IRELAND.

The process of striking the Special Jury for the approaching State trial was completed on Friday ; when Mr. Pierce Mahoney made some objections to the course taken by the Clerk to the Crown and by the Crown lawyers, the nature of which is indicated in the reasons of a formal protest which he banded in against proceeding with the selec- tion of the Jury- " First, because the names of a great number of persons qualified to be in- eerted upon the Special Jury list, and whose right had been allowed by the Recorder of the city of Dublin, have been fraudulently and unjustly omitted or obliterated from the Special Jurors list. Secondly, because you refused to receive evidence to prove the above fact, although proof of the same was in readiness and tendered to you. Thirdly, because the names of many persons are inserted in the Special Jurors list who do not reside in the county of the city of Dublin. Fourthly, because you refuse evidence of the said fact, although proof of the same was in readiness and tendered to you. Fifthly, because several of the persons whose names were drawn yesterday do not reside in the county of the city of Dublin." The business of the day, however, went forward ; the attornies for the traversers keeping up a curious running commentary on the suc- cessive challenges of the Crown, as each side alternately struck off a name, to reduce the list from forty-eight to twenty-four— The second name struck off by the Crown was Michael Dunne, 62, Cook Street, brazier.

Mr. Cantwell—" There goes another Roman !" Mr. Bourne—" I dont know whether he is a Roman or not, but I have no doubt that he will esteem it a favour to be omitted from this Jury."

Mr. Cantwell—" Oh! a very great favour for the Crown, I have no doubt. I strike off 41, John White."

Mr. Kemmis—" James Fallon."

Mr. Cantwell—" Another Roman! I strike off Robinson Carolin."

Mr. Kemmis—" John Beaghan."

Mr. Cantwell—. There's another ! Strike off John Thwaites, the soda-man." _ Mr..-Kemmis—" James Patrick STith." ---- Mr. Cantwell—" Another Cathehe ! I really think that every Cornwall man should be informed the way the Catholics of this country are respected here. [Mr. Cantwell alluded to the speqch of Lord Eliot, made to the electors of that county on his reelection after being appointed to the Secretaryship of Ireland.] I strike off John Irwin." Mr. Bourne—" Really, Mr. Cantwell, there are no observations made by the other side, and they were better omitted by you." Mr. Kemmis—" John Dennan, of Abbey Street."

Mr. Cantwell—" George Whittaker.'

Mr. Kemmis—" William Joseph Cainen."

Mr. Cantwell—" Another Catholic ! I strike off Robert Chamley."

Mr. Kemmis—" Lawrence Gorman."

Mr. Cantwell-4, Another Roman ! John T. Boileau."

Mr. Kemmis—" William Fitzpatrick."

Mr. Cantwell—" Another Catholic! Nicholas W. Monserratt."

Mr. Kemmis—" John M"Gloin."

Mr. Ctintwell-4, Another Catholic! George Wilson Boileau."

Mr. Kemmis—" William Hendrick."

Mr. Cantwell—" Another Roman ! James Cuff St. George."

Mr. Kemmis—" William Ring." Mr. Cantwell—" He is supposed to be Liberal, and therefore next to a Catholic! I strike off John Fry."

The charge of a sweeping omission in the Sheriff's Jury-list is ex- plained by the Dublin Monitor of Wednesday, in a paper headed " Most Important "— " The revision of the Special Jury-list rests entirely with the Recorder. He examines the qualifications ofany man, and judges whether or not he is tralified according to law to be placed on the panel. This done, the Jurors-book is made out under the Recorder's direction, and authenticated by him ; and then handed over to the High Sheriff, who is bound by law faithfully and truly to make out a list of jurors that appear on the Jurors-book; and it is from this list so made out that the Clerk of the Crown strikes Special Juries. Now, that a most astounding discrepancy appears between the number of gentlemen admitted as Special Jurors by the Recorder and the number set forth on the High Sheriff's list, is undeniably true. The High Sheriff's list contains 717 names; whereas the number admitted as qualified jurors by the Recorder amounted to 780." [How the omission happened, says the Monitor, has not yet been clearly ex- plained ; but thus much is known—] "After the Recorder had concluded the revision of the panel, but before that panel had been arranged in alphabetical order, &c., he left Dublin on a visit to Sir Robert Peel, at Drayton Manor. Accordingly, as the panel was arrow-red in alphabetical order, it was trans- mitted, made out on slips, to the Recorder, at Drayton Manor, to be au- thenticated by hum; and it appears that two slips, containing the 63 omitted names, either were not forwarded to the Recorder' or, being forwarded, did not come into his bands; for we understand the Recorder has no recollection of the omitted names having reached him."

