IRELAND.

The proceedings of the Repeal Association on Monday were diver- sified by the introduction of Mr. O'Connell's bill for the better security of tenures in Ireland. He began, however, by announcing a new movement in Irish manufactures : his friend Mr. Duggan, of Man- chester, is to introduce hand-loom weaving into Ireland-

" The first experiment in that way is to be made in my own neighbourhood,

and Mr. Duggan is sending over to me twelve looms for that purpose. Those looms are to be worked by females, and when they succeed we will immediately

set forty more to work ; and if the undertaking be ultimately prosperous, men of capital in various parts of Ireland will embark in the same kind of manu- factures, and we will have many a virtuous woman employ ed who is now pining in idleness and want. A poor-law has been passed, to which I was always op- posed ; and the more I see of it the more I am convinced that I was right in opposing it. It is wages, not alms, that the people want."

He alluded to the benefit which had already accrued from the exer- tions of the Dublin Board of Trade, and to a rather unhandsome return which has been made for it- " In the year 1800 there were 1,100 operative hosiers in Dublin at full work; whilst at the time the Board was formed there were not over 50. That num-

ber, however, has been increased to 100; but that increase cannot continue, or even that number be kept up, whilst the Board has no politics, or at least whilst the politics of some connected with it are so notoriously hostile to the cause of

Ireland and of her trade itself. I believe there are men who have profited well by the movement, and who have turned persons out of their employment for voting for Mr. Hutton and me. There are those even connected with trade who wish to draw a line of separation ; and I say, if they do, here we are ready to stand on one side and let them stand on the other, and we will see who will have most cause to regret."

He then turned to his bill. He posited the principle upon which it went, that the institution of property is not for the security merely of particular individuals, but of all members of society ; and that the tenant should be protected as well as the landlord. He could not, he said, be accused of taking away the landlord's rights, because he only proposed to take by the same power that had bestowed. At the common law a landlord could distrain on his tenant, but could not sell the dis- tress: the Irish landlords had procured an enactment which enabled them to sell the distress, summarily to eject the tenant, and even to sell the growing crop, though the landlord was the only man that could do so. Mr. O'Connell proposed, by the same legislative power, to protect the

tenant—" to tear the nails and extraet the fangs from the grinding landlords and agents in this country." Under the existing system, a man must get land or starve ; and to turn him out was equal to killing him- " If you turn out a man and his family to starve, it is no less a murder than if you destroyed them with the dagger, or the sword, or the pistol, or the

musket ; famine and typhus fever are as formidable instruments of destruction

as the musket or the dagger or the bayonet ; and I stand here to free my country from the criminality of those clearance murders : the landlords are

murderers on the clearance system; and those who take the lives of individual

landlords are equally criminal in the eye of God. No person can say why Lord Norbury was murdered : I believe the impression is growing stronger

every day that he was not murdered by those called the people. 'No person

can tell why Mr. Hall was murdered. No person can say why Mr. Butler Bryan, a most amiable and excellent man, was murdered. No person can say

that he deserved the enmity of the people : but, even if there was a cause, it is

a murder still—it is a murder against which the red arm of God's vengeance will be as surely raised to punish the perpetrator, as against the landlords who employ the wholesale system of extermination. What is the remedy for this state of things ? Will it do to increase the number of the police, and pour in more army to the country? No. The murders will still take place: the police and army are at the side of one class of the murderers—and their pre- sence, instead of preventing them, will only induce the landlords, by the hope s of escaping with impunity, still to commit those murders."

The proper remedy was the removal of the uncertainty of tenure. Mr. O'Connell went on to explain his bill. He afterwards said, that when tire Tories came into office, his connexion with the Whigs- " a Ministry who have outlawed the Repealers"—totally ceases on its present basis. He promised on the next day of meeting to propose the

plan upon which he intends to found the future operations of the Asso- ciation. He finished by hinting at some extreme measures to encounter the Tories withal : praising the English for their dogged obstinacy at Crecy, Poictiers, and Agincourt, (shared in by the Irish at Waterloo,) he said- " I now tell the English, that the Irish are as capable as they are of evincing the same quiet and determined courage. Their in inciple was to die, but never

to be conquered. Whenever men go into battle that should be their principle.

