IRELAND.

A rumour that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert intend to visit Ire- land in the autumn, has been renewed in Dublin.

The annual show of the Royal Irish Agricultural Society opened on Wednesday, in the Coburg Gardens. The quantity of the different kinds of stock exceeded that in any previous year ; but there was a great proportion of ordinary beasts : specimens of the best kinds being rare. A cow belonging to Prince Albert, of the Bakewell breed, obtained one of the first prizes, and was mach admired, says one account, especially by the ladies ! Among the animals was " Paddy Blake," a fine specimen of a Kerry bull, bred by the Reverend B. O'Connor, parish- priest of Miltown : the bull was not much larger than a Newfoundland dog. In the evening there was a dinner of the Council.

The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association was held on Monday ; Mr. Richard O'Gorman in the chair. Mr. Daniel O'Connell junior made the weekly return from the prison : " the imprisoned mar- tyrs were in good health and most excellent spirits, enjoying the glo- rious fact of the perfect tranquillity of Ireland throughout its entire ex- tent." Mr. O'Connell also, for his father, made a tart disclaimer— He could state to the Association, of his own knowledge, that when the ac- count reached Mr. O'Connell of the speech made by Mr. Shell on the subject of the State trials, he expressed his regret that any such speech should have been delivered—a regret not unmixed with some indignation. Mr. O'Connell totally disavowed and repudiated the matter of that speech: he thought it a highly unbecoming one as proceeding from any friend of his, and he considered it any thing but a friendly act on the part of Mr. Shell. He could also state, that as Mr. O'Connell, at the close of the proceedings in the Queen's Bench, solemnly protested against the injustice done to him, he continued firm in that protest. There had never been upon his part, and there never would be, any shrinking or compromise; and he could not consider any man his friend who talked of compromise or shrinking. Mr. O'Connell had now, and long had bad, but one political object—the restoration of the domestic Legislature of Ireland; a restoration which, in his judgment, was merely a question of time. Come it should—the only question was, when ? He deemed the period not dis- tant. Be desired to be at large only that he might the more actively pursue all peaceable and legal means to restore the native Legislature of Ireland. He did hope, as he did anxiously wish, that his imprisonment might arouse every patriot that is out of prison to increased peaceable exertion for the repeal of the deleterious Union.

Mr. D. O'Connell contradicted an assertion attributed by the public papers to Sir Robert Peel, that the Government had intended to issue proclamations against two meetings before that to be held at Clontarf, but that the meetings were abandoned: no such meetings were to have been held. The falsehood, of course, was not attributable to Sir Robert Peel, but to the base men who had misinformed him.

Mr. Caleb Powell moved an address to the Queen, complaining of Mr. O'Connell's incarceration, and praying for repeal of the Union. The style of the document may be seen in these bits of it-

" For having sought to secure to the land of his birth the protecting in- fluence of self-government, our aged patriot now inhabits the abode of a felon. • • * We have been accustomed to believe that trial by jury was instituted in order to secure to the accused an impartial tribunal. In the case of O'Con- nell, we have seen the jury-laws violated, and every expedient adopted which could insure his conviction, by the intervention of political and religious preju- dices. In your Majesty's highest court of criminal jurisdiction, your Attor- ney-General has been allowed, during the progress of this trial, with impunity to violate the laws of God and of man. Your Chief Justice has been seen to take upon himself the office of advocate against the accused. Thus, by a per- version of law, and by a denial of justice, the greatest man of his age has been convicted on a charge of conspiracy, and has been consigned to a gaol even be- fore the process is terminated which questions the validity of his trial."

Mr. Smith O'Brien stated that the address had already received 1,084,988 signatures ; a large proportion of them from the Northern counties.

The rent for the week was 9471.

Another meeting has been held at Cork to promote the subscription for the erection of a Conciliation Hall in that city. Mr. O'Connell suggested and favours the scheme, and has subscribed two hundred pounds towards the expenses.

At Cork, last week, Thomas Collins pleaded guilty to " having upon his person at Fermoy certain seditious papers which he introduced into the houses of innocent persons, and after wards swore informations against them." He was also indicted for vagrancy, and found guilty. He was sentenced to seven years' transportation for each offence.

The two women who were convicted of murder at Roscommon Assizes were hanged last week. Half the crowd present at the execution were women.

The Nenagh Vindicator announces, that Neil, who was convicted at the last Assizes for murder, has received a free pardon. The Jury who found him guilty made the very Irish addition to their verdict, " that the prisoner was of good character, and did not intend to perpetrate the crime of which he had been found guilty."

Thomas Grenvill, a stone-mason, has been murdered near Shinrone, in King's County. He had seduced a girl named Cahill, and her four brothers vowed to be revenged on him. Late one night, a number of persons fell on him as he was going to Shinrone, and beat him so dread- fully, fracturing his skull, and breaking one arm and his jaw-bone, that he died, it is supposed almost instantaneously. Several persons have been arrested.

The Irish are most indignant at the epithet " savages " applied to their race, and it is a pity that their own conduct should ever suggest its use. A correspondent of the Dublin Monitor describes the treatment received by the Ojibbeway Indians, in passing from the show-room at the Rotunda to their lodging- " A crowd of persons were collected round them, pushing them, trampling on their feet, pelting cabbage-stalks, and endeavouring to disarrange and tear their dress: even the presence of a number of police, which it is a disgrace should be required at all, were not sufficient to save them from this treatment. • • • • You will agree with me, that it is a deplorable state of things, if we are so rude and uncivilized as to make it dangerous for savages to pass through our streets without police to protect them from injury."

On this the Monitor observes- " It certainly must give the Indian 'savages' very exalted notions of Irish civilization,' when they find the protection of the police necessary to save them from personal insult and injury. Of all the mobs we have ever seen, a Dublin mob is the most ruffianly and the most cowardly : they tremble at a police- man's baton, but are very chivalrous in flinging cabbage-stalks at defenceless strangers."

It is tolerably certain, that if a party of Irishmen were introduced into an Ojibbeway village, they would meet with no such treatment. The Ojibbeways, however, are" savages."