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Show IIICL.MD IU.-COKED. The Jllni.lry aald to bo Mow In I Corulne; to Ilcllef. , IjOSUOS, Sept. 23. The Cabinet was to have met early in October for tbepurposo or taking into consideration con-sideration the cor iition or Ireland, Uie influence or public opinion In (condemnation or Uie carelessness of Uie government In the face of tho reports or widespread distress being frit to be too strong to be Ignored. The least excuse, however, serves to 51 vo Uie ministry a warrant to go on olng nothing but maliciously pp-prcslng pp-prcslng Uie Irish people an I their leaders; and the report of Ms. Jackson, Uie financial secretary of the treasury, has been received by Lord Salisbury as a sufficient rca- yn for continued Inaction, and has caused him to postpone convening the ministers. They will probably not meet now until just before the reassembling of Parliament in the latter part of November. 4 Jackson's retort limits the area of the potato blight to the western dutrict of Ulster and Concaugbt, and Uiu southwestern part or Mun-ster, Mun-ster, while, according to his statement, state-ment, fair crops aud general pros Iwrlty prevail elsewhere Uiroughout re laud. It is scarcely necessary to tell you that such a report as this Is nut generally credited, although it Is received In Government clrtlts as just Uie sort that Is useful at tills Juncture. It is the policy of UieconservaUvcs to minimize the reports of distress in reland as much as possible, and thus the estimates of the Tory news iars aro so xit as to show Uiat the tiotato Ulght does not atlect more thau one-tw entietii part of the poj.ul-lation poj.ul-lation of Uie distressed districts, the relief of whom, it Is asserted, Is already within the scope of Uie local boards. Thu Parnellitcs are busy preparing au organized system of relief, which Is ixjiected to be In full working order Uforo the terrible results of thu Uireatened famine reach their culmination. They are waiting, however, for some clear indication or what projects the Government has In liaud, aud ho) for a meeting meet-ing aud some humane actiou by Uie ministry. |