IRELAND.
The Dublin Evening Post mentions an expected visit to the Irish capital from the Dutchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, toward the end of next month.
Last Wednesday week, there was a very numerous meeting held at Navan, in Meath, to petition against the renewal of the Coercion Bill. Captain Mockler, a Magistrate, was in the chair, and Mr. Sharman Crawford, the principal spokesman. Resolutions of thanks to Mr. O'Connell, and recommending peaceable exertion against English op- pression, were passed amidst loud cheers. More than six thousand persons were present. • .
The poor folks in the North of Ireland of the name of O'Neill, have been gulled by some fellow who has been selling them pretended copies of a will by which 200,000/. is to be divided among the descen- dants of the great Phelim O'Neill. The correspondent of the Times gives the following particulars of the hoax.
Some time in the course of last spring, a stranger entered a house of enter-
tainment at Omagh, and, after resting and refreshing himself, informed the landlord that he had the charge of an unportaut business, and produced some copies of a paper which purported to be the last will and testament of Duke Hach O'Neill, Count of the holy Roman Empire, Generalissimo of the Spanish and Mexican forces, &c.; dated thethith March 1770. Twenty thousand pounds are willed to purchase diamonds for the imperial crown of Spain, and twenty thousand more are bequeathed to the indigent clergy of that country ; but the residue, amounting to the immense sum of two hundred thousand pounds, is devised to the Roman Catholic descendants of Sir Phelim O'Neill's eldest sou, Colonel Gordon O'Neill, the births of whose children are registered in the great parchment book of Londonderry, which is still in existence, and which was kept with great exactness during the period between 1642 and 1689. The stranger sutreiol copies of the will to be taken, on payment of half-a-crown each ; and these. it appears, have multiplied with such astonishing fecundity, that there is not a hamlet for forty miles round Omagh that is not agitated by contending claims of the descendants of O'Neill, devout believers of the stranger's scripture, to this great legacy. The Peer at present representing this princely family seems not to have been taken into contemplation in the will, which restricts the pro- perty to Roman Catholics." Baron Smith has recently delivered a charge to the Wicklow Grand Jury, full, as usual, of pedantry and politics. The Belfast Northern Whig gives the following specimen of his trash—
"l's (the county's) lower ranks have not, I believe, fallen under the control of the Coercion Law; and of such a population, it may, therefore, to some ex- tent be said that,
• vitulice Sponte sna, sine lege, lidem reettunquecolebat.'
By sine lege, I mean, without the rigorous sanctions of a stern and unusual con- trol. I mean, that pima, met usgee, aberani ; or at least, that sine militis use, without the military judgments of an almost martial law, molliu perage- bunt (din genies."
The audio otia of the Wicklow peasantry !
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