IRELAND.
At a meeting of the National Association, on Tuesday?, a letter was read from Mr. O'Connell, describing the Ministry as being in peril, and Peel ready to take power ; though Mr. O'Connell thinks that "his only chance is some fastidious or punctilious abandonment of office by its present possessors." He calls upon. the universal Irish nation to raise "a reiterated cry from Cape Clear to the Giant's Cause. way—from Cunnemam to the Hill of Houth "—a cry that should and would be heard" kindly at Windsor or Westminster." In less figura- tive language, Mr. O'Connell advises his countrymen to address the King and petition Parliament, " that the mild, the paternal, the conci- liatory, the peace.producing, and, above all, the impartial and just ad- ministration of the affairs of Ireland by the present Ministry, should be continued and perpetuated." Mr. O'Connell, in a postscript to the above letter, proposes his fif- teenth grandson, Christopher O'Connell French, as a member of the Association.
There is a rumour in Dublin of the intended retirement of Lord Plunket from the Irish Chancellorship, in consequence of the over- ruling of his judgment in the cause of Hodgens versus Hodgens, and the confirming of the judgment of Sir Edward Sugden by the House of Lords. Baron Richards was mentioned as his successor.—Times [The cause of resignation seems inadequate.]
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