Ireland. From the Spectator, Match 4.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 222, 15 July 1848, Page 3

Ireland. From the Spectator, Match 4.

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 Irelauder, 301 > Mr. Meagher, Young Irelander, 154. The news from Fiance 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 Abiociation, 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 wronusin battle line." lie afterwards said that lie 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 Ireland— moral, peaceful, religious people of Ireland! disciplined inmindaud soulenlightened, educated tip to rational liberjy> and the full sense of constitutional right— you musj not be left behind in the advance of nations. England must — England wilt— England cannot fail at such a time to grant to jou the rights jou are so fitted to enjoy "No crime— no violence — no outrage agains* Divine or human laws — no spilling even of one drop of human blood ! liaise your voices in your peaceful moral might. . . . "Speak out, people of Ireland! Speak from every city — every valley — every hill — every plain ! The time ii come. The hour has arrived ■when it is our instant right! When it is/£rayland's direclest and most imperative interest that we should manage our own allairs in our owjijjarliament at home .' !"