The opponents of Government strongly hope that this error will prove fatal to the prosecution : the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle repeats a rumour that Sir Robert Peel has directed the " sus- pension " of the prosecutions ; "and as there is no power in law to make another special panel until next year, the prosecutions, it is said, have been indefinitely postponed." The Attorney-General has served a notice on the traversers, that should not the trials terminate by the 31st instant, each succeeding day up to the 15th April is to be considered part of Hilary Term ! This makes the Monitor think that additional time is to be used to correct the Sheriff's list by the addition of the 63 omit- ted names.

The London Standard says that the omission will make no difference to the progress of the trials ; for, technically,—" As regards the panel, the Court cannot look farther back than the Sheriff, and if satisfied that he has acted honestly, it must proceed with the panel returned by him, in disregard of 311 objections to its composition ' ; and morally, " The owners of the sixty-three omitted names, if there were such names and such owners, would be merely in the position of the 669 gentlemen whose names were in the list, but not drawn from the ballot-box."

Another notice served on the traversers is remarkable as indicating the voluminous nature of the documents and the vast scope of the pro- ceedings: it requires the traversers to produce in court all the books, letters, and other documents of the Repeal Association, on the 15th instant, the day fixed for the commencement of the trials. This would be something like a notice on the House of Commons for the produc- tion of its journals, petitions, 8m. The object of the notice is, that if the documents should not be produced, the Crown would be at liberty to give secondary evidence respecting them. The paper itself would extend to two or three columns, but the following is an abstract given by the Monitor- .. 1. To produce on the forthcoming; trials any diploma, card, or other docu- ment issued by the Association, wherein the traversers are designated volunteer members or associates, or any other document in their possession proving their connexion with the Association ; and also, the books containing the entries of members, the pay6iente to the Association, &c.

" 2. To produce the laws or rules which govern the Association, and of its several officers, such as Repeal Wardens, Inspectors, Collectors of rent, &c.

"3. To produce any book containing entries of the proceedings of any com- mittee appointed since the 1st July 1840, together with the minutes of proceed- ings of all such meetings held during all the months of the past year, and the resolutions passed at such meetings. "4. To preduce the abstract of accounts of the Association from the 6th September 1842 to the 26th January 1843, audited and signed by Edward Hog, J. P. Conran, and John Levey; and also, all books containing the receipts with the disbursements for the years 1842 and 1843 to the proprietors of the Nation, Pilot, and Freeman newspapers. "5. Copies of the following letters—Of the 14th February last, by T. M. Ray to the Freeman; of the 6th March, by the Rev. Richard Kitson, of As- keaton Limerick; of the 11th March, by J. C. O'Callaghan to T. M. Ray; of the 29th April, and other subsequent dates, by Maurice O'Connell; of the 10th May and other dates, by B. O'Halloran, of Curry ; of the 16th May, by the Rev. Mr. Meagher, of Stradbally ; of the 22d, by Mr. O'Connell ; of the 16th June, dated Halifax, and signed James Tobin ; of the 29th, by M. O'Connell, containing the list of Repeal Wardens for Munster; of the 29th, by the Rev. A. H. Martin, of Carrowbrowne •' also all letters addressed to Mr. O'Connell from the Repeal Societies in the United States and British America, of which

many are suggested in the notices; also, letters by the Rev. Martin Loftus, of Galway ; Rev. P. Hanly, of Ballydooly ; Rev. T. Gillseman, of Curragbroe; and all documents by the latter gentleman to the Association in the months of July, August, and September, of the past year.

