The events of the week in Ireland are comparatively unimpor:
tant. Mr. Dalton Williams, indicted as a co-proprietor of the Tri- bune and a participator in its treasonable sentiments, has been ac- quitted ; and Conciliation Hall is to be reopened by Mr. John O'Connell. The acquittal appears to us to be a very natural result of putting a liberal construction on the evidence. On the one hand, it was not shown that Mr. Williams had taken any part in the proceed- ings for a practical promotion of the treasonable designs ; so that his writings really did seem to bear that simply literary character Which was claimed for the lucubrations of Mitchel. On the Other hand, it was shown that Mr. Williams was absent from ill- ness when the treasonable papers were published. The evidence left it in doubt whether he had been one of the conspirators for actual rebellion, or only one of the inflamed writers of Ireland,—a host. Under these circumstances, the acquittal appears to be no departure from the principles which have guided recent verdicts. That Conciliation Hail is to be reopened, we learn from a letter addressed by Mr. John O'Connell to a body of Repeaters in Scot- land. In returning to Repeal theatricals, Mr. John seems to have been "urged by hunger—and request of friends " ; his Scotch friends and others having asked him to reopen Conciliation Hall. What for ? To resume the "constitutional agitation" for Re- peal, he says. The poor man can't invent anything fresh !
