IRELAND. (From the Times Corespondent.) Dublin, June 10.

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 251, 25 October 1848, Page 3

IRELAND. (From the Times Corespondent.) Dublin, June 10.

'' THE IRISH LEAGUE." Such is the name, btyle, and title of the grand confederation under whose shadow are to merefe all ihe conflicting elements into which Repeal has been split by the moral force doctrines of the O'Connells, the wailike theoiieß of the Nation party, and the utidisguised advocacy of republicanism by Mr. John Mitchell. The Freeman of this morning gives the following meagre outline of the plan of the ''Gieat national organization, in which all Irishmen can unite, and to which all can look with pride and confidence :—

« THE IRISH LEAGUE FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THE " LFXSISLATIVE INDEPENDENCE OF IRELAND. " Its object shall be to concentrate public opinion, to organize the whole n.Uiou, to demorutrate the will and determination of t'te universal people of this land to achieve legislative freedom, and their resolve never to abate their exertions until the object of the league ahall have been accomplished. "The details for carrying this great and masterly project are few and simple, — The directing bodiis of the exiiting associations acting together aie to form the controlling council of the Irish League ; the members of the exieting bodies are to he the origin*! members of the new, and every new contributor of, at least, Is., shall thereon be entitled to be proposed a member of the Irish League. To secure unanimity, and guard against the possibility of division, no mutter can be introduced at the meetings of the League which tlnll not hae been previously approved and sanctioned by a majority of the members of council."

r ' Just bb wa§ anticipated from the outset, Mr. John O'Connell, having an instinctive dislike to the smell of gunpowder, has virtually declined any connexion with the " Irish League." This, the firbt fruit of the vaunted " u,nion of Kepcalera," is announced in the

Address of the Council of the Irish Confederation to the Irish People. F.llow Countrymen : — Another ciime has been perpetrated agi.iust the inhabitants of this country by the British Government. Another Irishman has tallen a victim to the machinations of le^al ait.fice, and the lawlessness of reckless power. His offence has been — love for Ireland as intense ai was his hatred of foreign oppression. Depply versed in the histoiy of his country, he read in that histoiy one continuous tale of English perfidy ani rapine. In the horrors of 1847 — in the desolation of 1848, he founu the same curse of misiule blighting a land fitted by the hand of nature for the enjoyment of uurivalled felicity. Saddened and stung by such reflection!?, he vowed that he would expel from Inn native boil thu spirit of evil, or perish m the Httempt. We srek not to discuss the prudence of his councils, or the expediency of his designs. Though participating in many of Hi sentiments, our Confederation never identified itselt with all his opinions ; but even those who dissent from them mo»t do not deny that they were dictated by the purest motives, that they were maintained with conbummate ability, and vindicated with Leroic fortitude. Our complaint is, not that luch a man was treated as a foe by the British Government ; but that in older to cruih him, the constitution and the law have been violated. To tear him from his country and his family, a special enactment was framed. Even the penal code of Ireland— that repository of iniquitous legislation—could not supply an instrument powerful enough to strike him down. It became necessary to forge a new weapon for the man and the occamon. The enactmentof this law, though a grois outrage upon public Jibeity, has been less intolerable than the official enmeu which hove accompanied its execution. We will not conceal lioin you, — we will not conceal

