IRELAND.
On Saturday, the Corporation of Dublin gave the annual dinner to the new Lord Mayor. It passed off very well on the whole, although there was some manifestation of Orange feeling.. Lord "Mulgrave did nut attend, but the Archbishop of Dublin was present. His Grace made one or two commonplace speeches, which hardly could have been expected front him. Mr. Shaw, the Recorder, was, as usual, imperti- nent and rather snappish. He regretted that good old customs were falling into disuse—that the Lord-Lieutenant did not honour the com- pany with his presence, (as if the Lord-Lieutenant were bound to sub- mit himself to an annual Orange insult)— It would be unbecoming in him to make any harsh observations upon the line of conduct which his Excellency had thought proper to pursue; but his Lordship, who so worthily filled the chair that evening, surely felt that the ab- sence of a nobleman, to whose absence they were now beginning to be accus- tomed, must greatly enhance the value of that distinguished company by which his Lordship was surrounded. It was agreeable to reflect, that at all times, aud wider all circumstances, the rank, the wealth, the property, the worth, the in- telligence of Ireland, would be found ready to rally round those nrinciples, these immortal principles, which, time out of mind, have been cherished and observed in the persons of the Lords-Lieutenant of Ireland. It was now a dif- ficult thing, indeed, to find that peculiar form of phraseology, which would ex- press that sentiment of loyalty which was once uniform with that of the head of the Executive, of that obedience and respect to the laws which is the life of the constitution, and of inviolable attachment to the Crown of Great Britain— in short, to convey those principles, which are the principles of that corporation —priuciples, which are identically those of the constitution itself; and which ixiasist in a determination to uphold the Brunswick dynasty, to give security to the privileges of the Peerage on the one hand, and maintain those of the People off the other, and, above all, to uphold the connexion of the Church as esta- blished by law in connexion with the State. In securing those principles, they gave stability to the rights of all; and freedom of conscience was itself best preserved in the estiblishment of truly Protestant principles. A speech on the late election, delivered by Mr. G. A. Hamilton, and loudly applauded by the company, showed how decidedly Orange the party was ; and we think that Dr. NVbateley would have dune well to have imitated Lord Mulgrave'a example and have kept away from the Orange orgies.
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