Dublin Notes.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 5, 31 October 1890, Page 21

Dublin Notes.

("From the National papers.;

We aie maicbiug slowly but surely toward** famine. All the reports which coma in from the threatened districts point unmistakably towards .hat grim and awful conclusion. Inspectors have been at work making inquiries into the probable extent of the blight which has lallen upon the treacherous potato crop. One inspect >r in a southern county statts that he has already made observation in four hundnd distrieis, and in all of these the crop is all but a total failure. The disaster is by uo means confined to the south and west. It is beyond th<> shadow of a doubt that in Donegal an I Aimagh large districts are afflicted with the blight ; even tie f jrtile fields of Tipperary and Wexford and Litnanck also sufE:r heavily from the curse. The emergency calls for something moie thaa inquiry ; for the winter will be soon upon us, and, with winter starvation for toe poor people who continue to stake all upon the potato. Some time ago the Land Commissioners filled the landlords' hearts with deligut by voluntarily un Imakiog 'he role of optimistic propbe's. They got in returns of the probabilities of the harvest, which gave a most glowing picture, and rilled the minds of the landlords with the mos-t pleasiDg hopes of plethoric revenue from the produce of the fields. But the Commissioners in their zeal forgot the gcod old maxim that it is not wise to prophesy unless you know. They have now had to unsay all ihey predicted, and confess themselves false prophets. The pitiless rain has washed away their calculations, and with them, we grieve to say, the hopes of tens of thousands of our poorest fellow-countrymen. Returns luve been com piled lor the Government, re^ardmg the extpn' and character ot the failure n the potato crop, and the sum of their conclusions is, even to those who took a gloomy view before, nothing short of ;ippa ling. There is hardiy a county exempt from the disease. Iv the on<j or two exceptional cases there is the qualifying lemark ttut " that very much depends upon the weather ;' and as the weather Bhows not the remotest symptom of relaxing its rmhlessness, the faint ray of hope derivable tiom these one 01 two exceptionable cases must vanish into space. The return is gruesome reading. The dieadful word starvation is visible in every line of it, unless some rescuing hand be soon stretched out to save the foredoomed Irish peasant. ]f there had been but ten just men in fcodom and Gomorrah, the Cities of the Plains would have been saved from thi shower of fire and brimstone, if there were ten landlords in Ireland like Mr. Vincent Scully, perhaps Irish landlordism might be worth preserving after all. While his brethren in Ireland are busy in seizing, distraining, and evicting, or at beat are looking with eager approval at these forages and evictions of the unhappy, famishing tenants, Mr. Vincent Scully hands over to the national League tne magnificent 6um of £600, as to trustees, for toe use of the people in their sore straite. There is no man more hated and calumniated than Mr. Vincent S ully by the Irish rack-renters. They call him a traitor to his own order. They say tie nas forgjfen the traditions ot the class to which by birtn he belongs. They are quite right : so he has. This la'-t act of bis plainly shows it. A Tipperary priest sends us the following anecdote, which will be useful iv trying to realise what m. nuer of man is the much-talked of Captain Rots ot Biadensourg. The incident he lelatcs took place at an hotel iv Wtspoii, at which our coneapondent met Mr. Ros? — " H(; was then engaged, if I mistake not, in teLcting able-bodied emigrants from tue workhouses in the We-t. The captain veniuied at the luncheon table to defend the benevolent intentions ot his employes in their scheme of deportation, My travelling companion, who is i ow a bishop, left the room huruedly, lest his wrath should over How. Mi. Ross of Blaaensburg had the last, if not the best, of the argument with me. He said — ' Well, I know very little abjut Ireland, but I know a good deal about Turkey,' He spoke with n soft acceut, and with a kind ot humbugging lisp, after the manner of Lord Dundreary, at which I laughed." Wasted fields mean wasted population. Ttat 13 the general economic law. In Ireland this inexorable law has always a most painful