IRELAND.

Mr. O'Connell has put forth another Letter to the People of Ire- land, written in a very spirited and lively manner. It commences with an allusion to Lord Brougham's speech at Inverness-

" Fellow Countrymen—I have avowed myself a Ministerialist ! I have sines read Lord Brougham's speech at Inverness. It is a hard thing to swallow —a desperate gulp it is—there—I have swallowed it- -and I am, I believe, a Ministerialisi at ill.

"But how Me, that is the question. In what way, and how far am I a Ministerialist ? Why, just so far as may he useful to Ireland, and not one inch beyond. I do not belong in any respect to the Do-little Administration, which, according to Lord Brougham was Lord they's Administration of last session; neither wiil I have env connexion with the Do-less Ministry, which, it seems, is to be Lord Brougham's Ministry of the next session. Why, then, do I avow myself a Ministeralist ? " For two reasons.

" The first is, that I pay very little attention to any thing Lord Brougham says. Ile makes a greater number of foolish speeches than any other man of the present generation. There may be more nonsense in some one speech of another person; but in the number, in the multitude of foolish speeches, Lord Breugham has it hollow. I would start him ten to one, aye fifty to one, in talking nonsense and It ttly contradicting himself, in one dozen of off-hand dis- courses, against any other ' pretty prattler in pantaloons' now living. i

" But t is pitiful, it is melancholy, that a man who ought at least to affect to wear Solomon's fabled bonnet of wisdom, should prefer to put on the fools' cap over his Chancellor's wig, and run riot through the isle to demonstrate with what little of steady sense the judgment-seat may be occupied.

"The second and the better reason is, that it is the ditty of the Popular party in Ireland not to give the Ministry any excuse for continuing their unjust par- tiality to the Orange faction, or their unjust oppression of Ireland."

The mental arid physical imbecility, and furious bigotry of the Orange faction, are then exposed and denounced.

" In plain truth there never was a party more destitute of moral, or mental, or even physical force ; because even in the last, which they have only in com- mon with other brute animals, they are so numerically inferior to the Liberal Protestants and Catholics of Ireland, that they cannot possibly continue their career of paltry but irritating insolence, unless actually protected, and, indeed,

i assisted, n that criminal career by the police and military. "As to mental qualification for power—Heaven help the dunderheads! Even the talented writers for the Mail, who derive their intellect from another and a better source, are quite incompetent to enliven the dulness and the everlasting prosing of the stupid Orange would -be orators. The genuine atrocity of bloody bigotry shines through the dismal nonsense of their orations ; but they cannot enrich or even diversify them with one sentiment, or even one phrase, showing either taste, talent, or information. The Orange faction is certainly, in point of intellect or understanding, the most deplorably degraded that ever excited the contempt and scorn of mankind.

" Then, as to their moral qualities—what are they? The preaching up of wholesale proscription, massacre, and extermination. They call themselves Christians—they preach up doctrines almost too bad for the eternal Enemy of mankind to suggest to human depravity. Bayonets and blood, bayonets and blood, form thew texts and commentary. Their laymen vie with their parsons in ruthless atrocity; and it becomes doubtful which of the two are the more ready to preach rapine, murder, and desolation. The infernal spirit of religious persecution reigns over the whole, and renders the Irish Orangeists the most

depraved, as well as the most despicable, of the human race." • Mr. O'Connell reminds his countrymen that their own misconduct may drive the Government to coalesce with the Orange party : he therefore counsels them to aid Ministers, whom the Orange party are now thwarting. He proposes that every assistance shall be given to the Commissioners on their inquiries as to the amount of the popula- tion of the various sects; and recommends that a copy of the account which the Catholic priests furnish to the Commissioners, shall be sent to Mr. O'Dwyer, in Dublin. He also recommends that petitions should be got up in every town for Corporate Reform. "I would wish that in every corporate town there should be a petition drawn tip, detailing all, or if that be not possible, several of the most prominent of the local sbusea—the monopoly of civic rights, the partiality in the administration i

