IRELAND.
The Lord-Lieutenant held his first levee at "the Castle," on 'Wednes- day. The streets were crowded with carriages, and spectators on foot. One of the first to enter the Presence-chamber was Lord Mayor O'Connell, in his official robes. A vast number of Tories, with a con- siderable proportion of Liberals headed by the Duke of Leinster, attended, and several Bishops of both Churches.
- It is a curious fact, and though a trifle, worth notice, that the tailors and robe-makers of Dublin have not been able to supply the demand for Court-dresses and professional costumes to ba worn at the Levee. Many additional hands have been employed in London, and large consign- 1i:tents of those articles have been shipped for this city—Dublin Even- ing Mail.
All difficulties have been overcome. Mr. Lefroy thought wisely of the old adage, that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; and therefore, we have now to record his acceptance of the Junior Baron. ship of the Exchequer. A worse appointment it would be difficult to imagine.—Dublin Monitor.
• A correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, whose communication is dated from Trinity College, Dublin, speaks thus of two recent appointments— "The Tories have made two excellent appointments—that of Mr. Warren to .be a Sergeant-at-law, and that of Dr. O'Brien to the Deanery of Cork. Among theirfaieads at the bar they could not have found an individual more respected or acceptable to the country at large than Mr. 'Warren, nor in the whole range of the profession throughout the United Kingdom, one better qua- lified by knowledge and character to adorn its very highest station. Sir Ed- ward Sugden is represented to have the sole honour of this appointment ; the Lord-Lieutenant and Chief Secretary being understood to have inclined to- wards their Parliamentary supporters Messrs. West and Litton, either of Whom they would have advanced for their sweet voices' in preference to the most distinguished lawyers in the universe. The Evening Mail, indeed, pre- tends to be in a towering passion becauseMr. West was not made the Sergeant; knowing right well all the while that Mr. West is to be a Judge as soon as ever it may be deemed prudent to risk the representation of the city of Dublin, by lifting him over the heads of all the Sergeants upon the bench. * * a Doctor O'Brien, the new Dean of Cork, is a man of tmnscendant ability and unaffected piety, who is said by some of his brethren to be too much inclined to the sour and unsocial doctrines of Calvin, but very honest, temperate in main. trifling his own opinions, and tolerant of' the opinions of men who do not agree With him. On one important point, unfortunately, he is apt to run riot ; and that is in his hostility to the national system of education. Were it not for his uncompromising opposition to that, it was the desire of the Whig Govern- ment to advance him to the highest rank of his profession ; and their choice balanced for some time between him and Dr. Tonson, the present Bishop of Killaloe; who turned out afterwards to be as fierce an adversary to the national board as Dr. O'Brien, without possessing a tithe of his great and admirable qualities. Dr. O'Brien is likely to obtain the first vacant mitre ; and his pro- motion, every, thing considered, will be honourable to the Government that confers it."
- The Clare Journal announces, that the Government has appointed Mr. Michael Cullinan, a Roman Catholic and a Liberal, to the office of Local Crown Solicitor for the county of Clare, vacated by the dismissal of ,Mr. Charles O'Connell. Mr. Cullinan, the Journal adds, although a Liberal, never suffered his political opinions to become offensive to hose opposed to them. A vacancy having been created in the number of Irish Stipendiary- Magistrates, by the recent death of Captain Nangle in Tipperary, at has been officially notified that no one will be nominated in his place ; and further, that no more appointments of the kind will be made.
Lord Londonderry has refused to sign an address to the Lord-Lieu- tenant from the county of Down ; he says, because the meeting at which it was adopted was premature, and smaller than it might have been had his wish for a more deliberate preparation been accorded ; the Whigs say, because there is a "split" between the Marquis and the Government.
The Dublin Warder seriously utters a solemn lament that the statue of William the Third, in College Green, is henceforth to be coloured " with bronze pigment, instead of wearing the obsolete and unfashion- able hues of loyalty."