application ; for every return if fie.ds gooe to rot tells us that those who tille I the fields have also «oue 10 rot or to till the fields of a strange land. It is hard to read the dry statistical returns of the Registrar-general, which tell us that the bumau fljsh and b ood, the vital principle ot this old land, is day by day declining in most alarming proportion. It is almost incredible 1-1 the annals of civilisation that wi hio the space of Luty-live years the population of a country which maintained close upon eight millions and a half should fall to a little over four millions and a half. But there is the fact. In 1843 the population of Ireland numbered 8,295,961 ; after nearly halt a centuiy of eulightened British rule, they now tot up to 4,688 318! We are gettiug on splendidly, from a Salisbury ard Balfour point of view. We would like to know what political economist would propound a satisfac.ory tolutiou 10 the problem, how rents are to by paid m Ireland this year under these two conditions : — Tue wettest, Buminei known has resulted iv a harvest which promises to be the worst on latter-day record ; and American cattle are being landed alive ai Birkeuhead and Deptford at the rate of twelve thousand head per week 1 For this laitt r astonishing fact the Liverpool Chamber of commerce is the authority. A great boon and b, easing this vast importation is proving to the English working population. Beef of the pnmest sort baa bten selling at 44 4 l d poun 1, and ih expected to be sold at a still lower figure. But what about ihe lush tanner? Where is he to get rent for a landlord when he cun get no crops rrom the soil and no pnets for his catt.c / It 13 an exceptionally serious question, and we shall not be at all surprised if political economy herself very shortly iuimsh a very plain answer. After a gunboat aud an Algcnne raid, "personally conducted," 8B Messrs. Cook would say, by (Jorsair Cecil Koche, corned a Local Government Board inspector to the happy Blasket Islands, What

doe 3 this official find upon the place where Lord Cork, under the protection of the gu-18 of the Briusb. fleet, raided upon the corrachs of th>3 terraqueous denizens. Semi-starvation and fever I The condition in which these poor people live is a disgrace to Lord Cork. He ought to pay for people to inhabit the islands if he wants them inhabited instead of trying to extort rent from their precarious earnings ; and a3 he ia landlord of the barren rocks ha ought, if there were a proper B >ard of Public Health in Ireland, be compelled to provide them with decent dwellings instead of places not fit for pigs to live in. We think it would be a most salutary course, if Lord Cork persists in coliec'ins* what no rails rent from these miserable dowatrod.ien people, that he should be compelled ta live in one of their wretched shoelings with the manure heap before the door, and voyage out upon the awful Ailaotic for a few months in search of fish wherewith tn keep his lordly carcase alive. Just six months of this experience might teach him to be more considerate towards human beings made in the same mould as himself. It is not often that the great T. W. Russell indulges in the levities of wit and humour. The direct invectives of tbe temperance platform and the Church Mission tract are more becoming to the burning and uncimpromising zeal of his nature. His tiff with Mr. Balfour aud the congenial topic of an impending famine appear, however, to have inspired his muse to a new flight. At any rate, in a letter which he has (of course) felt it his duty to contribute to the Press on the latter subject, he contributes a morsel of delicate and biting irony at the expense of Air. Balfour, which, in its way, is simply perfect. With well-feigned sincerity he pretends to defend Mr. Balfour from the sung, of tha cartoon of last week's United Ireland. This is how he does it — " What is thought of him (Mr. B.) down south may be gathered from tha following incident, which 1 have heard since my arrival here. In olden times the curse of Cromwell was a thing to frighten children with in Ireland. Only recently a mother was 1 card teaching her child thus: — 'Say " Bloody Balf >ur,"' and I'll give yo ua cake.' This feeling of respect is a wholesome one and Mr. Balfour has- earned it." The italics are onra. Tne delicious flavour of this mors j l will repay lingering over. Consider this mother, ej deeply imbued with respect for