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the taste of people professing the doctrines or which
the Journal des Debats is the eBpedal organ, we can
easily conceive ; but we, in common With all kiveli
wishers to Spain, and agreeing with all Ow indepen-
dent organs of public opinioA in Prance, who have so
ably refuted on tlti Utcasion, and for the fiftieth time,
the misrepi'et'entations and mistaken views of the
Journal ties Debats relative to Spain, cannot express
too strong an approbation of every step that M. Men-
dizabal has taken since his arrival in Madrid, and we
have the best hope that the prosperity of Spain will be
thereby secured.— Times.

The Irish Government of Mr. O'Connell is placed
in a position, or rather has chosen t position for it,
self, such as the Governmnt of no civilized commu-
nity ever before occuli'.'ied. It is identified with the
purposes, and conipelled to sympathise with the bad
and destrintive passions, of a numerous class of its
sub?cts, who are engaged in systematic, persevering,
and inveterate opposition to the authority of the law,
and pledged to an hostility the most implacable and
;leadly against the rights of property, and the peace
and good order of society. The triumph of this law-
less band of conspirators is the triumph of Govern-
ment. Their defeat would be its discomfiture. Nay,
so monstrous is the anomaly presented in the Sister
Kingdom by the character and conduct of those
who ought to be the faithful guardians and zealous
protectors of the property and rights of all their
fellow-subjects, the just and impartial administrators
of the law of the land, that nothing could happen
which would be to them a deeper calamity, nothing
that would more effectually discredit and enfeeble
them, than that the habitual law-breakers, the con-
!-Aant invaders of other men's property, the frequent as=
sailants of the persons and the lives of the peaceful and
loyal subjects of the King, should abandon their vi-
cious courses, repent them of the outrages they have '
already committed against the peace and safety of the
community, and resolve to act for the future the part of
honest men, respectors of the laws, useful and valuable
members of society. The persons who compose or
who control the Government of Ireland know that for
the attainment of their purposes, and the maintenance
of such reputation as they enjoy among their own par-
tizans, nothing is so indispensable as that the war in
that country against the rights of property should con-
tinue to rage with unabated fury ; and it is quite evi- '
dent that they act under the full influence of this de-
grading and miserable conviction. Is it possible to
give any other rational explanation of the pains taken
by the organs of the Irish Government to intimate
to the enemies of property and of the law that Mi-
nisters are not so much the friends of either as to em-
ploy in its support that force which the Constitution
has placed in their hands for no other purpose ? We
some days ago inserted a letter from Lord Morpeth to
an Irish Clergyman, which was loudly praised by the
Castle press, and 'enich appeared to us to have no
other merit tliiran that of intimating pretty distinctly to
the Runn Catholic assailants of the property of the
Chn.:ch, that they have nothing to apprehend from the
teal and vigour of the executive Government in its de-
fence. But, lest this official proclamation of impunity
and reward to the enemies of the law, clothed, as it
must of necessity be, in decent ambiguity of phrase,
should not be quite intelligible to the capacity of the
ignorant and illiterate persons for whose encourage-
ment it was apparently intended, the unofficial organ
of the Government is set to work to expound the full
meaning of the Noble Secretary's letter. The Dublin
Evening Post accomplishes the task of explanation in
the following very complete and satisfactory manner :
" TITHES.—The provincial papers are crowded with no-
tices concerning tithes, and the tithe campaign which we
mentioned last week appears to have gommenced with great
vigour. We doubt, however, whether the belligerents will
be successful ; for we confess we do not think it at all likely
that the aid of the military will be granted, except on occa-
sions in which actual collisions have taken place, or the
parties are on the point of coming to blows. In other
words the tithe proctor or clergyman will not, as in the
case of Rathcormac, be accompanied by squadrons of
dragoons, or companies of infantry, to enforce the pay-
ment at the point of the sword. We do not pretend to
speak authoritatively ; but we are sure, if the intention of
Government be such as we imagine it, there is not a just man
in the country that will not applaud their determination."
