IIIELAND.
Friday the 10th of January has be is hi iullv ixed upon as the day for the meeting of the Irish friends of the Miuistry. The requisitiou extends to a guilt length, The chief object of the meelieg is to pro- mote the election-registries. It is runniured that Forieseue, of Bavensdale, will preside.
'rhe day following the Ministerial meeting has been fixed upon for the dinner to Mr. o'connell ; who is to leave for Manehester on the following morning, to attend the Anti-Corn-law (limier nit the 1:111, The Earl of Charlentont, I have heard, is to preside at Mr. O'Connell's dinner.—Times Dublin Correspondent.
A meeting was held on Tuesday at the Corn Exelt.1111.:0, to receive the report of a I nmunittee appoleted to prepare a plan for die legal and constittaionol organization" of the reepht of Ireland. 'Hie re- port, .whiell bears the signature of Daniel t Woanell as Chairman, re- commends public niectingt; in every comity., city, town, and parish el' Ireland, out Sarniay the lath of January, to address tho Qttoen, and as- sure her Majesty. of " their readiness to defend, at the full peril (.1' their lives, and it' necessary, to the shedding of the last drop of' tIteir
the person, rcrogatives, and throne of their most gracious Sietereitni." It is ako proposed to establish a society, to be called " Th.. Frieltels tif the Queen and Irish Protection Society," but not to be immediately organized, lest it should interfere with the Registratiim Societies.
As a specimen of the spirit in which this report is drawn up, take the follow hig-
" That at no former period of British history, even v.hen Ow desolating sword of the sangnivary Cromwell passed over the land of Ireland, plundering and destroying., and slaughtering without mercy all ages and SeNeS—never own at that disastrous period was there exhibited in England, amidst the great masses of its aristocratic and agricultural proprietors, its clergy, amt most active laity, stud' a Satanic spirit of rancour, animosity, calumny, and inalig- nity,agahat the religion and the liberties attic Irish people, as at present," In his speech t prefacing a motion that the report be adopted, Mr. O'Connell made a sort of apology for his attack on Lord Brought.; — "I spoke of his having attended the funeral of his child, whirls I thought an umetted eircumstance,.because in that part of the country from W bleb 1. came, the idea of a hither attending the funeral of' his child would never enter into the head of any person : it would he considered imposuible that a father could bring his feelings to that slate that they would admit of kis ivithessing so dreadful a ceremony—so dreadful a parting from the object of his affection. I perceive, Inmever, by the remark: of the London papers, that the en- tom is different there ; and that in the North of Ireland. too, it is different. I there- fore withdraw my charge, and acknowledee my mistake. I consulted my Unit feelings, and 1 telt it would be impossible for a flit her to be present at that horrible separation."
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