86 Notes of the Month on [July, 



Theli-ish in Ireland are by no means so much enchanted with the reform 

 as the Irish in the province of St. Giles's. The latter eminent patriots 

 have decided, that Reform must be the very thing wanted for England, 

 and the sojourners therein ; inasmuch as it will gain them mahog-any 

 hods, satin-wood spades, superfine " Saxony" pantaloons, and a guinea 

 a day to every independent and true Emeralder (for such is their 

 favourite appellation) ; here, there, and everywhere. But the Irish in 

 the mothei'-land having discovered that, in spite of that " glorious, 

 blessed, healing, feeding, and paying" measure of Catholic Emancipa- 

 tion, they have got nothing yet but the martial law proclaimed against 

 the South, a famine in the West, emigration in the North, and my Lord 

 Anglesey in Dublin, begin to doubt the benefits of the glorious measure, 

 and are actually daring to growl. The Marquis having on his first 

 excursion exhausted all his faculties for catching the popular soul, hav- 

 ing rode to Donnybrook Fair, having rode through the streets, having 

 rode through his own stables, and having rode down to Athlone, beating 

 the mail, can do no more ; and is not less astonished than angry with 

 " his beloved people" for having expected anything more from him. 

 Yet all this will not, it seems, satisfy the insatiate appetite of the people 

 for excitement ; and a new lord lieutenant is rumoured, and a new 

 commander-in-chief is on the wing. The former appointment is only 

 postponed until Count IMunster, or the Earl of that name, submits his 

 merits to Daniel O'Connel, Esq., and has the good fortune to be ap- 

 proved of by this great authority on Irish affairs. In the meantime, a 

 report having gone abroad that the Irish cabinet was lazily letting 

 things go on in the old way, we are happy to refute so injurious an 

 imputation by the following evidence of activity : — 



" Attention of the Marquis of Anglesey's Government to the Wishes of the 

 People. — ' A straw thrown up, will shew which way the wind blows;' and in 

 like manner can the feelings of the government towards the people be often 

 ascertained by its conduct towards them in matters of little moment, as 

 regards the nation at large. We are led to make these observations on account 

 of the dismissal of the post-master of Kilmacthomas, who had made himself 

 most odious to the townspeople by his ostentatious display of Orangeism. So 

 convhiced are the people of Kilmacthomas of the Marquis of Anglesey's wish 

 to gratify them, that they have already set down Mary Hearn as the successor 

 to the late protege of the Beresfords. Should our readers wish to know who 

 Mary Hearn is, we will inform them by saying, she is the little Lady Morgan 

 of the town of Kilmacthomas, and, like her great prototype, the sworn foe of 

 abuses in church and state ; or, in other words, a female reformer." 



So sayeth the Waterford Chronicle ; and we hope that every friend to 

 good government, and the brains of Irish viceroys, w ill duly appreciate 

 the salutary rigour of t irning out the refractory postmaster of a portion 

 of his IMajesty's Heges, so important as the population of Kilmac 

 Thomas ; and that they will not less appreciate the firmness of purpose, 

 dignity of choice, and impartial determination, which placed Slary 

 Hearn, or any body else, in the room of the recreant receiver of letters. 

 Indeed what punishment could be too much for an individual who, it 

 appears, not thinking with the IMai'quis's government, had the atrocity, 

 in a time of liberal opinions, to express an opinion of his own; and 

 worse, to hold an office of the value of twenty pounds a-year sterling 

 money, and put the emoluments thereof in his pocket, while he, con- 



