IRELAND.

At the usual meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday, the rent for the week was announced to be 1,130/. Mr. O'Connell was not pre- sent, and the meeting adjourned till next day ; when he propounded his plan for the restoration of the Irish Parliament, as prepared by a Com- mittee.

"PLAN FOR THE RENEWED ACTION OP THE IRISH PARLIAMENT.

"1. The Irish people recognize, acknowledge, maintain, and will continually preserve and uphold upon the throne of Ireland, her Majesty Queen Victoria, (whom God protect !) Queen, by undoubted right, and by hereditary descent, of Ireland, and her heirs and successors for ever. The people of Ireland recog- nize, acknowledge, maintain, and will continually preserve and uphold, all the prerogatives of her Majesty, and of her heirs and successors, belonging to and inherent in the imperial Crown of Ireland; and they will true allegiance bear, pure, undivided, and indivisible, to her Majesty, her heirs and successors, for ever. "2. The people of Ireland acknowledge, and will maintain and preserve for ever, the privileges, hereditary and personal, of the Peers of Ireland ; together with the legislative and judicial authority of the Irish House of Lords, and the exercise of the prerogative in augmenting and limiting the Peerage, as the same did of right exist before the year 1800. "3. The people of Ireland do firmly insist upon the restoration of the Irish House of Commons, consisting of three hundred representatives of the Irish people; and claim in the presence of their Creator the right of the people of Ireland to such restoration. They have submitted to the Union as being bind- ing as a law ; but they declare solemnly that it is not founded on right, or on constitutional principle, and that it is nut obligatory upon conscience. They agree with the Tory Attorney-General Saurin, that the only binding power of the Union is the strength of the English don:ioation. They also agree with him that resistance to the Union is in the abstract a duty, and the exhibition of that resistance a mere question of prudence. They will therefore resist the rnion by all legal, peaceful, and constitutional means.

"4. The plan for the restoration of the Irish Parliament is as follows-1.

That the county members should be increased to 173, in the manner hereafter specified. 2. That there should be 127 members returned from cities and towns, in the manner hereinafter mentioned. 3. That the county of Carlow, being the only county in Ireland with less than 100,000 inhabitants, should get an increase of one member, so as to have three representatives ; that every other county having above 100,000 inhabitants should get an increase of two members • that every county ranging above 150,000 inhabitants should get an increase of three members, "That every county ranging above 250,000 inhabitants should get an increase of four members.

"That the county of Tipperary, having more than 400,000 inhabitants but less than 500,000, should get an increase of eight members.

"That the county of Cork, having more than 700,000 inhabitants should get an increase of ten members. "5. With respect to the towns and cities, it is proposed that the city of Dublin, having more than 200,000 inhabitants, should have eight representa- tives • four fur the parts North of the Liffey, and four for the parts South of the Liffey. "That the University of Dublin should continue on the basis of its present constituency, to send two members. "It is proposed that the city of Cork, having more than 100,000 inhabitants, should have five members.

"That the city of Limerick and town of Belfast, having respectively more than 50,000 inhabitants, should send four members each.

" It is proposed that the town of Galway, and the cities of Waterford and Kilkenny, having respectively more than 200,000 inhabitants, should send each three members to Parliament.

"That other towns having about 7,000 inhabitants should each send two members to Parliament ; and that forty-nine other towns, next highest in the ratio of population, should send one member each.

"The following schedule of the different places to return members to the Irish Parliament will show their relative population, and the number of mem-

Popnla. tem. Courrres. Mem- berg. Popula. tion. Mem. bers.

Antrim 316.909

Limerick 248,801 .... 6 Armagh 220.134

Londonderry 222,012 .... 5 Carlow 81,988 . 3 Longford 112.558 .... 4 Cavan 227.933 .... 5 Louth 107,481 ....

4

Clare 258,322

Mayo 366 328 ....

7

Cork 713.716 . 12 Meath 176,826 .... 5 Donegal 289.199 6 Monaghan 195,536 .... 5 Down 352.012

Queen's County .... 140,851 ... • 4 Dublin County 176,012 5 Roscommon 249,613 .... 6 Fermanagh 199.763 5 Sligo 171,765 .... 5 Galway 381,564

Tipperary 402,563 .... 8 Kerry 263.126 . 6 Tyrone. 304.468 .... 6 Kildare 108,424

Waterford 148 233 ....

5

Kilkenny 169,945 . 5 Westmeath 1,6,872 .... 4 King's County 194`2'5

Wexford 182,713 ....

5

Leitrim 141.524 .... 4 Wicklow 121.557 .... 4

Towns.

Ardee

3,975 1

Galway Town 33,120 .... 3 Arklow 4,383

1

Gort 3,627 ....

1

Armagh 9.470

2

Wells

4.326.... 1

Athlone 11,406 2 Kilrush

Alhy

4.494 . 1 Kinsale .

7,312 ....