of justice, the pecuniary exactions, and other villanies, n which our corpora- tions abound. Lit me ask as if I were suing for a personal favour, that some Or: WO, or more persons—or, to choose, that a Liberal Club—should, in each . corporate town, Fr pre, as spindly es possib!e, a petition in the form I thus suggest, and get it signed without delay. I should be delighted to have one hundred such petitions to present on the first, the very first day of next session. They would furnish an excellent commentary on the report of ti.e Commis- sioners of Corporate Inquiry—if that report ever appears; and, what is more important, they would supply the place of that report, if it shall be, as one has reason to fear, suppressed."

In conclusion, he promises a letter on the subject of Tithes, and again triumphs over the Orange faction- " I cannot conclude without congratulating you, my fellow countrymen, oa the miserable and contemptible display made by the Oramteists at their meetings in Dublin, and especially on their total inability to state one rational or even colourable grievance under which they labour, and of which they ought justly to complain. I congratulate you on the eternal stupidity of the Reverend—aye, the Reverend! !—Mortimer O'Sullivan, who christened himself that Mortimer, although Father Flannery, the parish priest of Clonmel, duly baptized him by the more euphonious name of Alortough. I congratulate you on the promo dulness of Dr. Boyton, and the more racy absurdity of a ferocious bellwether of a person styled Mr. Butt. People of Ireland, these men are playing our game, unless we ourselves spoil it. They are quarrelling with that species of power by which alone they have been hitherto sustained again it the people."

The Irish Conservatives and Orangemen have been making a prodi- gious fuss about a meeting which was summoned by the Reverend Marcus Beresford to assemble on Monday last, at Cavan. Between thirty and forty thousand men—no women or children— were expected to attend : but the whole affair prove a miserable failure ; for not more than five or six hundred individuals, according to the Dublin Even- ing Post, including women and children, made their appearance. The Evening Mail, however, estimates the numbers at twelve thousand! Not a single Peer was present ; the principal persons being Colonel Clements, Mr. Lucas Clements, Mr. Beresford himself, the Reverend John Martin, and the notorious Orangeman Samuel Gray of Ballybay. Mr. Beresford and Mr. Martin were the principal orators ; but Mr. Gray delivered the most emphatic speech : it had also the advantage of being brief. He said, in reference to his associates in Monaghan, " We are best prepared with arms and ammunition ; and if a storm should arise, you have only to give the signal. and we shall be at your backs in an instant." The reporter of the Dublin Evening Post says, that Marcus Beresford's harangue was "bloody and truculent in the extreme." The men camearmed with sticks : one of them carried a pole painted orange and blue ; but no flags or banners were exhibited. The meeting was conducted and separated in peace.

A number of Irish landlords, among whom are the Earls of Charles mont and Ranfurly, Colonel Verner, Mr. Charles Brownlow, the Bishop of Kilmore, and Lord Clancarty, have agreed to take upon themselves the payment of tithe due from their tenants.

There is reason to believe that the noblemen and gentlemen who have taken upon themselves to pay the clergy their tithes, will have some difficulty in collecting the amount from their tenants, 'especially those who by voting against the Irish Tithe Bill have prevented anyellevus- tien of the burden. The Dublin correspondent.of the Times writes- " The farmers and peasantry will be quite as little inclined to pay tithes to the landlord as to the parson; and if the former insist OD it, he may find the result to be, the placing his collateral levy (the rent) in danger, instead of being able, in the capacity of its collector, to effect at tile same tune an addi- tional one on account of the parson. Many a poor tenant will be heard to say throughout Ireland, as I heard one poor fellow, when the double demand was brought home last year to his cabin-door by a mutual agent of the rector and the landlurd—' Troth, Sir, I'll pay you the riot as usual with pleasure,—why not ?—but I darn't pay you (or anybody) the tithe, at all, at all! So, plate y'r Honour, don't mix the two, or you may be the death of me!' The parsons hitherto could not afford to dispense with their tithes, and hence the war to the knife,' which ensued. Perhaps the landlord may henceforth afford to be DO much out of pocket (that is, as long as the system of forcible contribution to the Establishment last): if not, we shall doubtless still witness the practical system of war to the knife' perpetually iu activity as an essential accompaniment to the professional promulgation of peace on earth and good will to men.' Lord Lorton has undertaken to pay the tithes due on his extensive estates (which extend into twelve parishes in the counties of Roscommon and Sligo) from the 1st of November last. His Lordship and his Conservative friends of course know what they are about in thus taking up this Liberal position; but I for one shall be very much surprised if they do not find the usurious premiumoffifteess per cent., which they evidently grasp at, a losing concern."

