IRELAND.
Notwithstanding the unfavourable period of the year, and the general depression complained of, the collection of the O'Connell thud in Dublin promises to exhibit a large increase on the average of the last four years. When the suburban receipts are known, and the usual sub- scriptions received annually from eminent bodies, are paid in, the Dublin contingents alone will be little short of 2,000/. 1 he average of the last four years was 1,436/.
Mr. Tulley Crybace, a Presbyterian clergyman, was arrested in Londonderry, on the 28th of May, by the Magistrates of that place, on the charge of desecrating the Sabbath by preaching in the streets. This charge, however, was subsequently abandoned ; and Mr.- Crybace was accused of denying the right of William the Fourth to the title of Head of the Church. To this accusation, such as it is, Mr. Crybace pleads guilty ; but in a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant, praying for his liberation, he maintains that he only preached the well-known Presby- terian doctrine. A petition from many respectable inhabitants of Londonderry was forwarded with the memorial to Lord Alulgrave.
The Cork Southern Rporter states that a strong military force, con- sisting of horse and foot, escorted Mr. Baldwin, one of the Comity Coroners, on the 24th May, to protect him in laying an execution on the goods of a farmer in the parish of Maragh, for tithe composition claimed by the Reverend R. St. Laurence. When the drivers mewl the farm, a vast multitude of the peasantry who had assembled com- menced driving away the cattle, amid loud shouts, which showed that they were not intimidated by the array of the military and constabulary, drawn up on the road; and the bailiff and his assistants, thinking it better to return to their friends, left the farmers of Maragh the glory of another day's successful resistance to the payment of the odious impost.
The parishioners of Abina, near Maeroom, have a third time this year levelled the walls of a chapel building by the parish priest. The site is convenient to his residence, but the flock selected another, more central. The levellers have been since excommunicated by their priest, and the police are in requisition to Fume the peuce.—Lime- rick Chronicle.
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