Mr. Agar Ellis gives, in the Times of Saturday last,
some very curious testimony as to the sense of peace and content which is settling down on Ireland. Mr. Gladstone's resignation seems to have been taken very quietly. " And indeed it was time that he should go," was the comment of an Irish labourer.
Mr. Agar. Ellis says that the country is looking more well- I to-do than he has ever seen it. " More comfort and less dirt " is, he says, the order of the day, and the women's dress grows smarter,—a sure sign of prosperity. Meantime, the internal -split is tending to neutralise the old racial and class hatreds. Mr. Agar Ellis ends by noting the advantage of letting things alone in Ireland, and by deprecating an Evicted Tenants Bill. But is he sure Ireland will get that P We should not -be surprised if an imperative, and of course unlooked-for, Dissolution intervened to prevent that Bill from being more than introduced.
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