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London, England, 1827-03-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

OPERATIONS IN THE PROVINCES.
(From the Dublin Morning Register of Wednesday.)
We have a letter from Ennis, giving a spirit-stirring account
of the commencement of operations in that quarter. A meeting
was.held there on Sunday, after last Mass, and the enthusiasm
displayed exceeded any thing that was ever witnessed in Clare.__
Before the present time there was little political excitement in this
quarter of Ireland. The country is remote, and the gentry are
principally Biblicals or Ascendancy men. O'Gorman Mahon, a
Magistrate of the County, was in the Chair, to which he was moved
by Mr. O'Connell, of Kilgorey, another Magistrate. Strong reso-
lutions, says our informant, were passed, and fire petitions, and
a Liberator County CA, were resolved upon. The Petitions
were :

Ist. For Catholic Emancipation.
2d. For the Repeal of the Vestry Bill.
3d. For the Repeal of the Tenantry Act.
4th. For the Repeal of the Union, and

sth. For a Reform in Parliament.

So much for Petitions. The County is to be divided into
districts, for various purposes tending to the advancement of the
cause of Ireland ;—for the collection of the Rent, for the perfect-
ing of the Census, for the suppression of outrage and crime, for
the extinction of local feuds, for the frustration of Biblicism, and
for the propagation of what Mr. O'Connell calls the " mutual
co-operation" system.

But there is one object which the County Club have principally
in view, and with regard to which there is no doubt that their ex-
ample will be followed by all Ireland—and that is the discourage-
ment of every thing from England and bearing the name of English.
Hitherto there never was more than one Catholic Meeting thought
of in Ennis. The result of the decision of Mr. Peel's faction is,
that instead of one Meeting, and one Petition, there are to be two
Meetings and five Petitions. "We are," says our informant,
" in high animation, and the County Liberator Club will be in
full activity without delay."

One thing is certain with regard to Clare, and equally so, we
hope, with regard to all Ireland, that if there were a General Elec-
tion to-morrow, no man would have the temerity to offer himself
as a candidate who would not pledge himself to oppose any admi-
nistration of which Peel would Form a member.

THE LATE MOMENTOUS DECISION OF THE HOUSE
OF COMMONS.
(From the Waterford Chronicle of Tuesday.)

By this. time the sad intelligence has penetrated into the utmost
recesses of the island. A thick and heavy gloom has spread it-
self o'er the land. Every eye glares with rage—every bosom
heaves with indignation—every mind in the island is freely in-
dulging in that train of thought which is immediately generated
by despair—every Catholic in Ireland, in sullen but reckless
resolve, has commenced to deliberate, whether in reality it
would he better to submit, " or, by opposing, end them."—
Comparisons as to what they really are, and what they might
otherwise be—speculations and calculations, hitherto totally
unthought of, are now almost universally entertained. In
fine, a cast of mind which it was thought that Ireland
would never again be driven to, has within the last few days been
revived. A new era has arrived—a new order of things has
arisen—a new system of action altogether must be laid down and
vigorously entered upon. An event has come to pass which was
equally unexpected by the Orangeman as by the Catholic. A
British House of Commons, in which there sat 548 Members, the
largest House within the reach of record, or the memory of
man, has rejected with scorn the prayers of eight millions of
Roman Catholics, and refused even to go into an inquiry,
or take their sufferings at all into their consideration. The
course for the Catholics to pursue is this :_They see what has
befallen them—let them stand up and look around them—let them
ask, which is their great enemy ? What is the great cause of the
affliction which has befallen them ? And having discovered their
main cause—having fixed upon their chief enemy—let them attack
that enemy without measure and without mercy. That great
enemy, every man in Ireland at once must see, is the Church ! ! !
The Church is the cause and the parent of Ireland's woe. That
Church, however, though an evil great beyond all comparison,
cannot be a lasting one ; its foundation is fast giving way--molt
sua mit. It would sink under its own weight, even if let alone ;
but to a systematic and universal assault it cannot offer a moment's
resistance. Let that assault be commenced at once !! !

THE LATE DECISION.
(From the Dublin Patriot of Tuesday.)
We stated in our last the agitation which the late decision of
Parliament caused in the public mind—further observation has
proved to us that this agitation is more appalling than we had even
at first anticipated. . There have been two Catholic Meetings since
the intelligence arrived—they were crowded to suffocation, but
the speeches were a very imperfect representation of the senti-
ments which seemed to pervade the-people. In fact the lower as
well as the higher Catholics are united in one sentiment of discon-
tent. The frame of society here seems totally disorganized by divi-
sion, and the estrangement between the two parties has grown,
to a frightful excess. It might be hoped that this feeling>
would be transitory, and it would probably be so, if it were
permitted to subside. But the taunts of the ascendant party,
whom success ought to have inspired with a magnanimous, if not
a prudent forbearance—their insulting threats, and insolent exulta-
tion, seem as if intended to fan this feeling into flame, and to
goad matters to a horrible crisis. The Catholic population seem
sensible of the intention of it ; and there is an universal determina-
tion to wait the march of events—to be prudent—to be tranquil—
yes the tranquillity of the crouching tiger ! ! but a predatory war-
fare has commenced, and will be acted upon. Already within
this week, we have seen long personal intimacies dissevered—
partnerships with English Companies have been dissolved__
trading intercourses broken off—and an universal deter-
mination entered into upon the part of the Catholics,
not to enrich their political enemies by dealing with them—but
to hold those in a state of civil exclusion who hold them in poli-
tical bondage. This is Dublin since the late decision in the
House of Commons ; and this it will continue to be. We do not,
it is true, apprehend immediate civil war; but we apprehend a
state of society from which the wealthy and the peaceable will
withdraw themselves—in which moral culture, and national im-
provement, must retrograde, and the elements be collected of some
future devastating convulsion, which, however, it may terminate,
will leave England a secondary power. We state what we have
seen, and what we know—the existence of awful and general dis-
content, we do not justify it—we state the fact-..-who. will suggest
the remedy ? ! ! !

TRINITY COLLEGE.—Last night, the Students of this learned
College, burned the Right Hon. W. C. Plunkett in Effigy, upon
one of the trees fronting Kildare-street.—Dublin Even. Post.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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