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eign language, or the total absence of any
share in the control of the Government Z

share in the control of the Government
There has been a lull this week in the
proceedings against the Fenlans, but ar
rests have continued, and so has the panic
among the landlords. 1t is said that the
whole British army would not suffice to
meet the demands for protection forward
ed to the Castle, that houses are barrica-
ded as if for a siege, and that one peer
has mounted cannon upon his battIements,
and keeps a body of marines in the house
in readiness to work them. The most
absurd reports are circulated as to the
movements Of men-ofwar, which are by
the way odd, and altogether Munster
seems to be enduring the cOnjOined social
disadvantages Of an insurrectlon and a
state of siege. Much of this is a;tributa-
BILE to panic, but there Is a residuum
which can only be explained by believing
that the men who know the country best
are most alarmed by Fenianism.
Napoleon and Count Won Bismark met
at Biarritz this week. According to one
account the interview was not very salts
factory, and the Prussian Minister was
rather neglected during his stay, bat the
semi-oficiaL Provincial Correspondent al
leges that His Maiesty's observations
were guarantees for the unaItered con-
tinuance of the friendly relations between
France and Prussia and that "mainly
owing to this a settlement of the Duchies
would be brought about without Euro
pean complications" Fhe presumption
is therefore that the annexation of the
Duchies has received the consent of
France, and it certainly will not be oppo-
sed by the Prussian Parliament. On the
28th inst, Herr Twesten, Liberal Of Lii
berals. refused to join in a protest prepar-
ing at Frankfort, on the distinct ground
that while admitting every argument
against annexation, he would not aid a
movement (which had for it's end the pre-
paration of a defeat for Prussia. Herr
Won Bismark's path therefore seems q
smooth one.
Archbishop Cullen thinks that the OBJ
ject Of the cattle plague is to punish the
modern seattle worship" We are so
devoted to horses, sporting dogs, and
other animals, that more than any previ-
Gus generation we forget men, and so the
cattle plague is sent to break our idols.
He adds that s'the RIGHTEOUSNESS and cor
ruptness of the press is even worst than
the seattle worship he SO bitterly de-
nounces, and he believes the cholera may
be intended 10 take down that pride of
human knowledge which finds it's express
sion in literary scep,icism and Dublin pro-
fessors who disbelieve in eternal punish
ments. The cattle plague, then, is 10
punish our idolaters, and the cholera to
destroy our sceptics. The theory would
be a very pretty one if sporting men were
passionately devoted to cows, or literary
men were specially liable to cholera.
But the ravages among Miss Burdett
Coutts's cows will scarcely, we fear, take
away the desire of Newmarket's eyes at a
stroke, and the possible cholera cases in
the slums of London are scarcely likely
to purge the eyes of a s'licentious" press.
Archbishop Cullen is as rash as the man
who got up an article on Chinese meta
physics by looking for China under the
the letter &C." and metaphysics under
the letter "M," and combining his
information. Nay, the Archbishop
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