"6. Also, copies of letters by the Reverend P. Maguire, of Afagnire's Bridge; the Reverend Charles M'Dermott and E. M'Hugh to the Pilot newspaper; the Reverend Hugh M'Gauran, of Swanlinbar, Sir Benjamin Morris, Waterford, P. Daly, County Clare, Honourable Martin Ffrench, to Dr. Gray ; Robert Tyler junior, to D. O'Connell; Lord Ffrench; F. Maguire, Clonkeen ; Reve- rend E. Murtagh, of Eglish Frankford ; Thomas Ffrench; J. M`Donnell, Doo Castle; Charles O'Connell, Aghada ; B. T. Roche, Galway ; J. H. Hynes, Clare ; Denis Jackson, Tallow ; H. Daly, Wicklow ; J. APDertnott, Athlone ; J. Doyle, P. Skerrett, Loughrea ; J. M'Cougher, Glasgow; J. M'Ternan and Simon Walsh ; Reverend N. APHvoy, Kells ; Reverend E. Casey, Calling- town; Reverend P. Farelly, Moynalty; Reverend M. Coughlan, Reverend M. Tunny, Ballintra ; B. Masterson, Mallingar ; J. Delany, Maryborough ; Re- verend. E. Walsh, Ballyporeen : together with all letters received or read at any meetings of the Association for the past year. " 7. Also, a document entitled Plan for the renewed action of the Irish Parliament,' read on the 22d August last ; The report of the Sub-Committee' on the arbitration system, signed John Gray; The address to the inhabitants of the countries subject to the British Crown,' signed D. O'Connell; Report from the Arbitration Committee' to the Association, and resolution adopting same; the forms of proclamation and testimonial submitted by J. Gray, with the resolutions adopting them ; the list of French friends subscribers of IL 4s. 4d., banded in by John O'Connell, and subsequent entry of the resolu- tion of thanks to the friends of Ireland in France ; the resolutions at the meet- ing in Calvert's Theatre on the 9th October ; Address of the Liverpool Re- pealers to Daniel O'Connell, at the Rotunda dinner ; list of arbitrators ap- pointed or named as fit persons for that purpose. with copies of the ' rules ' to be observed by the same; resolutions passed at Mullaghmast ; ' The Leinster Declaration for Repeal,' published in the Pilot, Freeman, and Nation papers.

"8. Also, the original requisition headed Clontarf—Repeal,' calling a meet- ing for the 8th of October; the rules recommended by the committee to be observed in the cavalcade, and headed Repeal Cavalry '; resolutions moved by Mr. O'Connell at a meeting of the committee, on the 4th of October, and the amended regulation headed Repealers on Horseback.'

"9. A Book of Instructions for the appointment of Repeal Wardens and Rent Collectors, printed by J. Browne,:Hassau Street, which book was circulated by the Association ; any pass-book or other book containing entries of accounts between the Association or defendants and J. Browne, printer, and W. H. Holbrook, of Crow Street, engraver ; and, lastly, 'all books or documents kept by or on behalf of the Association, wherein are contained any entries of the before-specified reports, lists, statements, resolutions, and all other proceedings of the Association or the defendants during the last four years.'" The exclusion of Roman Catholics from the reduced Jury-list has created the utmost " excitement " in Ireland. It is denied that the eleven Catholics were all Repealers : one writer says—" Mr. John Behan, who would have been the Foreman, never was a Repealer ; and several others of the Catholics never belonged to the Repeal Asso- ciation." As soon as the fact was known, the subjoined requisition for an aggregate meeting of Catholics was set on foot, and in three hours it received the signature of sixty-three barristers : the three first names on the list of signatures are those of Mr. Shell, ALP., Mr. Thomas Wyse, M.P., and Mr. Ball, the son of Judge Ball- " The Crown Solicitor having, on Friday the 5th day of January, struck off the Jury panel of forty-eight which had been balloted for the pending State trials, all the Roman Catholics upon it—namely, eleven—we, the undersigned Roman Catholics, considering that proceeding on the part of the Crown both an insult and a wrong to the emancipated Catholics of Ireland, perpetrated by a Government of which the leading members have repeatedly expressed their de- termination to administer justice without reference to religious distinctions, re- quest an aggregate meeting of the Catholics of Ireland, in Dublin, on Saturday the 13th January 1844, to petition our beloved Sovereign that she may be gra- ciously pleased to direct her attention to the conduct pursued towards her loyal and devoted Catholic subjects by her Majesty's Government."

It is supposed that Dr. Crolly, Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland, will take the chair.

