IRELAND.
After all, the Irish Government have perpetrated the job of filling up the vacancies caused by the death of Mr. Pollock, without waiting for the promised bill of Sir James Graham. The last of the batch of Clerk- ships of the Crown was conferred on Saturday upon a Mr. Jameson, son of the Rector of Carlow.—Morning Chronicle.
The Repealers held their weekly meeting at Conciliation Hall on Mon- day; Mr. Daniel O'Connell junior in the chair.
Mr. Smith O'Brien's imprisonment was brought under notice, in an ani- mated speech, by Mr. Meagher of Waterford. Mr. O'Dowd, barrister, regretted that he must take one or two exceptions to the glowing sentiments uttered by his young friend who immediately preceded him; but in the absence of their great leader, Mr. O'Connell, it was necessary for them to be very cautious. He did not deny that Mr. O'Brien was universally respected in Ireland; nay, he was sure Mr. O'Brien now enjoyed more sympathy and happiness in his prison than the tyrant who placed him there. Mr. Clements rose to order. He thought such language very objectionable.
Mr. O'Dowd—" Oh, of course I do not allude to the House of Commons." (Laughter.) Mr. O'Dowd talked on for some time; the purport of his speech seeming to be, to maintain the ascendancy of Mr. O'Connell, and to check even the smallest semblance of treason to the supremacy of the Liberator.
, The rent for the week was 1541.
Addresses to Mr. Smith O'Brien were voted at Limerick on Saturday, by a City and County meeting, by the inhabitants of Richmond Ward, and by the congregated Trades. The City and County address will be pre- sented by a deputation.
The '82 Club have also voted an address to Mr. O'Brien; though not with perfect unanimity.
Yesterday, a farmer brought us a sample of new potatoes grown in his haggard near Limerick from diseased seed. The potatoes are perfectly sound and clean, without any trace of the original blight; and what he thus tried as an experiment Ms most agreeably undeceived him.— Limerick Chrosicle.
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