An Irish notable, Sir Cusack Roney, has found a mare's
nest. Ile as- serts in the Dublin journals that "it is the intention of the present Go- vernment to endeavour to set aside the contract with the Lever Company for the conveyance of the American mails through Ireland, and the effort is to be made next session of Parliament, by means of the reappointment of the Committee on Packet Contracts, of which Mr. Cobden was chair- man." The Freeman's Journal and the Globe have expressed their dis- belief in this odd statement, and we have good reason to believe that it is unfounded. Indeed, one does not see how the design imputed to the Government could be carried out. The only rational solution of the oddity is that the report has been circulated for the express purpose of drawing forth a contradiction.
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