IRELAND.

A correspondent of the Dublin Pilot says, that, as an amends honor- able to the Irish bar, Mr. Frederick Shaw, the Recorder of Dublin, is to be made Lord Chancellor of Ireland !

Mr. Pennefather, the eldest son of Baron Pennefather, has received the appointment of First Clerk at the Castle, as successor of Mr. Tighe Hamilton ; who has been appointed Second Remembrancer of the Ex- chequer. The income of both offices is the same; but the Orange party are said to have gained a point in excluding Mr. Hamilton from the Castle.

Father Mathew arrived at Kingstown, from Liverpool, on Saturday morning. He was saluted with an address from the Kingstown Total Abstinence Society ; and speedily resumed his labours in Ireland.

The Dublin Mercantile Advertiser of Friday contradicts a recent charge against the Earl of Cardigan-

" We regret that our journal should have been the medium of putting into circulation the article which appeared on the 8th instant, from a correspondent, adverting to the Earl of Cardigan having placed under arrest one of the officers of his regiment. We have ascertained that there was not the slightest foundation for what we at the time supposed to be the facts connected with the arrest, and on the assumption of which our observations were founded."

Mr. O'Connell held one of his great Repeal meetings on Sunday, at Clifden, in the wilds of Connemara, on the extreme West coast of Ire- land. Clifden is a new town, about four miles up the navigable inlet of Ardhear Harbour. Mr. D'Arcy, the landlord of most of the houses in the town, had issued an address " to the tenantry of the Clifden estate," exhorting them to " stand firm, and not be entangled or seduced to join in this rebellious movement " ; but his exhortation appears to have been unheeded. About three o'clock, Mr. O'Connell entered the town, much in the usual style ; and he proceeded at once to a platform erected in the midst of a natural amphitheatre of hills. Mr. M. J. Ffrench took the chair ; and there were on the platform the titular Archbishop of Timm, Mr. Dillon Browne, M.P., Mr. Fitzmorris, M.P., and some other leading Repealers. Mr. Ffrench remarked, that considering how thinly the population was scattered over the district, it was matter of astonish- ment how great an assemblage had collected. Several of the people came on mountain-ponies, the wife riding on the crupper of each ; and Mr. Dillon Browne wished Peel and Wellington had seen their high- land cavalry, and then he would ask them whether they thought the heavy dragoons of England could pursue it over yonder mountains." He violently attacked Mr. D'Arcy-

He wished Mr. D'Arcy were there. The contemptible wretch would not then say that he could prevent his tenantry from attending the demonstration. They were there to a man. (Loud cheers. A woman's voice, "Not one half of them ! ") Mr. D'Arcy might use the privileges of a landlord—he might set his land—if the Lord Chancellor would let him—(Laughter)—to whomsoever he pleased, but there ended his power as a landlord. He had no right to con- trol the consciences of the people. The people might soon, however, set him at defiance : they would have equity of tenure—(Cries of " Soon be it then!")— for that principle must be established, or the peace of the country could not be possibly preserved any longer. But Repeal would establish that principle. (Cheers.)

Mr. O'Connell began his speech thus-

" I have here presented to my view a bold and transcendent scene, such as I never before, in all my multiplied experience, witnessed. When I came here today, for the first time in my life—(Cheers)—I had no doubt at all that the women of Connemara were as handsome and as modest-looking as any in the world. (Applause.) That opinion has been abundantly confirmed by the beauteous scene I have beheld today. But I came here to make an experiment on the men. (Cheers, and a cry of " You have them ! ") I have them, and now I will make my experiment on them. I want to know whether you are not as brave and as Irish as the rest of the nation ? (" We are ! " and cheers.) I want to know whether you are not as honest, as true, as faithful, as the rest of your countrymen ? ("No doubt of it.") I want to know whether you don't hate Saxon tyranny as much as the natives of other parts of Ireland ? (" We do!" and much cheering.) I want to know whether you do not feel the evils of misgovernment as much as any other part of Ireland? (" More so.") Ay, more; because Nature and Nature's God has bestowed blessings on this district which are unknown to other parts of Ireland. The beautiful and se- cure harbours of Connemara are capable of offering refuge to the commerce of the world. And where is that commerce ? Your mountain-streams are able to put in motion manufactures for the snliply of the world. And where are your manufactures? Oh l you have no manufactures—you have no commerce. Why ? Because Ireland is governed by Saxons and not by Irishmen. Will you join me to give Ireland to the Irish?" (Much cheering, and cries of "We will I ")

He declared his experiment to have satisfied him. He promised, varying the promise according to local associations, no imaginary bene- fits from Repeal-

" I would make your streams turn the wheels of busy manufactories, and your noble harbours the refuge for the shipping of the Western world. Yours are the nearest ports to America, and they are better situated for commerce than those of any other district; but you have no commerce, because you have no genial Government."

