IRELAND.
A letter from Mr. O'Connell to Lord Cloncurry appears in the Dublin Pilot of Monday last. Mr. O'Connell reminds Lord Clon- curry of an opinion be had given some time ago, that it would be well for the Irish Peers and Members of the House of Commons to have a meeting a short time before the opening of the Purliamentaiy session, to consider the state of public affairs. In compliance with this suggestion, Mr. O'Connell recommends that the Liberal Peers and Commoners should assemble on some day between the end of this month and the tith of November, to adopt measures for counteracting the
policy of the " truculent " Tories. He refers to the speeches and addresses of the Tory candidates at the last election ; to the virulent abuse of the Irish people in the Tory papers, as proofs of the unabated, unextinguishable hatred of the faction, towards Ireland ; and especially to the election petition fund-
" I thought that in the detail of the evils and oppressions which licland has let neatly seven centuries been made to endare at the hands of England, the resources of malignity and crime had been exhausted. But I was mistaken; there is still behind a demoniacal instrument of vexation and torment not hitherto used. It is the sys. tem at ic robbery by the aid of public subscriptions, and is ith money collected from more. TOWS contributors, of all those whom the People of Ireland have chosen to honour, and have deemed the most proper to attend to the protection of their properties, lives, and liberties in P,:rliament.
" Robbery it is -plain palpable robbery ; because, uo matter how unfounded a peti. ticn may be, lie who is petitioned against must necessarily expend a large sun, ru his defence.
.• Rubbery, because it is another Indication of Me coljidence which Me English Turies hare is Me perjury -we must not, my Lord, mince the word-in the PEureity of This Cuninattees. Alas! I must candidly confess that such confidence is but toe well founded ; if we are to judge of future Tory Committees from what we have seen of lbrmer Committees, I do nut hesitate to say that grr.sser perjury was never committed than I have seen and know n to have been committed by former Tory Committers. " Indeed. the cherished though vile instruments of Toryism itself -tire 7'irrics and the Standard, and the other Tory newspapers-confirm the confidence of Spottisarrode and his conspiracy gang in Tory perjury. They boast over and over again, that the priocipal ii Isio, do not attend the ballot on Election Committees- and iu twit they state the truth ; but that all the Tory Members do attend-and in that they also state the troth. The inference is obvious and inevitable. " here we are, my Lord. exposed every ore of us to Tory conspiracy and Tiny per- jury, E sen She contributors to the conspiracy fond. having an influence oecessarill to some extent, and probably to n great extent. over their rasa Itepresentat is es, they thus diminkh the clothe.: we otherwise might have had ut a fair or impartial mattes:'
In order to repel this attack of the Tories on the Irish Liberal Representatives, Mr. O'Connell suggests that the Peers and Coninion. ere assembled in Dublin, and headed, as he hopes, by the Duke of Lein- sten should adopt-
" 1st, Au address of allegiance and dutiful respect to her gracious Majesty the Quell respectfully claiming from her the protection which her royal prerogative can bestow on her faithful people of Ireland.
02cIlv. Another whirrs' to her Majesty praying .pecifleally that she may order her Attorney General for England to prosecute the members of the Spottiswoode gang, for
11 deep. dangerous and unconstitutional conspiracy against the freedom of election and the privileges of the Commons House of Parliament. I deem it quite impossible for any constitutional lawyer to doubt that Spottiswoode
and hie gang are guilty of such a conspiracy.
"my, To form a deputation to wait on Land Melbourne on the subject of these addresses, and in particular to ascertain the proper mode of presenting them to her Majesty.
Billy, To arrange the mode and time of bringing fors aid in the house of Lords a suitable motion on the subject. "5thlv. To arrange for the bringing forward in the House of Commons of a motion for an address by that House to direct the Attorney•General to instituti -osecution chicle I have suggested. "61111y, To arrange a motion in the House of Commons for a Committee to inquire and report upon the privileges of the Iluuse with respect to Election Committees in reference to the existing conspiracy. qtly, To arrange a motion in the House of Commons, or in both Houses of Par. !lament, for the repeal of the Grim% ille Act, and to substitute a mode of trial of elec- tion petitions, free from partiality, less liable to expense, and to be presided aver by a responsible judge.
" dilly. To prepare an address to her Majesty from the People of Ireland, pro, ing her to continue is office bar present Ministry, as being the first Ministry the People of Ireland ever found honestly disposed to administer equal justice to all. "9thly, Having thus testified our confidence in her Majesty's Ministers, we should, I think, make the fittest arrangement 're possibly could to press upon that Ministry our conviction of the absolute necessity of enabling the Reform Bill to work its intended purposes, try extending and rendering more simple the elective franchise ; and, above all, by giving the electors the protection of the ballot."
Mr. O'Connell repeats his conviction, that do what they will, to a Repeal of the Union they must come at last.
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