In the Dublin Town-Council, on Tuesday, Alderman Roe moved this resolution- " That an address be prepared to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty may be pleased, on the assembling of Parliament, to direct that an inquiry be made into the grievances of Ireland ; and that her Majesty would be graciously pleased in the mean time to direct the suspension of the present State prose- cutions until effective measures shall have been taken to redress those griev- ances; and that such address, when prepared, be submitted to the citizens at large for signature." The motion was cordially seconded by Sir J. Power. Mr. Thomas moved as an amendment, that the question be considered that day six months. Alderman Butt objected to any interference with the prosecu- tions, and vigorously opposed the motion— If the resolution meant any thing, it meant that in reality the Repeal agita- tion was caused by some grievance existing in this country ; but that the agi- tation would be foregone and suspended if the proceedings instituted against those engaged in it were foregone also, and an inquiry instituted into that grievance—(" Hear, hear ")—in other words, putting the Repeal agitation in abeyance. Was his friend authorized to say that would be the case? (Loud cries of "No, no, no, no!") He could understand that. (Cheers.) Alder- man Roe could not make that promise : he heard those unanimous " Noes" from the other side, and that should have taught him that the support of his friends meant this—" We will use this motion for our own purposes ; we will by it get rid of the prosecutions, and meantime the Repeal agitation goes on with energy unabated." (Cheers and applause.) After that avowal, manly and unequivocal, that Repeal was not to be abandoned, what were they to say to the worthy Alderman's motives ? He told the worthy Alderman that his character was at stake; and if he moved that resolution, he would place himself in such a position as to make a mockery of the Queen and of justice. (Cheers, and cries of" No, no !") If the motion did not mean that, what did it mean ? An amnesty—a mutual suspension of hostile proceedings ? No; the Repealers did not make any such promise ; they did not want any amnesty. (" Hear, hear! ") Then, in the name of common sense, what did it mean ?

The motion was also strongly opposed by Dr. Maunsell. Eventu- ally, however, it was carried, by 35 to 7.

Mr. O'Connell bad a Repeal demonstration at Clonmell, on the 4th instant The Corporation and the Trades met him in procession, and escorted him into town ; and he addressed the people from the balcony of an hotel. His speech was not so long as usual, on account of the weather; and it was much of the usual pattern, with some sharp attacks on "the vile Tories and the viler Whigs." Afterwards, he was enter- tained at dinner, in a room of Mr. Bianconi's factory ; and here again

his speech was of the customary stamp. He alluded to the State pro- secution; mixing up with that subject exhortations to peace-

" Suppose they sent us to goal, how would that stop the Irish people in their career? Will it cure any one of our grievances, that I should be wearing out my eyebrows against the bars of a prison ? Will England be improved by it ? or will the Irish people be bettered by it ? Will the Irish people be reconciled by it? There are two things necessary ; first, insuring the continuance of peaceable conduct on the part of the people. We arrived at the strength, the dignity, which now surrounds our cause, by being perfectly peaceable. If we had been guilty of any violation of the law—of violence, or assault, or riot, or tumult—we never could meet as we have done ; we never could boast, as we can boast, of the solid strength, of the irresistible power of our cause. If we do not follow that course, our cause is gone for ever. Why, the man would be the wickedest of the human race who attempted to effect our purposes by any other but peaceable means. At the present moment, too, it would be most foolish ; for there are no organized means of sustaining a rebellious cause—there is no person armed, or organized, or disciplined ; and the Duke of Wellington has some 35,000 troops in the country, arranged in the best way, with steamers to convey them to any given point. Let nothing be done to irritate or to insult. Let the Irish people recollect that the Union never would have taken place if the people had not foolishly _allowed themselves to be goaded into a rebellion, in 1798."

He alluded to the incendiary fires in England ; and to "a declaration of war against England" by President Tyler, who had seized on the Oregon territory. And he finished thus-

" The cry against the clearance system is gaining force, and even the British Minister himself is compelled to yield to it. He who during the last session of Parliament refused an inquiry has sent over a Commission—a humbug Com- mission I believe it to be—to inquire into it. It shows this—how irresistible the voice of Ireland has been, and how powerful is the impression made, even on our bitterest enemies, by the statement of our woes. But the period is coming when the income of Ireland shall be spent in Ireland," &c. &c.

