Weekly National Intelligencer

FROM THE NEW YORK EXPRESS.

The readers of the Express were not a little amused upon reading the report of the indignation uttered by our Irish brethren over the accusation made by Sir Henry Bulwer, that the Celts once went without pantaloons; being semi-barbarous, semi-clad, &c. Sir Henry, hearing of this rising indignation of his countrymen, wrote a note to Mr. Bell, the President of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, apologizing; and Mr. Bell wrote a note to the Chairman of the Shakspeare meeting, setting forth that Sir Henry himself is descended from a Welsh Celt, and his wife is the daughter of an Irishman. Nevertheless, the meeting gave Sir Henry's letter three groans, and it was read amid cries that "he wants to get off through his wife being an Irishwoman." Mr. Michael Doheny, who came over here soon after the last Irish "burst-up," and who has not been here more than a year or two, did put it into Sir Henry Bulwer in the most approved Dublin style. He had a right. They are common countrymen, and this is a free country to abuse anybody in. But, what Mr. Doheny should have waited for Mike Walsh to do, and yet what he did not wait for, he (Mr. Doheny) introduced a memorial, praying for the President of the United States to ask that the British Minister be recalled, or, in case of his not being recalled, that he give him his walking ticket. Now Mike, being an American undoubted and to the manor born, might petition Mr. Fillmore with a good grace for any sort of a decently saucy thing; but we have some doubt whether the President or his Secretary of State will pay as much attention now to the memorial as if it had been put forward by Mike, or his adjutant at the meeting, Mr. Camp.