IRELAND.
Mr. O'Connell has written &letter to the editor of the Dublin Pilot, partly on the subject of the local interests of his constituents, and partly to contradict a false report of his having been treated in an un- friendly manner by Mr. Fitzsimon, the Member for King's County, in the Repeal debate. The letter concludes with the following pas- sages, which disclose the motive of the conciliatory tone lately adopted by the Repeal Members and their Leader.
"I cannot conclude without congratulating the people of Ireland on the good sense and steadiness with which they are awaiting the experiment which we Repealers are making on the sincerity—I might, and indeed I should say, the VERACITY of the Ministers. They have solemnly pledged the Parliament to remove ' the just complaints' of the People of Ireland. A Cabinet Minister—one of the first in rank, and one of the nigliest in talent—has publicly and unequivocally declared that the Tithe system is Ireland, as it relates to the Established Church in its present form, • is a just com- plaint.' Shan it be redressed? Alas! I fear not. But why should I fear either alternative? If this • just complaint' be redressed. then the People of Ireland will have obtained a great, a solid, a permanent advantage. Hit be not redressed, then the honest, the undismayed Repealers will, with me, point to the falsification of the ad- dress, and, exclaiming agmust 'the living lie,' feet more deeply how impossible it will be to expect justice Am any other than a domestic Legislature. " This experiment is being made—as the phrase is—it is in progress. The People of Ireland are showing their readiness to receive with heart-binding gratitude the act of Justice which they require in fulfilment of a most solemn promise. For my part. I am ready to make every sacrifice to obtain the fulfilment of that promise. What mil/ the Ministers do—promise, and perform ? Oh, I fear not—promise, and falsify their own promise? 014 I potently believe they will. Who, then, when their promise is thus trampled on by themselves—who, at least, that is honest, will presume to accuse the Irish People of being precipitous in seeking by legal means for the relief from the only remaining source of having justice done to Ireland? " Continue, therefole, I would entreat, my loved countrymen, continue your present attitude of peeect readiness of conciliation. Let another act of treachery to Ireland" if we are to endure it—be attributable solely to the folly or the spirit of hostility of Lord Grey and his Cabinet towards Ireland. His Administration has hitherto been the most nngenial rule Ireland has ever felt. Let us sire whether there be even a hope Of amendment."
Mr. Westenra's has gained his election for Monaghan. At the close Of the poll on Saturday, the numbers stood thas—Westenra, 1078I
Lucas (the Conservative), 1)84; majority, 04. The correspondent of the Times says—" This victory was not bought without a sacrifice ; for though the Repealers were quite unable to put forward a candidate of their own, they stipulated for Mr. Westenra's support of a Repeal can. didate at the next election, when they threaten to make a dead set against Sergeant Perrin, for his refusal to join the Tail and support the motion for Repeal. This Colonel Westenra, in the absence of his nephew, has conditionally promised ; calculating, no doubt, that this whim of O'Connell's *ill be dead and forgotten before another election arrives."
The Dungarvan contest has terminated in the reelection of Mr. Ebenezer Jacob, the Repealer. The numbers were—for Jacob, 87; Barron, 25.5; majority for Jacob, 32. The Beresford party voted for the successful candidate ; against whom, however, it is said that another petition will be presented, on the ground that he is disqualified from sitting, by the decision of the Committee on the former election.
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