John Mitchei,. — The following sketch of this celebrated '' exile" U from the pen of Mr. Peargus O'Connor, the Chartist Leader, and Editor of the Northern Star :—: — " Mr. John Mi cl el it the son of a Unitarian clergyman ol Newry— a man lemnrkable for his sagacity, intellect, honour aud love of justice. At the age of seventeen, our young patriot und hero — for such I with to characterize the characterless, destitute Irishman—it the age of seventeen, married. He became partner in the firm of Fraser and Mitchel, solicitors, of Newry, He c^r cd on his own depaitment of his profession at B,inbridgr, within ten miles of Newry, where he had r omfortable and happy homo, and was in possession of every comfort. His mother still lives ; and, as il the whole fnm ly imbibed their patriotism fiom her breast, his three sisters — all lovely (jiils — are at devoted to the cause of Ireland ai himself. He is not now mote than thirty years of age— h is five or six children— is a fond f.ither, a kind brother, and an obedient ion— all characteristics of a great and good man When the promi-ing Nation was hunched upon the flood of disturbed opinion created in Ireland, its proprietor looked to the intellecual market for talent, and finding none equal to Mr. Mitchel, nnd that gentleman believing 1 that hi* couctry demanded his services, and that the editor's desk was preferable to the attorney's counter, he abandoned a professiou which brought him in from £800 to a-year, bioke up lm establishment, left his happy home, and tendeied his services to the propiietor of ihe Nation. This aspiring geniui soon disc ivered that the fetters of the press were as gilling as the fetters of the law. He discovered that Mr. Daffy wai a phraze merchant, and that his waies weie cut down and altered to suit the Katnn market. The putriot could not stomach this galling mugterdom — this menial situation — and he ies<jlved upon crea'ing a iifW mind in Ireland- Now, my fnende, without ever having seen, or without evei hav.ng received a line from Mr Mitchel, this ib the true biography of a centleman whom the woist Saxon landloidin lieland (Loid Lan-downe) bus designated as ' fin ndr nturer without chmacter,' and jouvil iliaw your <>\vn tonclinions a< to the moiivis <unl ol> jects o< n hi<h spirited young gentltmnn. whn dbm. dona a p oliuhle profession, and bieuks up a happy

denr to him, upon the 1 troubled Avaters of politics, at the* vpry time when the oppressor's appetite is whetted for rt'vcng. 1 . Mr. Mitchol's object is a thorough reform of the institutions of the country ; and, so long ago as 1811, I told you from my dungeon I was not for a Repeal of the Union. l>ut for a total separation —a divoice ; and that advent is now at hind." To (his the Editor of the London Tablet adJs :— "This account of Mr. Mitchel, is, so far as W3 know, perfectly tuic, oxcept that he joinel the Nation not when it started, hut on the death of Mr. Davis. A more honourable »nd high minded geiitleuvin does not live than Mr. Miichel. We dislike his polities', hut no uiuu tau truly spe^k evil of his f.ersonul motifs." The fcovernment lias seized the United Irishman, paper, and n iuw journal, to be called the Irish Felon t Wis announre I.

Chatham, Junk 5. — On Saturday evening, one division of the 50th h>ii iment (Queen's Ovvn) anived at tliis ganison fiom lndi.i, consisting of II sergeants, 5 drummers, (', coiporals, and 13(> privates, with 9 women and 10 ehildicn, under thu comimnd of Captain ,7. 15. ISonhani, Lieutenant and Acting Adjutant Itobeit B Bdlerus. Lieutenant (Jhailes Alfiud P James, Lieutenant Thomas Ryan, Lieutenant M. C. Singlcson, and Paymaster J. li. Dodd. This division em - barked at Calcutta on the 15th of Fein nary last, and disembarked on the 3rd instant. Assistant Surgeon Cuthbert F. 11. Barlow, of the regiment, died at sea on the 2Ctli of last April, and foui men of (he coips also died during thu voyage. This regiment was drafted out in convict guaids to New Sou'h Waleu in 1834, and after the usiul seivice allotted to regiments in that cohny, it proceeded to Indid. The head quarters are expected daily.

Thk Army. — The 50th Regiment.— The heid quarters of this icgiment (the Queen's Own), ar ivecl a^ Chatham on Tuesday afternoon the 6'th June, from Gravcssnfl, nt v. lnch place they dise'nb tried fiorn the bhip Queen, Captain Ndxh, from Calcutta, from which they smled on the lGth February last. Its strength consnta ol 9 sergeants, 7 corporals, 4 drummers, and 145 privates, with 8 women and 10 children, under command of Lieutenant- ColonelJofeph Ander a on, K. H., with the fu'lowing officers : — Curtain 11. Needhum, Lieutenant and Adjutant E. C. Mullen, Lieutenant C. H. 7'ottenharn, Lieutenant John Parccll, Ensign William B 'tiers, Eutign Y. W. Knurswell, an»l Assistant Surgeon Joseph Burke, M.D. With the troopi were 24 cabin passenger*, and on the ship's arrival about five miles off the Cupe a dense foa; came on, which lasted four days, succeeded by a severe hurricana lis'in^ several days, during which time, the Sutlrj, havitifr on boaid two companies and a pait of another of the 50th, in command of Major Long, became u complete wieck, having lost the whole of her masts and iig;i"!j, and upwards of 100 tom of the general cargo were thrown overboard. The ship> Prince of Whiles, having on board invalids, vvas a!&o in the £al"s ; the only lost one of her boats and hndl another Rtove in. The head qua'ters did not loose a man. The Queen whs detained off the Cape fiom the i-t to the 1 G hof April, and both oHi<er« and men s () eak in ihe highest terns of the raptain and officersand crt,\v, for their kindliest and attention durinij the voyage. Must of the holdiers were m action at Givu~ lior m! 813, and albo in tour actions on the SuMcj af er that on tho 20 h of May, 1840, tin re.pimcnt lo>t. 95 men, women and childieu, by tlie falling down of the barracks at Loodiuali.