the present ruler of Ireland, that she rewards her infant child with a cake (thus instituting a pleasiug association in the tender mind with the illustrious but terrible mime) if it will repeat the respectful words, " Bloody Balfour ;" and in all probability, judging by precedents for tha benefit of the next policeman who passes the way. Precedents teach us that it is to Mr. Balfour'a constabulary men these terras are generally applied ia practical use. They have also been applied in many instances by the wholesomely impressed natives to their donkeys — a worthy and cherished beast m Irish domestic economy, though it has hitherto been made the butt of much undeserved ridicule. We confess that until Mr. Russell informed us we had not been unier the impression that this use of Mr. Balfour's name was meant as a display of popular respect. An impression has certainly prevailed that the name " Bloody Balfour," or " Balfour," without th« •' Bloody," was inte ided by the urchins, and their mothers and sisters who are in the habit of using it, as a generic title for SubConstable Mulhullab iloo, in substitution for the rather old-fashioned '■ Harvey Duff" and "Buckshot" of the Forßier period — our people being rather volatile, and fond of variety in these matters. The police force themrelves seem to have been of this opinion, for it is only the other day that they summoned a man in Tipperaiy for baptising his ass " Bloo.ly Balfour" (which did not prevent, the ass being decked out; With ribbons the following Sunday on the village green in honour of us master's imprisonment) ; and it is not very long since an indignant sergeant at Kilrush swore that a man who applied the term '• Balfour"' to him had thereby attacked him with au " opprobrious epithet," calculated to bring him into odium and contempt and to excite him to break th? peace of her Majesty the Queen. But this (not unnatural) misinterpretation may be set down to tne habitude of rustic policemen. Mr. Russell has placed the matter in its right light, and Mr. Balfour, who has a nice taste in the refinements of language, must enjoy largely the adroit compliment of this facile courtiei. Whether i»ir. Kus3el! is so ducedly sly and saicisnctl as this agreeable little joke wo.ild prove him, or whether it is really one ot the louche flatteries meant in painful seriousness of the expectant hrother-in-law of an Assistant Commissioner, we must leavu Mr. Bailout- and him-elf to settle between them. Whichever way it is, the impartial outsider will find fun enough in it to make him grateful iv this dull seaaon, A correspondent fiom W^odford writes to us in the midst of the cull, steady, dismal downpour of rain whicii was laying the poor corn ila.t with the earth and rotting too potatoes in their ridges, there came marching into the little town of YVoodford Clanncarcle's agent. Tener, whom the Government have made a magistrate as a reward for his dis'luguished services to law and order ; Clamicarde's solicitor, Gnaham, ami all the miserable emergency hangers-on of the office, surrounded by the constabulary guard of honour which the Government provides tbem. Their benevolent object was to obtain fifty more eviction-mad^-eaßy warrants, which would enable them to drive filcy more tenants and their families out on tho roadside, and sei/,e the wretched remnant of their ciops which the blight had spared. Tne abys.inal stupidity which himpers the Claniicardu extermination conspiracy alone saved the tenants for the time being. Tnere was a breakdown on a law point. The Removables ielt constrained to grant another mouth's adjournment, in spite of the virtuous protest of Mr. Graham that the adjournment would " enable those trespassers to continue to occupy the c*bins of tne Marquis of Clanncarde" (which their own hands built) and " to plunder his lordship's crops," which their own hands raised, from their own seed, in their own lan'i. Will the Government, in the face ot this terrible visitation, ass'S' ati't encotuage further evictions by the Marquis of Clanncardo ami mm hk j him / Will they be permitted to assist and encouraao eviotois ? We. ask the question of the people ot Great Britain. They are the arbitrators. If they speak their mind plainly enough there is no tear but they will be obeyed. Mr. John Kelly and his fellow " criminal," Mr. Malachy O'Dwyer,

