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DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The rage and dismay of the ousted faction may be easily
discerned by all the lies they tell. Their passion is incoherent.
In every column of their newspapers you meet some new in-
vention which contradicts that of an hour ago. Thus we are
told by one unerring authority, that O'Connell is the author
of all the Irish appointments ; and presently afterwards that he
is outrageous against Lord Melbourne, and full of disgust and
indignation at having been disowned and totally excluded from
a participation in the construction of the Government. An-
other journal states that O'Connell moved heaven and earth
to obtain the post of Attorney-General for Mr. O'Loghlen,
and yet that Mr. Perrin's elevation to that office is solely attri-
butable to his exertions. The same authority is for both these
statements, and therefore we have no choice but to believe
both or neither. Consequently, unless Mr. O'Connell willed
that the offices of Attorney and Solicitor-General should be
occupied by turns, on alternate days, it would puzzle any
Ministry, even the hair-splitting Tories themselves, to keep him
in good humour. But it is also said that both those function-
aries are portions of his tail, than which a more palpable or
deliberate falsehood could not be uttered or committed to
paper. It is well known that Mr. Perrin might have walked
in for the city of Dublin in 1832, if he would have consented
to take the pledges prescribed by Mr. O'Connell; and it is
equally notorious that he voted against the Repeal of the
Union, and by his speech on that question provoked the wrath
of Mr. O'Connell, and a numerous body of his friends, by en-
treating him to advocate some useful measure, and give over
agitating the public mind on such impracticable subjects.
The London journals are not at all behind their brethren of
Dublin in the incoherence and extravagance of their state-
ments, which are not only inconsistent in themselves, but
wofully at variance with the solemn asseverations of our best
possible instructors here. Altogether, they are a precious
gang, and the cause of " Pure religion and the Monarchy"
must thrive in their holy keeping. It was a great oversight,
which their zeal and trepidation committed, not to meet to-
gether first, and agree upon three or four fundamental
untruths, on which all might ring the changes without
any deviation from the main points. That would serve to give
a colour and consistency to their fabrications, which now cross
and jostle one another "in most admired disorder." But this
Dutch Concert, in which every performer sings out his own
lie, shows but one common principle among them, and that is
an unanimous endeavour to frighten all the old ladies and gen-
tlemen in England with the name of O'Connell.
A great effort is now making to retain Sir William Gosset
in the Under-Secretary's place; and O'Connell's name, of
course, is lugged in to promote the scheme. The Tories well
know, that as long as Sir William presides, with his wonted
urbanity, in that department, they can drop in and discuss
affairs in general, hearing and telling some new thing every
day. The advantage of ear-wigging the Chief Governor,
through an officer with whom he must necessarily be in daily
and confidential communication, is so precious, and capable of
being turned to so many useful ends, both to the party and to
individuals, that it is of the last importance to them to preserve
it. Accordingly it is their first care, and they have set about
it with characteristic cunning. The Standard opens the ball
by declaring that 0' Connell insists on the removal of Sir Wil-
ham, and that Lord Melbourne still relucts. This is a dexte-
rous attempt to bully the Government, if possible, and deter it,
in the first instance, from doing what is right. Should that
fail, a foundation is already laid for another thumping lie about
the paramount authority of Mr. O'Connell in all things per-
taining to the Government of Ireland. How like the manoeuv-
ring of the party, whose entire strength lies in the serpentine
address with which it glides to its objects. But it will go hard
with the Whigs and their character in Ireland, if they do not
break through this artifice at once, reckless of detraction, and
" - make the engineer
Hoist with his own petard."

DUBLIN.

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

" The whole frame of society amongst us is disorganised, and the
distrust, apathy, fraud, jealousy and contention, which prevail uni-
venally—as they derange the public will, and prevent the mutual
co-operation of all classes, must necessarily prevent the country,
whilst they continue, from deriving advantage from any partial
measure, or emerging from its present depressed, if not degraded
condition."—DOCTOlt DOYLE.

