IRELAND.

The dismissal of Justices of the Peace continues. Among the most recently-dismisse,. are Mr. John Bodkin, M.P., for attending the Tuatn meeting ; and Mr. John Hyacinth Talbot, (who had pre- viously been reinstated in the commission,) for attending the Ennis- corthy dinner : both gentlemen also are deposed from the Deputy- Lieutenancy of their respective counties.

Mr. Sharman Crawford has declined Mr. O'Connell's invitation to join the Repeal agitation. He could not, he says, consistently join a body that desires altogether to abolish Imperial legislation : he does not desire to destroy that system, but simply to add to it the principle of Local legislation.

The Cork Grand Jury have refused, by fifteen to five, to adopt an Anti-Repeal petition.

One of Mr. O'Connell's great meetings was held at Battinglass on Sunday, for Wicklow county. Mr. J. Copeland, of Dunlevin, was the chairman. The Earl of Wicklow had published what Mr. O'Connell called a " love-letter to his bog-trotting agent, beginning ' Dear Fenton,'" dissuading his tenantry from taking part in the meeting: this letter and the mountains of Wicklow afforded some points of local inte- rest to vary Mr. O'Connell's address.

At the dinner, Mr. O'Connell again alluded to the letter of Lord Wicklow ; who had called the Liberator an "individual

That puts me in mind of what happened to Curran. There was a fish- woman, an excellent scold, and Curran engaged in a combat of words with her. While she kept her temper she had the best of it, until Curran at length called her an individual. An individual said she, in a rage ; • why, I am no more an individual than your mother.' 1 believe it was the recollection of that story that induced Lord Wicklow to cull me an individual ; and I throw it hack upon him in the same manner, and 1 tell him i am no more an individual than his mother."

Mr. O'Connell cautioned his hearers that there were plans on foot to divide the Irish people by the creation of a new party. They would not, of course, join it : they would not enter into any compromise. He re- newed his coquetry with the non-commissioned officers of the Army- " The sergeants even of the Spanish army are a fine class of men, and effected that revolution ; but in the British service they are the finest, the most intelligent, and the most trustworthy men that ever existed. In every other service the sergeants are made officers of, but in the British service they have not yet learned to do that act of justice : but, if our cause goes on, we will do them this piece of service, fur then the Government will alter their

plan and appoint a great many of the sergeants to commissions, for fear they would pronounce '; and I give them advice to do so from this spot. In Spain

the; revolution has been complete, and it has taken place to the disparagement of the English interests: and is there a'man living who does not know that England is weak as long as Ireland remains dissatisfied—that England is dis- respected so long as Ireland proclaims that she has just causes of discontent ?"

At a special meeting of the Repeal Association, on Friday, Mr. O'Con- nell read a letter which he had received from M. Ledru Rollin. Allu- ding to a speech by Mr. O'Connell mentioning the recent Repeal de- monstration in Paris, the writer said that the intention of the " French Democrats" had been perfectly understood : it was, " to express a pub- lic testimony of sympathy in the glorious struggle of an entire people for independence, for the faith of their fathers, and for nationality." A matter of form separated the Repealers and the French Democrats- " you are Monarchical, we are not so " : but they had a common enemy—" the enemy of equality and of liberty all over the world—the English Aristocracy." " We offered a testimony of sincere and pro- found sympathy for a peaceable and legal struggle ; but in case the Tory Government should violate the sanctuary of the law, which serves you as a refuge, we believe that France will offer you other aid against augmented dangers."

To this advance Mr. O'Connell replies with some cordiality, and much more caution. He conveys " the respectful gratitude of the Repeal Association for the sentiment of liberality and justice displayed in that communication." He says, " we understand each other per- fectly "; but he seems to think it necessary to strengthen that perfect mutual intelligence by some qualifying explanation-

" Your present countenance and sympathy is bestowed upon men who are struggling within the limits of local and constitutional principle for the rights and liberties of their native land—of men who desire to use no other means than those which are peaceable—means having no other efficacy than that which arises from their moral force and power. 'You, indeed, allude to another contingency, in which you may be disposed to be more active in our support. But that is a contingency which we decline to discuss, because we now deem it impossible that it should arise; the British Government having retracted every menace of illegal force and unjust violence, and confining its resistance to our claims—if it Anil continue to resist those claims—within the ordinary channels of legalized administration."

He alludes to the misrepresentation of the English and French press, already mentioned by his correspondent ; and that is an excuse for de- clining the French Repealer's self-invitation-

" We strongly apprehend, that the visit which you have intimated that you might make to this country, would, whilst it would be of no practical utility, afford opportunity for further calumny, and for mischievous (though utterly false) insinuations. Upon these grounds, we deem your contemplated visit to Ireland, in any thing resembling a public capacity, as being, to say the least of it, premature."

However, " at a more suitable opportunity," Mr. O'Connell will be proud to exercise the rights of hospitality towards M. Ledru Rollin ; and he finishes with " an emphatic expression of respect and esteem." [So that awkward offer of too close sympathy is well parried!]

At the same meeting, Mr. O'Connell entered on a long critique of the debate on Mr. Ward's motion. He thanked Mr. Escott—both the Messrs. Escott, lest he should miss the right one—for causing the house to be counted out ; and then he proceeded— He wished to show the contempt with which Ireland was treated. When a question concerning Scotland came on for discussion, a strong muster was made in defence of the Scotch ; the Ministry were made to tremble for their safety, and had only a paltry majority of 18 : but when a question affecting Ireland is submitted to the notice of the legislators, the House dies a natural death.