have been removed from the prison of Clonmel to the prison of Tullamore. It seems to be an indispensable part of the Government's torture-programme that every political prisoner worth the gaoling must get a turn through Tullamore. Otherwise tie policy of shifting prisoners about from one bastille to another appears to be wholly unintelligible. Tulhmore has proved itself to be most effectual in ..lessening the number of Mr. Balfour's antagonists. Mr. Kelly and his companion are keeping up well as regards health, but are losing as regards flesh. But their spirits are high and defUnt as ever. Mr Kelly accepts no concessions and holds no parley with those who come to offer them, but simply intimaes that their presence is not congenial to him. He bears his confinement in the m<"Bt cheerful and nnconplaining spirit, an i wids the admiration of every one who visits him by his philosophic good-humour and unostentatious dignity. Th* Archbishop of Cishel having invited Mr. and Mrs. William O'Brien and Mr. John Dillon to spend afew days with him in Tburles, prior to their departure for America, the party travelled down to Thurles on Monday September 7 and were the object of a great ovation, both there and at Templemore. The town commissioners of the latter place were in waiting at the railway station, and presented a very warm address, to which Mr. Dillon replied at such length as the train arrangements permitted. At Thurles the throng of enthusiastic admirers was so great that it was with immense difficulty that the visitors were enabled to make their w*»y out of the station. The Smith-Barry tenants were strongly in evidence, and in a brief address which Mr. O'Brien delivered at the station he declared that Mr. Smith- Barry was only in the beginning of bis troubles, and that before the fight was over they wjuld make his estates a Sahara desert. Mr. Dillon also delivered a short but soul-striking address. A tempting bait is being held out to Ulster farmers by that eminent philanthropist, the Marquis of Clanricarde. He has caused an advertisement to appear in a Northern paper offering farms to let, without fines, on his estate about Portumna. Thirty of these farms are to be had. They are at present lying derelict. From all of these tenants have been evicted, one of them being the secretary of the National League in the locality. The Daily Express is noticing this last desperate effort oE defeated landlordism, says that the Plan of Campaign has broken down on the Clanricirde estate. Htaven help the readers who depend upon that enterprisingly inventive journal for enlighteument upon matters of current history 1 Neither Lord Claoricarde nor Mr. Tener will endorse its bold statement. If the Plan had suff Ted a defeat, why go down to Ulster beating up for tenants, or bribe them with the offer of free farms 1 The tale is hardly fit for the rawest marine on board the British fleet. Patrick Hallinan, a Claret herdsman, who a few days ago was shot in the legs while herding an evicted farm, is, the Ecening Mail Bays, " the latest victim of tne law of the League." Tin statement is a deliberate lie, and the writer of it knows it to be a lie. Wnoever perpetraiei the outrage is an enemy of the Leigue and a friend of the Mail and the landlords. The whole world knows that outrages are got up in Clare by agents of the Government. It is the county of Serjeant O'Halloran, of ten-pound-note renown, of the operations of Sergeant Whelehan aud the informer Cullinan ; and we are perf ctly entitled to asiume that Government money is at the bottom of every outrage wmch disgraces the county. Th^re appears to be not the smallest shred of respect for truth or decency left in the people who pen those abominable falsehoods. They are a. difgrace to journalism, and w thout parallel in any other country calling itself Christian ani civilised. It is 8 tisfactory tn note the rapid and constant progress of New Tipperary. The people of the old town many of them, eager for eviction, whicn wi 1 qualify them for residences in the new town, to which thtir businesi and customers have departed. Mr. SaaithBany, on the other band, has got h bit tired of the game of brag, and has been somewhat moie sparing of his ev.ction decrees of late. Ttie result is that some of the shopkeepers have felt compelled to forestall him of service of notices of surrender. The ouiter trade, which was always the mai isiay of Tipperaiy, has increased enormously in the new mart sn spite of the terror of Mr. Smith- Barry's