IRELIND.
The Dublin correspondents of the morning papers describe, almost in similar terms, the sensation which Sir Robert Peel's speech of Monday last has created. The Times correspondent is a fair sample of all- " It came like a thunder-clap upon all parties; the interest connected even with the Indian intelligence becoming Tine a secondary consideration as com- pared with the startling propositions which Sir Robert Peel suggests for the final upsetting of the Irish difficulty.' The organ of Repeal (the Freeman's Journal) is in a state of perfect bewilderment, blowing hot and cold, and seeming not to know whether to praise or censure the at least comprehensive plain of the right honourable Baronet. The Evening Mail for once praises Sir Robert for his can- dour and sincerity in this open bid for place and popularity; and regards the con- cluding portion of his oration, wherein he quotes the ' felon ' poetry of 1798, as a certain omen of the dispersal of another 'cloud in the West' by the concession of some startling principle, in order the more effectually to conciliate the Moloch of Irish agitation. The Cork Examiner, one of the most respectable of the pro- vincial Repeal journals, is in ecstasies with the Peel panacea."
The Daily News writer observes that the only thing sudden about the plan is the mode of its proposition to the House of Commons: the idea wait familiar to the Conservative lawyers in Ireland.
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