IRELAND.
A meeting of the Protestant Conservative Society was held in
Dublin on Tuesday. The Reporters generally were excluded, but the Lr '-ht • of the clergy; but no particulars were mentioned. It is said that Mr. Boyton, Mr. O'Sullivan, and Mr. G. A. Hamilton, of bayonet notoriety, are coming to England as Missionaries, to preach a crusade on behalf of the suffering Church. What is the meaning of " the death-like silence and the still repose" observed by the Orange press since the first promulgation of Lord Downshire's intention to pay the clergy on his estate their tithes ? The reader will remember with what a flourish it was introduced by the Mad: what gratitude they showed to his Lordship ; what congratida- tbn they offered to the country on his magnanimous determination; and above all, bow happy they felt that they should be spared, the scci de souls! from the pain and danger of bringing the clergy into elision with the people. "Nun meus est sermo." This is the charitable music of the barrel-organ. Not one word upon the subject since, however ; although we reciprocated in the most amiable temper possi- hie, and praised the noble Marquis to the skies, and expressed an assurance equally positive with the Mail, that the Eimiskillens, Ilert- fords, O'Ncills, Rodens, and the rest of them, world imitate the bright example ! Ah ! these great lords are silent, and the tiled has found out, we imagine, that, in adopting the paragraph which was sent with the it formation, it had acted injudiciously. We shall hold the .)'ail awl the faction to that paragraph, and shall thrust the conduct of Lord P,Avnshire under the nose of the Conservatives every day for the next four months.—Dublin Evening Post. A second letter from Mr. O'Connell to Lord Duncannon has been published in the Dublin Pilot. It is a flat affair, and deals with small matters. A considerable portion of it is devoted to proving the incon- sistency of Lord Anglesey; who wrote a letter strongly disapproving of putting down public meetings by proclamations under " Algerine Acts," and yet had not been three days in office under the Whigs before he actually issued one of these proclamations himself, and several others afterwards. At the sante time, the meetings of Orangemen, though illegal, were not molested. The conduct of Sir William Gossett and the people at the Castle is also denounced. The letter coneludes with an earnest recommendation to Lord Duncannon to appoint as a successor to Judge Jebb, a good lawyer, and LW Orangeman. The Repealers in Clonmel, Waterford, and Cork, have already responded to the call of the chief Agitator, and set about the formation of clubs in their respective neighbourhoods. At Clonmel, Messrs. Dominick Ronayne, M. P. for the town, and James Roe, M. P. for the borough of Cashel, got together with a few friends on Tuesday last, and laid the foundation of one for the town. They threaten to do emu more than O'Connell asks for. They say, in a resolution pub- lished the following day—" That entirely concurring in the sentiments of O'Connell, the father of his country, in the necessity fur the imme. dime formation of Liberal Clubs, we earnestly call upon all who wish for the total extinction of tithes, the repulsion of Orange insolence, the suppression of agrarian outrage, and the restoration of our domestic Legislature, to originate a requisition for tha great county of Tippe- rary, for the purpose of at once establishing county, baronial, and parish clubs."
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