In want of real, earnest purpose, the great Protectionist meet-
ing in London and the aggregate meeting of Roman Catholics in Dublin are much upon a par. At the former, all present pledged themselves to implicit confidence in Lord Stanley and Mr. Disraeli who have given such repeated and unequivocal hints of their wish to adopt a substitute for protection, which these confiding gentlemen declare to be the one thing needful. At the latter, a resolution was passed to un- seat every Irish Member of Parliament who will not vote against Ministers right or wrong ; though the majority of the meeting received with favour Mr. John O'Connells refusal to comply with the injunction, and though, in consequence of Mr. Pagan's having resigned rather than obey it, the Cork electors have returned a Whig in his place. For ponderous dullness the palm is due to the English meeting : the Irish was more lively after a certain fashion, for in the course of the proceedings Mr. John O'Con- nell got a bloody nose.
