IRELAND.
A " preparatory meeting" was held lately at Gresham's Hotel, in order to make arrangements for a general meeting of the citizens of Dablin to petition the Queen to visit the city this summer. The form of a petition was agreed to ; and was signed, amongst others, by the Archbishop of Dulslua, the Bishop of Kildare, the Provost, and the City High Sheriffs.
The Dublin Gazette announces that Lord Caledon has been chosen as the Representative Peer to sit in the House of Lords, in the room of the Earl of Ross.
The Kilkenny Journal says there are already eight candidates in the field desirous of contesting the representation of the seat now filled by Mr. Joseph Hume.
It is stated by a Cork paper, that Mr. Beamish has written to his constituents, announcing that, in the event of a dissolution, it is not his intention to again offer himself for the city of Cork. Two Radicals are spoken of as his successors, but the name of one only has transpired— Mr. Francis Murphy.
At a general meeting of the Belfast Chamber of Commerce, after some discussion and some little opposition as to precise terms, resolu- tions were passed in favour of the Government plan for reducing the Corn, Timber, and Sugar duties. Crostbwaite and Co., the eminent millers of Bagnalstown, are antici- pating the Chancellor of the Exchequer by their importations of foreign grain. Fourteen large ships discharged cargoes at their stores, in the port of New Ross, during the last year. There are now five Dutchmen landing many thousand quarters of Prussian grain to their account.—. Dublin Mercantile Advertiser.
The proceedings of the Repeal Association, on Monday, are slurred over by the Pliot ; and Mr. O'Connell's letter merely promised another letter for Wednesday, on which day he advised the Repealers to hold an adjourned meeting to receive it. He plans a new diversion in favour of his friends the Ministers- " I intend to propose that there should be a simultaneous meeting of the various parishes of Ireland, on or about Sunday the 23d instant, in order to address her most revered Majesty the Queen, humbly imploring. her not to re- ceive into her confidence the bitter and malignant ancient enemies of her faith- ful Irish people ; to assure her that whatever hypocritical pretences the leaders of that faction may assume—and passing events prove that there is no hypo- crisy too base for the use of that party—yet, notwithstanding their hypocrisy, their malignity to Ireland is too practical for the Irish people not to be struck with horror at the very thought of the restoration to power of that unrelenting and cruel Orange. faction."
One consolation Mr. O'Connell derives from the threatened advent of the Tories to power—that it " will give tenfold force to the Repeal cry."
The promised letter arrived, and was duly read. It proves to be a most tremendous "hereditary bondsmen" epistle, surpassing in inflated vehemence of language all former compositions of the kind : it is a grand effort.
A meeting of " Reformers " was held somewhere in Dublin (for the place is not stated) on Monday, to call a more general meeting to petition the Queen " not to intrust the Government of the country to the Tory party, who have always proved themselves the enemies of the rights and liberties of the people.', Next day, about forty or fifty Whigs and some leading Repealers assembled in the large room of Commercial Buildings. The Honourable Frederick Ponsonby was put into the chair, and an address was read. The meeting, however, is still called "preparatory." The address was referred to a Committee ; and when all is ready, a " general demonstra- tion of the people of Ireland" is to be evoked.
Mr. Gregg, the ultra-Protestant champion, who was committed at Dublin Police-office, in default of bail, last week, for violent conduct at a convent, was brought before the Court of Queen's Bench on Saturday, on a writ of habeas corpus; and discharged, in consequence of an in- formality in the commitment.
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