The Repeal Association held its usual weekly meeting in the Corn. Exchange. The receipt of tool. from Pittsburgh in the United States was acknowledged. Mr. O'Connell made a speech, and enlarged upon many of the standing topics, not forgetting Sharman Crawford. These he diversified with a sally against Espartero, apropos of American re- conciliation with England, and French intrigue— As to America, there was no appearance of hostility to England in that quarter ; but they had no reason to be satisfied with the course adopted by France towards England. She was keeping up her armaments ; and England_ should therefore maintain her forces too, in order to protect herself. Taxation would be increased also, in consequence of this proceeding. Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than the aspect of the French power towards Great EH- taM. There seemed to he a shrinking on the part of England ; and the ad- vantages which Louis Philippe possessed in Spain would be made available by him. The sound part of the Spanish people held in abhorrence Espartero ; who combined in his disposition the rigour of the Jacobin with the sanguinary feeling of the tyrant; putting to death men who fought by his side.
The birth of the Prince was another novelty, newly treated, and blended with the late incendiary fires in one comment. Apropos to the English succumbing to tyranny, he said— He found the following proposition clear. The Aristocracy had England under their control. They had conquered the Reforming party, and had tram- pled down the independence of the Crown. Both the People and the Monarch were in thraldom. The royal infant was born in thraldom—in slavery : the tyrannizing Aristocracy of England had him within their trammels. He was born with golden honours, but without that freedom, wanting which life would he valueless. He was a slave—as his mother was—to the sordid Aristocracy: And what was it recommended that Aristocracy to the English people ? What qualification did they possess ? They never took a step in favour of civil and religious liberty : in religion they were bigots and persecutors ; in politics, the friends, supporters, and propagators of every doctrine calculated to enslave the human race ; but, above all, there was a mercenary disposition about them to levy an enormous tax upon the food of the people, to interfere with the pros- pects of the artisan, to come to the table of the widow when feeding her chil- dren, and demand a tax upon the bread she was about to break for them.
* * The landlord demanded fire out of the tenpence to give the poor man permission to buy it. Yet this was the party supported by the English people! Sherman Crawford said they should give up the struggle for Repeal : theirs WAS a peaceable, quiet, constitutional struggle for their rights ; it was not so in England. "The incendiary fires are blazing everywhere throughout England, just as they were when Peel was in power last. Every newspaper brings fresh accounts of the burning of hay-ricks, corn, and even potatoes. 'What a nice fellow John Bull is in the present scarcity ! and in order to make provisions cheaper, he burns hay, corn, and even potatoes!" The census was a third novelty, and Mr. O'Connell made much of it— In the period which intervened from the year 1821, when the first regular enumeration was taken, and the year 1831, when the next regular enumeration was taken, in those ten years the Irish people increased sixteen per cent. In the ten years between 1831 and 1841, when the last regular enumeration was made, the increase was about two and a half per cent.; making a difference of thirteen and a half per cent, in the two periods, and showing, in the ten years, a falling-off in the amount of increase to be expected, of one million of people. It was frightful to think of such an extermination of human beings in a country which was one of the most fertile on the face of the globe, and which not only raised food enough to feed its own population, but exported large supplies to other countries. He therefore asked the Aristocracy of England—he asked the Tories—he asked the exterminators—he asked Brewster, what was the caw of this frightful slaughter of human beings? The loss was 100,000 per annum. Suppose that one-half of them emigrated, which was far beyond the truth—for 50,000 persons had not emigrated annually—but allowing that they had, they thus had proof of thy astounding fact that 50,000 human beings perished during early infancy every year in Ireland. Did they not see the unfortunate Ms. Walsh murdered, who had -dispossessed several families, and was on the eve of turning out more on the eve of his unhappy fate ? When he alluded to the circumstances connected with this murder, let it not be supposed that any cir- cumstance whatever justified the crime. Punishment awaited the murderer : but he turned to the greater criminals, and asked those who countenanced the depopulating system—those who selected the exterminating Brewster as adviser at the Castle—how could they look in man's countenance, or hope for Gail's mercy, when they supported a system which deprived the country of so many of their fellow-creatures, by the positive infliction of death, or what, in point of cruelty, was tantamount to death, by forcing them to leave their native land?
The Reverend James Birmingham, the parish-priest of Borrisokane, has refused to aid in collecting the O'Connell tribute ; because he thinks the office of a partisan is beyond his province ; and because he knows that " want and destitution, at this inclement season, are around him, and that all the sympathies and exertions of his people will be required to assist in arresting famine and succouring the distressed." Mr. Birming- ham adds, that he cannot approve of the agitation for a repeal of the Union after its continuance for forty years, and after Ireland has pro- cured from the United Parliament Emancipation, Reform of Tithes, and Municipal Reform.
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