POSTSCRIPT TO THE WEEK'S NEWS.
SPECTATOR OFFICE, SATURDAY.
In consequence of the frequent assemblages at the Corn Exchange in Dublin, there have been several meetings of the Privy Council at the Castle, to take into consideration the propriety of the Lord Lieute- nant exercising the power of putting down such assemblages, vested in him by the act for the suppression of the Association. The state of the South of Ireland is said, in letters from Dublin of Thursday, to be far from satisfactory. The country people and the police come into collision daily, and bloodshed invariably follows. On Monday last, a farm-house near Clonoulty was attacked by thirty men with blackened faces, who burned a cottage and several out-houses, shot two cows and four horses, and houglied several sheep. The latest accounts from Cork are of Wednesday morning. At that time, Sir Augustus Warren had arrived, and each party had polled about twenty votes. A strong effort will, it is said, be made to prevent Waterford from again becoming a close borough. A meeting for this purpose was to be held in Dublin on Thursday last. We have no Foreign arrivals, with the exception of a Dutch mail,
containing accounts of advantages in Java, quite uninteresting here.
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