IRELAND.
There was a large meeting of Repeaters belonging to St. Paul's parish, Dublin, 011 Monday last. The room was so much crowded, that the floor nearly gave way, and the meeting adjourned to the open air. Mr. O'Connell harangued as usual; but there were two remarkable circumstances in the proceedings of the day. The first was that Mr. Cooke, a Protestant gentleman, was allowed to speak at length in de- fence of tithes; arid the second, that Mr. I'ollock, tile son of a mer- chant in Dublin, a friend of the Orange leader, Mr. Boyton, and a very young gentleman, spoke with great eloquence on the same side as Mr. O'Connell; who moved that he should be requested to prepare a copy of his admirable speech for publication. All this seems contra- dictory of the assertion of the Dublin Evening Post, that the Repeal meetings are only attended by some two or three dozen vagabonds.
The Newcastle Press publishes a letter from Mr. O'Connell, addressed to Mr. Larkin, respecting the charges brought against the Irish Members byAlr.Pease, in the letter sent by him, in April last, to Mr. Kilburne of South Auckland, and which we published in the Spectator. Mr. O'Connell asserts that he was made acquainted with the charges con- tained in Mr. Pease's letter soon after it was written ; either the ori- ginal, or a.copy of it, having been sent to him in London, from New- castle. he says he immediately showed it to Mr. Pease, and asked him whether he was the author ; and that Mr. Pease, after appearing much confused, and with large drops of perspiration running down his forehead, at length replied, that " he could not say but that he had written such a letter—that it was not intended for publication, but was substantially correct." Mr. O'Connell told Mr. Pease he should bring the matter before the notice of Parliament ; and was preparing to do so, when, at the urgent solicitation of Mr. Hutt, the Member for Hull, he consented never to bring it before the House, and he tore the letter in Mr. Hutt's presence. Mr. O'Connell then proceeds to discuss the letter itself; and observes, that as it has now been given to the public, it becomes his duty to impeach Mr. Pease before his con- stituents, "of the grossest fabrications and falsehoods that ever yet disgraced a pnblic man." He says—" I make now, deliberately, the charge against him of having foully and falsely calumniated me and other public men, who arc at all events his equals. I make this charge against him before and to his constituents; reareettully aubluating to them, that they will not be free in the eyes of the public, from being stained with some of the guilt of the calumnies, unless they publicly repu- diate both him and them." Ile proposes to submit the matter to any tws independent Members of Parliament whom Mr. Pease may select, before whom he will make five distinct charges against him of gross and wil- ful falsehoods contained in the letter to Mr. Kilburne. He offers hies his choice of referees among the followinggentlemen,—Messrs. Hume, Warburton, E. Bulwer, Wilks, Buckingham, Parrott, Hippo'', Hutt, Tynte, Gillon, and Majors Fancourt and Beauclerk. " But," says Mr. O'Connell, " unless he conies forward to prove his charges, as I distinctly assert that he cannot prove them, let Min either make his amende honorable to men whom he has unjustly calumniated, or shrink back to private life for the rest of his days."
A fire broke out in the Mansionhouse, Dublin, on Friday last week, Jr did not, however, cause much damage, as Miss Whiteford, daughter of the Lord Mayor, acted with great presence of mind in rousing the servants.
Mr. Bindon Scott, the father-in-law of Mr. Maurice O'Connell, claims a large stun out of the million voted by Parliament to discharge arrears of tithes. It is said that many Roman Catholic titheownere, who have retnsed to pay their own tithes to the clergy, have advanced similar claims.
It is supposed that Mr. Browne, M. P., will succeed the Marquis oc Sligo as Lieutenant of Mayo. his Lordship embarks soon to assintre the Government of Jamaica.
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