2 Ratline 5,510 1 Kilkenny City 23.741 .... 3 Ballivaaloe 4,615

1

Killarney 7,910 .... 2 Ballymena 4,067

1

Limerick City 06.554 ... , 4 Ballyshanuon 3.776

I

Lisburn 5.218 ....

I

Bandon Bridge 9,917

2

Londonderry 10,130 .... 2 Bantry 4,275 . . 1 Longford 9,516 .... 1 Belfast 53,287 4 Loughrea 6,268 .... 1 Boyle 3.433

Mallow

5,929.... 1

Bmy. . 3,758

Mountrcellick

4,577 ....

1

Carlow 9,114

Mitchelstown

3.555 .... I

Caher 3,908

. 1

Monaghan

3.898 ....

1

Cotner' 6.111

. 1

Mellinger 4.295 .... 1 Carrickfergus 8,706

2

Masan

4.416 ....

I

Carrick.on- Snip 9,626

2

Naas 3,808 .... 1 Cashel 6,971 .. 2 Nenagh

Castlebar 6,373 . . 1 New Ross 5,011 ...

• 1

Charleville 4,766

Newtownards ..... .. 4.442 .... 1 Clonmell 15,134

2

Newry 13,064 .... 2 Clonakilty 3.807 1 Panonstown 6,595 .... 1 Coleraine 5,752

1

Rathkeale 4,972 .... 1 Cork City 107,016 . . 5 Roscommon 3,306 .... 1 Cove 6,966

1

Roacrea

5,512 .... I

Dingle 4,327

I

Sligo

15,159.... 2

Downpatrick 4,784 .. 1 Skibbereen 4.421 .... 1 Dungarvan 6 527

Strabane 4,700 .... 1 Dublin City 204,155 8 Tipperary 6,972 .... 2 Dublin University...

Thurlos 7,084 .... 2 Dundalk 10.078 . 2 Tralee 9,568 .... 2 Dungannon 3,515 . I Trim 3.282 .... 1 Drogheda 17.365 .. . 2 Tuam

Ennis 7.711 2 Tullamore - 6,342 .... 1 Enniscorthy 5.935 . . 1 Waterford City 25,821 .... 3 Enniskillen 6,116 .. _ . 1 Westport 4.498 .... 1 Fermoy

. ....

i

Wexford 10,673 .... 2 Fethard, Co. Top.... 3,405 .... 1 Youghal 9,608 .... 2

"The population is taken from the returns of 1831 ; which having been made for a different purpose, and without any reference whatever to the repeal of the Union, furnish a scale of unquestionable impartiality.

u 6. It is proposed that the right of voting should be what is called 'house- hold suffrage'; requiring six months' residence in the counties; with the addi- tion in the towns of married men resident for twelve months, whether house- holders or not.

.7. It is proposed that the mode of voting for Members of Parliament should certainly be by ballot.

"8. The Monarch de facto of England at all times hereafter, whoever he may be, shall be Monarch de. jure in Ireland. And so in case of a future Regency, the Regent Ile factola England to be Regent de jure in Ireland. "9. The connexion between Great Britain and Ireland by means of the power, authority, and prerogatives of the Crown, to be perpetual, and incapable of change, or any severance or separation. " The foregoing plan to be carried into effect according to recognized law and strict constitutional principle.

" Signed by order,

"DANIEL O'Corurehh, Chairman of the Committee."

In a speech on this document, Mr. O'Connell said, that the Queen had only to summon the Parliament, and then that Parliament could "legalize every thing," as the English Parliament did after calling William the Third to the throne. He would have no distinctive oaths- none but the oath of allegiance. In forming the House of Lords, he would not object to those who remained of the Irish Protestant Bishops having seats in it ; and if there were a deficiency of members, they could make it up with some of the Bishops of their own (the Roman Catholic) Church.

At another meeting of the Association, on Wednesday, Mr. 0'Hay bers to be assigned to each. presented the report of a Sub-Committee on the appointment of " Arbi- rators " throughout the country to conduct justice-business among the .Repealers. The report recommended that the candidates for the office should be appointed by the Association, on the recommendation of the Repeal wardens; that not fewer than three Arbitrators should be ap- pointed to each Petit Sessions district ; that the penalty for refusing to abide by the award of the Arbitrators should be expulsion from the Repeal Association ; with various details respecting the procedure to be observed. The report was unanimously adopted.

