The news from Ireland suggests that under Mr. Morley's Government
the secret societies are renewing their nativity. There have of late been one or two attempts to employ explosives in blowing-up barracks ; and on Monday a man street of Dublin. He was a member of a, secret society which named Patrick Reid was shot dead in Cardiff Lane, a low meets in Tyrone Street, and had previously been arrested with a comrade on suspicion. The comrade, who had detonators intended to act as blues in his pocket, was detained and charged, but Reid was let go, and this circumstance, together with some other signs, such as his possession of money, made his associates suspect him of informing. It is supposed, therefore, that it had been determined to assassinate him, and the police are busily searching for two men with whom he was heard quarrelling in Cardiff Lane. They have arrested a man named Mearrts, and are said to believe that they have a clue to most important discoveries. Considering that a Home- rule Government is in power, the secret societies would appear to be indiscreet ; but they may desire to hurry the Bill a little, and show that if it has been hung up, they have not been. Mr. Morley, who has had to use troopers to protect an eviction, and who will now have to attack the secret societies, must be modifying his views as to the ease with which Irish- men can be governed by the ordinary civil law. But for informers, the secret societies would govern Ireland.
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