taussi AGITATORS.—On Saturday last there was another meeting in Dublin
of the " Friends of Ireland." Mr. O'Connell spoke at great length in favour of a repeal of the Union, and against the proposed addition to the taxes of Ireland. The country was in a state of indescribable wretchedness ; and the absentees must be compelled either to spend their rents in Ireland, or to give them up for poor-rates.
VESTRIES.-.-At a vestry meeting in Dublin, on Tuesday, Mr. Dolan, a member of the late Catholic Association, gave notice that he would on the following day move, that out of the assessments 100/. should be applied to repair a Catholic Chapel in the parish. He was supported by several of his friends. One of them observed, "that the Catholics had been doing the work of the Protestants for the last century, and it was but fair now that the Protestants should in turn work for them." The Protestant Chairman, Archdeacon Torrens, and his friends, were stupified by the boldness of the proposition, but expressed their determination to resist it to the uttermost.
DUBLIN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.—O'Connell made a brilliant speech at the last meeting of this society, on the 8th instant ; in which he severely attacked the English Government for conniving at the existence of slavery, and the American for tolerating it. He spoke in strong terms of blame of Washington, who, eager as he was for freedom, left his negroes at his death in the same state as before the revolution, and warmly panegyrised Bolivar for emancipating his. He then proceeded at some length to recommend union among the friends of Ireland—his favourite topic, and concluded amidst the loudest applause of an audience almost entirely anti-Catholic. This is the triumph of oratory.
A public dinner was given in -Dublin, on Monday, in support of the Tere sian Orphan Society. Mr. O'Connell being Chairman, was long and loud upon the subject of himself. He said some civil things, too, of his "splendid friend" Richard Sheil—and some impassioned things of Old Ireland. Here is the conclusion. "She sleeps now ; but she will awake, not like a giant refreshed with wine, for the expression is too strong—no—but like the genius of Charity, springing from earth, and with her eyes fixed on Heaven, having combined Irishmen in the open foldinys of her cherub wings, and pro- claiming to them peace, liberty, and happiness!'
A public dinner was given to Mr. Sheil on the 3d instant, by the Catholic gentry of Galway. It was most numerously attended. Mr. 'Shed made a long speech about his services and sufferings ; and promised, should he be returned to Parliament, to prove useful.
Mr. M. Fitzgerald succeeds Sir G. Hill as Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. He has appointed his third son to be Deputy Vice-Treasurer.—Dublin Evening Post.
A petition has been lodged in the Hanaper Office, Dublin, against the return of Mr. Daniel Callaghan for Cork, on the ground of bribery.
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