Sir W. Harcourt stated on Thursday that much of the
news of Irish outrage was exaggerated, which is doubtless true, as it Is also true that the correspondents, by sending over only sensa- tional items create a false effect. Ordinary life is going on in Ireland ; and though process-servers are stripped and flogged, travellers are safe, and business is not seriously interrupted. Still, it is true that in the West and South the resistance to law is open and general ; and that in every case of eviction or sale of distraiued goods, the agents of the law must be protected by armed force. The police are constantly stoned, and if they charge they are liable, in the event of a death occurring, to be committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder. A coroner's Pry in County Clare has already brought in that verdict against a constable, the witnesses alleging, however, that resistance had not been offered. In Cork, on Thursday, the police were seriously attacked with stones, and in their return charge, Mr. Travers, a respectable person, accidentally present, was seriously wounded, While forty policemen are said to have been injured. The disposition to riot increases, but as as yet fire-arms have not been employed, and the mobs have stopped short of open Insurrection. They appear to understand the exact point at which the order to fire will be given, and disperse when the diet Act is read.