such was the state of Ireland described to be, eleven years
ago, in a letter recommending conciliation of parties; and
addressed to the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, by a pious
patriot, whose whole life and energies were devoted to th e
welfare and improvement of his country. The language is
perfectly applicable to the present period. At no time in the
eventful history of this distracted island were hard words, jea-
lousies and strife more frequent, than at this moment;—when
happily, the restoration of a liberal Ministry holds forth the
prospect of a better order of things. In truth, Lord Mel-
bourne's Cabinet has great difficulties to cope with, in this
part of the United Kingdom—difficulties which no policy, un-
supported by truth and justice, can possibly remove. There
are here two parties, violently opposed to each other, and to
that conciliation so essential to our national and social im-
provement. One is a component part of that greater body of
men, composed of the most numerous and intelligent classes
of the community, and generally called Liberal. The other is
inferior in number and legitimate authority, but still posses-
sing the good things of the State, are consequently in the com-
mand of an influence and power capable of controlling, if not
impeding, any measures of which they do not approve. Now,
a great many persons think that Reform cannot be efficient,
nor the country derive advantage from any Government, how-
ever well disposed to promote its welfare, so long as this latter
party is permitted to enjoy any share of that favour in high
quarters, which has been hitherto as it were their exclusive
inheritance. And a cry is therefore raised against all the
Tory retainers in office, from Sir W. Gosset, the public secre-
tary of the Lord Lieutenant, to the humblest placeman, whose
situation is in the gift of the Crown. It is contended ;hat the
best intentions of a liberal Cabinet have been, and may still be
frustrated by the conduct of those officials, who are not changed
with every change of Government. That this may have been
true, heretofore, to a certain extent, and in some instances,
there can be no doubt ; and the possibility of a similar occur-
rence in future may be very easily imagined. But as every gene-
ral rule has an exception, it is questionable, whether, in this in-
stance, the exception should not become the rule practically, so
long as the public service be not really impaired—that is, so long
as any public functionary, whose duties are not prescribed by
public opinion, discharges the obligations of his office accord-
ing to the principles and instructions of those who employ
him. As to Sir W. Gosset, be is said to bq a Tory, and that,
as such, he ought not to be permitted to fill a situation under a
Whig Government, to which situation, more than to any other
in Ireland, is annexed the discharge of the most important duties
of the Executive. These two questions ought to be maturely
considered before the sentence of public opinion be pro-
nounced. Is this gentleman a Tory, in the evil sense
of the word, and has he done anything, for which he
alone should be responsible, inconsistent with what are un-
derstood to be the principles of the present Government ?
If during the period of his holding office, under the Whigs,
no proof can be given of a violation by him of their system
of policy—if no fact can be adduced showing a disposi-
tion to do so—it surely would be unfair, as regards himself,
and inconvenient for the country—for his office is one which
cannot be often changed without c6nsiderable delay and de-
rangement in the progress of public business—to remove a
public functionary against whose abilities or integrity there is
not the shadow of an imputation. There seems to be too
much of factious spirit in the cry, by no means universal, for
extending to this gentleman's situation the principle of the
change which has taken place. This country never can be
tranquil nor happy, it never can be brought to that condition
of national and social organization, the want of which was de-
plored by Doctor Doyle, and all who thoroughly understood
its condition ; in fact it will never feel repose till 'every deno-

