IRELAND.
Two formidable rivals to Mr. O'Connell have made their appearance, in the persons of the Countess de Grey and Lady Jemiina Elliot, who have determined to wear only Irish manufactures ; and Lady de Grey " recommends" their exclusive use at her court and parties.
Official orders have been received at the Castle to transfer the chief control of the Irish Poor-law administration to the English Board.
Lord Eliot has augmented the allowance of the dismissed Stipendiary Magistrates : to the 331. he adds three months' pay. One, who had given up a permanent situation as a Paymaster of Constables, is reap- pointed to that office.
At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, a letter was received from Lockport in the United States, (the place where Mr. M`Leod was seized,) with an enclosure of 20/. ; from Pottsville, Penn- sylvania, with 50/. ; and from the Boston Association, with 1001. the third contribution to the same amount from the same place. Mr. O'Connell contradicted a report that he meant to give up the Repeal agitation. The business of the day was a petition to Parliament, which Mr. O'Connell moved, praying for a more searching measure of cor- porate reform for Ireland, and equality in municipal privileges with England and Scotland.
Mr. Thomas Clarkson has published a letter to the Lord Mayor to contradict the "ridiculous romance" to which Mr. O'Connell gave cur- rency at the previous Repeal meeting, about one Reilly, a coal-porter, whose " gallantry" was said to have converted the said Clarkson from a Tory to a supporter of Mr. O'Connell- " The simple facts (says Mr. Clarkson) are, that Reilly was one of a furious mob, who, in order to coerce me to vote for you, attacked my house, and by vollies of paving-stones smashed not only all the glass but the wood-work of the sashes of the windows in front ; and that, being anxious to avoid a collision, but determined to defend my person, I armed myself with a gun, and endea- voured to escape from the back of my house, but was intercepted by some of the most daring of the mob breaking into the rear of the premises; the foremost of whom was the sober and industrious Reilly,' who was wounded when en- deavouring to seize me. He was by this means placed hors du combat, so that I never was in his power for a moment. I did, however, fall into the hands of his associates; who appear to have been mostly coal-porters, to whom you or your committee ; as it would seem, let the cars hired for the election, and on which your own name appeared most conspicuous. I received from the ' pa- triotic body of men,' as they are called at the Corn Exchange, such treatment as I was led to expect. They robbed me of every article in my pockets; they took most of the pockets themselves too ; my clothes were torn to rags; I was bruised by blows from fists and sticks; a naked „knife was held to my throat ; and I was at length dragged violently into a dark cellar, exactly under your own tally-room, where I was threatened with instant death. It was under these circumstances, Sir, that you obtained my vote."
A crime has just been committed in Ireland, which suspicion regards as one of the most atrocious on record. The body of a boy was found, on Monday night, in a stable-lane at the back of the Pembroke Road, a fashionable part of Dublin. A man named Delahunt appeared at the inquest on Tuesday, and said that he saw a woman murder the boy, after scolding him, between five and six o'clock in the evening. He did not prevent her, because he did not know what she was doing until the boy fell ; and he did not pursue her as she ran away, because he had a sore foot. He went straight to the Castle, to give information. Delahunt was supported some time back as a witness for the Crown in a trial for murder ; and then lie contradicted himself so that the Judge ordered him to be prosecuted for perjury : it is suspected that he has murdered the boy himself, to procure a renewal of support on the same easy terms.
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