The attention of the nation continues to be intently fixed
on Ireland. In two instances in Tipperary' the peace had been broken, and fears were excited for the consequences which might ensue from the continued assemblies of the Catholics. To put these down—and generally, all meetings of "persons both on foot and on horseback, coming together from various and distant parts and places, acting in concert and under the command of leaders, and assuming the appearance of military array and discipline "—the Lord Lieutenant, on the 1st current, issued a proclamation, prohibiting such assemblies, and calling upon the Magistrates to prevent their being held, and to aid in suppressing them. The Catholic Association had previously circulated an address forbidding the meetings, and it seems to have been implicitly obeyed. The mission of Mr. Lawless, too, for the ptsrpose of stirring up the Catholic population in the North, has been countermanded by the Association ; and thus, so far as their influence goes, every means has been taken to preserve the peace.
On the part of the Orange, or Brunswick Clubs, there is no lack of irritating language, and of a disposition to take the management of the Catholics out of the hands of the Government. At a meeting for the establishment of a Club in Tyrone, held at Omagh, the Reverend Mr. Horner, a Protestant clergyman, • denounced conciliation and concession as a truckling and unworthy policy ; and, in no very measured or clerical phrase, anticipated an appeal to the sword.
" If the emissaries of sedition should come, preaching their pestilential doctrines, suffer them not to dwell among you, let them riot find rest for their foot in the district of Tyrone, and thus let them run the gauntlet through Ulster. And if rebellion should raise its armed head, theii, gen . tlemen, on to the victory ! On for your God and for your King ! and teach your enemies, that if your swords have slumbered in the scabbard, they have not rusted there ; and if your arms have been devoted to the peaceful pursuits of civil life, they have lost nothing of the energy, the nerve, the prowess, which signalized the days of Derry, Aughrim, and the Boyne !"
These sentiments, uttered by a Minister of the Gospel of Peace, the men of Tyrone cheered.
The military force of Ireland is increased, or, at least, more troops are stationed within reach. The Catholics, either from policy or from a real feeling of greater security, speak of the soldiers as their protectors.
• The young Queen of Portugal is expected in London on Monday or Tuesday; and is to be lodged, as the Russian and Prussian Sovereigns were some years ago, at Grillon's Hotel, which is engaged for the occasion by our Government. At Falmouth, Truro, Exeter, and Bath, this daughter of Braganza, though only ten years old, has been received with all royal honours, and imitated all royal functions. She has received the homage of the Portu°mese refugees, and the compliments of the English authorities— has held levees, listened to addresses, and answered them—all, of course, in the most queenly and witching way. We sink the details and sentimentalities of the subject, which the moralizing historians of the daily press have carried to the extreme limits of the ridiculous.