And, why do I say that Because — (A voice—" Let them try it.") If they try it, it shall be their fault ; and wo to the scoundrel, if they try it, that won't pay them of in their own coin. (A Voice—" Ve paid them off at Fon- tenoy." Loud cheers.) ; I am here to prevent such a crisis : but if the

crisis should come, I hope I am as ready to meet it as another. But why do I

recur to those subjects? Because I find men actually talking of rebellion in

Ireland. They are not Repealers : they are quiet men, who have been check- ing us for our violence, and have been hitherto exclaiming against us; and there is one among them who has been using his press to oppose us—I mean no less a man than Frederick William Conway. • * Nothing would your enemies desire more, in any one way they view it, than a precocious in- surrection. Nothing would they more anxiously wish for than a premature

tumult—even though they forced you to it. Let no man, therefore, be mad enough to indulge them, until they actually compel him to it. * • • Let me whisper John Bull, and say a word in his friendly ear. Let me tell him, that the steam-boats which they say bring us near England, can come in ten days from America." (Great cheering, which lasted for some time.) And he hinted at something more tremendous than even rebellion in Ireland- " Let my voice go through the land. Be cautious of your enemies, whose wish must be, that you place yourselves in the wrong ; violate no law ; give them no advantage over you even by accident; respect the Queen, that amiable and beloved monarch; keep, preserve for her, your allegiance unpurchascd and unpurchaseable. She may, like another monarch, have to fly among you for protection. Oh! I was about indulging in the aspiration that it might be so, and, if it were, he mocks me much who talks of my advancing age." (Tre- mendous cheering, which lasted for several minutes, and was again and again renewed, until the very walls of the building seemed to shake with the acclama- tion.)

Mr. O'Connell held a Repeal meeting on the Hill of Ballybricken, in Waterford county, on FAday last. The attendance was im- mense. The Reverend Mr. Cantwell, who was the first among the speakers, announced that all the ecclesiastics of the Roman Catholic diocese, but one, had given in their adhesion to the cause of Repeal.

Mr. O'Connell afterwards gave the exact number of these clerical Re- pealers—l05. The Reverend Mr. Sheehan took occasion to deny some statements which had been made during the election— There was in that city an election, on a recent occasion, at which Mr. Assessor Hassard deprived three hundred and fifty of the citizens of their elective franchise. The people were, to be sure, justly indignant at that. They vented their feelings in groans and hisses, and small blame to them ; but they violated no law—they committed no violence—they did not hurt a single hair of any man's head. But was there a similar forbearance shown on the other side? Was the peace kept by Mr. Fitzgerald, the Stipendiary Magis- trate? Was the peace kept even by the military ? And yet, after all this, the Times comes forward with a statement from some unknown correspondent, announcing that four houses had been torn down, and that the mob was headed on the occasion by the students of St. John's Coffige, and by the Catholic clergy. That was an instance of the unfounded statements put for- ward by the organs of that party, on which to ground their acts of oppression and tyranny.

Mr. O'Connell dashed into a long speech in characteristic style-

" I was going to tell you what brought me here. I came here in consequence of the foul robbery which the Sheriffs and the Assessor committed upon you— the glaring and manifest injustice of not letting the people exercise their fran- chise. Assessor Hassard has deprived them of that right ; and in doing so he has become the very prototype of the Toryism with which we are about to be visited. But we are determined that the people shall obtain justice. We are beginning to agitate for the RepeaL Did you ever hear of it?" (Laud cheering.)

While the present Ministry were fixed in office, he said, many of their supporters and the place-hunters of their party had held aloof from Repeal ; but now a rapid accession to the number of Repealers was taking place. He promised to meet Peel and Stanley with five millions of Repealers at his back. And he promised the men of Water- ford another visit-

" I like your conduct on this occasion so well, that I do not know but that I will come down and see your honest faces again before I go to Parliament. I will then inquire how many parishes in Waterford have combined as Repealers, and sent to Dublin the Repeal rent for the protection of honest voters every- where throughout the country, and for security for Ireland at large. I will have a bead-roll and a list by me of your names."

No opposition was offered to the resolutions put forward. The meet- ing separated with three cheers for the Queen, O'Connell, and the Re- peal of the Union.

