In Ireland, the sectarian agitation, the result of the Durham
Letter and the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, has experienced at least a temporary lull. The patriots who figure at public meetings in the sister island are, for the moment, absorbed in discussions not less Congenial: they are devising excuses for the non-repayment of ad- vances made out of the Imperial Treasury to the various Poor-law Unions. -The most -prevalent pretext is, that the money having been spent, and spent improvidently, is not forthcoming; and that if will be a great hardship upon those by and for whom it was spent, to have the' debt exacted. As usual-, Irish politics bear a painful resemblance to the domestic shifts of Sir Condy Itackrent, and other cool, pleasant, brazen spendthrifts, immortalized by Miss Edgeworth and many of our dramatists. American repu- diation was phlegmatic, prosaically impudent; Irish Tapudiation is flavoured by a dash of saucy humour.