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commendatory of public officers shall be talent, integri lida:).l
impartiality. I have heard an honest Whig, who is a Roman -
Catholic, say he believed Sir W. Gossett posseised these
qualifications, to a much greater extent, than many noisy pro-
fessors of liberal principles ; and he gave the following reason
for his thinking so. " I was some time ago," said he, " em-
ployed with many others by the Whig Government in carrying
into effect one of the Tithe Acts, and in the discharge of
my duty I unwillingly gave some offence to a Protestant
gentleman, who had been a sort of agitator, but who has
lately become a Conservative. This professor of liberality
went to the Castle, and complained to Sir W. Gosset of my
conduct in the discharge of an important public duty, in the
most aggravated terms. He was told to make his charge in
writing, which he did in the form of a letter addressed to
Sir 'William. That letter was immediately transmitted to me,
with a request to report fully for the consideration of the
Lord Lieutenant every circumstance relative to the affair out
of which the allegations had originated. I lost no time in
doing so ; and, fortunately, was able to refer to the Secretary's
Office for direct evidence of the impossibility of the charges
brought against me being true. Indeed, had they been true,
I ought to be degraded, if not hanged. In the mean time, as I
learned afterwards, the circumstance of the charges having been
demanded in writing, or some other incident, suggested to my
accuser the probable impropriety of the step he had taken, and
he went again to the Castle, requesting to have back his letter,
and that nothing further would be said about the matter ; but
he was told there should be no compromise of so serious a
charge ; that it was under investigation ; and that he should
be informed of the result. The next information I had on the
subject was, that my accuser had been informed of the perfect
satisfaction which that part of my conduct misrepresented by
him had given his Excellency ; and, in proof of that satisfac-
tion, I had the pleasure, by Sir W. Gosset's interference, of
being continued longer in the employment of Government,
and receiving more of its patronage than many of my col-
leagues. An apology was subsequently made by my accuser,
who, I believe, was himself, to a certain extent, misinformed
and imposed upon." This result of a collision between a. Papist
and a protestant, Whig and Conservative, would show, not
only that Sir W. Gosset is impartial to both, but that his
sense of justice is much stronger than any predilection he
might have for the latter; otherwise he would not have re-
commended the further employment of one who was to him
a perfect stranger, and who certainly did not expect any favour -
at his hands. I feel great pleasure in being able to make
public this fact, at a moment when the fitness of a public officer
for his situation is canvassed by a portion of the Dublin press ;
because it is at once a proof of the candour and grateful feel-
ing of the gentleman who authorises me to do so, and of the
probable groundlessness of the prejudice against Sir William
Gosset, proceeding from the section of "a 'party who, if they
were in power, would not, I fear, evince' so much impartiality.
The cause of Reform is founded on truth and- justice—princi-
ples which, if adhered to, will be always triumphant, and can-
not fail to confer lasting benefits on Ireland. But if nothing
he kept in view now except the ascendancy of party or faction,
no Government can remove the evils that afflict us, nor im-
prove the condition of the people, by imparting the first re-
quisite for our elevation—that is a proper tone to the state of
society.
April 26.

WINDSOR.

On Monday the King, accompanied by the Landgravine of
Hesse Homburg, drove out through the great Park, and after-
wards paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta,
at Frogmore.
Her Majesty has been confined to the Castle since Sunday
last, from a severe cold. The Drawing-room has in conse-
quence been put off.
Yesterday afternoon his Majesty and the Landgravine again
drove in the park.
Prince George, accompanied by Lord Byowrlow, rode out
on horseback.

The Lord Chief Commissioner Adam arrived at the Castle
on Monday night to dinner.
Lord Denbigh and Lady Caroline and her daughter, Miss
Wood, called at the Castle yesterday morning to pay their re-
spects to the Queen.
Lord Frederick Fitzclarence left the Castle yesterday morn-
ing for town. _ _

The Duchess of Cambridge is expected to arrive in England
some time next week.

To-morrow (this day), his Majesty goes to town to hold a
levee, and returns to the Castle in the evening.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked and
drove in the Parks yesterday.
A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock yesterday after-
noon, at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Viscount
Melbourne, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon,
Viscount Palmerston, the Right lion. C. Grant, Lord Hol-
land, Lord Auckland, the Right Hon. T. Spring Rice, and
Viscount Howick.

Sir John Hobhouse joined his colleagues while the Council
was sitting.

The auncil broke up soon after five o'clock.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Lilford, and Mr. F.
Lewis, Chief Commissioner of the Poor Laws, had interviews
yesterday with Viscount Melbourne, at the Treasury.
M. Van de Weyer, the Belgic Minister, and Namik Pacha,
on a special mission from the Ottoman Porte, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign Office.
Sir Robert Wilson had an interview yesterday with the Right
Hon. Charles Grant, at the Colonial Office.
Mr. Spring Rice arrived in town on Monday night from
Cambridge.
The Marquis of Lansdowne came to town yesterday, from
his residence at Richmond.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Baron and Baroness Dimsdale, at Mivart's Hotel, from
Camfield Park, Harts ; Hervey Aston, Esq., at ditto, from
Berkshire; C. J. Russell, Esq., at ditto, from Leamington
Spa ; Mr. and Mrs. Holbeck, at ditto, from Farnborough,
Oxon ; Hon. W. Ward, at ditto, from Essex ; Mr. and Mrs.
Quirke, at ditto, from Devon ; Captain and Mrs. Henry
Bathurst, at Gloucester-place, Portman-square ; the Hon.
Champion Dymoke and Mrs. Dymoke, in Bryanston-square,
from a tour ; William Woodhouse, Esq., Mrs. Woodhouse
and family, and Mrs. Hervey, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel,
Cavendish-square ; J. Moore, Esq., and Mrs. Moore, at
ditto ; J. Simson, Esq., Mrs. Simson, and family, at ditto ;
Captain Hinde, at ditto; the Rev. N. D. H. Newton, at
ditto; R. Townley Parker, Esq., at ditto.

