The Tory papers in Ireland and in London have been
stuffing their oolumns with a report of a meeting of Tipperary Magistrates, in which Lord Glengall figured as the principal personage. Some months ago, a complaint of the "state of the country" was sent to Lord Nurmanby oy the Tipperary Tories, with a request for an additional three to keep the peace. The application was not complied with, for reasons given by Mr. Drummond, in a letter to Lord Glengull ; which letter, it appears, that noble person did not see fit to make public. The meet- ieg in question was held to afford Lord Glengall an opportunity of ex- plaining his conduct ; and he improved it by dwelling at length on the filerease of crime iu Tipperary melee the Whig Government. The Dublin Evening Posl supplies what appears to be a fair account of the ellief business of the meeting- -4 What was the deelared object of that meeting? To afford to Lord Glen- an opportunity of explaining to his ',another Justices the reasons which had venneed him to cushion an impottant official letter of the Irish Government fur 1l.c epee of four calendar months. What defence does lie make fir thus with- tolling from the Magistrates and the public a doeument of this 11P,ONiption, for so hug a pm iod ? Isricily, this—that it contaiued [natter which might be miss .ssd,strued by the lower orders of the people into a cotehannatiun of the conduct 4.1 the landlords of Tippmary. He states that the reply of Mr. Drummond vier sent, so far hack its 1111.. 33,1 of May to bond Donougloinne ; %olio, after full week upon its contents, and being comph nly bothered by the 1.;■Auswvrable facts and state itents of the Under Secreta y, put an end to his and took himself entirely out of the linobb'e, by despatching, the dos ,cent to his ntw politle.11 guide, Lord Glengall, who was [hen in London. But Glengall was no less puzzled flew his brother Peer. Ile confuses that he odt astonishment at some of the olostrvatious contained in it,' and he ,w1 /ern, On opin.on th 0 it was nit prial.•nt or wise to pil',!ish that reply.' J he tel.', us, hewever, th it it was his intention to have consulnal With the Ma- .o.,trat es, after his return from London, as to 1.10e ruin iris of puldivation. But ins Lousy. and Ude' meddliog gentleman 3Ir. Mune, instigated co doubt by our irryient remonstrances against the suppression of the document, took the pie-
ttoon it 11;I:Vilig i.e tier production of the entire ma ..espendimee just before
close of the session,; laud thus, as letra Uet,gell cesiplain.n, the reply of trinnutiond became a Pailiairentaty doccrwut, ,ond a matter of public vats.' llts Lotelship's atterept to enshien the doeument having been 0.0e conipletele einserated, he call; the 'illagistratee together to tell 'len telly he had kept it rrerct even from them. We hive already :dated his orwms. The 'fiHerary M t.4istrates must be very easily pt. esed, indeed, if time reasons have ,.,dified eery as the o• et eeten ity of the Ma.4istretes at that meetieg were, they sii.l nut so ..0.11y stultify [helm:6.o,' as to pass a in-role:ion appi ming id' the conduct of
Geo.g..11 in this matter. (It of them, indeed, Mr. Joseph Cooke, pro.
s mhition I. that el ; an,d anothet, I).10 111.110 5, WAS for 11VC001- !.•' Ving the molution hy a vote of thant,., far the suppressun of tie letter.
'tte. lanes Scul!y, of 'Vivien- ay, iLtertro, observing that the tole manse it veilpecond would he a lace nf thanks to Loki G'engall for his e2er conduct io the elo.:r that day' anal this igrioal 1-Ch0111titint—a matter of rt u• routine at every public -iris the 011ly our adopted."
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