IRELAND.
The writs have been issued for the election of a Temporal Peer for Ireland, to succeed to the vacancy caused by the demise of the Earl of Clancarty.
The " Battle of the Diamond" has been set to music, and is become a "loyal song" among the Orangemen of Ireland.
Mr. O'Connell has been suffering from an inflammation of the throat. His illness was the apology for not attending a meeting of the Trades Union, held for the purpose of repelling the charge advanced by Mr. O'Connell against the Unionists, of being implicated in illegal 'combinations to raise wages. Mr. O'Connell was treated with very little ceremony by the speakers at this meeting f he seems to have provoked the animosity of a large portion of the Dublin mechanics.
Day after day, the remittances to the National (O'Connell) Fund tend fully to corroborate our averments at the commencement of the collection now in progress, "that its produce would assuredly exceed the average of former years."—Dublin Pilot.
Preparations are making in Dublin for a splendid entertainment to Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Hutton. The banquet will be given in the Theatre; Lord Charlemont in the chair.
The Dublin Conservative Association have adopted an address to the Earl of Roden, expressing approbation of his Parliamentary con- duct ; but without allusion to the Ribbon conspiracy, whose existence the Standard and the Irish Orange papers labour so zealously to make
Sat.
A meeting of the inhabitants of St. Paul's parish, Dublin, was held on Monday, for the purpose of preparing petitions calling for Corporate Reform, Vote by Ballot, and the extinction of Tithes.
The Tralee Mercury announces the appointment of John O'Connell, Esq., of Grena, as High Sheriff of Kerry.
A curious correspondence has found its way into the Irish papers, between Lord Brougham and an Irish clergyman, on that still vexed theme, "the deadly blow to Protestantism." The Reverend William
Holmes, Chancellor, and, peradventure, Whipper-in of the Diocese of Cashel, conceiting himself a match for the Ex- Chancellor of Great Britain, aidressed a florid epistle in a newspaper to his Lordship, whose paricular attention he called to it by a private communication. Lord Brougham, in reply, disavows all intention to injure Protestantism, and draws a distinction between the immediate and the remote conse- quence of a legislative act ; maintaining that the Irish Church Bill would ultimately be beneficial to the Church.
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