Mr. O'Connell, on Tuesday, delivered a long speech to the
Precursors in reference to the proceedings at the Tullarnore meeting. He in- veighed in bitter terms against Lord Oxmantown's attack upon the Catholic peasantry and priests, and ridiculed the idea of a conspiracy to exterminate Protestants and gain possession of their lands.
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The Purcell affair has occupied the Precursors a good deal. It rip-- pears that the resolution or the .finapce Ootutuittee authorizing the de- posit of the funds of the SobietY to Mr. O'Comiell's credit, was regularly entered in the books of the Society ; and that Mr. Purcell himself had subscribed his name, as a member of the Committee, to a resolution passed subsequently, and entered in the next page to that containing the resolution, of which he anneunced his complete ignorance. It was agreed that the 50/. paid by Mr. Purcell for a thousand Precursor tickets should be restored to him, and his name struck off the Pre- cursor roll.
The Irish Ministerial Members have received the following circular letter from Lord John Russell-
" Whitehall, Jan. 5, 1839.
"Sir—The meeting of Parliament having been fixed for Tuesday the 5th of February, and the present situation of public ffairs rendering a full attendance peculiarly desirable, I take the liberty of earnestly requesting your presence on that day. "I have the honour to be, your faithful and obedient servant, "J., RUSSELL.
The Dublin correspondent of the Times says- " The general impression here is, that the repeal of the Corn-laws, or the establishment of a fixed duty, will form a prominent topic in the Queen's Speech; and that, in all likelihood, Ministers may dissolve Parliament on that question."
At a Corporation dinner in Dublin, on Tuesday, Mr. Recorder Shaw was very ill received. Whilst speaking, he was assailed in such terms
as these— •
" You never would be known but for the Corporation of Dublin 1"—" You would be a briefless barrister 1"—" Would your father be Sir Robert Shaw, but for the Corporation of Dublin ?"—" No, he would not !"—" Olt, you traitor, you traitor, sit down, sit down !"—" You got your 30,000/. and you dont care I"
Begone iss, hiss—groan, groan.
Mr. Shaw left the room, followed by the Honourable Randall Plun- kett ; who would not return, though told that his own health was about to be proposed.
It is said that the next renewals on the leases from the see of Cashel will amount to nearly 20,0001., which will come to the new Bishop of that diocese, Dr. &aides, in the course of a few months.
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