DEPARTURES.
The Rev. H. B. Wrey, Mrs. Wrey, and family, from
Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; the Rev. G.
0. Miller and Mrs. Miller, from ditto; F. Wilder, Esq.,
and Mrs. Wilder, from ditto; George Warde, Esq., from
ditto ; Lord Monson, from the Carlton Hotel, for War-
wick Castle ; the Bishop of Elphin and the Misses Leslie,
from St. George's-place, on a tour ; Sir Edwin Stanhope,
Bart., from Warren's Hotel, for Home Lacy, Herefordshire ;
the Hon. William Bagot, from Batt's Hotel, Regent-street,
for Berks ; Sir Robert Gunning, Bart., for his seat, Horton,
Northampton; the Earl of Surrey, for Little Hampton; C.
L. Stephens, Esq., for his seat in Suffolk; the Hon. Captain
Trefusis, on a tour ; Lord Colchester, for Kidbrook, Sussex ;
Sir Edmund Hayes, from the St. James's Hotel ; A. P.
Cooper, Esq., for Northchurch, Herts; E. A. Perceval,
Esq., for Hampton, Somerset.

THE EMPEROR FEItDINAND.—The Courrier
Beige publishes a correspondence from which we make the fol-
lowing extract :—" Since the Emperor's accession to the
throne, he has experienced several nervous attacks, more or
less serious; these attacks, to which he has been subject since
his childhood, have increased in violence, not only in conse-
quence of the extraordinary activity which the Emperor dis-
plays in conducting the affairs of Government, but also from
discussions, renewed every day, with Prince Metternich, and
the emotion which Ferdinand feels at the critical information
which he receives from his different provinces."
NATIONAL GALLERY.—The boarding before the
East wing of the new National Gallery, Trafalgar-square, was
finally removed on Saturday, and the building was viewed
from the ample space before it to advantage. It is inclosed
with iron railing, and the winged figures, which were placed
over the emblematic figures in the centre, and had a very awk-
ward appearance, have been removed and placed in niches at
the back of the •portico. The mews are nearly demolished,
and will no longer obstruct the progress, when entirely rased,
of the South wing and the centre of the edifice, which will be
built with all possible dispatch.
In our paper of last week we noticed a suicide com-
mitted at Abergavenny by a private of the 12th Lancers. We
have this week to announce another suicide in the same regi-
ment, when on their march from this town to Dorchester. A
man named Shermingham, a corporal in the band, left here
on Thursday, with head-quarters, as a prisoner under confine-
ment, on a charge of striking Sergeant-Major Tanner, of the
same regiment. On their arrival at Alcester he was taken to
his billet-house, where by some means he got a comrade's pis-
tol and shot himself.—Birmingham Journal.

TAXES UPON NEWSPAPERS.—A very numerous
and respectable meeting was held last night, at the Mecha-
nics' Institution, for the purpose of considering the propriety
of petitioning Parliament for the repeal of the Taxes upon
Knowledge. Mr. Wakley, M. P. for Finsbury, was unani-
mously called to the chair. Among those upon the platform
n-e remarked Mr. Feargus O'Connor, M.P., Mr. Roebuck,
M. P., Mr. Richard Taylor, Dr. Wade, &c. The great hall
of the institution was crowded in every part, and we should
think that there must have been at least 2,000 persons present.
The meeting was addressed by the Chairman, Mr. Roebuck.
Mr. O'Connor, and other gentlemen, who deprecated in strong
terms the impolicy, as well as the injustice of such a tax, and
Mr. Roebuck intimated his intention, if the subject were not
taken up by some other member, to bring it before Parliament
himself, in such a shape, that it should be considered a test of
the sincerity of the present Ministry to grant effectual reform.
Resolutions to that effect were unanimously adopted by the
meeting, and a petition founded upon the resolutions agreed
to, which Mr. Wakley was requested to present to the House
of Commons. The meeting then separated, many gentlemen
expressing a hope that similar meetings should be - held in all
parts of the country, and that no means should be left'untried
to procure a free and unshackled press.
Last week an antique pot, made of the rudest clay,
was turned up by some ploughmen in apart of the East Fen
called Toadlands. It is evidently the( production of a remote
age, and is worthy the notice of antiquaries,n4o.qon Herald.

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