Mr. O'Connell has published a lengthy reply to Lord Milltown's
request, that he would suspend the Repeal agitation for a year, in order to form an Irish party, for the purpose of exacting the fulfilment of Sir Robert Peel's promise—equality for Ireland with England. Mr. O'Connell says that there is no nucleus for such a party; he has failed in all previous attempts to form one: whenever any great number of Irishmen meet the Repeal sentiment irresistibly predominates; and, with lavish expressions of respect, he invites Lord Milltown to head the Repeal movement.
The accounts received in Dublin from Ulster, on Thursday, respecting the celebration of the battle of Anghrim on the 12th, are untoward. It appears that on Monday night and the following day riots took place in Belfast, Newry, and the neighbourhood of Lurgan. The processiouists accuse the Roman Catholics of wantonly assailing them at variouspoints, not only with insulting epithets, but with mud and stones; and much oft his hard treatment, it is averred, was pa- tiently borne, until the violence became intolerable and resistance necessary. On the other hand the Roman Catholic party hold that the Orangemen had no right to make a party demonstration. It is impossible to pierce to the truth through the thick prejudice of the local accounts.
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