IRELAND.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 21, 27 December 1843, Page 4

IRELAND.

In Ireland, the Repeal movement continues its threatening career, and whilst the legislative pass Sion for ' talking' lias marked the regards of Parliament in reference thereunto, O'Connell's progress partakes of the reality of * action.' Meetings attens ded hy three and four hnndied thousand men arms gantly defy the ministerial manifestos, and O'Connell has declared that he stands at the head of a greater physical force than that with which Napoleon marched from the cliffs of Boulogne, to the frontiers of Hungary. We fear that this movement must not be regarded as a mere temporary agitation, and it is high time that the English nation and representatives should address themselves seriously to the task of understanding what it really means, and how it is to be dealt with. The Ulster Times speaking of the Repeal Question, and trie seditious speeches of O'Connell, says, i**And thus he goes on to the conclusion, preaching peace in one breath, and exciting to deeds of blood in the next; but the people well understand that lis admonitions to peace are only a shhallow pretext for encouraging war. How long, we may SSgain ask, are such exhibitions and such logs to continue ? Or, are cny means to be adopted to put an end to them, arid restore the countty to that state of tranquility, in which, alone, it is pose ■ible that it can advance in prosperity ? The cons iidence of the agricultural and manufacturing community roust be shakeu, in the event of a state of things, such as has existed dining the last three months, continuing much longer, and if a stSgnation of tiade ensue, the crisis, which all good men M)U«t deeply deplore, will be rapidly accelerated. "We will not anticipate the innst, however ; but as the Government have deciaied that Repeal can only be tarried by a successful civil war, would it liot be wue for them to put a stop to these meets angs, and make it high treason to agitate for a Repealofthe Union. Nothing short of that will have . a beneficial effeoti Irish Macisti'.acv.—lt is believad there are about 2,200 unpaid magistrates in lielaud. Of tl.is number, tWeniy-eijiiil only have been superseded for attending repeal meetings, and thiiteen have resigned their Commissions. 1 his latter movement is just to manifest their sympathy lor those who lave been exalted to the rank ot "martyrs," because of their anxiety to have " Ireland lor the Irish," and to promote the ascendancy of Popery, A man named Doolin had been anested, charged ■with the murder oI Lord NorMi>y, REPEAL.—The following- among- oilier jesolulions, were agreed to ai a late meeting of No. blemen and others, held at Reliant, the Maiquis ol 3)onegal in the chair :—That, in the opinion of this .meeting the Legislative Union has been the source of increased and increasing pros-etity to Ireland a prosperity now and for some time past unhappily paralysed by the insecurity ol capital caused by the cgitation of Repeal." That from the historic reed, lections of the An of Confiscation passed by the Irish Parliament, of the ir.isguided James 11.. and Ol the cruelties then practised against the Protestant population, by his army and foreign allies, we feel warranted and compelled to conclude that the Re- ■ the Union is but a eovert Dame for the difmomberment of the empire, the extiuction of the Protestant religion, the destruction of Protestant property, and the ruin of the Protestant people in Ireland. That, for these reasons, we feel bound to testify to the Queen, the Houses of Parliament, and to all ranks of the empire, our thorough conviction, arising from our local knowleege, and other unquestionable sources of information, that there exists throughout this kingdom a widely spread and dangerots conspiracy, almost, if not altogether, conlined to the Roman Catholic population, to counteract whieh demands the hearty concurrence of all ler Majesty's subjects. mmm ■——.^—■—————« —^^^^ m Cape of Good Hope.— We havelhe satisfaction of ( announcing that np to the middle of October al o remained quiet at Port Nat El. and although some f the rebels had retired into the interior, it was expected they would all come in. Natal is now a British colony, subject to the same laws as the Cape of Good Hope, and goods are admitted at Natal at the same duties that are paid at the Cape. The Insolvent Law was undergoing a revision, having been found deficient in many of «ts details. Mr. Advocate Mnsgrave had been appointed second puisnic judge of the Supreme Court > n pJac e of Mr. Kekewioh, who retired unon a •nsio tt r Bath. —The Rev. Peter Augustus Baines, Bishop of Siga, aud Vicar Apostolic of the Western District, > t was on Thursday morning found dead in his bed. The deceased prelate, who was in his 59th year, assisted at the openin of the Bos »»an Catholic Chapel in Bristol, recently purchased from the Irviogites.'on the previous day; and his decease is attributed to a'fit of apoplexy, to which he had formerly been subject.— Standard, July ?, Swan Rivbr.—Perth papers to October 2lst Jiave been received. The annual meeting of the Agricultural Society had been held, and as usual passed off with great eclat. The Legislative Couneil had closed its session, its last proceeding being the publication of a report recommending the Executive to make urgent representations to the Home Government of the necessity and importance of a Continued stream of immigration. The number res quired for the ensuing year is stated to be one hundred shepherds, two hundred farm servants and fifty mail and fifty female domestic servants. A contract had been entered into with the republic of New Grenada, by which it was to cede to Messrs. Baring and Co., the line required for the projected canal through the Isthmus cf Panama, with eighty thousand acres of land on the two banks, and four hundred thousand acres in the interior of the country. The toll was to be eight francs per ton. Five thousand workmen were to be engaged immediately, and the work computed in five years. The bidding for the second portion of the Canada loan, amounting to 300,0002., has been obtained fcy Messrs. Smith & Co., for the amount for which they tendered (50,0002.,) and the remaining amount «—namely, 450,000 —was adjudged to the bank of JEngland at the price offered foi the whole (1091,,)