Mr. O'Connell was present at the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday ; when Mr. Charles Lynch, one of the dis-

missed Magistrates occupied the chair. Among the contributions handed in were-21 from the new Lord Mayor of Dublin ; 1/. from Miss Murphy, Inspector of Repeal Wardens for the village of Inchtown ; 30/. from the Repealers of Newfoundland; 771. from Brooklyn, in New York State; • and 129/. from Rio de la Plata, in Buenos Ayres, the first subscription from South America. The Secretary stated that Mr. Charles Bianconi had signified that the Association might transmit parcels by his carriages throughout the country free of expense. Mr. O'Connell, expatiating on the generosity of Mr. Bianconi, observed, that when the Tories were in office, that gentleman was repeatedly refused letters of denization ; but the Whigs were not a fortnight in office be- fore they did that act of justice. Mr. O'Connell's speech of the day embraced a variety of topics,—exhortations to "the most rigid and the most awful peace"; the progress of Repeal—" his humble name was pronounced from the dens surrounding the court of the tyrant of Russia, to the extreme end of the camp of A bd-el-Kader in Africa—it had crossed the Atlantic "; controversy with Mr. Montgomery Martin ; letter from Dr. Slattery, titular Archbishop of Cashel, denying the state- ment that the Irish priests, impelled by poverty, encourage early mar- riages for the sake of the fees ; and the State.trials with declaration of Mr. O'Connell's own readiness to be a martyr. The Repeal rent for the week was 550/.

On Tuesday evening, Mr. O'Connell presided at the St. Bridget's Orphan Charity dinner ; and in his speeches alluded, of course, to the trials ; but his most remarkable allusion was one to France and the Duke of Bordeaux. He was toasting the charity ; and he remarked that the orphans were better off than children in France, where "mis- creant Infidel professors, sustained by legal power and regal authority, deprived the parent of the free choice of the education of his child "- He was glad of the symptoms of weakness that surrounded the French Throne. The Duke of Bordeaux was a young man who was entirely unknown until a kind of contest arose between the French journalists and the people of Ireland; and since that, thank Heaven, his cause had prospered. The strength of hie party was beginning to exhibit itself; and he hoped the period was not distant when true liberty, founded upon legitimacy of descent, would predominate in France—when all other pretensions would vanish into thin air, and religion and virtue be represented in the person who filled that throne—when the false philosophy of the Infidel University plan of France would perish before a more genial day of light and of liberty.

A meeting was held at Clonmell, on Thursday, to invite Mr. Nicholas- Maher to stand for the county of Tipperary. When Mr. Valentine Maher died, Mr. Daniel O'Connell junior was invited to be a candi- date; but it was subsequently ascertained that to the late Member's will, bequeathing his large property to his cousin Nicholas, was added a codicil, desiring the legatee to expend a portion of his wealth in pro- tecting the interests of the County. Mr. Nicholas Maher offered to sup- port any candidate approved by " the Liberator ; " but Mr. O'Connell thought that the County ought to return Mr. Maher, who had been a patriot when it was unfashionable to be so. It was therefore decided that Mr. Maher should be the Repeal candidate. The Conservative is Mr. Ponsonby Barker, of Kilcooly Abbey.

The Irish papers record another martyr of agrarian outrage in Tip- perary. Some time ago, Mr. Walker, a Scotchman and agent to Mr. Stafford O'Brien, wishing to square a farm tenanted by one Gleeson, took a piece of land from a tenant named Nolan ; on which Gleeson received a Rockite notice to give up Nolan's land. A short time after, two men came to Gleeson while ploughing, and, telling him that they would not take his life, but would mark him, they broke his arm with a pistol-shot. (The limb was subsequently amputated.) For that felony, two men, Stapleton and Gleeson, were recently tried at Clon- reel, and sentenced to transportation for life. However, the persecuted Gleeson did not escape : when returning from mass on Saturday, he was met near the bridge of Tyrone by two men, who fired two pistols at his back, leaped upon him, kicked him, and left him in a dying state, for the balls had entered his chest.

In Dublin Commission Court, on Tuesday, Thomas Radcliffe, an elderly half-pay Captain of Marines, and Jane Hunter, a middle-aged woman with whom he had been on terms of the closest familiarity, were convicted of conspiring that Radcliffe should debauch Celia, the daughter of Hunter, aged fourteen years.