen into the Boyne, as they threatened to do, are diligently setting to work to make the laity supreme in the Free Church. We are told on very good authority that the Government were amazed at the way July 12 passed off, and the new spirit which seems to have come over the people. If there is a "one-legged race," to use Mr. Gladstone's famous expression, it is not the Irish.
