IRELAND.
Sir Henry Winston Barron has been returned for Waterford, in the room of Mr. Daniel O'Connell. At the close of the poll, which exhausted the constituency, the numbers were—Sir H. Barron, Whig, 319; Mr. Patrick Costello, Old Inlander, 301; Mr. Meagher, Young Irelander, 154. The news from France has been received in Ireland with rejoicing. In Tipperary, bonfires were lighted; but generally there was no very great stir. At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, the Reverend Mr. Mullen hinted, that if England and the landlords did not mind, there might be a revolution in Ireland: the tenantry might be induced "to right their wrongs in battle line." He afterwards said that he meant to caution the people against being led astray. And Mr. John O'Connell has sent home from Paris a letter containing such passages as these-
" People of heland—moral,peaceful, religious people of Ireland I disciplined in mind and soul—enlightened, educated up to rational liberty, and the full sense of constitutional right—von must not be left behind in the advance of nations. England must—England will—England cannot fail at such a time to grant to you the rights you are so fitted to enjoy. . . . .
" No crime—no violence—no outrage against Divine or human law—no spill- ing even of one drop of human blood! Raise your voices in your peaceful moral might. . . . . .
" Speak out, people of Ireland! Speak from every city—every valley—every hill—every. plain I THE TIME IS COME. TIIE HOUR HAS ARRIVED when it is OUR UCSTANT When it IS ENGLAND'S DIRECTEST AND MOST IMPERA- TIVE INTEREST that we should manage our own affairs in OUR OWN PARLIA- MENT AT HOME ! !"
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