IRELAND.

It was understood in Dublin that Earl Fortescue would take his departure for England on Thursday. Earl De Grey is not expected to arrive until the end of the month.

A meeting of the parishioners of Mungret, in the county of Limerick, sent a complimentary address last week to Lord Morpeth. He has replied in suitable terms.

Mr. O'Connell reappeared at the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday. Among a variety of subjects in his main speech, the new Cabinet, and the course to be pursued by the Association under the altered circumstances of the time, were the most prominent.

He never felt so much anxiety in his life ; and he was anxious to know whether Ireland was worthy of the situation in which she was placed : was Ireland fit for liberty ? would the people shrink from that position which they should now assume in opposition to their inveterate ene- mies ?-

The party that was coming in promised nothing but the renewal of every bygone fend and former oppression. They were to court the faction who ever

oppressed the people of this country. Be did not accuse that party of making declarations to this effect : on the other hand, they had some lip-pledges, but he valued them not. Ile looked to the men who were to govern ; and he could safely judge of the modes they would adopt. The first on the list of the new Administration was Lord Lyndhurst—the man who called the Irish aliens in blood, aliens in religion, and aliens in language. He should either act up to his former declarations, or be the most contemptible man in the House of Lords. The next was Lord Stanley : what favour could the people of Ireland expect from the man who introduced the foul Coercion Bill ? who prevented a fair Reform Bill being given to them, and afterwards introduced his abominable Registry Bill? Next came the Duke of Wellington—the man who passed the Emancipation Bill because he thought it would serve Protestantism, and who regretted he was born in Ireland. Then there was the Duke of Buckingham,

who opposed every single clause of the Catholic Emancipation Act. Sir Robert Peel—he would leave Ulm there—the people of Ireland knew him well. Then

there was Sir James Graham, one of the most bigoted men and fiercest enemy to Catholicity an Ireland in the House. Goulburn was next—a man who left the Administration of Peel and Wellington rather than give his assent to the Emancipation Bill. Next came Sir Edward Knatehbull, a decided enemy to Catholicity and Ireland. Here were eight of the Cabinet ; and who would be deluded with the assertion that they would act with justice to the Irish people ?

He condemned the new Irish Administration, but not without qualify- ing his censure- " Whom are we to have in this country as Lord-Lieutenant ? Why, Lord De Grey ; and I End people disposed to praise him very much ; but I will tell

you what LorteDe Grey is : he is an arrant Tory, and his mind is so com-

pletely given np to Toryism that he really don't think he is doing any thing wrong when he professes to be a Tory. Ile has no conception of what injury a Tory Government would be to this country. To be sure, he has connexions

belonging to that party in Ireland, for he is brother-in-law to the Earl of En- niskillen—a very respectable connexion, no doubt : but, I ask, is it the brother-

in-law of the Grand Master of the Orangemen of Fermanagh that they should

send over to U3 as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. This is the boon and favour, this is the mildness and impartiality, that we are to get from this new Adminis-

tration. I do not know whether he is connected with Mr. Nixon, the late High Sheriff of Fermanagh. Some persons told me that he was within his connexion ; but I don't say it from myself, because I don't know it : but thii is

certain, that the men by whom he will be surrounded will be those who always have been most open in the profession of Orange principles. What can we expect from his administration when he it surrounded by such men ? The next is Lord Elliot, who is to be the new Chief Secretary for Ireland; and I am disposed to speak well of him, for I think if he were free from the temptation of the Orange party he would be an excellent man. He is a man of mild man- ners and great courtesy, and as well-disposed as any man of his party can be. But he has no strength of mind ; and the consequences are to be dreaded, when we know he will be surrounded at the Castle by the old clique, whose ob- ject it will be to misinform him and lead him astray. No man is so hard to deal with as an honest man under bad influence. If he be a knave himself,

he is not so likely to be misled ; but when an honest man is led astray, he will stick to his purpose with the utmost tenacity. Therefore, let Lord Eliot be

surrounded with bad advisers, and he is the man for bad advisers to play their game with. Who is the next ?—Blackburne ! he is to be Attorney-General. I will say one thing of him, and that is, that they could easily get as bad and they would have little difficulty in getting better. The next on the list is Sergeant Jackson, and he is to be Solicitor-General. Now as he attacked rue personally in my presence, I will not attack him personally behind his back : but I will describe him to you a little, and I will describe him in a manner that he himself will not attempt to contradict it. I ask you, has he not been the most decided enemy of the system of liberal education in Ireland ? was he the Secretary of that body that was opposed to all the Catholic Prelates on the system of education for Ireland ? He has been supporting Colquhoun in the House of Commons; and that is all I shall now say of him. I don't with to speak my sentiments fully of him, but will say this—God forbid I should ever live to see him a Judge! Then there is Ned Litton for you, whom they are to make a Sergeant. `that kind of a fellow he is may be easily inferred from the words and actions of bis political life. Look at the speech he made on Colquhotues motion. He followed me, and I watched him closely. He dared to say that the College of Maynooth was a fit place for the encouragement of perjury ; for to this the saying that the system there pursued was calculated to do away with the sanctity of an oath is tantamount."

