Ireland is triumphing ofez!uar_factions. We allude, of course, to the
failure of Lord Downshire's meting originally advertsieel. for the 27th instant, and now converted into a harmless paper demonstration : the event is in every respect significant. Mr. William Levinge, who attended the meeting of the Committee, tried to amend the form of proceeding. He proposed to express regret at the continuance of agrarian outrage ; but to rest chiefly on measures of improvement : he was overruled. The com- mittee resolved to hint at ooercive measures, though omitting the thumb-screw, specific proposals originally intended. But it became evident that the balance of general feeling was against them ; the Liberals threatened a counter-meeting ; Conservatives deprecated the Downshire programme ; and when at last the original movers went to consult the Lord Lieutenant, he con- demned their proposition as explicitly as any others whom we have mentioned. In fact the project received the severest con- demnation, from the Lord-Lieutenant to the tenant-farmer. Under these circumstances Lord Downshire and his companions resolved to burke their embryo movement. At the end of last week they issued a notice stating that, whereas, having re- ceived "hundreds of letters" approving of their plans, and "had an interview with his Excellency, the Lord-Lieutenant, of a most satisfactory nature," they resolved not to hold their meeting, but only to present his Excellency with an address. The great attempt to revive the Orangeism of the Pale, therefore, as the counteractive to the Ribandism of the " wild " country, has ended in paper. The only thing that could have given a chance for the agitators, whether of the Young Ireland or the Old Ireland stamp would have been the restoration of the Orange abomina- tion; but the good sense of the island, actuating the whole of Satiety from the Lord-Lieutenant downwards, has crushed the scheme while it was yet a project. It looks, however, like a finid blow to agitations as they have been in Ireland. -
