21 APRIL 1838, Page 5

IRELAND.

Mr. O'Connell is employing the holydays in " agitating" his con tuents. On Monday, he called a public meeting tomake arrangements for the effectual registry of Liberal voters. He said that he did not expect the Irish Tithe Bill or Corporation Bill to pass this session, and doubted whether even the Poor Bill would get through the Lards.

In the course of his speech, Mr. O'Connell adverted in the following passage to the conduct of the English Radicals on Irish question. Wo quote from the Dublin Pilot- " Fiona the experience we have had of the Radicals of England, it has been proved that they are miserable in numbers, poor in talent, and inelPetire any nstful combination, but throwing their entire u•eivlit and influence int.) Mu howls of the enemies of Ireland and Irish liberty."

For the present, we merely put this passage on record—there may be occasion to recur to it : we shall now only remark, that it is not very clear to whom Mr. O'Connell intended his censure to apply—whe- ther, for instance, the ei-devant Radical Mr. Hume, now the O'Con- nell Member for Kilkenny, is included in it—and that the expression proceeded from the same person who lately declared that the ',loam!: Ministers " would sacrifice their lives for a principle which they lrelieved to be a true one."

On Tuesday, a meeting was held at the Corn Exchange on the sub- ject of Poor-laws. Mr. O'Connell spoke at length against the Go- vernment bill; and after a discussion, in which Mr. Staunton advo- cated that measure, a committee was appointed to get up petitions against the bill.