IRELAND.
The military preparations in Dublin continue without interruption. The garrison of the Castle is strengthened; and last week the Castle was sur- veyed iu order to render its defences complete.
It is announced that Government contemplate the enforcement of the act 60th George III. c. 1, prohibiting meetings for drill, training, or mili- tary exercise, or for the practice of rifle-shooting, &c. Not too soon; for rifle practice is openly carried on by clubs in Dublin, Cork, and other towns.
The treasonable newspapers continue their incentives to rebellion. Mr. Mitchel, in the United Irishman, tries each week to excel himself in the outrageous utterance of vituperative composition; and it is really surpris- ing to see how far he succeeds. But the repetition has become wearisome: A little bit of Mitchel's last epistle to Lord Clarendon will be specimen enough for the week- " As for me, my Lord, your Lordship's humble correspondent, you have been told that I am mad—a dangerous lunatic, labouring under cacoethes scribendi. Do not believe it: I am merely possessed with a rebellions spirit; and think I have a mission—to bear a hand in the final destruction of the bloody old British empire; the greedy, carnivorous old monster, that has lain so long, like a loads upon the heart and limbs of England, and drank the blood and sucked the marrow from the bones of Ireland. Against that Empire of Hell a thousand thousand ghoetli of my slaughtered countrymen shriek nightly for vengeance; their blood cries con- tinually from the groundfor vengeance vengeance! And Heaven has heard it. • • • Thank God, they are arming. Young men everywhere in Ireland begin to love the clear glancing of the steel, and to cherish their dainty rifles as the very apple of their eyes. They walk more proudly; they feel themselves more and more of men. Like the Prussian students, (when this work had to be done for Prussia,) they take the bright weapons to their hearts, and clasp their virgin swords like virgin brides." The receipt of intelligence sent from London on Monday, announcing the quiet termination of the Chartist meeting, manifestly damped the ex- altation of the Confederate order on Wednesday. The Roman Catholic priests have come forward at several meetings lately—in Derry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Galway—as abettors of the rebellions spirit. At Limerick, the Reverend Dr. O'Brien significantly sug- gested the frightful conviction that allegiance and freedom may some- times be incompatible."
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