IRELAND.
Accounts have been received at the residence of Earl de Grey, in St. James's Square, that he has had a severe attack of rheumatism, but the reports are that he is much Better.
Commissions of the peace have been resigned by Mr. Thomas A. Joyce, of Merview, and Sir R. Musgrove. Lord Roden has addressed a letter to the Protestants of Down county, seen-amending them to abstain from the usual Orange demonstrations on the 1st and 12th July, 'for reasons the soundness of which they would acknowledge could he communicate them "; and he reminds
them that processions on those days are illegal. Several of the leading gentry have seconded the advice. Sir Harcourt Lees has issued an address to the Orangmen of Ireland, with a similar caution and a simi- larly mysterious allusion to reasons ; implying that some trap would be set for the Orangemen on those days.
The Tiger steam-packet, Captain Mowle, arrived at Cove on Tues- day morning at four o'clock. She brought despatches for the Malabar to proceed at once for Gibraltar ; and at two o'clock p. m. the same day she sailed on her voyage. Lady Sartorius was a passenger in the Tiger, and proceeded with Captain Sir George Sartorius in the Malabar.
One of O'Connell's Repeal demonstrations took place at Skibbereen on Thursday the 22d June ; which was of the usual character, both, at the meeting and at the dinner. The Cork Examiner says that it is impossible to give any thing like a correct estimate of the numbers present, but afterwards calculates them to be between 500,000 and 600,000. Much was made of Sir James Graham's speech on the Arms Bill, which was construed to proclaim the Irish a nation of perjurers : it was alluded to both at the meeting and at the dinner, with a plentiful use of the words "lie lies " : at the meeting, Mr. Shea Lalor said- " I say to him, and before you, he lies. (Vehement cheering.) He lies damnably—he lies—he lies insolently—and I wish to God I was in the House of Commons to tell him to his teeth 'you lie.' (Prolonged cheering.) I ant not like O'Conor Don—I am not like the gentleman who is satisfied that he should he called a perjurer, provided it be done in a gentlemanly way. ("Hear, hear /") I say, then, before this enormous mass—I say before the Protestants as well as Catholics, for that there are many Protestants here I have the honour of knowing, and they will bear me out in what I say—I say, then, before you all, Sir James Graham, 'you lie.'" ( Vehement cheering.)
Galway was next taken possession of by the Repealers, on Sunday,. with the same style of proceedings ; Dr. Browne, the Bishop of Gal- way, taking an active part. Lord Ffrench was the Chairman. At the dinner, about six hundred gentlemen sat down to table in a pavilion specially erected for the purpose. Mr. O'Connell put the peaceable turn of his views more decidedly than he has yet done-
" It is but a fortnight ago, when attending a meeting at Mallow, that there came upon me the maddening information that the country of my birth was threatened to be deluged with the blood of her children." • • • "Watch- ing during that short period with an eye of eagerness the evolutions of our enemies, I now proclaim to you a perpetual peace, and a struggle—merely in political strife—bloodless, stainless, crimeless upon our part—leaving to our enemy the paltry resource only of a useless and unavailing resistance."
The Repeal rent for the week, announced at the Monday meeting of the Association at the Dublin Corn Exchange, was 1,258/.
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