The collection of the O'C000reLL Tribute was commenced throughout "universal
Ireland,- on Sunday last. The amount received may be considered as a test of the state of Mr. O'CoN- NELL'S influence. It will be recollected that the Ministerial jour- nals, who assert that his power is on the wane, have predicted a miserable falling off in the present as compared with the receipts of former years. As yet, we have no means of ascertaining how far these predictions are correct, or to how great an extent they have been falsified by the result; for the returns have only been re- ceived from a few places : these give an amount of about three thousand pounds. Dublin contributed 1,400/., Cork 700/., Lime- rick 2561., and Waterford 187/.
The accounts from various parts o Ireland, esp:daly Kilkenny, Queen's County, and Tipperary, prove that the Coercion Bill has not worked the wonders which its supporters have attributed to its operation. The papers are filled with details of outrages committed by the peasantry, who have taken up their old trade as winter ap- proaches. At one Quarter-sessions, in one county, there were two hundred trials and sixty-seven convictions for acts of violence: This state of things will scarcely be attributed to political agita- tion, for the country has been free from it for some months: it .Cr' caus.d by evils which no severity of legislation can cure—thi,'4bt of fo, 4, fire, and shelter. We do not Charge Earl Gexy's Nunstrr
*with the consequences of the misrule of a century ; and only allude to the present state of Ireland to point out the utter absurdity of the assertions, of which we have 'lately had so many, that "Ire- lend has been tranquilized" by such a measure as the Suppression Bill.
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