IRELAND.
Mr. James Kelly, a thoroughgoing Repealer, has been elected Mem- ber for Limerick City ; there being no opposition. Mr. Kelly was nominated by the late Member, Sir David Roche.
A Repeal County meeting was held at Limerick on Thursday week ; Mr. Powell, M.P., presiding. The statements of the numbers present vary from twenty thousand to two thousand.
The meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday was not cha- racterized by any event of note. Mr. E. Roche, M.P. for Cork County, presided. Mr. M. O'Connell reported the condition of the London Re- peal Wards; from which he handed in several contributions. At a meeting of the Liberator's Ward in Rotherhithe, last week, there were, he said, upwards of two thousand present, nearly all Teetotallers and Irishmen— They were men who, for thews and sinews, would be remarkable among mil- lions. They were men who would delight the eyes of a recruiting-sergeant, most of them being six feet high, and many not far from six feet across the shoulders. They were composed of the labourers, the ballast-heavers, and coalwhippers of the Metropolis—that industrious class of men who undertook and carried out the labour deemed too severe for the delicate citizens of Lon- don and the tenderly-reared inhabitants of Scotland. There was but one heart and one mind among them, and that was for Repeal. Mr. D. O'Connell junior reported the weekly bulletin from the prison of the health of the " captives." They were "in the highest health and spirits ; indeed, their health appeared to improve the longer they were confined." He read an address received by his father from the priests of " Bitcbe" in Moselle ; in which the reverend fathers said, " We envy you your prison." A message from O'Connell to the meeting congratulated them on the advance of Repeal. Young Daniel alluded to the prospect of war with France about Morocco, when Irishmen would be wanted, and they would then have the opportunity of claim- s..., r domestic legislature, as a bribe for fighting. A resolution Was carried, recommending all Irishmen to assemble on each succeeding 30th May, the anniversary of " the captivity." The week's rent amounted to 2,1351.
A State prosecution has been commenced against the proprietor and printer of the Limerick Reporter, for a portion of an article which ap- peared a month since : they have been held to bail to take their trial at the approaching Limerick Assizes. The Reporter, judging from re- marks it makes on the prosecution, does not seem to have very ardent aspirations after Repeal martyrdom. The article which has caused this prosecution was a very plain-spoken exhortation to the people to arm, that they might be in a position to take their rights if they were not given to them. The Anti-Button proceedings in Dublin are becoming outrageous. A. carman, driving a lady through the Lower Castle Yard, was asked by the sentinel if he showed a Repeal button ; and answering " No," was allowed to pass. A sergeant, however, hailed the man, and asked him. if he carried a " button " about him ? He admitted that he had one in his pocket : the sergeant ordered him to turn out of the yard ; a squabble ensued ; and at last all the parties came before the Magistrates ; who dismissed the car-driver, deciding that a. man may carry a Repeal button in his pocket, without being amenable to any law or mandate, civil or military.
A soldier named Lally, belonging to the Thirty-fourth Regiment, addressed a very large assemblage at Dublin last week on the subject of Temperance ; and immediately after speaking he was taken into cus- tody by a picquet of his regiment, "for addressing a public meeting."
A gambling-house in Dublin was stormed by the Police on Saturday night, and seventeen persons were captured.
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