IRELAND.

Lord De Grey takes his departure from Ireland on the 13th ; and _Lord Heytesbury is expected to arrive in Dublin on the 16th.

The Dublin correspondent of the Times says, Lord Heytesbury has consented to retain in their offices the great majority of gentlemen forming the household of Earl De Grey. Colonel Bowles is to be first Aid-de-camp and Comptroller. Mr. A'Court, at present Secretary to Lord Eliot, is to be Lord Heytesbury's Private Secretary.

The Dublin Corporation, on Monday, elected Town-Councillor Ara- bin, "a Liberal Protestant and thoroughgoing Repealer and Irishman," Lord May or for the ensuing year.

Mr. Corbally, one of the Members for the County of Meath, having refused to attend the meetings at Conciliation Hall at the dictation of a meeting of his constituents at Trim, the Pilot gives him a hint that he had better "give in his adhesion" to the Repeal cause, or the "brave men of Meath" may seek another Representative. Some Meath electors have met at Kells and called on Mr. Corbally to resign ; making their demand in a most abusive resolution.

Mr. P. Bellew, Mr. T. Vesey Dawson, Mr. R. M. Bellew, and Mr. T. N. Redington, have all refused to sign a requisition for a county meeting at Dundalk, because it is to be a meeting to promote Repeal as well as to express sympathy with O'Connell ; though they would have

no objection were it only for the latter purpose. Mr. Redington's letter was read to a meeting of the electors of Dundalk ; and an unanimous vote was come to by the meeting, calling upon him to resign the repre- sentation of that town.

At the usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. V. Maher, M.P., presided. Mr. W. S. O'Brien presented a sub- scription of 31. from Mr. Luke Joseph Shea, a Justice of the Peace for the county of Cork, who requested to be proposed a member of the As- sociation. Mr. O'Neill Daunt announced that the Corporation of Dublin had just offered Mr. O'Connell the Mayoralty of the city for 1845 ; which honour, however, Mr. O'Connell had declined. Mr. Daunt fur- ther observed, that he had the highest authority for stating, that the Irish Catholic clergy are unanimous in their opposition to the Catholic En- dowments Bill, which had been brought into the House of Lords. That bill would place them in a more dependent condition than they were at present : for it not only gave a controlling power over them to Lord J. J. Beresford, the present Primate of Armagh, but restricted them in the exercise of the right they had hitherto enjoyed of disposing of their own individual property as they thought proper for charitable purposes. The next business was the address to the Orangemen of Ireland, calling on them to fraternize, and not to keep up factious and party feelings by walking in procession on the anniversary of the battle of the Boyne. Among the concluding sentences of the address, were the following- " No Dutch King, no English bigot, turns our fields to bloody theatres by their ambition now : why should we fight for factious memories ? Friends and countrymen, we have looked too long at Irish things from different sides of the Boyne. Let us bury contentions in the unruffled river. Our fathers bled upon its banks ; let us do better—live, and live for Ireland."

Mr. H. Grattan, M.P., hinted a charge of treason against Sir Robert Peel !-

It had come to his knowledge when at Rome, that overtures had been made by certain individuals, acting, as he supposed, on behalf of the English Govern- ment, to his Holiness the Pope, which constituted an infraction of the statute of premunire, to induce the Pontiff to exert his influence to separate the clergy of Ireland from O'Connell and the Repeal movement. The answer of the Pope to the application he had referred to was, of course, an indignant refusal to interfere ; but the insult to the community was equally as great as

if the attempt had succeeded.

Mr. D. O'Connell junior announced that the captives were in excel- lent health : they were actually getting fat in their imprisonment, upon the inundation of good things sent them by their friends.

The rent has somewhat fallen off; it was announced to be 2,1521. 4s. Id- There was an Orange "demonstration "at Dublin, on Monday night, at the Rotunda, "to commemorate the battle of the Boyne." Orange banners and badges were rife, and the oratory of a violent description. Two thousand persons sat down to tea.

The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle says—" I have seen letters from the Northern provinces which announce that pre- parations are in progress for grand displays by the Orangemen, as soon

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as the act against processions shall expire. The Monaghan !Northern Standard, an Orange organ, boasts that there are at present upwards of seventy Orange lodges sitting in that county."

The Tipperary Vindicator says—" White, who has been strongly suspected as one of the principal concoctors of the nefarious Riband conspiracies against the unprotected peasantry in the King's County, has been again caught In his foul practices, writing threatening letters to that Tory nobleman the Marquis of Westmeath, at Castletown Delvin. He has been fully committed to Mullingar gaol, to abide his trial at the next Assizes. Of course it was his aim to fasten the writing of these letters on innocent parties; but he was foiled."