Yesterday Iveek, Mr. 0' Caelme I: assail:bled a mmtm:m-rous Company
of merchants and others, in thy 1>tiVill3, and exhi- bited Mr. Grote's Ballot-bex, explainieg its simple median:inn. He was obliged to repeat his explanation several times, as fre..sh parties came crowding into the rooms, ay xititis for instruction. gentleman asked Mr. O'Connell " how a Niro! man would vote according to this plaa," and Mr. O'Connell is said to have ii plied, " That, Sir, I must acknowledg.e is a poser." We can scarcely believe that Mr. 0 Con- nen was not prepared with a better answer to tl.is questlon. He [night have explained, that any friend of the blind man would tell him the order in which the names were niranged, and then lie might put the bodkin into the arst, third, or filth bole, as lie eLose,—unless. indeed, he had lost the power of feeling as well as. sight. But suppLse mm blind man could not vote accordiima to Mr. (m'ote's pia», who but a perfect simpleton would ou that account 'aquae prtitertien to the tilliSsi.1 that can see ? lieconse blind men are incapacitated from serving en juries, should the trial by jury be aleslialled
Mr. O'Connell delivered a long apeech to the Dublin Trades Union on :Monday ; arid, un his motion, resolutions were passed expressive of confidence in aliniste re, disapprovismg of the rating plan of the Irish l'oor Bill, and reprobating in strung terms the combination outrages against the property ot Mr. Guinness and other Tories.
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