IRELAND.
The new Lord Mayor of Dublin was installed in his office on the 30th of September. As usual there was an address from Mr. Recorder Shaw, and a reply from the Lord-Lieutenant, and a sort of charge from one of the Judges. Mr. Shaw descanted upon the antiquity and excellence of the Irish Corporations ; which, he said, were established for the purpose of maintaining British interests in Ireland. He dwelt on the impolicy of transferring the power now held by the Protestant patty to their opponents, and on the value of internal peace. He then described the official duties of a Lord Mayor of Dublin, and eulogized the newly-appointed officer. Judge Perrin addressed the Lord Mayor; reminding him of the importance of his office, and the obligation he had incurred to discharge its duties with discretion. He gave Mr. Shaw a rap on the crowded state of the Dublin gaols. They were, he said, too full for the health of the inmates, and should be thinned by more frequent sittings. [This means, that Mr. Shaw is too busy in political intrigues, and spends too much time in the House of Commons, to attend as he ought to his judicial duties.] Lord Mulgrave paid some compliments to the late and the new Lord Mayor ; and then proceeded to remark upon Mr. Shaw's saddress, enforcing the necessity of Corporation Reform, and indirectly defending the bill of last session. He also had a hit at Mr. Shaw, who last year spoke against the subversion of the Corporations, but supported the Lyndhurst bill of destruction
" Six hundred anniversaries (said Lord Mulgrave) such as the present have pssed away; and I trust this shall not be the last—that the Union between England and Ireland will be a Union in reality—and that if England have municipal rights, it shall not be said in these enlightened days that Ireland is less worthy. I hope that Ireland shall not be a by-word for the nation.; of Europe, nor that it shall be said that she is the only country unworthy of a full extension of civil rights. I do entertain a hope that the Legislature will be able to apply remedies to the evils which, upon all hands, are acknowledged to exist in the Irish Corporations, and put them on a footing with those of England and Scotland. And again, referring to the language of the right honourable Recorder last year, I trust that a full and satisfactory reform will be effected without any danger of subversion. I think that subversion will never be found to take the place of reformation. The union between the two countries was founded upon the basis of equal laws, equal rights, and equal privileges; and I trust that it never shall be said that this fine country, which I have the honour :o govern, aml her people, whose loyalty is unimpeachable, shall be deprived of rights and privileges which have been granted to any other portion of the empire. On behalf, then, of the people of this fine island, of this city, and of the civic community which surround me, I will express a hope that you shall have equal rights; and that Dublin whose population is increasing, whose commerce and wealth are increasing, will never under any circumstances cease to be a city."
.A loud cheer from the assembly in the Audience-Chamber burst forth at the conclusion of this speech.
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