IRELAND.

The long- threatened meeting of the Irish Orange-Tory party, a brief account of which was given in our second impression last week, was held in Dublin on Thursday the 14th. The place of assem- bly was the great circular room attached to the Mnisionhouse, in Which the entertainments were given to George the Fourth on his Visit to Dublin. The avowed object of the meeting was to take mea- stnes for the preservation of the Protestant religion, in the present posture of affairs. The persons who attended were admitted by ticket. The Lord Mayor of Dublin took the chair about half-past twelve, , When about three thousand persons had assembled : the galleries were well filled by ladies. Before the business of the meeting commenced, several parties paraded round the room with Orange banners, cock- ades, &c. which, however, were taken down and put away, at the re- , quest of Lord Roden. The principal persons present were—the Mar- quis of Downshire, the Earls of Roden, Winchilsea, Mayo, Longford, Rathdowne, Courtown, Norbury, and !tondo'', Viscounts Massarene, Castlemaine, and Lorton, Lords Menthe-111e, Hill:do:rough, Downes, Cole and Stopford, Sirs Robert Batesen, Edmund Haves, Augustine Fitzgerald, George Rich, and Edward Pakenhatn, Colonels Verner, Wingfield, Acton Beresford, and Irwin, the Reverends Charles Boy- ton, Mortimer O'Sull van, Archdeacon Agar, John Marti'', and Marcus Beresford, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Alajor Beresford, and Mr. George Moore. The resolutions were of the most commonplace description ; consisting of votes of thanks to the King, the Bishops, and Lord Winchilsea ; a declaration " that Protestants should die in defence of their religion ;" that" Protestant clergymen should never become pen- sioners of State," &c. The whole seven hours—for the meeting lasted so long—were spent in talk,—much to the annoyance of several ardent partisans who were eager to be at work, and to decide upon souse active measures. The principal speakers were Lords Roden, Wiuckil- sea, Longford, the Marquis of Downshire, Mr. Marcus Beresford, Mr. Boyton, Mr. J. Martin, and Mr. Mortimer O'Sullivan. We select a few specimens from the different speeches, which, reported et full length, occupy twenty columns. ! Lord Roden—" It is gratifying to see present here so many assembled from so many different parts, to address you in the support of the cause of liberty and religion, and which is the cause of God. It is, I repeat, highly gratifying to me that I should have the honour of addressing so great an assembly, which will not only demonstrate the greatness of the cause which we are here ts support, hut will show the importance of the object which we have in view; and I hope his Lordship in the chair will forgive sae when I say, that he must feel highly honoured in being president over an assembly that contains every- thing of character, everything of value, end everything of glory in this great empire. I think there is no person will feel this great honour more than the distinguished individual who now fills the chair. I am most happy to be one of the first to address you, an honour which I shall never cease to remember. , It is now two years since I Past addressed you in this room. I was one of those who united in signing a requisition for issuing summonses to the Protestants of Ireland for attending to a subject near and dear to their hearts. We have assembled to support the law of the land—to support one another, high and low—and to avert, by every constitutional means in our power, the further unjust, weak, and odious measures contemplated by the present Ministry, sad to support ourselves by every fair means against the enemies by which we ire surrounded, and that we will let them all know that we will never surrender. I know we have been laughed at for saying, notwithstanding what is passing about us, that we will not surrender. I certainly know at the same time that I au, now addressiug a general Protestant meeting, still I cannot forget that I ant a member of that invaluable Orange institution, the motto of which is, and which, I trust, will yet be felt by every Protestant, No surrender.'" Lord Winehilsea—" It is needless to say that I am the sincere and unde- viating frlend of the Protestant Church of this part of the empire, whose rights have been so sacrilegiously trampled on. My lords and gentlemen, I have stated that the religion of our Church is in danger. I look back with feelings of contempt anti disgust to the late attempt to extinguish at one blow Pro- testanism in this country. If I could see the justice which I look for done to our Church, I would 'lie have a wish of my heart ungratified ; I would hare nothing to ask of my God My lords and gentlemen, we hare lived to see most fearful times; but it is a duty which we owe to our country, awl, front the spirit which emulates this meeting, I feel gratified in saying that we eat' bear up against it. This spii it, I assure you, prevails in me and the .greet body of your fellow. countrymen in England. I will convey to them that spirit— I will call upon them to make one common cause you. \l 'e will not con- fine ourselves to these shores. I will fight the battle of Prote,tantism till my death, uniting with you in heart and hand ; and, trusting the event to the will of that God who has also stood by us, we will, I ttust, triumph over the united efforts of Popery, and transmit to posterity out glorious victory." Marquis VDownshire—Ilaving a large stake in the country, he conaidered it his duty to come forward at this emergency. He had been a supporter of Cathrdic emancipation, because he believed it would have promoted the good of all cla ■ Sl'S in _le empire. He bad been mistaken to seine extent, but yet Ite did not altogether despair. He earnestly recommended the Pittiestants oi Ire- land, in seeking for justice for themselves, to act in the way tha they would like others should act towards them ; that was a leading principle of the Chris- tian religion.