Tub SKNiiMitNrs of Tttn Soldiers iv th-? Present Crisis. — A. letter in the Times, signed by a. 1 Non commissioned Artilleryman,' in making Soms remarks up')ii fctreet-ligbtinj;, winds up with the following obseivations as to the feeling which prevail* among the soldiery :— ' It is true that disciplined troops lute riots and nnb-fijjhtiiig, and they hate also i lotons times ; for in riotous times our guard duty becomes he.ivy, and a night duty (arms almost ia hand) is put upon us ; our wives and children are sent off; our fuil >u;hs hre at end, and sudden movements to distant and inferior quarters impovcribh us ; and, when thus harassed, provoked, and impoverished, we look iibjut for the Criu>e j and we find the cause to> proceed from a party about to play the game of plundei, confusion, and minder, or from thit sullying Irish, pany which has rvar shown aiebellious front when thu'ider-Btorms mutter in foreign lands, we knowwhere our hate is due, and we know also, that the day of reckoning is rese'ved for v«, after some three or four hundred of 'fltt«foots' and cavalry have been, (as the Hepcilers hive it) ' cut up' and ' cat down.' We can give this ponilive assn-anoe to all those who would play the foul at the cannon mouth — that whea re.il fighting is required from Bri'ish troops, the artillery will stand ro their guns, and every canoon-balL they send upon its dead nnrcU will do a fearful a&d terrible duty."

Tahiti — The change in the Government ofFranc will now be old h'-wb to you, It came upon us like a clap of tlmruk'r, like an earthquake. As aoon r however, as tne efFecta of the shock had a little subsided, it wu evident tuat the new* was bynomeana disjgrceai/lp to (he great body of the French lesidents at this place. In the evening of the same d,iy hit Excellency the Governor announced the fact officially lo the troops; on Sun' Jay morning, the Republican ilrfg wus s-aluted by all the ships in tlu harbjur, and. by the military on sh)re. At noon tbe salute wa» repented by ihe fhips ; the Governor then read ilia documents announcing fie fact to the assembled troop*, sailors, and residents, and saluted the event with 100 guns In 1113 evening all the govenitneut estiibi-jlimenf., government, house, and all the hotels and neveral Mores were illuminited ; and a grand Ball was given by his Excellency. OKI lashioned England, and IJsuspeet her colonies too, would have defei rod these demonstration 1 ) of joy until Monday, — but I suppose that would have appe-uud too cold uu expression of sytup-itliy wilh the event (or our lively and warm, hearted noi^lilioius. During the three succeeding da) a there was muefj into\i,-aiion among' the tioops, and a large amount of exciti-ment. All however, passed oh" without any seiixis disturbanfe, owing no doubt to the judicious management of lh<> Governor, who issaed at interval* bhort ami spirited address, exhoiting- the people to peace ; and by giving way to a few requests which were rnaJe by them, conciliated thi'ir guoa-witl. JCveiy thing 1 has now assumed its usuul npp'firauce. The Republic hns proimtied to co'itinuc the lJioteclorate »t Tahiti, as esubl"4ied l)y us pu'decesaor. The natives have s >me diiluul y in compichending huw a n.ition wituout d head can keep older; but, as they have se.n many stian^c tilings of late ye.irs, they appe.ir to be quite .sriiisiie i to allow time to make plain th,\twhi<h is now haul lo be uudci'stood.— 'E*lruil Jrom u Letter.

Th-rfi are in lli.- UmttJ Sutc-s jp*t "' c Imnclrrd ••oMieis of the Revol mo i <>'i ll»e pcns'on bsr, oier out- l»u..d ed}ren »i a,c. 'J'Jie oldc-t in in on the h«t is filiplupl llalc, ol Utw.'a Coau'), I'-nnsyl'tmu, wlu-