The Government of Ireland seems at length determined to act
with vigour in the repression of the Anti-Tithe meetings; and a circular has been issued, calling on the Magistrates to perform their duty, and in all cases where such meetings assume an illegal appearance, to disperse them. The dispersion of a large meeting at Nobber, has been, it will be seen, the subject of remark in Parliament. Mr. O'CoNNELL is anxious to represent these meetings as analogous to the meetings in England on the subject of Reform, and talks of his countrymen's resistance to tithe as. of the same character as Lord MILTON'S resistance to taxes_ Thereis some difference. Does Mr. O'CONNELL presume to claim the .right not only of resisting tithe; but of compelling every one else to 'do the saline? In England, many men besides Lord MILToN declared their intention not to pay taxes; but did they declare their intention at the same time to refuse the common offices of humanity and of neighbourhood to him that did pay them? The combination which left the hay of Lord CLONCURRY to rot on the ground, and the horses of the Dublin mail-contractor to starve in their stalls, is worse than illegal; such a combination, if voluntary, would deserve the character of diabolical. And what is to be said of those who openly attempt, by every species of intimidation, to produce it?
