the month of July; and of these 79 were in the province of Ulster-a fact by which they are at once identified with the Orange processions. But, on the other hand, there are only 17 reported for the month of July in the present year for the whole of Ireland; and when we observe that there had been 19 in the preceding month, which is not a season of Orange disturbance, it is evident that but few even of those 17 can have been of that description. In some parts of the North the excitement caused by the elections has brought forth some Orange disturbance of more noise than effect; but vigorous exertions have nearly restored peace. It was but the after-clap of the storm; and as the horizon clears, we can discover nothing to prevent us from feeling, that at length the Government has mastered the Orange party. In conclusion, we have only space for one word, as to the success which has attended the enforcement of an act introduced by the present Government, in the session of 1836, for the prevention of drinking at late hours. This act, which allows the magistrates to enter and clear all booths, when ample time has been allowed for purposes of refreshment, has been firmly and diligently enforced-often, as might be expected, against considerable opposition on the part of a peasantry, long accustomed to bad habits, and stimulated by publicans or others, whose pecuniary interests are injured by the new regulation. The temptation, however, to excessive drinking at fairs and on other public occasions, which had long proved an incentive to the commission of outrage, has been withdrawn to a considerable extent, through the active intervention of the stipendiary magistrates; and, generally speaking, the people now return quietly to their homes when business is at an end. We venture to say that no Tory Government could have enforced this act! This, however, is but one of the many minor instances by which the diligence of the executive, and the peculiar vigour derived from its popularity, might be still farther illustrated. Sufficient proof, however, has been adduced to satisfy any reasonable man as to the happy change now taking place in Ireland;-a change, be it observed, in those disorderly habits arising from political causes, which, as we have seen, chiefly distinguish the moral character of the Irish from that of the English, and which, above all, have this disastrous effect, that they too often lead to the commission of other outrages, and impoverish the country by alarming the capitalist. Our proofs of this change, too, are drawn from sources, over which party ingenuity can throw no discredit. A political Assistant Barrister cannot here say that his business has only decreased, because the Judge of Assize draws it to the superior court; or a political Judge of Assize explain away the lightness of the calendar, on the ground that many prosecutions are now instituted at the sessions; each, as it were, looking with a jealous eye at the share which falls to his neighbour's lot! Neither can it be alleged, with a view to explain away the glaring inconsistency, that the calendar is only light in each court, because parties are unwilling to prosecute! Ours is a net which takes in every outrage committed, whether the offender be prosecuted or not. We estimate the quantity of game by the number taken in the field, not by the number served to the table. Here then there can be no mistake. But in addition to this, the truth is, that, with the solitary exception of one judge, who mourned over the lightness of the calendar at a Maiden assizes, we have the testimony of all the judges in favour of the improvement-a testimony valuable, as offered by shrewd men, who know just as well as others what is passing around them-who see, just as well as others, the effect of their admission as giving credit to a government which they dislike, and who do not want for the disposition to explain away the calendar, were it in their power to do so by illustrations drawn from their general sources of information. And yet these are the men who, at the last two assizes, invariably congratulated the grand juries on the marked improvement in the general state of their counties! Nor can we overlook the proof afforded by the general election-when Ireland declared, with a voice almost unanimous, its entire approval of the object attained and the means employed. 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