IRELAND.
A meeting was held in Dublin on Tuesday, to consider the measures necessary to be taken on the !ejection of the Manieipal Bill by the Lords. Mr. Henry Grattan took the chair; zeal Mr. Shell opened the businass of the meeting in a speech which was characterized by much of his usual point and vigour of expression. Ile said that it had become necessary to organize a strenuous and simultaneous movement of the popular masses, and to resort again to those means by which Ireland had already achieved so much. Hitherto the People of Ire- land had refrained front agitation, in the hope that Ministers would be enabled to carry such measures of reform as Ireland could accept with- out dishonour: it wits hoped that the House of Lords would not furnish the strongest arguments for Repeal, that to an excitable people could be addressed- " But (he said) we gave the Muse of Lords more credit for discretion titan they appear to deserve, and a course has been taken by them which leaves us no alternative. Matters have been brnught to issue by the Conservative fic- tion in the Upper House; and not only has a determination been evinced to deny us an equal participation in the pt ivileges and rights of Englishmen, but in doing us a manifest wrong, care has been taken that to palpable injury the grossest contumely should be added. • • • • All hope of compromise is at an end ; deep and deadly warfare has been declared ; and It has become clear, that by Lord Lyndhurst we are to be ruled, or upon Lord Lyndhurst we must trample. (Loud cheers.) Either he will put us down, or we must put him down : and it is in order that we may at once put into action the machinery by which that latter salutary suppression may be effected, that it befits the Irish People to rally, and show that we, by whom Wellington was discomfited, are not by Copley to be trodden down. However, let us refrain from idle vaunt; and instead e.f premature boasting, let us consider what wisdom awl determina- tion require—what by the Ministers and by ourselves should be done."
He advised that the King should be required to dissolve the Parlia- ment, and that petitions for justice should he poured in from every side. The active system of organization devised by O'Connell should be immediately and simultaneously applied-
" Call it by what name you please, Association, Board, Committee, any thing—let's have the weekly meeting, the appeals to the People, the exciting eloquence, the enthusiasm, the devotedness—again; and again a-e shall twat down every obstacle before us, and that the millions are, after all, invincible, afford another equally glorious proof. Did we not put Toryism to flight be- fore, anti why should we not put Toryism to flight again? * • • The Association, the old Association, the Association with its millions for its sus- taininent—that, Sir, is what we avant ; that is what we must nee's have again. Away, in such an emergency, with your men who mistake their pusillanimity for caution, and bid us not be rash, because name depict' them the instinct by which men are more wisely bold, and indomitably resolved? Will prudence, and fmheal ance, and abstinence from excitement, beat down Copley and his Louis? Was it thus that Reform was carried ?"
He wanted no violent reform—no " organic change." Continuous, organized, unremitting agitation, would be sufficient to bring the Lords to reason.
After a short discussion, in which Mr. Sergeant Woulfe, Mr. Pigott, and other gentlemen took part, it was resolved, that the per- sons who called the meeting should form themselves into an open
Committee, and proceed to carry into effect the suggestions of Mr. Sheil.
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