"The murders " form the staple of the Irish news.
A Dublin Repeal paper admits that the usual question is, " What murders are there today ?" Nor do they change in character, except that as an engine of terror their application is extending from landlords to creditors generally : the debt incurred by the purchase of a gun is "cancelled," as currency philosophers have it, by the use of the gun itself.
The most marked process of change, however, is that which has been taking place in the opinion of England on Ireland. There is still the same desire to see improvement carried out—to see the luckless Celt redeemed from his debasement ; but the wan- ton love of bloodshed, united to the half-voluntary submission to beggary, has materially abated the sympathy that was en- tertained in this country. The anxiety to see the law enforced in Ireland is growing to a feeling of impatience, which finds no adequate expression in the Parliamentary debates ; though symptoms of it are to be found even there in the speeches of in- dependent Members. In society there is a prevalent desire to witness some decisive course of actit.a ; and we have reason to believe that Ministers would obtain from English and Scottish Members an unusual amount of support in any measure having- for its object the direct enforcement of order.
