NEWS OF THE WEEK.
ON Saturday it was known that the National League had been proclaimed as a "dangerous Association" under the Crimes Act, and that specific branches of it, by which intimida- tion and boycotting are carried on, will be separately pro- claimed under the 7th Clause of that Act, as occasion offers. If the National League chooses to limit itself to strictly political agitation, it need not even now be interfered with. But where it is active, as it long has been, in intimidating those who take employment from boycotted persons, who take the land from which tenants have been evicted for the non-payment of rent, and who do not subscribe to its funds, it will be pronounced unlawful, and the branches so acting will be dissolved. The blow has been followed up by the prosecution of Mr. W. O'Brien, M.P., the editor of United Ireland, for speeches delivered in Mitchelstown on August 9th and 11th, in which he incited the people to resist those who were enforcing the law in the execution of their duty. We shall begin to see soon how large the English party is which positively approves the resistance to the law in Ireland, and regards those who resist it, and en- courage others to resist it, as heroes. We shall be surprised if the number of the antinomians even in Great Britain is not much larger than any one suspects.
