From Ireland we have had nothing of importance for several
weeks past; and therefore we may say, on the faith of the old proverb, that From Ireland we have had nothing of importance for several weeks past; and therefore we may say, on the faith of the old proverb, that no news is good news." The state of that country, in spite of all the array of argument and all the quotation of facts that the Opposition papers lately furnished us with, is mending, if not mended. The Dub- lin journals,—instead of murders and robberies, and plots and insur- rections, and, by way of a crowning mercy, insurrection acts (which have done more, perhaps, to degrade Ireland than acts insurrection- r,)—find at present no other occupation for their columns than the Waterford election, the alleged tergiversation of Mr. SHEIL, and the " huxtering," as it is called, of O'Corniar.L. On the subject of his negociations with the BERESFORD family, the latter has published a long letter, in which, after various rather palpable hits at his Irish enemies, he challenges the Times with having received a bribe from Lord GEORGE BERESFORD ; and hence its attack on the great Agita- tor. The charge is ridiculous enough, when we consider the immense property of the parties whom the member for Clare talks so lightly of bribing. Without attributing to the Times more principle than to other Journals, we may place some reliance on its revenue of five-and- twenty thousand a year. Where only ruinous bribes can possibly ope- rate, men do not bribe, for an obvious reason—they have not the means. The charge of " huxtering," however, which the Dublin cor- respondent of the Times reiterates, is surely quite as unfounded. The truth seems to be, that O'CONNELL was hoaxed, not that he was ' higgled with. The enemies of his principles and party wished to bring 14tra under suspicion ; and, considering the hostility that his violence ccintinually creates, it is wonderful they did not hatter succeed. At all events, we accept it as ' a happy omen, that the people of Ireland have at presentno question of higher interestto discuss, than whether the member for Clare refused to act as Lord GEORGE BERESFORD'S agent, because the fee was too small, or because Lord GEORGE was an Anti-Catholic.
