IRELAND.
The Irish journals are full of complaints at the exclusion of Irishmen from the Cabinet and from the administration. They do not seem to re- gard Lord Palmerston, an Irish peer, as a representative. They object to Mr. Cardwell, and consider his advent at Dublin as the signal for the abolition of the viceroyalty. In the mean time the Orangemen have de- nounced Mr. Joseph Napier, because he has justly refused to treat juve- nile reformatories from a sectarian point of view. To support a Roman Catholic reformatory is, it appears, to lose the faculty of distinguishing between truth and error.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin has received a letter from the Earl of Car- lisle, in which his Excellency intimates his desire that the usual con- gratulatory address on his resumption of the viceregal office should be dispensed with. The Irish are dreadfully afraid that this simple request portends the abolition of the Viceroyalty.
An official notice has been issued calling out, with two exceptions, all the Militia regiments in Ireland. An order to this effect has been de- spatched from the proper office, and will be generally made known this day at the head-quarters of all the regiments throughout the provinces.
The commercial writer of the Freeman's Journal states that those best qualified to judge are of opinion that Mr. Gladstone will be compelled to raise the sugar duties. In support of this opinion it is stated that large sums have lately been paid as duty in anticipation of a rise.
The Dublin Morning News states that the present Attorney-General for Ireland has, to a large extent, abandoned the prosecution in the matt* of the parties charged with complicity in the Phcenix conspiracy.
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