Mr. O'Connell laid down the course which the Association should pursue-

" Our mode of action will be by petition ; and thus we shall be enabled to keep compactly within all law. I mean to conclude my present address by moving that a committee of this Association be formed for the purpose of draw- ing up a petition for a Repeal of the Union. Our first petition must be for RepeaL On this day week I will'enter fully on the subject. We will next peti- tion for an amendment of the Corporation Reform Bill. Our next petition will be for an extension of the franchise in each of its branches; and we will next petition for the enlargement of our representation. We will also petition, or rather, we will send many petitions, for the abolition of the tithe rent-charge, In short, every week that we meet here we shall meet for the purpose of peti- tioning. Every one of these petitions shall be presented to the House of Commons, and as they will at all events be printed, we shall have at least the consolation of knowing that they will go throughout the world, and that all the nations of the earth will know that England, from its iniquities towards us, is not in a safe or a prudent condition as long as she leaves those iniquities unredressed. We will continue to petition against them week after week; we will not let a single week pass without petitioning. Our course is by petition- ing, and we will continue in it. But to make the Repeal successful, I must have five millions of Repealers enrolled in the Association."

Mr. O'Connell announced at this meeting that he had written to the Speaker on Saturday, making his selection of Cork as the place which he should represent; and he recommended Mr. Corbally to the electors of Meath.

Under the head of " More Money from America," the Dublin Pilot says—" A gentleman in town has received a letter from a correspond- ent in New York, in which he is informed that another remittance of one thousand dollars is to be forwarded to the Repeal Association on the 10th September. That day has, he says, been chosen because it is the anniversary of an American victory over England!"

The composition of the new Ministry has nowhere created so much, dissatisfaction as in Ireland. The Liberals of course object, as Mr. O'Connell did, to the fact of its consisting of Tories ; but the extreme Tories themselves are the most annoyed. The appointment of Lord Eliot especially has caused much mistrust to that party : the Dublin, Evening Mail says that he is " cold," " austere," and " crotchety "; and- a subscriber to the same pap& is shocked at his having had an interview with Lord Normanby. The Standard explains that circumstance, by saying that the Irish Secretary has frequently much routine business with the Home Office, and that the interview in question was a matter of course and of necessity.

The correspondence between the Irish Government and Mr. Nixon, the late High Sheriff of Fermanagh, has been published. It is curious. The first letter from Lord Morpeth to Mr. Nixon is dated August 10th-

" Sir—I am directed by the Lord-Lieutenant to acquaint you, that a state- ment having appeared in the public papers that the return of Members of Par- liament for the county of Fermanagh, signed and sealed by you as High Sheriff of that county, bore the impression of a seal purporting to be yours, on which was inscribed ' the Pope in the pillory,' with various devices highly insulting to the Roman Catholic religion, his Excellency has thought it right to inquire into the matter ; and having ascertained the truth of the above statement, he cannot hesitate to declare, that a person presuming so to outrage the religion of. the great mass of his countrymen, is unfit to hold the high and honourable office which has been intrusted to you. Before, however, his Excellency pro. ceeds to give any directions on the subject, he desires to know whethej you wish to offer any explanation of your conduct in this case."

Mr. Nixon's reply-

" My Lord—Yesterday I received your Lordship's letter dated the 10th instant, and take the earliest opportunity of informing your Lordship, that even allowing the matters contained in that letter to be correctly stated, I deem them utterly unworthy of explanation. I shall feel deeply obliged to his Excellency if he confer on me the favour of relieving me from the onerous. duties attendant on the office of High Sheriff of Fermanagh."

Lord Fortescne's private secretary rejoins- " Sir—I am directed by the Cord-Lieutenant to inform you, that your letter of the 14th instant, which has been duly laid before him, only confirms hie opinion of your unfitness for the office of High Sheriff which you now hold; and consequently that he feels it his duty without delay to remove you from. that office. '

This last letter is dated August 17th : on the 30th Mr. Nixon writes to the editor of the Fermanagh Reporter- " Sir—I enclose you the correspondence between the Government and myself; and beg leave distinctly to state, for the satisfaction of the public, that neither before nor since the return have I seen the seal in question. and that I was not aware of the impression complained of until I received: Lord Morpeth's letter. Had that letter been such as gentlemen are accus- tomed to receive, I should have felt it my duty to have given in reply the amplest explanation. I can confidently affirm that I have ever lived in peace and amity with my countrymen of every persuasion."

It is now intimated that Mr. Nixon is a person incapable of commit- ting the indecent absurdity alleged against him, and that some under- strapper must have affixed the seal to the return.

The Dublin Evening Mail quotes a paragraph from the Hue and Cry, describing Francis Duffey, the Superior of Mountbellew Monastery,. who had absconded with property to a large amount belonging to the monks.

In a sailor-boy, lounging about Dublin, the Police have detected a young girl seventeen years of age. The ill-usage of a stepmother, and the recent stories in the papers about sailor-girls had induced her to fly from Limerick, where her father lives, and to try her fortune on board ship. She .was seeking an engagement, when she was arrested and taken to Henry Street Police-office. Several gentlemen present con- tributed towards the expense of sending her home ; and a Police In- spector offered her shelter in his house until she should set out on her return.