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In Dublin the frivolous and vexatious trickery of the lawyers

on the Rebel side continues to obstruct the forms of tustice ; and the State prisoners, with one added to their number, still mock the law. Other information which we receive in private con- veys dismal impressions respecting the real state of constituted. authority in the Country. Lord Clarendon has evidently received no adequate backing from London. Ministers have not even yet begun to deal with Ireland, in Mr. Carlyle's sense, either as it re- spects "governing" or the _" regimenting of spade-work."

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