Mr. G. A. Hamillon—The principle which they were assembled to awed was, that. there should be no mixed standard of religion upon the citadel of Great 13:vain—they should not have the cross of Rome with the tricolour of in- fidelity floating proudly, while what they believed to be the tree standard of Chi istianity should be 'placed in a subordinate situation. Their Protestantism had not been established in consequence of their liberties; but their liberties had been established in consequence of their Protestantism. The principle upon which the legislation against the Church proceeded was because xi-umbers and error were regarded as paramount to truth and Christianity. They were now upon the eve of a mighty conflict. Hitherto it had been a war of words—but the time for action was approaching, and Ireland would be the scene of the con- Itest. The Peers of England had nobly done their duty : the Protestants of Ire- , land should be ready to support them with their voices, and, if necessary, with the bayonet. (Enthusiastic cheering.) The King had told the Protestants to speak out : they would do so—they should now proclaim that they were neither , at nor unwilling to enter upon the conflict, notwithstanding all the boasting ! about the seven millions, and the perfect state of their organization.

Reverend John Ilfartin—It was the duty of the Protestants of Ireland to refuse any information whatever to the Church Commissioners appointed by the King, and the auditory cheered this sentiment. The plan which he se- comniended was a "society and a subscription." They should have Polity Magazilles to enlighten the people of Eogland, and they should also adopt eifen- swe as well as defensive measures. With a slight alteration in the Lmtw, they might conciliate the Wesleyan Methodists to ntake common cause with them.

Reverend Charles Boyton—Tithe property is attacked because it is the won easy assailable. But the question was one of property, not of religion ; and the destruction of tithes would be followed next year by an assault on every descrip- tion of lay property. Unpopular as Protestant Clergymen may be, they arena not regarded with a tithe of the disgust and hostility excited by the absentee landlord. The wretchedness of the people of Ireland exposed them to the selfish machinations of every political quack. At one time, the remedy Wall Catholic ee.ancipation—at another, Refurni—at another, Repeal of the Union; but the reai evils of the people were left untouched, whilst poverty overspresi the land. Mr. O'Connell found the peasantry his ready instruments, and the Church we: to be sacrificed merely as -a sop to produce temporary satisfaction. It was said by the Whigs the great absentee proprietors that the Chards property originally belonged to the Catholics; but to whom, he would ask, did the absentee property originally belong? " TITHE " had been branded upon cattle seized for Church revenues ; but would it not be a; easy to brand " ABSENTEE " upon cattle seized for the rents of the absentee landluid?

Mr. O'Sulliean—"The Right Honourable Charles Grant was a Secretary for Ireland. I remember the time of his philosophieal, pulleys I should isty- mystical, legislation. Ile conciliated a country into bloody insurrection, and when first he saw victims made to the enormity of the outrages which he ;sad inthimeil into activity, he afterwards saw still more victims made to the offended majesty- of the law ; and this chief secretary, who swayed the temporal def,'..1e&m of the lend, {vas compelled in a British House of Commons to repent his pot principles, and sanction innovation upon the British Constitution. I remember. When in the sway of this chief secretary I have looked down from the mountaiste and the towers, and have seen the burning cabins of the poor, and beheld the desolation of the country, and the punishment which the law demanded to be inflicted upon those who violated its enactments. I seriously declare I know not whether I abhorred the continuance of that Secretary in office or the fearfig retribution it compelled. Will you trust your lives and interests to such a man as the Right Honourable Charles Grant', We have an Irish Chia- C1111,1% (,/th.S.S,S.) 1;1: s nor a leer ha. of tlw Cinnet, Jut was writ over to guide i.lam the light padi when thole was drover of our wandering. This

great functionary, if we e.didder io an hiredh etual point of ler:, is gifted

with au amaziog power of mind. Ito !: a man who had, aS fir aS politica are concerned, the ficulties which should have rendered them quite submissive to