And there it lies in its inanimate condition, whether alt paralysed only in half its being—for he didn't care a rush it—it was all the same to him. Ireland would soon have a Parrd4q4k14,0011% own.

He dismissed the Whigs and their leader very summarily— Lord John Russell made a speech the other night against Ireland, and in his anxiety to say something against O'Connell, went out of his way for the purpose of gratuitously expressing it as his opinion that the Repeal meet- ings were illegal. He was glad that Lord John Russell had acted so, for this little incident revealed more eloquently than could a thousand arguments the animus by which the Whig party and their leader were actuated towards Ireland. 'But mark the strange, the startling inconsistency of the man. This very same statesman, who declared the Repeal meetings were illegal, had on former occasion espoused the cause of the Irish Magistrates, and denounced the conduct of Lord Chancellor Sugden in dismissing them, as illegal and indefensible. But if Lord John Russell was right in declaring that the meet- ings were illegal, Lord Chancellor Sugden was right in dismissing the Magis- trates for attending them, and Lord John Russell was wrong in having de- nounced the Chancellor's conduct as unconstitutional. (Cheers.) So see into what predicament the leader of the Whigs was placed by his own words. In his rash impetuosity to put a slight upon Ireland, that he might thereby find favour in the eyes of England, be had betrayed himself, stultified himself, and besmeared himself with the tar of political turpitude. There was the leader of the Whig party, who in the same breath vindicated Sugden and con- demned himself. Oh, it was delightful to see those men showing themselves up in this kind of way.

At the usual meeting of the Association, on Monday, another visiter was rebuffed, and much more roughly than the French gentleman. Mr. Thomas Steele handed to Mr. O'Connell the card of " Mr. James Gordon Bennett," at the same time intimating that the owner of it, who stood beside him, was the proprietor of the New York Herald. Mr. O'Connell said—" I wish he would stay where he came from : it is a much fitter place for him than this. We don't want him here." Mr. Bennett, a gentleman about fifty years of age, suddenly retreated, as he entered, across the table. Mr. O'Connell added—" He is one of the con- ductors of one of the vilest gazettes ever published by infamous pub- lishers." This declaration was followed by laughter, and a partial dis- position to hisses, which was suppressed by the chair and persons around it.

Proceeding to business, Mr. O'Connell stated that he had not yet matured his plan of a " Protective Society" of three hundred gentlemen, each bringing 1001. as a test of his sincerity, or that of his neighbours. He could only pledge himself that before the end of the year one step more would be taken towards Repeal. Ile read a circular which had been transmitted to the Irish Members, containing an address to the People of Great Britain, which those Members were solicited to sign, as "setting forth to the world an exposition of the wrongs and claims of Irelaud." It had already received the signature of several Irish Mem- bers. It stated many of the usual grievances, and appealed to the people of Great Britain thus- " Our local wants are not duly considered in the Imperial Parliament. Yet adequate powers of self-government for local purposes are not afforded in the constitution of our fiscal and administrative institutions. We have applied in vain to the Legislature for redress. Our complaints arc unheeded—our re- monstrances arc unavailing. We now appeal to that higher tribunal of public opinion, which creates and deposes Parliaments and Ministers; and we ask your intervention to enforce our claims. • • * It may still be in the power of a Government which shall merit the confidence of the Irish people to win back their forfeited affections: but we warn you that every day's delay increases the difficulty of the task, and gives additional strength to those who maintain that there is no hope of good government for Ireland except in the restoration of tier national Parliament. Should this warning be neglected, upon you, not upon us, be the responsibility of future events."

Mr. O'Connell regretted the address had been signed by acknow- ledged Repeaters. He would not himself sign it : but it was not sur- prising that other Repealers should differ from him on the point, and he would not reject the cooperation of any man who did. He thought this address, however, a good symptom, as showing that the rats were stirring under the straw. • The Association met again on Tuesday ; when Mr. O'Connell en- tered into long arguments about Mr. Sharman Cranford's letters, and other matters. Before doing so, however, he carried a resolution, that the Repeaters of Belfast should be written to, imploring them not to fulfil a supposed intention of holding a meeting on the 8th September,

when there is to be a great Anti-Repeal meeting. A consideration of the address to the people of Great Britain led to another attack on the Whigs— This document demanded a recognition of the right of the people of Ireland of all classes to an equal participation in religious and educational arrange- ments. What chance was there of this principle being adopted ? The Whigs, with Lord John Russell at their head, had declared they would stand by the Church as it was at present constituted. He inferred this from the speech of Lord John Russell, and from the articles which appeared iu the leading organs of that party in London. These gentlemen said, t‘ We demand a mole ample representation in the Legislature." What chance was there of that ? Did not the House of Commons, over and over again, refuse to increase the representation ? They had repeated opportunities tor doing so ; yet they re- fused, and none were more active in their opposition than the Whig party.

The Repeal rent for the week was announced to be 1,335/.

There was a fatal affray fight at 'l'urloughmore fair, near Galway, on the 1st instant. Mr. Brew, the Head Constable, had endeavoured to suppress a faction-fight, and had seized a ringleader ; when the con- tending parties coalesced to resist the Police. Mr. Brew, who is de- scribed as a remarkably humane, temperate man, unwilling to sacrifice life, retreated ; the mob, in pursuit, pelting the Police with stones, one of which struck the Head Constable and laid trim senseless on the ground. The Police now could no longer retreat without sacrificing his life, and the order to fire was given ; when one man was shot dead ; the dead body of a boy was afterwards found, and several were more or less wounded.