IRELAND.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department has replied to Lord ale Grey's application on behalf of the memoralists who remonstrated against the mail-contract's being taken from Mr. Peter Purcell and his partners ; and a letter from the Lord Lieutenant's Secretary to the Lord Mayor of Dublin states the substance of Sir James Graham's answer- " That Mr. Purcell has no well-founded ground of complaint ; that the contract in question was made an open tender ; that the lowest bidder obtained it ; that the contract with Mr. Croal has been signed uncondi- tionally, and in exact compliance with the advertisement ; and finally, that the affair is closed, as far as official forms are concerned."
At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. Thomas Steel stated that he had been appointed by the Liberator and the Association to go from one end of America to the other to agitate the question of Repeal ; and he wished now to state that he was ready and willing to fulfil that engagement whenever he was called upon. Mr. O'Connell was anxious to mention that his eldest son would accompany Mr. Steel to America, to assist in obtaining independence for his onntzy.
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