IRELAND.
The Repealers held their weekly meeting at Conciliation Hall on Mon- day. A letter was read from Mr. O'Connell, expressing his satisfaction that the Mayo Club had selected Mr. Joseph Myles M`Donnell as a candi- date for the representation. Mr. O'Connell gives M`Donnell a very ample certificate of character. The Coercion Bill introduced into the House of Lords was loudly condemned by Mr. Thomas Steele and Mr. Smith O'Brien. The Irish Members are required to be at their posts to assist in defeating the bill when it shall reach the Commons. The rent amounted to 2501.; 321. of it from a district said to be suffering severely from the rotate disease!
The letter of Sir Francis Hopkins, reaffirming his belief that Bryan Seery was the man who fired at him, has led to a somewhat intemperate rejoinder from the Reverend J. Savage, the Roman Catholic Chaplain to the Alullingar Gaol. Mr. Savage says—" All Ireland at present mourns over the sad and appalling fate of Bryan Seery, who solemnly declared before his God, that he had neither ast, hand, part, or knowledge in the crime for which he was to be hanged. His inno- cence is believed, and proclaimed by the people and by the press: subscriptions pour in from England, and from every part of Ireland, for the support of his afflicted widow and his five little orphans. The man who actually attempted the assassination of Sir Francis Hopkins, tormented by his own conscience, and in a fruitless desperation, openly declared that Bryan Seery is innocent, and that himself is the man who fired at Sir Francis Hopkins. There is no secret in this affair: the man is known to the Magistrates in the neighbourhood, and to the Police." [If all this is tree, what a shocking state of society does Mr. Savage's vindication disclose !—an innocent man executed because evidence is utterly de- based in Ireland; a known murderer at large and harboured by people with the knowledge of a priest!]
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