IRELAND.
The Dublin Evening Mail, with some courteous compliments to the Spectator as " among the best-informed and most intelligent of our Saxon brethren," demurs to our right apprehension of the actual state of Repeal ; and, referring to a great Repeal demonstration at Limerick on Wednesday week, it puts some of the notabilia of the scene, extracted from the Freeman's Journal, under heads, as information for the Specta- tor and Sir Robert Peel, and as illustrations of the proverb " Il rit bien qui rit le dernier." The Mail mistakes us if it thinks we laugh at the spread of the Repeal agitation : we laughed at the bathos of the mail- contract as the crowning grievance. Undoubtedly, if the Irish Tories will coalesce with Repeaters, first encouraging them, afterwards most likely to put them down, the country may be torn with strife, and even bloodshed ; which would be no laughing matter, especially for the Irish themselves. We laugh also at the danger to " the British connexion "- not at the danger to the Irish should they think it can be broken. England would not permit Ireland to separate : the option to Ireland is whether she will be united as an integral part of the empire, or annexed as a reconquered province. We believe that intelligent and honest politicians would be much better employed in devising means of making England useful to Ireland, than in playing the mad pranks of Repeal.
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