IRELAND.
The meeting of Members at Radley's Hotel, in Dublin, on the 23d, proved a failure: not more than eight were present, three of them belong- ing to the O'Connell family. Captain Seaver, who presided, and a few other Repeaters, helped to make up the meeting. Mr. O'Connell stated that the object of assembling was twofold,—to ascertain how far the Irish Conservative party were willing to join the Repeal Members in forming an "Irish party "; and to devise measures for the guidance of the Repeaiers in Parliament. As to the formation of an Irish party, he could assure the Conservatives that the Repealers would meet them more than half way. He would sit down in the hope that some gentleman would come forward on the Conservative side and state the views of that party. During the pause which ensued, Mr. Steele entered the room with rt. copy of the Even- ing Mail containing the Queen's Speech. The meeting were all anxiety to hear it, and it was read aloud by Mr. John O'Connell. Mr. O'Connell again rose, and asked a second time, if any gentleman had a proposition to submit on the part of the Conservative party? He sat down- but no reply was made. Again he rose, and remarked that he should di;miss the sub- ject; as it was obvious there was no one present to represent the opinions of the Conservative journals which had suggested the propriety of a junc- tion for national purposes and on neutral grounds. Mr. O'Connell then alluded to the Queen's Speech; which distinctly menaced, he said, It coercive proceeding for the suppression of crime in Ireland: but for him- self he would not consent to any alteration in the law till the Government proceeded to remove the cause of the existing misery. He had resolved to attend Parliament, to assist in procuring relief for the poor, and an adjust- ment of the landlord and tenant law. The question of the Corn-laws should be left "open." In the discussion which followed, Mr. O'Connell's views met with general approval; and a resolution embodying them was proposed by Mr. John O'Connell, and adopted.
At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. O'Connell explained the course he intended to adopt in the Imperial Par- liament; but without disclosing anything new, lie handed in a donation of 101. from a Miss Goslin; who was admitted a " volunteer " on the in- stant. The allusion in the Queen's Speech to the necessity of adopting some-stringent measures for the preservation of life in Ireland, supplied to
the other speakers abundant materials for denunciation. The rent amounted to 2001.
Mr. O'Connell and his son John left Dublin on the same day, for London.
At a Special Commission for Westmeath, held at Mullingor,last week, Seery, a man who was tried some time since for firing at Sir Francis Hopkins, was tried again. At the former trial there was no verdict, the Jury not having been unanimous. lie was now found guilty; and on the following day he was sentenced to be hanged. There were a number of other trials for less atrocious offences. In passing sentence, the Judges enlarged on the dreadful state of the county with respect to crime. Two attempts at sQaaasination, originating in a dispute about land, are re- Captain St. George, of Altamont, in the county of Carlow, has been
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ported. the bullet passed through his hat, just above his head. A man named Doyle has been arrested for the crime and committed for trial. Mr. Alfred Waller, of Newport, in Tipperary, has been set upon by five ruffians, who beat him with sticks and stones, inflicted three wounds on his head, and broke his arm: his assailants left him for dead, but he revived, and is now out of danger.
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