IRELAND.
Mr. Stanley said in the House of Commons, last week, that if the Irish members continued to interpret the Catholic oath as they seemed inclined, he would abandon the Irish Reform Bill ; a terrible threat, no doubt. This speech has been the subject—as was meet and to be expected—of a speechification in the National. Mr. O'Connell said-
" There never yet was a human being so unfitted for the situation that he holds as Mr. Stanley. Never was there a human being so unsuited for such a situation. It is not from incapacity—it is not from want of intellect, that he is =suited to the situation. No, but the very turn of his intellect and of his "capacity, and the very gifts of his nature, constitute him the bitterest enemy of this country. Giving him credit' for the purest intentions, I would say, that the very_ purity of his intentions makes him the worst foe to Ireland. The newspapers, indeed, make him talk of giving no Reform Bill to Ireland. Ed- ward Geoffrey Smith Stanley give no Reform Bill to Ireland ! Oh! do! Let - this be done, and I should be glad to know how many Repealers you would make for me. No Reform Bill for Ireland, forsooth !"
It is so common to speak of Mr. Stanley as a man of talent, that it may appear paradoxical to affirm the contrary. That he is an acute detector of the flaws in an opponent's argument, and a ready speaker, no one *ill 'deny. But something more is wanted to constitute even a clever man. A clever man must be able to think, as well as talk cor- rectly; and we begin to doubt, from the specimens he daily gives the public, whether Mr. Stanley can think at all.
On Tuesday, the house of Lord Norbury was robbed of property to a very large amount: about three dozen of spoons, silver jugs, cups, and ewers, tea and coffee-pots salt-cellars and egg cups, were carried off.—Dublin Freeman's Journal.
A murder of an atrocious character was discovered in the mountains of Mountrath, Queen's County, on the 11th of this month. John Forster, a herd, living on the lands of Borragh, was desired by his master and landlord, Jeremiah Dooley, to go and forcibly take from its mother 'an illegitimate child. Forster left home in compliance with that desire, and did not return. On Sunday last, his father died. In ,consequence of the son being absent from the wake, inquiries were made, and suspicion fell upon his master. A search took place, and in a ploughed field the body was found buried. There was an extensive fracture on the temple. Dooley has absconded.
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