IRELAND.

The adherence of Lord Ehrington to his rule of excluding Repealera from any Government appointment continues to excite the we of

the Repeal papers in Dublin. In the appointment of the lists of She- riffs, several have been passed over who stood first in the list, because they were known Repealers. In the case of Kerry, a Mr. Kean Ma- bony was appointed; and the Sub-Sheriff was making preparations for the Assizes when the appointment was annulled, and transferred to Mr. Daniel Mahony.

The Lord-Lieutenant visited the Theatre Royal on Tuesday evening, and was cordially received. The Morning Chronicle's Dublin cor- Tespondent reports, that "in the interval between the acts adverse political cheers and groans were occasionally indulged in. A very hearty groan expressed the opinion the audience entertained of Lord Cardigan, and an equally loud cheer for Captain Reynolds then followed."

The Tories of King's County have determined upon starting Mr. Bernard in opposition to the Liberal candidate, Mr. Armstrong ; and the Tory journals avow that the object of this movement is to prevent Mr. Armstrong from voting in support of the second reading of Lord Morpeth's bill. The election takes place to-day.

Active preparations are in progress in all parts of the country for holding public meetings to petition Parliament in favour of Lord Morpeth's Bill. Meetings have already taken place in Newry, Clonallan, Limerick, Carrick-on-Suir and Banagher.

"...ere are oe- coming as armed nation; and Lord Stanley's policy tends to give to France allies among the people of Ireland ; a people at present devotedly attached to the reigning Monarch. and sincerely anxious to preserve the British counexion-but on the solid basis of justice.

•• I do not say it now iu any tone of defiance, bitt with a melancholy foreboding of coming events. which I would, if I could, prevent. I call upon the pampered aristocracy of England to BEWARE!—For their own sakes to exwsas I"

The letter for Dublin, read at the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, harps upon the old key-note, the imaginary "English un- relenting hate and bigoted detestation of Ireland ' —

Let me refer you to Monmouthshire, where a csndidate favourable to Ireland was certain of his election, when a powerful combination of wealthy Tory aristocrats ut- terly routed him, and drove him from the itch' even before the combat began; simply and solely because lie &longed to the friends of Ireland I Yet it is to preserve such aris- tocrats in their state and dignity that the Irish sailors numerously throng the decks of the British Navy, and dare the tempest and defy the bloodiest fight I It is that such aristocrats may live at home in ease and luxury that the serried ranks of the Irish sol- diery show their valiant daring in the bloodiest battles !

•• Again, look at Walsall. Monmouth-lies made a difference of two in favour of the Scorpion Bill. Walsall has done exactly the same. Canterbury has followed the pestilent example ; and if at St. Albans a contrary qoantity of strength has been ob- tained, yet the result leaves an adverse balance °flour gained to last year's four in fa- vour of Lord Stanley and against Ireland.

"My friend Mr. Roebuck, at the Leeds diuner, is said by the Radical newspapers or that town to have told me some hard truths. because I accused the English of the want of available sympathy for the Irish people. What has become of Mr. Roebuck himself since? Attending. I dare say, usefully and houourably to his professional and other pursuits; but doing no good-no, not the least-fur Ireland! Where are his bard truths now ?

"There is not a Tuttle on the surface that iudicates the slightest movement in Eng- land in favour of Ireland. Those of the English who are not directly favourable to our worst enemies, are contentedly beholdiug our frauchises annihilated, the Reform Bill emasculated, and the Emancipation Act practically repealed. • • *

•• There are two measures before Parliament, Lord Morpeth's bill • to amend the law respecting the qualification and registration of voters in Ireland "-a bill which truly deserves the name given to it. There is, on the other hand, Lord Stanley's bill, entitled • a bill to amend the registrations of voters in Irelaud'- a title false as the black heart of its inventor.

" Let Ireland. then, arouse herself. Let petitions pour in in support of the one bill, and in condemnation of the other. Let no idle jean:m.1 prevent the Repeaters from joining every mass who will petition in favour of Lord Morpeth's bill, or against Lord Stanley's. We have not a moment to spare upon idle jealousies. When the petitions are of any bulk, let them be transmittesi as parcels by the railway ; which in that case can be done much cheaper than sending them by post. Let there be no delay. Peti- tion, petition, petition! "Lord Morpeth's bill is an excellent bill. Weshould noteonceal it from our friends that we know it to be an excellent bill. We cannot disguise it from our enemies-they know it to be an excellent bill. But it will be an excellent bill only if we get it in the shape in which it has been brought in. without alterations or mutilations. The period is come when for the first time we can exclaim with perfect justice, 'the bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill.' •• Look over the list of Irish Members that are in attendance. Find out Ildw many of the Irish Members remain in Ireland. Let somebody propose a resolution, and print it in the Dublin and the countrynewspapers, condemnatory of the practice of pairing.

