IRELAND.
Mr. O'Connell has written another letter to the Secretary of the National Association on " Stanley's Bill." It is a very melancholy affair ; and it would seem that Mr. O'Connell anticipates the final suc- cess of " the Scorpion." He says that a dissolution would only aggra- vate existing evils-
" In fact, a dissolution in the present state of parties in England, when the real Reformers are suffocated by Tory-Radicals and Chartists-a present dis- solution would operate only to enable the Orange-Tory function to conquer and make a kind of state-prisoner of the Queen-to take away from Ireland that protection which the Queen, God bless her, has to beneficially given to her Irish people-and then to trtunple upon the rights and liberties of Ireland.. What a melancholy prospect lies before us!"
Richard Jones, the Ribbonman, whose trial was mentioned in our last paper, has been sentenced to seven years' transportation.
A large multitude of the poor of Dublin are actually in a state of starvation, and entirely dependent on the benevolence of the public to deliver them front it. The slackness of business, which is usual at this time of the year, is at present greater in degree, more general in extent, and has been of longer continuance than for years past ; so that the bulk of the unfortunate people have—during some months—been unable to get any employment. Meanwhile, they have been subsisting by the disposal of whatever moveables they may have had in their possession, and now are so reduced as its general to have nothing left by which to raise a supply of necessary food. Upon the ground that they are able- bodied men, and in consequence not incapacitated by age or infirmity from earning their bread, but merely in want of employment, they are refused aid at the poor-houses ; while at the same time it is only neces- sary to look at them in order to see famine and the lowest degree of privation pictured in their faces and on their whole persons.—Suanders's News Leiter.
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