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with smite unCrtnoate clauses which rendered them unpa-
latahlo. He advemi to the Colleges Act, and though he
was the then.' of mixed education, he censured the Govern-
ment foe not paying more attention to the remonstrances of
*hie Cath,..nic Pr-'itte=, who were unanimous in condemning
the m-.!a10r... At some further observations of a strong
char ewer, Nlr. O'Brien resumed his eat, loudly arplauded.
r, O'Croxxi.mt, having eulogize.' Mr. O'Brien's speech

'Aid that the manner in which the Executive here had
treated the Committee appointed to watch over the progress
of the potato rot bad compelled them to address the Prime
Sinister on the :object, and would throw on him the entire
respouAbility. The Irish people, it appeared, were asking
1,17 bread, and they received but a stone. Ile (Mr. O'Con-
nell) feared that some outbreak would be the result of the
prets-ut scarcity, but Ise warned the people against resorting
to violence. The lion. Gentleman thin, iu an excellent

speech, which the lab ness of the hour precludes the possi-
Odity ..f presenting, drew a comparison between the condi-
tion of the frill in, 1782, as related by Arthur Young, and
their present situation, as noticed in Lord Devon's landlord
and. tenant commission report, and contended that their des..
titr;tion 'l7.'as, the result of the union.
Mr. Joiri O'CoNNELL, is rtference to the expression of
M. O'Brien, relative to the Collega repeated his argu-
mmts against that measure, and pronounced it dangerous to
he f,:tilt and morals of the Catholic people of Ireland. Noi
witkAan.ling 31r. 011rien's assertions about mixed ethica.
tiyn, he e:.iltnined of the same opinion regarding the godles
4.&14.

2:e scitemc.

Mr. ;=. O'bittEs con,itlered that he had studiously avoided
giving atter:ince to any sentiments which he thought might
-prnre. displelsing• 0 the. Hon. Member for Kilkenny.
O'CONNiA,L referred to the acceptance of a President-
ship in one of the new colleps by the Very Rev. Dr. Kirwan.
'Ant reverend gentleman was his friend, and he could scarcely
believe he would have countepapced a scheme which li
been nanimously conlemed by the Roman Catholic It:erar-
chy. GO:l help the poo, le, but I trust the thoue,•ii will not
crusi their minas, that the clergy will to accessible to
bribery. Had ray num told the Dr. Kirwan would
have accepted a situation under tin Colleges Act, I would as
toes believe that a e:roam could be turned up the side of a
mountain. - •

After a vtut variety c,f routine ba,4!-es-.4 n•as transacted, the
rent for t weel-: was announced to be 30C1. 17s. Gd., and the

111 QC titig tiien s:paratekl

THE POTATO DISEASI,

The accounts received this morning from the provinces are
much to the same effect as the preceding one. The Evening
AlLid of this evening says, in general terms, the writer's im-
pre-eion :—" 1. ThAt the crop remaining sound is even yet
equal to a:, average one. 2. That if it can be saved, it wiil
prow aboodant flir every usual purpose. 3. That a great
part of it, if not the whole, may be saved by judicious ma-
nagement. 4. That dryness. i. e. ev.ip:ration by ventilation
or otherwise, affords the best means of preservation ; and we
add, that nu.: von,ilating pit devised by Dr. Halpin seems the
means most cpplicabls.i on an extensive scale to this process."
since our lest the wiseacre commissioners have issuel two
reports, neithel of which has added to their reputation as
practical men, or the instruction of the country in the prac-
eical means of arresting the malady. If either we or our
residers had time or inclination to amuse ourselves with a
critical examination of their labours, scientific or literary,
• 'we might have a rich fund of entertainment for a winter's
etening,-. Such grammar and logic as pervades the following
:passage-form the staple of those reports, and exhibit prima
facie evidence of the fitness of the inditer to become a public
• instructor;

"We have ascertained (says the report) that autumn
Planting has already been practised throughout Fingal, for
the earir supply of the Dublin market, and that althourh
the practice has been nearly discontinued, that has not hap-
?sued fjr any reason that affects the preseut question.
either de we learn that the early period at which the leaves
tippear above the ground in spring is attended with any
greater risk than what attends precarious crops like the
potato in any season."
Autumn planting we find has been already practised
throughout Fingal ; and we commend it as a useful and pre-
cautionary practice; but before the sentence concludes, oar
hopes are dashed with the information, that the practice has
been re ray discontinued, for no reason that affects the pre-
fent qtrestiont that is to say, it has without rhyme or reason
been discontinued as soon as it began. But this is obviously
not tb reportet'smeaning, and if in the first clause we would
read Minerly instead of already, we should come to something
more like sense than as it stands at present, 1401', as that
Anse. is... We insist, however, dismiss this topic for matter
more drgerft, 'and introduce our readers to such valuable
itrforirfation- as we have selected for their use from our local
correspondence.