He delivered the usual caveat— "I caution Ion, that any man who may commit a crime will strengthen the enemy. Force and violence are not to be used. If the time for using them should come, there is one here will tell you that the time has come. (Cheers, and " We will follow you ! Yes ; because you know I never will tell you until your enemies attack you; and if they do, I will tell you, and wo to those who dare attack you." (Cheers.)

He asked if he could mean wrong, when he had the Archbishop and all the Roman Catholic clergymen with him ? The meeting sepa- rated with three cheers for the Queen, O'Connell, and Repeal.

At the subsequent dinner, which as usual was tacked to the public meeting, Mr. O'Connell said— Ireland ought, should, and shall be free. If he were asked why he did not rash to the contest at once, he answered, that he abhorred such an idea— though the master of thirty legions had not more power than he had for the last six months—and that power he would use, but not abuse, in its mild, legal, and moral application. He had cowed England ; he stood in a high position, and he defied the British Ministry to take it away. (Cheers.) He stood ou 'vantage-ground now. He had now none of the fighting age—ay, why should he not say it?—none of the fighting age, as they called it : he would not use it but he said " Villains, attack us if you dare." (The whole assembly stood ap and shouted, and waved plates, hats, bottles, and wine-glasses, tumultously for a few moments.)

The weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, was enlivened by an unusual scene. Mr. Connor of Inch, who has obtained some note for his determined assertion of extreme opinions, gave notice that at the next meeting he should move the following resolution-

" That until our national rights of self-legislation, in the possession of our own Parliament, and of a valuation and perpetuity of his farm to the tenant, we Repealers shall pay no rent, county- cess, rent-charge, tithe, poor-rate, or any other charge out of land." He was about to make some remarks, when be was interrupted by Mr. John O'Connell, who begged him to withdraw his resolution. Mr. Connor would not do so "to purchase his life." Mr. John O'Connell believed it to be entirely illegal, and calculated to bring the Association under the notice of the law. Mr. Connor said, he would pay no charge out of land until the Irish Parliament was restored. " Irishmen I " con- tinued he, "the humbug has been going on long enough ; so I will—" Mr. John O'Connell again rose to order. The Association would not now depart from the great moral principle which it had established ; and if it were to approve of such observations as Mr. Connor's, it would endanger the great and glorious cause of Repeal. He again called on Mr. Connor to withdraw the notice. The Chairman, Mr. Michael J. Conway, urged the same course. After a good deal of altercation, Mr. John O'Connell threatened at the next meeting to move the expulsion of Mr. Connor ; and Mr. O'Neill Daunt promised to second the motion. Mr. Connor, much excited, and with uplifted arm—" I will go to death in support of my resolution. Pounds, shillings, and pence, have been too long coming into — (The rest of the sentence was lost in the up- roar.) The starving people of Ireland are to be fed." Several persons condemned the course thus pursued ; and eventually Mr. John O'Con- nell moved a string of resolutions, declaring that the Association heard with horror and indignation the doctrines propounded by Mr. Connor ; indignantly refusing to record or entertain his resolution ; and saying- " That if any thing can add to these feelings, it is the consideration of the time Mr. Connor has chosen for making studs remarks ; a time when, in the county of Carlow, where Repeal has as yet made little progress, a violent and criminal opposition to rents has, according to the public prints, already began to manifest itself."

These resolutions were carried unanimously. The Repeal rent for the week was declared to be 1,4631.

A number of instances of the new method of paying rent are given by the Carlow Sentinel; whose account we copy with some curtailment. The Sentinel says- " The new system of opposition to the payment of rents is spreading with fearful rapidity; and emissaries, said to be from Dublin, are everywhere exciting the population to resistance to the payment of any rent at all." " On the night of the 8th instant, between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock, about fifty men assembled on the lands of Coolrnanua, in this county, and cut down about two acres of oats under seizure for rent due to the landlord, Mr. C. Davis, of Clare, county of Dublin. Mr. Sharpe, the attorney for the landlord, having received intimation of the proceedings, collected some people in the vicinity, who came up in sufficient time to prevent the property being carried off the land. From private lettere received on Friday, we learn that bailiffs were in charge of the property, but that they were beaten off, and that the

entire would have been carried away, but for the timely arrival of the Hackets- town Constabulary. All the parties concerned in the outrage are known, and will be prosecuted.

" On the morning of the 10th instant, at an early hour, a number of men. principally strangers from the county of Kilkenny, with several horses and

cars, assembled on the lands of Liscarvon, near Ballon, in this county, and cut

down several acres of prime wheat, which they carried away and stored in Ballon. Considerable excitement existed in the neighbourhood during the progress of the work, which was carried on without the slightest attempt at concealment. Captain Watson, the landlord, proceeded with his servants to the spot, and succeeded in seizing on the horses and cars engaged in carrying away the crop, and also in capturing four of the party, who have been com- mitted for trial.

