IRELAND.
Last week, in our second impression, we gave some extracts from an address by Mr. O'Connell to the People of Ireland generally, and his constituents of the City of Dublin in particular, on the present state of parties and public affairs. This document is too interesting and important to be slurred over, and we therefore subjoin some of the principal passages. After stating that he had tendered to the new Ministers his " unbought, unpurchaseable, unconditional support," without having made any "terms or stipulations with them," Mr. O'Connell proceeds to explain the grounds of his confidence, and to state what he expects from Lord Melbourne and his colleagues.
" First—That the poser and the insolence of the fell Orange faction must instantl cease. They are. indeed, quite inconsistent with existence of this Ministry. 'the im punity is ith which every petty Conservative and Orange functionary could and did exercise its authority, during the Peel-Tory Administration, must cease; and the poor people will get some chance of justice and protection one? more.
" Second! y—The country will cease to be governed by its unrelenting enemies. The Ministry will, necessarily, displace their own and the People's enemies, and employ the friends of the People and their own. How Ireland will exult when they hear that the Castle has been cleansed of those who distorted every thing to the prejudice of the
popular interest, and countenanaal awl protected reeky body aud every thing that ear hostile to the Irish People!
"Thirdly—The administration of justice in Ireland will be purified., The selection to judicial offices of political partisans will never more be 'went of; men who have proved
their integrity and independence, by political I -sty in times us Ion it Iv as a crime. dare to be liberal, will be the fit objects of the selection of the new :SI inietry : and the waters of justice will no longer be poured through mephitic channele, destructive of life and of property. but will flow in pure 13011ICCS, diffusing salubrity and gladness over the thirsty land. " Fourthly—The highest offices will cease to be abused. by the dull and meritless foes of Ireland. Lord Iladdingtou, pour man ! is already gone. Ile is to be immee diately succeeded by the high-minded and iutelligent Lon' Mulgrave. Blackburn— how I rejoice to have to write it —Illitekburu, alto served the Orange cause better, us berm he was Atturney-Genelal for the Whigs, than a hen he held office under his friends the Tories,—Blacknurn, who pereinultal Lord Anglesey that lie was a Liberal ! but threw off the meek the moment Peel came into power,—Blackburn has ceased to be in office! His foot was on the steps of the judicial bench—lie %mild have been a chief judge, 55 ituout delay and without revocation. Tho bench is relieved from Ids load, the country is delivered from him. Blackburn is no longer in office; and Ireland breathes freely once more. Again, Edward Pennefather. who refused to be Attorney-General to rite Whigs, but condescended to be SolicitorGeneral to the anti-lrisli, untsuatiouel 'Fillies, retires to that private life of which I admit him to be an ornament, but %hick he has Ilium tarnished, by his Orange hue of politics. Ireland is freed from the baleful influence of his political creed. Perrin aud O'Loglilin till the highest Ministerial offices of the law. None but a maniac can now apprehend that a jury will be packed. or that partisans will be selected to try him. The law will, whenever necessary, be vindicated ; but its course will be marked by the strictest impartiality, and administered in the ROOMS spirit of the purest justice. Again. Hardinge. a chivalrous soldier, but a flimsy N1110, perhaps unconsciously, played the part or deputy to Shaw and Boston, retires, to make way tar a young nobleman of the first statiott in society, whom 'al etts and political principles entahle even 'the blood of all the Illowards.' Lord M. pinkie Semetary for Ireland ; and this sae, lion is the more more felicitous, as his first . lion of pslitical seutimeuts took place iet Dubliuu, arid on behalf of the liberties 01 ,01.1. Irish people. " Fifthly-4,mm men I come to measures; and I feel my anticipations of ' goo& to Ireland ' rise upon me. The first principle to be worked oust by this Ministry.1 the great principle of the appropriation or the surplus of the revenues of the Vida. blislintent. Sinecure parsons still no longer be found amusing their eon the gisterial bench at home, or spending their incomes amidst the luxuries ot to,emn nations. The principle of appropriation is good in itself; and, what is more, it is capable of being made the source of the greatest and highest benefits to the people of Ireland.
" Sixthly—The great question of the final extinction of tithes will be in the hands
of a Mini-try pledged and determined to do justice to the Catholic population of the conntry. Last year they agreed to strike off, at one blow, forty per cent, of the burden on the people; and now it will only remain to place the remaining sixty per cent, on the reuts of the landlords, and not on the labour, industry, or other capital, of the workmen or farmers. in order to make the relief complete, and to banish for ever, even from recollection, the odious and blood stained system of tithes.
Seventhly—The present Ministry are publicly and most unequivocally pledged to a
thorough reform of all Corporate abuses. What honest Irishman can think, without heartfelt delight, of the prospect, the certainty, of having those nests of bigotry, monopoly, awl corruption. the Irish Corporations, completely cleansed, autl purified ? Take the Corporations ol Dublin, of Waterford, of Cork. of Drogheda. of Londonderry. of Limerick. or any other great Man, and see what an otliousolisgusting, and insolent set of eorthless and vulgar animals infest them, and usurp and abuse the rights and franchises intended for the citizens at large. Look tat this Corporation of Dublin. and see whether there ants ever any t sing like it! Look at its bigotry! For forty three years Catholics are eligible to be freemen of Dublin ; during these forty-three ) ears, not one single Catholic has been admitted to the freedom ! If such an instance of fiendlike intolerance could be predicated of a Catholic corporation towards Protest tots, we should nver have an end of the taunts, reproaches, and vituperations against the evil spirit of Ihmery. But we do not retaliate; we only meet out this specimen of the vile' uess of the Dublin Corporation, to enjoy, by anticipation, the pleasure mid the delight of seeing. %% hide the next three %mks, a bill brought in, aud passed the House of CORII11011:, without any unnecessary delay, to abate the present enot mutts nuisance. and to identify the Corporatism with the householders of this great city, and to see the franchise, conceded by Royal grant and Legislative enact meld, employed for the proIection of the inhabitants at large, and not converted to the purposes of sordid lucre and bigoted insult nnd injustice, by a few greedy and contemptible individuals. There are many other benefits to be derived to Ireland from the present Ministry, which IF need not recapitulate; but which must necessarily flow from the principle on which they have undertaken the burden of public affairs, namely, that of doingjustice to Ireland," He recommends that the agitation of the Repeal should be suspended; and that a fair trial of the new policy adopted by Ministers in the government of Ireland shall be given, before the efforts to obtain a separate Legislature are renewed. He also disclaims in very strong language all desire to transfer the revenues of the Protestant to the Catholic Church,
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