"The landed gentry and farmholders in this county, [Limerick,] impelled by a national calamity, now at a crisis without example in Ireland, have in contemplation a meeting to represent to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant the utterly prostrate condition of all agricultural property, and the universal failure of every expedient in the best rural economy to sustain the Irish farmer--destitute of capital, bereft of legitimate protection, and overwhelmed by poor-rates and taxes--_against the free-trade imports of the whole world_. The ministerial policy of Great Britain, under sanction of a law which thousands of her loyal subjects deprecated, invites _the foreign trader from all ports known to the compass to import at a nominal duty, and then suffers him to export in specie only, for his own country_! What other ballast have the fleets of foreign vessels conveyed from our shore for the last three years _but metallic and bank currency_? With such immeasurably unequal competition at his very door, the native grower finds _no market for the produce of his honest industry, unless at a price wholly incompatible with the position of a solvent man_. He sells, alas! only to lose, and the selfish foreigner is sure of profit on every cheap venture; while his speculation renders no equivalent whatever to the revenue or taxation of that state which encourages his importations at the expense of our own independence; for the permanent independence of those kingdoms implies the prosperity of Irish produce, and its preference in the English market. Ireland, unfortunately, has no trade or manufacture to employ her people, and wherefore is best known to England; but her only staple, agriculture, which all nations, ancient and modern, loved to cultivate, will soon be little more than a name. The causes and effects of this disastrous revolution the philosopher and historian will hereafter do justice to. A preparatory meeting, relative to the above, is now being held, with closed doors, in the county court, Lord Monteagle in the chair. Poor-rate was the monster grievance of discussion. The meeting broke up at 3 o'clock, it having been decided to collect facts from every district of the country in connexion with taxation and valuation of property."--_Limerick Chronicle_, of Saturday, Oct. 26. * * * * *