IRELAND.
The Repeaters held their weekly meeting at Conciliation Hall on Mon- day; Mr. Dunne, a very young barrister, presiding. Rent, 2551. Tont. Steele played off some of his antics; and a letter from Mr. Smith O'Brien' reported progress of the opposition to the Assassination Bill in the House. of Commons- " Nothing can baffle our endeavours, except the continuance of those fatal. crimes which bring disgrace upon our beloved country, and afford a pretext for the indignities which are offered to it. For myself, I do not hesitate to declare, that if these atrocities continue to be perpetrated, I shall retire from the contest.
The following piece of more than Irish absurdity, from a late number of the Nation, has been running the gauntlet of the English press-
" From the whole facts, we arrive at the conclusion, that the hopes of the in eliding army are now very low, and are wearing lower every day; that Sir U. Hardinge and Sir C. Napier will probably never meet; and that, if the people of. Lahore: and the protected' states on the Hindoo side of the river make good use of their time, and have ordinary sagacity to see the value of union and co- operation at such a crisis, the game is in their hands; that the whole Moslem population of Northern India, who are only waiting for the first reverse that be- falls the British arms to raise the cry of ' Deer! Deen!—the Faith the Faith l' and fall upon their oppressors with all the fury of vengeance hoarded well for thirty years, will clear the way to Bengal with 200,000 blazing scimitars; that ere twelve months shall have gone round, not the Sutlej only, but the Jumna, and possibly the very Ganges, shall be no longer overshadowed by the robber-standard of the tyrants of Southern Asia; and that the blood-stained Company—the plagues of the East, the plunderers of Hyderabad, the scourge of the Caceatic, and the pp of China—may begin to set their house in order at Calcutta. Allah jilt I God is great—Amen and Amen ! "
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