IRELAND.
O'Connell, with his usual adroitness, has taken advantage of the dis- missal of the Whigs and the recall of the Anti-Reformers, to put aside for the present the embarrassing Repeal question. The Repeal pledge is to be changed at the next election for the Reform pledge. A public meeting was held yesterday week at the Dublin Corn Exchange, where the Liberator announced this change of tactics. The meeting was attended by twelve Irish Members of Parliament, and by Mr. Bish, Member for Leominster. The following resolutions proposed by O'Connell were unanimously adopted.
" That the intelligence of the possible formation of a Tory Administration has created in the minds of the People of Ireland sentiments of indignation and disgust ; cid that it is the duly of all honest and sincere Reformers, to bury in oblivion all d'fferences between themselves, and to combine in one simultaneous and continued elution to avert so awful a calamity as the restoration to power of a party devoted to oligarchy and monopoly, and gorged with the plunder of the Church and State.
That it is our first duty in this momentous crisis, to exert all our faeuhies to pre- Sate and maintain the tranquillity of Ireland during the dominion of the Tory party, !•3 as not to afford any pretext for sanguinary oppression, or for the further organiza- tion of the fell Orange faction—a faction so long countenanced by many amongst our- selves, in direct defiance of the law."
It was resolved to form an Anti-Toly Association ; and Liberal Clubs in every town of any size throughout Ireland, with a view to return Reformers at the next election.
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