Ids ambition, but as a legislator he la see attempted any measure which was not

a. failure, and never gave a promise or made a prediction which the results did not always falsify. I do the noble Lord iiiimdioe with respect to his promises —England will find he has been iii tronsiv faithful in some instances. If we look over the political career of the preit man, we shall find that it is all over-strewed ivith pto lions of sicirle,, letislations, false proini.es, and violent pledges. But atilt hi this misshapen and broken thing there is a nionumeat of which our country iii; st be proud. There is ia that same Lord Chancellor a splendid monument of li i.h eloqueuce, in which he has dedicated himself to maintain eternal hostility to British connexion. I hive is. hesitation in affirm- ing, that as the great wurk upon which the (rune of Lord Plonked must here- after rest, it would seem that the course he recorded lima' that monument pur- sued him thiough his after life, and blasted every mea-nie. Will you trust the votection of the Union to Lord Plunkett? (' Aro! ') " Reverend Marcus BerefOrd--" 'We will get rid of the bloody Popish rebels from amongst us. (Load and continued cheers.) We will stock our lands with hom,st Protestants. IVe will banish the illicit distiller from amongst us who is a disgrace to us. I svould, and I declare it most sills!? sly—I would rather eat a potato and salt with a good Proteitant, than live like a king in the midst of Papists. ( Cheers, and a cry t,J ' The true Mood of a Berojhrd.") Some of our clergymen wish to put Protestants on our sh hes ; but soule con- scieutanoi men to whom I have spoken said, Oh, we get our tithes from the Papists ;' but nsw the Papists pay us no tithes, and shall we not get rill of them ? The Government may make Us as poor as Job; but they minim make us dis• honest. Let the fires of Smithfield be lighted ;esti!' ; and althoush see went, like old Latimer to our deaths, covered with swkeloth, and overwheinird with the curses of the Papists, we will not succumb; and we shall still have, thank Cod, good men pressing into our Church. Illy Lords ;Ind Gentlemen, these are the sentiments of every worthy and honest man in the Protestant Church of Ireland, and if they were all congregated here this day, they would oae and all exclaim, we will stand by you until the last moment of our breath."

On the next day ( Friday the 1.5th), a grand dinner ivas given to the Earl of 1Vinchilsea, at Morrison's Hotel ; Lord Roden in the chair. Many of the gentlemen who attended the previous meeting formed part of the company. The Duke of Cumberland's health was proposed with a high eulogium on his Protestantism, by the Chairman : it was drunk with nine times nine, and uproarious applause.

Lord Roden gave "the Lord-Lieutenant, and tranquility to Ireland ;" and in the long speech which prefaced this toast, remarked that nothing could be more foolish than the meeting of the previous day, if it was merely to appear in the public papers, and pass away like the morning cloud-

" Nothing would be more foolish than our meeting, if no more was to emanate from it than what has occurred. It would only be the means of giving pleasure to our enemies and sorrow to our friends. We must have meeting.; throughout the country. We must run risks—we must not be afraid, if we would see the cause in which we are engaged successful. It has been my lot to he acquainted with many of my Protestant brethren, particularly those united to me by the bond of Orangeism. I know what the feeling of the Orangemen or Ireland is; and I know what their number, their strength, and their power IS. I have seen together thirty thousand men who, I believe in my heatt, would go from the Giant's Causeway to Cape Clear in defence of their rights. All I ask of you—I mean those moving in the same sphere of life with myself- -the landlords, landowners, and resident gentry, is, that you will unite with your poorer brethren, that honest class of awn whom we have a tight to encourage, for they can be of as much, perhaps more, benefit to us than we to them. However, each is required for the support of the other. Preparations are making for a meeting in Derry, and I propose that we should also have a meet- ing in Belfast, at both of which I hope to have the pleasure of attending. There has been a sub. committee appointed from the meeting of yesterday ; who are to decide on the best line to be adopted, in order to establish a constant and ready communication between the Protestants of Ireland, no matter how great their distance from each other. We are without a government; we are left to take care of ourselves; and we are fouls, while we possess the means of doing so, if we neglect to use them."

The speech was applauded with drunken delight ; the toast received with shouts of derision, and cries of "A speedy riddance of Old Foozle."

