The morning papers report the commencement of the preceedings at
"the great" Protectionist meeting of noblemen, proprietors, and tenants, in the Dublin Rotunda, on Thursday. The Marquis of Downshire was in the chair; the Marquis of Westmeath, the Earls of Shannon, Glengall, Roden, Mayo, Bandon, and Howth, Lords Castlemaine and Clements, and some half score of Members of Parliament, attended the muster ; which, with J.P.s, Doctors, and Esquires, swells to a list of a column long in the pages of a Protect-
ionist The Earl of Glengall moved the first resolution, in a speech Insisting that the battle is not lost, but only begun ; and urging the use of the most gentlemanly persuasions" by all present to register a pure Protect- ionist constituency, against the ensuing elections. The Marquis of West- meath said, as Lord John Russell is too much of a gentleman to be " inebriate " at his post, it could only be supposed that he is utterly unfit to be at the head of the Government. The meeting did not terminate rill seven o'clock, a gentleman moved an amendment to one of the resolu- tions, proposing that local taxation should be transferred to the public Treasury, but the Chairman thought that he could not put it, and it was not pressed. That formed the only interruption to complete unanimity.
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