" On the night of the 9th instant, a great number of men, with horses and cars, assembled on the lands of Williamstown, held by a man named Doyle, from the Reverend Sir R. Wolseley, and cut down and carried away all the crops, which were under seizure for rent due to the landlord. The bailiffs were ordered off the lands on peril of their lives, and the party succeeded in taking off the property. Informations have been sworn, and warrants issued against the offenders.

" On the night of the 11th instant, a great number of persona, many of whom were armed, assembled at Killalongford, in this county, and cut down and carried away a large quantity of corn, in order to evade the payment of rent. About daybreak their purposes were effected; and they marched off in different directions, blowing horns, shouting for Repeal, and crying out, ' They would pay no more rents!' The Constabulary are busily engaged in bringing the leaders to justice. " On the night of the 11th, several horses and care were brought to the lands of Rathrush, near Ballon, in this county, for the purpose of carrying away the produce of two-and-a-half acres of wheat, which, we are informed, had been taken by conacre from the Messrs. Coghlan, the tenants on the lands; who prevented the removal of the crop until the landlord was informed of the cir- cumstance.

" On the same night, about eleven o'clock, a large number of persons, amounting to about three hundred men and women, with several horses and cars, assembled at Cowlalaw, in the parish of Clonmore, near Hacketstown, in this county, and cut down and carried away five acres of oats, held by conacre, from the tenants on the lands, named Dowling. The person who had this crop taken from the Dowlings is a farmer named Patrick Carty, of Ballygal- duff ; and the reason he assigns for this unusual and unlawful proceeding is, that he was informed that Dowling's landlord (a Mr. George Braddell, of Bel- fast) was about to seize on the entire crops for rent. The conduct of those assembled on this occasion was most violent, and created much alarm in the neighbourhood. They bore away the property amidst shouts and buzzes, and threatened violence towards any person who should oppose them."

The Nenagh Guardian supplies more instances-

" On Friday or Saturday night last, a number of men, about four hundred, all strangers to the locality, went to the lands of Cranagh, the property of Maurice Meagher, Esq., of Nenagh, on which a distress had been placed for arrears of rent. They cut down the entire of the growing crop, and carried it away. Five of this party were told off, for the purpose of shooting the bailiff, to deter others from acting in a similar capacity. There were five stand of arms accordingly placed, as they supposed, in a secure spot for that purpose, which happened to be discovered by the police and seized. The loss to the party of their fire-arms saved the bailiff for the present. " A similar visit was to have been paid to another tenant within a very short distance from town, whose crops were under seizure for two-and-a-half years rent; but a compromise or settlement having been effected between landlord and tenant the evening previous to the intended visit, these legislators were spared the trouble of giving their attendance and labour." At Cool, three hundred " Irish Rebeccas," headed by one Gleeson, a farmer, in the presence of some Police, violently carried off the corn on the farm of a Widow Toohey. Toohey's husband had died four months ago; and two days before the attack, she gave birth to a posthumous child. Gleeson pretended to some claim on the farm ; alleging that the deceased Toohey, who was his nephew, had made a will in his favour ; and also that he had lent Toohey 101.

Some of the Repeal papers mention, half in ridicule, the progress made in strengthening fortifizations-

" The most extensive preparations are now going forward, by directions of the military authorities in this city, to have the barracks in readiness to with- stand a siege, should Limerick he made again the theatre of a conflict. The walls which surround the New Barracks have been raised considerably; holes for musketry have been made; and on the four corners commanding the coun- try at each side' a 12-pounder placed on an eminence erected for the purpose to sweep the roads in every direction. The same precautions are taken at the Castle Barracks. The old towers, which formerly stood the assaults of the English in the Revolution of 1688, have been repaired, and put into a state of defence, so as to command Thomond Bridge and the bills of Clare ; while the entrance to the barrack-gate is so constructed and strengthened, in a military point of view, as to withstand any assault which may be made upon it."- Linteridi Reporter. " The fortification of the barracks in this garrison is proceeding with the greatest vigour, and it is to be hoped will be completed in a most satisfactory manner '; but, lest even the shadow of a Repealer should be reflected from the square upon the walls of the building, orders have been issued to exclude all civilians, save and except the artisans and labourers employed in the works, from ingress and egress to the barracks ; and, to make assurance doubly sure, the contractor has been required to furnish a list containing the name of every mechanic and labourer, from the foreman of works to the deputy assistant hod- man, whose services he may require in carrying on the necessary operations for enabling the garrison of Cork to withstand siege, assault, escalade, battery, or storm, come from what quarter it may. Another precautionary measure which we have heard of is the receipt of an order at the Customhouse, to exa- mine all packages of leather arriving in the port of Cork, lest fire-arms may be imported concealed in them."—Cork Reporter.

The Cork Constitution says, that a constable had been overheard, at Ballincollig, telling an artilleryman that be had a plan by which he could seize the barracks and powder-mills with one hundred undisci- plined Repeaters. After an investigation, the constable was dismissed, and the soldier was removed to Woolwich.