IRELAND.
Mr. O'Connell, highly to his credit, has been exerting himself with even more than ordinary vigour to put down a reckless and injurious system of combination among the workpeople of Dublin. At two public. meetings he encountered furious opposition from the leading combmators : but we are happy to say, that at the last and most nu- merous assembly, which was held at the Corn Exchange on Monday last, he was supported by a very large majority, and carried resolutions denouncing "the system of terror, or base, inhua.an, and unchristian outrages and murders, perpetrated in the city of Dublin." As a meal. sure of peace, a subscription was set on foot to build a Tradesman's
Hall in Dublin ; to which Mr. O'Connell contributed 1001. In his attack upon the system of combination, Mr. O'Connell has been pow- erfully supported by Mr. Staunton.
The Dublin papers are raising a question with regard to the Bank of Ireland. It is stated that the charter of the Bank of Ireland expired on the 1st of January 1837, and could be called in, by the terms of it, within twelve months from that time, on receiving notice from Mr. Spring Rice that he was prepared to pay off the sum of 2,600,0001. due by the British Government to that Bank. Hud he done so at the date referred to, the charter would of course be completely run out on the 1st instant ; but the understanding is in Dublin, that instead of taking that decisive step, Mr. Spring Rice has, as usual, temporized, by referring the matter to the Committee of the House of Commons on Joint Stock Banks. This is, however, doubtful ; and the greater psobability is, that he suffers the matter to stand over altogether, leaving the Bunk of Ireland to the enjoyment, for an indefinite period, of all its exclusive privileges. It is to be hoped, however, that on the meeting of Parliament, the subject will not be allowed to be passed over in silence; and that the question may at once be fairly argued and brought to issue, whether or not the longer continuance of such mono- polies is expedient. If any thing like experiment is pres lllll ed to be required in such a case, which in point of tact it is not, there would be great advantage in beginning with the Bank in Dublin ; and, from the working of a new system there, the Government would be the better prepared for grappling with the greater grievance nearer home.—
Times.
The popular sympathy in Dublin is undoubtedly with the Papineau party ; not from any anti•English sentiment, but because they have derived the notion from their own experience that it is impossible a people could resort to arms without the gravest provocation. Besides, a knowledge that a large portion of the emigrants are Orangemen leads to the belief that pranks have been played beyond the Atlantic similar to those which have made Ireland a hot-bed of dissension, and which, until lately, showed that caste had the privilege of crime. As regards the question of religion, I am perfectly;satistied that it does not in any- wise form an ingredient in the sympathy manifested. The case would be just the same if the party conceiving themselves aggrieved were Pro-
testants, and the friends of the official Catholics. The affinity of creed is lust in the love of liberty ; and if the Catholicism of the Ca- nadians shall be found to give additional keenness to the good-will of the multitude here for the cause of the habitans of the colony, we may thank the Tory organs which first drugged the cup with the bitter ingre- dient. It is curious that the feeling I have described is altogether un- accompanied by any hostility to the British Government the desire for the success of the popular party where it exists, is active, while its apparent consequence, a wish for defeat and disgrace to the British troops, does not appear to follow. Had the Government made u single concession to the Canadians, had they followed the course adopted towards the Irish in 1829, passed coincidentally a measure of relief and one of coercion, rebellion would have found little if any sympathy here.—Dublin Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.
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