POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Grave events give place in the news of the morning to gossip about all sorts of things.
Looking to Ireland, we find rumours of future doings by the Re.- pealers, but of a peaceful character : they will, "greatly daring, dine" at various places,—in Dublin Music Hall, on the 19th instant, divers Peers and Mr. Thomas Duncombe being expected to grace the board ; at Kells, in Meath, some early day, if Mr. O'Connell accept an invita- tion; certainly at Limerick, after the Dublin banquet. This is a very safe and pleasant way of agitating.
Earl Fortescue, once the denouncer of Repeal, is said to have come forward as one of the exalters. The Waterford Chronicle states, that Somerville, the residence of the Ex- Viceroy, was illuminated on last Friday night ; " and," exclaims the Chronicle, "will it be believed, the noble Lard himself lit a large bonfire." The story looks apocryphal. The Marquis of Westmeath is engaged in an unseemly squabble with the Reverend Mr. Coghlan, a priest of Collinstown. One of the Mar- quis's tenants, who seems to partake his Lord's intolerant spirit, has set about building a house across the entrance to a chapel at Fore ; and the priest applied to the landlord to prevent that obstruction. Lord Westmeath replies by refusing, or, as he puts it, resisting "an aggression on his property " ; with sneers at "the people," at Mr. O'Connell as "a turbulent and unprincipled demagogue," and at "intriguing priests," to whom he "will offer no courtesy "; and he refers the complainer to "the law." Mr. Coghlan, with a style of retort not the best suited to his cloth, accepts the challenge ; and threatens, if the law fail of redress, to appeal to the Lord-Lieutenant. How unfortunate are these bicker- ings at such a time? Heaven defend the Premier from "his friends "!
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