application to the Vice-Chancellor ihat he will be kind enough to have the vast mart pulled down and the hill put back oo its sue. The Tipperary men apparently do not believe in the omnipotence of the Vice-Chan-cellor. Lord HartiDgton has told us that the House of Lords can be trusted to throw out a Home Kule Bill, no matter how big a maj >nty it may be passed by in the Commons. We are incline ito think Lord Hartingtou is rif?ht. Anungst the brother peers on whom he can count with confidence in this maj >nty of our ancient nobility for many reasons the Duke of Manchester must be included. The Duke of Manchester has been s'udying the Insj qaestion to tquip himself for the satisfjc'ory discharge of bis important legislative duty. We gather from the sporting newspapers that his Grace the ocher day condescended to officiate as time-keeper in the boxing ring in Dublin where two professional " bruiser* "(English and Irish chimpion ) for eeveral rounds " landed heavily on each othei's pimples," " tappe 1 each other's claret," "bunged each other's k'ssing-uaps," " rattltd each other's ivories," " punched each other's bread-baskets," and " bunged up each o:her's pee >ers " in the most approved fctyle of art, to the great delight of tne officiatiog Duke. At length the English champion was battered into a semi-unconscious condition, and was unable to " come up smiling, 1 ' thus vividly illustrating to the ducal tim> -keeper the danger to tne British Constitution ot allowing Irishmen the unf jttered management of their own affairs. The 'elea'e of Mr. Griffen of Ballinadee, county Cork, recalls to public attention the outrageous sentence inflicted on him by the Removables just five months before. He was sent to prison for five months with hard labour for exhib tiny; in his window one of our Chr oons, which everyone that cared could Bde posted on th-j board in front of our office in Dublm, which decorated the windows of every stationer's sbop in Dublin, and of which only our modesty forbids us to aay how many teas of thousands of copies were despatched on that

particular week, as well as every other week, not merely through every part of Ireland, but through every part of the Bnglish-speakiag globe. Such savageries as that to which Mr. Griffen was subjected in the outraged name of law aad order have at least this circumstance to recommend them, when stoutly denied by coercionists they are incredible in England. Kilkenny speaks out br»vely on behalf of the unfortunate Irish political convicts, whose tortures in English gaols wag the subject of such a stirring debate in Parliament before itiose, and whose cisc the Home Secretary pledged bimse f to consider during the reces*, witn the view to mitigate their punishment and hasten their release. — The great meeting held at Kilkenny axpressed its gratitude to the Irish members far their nnstainel efforts on behalf of those most unfortunate and miserable men, and its confidence that those efforts would rather increase than diminish in the future. In this confi lence they may be sure they will not be deceived. It is possible that no further pressure will be needed, that a sense of justice and humanity will induce Mr. Mathews to make a favourable announcement when Parliament reassembles. But if pressure is needed it will be applied. That at least is certain. The Most Noble the Marquis of Clanricarde wants tenants from the North, in room of the evicted in the neighoourhool of Portumna. The advertisement to that effect actually appears in the Ulster Gazette, and is backed up by a leader — " Respectable and solvent tenants " are required. "No fine," the advertisement announces, with delicious irony, " will be demanded." " Fine," indeed, that is a little too good. The question is what premium is to be offered ? The reward on the dolgremy e3tate for accep'ing a derelict holding ranged as high as £400, the very least was £100 out of T. W. Russell's " derelict " fund. The tenants then secured were paupers and convicts, the very dregs of society, not forgetting the notorious emergency blackguard, Freemaa, who led the murderous raid in which poor Kinsella lost his life, and whom his own employer bound over to keep the peace a month before. If unfortunate Mr. Brooke had to pay £400 a piece for disreputable paupers for his evicted holdings in Goolgreany, what will the Marquis of Clanricarde have to pay for respectable and solvent tenants at