IRELAND.
We can confirm the rumour which has been some days in circulation that the Honourable William Browne, brother of Earl Kenmare, will come forward as candidate for the representation of the county of Kerry at the next election. The treatment of Mr. Blennerhasset by his Tory friends, since his election, in withholding the promised pecuniary aid, and leaving him to pay all the expenses, a part of which, at least, they undertook to defray, will of course prevent him from hazarding another contest. —Cork Reporter.
Colonel Rawdon, Member for the city of Armagh, was entertained by his constituents on Wednesday week. Mr. Leonard Dobbin pre- ; sided. Among those present, were the Earl of Gosford, the Earl of Charlemont, Lord Cremorue, the Most Reverend Dr. Crolly, Mr. Ser- geant Curry, eac.
Mr. O'Connell returned to Dublin on Saturday, after his sojourn at Darrynane Abbey ; having been entertained at public dinners and
speechified en route. On Monday, the Loyal Repeal Association
assembled as usual, and there Mr. O'Connell of course presented him- self. His first words on entering the room, after the cheering had sub- sided, were—" You see the Lord-Lieutenant has not yet been able to
frighten me !" In an introductory speech he alluded to his enthusiastic reception at Limerick, and to the crowd of sixty thousand persons who met him on his approach to that city. He then moved the admission of Miss Dillon, the daughter of a woollen-draper, as a member of the Association. He said that her father, who was one of the first to join the Repeal Association, had been refused any farther orders at Dublin Castle in consequence— He stated this distinctly, that it might reach the ears of Lord Ebrington. If a pitiful and paltry persecution of this kind were to be resorted to hy the Go.. vernment, he should be glad to know how the Whigs could any longer talk of Tory persecution by the withdrawal of their patronage from persons in busi- ness who refused to vote for them? He would be sorry to enter into a warfhre of this kind, and he would therefore say no more upon the subject at present ; believing as he did, that Lord Ebrinaton himself was incapable of conduct such as he now complained of, and that it was to be attributed solely to his under- lings at the Castle.
Mr. O'Connell then referred to the Lord-Lieutenant's declaration against Repeal. He spoke of it in the same manner as in his speeches at Cork and Limerick, last week ; affecting to consider the announced refusal of Government patronage as a boon to himself personally, and an advantage to the cause of Repeal, by clearing its advocates from all imputation of interested motives. It would appear, however, that Lord Ehrington's declaration had a deterring effect-
" Ile was sorry to perceive that the base appetite of gaits was influencing some men its keeping back from the ranks of the Repealers. Some of those to whom he alluded were Reperders before. It was, therefore, reasonable to suppose that they were influenced by the honey promises of the Castle. Ile, however, could tell them, that iii that course they could not persevere. They must declare themselves either for or against the people. He had kept a neutral ground open as long as he could. lle had asked tin- no pledge ; but did they think that the time would not come when it would b tteeessm'y to ask a pledge ? Lord Ebrington had traced the line, and if the Repealers fortified their line in front, let the blame fall not on them, but on the head of the Lord-Lieutenant himself. Ii is Excellency had stated in his recent speech that he would not take any violent proceedings against the Repeaters, because they were preserving the peace and not violating the law. Although be be- lieved that this was the first time a Lord-Lieutenant had said so much its their favour, yet he must say that he did not thank Lord Ebringtan for letting them alone as long as they did not commit any breach of the law. (Loud dicers.) He referred to this part of his Excellency's speech because it bespoke some- thing strange and striking in the condition of Ire hind to hoar a Lord-Lienten.. ant boasting to the people that he did not trampb, upon them for molting. Would Lord Ebringtou dare to say that to the poop le of England? (Beamed cheering) lie was not for plarrelling with the present Administrat i011. lie wished to keep them between him and the Tories as long as he possibly could."
In his subsequent speeehes at this meeting, Mr. O'Connell went over the old ground of" injustice to Ireland," shown by the small propor- tion of Representatives to the number of inhabit:lots, and other alleged grievances of the Union. The people of Ireland, he said, bad arrived at this dilemma, either to crouch in abject submission to British domi- nation, or struggle one and all to restore their domestic Legislature. Referring to the Ulster Association, which in one of his earlier speeches he threatened never to notice again, Mr. O'Counell observed- Should they follow the example of the Ulster Association? Should they go on puling in a constitutional association, or should they speak up for Ireland ? He was for the latter. (Cheers.) There was no other way of de- feating such men as Stanley. He knew no remedy short of alarming the people of England; of making them feel that injustice was no longer sufferable; of demanding a repeal of the Union, and severing the Parliamentary connexion between this country and England. The people of Englund had a great inte- rest in that connexion. Tradesmen, shopkeepers, merchants, all had a deep interest in having the rents of Ireland spent in England. Let them teach theta that their interests were likely to be affected by their exertions. John Bull was particularly sensitive about the pocket ; hut no such association as that in Ulster could have the effect of making him feel so.
Among the resolutions passed at this meeting, it was resolved that measures should be taken to procure a portrait of the late Earl of Charle- mont, in his uniform as a General of the Irish Volunteers, to be placed. in the room where the Association meets ; and also that "the Volun- teers' March " be adopted as the charter-tune of the Loyal Repeal Association.
The Limerick Ch?-oniele thus describes the Repeal demonstration in that city. " The crowds which attended Mr. O'Connell's procession were strictly of one order and class ; never in the aggregate exceeding 12,000, though magnified by political artifice or mistaken enthusiasm to five times that amount. The mechanics and labourers, we grant, never made a more respectable exhibition in public—and it was the only bright feature in the spectLle ; but for this they owe nothing to Mr. O'Connell—to the great regenerating principle of Temperance are they beholden for their improved condition. Apart from this useful and industrious body of men, not regarding, of course, strolling groups which infest the locale of every populous community, ripe for fun or mischief, what was Mr. O'Connell's position on Wednesday, and who were his supporters ? Wlso else besides the operatives lent him their assistance or presence on this occasion, when he visited Limerick as the advocate of' repealing the Union of both countries? Nobles and gentry, the learned and commercial proll:ssions, the landed interest, and even banking capital, whose combined energies struggled with him to carry out Emancipation and Reform, have all, \I'll exception, utterly abandoned him in the wild speculation of Repeal."
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