IRELAND.
Mr. O'Connell attended the consecration of a Catholic chapel in Kildare, on Sunday week. After the conclusion of the ceremony-, he
mounted on a platform, and addressed the assembled multitude, which amounted to many thousands, in a very impressive speech. He pointed to the splendid ruins of the old Cathedral, and other religious buildings, which make all the surrounding country holy ground in the eyes of the Irish peasants. He reminded them of the sacred legends, and traditions of the ancient splendour of the Catholic church ; and then, after repro- bating in strong language the Whitefeet outrages which disgraced their country, he proceeded to speak of the wrongs of Ireland. and the " merciless barbarity of the Saxon and the stranger," with his wonted eloquence. The effect produced on the multitude by this harangue, is said to have been very striking.
On Tuesday last, a meeting of upwards of five thousand persons was held in Dublin, pursuant to a requisition to the Lord Mayor, signed by upwards of a hundred merchants, shopkeepers, and persons of property, for the purpose of devising means to put a stop to the combination and outrages of which the Dublin operatives were said to be guilty. These latter, however, mustered in such numbers, that the requisitionists, with one exception, had not courage to appear; and resolutions were passed of a directly contrary tendency to those which had been pm- pared. The operatives were all summoned to attend by the leaders of their Unions, under a penalty of a guinea fine. Mr. Howell, an army- clothier, was the only person among the requisitionists who dared to show his face ; and the crowd refused to listen to him. Mr. O'Con- nell was present, and harangued the meeting at considerable length; exhorting the work-people to peaceable combination. He also ventured to say that it was unfair that a clever workman and a "botch " should be on a par as regards wages. No one else would have been permitted to hint any thing of the kind. The resolutions were published on Wednesday in the Dublin newspapers, signed by the Lord Mayor, who presided, and by one of the Sheriffs. It appears that considerable alarm prevails in Dublin in consequence of the result of this meeting.
The Dublin Evening Post asserts, in contradiction to the True Sea, that O'Connell's letter to the People of Ireland, for which the Dablia Picot was prosecuted, appeared originally in the latter paper ; and refers the London print to its own files for proof. The Post says, O'Con- nell's letter was dated the 4th of April, and was published in the Pilot on the 8th; whereas no letter with the signature of Daniel O'Connell appeared in the True Sun from the 2d (when the Coercion Bill was passed) to the 8th of April inclusive. " The Pilot received the auto- graph, joined the types, and published the letter missive." [If this is true, Mr. O'Connell was guilty of sending the letter for publication is Ireland—a very different matter from authorizing its publication in Eng-
land; and this furnishes another reason why the Irish Government
should have laid hold of the author, instead of the printer of the libeLl Considerable reduction in the Irish Chancery Department will shortly occur. Several of the patent offiee: will be dispensed with, and
compensation granted to the possessers. A Prothonotary to the Court will be appointed.
The City of Limerick schooner, with a cargo of whisky, rum, and Irish provisions, was wrecked on the Kerry side of the river Shannon, its the storm which we mentioned last week as having done so much dim= at Liverpool and on the Irish coast. The wreckers dreadfully treated the sailors who escaped, stripping them of their clothes, watches, &c. Every thing that could be got from thevessel-was seized by these wretches. The puncheons of whisky .which floated ashore, were • broken open, and seven men drank themselves to death. The Coast Guard attempted in vain to save the cargo ; they were completely routed by the peasantry.
The Irislelinen trade is-at present in a very flourishing condition.
The county of Kilkenny is in an extremely disturbed state. In Kerry, Queen's County, and Waterford, outrages are also constantly occurring; resistance to the payment of rent as well artithes is become very common.
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