Woodford and Portumna? It is a sum in compound proportion which we commend to the attention of the staff of dilapidated ragamuffins who keep the books and conduct the general business, legal an 1 othorwise, of the Marquis with such brilliant ability and distinguished success. The Cashel "suppressed" Branch of the National League at their last meeting furnished one more proof of the ludicrous impotence of Mr. Balfour's proclamations. The report contains ths following matter-of-fact paragraph—' 1 The casa of John Cororan, hotel-keeper, was again before the meeting, and his apology w»s read. The proposal that he be again admitted into the ranks with the rest of the country was unanimously adopted." Here is «n opportunity of testing Mr. Balfour's boasts thit reports of " suppressed " branch meetings ar-i bogus reports. Did Joun Co'coran, hotel-keeper, write an apology ? If so, what on earth induced him to Humiliate himself in deference to a branch which Mr. Balfour assures him has no exigence 1 And if coercion in Tipperary is tint the most comical of failures, as weil as the most loUhsoma of impotent tyrannies, why did not John Corcoran, hotel-keeper trust to Mr. Balfour, with all his biyonets and Removables, rather tlian throw himself on the mercy of a boiy wDich, he feus Mr. l^lfour's word for it, is a mere figmeut of imagination? We rather think that John Corcoran, hotel-keeper, was wise in his generation in attaching more importance to the weapons of public opinion weilded by the ''suppressed branch " than to Mr. Balfour'ri forty thousand bayouets, and we are glad that he found the Cashel Branch is merciful in its spirit of forgiveness as he had found it redoubtable in Us dealings with the people's eoemies. The Government's newest Plan of Campaign seems to be to fall back upon our old friend, the Bankrup'cy-Court. Mr. Balfour has given up in despair the pi in of prosecuting and torturing members of Parliament. To use the turn jus phrase of nis at the binquet in the Antiant Concert Rooms, that " injures the Government,' withsrfihearted British constituencies Accordingly the brave Mr. Balfmr and his brave uncle have hit upon a new method of getting rid of Mr. William O'Bnen. On Wednesday a clerk of Messrs Hayes and Son, solicitors, of Nassau-street, Dublin, invaded the railway carnage in which he and his wife were returning from Thurles with Mr. John Dillon, and served him with a Bankruptcy notice and a highwayman's demand for £1,600 costs of the Marquis of Salisbury in the action in which he got a verdict by swallowing his words and sneaking out of hi-> libels. The previous day Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Bnen bad made speeches to the Smith-Barry tenantry under tha opeu sky for which twelve months ago they would have been infallibly prosecuted and their hearers bludgeoned. It is no longer good policy to attract English attention io such things, and so the Tipperary speeches are allowed to pass uninterrupted, and the Marquis falls back upon a skulking proceeding in Bankruptcy, by way ot avenging his nephew's impotence as against the Smith-Barry combination, and no doubt also by way of entrapping Mr. O'Brien into prison for contempt or otherwise preventing him from proceeding upon bis approaching mihSion to America. What a brave and chivalrous Government it is, to be sure, and how much more likely uncle and nephew are to cover themselves with glory by their bankruptcy campaign against Mr. O'BrieH than by their encounters with him on other fields of fame ! Truly wonderful are the ways of Coercion. When John Dillon went the other day to iNew Tipperary he was met by a squadron of batonmeD, under the supreme command of Removable Cad, and was threatened that if a meeting was attempted to be held it would be dispersed with violence. What that threat meant we can form a pretty accurate notion from the savageries perpetrated on a previous occasion in the town. But Mr. Dillon had no intention or desire to huld a meeting. So Removable Cad and his bludgaonmen did not get the chance they were thirsting for of testing the toughness of their batons on the heads of the unarmed people. A few days later Mr. Dillon did address a great meeting at Thurles without the authorities even attempting to interfere. As he remarked to his audieice, it was the same men he addressed on the same prohibited topics — the same soil of glorious Tipperary was beneath their feet.