There was a monster meeting at Roscommon on Sunday last, for the county. Some of the gentry of the neighbourhood had persuaded their tenantry to stay away ; and when the men complained that the Galway Repeaters had threatened to compel their attendance, their landlords applied to Government for protection. Accordingly, a force of troops and police was stationed in the town ; but no occasion arose for their interference. Lord Ffrench and some of his relatives headed the pro- cession that convoyed Mr. O'Connell to the ground, about a mile from the town ; and Mr. Geoffry Ffrench, of Tomona, was appointed Chair- man of the meeting. There was little novelty in the proceedings. Mr. O'Connell's allusion to the possibility of fighting appears to be a shade more distinct than usual : he was mentioning his first hope, " of Father Mathew's creation "-

Oh, how he loved Teetotalism! It was the finest effluence of human vir- tue; and he bad made a rule that any one who disregarded its solemn obliga- tions and broke the pledge should not be admitted to the Repeal ranks. Napoleon had boasted of his body-guards, but he could boast of a more than imperial guard—a Christian guard of virtuous Teetotalers. (Cheers.) The mighty moral miracle of 5,000,000 men pledged against intoxicating liquors bad come from the hand of God ; and he hailed it as the precursor of the liberty of Ireland. The man who drank might, to be sure, elevate his courage thereby, and go to the battle-field ; but in a little time he became tired, and was good for nothing. But if he had to go to battle, he should have the strong and steady Teetotallers with him ; the Teetotal bands would play before them and animate them in the time of peril ; their wives and daughters, thank- ing God for their sobriety, would be praying for their safety ; and he told them there was not an army in the world that he would not fight with his Tee- totallers. (Long-continued cheering and waving of hats.) Yes, Teatotallism was the first sure ground on which rested their hope of sweeping away Saxon domination and giving Ireland to the Irish. (Renewed cheering.) He alluded to previous meetings of the kind— The last he had been present at was the meeting of meetings, the gigantic assemblage of Tara bill ; and on that spot, sacred to liberty and to Irish inde- pendence, where their princes were crowned and solemnly sworn to keep the foreigner and stranger from trespassing on their shores—where St. Patrick raised the standard of Christianity—on that spot he bad proclaimed that the Union was void; that it was no union in point of constitutional law. (Cheers.) One million fire hundred thousand (1) persons had at Tara given their assent to the finding, and he came there that day to ask them to confirm the verdict. (Cries of "We do so.")

After the meeting, between 400 and 500 persons dined together in a spacious marquee, erected at the rear of a large building formerly used as a gaol, but now converted into a lunatic asylum.

Major-General Sir Guy Campbell has investigated the circumstances attending the recent assassination of Adjutant Mackay, at Parsonstown Barracks; and has stated his opinion that the Regiment of the Fifth Fusileers is in the highest state of discipline, and not over-drilled by the Colonel. The Regiment is ordered to Dublin, to be succeeded at Pkrsonstown by the Seventy-second Highlanders.

It has been reported in Dublin, that Government have resolved on is- suing a commission, whose labours are to commence during the ensu- ing recess, for the purpose of inquiring into the relations between land- lord and tenant in Ireland ; and that their report on the subject will be laid before Parliament early next session, with a view to legislation. The Earl of Devon is named as Chairman of the Commission. The Dublin Evening Post adds, that Government are already in possession of some extraordinary information respecting the disputes between Mr. Shee and his tenants in Kilkenny ; and that the harrassing system pur- sued in that particular district will be one of Sir Robert Peel's topics in addressing the Commons.

The Belfast Chronicle says that a bill is to be brought into Parliament by the Lord Chancellor to settle the subject of Presbyterian mar- riages— " By it the right of Presbyterian clergymen to marry members of their com- munion to Episcopalians is completely recognized, and themost perfect equality established. There is, however, to be a publication of banns, as in the Es- tablished Church; the ceremony, also, is to be performed in the meeting-house, within canonical hours; and a marriage-registry is to be kept."

The Chronicle adds, that the bill was introduced into the House of Lords on the previous Wednesday. [The House, however, did not sit on that day.] The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Post says—" Irish reapers are now going over to England and Scotland in great numbers ; and it is now alleged that it was not Repeal, but the lateness of the harvest, which prevented them going before." A trial of the Atmospheric Railway from Kingstown to Dublin, was made on Saturday. Some carriages attached to an engine accomplished the distance of one and a half miles from Glasthule, in three and a half minutes.

The Cork Constitutional relates the crime of a man who had been arrested near Kilcreagh Abbey- " John Mabony, a tailor by trade, went to the house of his brother, some distance from biacroom ; where meeting his sister-in-law, a dispute arose between them, owing to her charging him with committing a robbery. He at length became exasperated, seized a graffawn, and, striking her on the head with it, broke in her skull, and she fell dead at his feet. He raised his arm to strike her a second time, but her daughter ran to prevent him ; on which lie struck her also on the head with the murderous implement, and she spoke no more. A servant.girl ran towards him ; but she met a similar fate to that of her unfortunate mistress and child. The murderer then fastened up the door, and fled. When his brother returned, he knocked at the door ; but receiving no answer, he forced it open, and was horrified on discovering the lifeless corpses of his wife, his child, and servant, stretched alongside each other."

One Peter Dolan has been arrested iu England, and incarcerated in Dublin, on a charge of being the assassin of Lord Norbury, five years ago. He is supposed to have had no accomplice, and to have been ac- tuated by motives of private revenge.