IRELAND.
Mr. O'Connell delivers almost daily speeches in Dublin, consisting in great part of abuse of persons connected, as he says, 'with the
Times newspaper. .
We subjoin a specimen taken from a speech delivered at the Cora. Exchange- " The correspondents of the Irish newspapers should find oat and expose the writers employed on the vile Tory press ; they should endeavour to discover and expose every man who writes for the Loudon Tory papers, who assail us with such vehemence. I myself have only succeeded in unkennelling one set of' those miscreants—the scoundrel writers of the Times. I recollect an Irish- man saying to me at one time, when I was complaining of Barnes of the Oh, Sir,' said he, 4you ought not to mind any thing hue says—that fidlow, Sir, is one of the gia-driakingest scoundrels I ever knew.' It was one of the strongest superlatives lever heard of; but it is perfectly true, I believe, that the rascal Barnes is the gin-drinhingest rascal in the world, and that the spirit of the articles in the !rintes is nothing more than the spirit inspired in the individual by gin with hot water, and a little sugar added. Sir, it is pleasant to be abused by such a blackguard. Of Bacon I know little, but I believe ho is essentially a blackguard. Ile acknowledges, I believe, that he is ready to sell himself' to any party who will be pleased to buy him and to give a shilling more as his price than he gets now. As to Stirling, I remember when he was called to the Irish bar; he triel to get on, but did not succeed. Ile next went into the Army, end got a company in the militia. Ile then betook him6ell to the Church, and became a parson. Ile did not succeed in this either. I recol- lect comparing him to a monkey, which, at a friir, jumped through three rings without touching one of them." (" Hear, hmr!" and laughter.) He intended first to organize the Protection Society ; then to sum- mon a " Congress"—not a Convention of Delegates ; and then, " if there were no impediment in the way," he would " commence the enrol- ment of Repeaters." At another meeting, held on Tuesday in the Adelphi Theatre, he repeated his abuse of the writers in the Times, and announced his in- tention of voting a large income for Prince Albert- " I will vote for the highest grant which the Ministry mean to give Prim Albert. (Loud cheers.) Radical as I am, I cannot but recollect that they gave Queen Advluide 100,000/. a year, and I have no notion of being stingy with the husband of the present Queen. (Cheers.) I say that in the natne of' the people of Dublin. (A voice," Of Ireland.") Yes, of the people of Ireland, who will not grudge to pay their proportion of the allowance proposed by the Ministry for Prince Albert. (Loud cheering.) 1 will be much in Dublin during the ensuing session, and I purpose being soon back among you. It' I find the Tory faction dominant in England, I will come back to agitate Ireland."
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