IRELAND.
The Lord-Lieutenant returned to Dublin from Devonshire, where he bad been on a visit to his dying father, at midnight on Saturday. He arrived suddenly ; landed without any public observances ; and pro- ceeded to the Viceregal Lodge at Phcenix Park ; where he has since re- mained in privacy.
The Dublin Gazette contains the official announcement of the election of Lord Blayney as a Representative Peer for Ireland, in the room of the late Earl O'Neill.
The House of Lords, in a Committee of Privileges on Thursday,. decided that the Earl of Stair and Lord Trimlestown had established their claims to vote in the election of Irish Representative Peers.
Mr. O'Connell arrived in Dublin on Friday. On Monday, he en- livened the meeting of the Repeal Association with his presence, and began some electioneering talk. On Tuesday, an address issued by the Protestant Association to the electors of the United Kingdom furnished Mr. O'Connell with a peg whereon to hang a counter-address, through the Catholic clergy of Ireland, to the Liberal Protestants and Catholic laity, stimulating their zeal by pointing to the "odious and sanguinary calumnies" of the Tory faction in England.
There was a great Repeal meeting at Ardsullas, in Clare, on Thurs- day week. The parish-priests led their congregations to the spot from distances of ten or fifteen miles, preceded by Temperance bands. One bedridden old woman was carried ten miles to see " the great demon- stration for the salvation of her country." Forty or fifty tents were pitched; and it is estimated that 100,000 persons were present. Mr. Charles O'Connell and some parish-priests were the speakers.
Friday evening, Richard and Thomas Clarke, half-brothers, from the neighbourhood of Fethard, were fully committed to gaol by Mr. John Allen and Captain Rathbourne, Stipendiary Magistrates, charged with the robbery and murder of Patrick Neville of Clonmines.— Wexford Constitution.
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