24 JULY 1841, Page 12

IRELAND.

The marriage of the Lord-Lieutenant with Lady Somerville, says the Globe, is fixed for the 30th of this month ; other accounts name Monday next as the day. Lord Fortescue, accompanied by Isis affianced bride, was in the Viceregal box at the Theatre on Monday, to witness the performances of Madame Vestris and Mr. Charles Mathews.

The electors of Cork County gave a grand dinner to their new Mem- ber, Mr. O'Connell, in the Cork Chamber of Commerce, on Monday. Mr. Daniel Callaghan was the chairman ; and among the Vice-Presi- dents were Mr. Beamish, the late Member, and Mr. Murphy, M.P. About three hundred sat down to dinner. The proceedings were dis- tinguished by a full share of Irish enthusiasm. The toasts were cha- racteristic: the first was-

" The Queen, the star of Ireland's hope : may the clouds now gathering fail to obscure its glory, or shut out its radiance from a faithful people."

The toast of the evening was coupled with another, thus-

" The Repeal—England has pronounced against Ireland! The penal code or legislative independence is the alternative. Ireland must be a nation or nothing." And, continued the chairman, " O'Connell! Ireland's Liberator from religious bondage : may it be his destiny, as her regenerator, to sound the trumpet of her social and political resurrection, and proclaim to the world, that as a nation she is not dead, but sleepeth."

Mr. O'Connell made a long speech, and several smaller ones. His long speech is outlined in the closing sentence-

" You are burdened with a conscience-treading tithe rent-charge ; you are compelled to accept of a defective representation ; you have got a stinted and miserable franchise; you are insulted with a mockery of corporate reform ; you will be cursed with bigoted and partial Judges—with party Sheriffs, who will procure jurors to find verdicts without any proofs at all. Peel and Stanley will lead the van, while the enemy will shout aloud in the rear. Ireland has but one hope, and that is—the Repeal." In one of his supplementary speeches, Mr. O'Connell chalked out a task for Mr. Murphy— He would impose the duty upon his youthful friend at the bottom of the table, of moving three or four adjournments every night the Scorpion Bill should be before the House. plr. Mtn-Ay was understood to assent.] He thanked his friend. Well, then, Stanley's Bill should not pass in the coming session of Parliament, provided the House now in existence were not abolished. Stanley's Bill should not pass !—that he pledged himself to—it should not pass in the coming session. Eight millions of Irishmen would teach the Scorpion that Ireland should not be made the sport of a malignant statesman.

This was a sort of amende honorable for a little rebuke which the Liberator gave during the evening to his young friend ; who proposed to allow England a trial before the final Repeal. Mr. O'Connell first ordered the meeting to give a show of bands in approval of Mr. Murphy's manly avowal of his sentiments, and then another to de- clare that nothing was left for that country but Repeal: the first show of hands was general, the latter universal.

The 12th of July is eclipsed by election excitements ; but we find a few paragraphs in the Irish papers of "Orange outrages." At the hill of Carnew, in Garvaghy, some Orangemen shot a number of bullets into a gentleman's grounds : at Ardress, says a correspondent of the Northern Whig, they wrecked a whole village.