The " belligerents" who are arrayed against property
and law, and on the side of Mr. O'Connell and Lord
Mulgrave, must be dull clods indeed if they need more
encouragement than this. These " belligerents,"
strengthened and animated by the cheering signals
which their high allies take care to display from time
to time, as occasion requires, are not disposed, how-
ever, to confine their warfare within such narrow limits
as the property of the Church. They very naturally
say, " If the tithe be a grievance, rent is another, and
a (Treater ; and the Government which encourages us
to make war upon the one cannot take it amiss that we
should extend our hostile operations a little towards
the other." We find accordingly that a rent agitation
has already commenced in Ireland, and that the Ro-
man Catholic Priests are, as in the case of the tithe
war, already at its head. The " belligerents," we
apprehend, will ere long be found more zealous and
active than some of their allies at Dublin Castle or
Whitehall would probably desire. The following pa-
ragraph which we find in the Globe of last night, bor-
rowed probably (though this does not appear) from
some Irish Ministerial paper, is instructive
" REDUCTION OF RENTS.—Maryborough, Friday.—
Within the last fortnight two meetings have been held in
the Queen's county, for the purpose of petitioning Parlia-
ment for a reduction of rent. At the first nothing deci-
sive was adopted. The second meeting took place on Sun-
day, in the chapel-yard of Killishen. There was a large
attendance. Mr. William Cooke, of Rasenna, presided.
The Reverend Mr. Hickey, Parish Priest, addressed the
meeting on the exhorbitant rents, and the tyranny practised
by many landlords, agents, and drivers. The Rev. Gen-
tleman contended that rack-rents were one of the principal
causes of the miserable and disturbed state of the country,
and that the farmer and labourer never could be happy
until land was set at a fair value. Mr. Connor proposed
that the land should be valued by a Jury of twelve honest
men, in order that the tenant should have an interest in
the soil he cultivates, and the means of supporting his fa-
mily. He announced that a county meeting wasin con-
templation, and he expressed his readiness to attend in the
different parishes, and address the people previous to the
general meeting. After the adoption of resolutions, the
Rev. Mr. Nolan was called to the Chair, and the meeting
quietly broke up.".-3/lonling Post.

Mr. O'Connell promises faitly to frighten the To-
ries out of the -litantetr..wits possess. The fear.
of him is constantly before 'their eyes—they think of
nothing else—they speak of nothing else—theY'write of
nothing else. Take up a Tory paper, and you are
sure to find O'Connell the beginning, the middle, and
the end of the " leader." 171 f, used to be called the
big "0" in derision lie is now the big "0" in the
estimation of the Tories, in sober seriousness.
Everythi;,g he now says and does is pregnant with im-
nor'tant consequences—is big with the fate of the
British empire. He is said to have had some hand in
getting a very deserving, but very humble, man,
the situation of Postmaster in a village containing a
few hundred souls, and at the princely salary of
fifteen pounds a year. Of course there is something
of frightful import in the bare fact itself. But the man,
it further appears, is a Roman Catholic. That is of
still more horrible augury. It is doubtless sympto-
matic of Popish plots—perchance, gunpowder treasons.
But the worst of' all yet remains behind—the new
Postmaster of Tetsworth is a collar-maker I It was not
for nothing that of all trades in the world a collar-
maker should have been selected for so important a
station. People may rely on it that this Postmaster
is a thorough-going disciple of Peter Dens, and that
there is a distinct understi;.-nding between O'Con-
nell- and him, that his handicraft may be turned to
some account by the manufacture of collars, or halters,
if you will—wherewith, when a fitting occasion ar-
rives, the necks of one and all of the High Church-
men of the neighbouringh University of Oxford may
be encircled, and their persons led forth to undergo
some species of martyrdom. Depend on it, that the
next Government situation worth 151. a year which
falls vacant in Tetsworth will be given, through O'Con-
nell's influence, to some.. carpenter, , because he
may be made useful in the • erection of scaffolds,
when the Popish plot for the martyrdom of the
Protestant clergy has become ripe for execution.
The fact that O'Connell's power is paramount in
the Government of this country no longer admits of
dispute. Were he not omnipotent—had he not an
entire control over the Councils of the King—is it