The meeting that would be dispersed with violence in New Tipperary is, it Beems, strictly constitutional at Thurles. Surely the assemblage did not become more legal or less objectionable in the eyes of the authorities because it was addressed by Mr. William O'Brien a« well as by Mr. John Dillon. What, then, is the meaning of this forbearance ? Both were guests of the courageous and patriotic Archbishop of Cashel, and to baton bis guests on tbe threshold rf the Episcopal palace was a performance in which the Ooercionists, who are at pretent engogad — to borrow the famous phrase of Bir George Errington— in intrigues to keep the Vatican in good humour, did not think it prudent to indulge. There being no attempt to suppress the meeting, there was, of coarse, no disturbance of any kind. For it iB a permanent Irish ball of tbe present administration that the peace is never broken except by the official " preservers of the peace." In another respect the meeting was most remarkable. It consisted lagrely of two great deputations of the Smith-Barry tenants evicted and defjing the •victor at Tipperary and Casbel respectively. Enthusiastic addresses of confidence aod esteem and affection were presented- to Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Dillon by tbe men whom the Coerciooist orators proclaim they have ruined— by the men who, the same oracles declare, bate and curse them in tntir hearts. How is it all managed ? The explanation is simplicity itself. It is all done by " intimidation." Tbe addresses are prepared by— intimidation ; the crowds are assembled by— intimidation ; tbey are made to laugh and cheer— all by intimidation. How they are intimidated and by whom tbe Coercionistg are not good enough to explain, unless, indeed, tbey intimidate themselves. There is the bald chat that Primrose Dames and 1.L.P.U., orators think good enough for English electors. The meeting was a splendid success. The ringing cheers with which the encouraging and approving speeches were received shows plainly that Tipperary means to fight this battle out to the bitter end. Not a very comforting assurance, we should say, for Mr. Smith-Barry and his abettors. Surely there never was witnessed a more comical scene than the great Colonel Bemovable Cad — the master of many legions— hopping about like a torn-tit in the streets of New Tipperary, to avoid the terrible truth-telling instantaneous photographing apparatus of Mr. P. O'BrUn, M.P. It was a regular case of " Don't fire Colonel ; I'll come down." Only it was tbe colonel that came down. "I will send you my photograph, sir, if you want it," said Colonel Cad. " Tbank you," responded Mr. P. O Brien, tapping his trusty kodac with exasperating politeness, " 1 have you here. If, however," he cootinued, in bis mo^t insinuating tone, " you would be kind enough to stand with your tongue out, and your thumb to your noee, in jour customary attitude addressing Catholic clergymen, I would be most bappy to take yon again." Colonel Cad did not continue the conversation ; but he commanded two tall and trust} sub-constablee to interpose between him and tbe deadly kodac during the rest of tbe day. It was a sight to make a dead man laueh to see him dodging the " infernal machine " behind this living rampart, and issuing his commands from ambush. Never was the Governor-General of a city placed in a more ignominious position. In connection with the proposed new " plantation " our Tory contemporaries have been favoured with a docununt of a rare and astonishing character. It purports to be a report of an " interview " with Mr. Tener, obtained by a correspondent in Armagh, but a perusal of the narrative must convince anyone that the thing has been supplied by Mr. Tener himself, and that the " interview " is a mere myth. Mr. 'lener seems to have gone down to induce some Ulster farmers to take up his evicted farms, but he has evidently found that it will require some extraordinary power of persuasion to do so. Hence he goes bald-beaded, so to speak, for the damsel called Truth. He teils the imaginary correspondent some marvellous things. What must the Ulster farmer think of hiß Connaught brother, if he believe the ingenuous Tener ? A man wno ia fool enough to pay two rents is a phenomenon ; yet this is what Lord Clanricarde's agent tries to make Ulstermen believe that many of tbe tenants about Portumna are doing. Although, be Hays, almost all the farmers about there have paid their money into the war-chtstof the Plan of Campaign. a large number have also paid the landlord. But Mr. Tener very judiciously abstains from giviog the names of those simple beings. The Plan of Campaign, he says further, has utterly broken down on the Portumna estate ; but how this is compatible with the ottier statement, that the farmers have all joined the plan, he does sot think it necessary to explain. Boycotting, again, he assures the Northern farmers, has utterly broken down, altbougn be in the next sentence Bays a large number, of persons were lately Bent to gaol for it, and the Catholic bishop and his administrator are constantly demouncing it, publicly and piivately. It is hardly necessary to tell the Northern farmers that Mr. Tener is simply trying to gull them. They are not the fools he seems to think them.