The health of Lord Winchilsea was of course one of the great toasts. His thanksgiving was full of the violent zeal which distinguishes this Lord, but mollified by occasional touches of humane English feeling. He descanted on the imminent danger to .oar Protestant institutions from the proceedings of Government and the avowed principles of men in power. He insisted upon the necessity of union ; and called upon absentees to return to their estates—it was their bounden duty.

" I certainly know and feel that the misery of the lower classes must be con- siderably increased, by draining and spending out of the country so much of the capital produced by them. I know, too, that the poor of Ireland are in a state that no Christian should allow, without making every possible exertion to better it. How that is to be done, may be a difficult question to decide : but a trial of some kind should be made, otherwise a just cause of complaint will exist ; and so long as there does, we can neither expect tranquillity or contentment; for if you leave the people in misery and want, they will naturally turn round upon you. If the gentry of Ireland, who possess enormous property in the country, do not unite with you in endeavouring to remove any just ground of complaint, it will be impossible for you to make that stand you are preparing to make. This is my conscientious opinion • for, as an honest Englishman, and a member of the House of Peers, I shall never rise to justify that which I cannot do con- sistently with justice and my own feelings."

He concluded by declaring his devotion to his religion, his God, and his country ; and by announcing a subscription of .500/. to forward Protestant interests and support the just claims of the Clergy. The healths of Lord Roden and Mr. Boyton went off with "nine times nine," which Lord Winchilsea calls the " Kentish fire."

Mr. Boyton delivered an energetic oration-

" Ministers declare it to be impossible to carry the laws as they exist ; and they find it impossible to make the change they see necessary ; and yet they con- tinue to hold the reins of Government. Now I say that, under such circum- stances, they should resign their authority to others. I speak in the capacity of an inhabitant of this country, and as a Protestant subject of the King, when I say, in reply to the question • What are we to do?' that I know of no way by which we can affect the minds of the ptesent Ministry except this—a plan that we find to have affected them on former occasions, namely, by exciting in them apprehension and fear. The Government have themselves proved, th it the only mode of effecting any thing with them is to give them every species of ember- asament. They have put a premium upon sedition, and have shown us, that to create imp wtant and cit movements of the people—to have the opinices of large bodies of Ids Mak dy's sabi aas frequently and loudly expressol in ieftiince to the ch t i lll s they are making, is the must expeditious mode of obtaining tlwm." In ordinary times he would not recommend this line of conduct ; but now it was both justifiable and necessary- " I say, th to my lay brethren, that their duty is to give expression to their opinions, and to obtain throughout the country the expression of the feeling of detestation, disgust, and discontent, at the conduct of those who bold the Go- vernment. I would not congregate the people where they are scattered, or where the Protestant population is thin ; but in those parts of the country where they are dense, I would bring them together, not in Bowsaw's, hot tens of thousands, and to proclaim unequivocally their indignation and di-gut_ I would not put the giant in an erect posture, but I would show Iii Majesty's Government the stirring of his mighty limb*. Connected as I sun with Motes. taut Ulster, and knowing as I do every county in it, I am prepared to state that there is not recorded, and there does not exist withia the memory of man, a period at which existed so strong a.fceling of hate as that ?Hark now perrodes the minds of the Protestants. I do say, therefore, that it is the duty of those persons who possess die confidence of the country, and who have the power of preventing any movement that might be prodertive of dangerous comequeuces, to call loyeth-r the Protestant population of l'Ister in low masses, to convey the indivnatirm of a powelfid people. I am pia ketly satisfied, such is the crisis at which we have arrived, such the danger modeinharrassment in which we are placed, and the doubtful position in which we stand, that we are called upon to coosider, from the 'm istiest! held out by his ahijesty's Government and those calling fur economy in the Army,— it is, I sag, a molter of consi- derritivmpr tie landed proprietors if this country to see bow far they would lie jastified in placing arms in the kinds of their tenantry."

LordGhnigall declared his rogret at having voted for Catholic eman- cipation. There were several other harangues delivered, and a great matiy toasts drunk (doubtless with much liquor); but we find no ac- count of any subscriptions offered in imitation of Lord Winchilsea's example.

On the day of the dinner, Lord Winchilsea and many other persons of distinction were admitted members of the Orange Lodge in Dublin. On Saturday, the Corporation of Dublin voted an address to Lord Winchilsea ; which, however, was sent after him to England, as his Lordship could not stay to receive it.