text:  At present the attempts to explain to reconcile and as it were to construe the Government system of policy is first almost neglecting the Irish sedition and then (after half-a-year's sedentary and distant skirmishing by means of Chancery letters) suddenly on the 7th day of October leaping into the arena armed cap-a-pie dividing themselves like a bomb-shell amongst the conspirators rending--shattering--pursuing to the right and to the left;--all attempts we say to harmonize that past quiescence (almost _ac_quiescence) with this present demoniac energy have seemed to the public either false or feeble or in some way insufficient