Reports of theresignation by the Marquis of ANGLESEA of the
Lord-Lieutenancy of Ireland, and the appointment of the Marquis WELLESLEY in his place, have been very prevalent during the week. Whether they are well or ill founded, we have no present means of ascertaining. The Globe, which, as the Ministerial journal, ought to know something about the matter, evidently knows very little ; but first sneers at those who speak of Lord ANGLEsEA's retirement as probable, and then tells us that it is certain, and that the Marquis WELLESLEY is to be the new Viceroy. The Dublin Times, which is the Irish Government paper, declares positively, that Lord ANGLESEA'S health is perfectly restored, and that he will resume his post in full vigour.
But whoever may be Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland for the next year, it is evident that, notwithstanding the " tranquillity " which the Coercion Bill has produced, he will have no enviable post. We have selected from the mass a very few of the cases of resist- ance to the law authorities in that country under our Irish head. Ireland is always comparatively tranquil in the summer. Let us wait till the winter returns, before we congratulate ourselves on the tranquillizing effects of the Coercion Bill. It seems that a most determined resistance to the payment of rent as well as tithes has sprung up in the county of Limerick, and that the landholders are in a state of great alarm on that account. When such is the disposition of an unruly, half-starved peasantry, how miserable and paltry do all the Parliamentary measures for their ameliora- tion appear 1 The Irish landowners will discover, when perhaps an agrarian rebellion rages through the country, that had they acted with common discretion, they would have allowed their wretched tenantry the means of subsistence out of the lands they cultivated. But the subject of Irish Poor-laws is too important to be cursorily discussed. We wish merely to point attention to the proceedings of the tenantry in the county of Limerick, because their example is one very likely to be followed; and if so, the con- tinuance of the present system of extracting enormous rents, and Making no legal provision for the poor, will become absolutely im- practicable. The Irish peasants, unless some vast improvement in the mode of treating them is effected, will soon very generally resemble the squatters on unsettled land in the United States ; who make it a point to shoot all who come to dispossess them, and never yield except to main force.
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