'Mr. °Megan, the barrister, one of the gentlemen nominated by
O'Ctamell to negotiate betiveen the leaders of Old and Young Ireland, has written a letter to the Agitator, exhibiting the strongest possible desire to avoid the intended honour, as he does not wish to mix in politics. In a very kindly-worded reply, Mr. O'Connell nails Mr. O'Bagan to his work by an assurance that the conference will not involve him "in any political arrangements whatever." "What I want is your legal assistance—that which you would not refuse to a total stranger, and which I am convinced you will not refuse your sincere friend.-
Meanwhile, some of the moral force party are by no means satisfied with the proposed " submission "; and it is hinted that "physical force" intends to hold its head high.
The state of the Irish provinces continues as bad as needs be. We sub- join samples.
The King's County Chronicle gives a most portentous list of murder and out- rage in King's County, Tipperary, and Westmeath. At Tullannore, on Tuesday evening, a Mr. William Lloyd was shot dead while standing at his own door in Church Lane. The murderer escaped. Mr. Lloyd was the owner of a small pro- perty at Ballongh, in 1 ipperary, occupied by a set of repudiating tenaeto;.oae of whom, named Watkins, was suspected of having perpetrated the act. Another murder was committed on Monday night at Coolinathey, near Blue Bull, by an armed party, on the person of a poor man named Reneban. They first beat him, robbed him of 11, and finished by putting him behind the fire. A Mrs. Haslam was shot, at, while effecting a seizure for rent due to her, near Frankford.
Mr. Wilson, of Verdant Hill, near Roscrea, was knocked down and robbed in his own yard by two men armed with "skull-crackers." Mr. John Fitzgerald, engineer of the Board of Works in Ennis, received a threatening notice telling bun be would get the death of Mr. Carrick. Idr. Ma-
hon, engineer in notice, removed to Tulle, received a threatening notice for the second timer saying that ponder and ball would be the next; and Mr. Richard Creagh, assistant engineer at Tulle, was grossly abused at Six-Mile Bridge, for refusing to allow a full day's wages for a half day's work.—Limerick Chronicle.
The neglect to prepare for next year's crop is deplored by the Gahm, Vindicator and Kitty's County Chronicle. The small tarn ers and conacre tenants cannot employ labourers, or put down seed. 1 he seed which some possess cannot be depended on; and in other cases those who held it over have been obliged to grind it for food.
The Lord-Lieutenant was expected at the Viceregal Lodge on Thurs- day afternoon; recalled ty the unsettled state of the country.
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