POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Though there is no one subject of commanding importance in the news of the day, there are several points of interest in the political gossip.
The Dublin correspondents of the London paper makes a wonder- ment about the state of affairs iu Ireland ; which is curious enough on a superficial view. Military preparations meet the eye in every part, and reinforcements of troops continue to arrive. The Times reporter says- " In a few weeks the country, or at least three-fourths of it, will be in a state of military occupation. And all this, and more in perspective, after it had beea apparently at least shown, that the ordinary powers of the law, without the aid of a single additional bayonet, were quite stringent enough to repress the agita- tion, not only in its present form, but in whatever guise it might assume here- after."
There was a report on Thursday afternoon—said to originate with Mr. Pierce Mahooy—that Government have signified their intention not to proceed with the State prosecutions, so far as they are grounded on the information sworn to by Mr. Hughes, their official reporter. Put- ting these things together with the rumours of a conciliatory policy, there is enough to puzzle the quidnuncs.
The Freeman's Journal states that the Chairmanship of the Commis- sion of Inquiry into Land-tenures bad been offered to Mr. More ifFer- rail ; who declined it.
Dr. Slattery, the titular Archbishop of Cashel, has sent a letter to Mr. O'Connell, stating that the events of the last few weeks have over- come the writer's disinclination to mix in polities ; and accordingly he encloses 31. as his subscription, and requests to be enrolled a member of the Repeal Association.
Previous page
