In reply to a letter to dine at Tipperary, Mr.
O'Connell says, that be is now engaged in the most important struggle of his life "that of obtaining for Ireland a perfect equalization of civil and religious liberty with the rest of the British empire "— "We have too long acquiesced in an inferiority which is derogatory to our nature, insulting to our understanding, and bitterly oppressive of our country. We must be the equals of Englishmen. If their Parliament will not concede that equality, ova owe sua Ls. "We must never again relax our efforts until this great object is attained— perfect equality of civil and religious liberty ! " We care not by what excuses, or under what pretexts, this quality is re- fused : the majority of the Irish nation have as good a right, in point of law, to be Catholics, as the English have to be Protestants; and, in my judgment, infinitely stronger reasons for being so. They should not, and they must not, therefore be punished by any political inferiority.
"The Tories—the base, selfish, and bigoted Tories of England—led on by the hypaciite Peel and the despotic Wellington, are too strong for the Queen and the Ministry. ludeed, we have much reason to !dame the Ministry for not purchasing popularity by adopting the Ballot as a Ministerial measure ; and also for not swamping the Tories in the House of Lords with Whig Peers."
(Notwithstanding his "absolute shall," will not Mr. O'Connell go to Parliament and be as tame and submissive a supporter of the Whigs in office, next session, as he was in the last? Give us deeds, Mr. O'Connell—practical independence.]
Mr. O'Connell is to leave Darrynane on the 5th of November, to attend a round of dinners at Kanturk, Youghal, Thinks, Galway, Waterford, Limerick, Cork, &e. He is to be in Dublin about the 30th of November; when the Precursor agitation will begin in earnest,
The Dublin Evening Post contradicts the repot t that Mr. O'Connell was the " first person to lodge a tithe.schedule at the Castle." On the contrary, Mr. O'Connell has declined to make any application for his share of the Million Loan. Other Liberal lay impropriators have acted in the same disinterested manner; but their example has not been followed by the Ortne;e• Tory nobility and gentry, notwithstanding their boasted affection for the clergy.
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