• • • • " There is Colonel Fitzgibbon, one of the Members for Limerick County. He is

ALWAYS absent; and even without the unhappy excuse of a useless pair. • • We want every vote. Stanley's atrocious measure may be carried through the House of Commons by a majority of only one! It is certaiu of a most hearty and triumphant majority int the House of Lords. Let all Limerick exclaim, • Where is Colonel Fitz-. gibbon ?' " Let the Aesociation exert itself to oppose Stanley's Bill, as if they were certain that its fate depended on their exertions. But let no false hopes be entertained. The barrier that steed between its and rank Tory despotism is daily crumbling. The Tories The week has produced two letters from Mr. O'Connell, intended to operate on the approaching crisis of Irish politics in the House of Commons. The first appeared in the Morning Chronicle, on Monday ; professedly in reply to a paragraph in another Ministerial paper, the Observer of Sunday ; and obviously addressed to the fears of Englishmen as to the part which Ireland might play in the event of a war with France. The second comes from Dublin, addressed to O'Connell's "dear Ray"; and is intended to rouse the people of Ireland to petition against Lord Stanley's Registration Bill and in favour of Lord Mor- peth's.

The Observer paragraph had professed to declare, "from positive knowledge," that the Irish people have not been tampered with by the Government of France ; and that they consider the Registration 13111 of Lord Stanley not quite so slavish as the French electoral system. To the truth of the first declaration Mr. O'Connell assents-

.. It is quite certain that the Irish people have not in any way tampered with the Government of France. Neither will they. I am quite convinced, tamper with that Government. It is equally true that the present French Government have not as yet tampered with the people of Ireland. But it is quite another question how long they will refrain from so tampering. The solution of that question will be found in the con- tinuance, and more especially in the audacious aggravation by the Stanley party, of cold-blooded English injustice towards Ire:and. Blessed be Heaven, Etiglish in-

justice to that country is impolitic and even dangerous. For, alas ! we have no other protection!"

He denies the correctness of the second position. The people of Ire- land, he says, know that Stanley's bill is far more slavish than the elec- toral system of France; the advantages of which system, in comparison with Lord Stanley's measure, he points out-

-Such are the advantages in the electoral system, which. if the French Government should ever set about tampering with the people of Ireland. they will have to offer to that people ; exclimively of the many other advantages which a connexion with France in preference to one with England niight possibly be held out by French ingenuity upon the

one hand, aided by Enlist' insolent iujustice upon the other." • • *

" It is exceedingly unpleasant to be driven to make these comparisons. But those ....--s-StIoald be blamed who create the neesswitv are preparing for office. They are panting to restore in Ireland the sanguinary ascend, aucy of Orange domination. They are about to set to work the Orange shedders o£ blood. The worst of the Tories are preparing to place upon the bench of justice the most virulent of the political and religious bigots of the -bar-men who have raise* themselves into notoriety by the activity of their malignant hatred to the religion and to. the people of Ireland. •• Sacred Heaven What prospect lies before us • • • "There is in favour of justice and mercy to Ireland the QUEEN-may the great God Heaven bless and protect her l-the Queen. with a manly intellect and high moral courage, just, good, benevolent! And filen there are the faithful and never rubcfsed people of Iceland! HURRAH MR FATHERLAND AND THE QUEEN

At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. John O'Connell attended as the representative of his father. He repeated his father's threats of consequences should Lord Stanley's Registration Bill be passed and Lord Morpeth's rejected-

" Let the English choose between those two bills: let them confer the blessings of Lord Morpeth's bill, or inflict the deep determined curse of which Lord Stanley's bill would be the source. Let England now do justice to. Ireland, or, so sure as to-morrow's sun will rise, Ireland will yet refuse her as- sistance in the hour of need."

This sentiment was received with great cheering. He complained. of the apathy of English Members ; and estimated the majority for Lord Morpeth's Bill on the first reading at not more than 4, while in- the other stages of the bill the Ministers would be in a minority.

The weekly rent of the Association has diminished : last week's. collection was under 40/.

A correspondence has taken place between Mr. Steele and Mr. George Dawson, respecting a speech reported to have been spoken by the latter at Belfast. In that report Mr. Dawson speaks of Mr. Steele as a " sa- tellite " of O'Connell on his "buccaneering crusade" to the North of Ireland, and is stated to have called O'Connell an " impostor " and a "ruffian," and that Mr. Steele's affidavit before the Magistrates at Belfast was a "gross libel." Mr. Dawson, when called on for expla- nation, repudiated the report, and disclaimed any intention to offend.

Last week an Alderman of the Corporation of Dublin, who has been remarkable for his factious zeal against the Government, and his re- sistance to every attempt at reform, fled with his family from the city,. after raising large sums—it is said 30,0001.—by bills and borrowing. This Alderman has been the Coryphxus of the Corporation ; had served. the office of Lord Mayor, and fought duels at elections, when the faction- were ran hard. It is supposed that he is on his way to New York.. Several persons of small means have been ruined, owing to their mis- placed confidence in this "champion of Orange Protestantism." An industrious citizen, also an Alderman, has been fleeced to the amount of 1,0001.—Morning Chronicle.

A letter in the Derry Sentinel gives an account of a fire at a flax- mill near Letterkenny on the 2d of this month, in which seven persons were seriously burnt, two of them so much as to have since died. The- flames having communicated to the flax, burned so furiously, that the persons in the mill, at work at the time, could not escape uninjured : the door was locked, and in their anxiety to get out it was some time before they could turn the key.