The announcement of the Ministerial plan in Ireland has been
received with a conflict of signs and symptoms, of defiance and trepidation. The first report reached Dublin on Saturday, the law itself on Wednesday. In that capital, and in the provinces as the news spread abroad, there was vast " sensation," but the overt acts of the excited people were not always proportionate to the show of excitement : in some places, the announcement pro- voked declarations that the people would rise—some day ; in others, the tumult took the shape of an impromptu disruption of the treasonable Clubs. The leaders, Mr. Smith O'Brien, Mr. Meagher, and others, made a sudden movement into remoter dis- tricts; but whether to escape, or to levy war, did not at once ap- pear. There was immense agitation, but nothing distinct. The Irish nation has not yet "risen," but it has killed one policeman. These equivocal phasnomena were followed by a host of ru- mours, which at last came to a head in the seditious or stockjob- hing fabrication that reached London on Thursday, with reports of open rebellion, military defeat and disaffection, on the border of Tipperary. The structure of these rumours bore internal marks of being framed by one hand, and by the evening the fraud was exposed in Reglement. At the same tusk Ministers admitted that the distriist in questions is in every turbulent and dangerous state.
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