A public dinner was given at Waterford, on the 29th July, to Mr. Wyse and Mr. Barron, the unsuccessful candidates at the late election. Lord Carew presided. Mr. O'Connell was among the guests. He said that he intended to demand "justice for Waterford," and to ascertain in Parliament whether Members were to be returned by electors or by Assessors, as the sitting Members for Waterford have been. If the practice were permitted, it would soon spread to England-

" I want three things to be done—first, to declare Wyse and Barron to be the sitting Members ; next, to declare the return to be frivolous and vexatious ; and thirdly, to call upon the Attorney-General to prosecute for the conspiracy by which this has been brought about ; and then we will take care not to lay the venue in the city of Waterford. I am exceedingly anxious about this ; I never before felt on any point so much anxiety. It may be thought that I participate in the anxiety because I participate in the wrong; but with me it does not decide my election, and I can have no such motive in taking it up. I have this motive—the first feature of Toryism exhibited in this country will be the misadministration of the law, by appointing partisan Sheriffs, by packing Juries, and placing on the bench partisan Judges. On the Tories coming into power, no man's life or property would be safa ; and if the Sheriff and Assessor of Waterford go unpunished, it would he the greatest encouragement to Tory Judges, who will be placed on the bench merely because they are not fit to be appointed. I don't know how far they may go, but this I know, that if they triumph on the Waterford election, they will have an example to make the most iniquitous decisions."

The Dublin Monitor mentions a most extraordinary proceeding in an official—

"Our readers will remember the conduct of Alexander Nixon, High Sheriff of Fermanagh, who, when upbraided by Chief Baron Brady with having ap- peared to escort him into Enniskillen tricked out in orange and blue, replied,

in justification, that those colours were his family livery.' It is this same Nixon whose conduct we are now about to notice. On making the return to her Majesty's writ of Members to serve in Parliament for Fermanagh county, be wrapped the return round with orange and blue ribands, and duly sealed it with a seal bearing the inscription, The Pope in Hell, and the Devil pelting priests at him,' while the Pope was represented as dropping the host front his

into the flames ! "

A strong representation has been made to Government, and an inves- tigation demanded, for an inquiry into the conduct of Mr. Smith, the

Stipendiary Magistrate stationed at Mallow during the disgraceful con- test for that borough at the late election ; a great want of precaution and energy being the charge alleged against that gentleman.— Times.

The Northern Whig says that one of the men employed at the late Belfast election to personate absent and disqualified electors has been arrested, under a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury, and is now in Carrickfergus Gaol.

The "Conservative and Protestant" party in Dublin are beginning to bestir themselves in preparation for the coming municipal elections : some of the first merchants, says the correspondent of the Times, are already in the field.

The case of Poole Gabbett versus Thomas Clanehy and Thomas Dwyer, has engaged Judge Ball and a Special Jury for no less than five days, at the late Limerick Assizes. The plaintiff claims exclusive right of fishing in the waters of the Shannon, as lessee of the Corporation of Limerick ; while the defendants claim right of common fishery. The Jury have been discharged without giving a verdict.

Morgan, the man who fired upon a crowd that beset his house during the late election disturbances, and wounded several young persons, was tried at Waterford, on Tuesday. The defence consisted of evidence that the mob bad behaved so riotously as naturally to exasperate the prisoner, and put him in fear for his property and personal security. The Mayor of Waterford gave him a very good character. The Jury, after a lengthened consultation, returned a verdict of acquittal.

At Tullamore Assizes, on Tuesday, began the trial of Michael Colgan and Michael Doherty, for shooting Mr. Biddulph, at Rathrobin,

on the 25th September. Mr. Biddulph was going to see some corn eat on a land from which one Hanlon, a connexion of Colgan, had been ejected; when two men shot at him from a ditch on the road. The question at the trial turned upon the identity of the prisoners. A woman named Honor Fury undertook to identify Colgan ; and Miss Biddulph swore to recognizing Doherty ; but she at first said that he had large black whiskers, and afterwards that he had not whiskers, but a large black stocking round his face. The prisoners were tried at the last Assizes; but the Jury separated without coming to a verdict. It was this case in which Lord Charleville said, in the House of Lords, that the prosecutor had been injured by the Crown, as the Jury had not been properly composed. Mr. Biddulph was cross-examined by Mr. Murphy, on Tuesday ; and with much reluctance he admitted, that he had written that it was not a fair Jury, though he assisted the Crown Solicitor to select the Jury, and he would not now swear that he had not said at the time that it was a fair Jury. The testimony given by Honor Fury on Tuesday differed considerably from that which she had originally given.

On Wednesday, just as the evidence for the defence had been gone into, Baron Foster was informed that one of the jurors had been taken dangerously ill. He immediately ordered the jury to be discharged. The trial is therefore postponed till next Assizes.

An inquest has been held on the body of Mr. John Morgan, who suffered much violence during; the Longford county election. He was waylaid, and attacked with sucks and stones, by a party of five men, near Newton Forbes ; and his skull was fractured. He lingered in the County Infirmary until a few days back, when he died. The Jury re- tarded a verdict describing the case, but conveying no charge.