The "Convention of the Irish Race at Home and Abroad,"
as it is rather magniloquently termed, though, at home at least, there is a considerable portion of it quite unrepresented in the Convention, met on Tuesday in Dublin, when the Bishop of Raphoe took the chair and delivered a very animated speech to two thousand delegates, in which he made a great deal of the report of the Financial Commission, that Ireland is overtaxed,—(though only in the same sense in which the poorest parts of England and Scotland are over- taxed),—and treated it as proving the necessity for a national Government. Then Mr. Alfred Webb moved a long string of very wordy resolutions; Mr. Justin MacCarthy said a &iv bland words of fruitless exhortation to the recalcitrant parties (who were not present) to bury the hatchet and make Mends
with Mr. Dillon; and after one or two other futile laments over the divisions of "the Irish race" at home had been delivered, the Convention adjourned till Wednesday.
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