IRELAND.
The Cork Reporter announces that Lord Ehrington has cancelled the appointment of Mr. Roche as High Sheriff of the county of Cork, be- cause of his Repeal principles. Mr. Barry, the Reporter says, will be Mr. Roche's successor.
At a meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of Ireland, on Monday, a report of the Board of Directors was agreed to, accepting the terms proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which reduce the interest on the debt due to the Bank from 115,3841. to 9:4076/. per annum ; the latter sum being at the rate of 3# per cent. on the amount advanced by the Bank as a loan to Government. In reply to a question from Sir John Kingston James, Mr. Arthur Guin- ness said that he had been one of the deputation appointed to wait upon Government to consider the subject of the renewal of the charter ; and he could state that the position of the charter remained unaltered, and would so remain till after twelve months' notice had been given by the Government. He had no doubt that a general arrangement would be made, having reference also to the charter of the Bank of England ; but it should be understood that Government had not given any pledge relative to the matter.
At a meeting of the Repeal Association in Dublin, on Monday, the Secretary read a long letter from Mr. O'Connell, inter alia alluding to. " Lord Stanley's malignity to Ireland," as exhibited by his haste to anticipate the Government Registration Bill. He promises, before the meeting on Monday, to give the Association his opinion fully on the course of their next operations. Mr. O'Connell describes at length his " mission to Belfast." His reception at the dinner there he says was "the most rewarding moment" of his political life. He thus explains the cause of his travelling under a feigned name-
" When I had letters written bespeaking horses in my own name in the towns between Newry and Belfast, the innkeepers were afraid or personally unwilling to furnish me with post-horses. I believe, indeed, their refusal was owing to intimidation. But they did so refuse. * * • There cannot be the least doubt that large Orange gangs assembled at Banbridge, Dromore, and
Lisburn. HI had travelled on the day originally appointed, it is, I believe, perfectly certain that they would have destroyed my carriage, and, I suppose, murdered myself. I hope I am mistaken ; but all the circumstances that have come to my knowledge leave no kind of any doubt upon my mind that it would have been so. Now if such an intention had been manifested in any part of Leinster, Munster, or Connaught, against any of the virulent calumniators of the Catholic religion, or against any even of the most open, avowed, and malig-
nant enemies of the rights and liberties of the Catholic people of Irelaud—take the most virulent of the Orange exterminators, and say that if even he were
travelling in a private carriage, without ostentation, and without offering injury or insult to any man—if, 1 say, in any of the towns where Catholics pre- dominate, a conspiracy had been laid to assassinate such Orange exterminator,. what a shout, what a cry would be raised ! What execration would be ex- pressed at ' the Popish propensity to murder ! ' What charges of wickedness, of barbarity, of savageness, would not be made, and reiterated by the Orange
press of England, as well as of Ireland! Well, blessed be God ! the very worst of the exterminating Orangeists, who would, if they could, reenact the entire penal code, pass through the entire Catholic towns of Leinster, Mun- ster, and Connaught, free as air—unscathed, uninjured, uninsulted ! Blessed be the great God for the contrast ! I say this in no spirit of reviling. I say it to animate the Liberal Protestants and Presbyterians of Ulster, and its Catholic inhabitants generally, to disengage themselves altogether from a. party capable of such unmanly crime, of such uncivilized wickedness."
Mr. O'Connell speaks with great bitterness against the Dublin- Monitor; and concludes his epistle with the following postscript—" Stop the rascally Monitor. Do not let them send me any more of their papers."
The Repeal rent for the week amounted to 151/. 8s. 8d.
In consequence of the decision of the Dublin Queen's Bench, that Roman Catholics, notwithstanding the existence of a charter, have no right to vote for the election lof a Protestent minister, the Reverend Tresham Gregg, one of the No-Popery agitators, is now entitled to receive the revenues of the sinecure chaplaincy of St. Nicholas Within, in that city ; but the Archbishop of Dublin has refused to grant him a licence to preach within his diocese.
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