It was the intention of Mr. O'CONNELL to leave Dublin
on Monday, for the purpose of attending his duties in Parliament ; but the Attorney-General having joined issue on the demurrer pleaded to a number of the counts in the indictment for conspiracy, the Liberator has been obliged to remain on the other side of the Channel, greatly to his own dislike and the convenience of the House of Commons. Monday next has been fixed for discussing the demurrer ; and it is not improbable that even the great ques- tion of Reform may be got over in the member's absence.
Although Mr. O'Coarisieni, did not leave Dublin on Monday, there was a procession all the same, which went off very quietly. The weather in Ireland has been very cold, and the snow as deep as it has been here ; which has perhaps served to cool the blood of the Repealers. There has been a winding of the infancy of Dublin, to express its approbation of Mr. O'CONNELL and the Repeal. Some of the speakers (the lispers would be the proper word) were not above eight years of age. Mr. O'CONNELL at- tended the meeting of these suckling patriots, and pronounced an address to them, in which he spoke of cutting through rocks with diamonds.
The merchants and bankers of Dublin have presented an ad- dress of warm congratulation to the Marquis of ANGLESEY ; and no fewer than one hundred and fifty of the members of the Irish bar have declared against the Repeal. Lord ANGLESEY has moreover held a levee, which was most numerously attended, and at which two actual living Catholic Bishops appeared to offer their respects to a nobleman whom the member for Waterford had de- nounced as a renegade, an enemy of Ireland, and, what was un- kindest of all, as a Welshman!
The run on the banks has for the most part ceased. The ac- counts, however, from the towns in the South, describe the run as still continued with as much zeal and alacrity as the means of the parties permit. It may be reasonably anticipated, as these means are not great, it will soon cease altogether.
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