Dean Carter, who owns the tithes of Ballymere in the county of Armagh, has given notice that he will sue for all tithe due to him on the 1st October. This notice has excited much indignation among the farmers and peasantry. A correspondent of the Belfast Northern Inig thus addresses the parishioners in reference to it-

" If I be sued, and I find I have good legal grounds of defence. I will meet the Proc- tor in court.If I am defeated, I will, peaceably and quietly. and unresietingly, let the law take its course; but gold, bank-notes, silver, or copper, as and for tithes. I never will pay. If my goods or cattle are distrained, I will not bid a penny for them, when set up to auction. If my neighbour's goods or cattle are set up to be sold by auction for tithes. I will not bid for, them; nor will I even bid fur, or buy any Clung distrained for tithes ; and simply for this reason—because the law dues not re- quire, nor can a oy law compel me to art otherwise. Hat mind this, good people of

Ballymore. I don': desire you or any of you to act in this matter as I mean to act: do just as you plea.... only act in a legal and peaceable manner. And now, from tithe- parsons, proctot, attornies, bailiffs, and diners, God send us all a safe deliveraues."

Several of the tenantry of Lord Mandeville, resident in the manor of Kerinin, near Portadown, having 'fallen into arrear of rent from the depression of trade, the low price of produce, and other circumstances, had their crops lately put under seizure by his Lordship's order. This was deemed a harsh measure by some of the peasantry, at a season

when the poor man's labour is just about to become productive; and their Irritation was increased by placing two watchmen, locally named "dieters," on the premises of each individual, to whom the tenant was obliged to pay .a considerable sum daily for their trouble in guarding his property. On the night of Saturday (30th ult.), "the Downshire

boys," the Rockite legislators of the district, congregated in numbens and surromided the houses where the watchmen were stationed. They ordered them to come out ; the owners of the houses vainly remon-

strated; the men having been severely beaten were dismissed with threats of worse treatment if they engaged again in such an employ- ment.. The Police have been busily engaged in search of the authors of this illegal act, we are informed, without much success. Their con- federacy is said to be extensive.—Irish Northern Herald.

An investigation took place on Weduesday week, in Ballina, relative to an attempt to poison Captain Long, of the Seventy-first Regiment.

It appears that Camille Long, on Sunday evening, finding himself unwell, sent u relation for an ounce of Epsom salts to an apothecary's shop ; who returned shortly afterwards and mixed the medicine. The Captain seeing the salts look rather muddy, and a scum floating on the top, conceived a dislike to the medicine, and took only a small quantity of it ; when instantly a violent vomiting ensued. Dr. Gar- diner was immediately sent for, who administered with success the necessary antidotes, which allayed the vomiting ; and, on analyzing the stuff, it contained a large quantity of corrosive sublimate. The facts being proved, the Magistrates conceived it their duty to commit a re- spectable young friend of the Captain's ; and the affair is likely to be brought before the public at the next Assizes.—Roscommoa Gazette.

The Innisfail stearn.boat, which plies between Dublin and Cork, took fire one day last week, while moored neared the Steam-packet Office in the latter town, in consequence of some rags in the hold be- coming ignited. Parties of the Forty-third and Fifth Regiments, stationed at Cork, with Lord Charles Wellesley and several other officers, were very active in their exertions to extinguish the fire ; which they effected after some time. The damage is estimated at 5000/.