IRELAND.

Chief Justice Pennefather is too much indisposed to perform his judicial functions.

It is reported that Mr. Patrick Murphy, Q.C., Assistant Barrister for Cavan County, will be raised to the Bench on the first vacancy. Mr. Murphy is a Roman Catholic, and he took a leading part in the strug- gle for Catholic Emancipation ; but since the Repeal agitation he has abstained from politics, devoting himself to his profession.

The dismissal of Magistrates for countenancing the Repeal agitation continues. The following are mentioned as having been superseded : Mr. de Verden Mr. Caleb Powell, M.P., Mr. Joseph Myles Macdon- nell. The voluntary resignations are more numerous : Mr. John Hyacinth Talbot, Mr. James Sinclair, Mr. Patrick Curtis, Mr. Maurice Power, Mr. Kean Mahoney, Mr. Patrick Ternan, Mr. James Mathews, Mr. Thomas Ennis, Mr. G. Delaney, Mr. F. Comyn, Mr. W. F. Finn.

Mr. E. B. Roche has been dismissed from the Deputy-Lieutenancy of Cork • Mr. John Maher has resigned the Deputy-Lieutenancy of 'Wexford.

In reply to the letter of Mr. O'Hea, tendering the resignation of his commission as a Magistrate, which was accepted, Mr. Sugden says-

" If you had confined yourself to a statement of the grounds of your resig- nation, the Lord Chancellor would have been anxious to satisfy you that Go- vernment had not any intention to interfere with the constitutional right to as- semble and petition for the repeal of any act of the Legislature."

The arrival of troops is daily announced. The following, according to the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, was the state of the Army in Ireland at the beginning of the week-

" The military force now in Ireland is composed of one troop of the Royal Horse Artillery, and four companies of Foot Artillery; and Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Dragoon Guards; Tenth and Eleventh Hussars, and a squa- dron of the Twelfth Lancers; depots First and Second Battalions First Foot ; Fifth and Eleventh Regiments ; Fourteenth, Twenty-seventh, Thirtieth, Thirty-third, and Thirty-fifth deptits; Thirty-sixth Regiment; Forty-third dep8t; Second Battalion Forty-fifth ; Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Fifty- second depots; Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth, Fifty-sixth Regiments; First Bat- talion Sixtieth ; dep8t Second Battalion Sixtieth ; Sixty-first Regiment ; Sixty-fourth depot; Sixty-ninth Regiment ; Seventieth dep6t; Seventy- second Regiment ; Seventy-fourth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-third, Eighty-fifth, Eighty-ninth, Ninetieth depots, and depot of the First Rifle Bri- gade. Total—Six divisions of Artillery ; six Regiments and a squadron of Cavalry; twelve battalions and tvienty-two depots of Infantry.

" The remaining troops of the Twelfth Lancers in this country are ordered to England immediately. They have lost a number of horses, it is said by glanders.

"In three months, the regiments of the Line are being reduced from 800 to 740 rank and file each, and raised again from 740 to 800 rank and file!"

Rear-Admiral Bowles arrived at Kingston on Friday in a steamer. The Admiral originally formed the Coast: Guard of Ireland. On the same day, arrived the Rhadamanthus, with a company of Royal Marine Artillery, and stores ; the men were stationed in the Pigeonhouse fort. The last squadron of the Third Dragoons arrived on Siturday. The Queen's Bays have also arrived, the last division on Tuesday. The Cyclops war-steamer, with 400 Marines and an immense quantity of ammunition, arrived at Cove on Saturday. Subsequently, arrived the Meteor, Alban, and Myrtle, with more Marines and military stores ; and the Malabar 72. A large quantity of ammunition was received at Carlow on Tuesday evening, under escort, from the Ordnance Office.

A report reached Dublin on Saturday that there was "an insurrection" in Waterford, and the Rhadamanthus was hastily despatched with troops. A correspondent of the Dublin Evening Post, writing on Sun- day, describes the arrival, while the usual Sunday loungers were quietly promenading on the quay-

" We had a grand scene here yesterday. Five companies of the Sixty-first arrived in a steamer at the quay, about half-past twelve. The men were all drawn up, with loaded arms and bayonets fixed, on the deck. The vessel cautiously approached the quay, and a sergeant was then sent on shore to reconnoitre. His first inquiry of the few stragglers who went to look at them was—' lathe barracks took yet?' and being told not, he asked, 'how far off are the rebels?' It appears that some people here hoaxed Earl De Grey."

The Rhadamanthus returned to Dublin at five o'clock on Wednesday morning.

The Cork Examiner has a story about "Repeal in the Army "; the catastrophe of which is, that some drunken soldiers at Cork, when arrested by some sober soldiers and Police, called out, "Hurrah for Repeal ! By God, we must have Repeal !" Some hundreds of by- standers being "greatly excited."

The usual weekly meeting of the Repeal Association was held on Monday. The Dublin Monitor has advocated local Parliaments for local purposes, as a means of superseding the exclusively Irish Repeal agitation. To this Mr. John O'Connell seems to have alluded, when, referring to the letter of a convert to "unconditional Repeal," he said— The term " unconditional," in the letter, suggested to him that there were many persons in whose opinion a local Parliament, fur local purposes merely, was sufficient.. Now, although be and the members of that Association be- lieved that there were difficulties connected with the demand for a dependent local Parliament, which could not exist in Hie case of an independent Parlia- ment, they were Still perfectly ready to accept the aid of those persons, and would heartily join in forwarding their views. He afterwards added, it was necessary to explain that the Association would never relax or abandon their efforts for an independent Parliament until they were successful. A merely local Parliament should be forced on them by England ; and if they were forced to try it, they would accept it only as an instalment. The Repeal rent amounted to 9041.; the largest yet received except that of the previous week, which included some extraordinary con- tributions made at Mr. O'Connell's great meetings in Tipperary. There was an adjourned meeting on Tuesday, at which Mr. O'Connell attended. He ridiculed the bustle among the Officials and th.em ilita the much-talked-of rebellion was invisible ; but the soldiers would% employed in aiding to collect the poor-rates next winter—" in distralu- ing blankets and pots with that view." He had just heard of a gentle- man who had brought his family from Wexford to Dublin, to be safer in consequence of the rebellion that was to break out that morning! Mr. O'Connell observed, that for some time past Lord John Russell bad taken upon himself to contradict the report that Mr. O'Connell had been offered by the Whig Government the post of Chief Baron, and to assert that the post offered was the one of Master of the Rolls— It was not easy to say why such pains had been taken by the Whigs to make out that to be the office offered to him. It was some piece of trickery on their parts which be did not exactly understand. He had distinctly stated the fact of the offer of the Chief Baronship three several times in his place in the House, in the presence of the Ministers; and if he had made that statement in the wrong, they could then have contradicted him. It was ludicrous enough, too, that at the time the office of Muter of the Rolls was not vacant, while that of Chief Baron was. Lord Normanby bad written to him, after his refusal, to say that he had intended to offer him the Mastership of the Rolls, but that he had been so rapid in his refusal that he could not carry out his views. (Laughter.) It was also said that an arrangement was entered into on the matter between the Government and Sir M. O'Loghlen—a circumstance not mentioned till after his death; but that lamented functionary had stated to him that no such arrangement was concurred in by him. One thing was distinctly admitted, that he had been offered a high judicial office and that he refused it; preferring to labour for Ireland and the Repeal. (Loud cheers)

Mr. O'Connell proposed an address to the People of Ireland. The novelty in it was some reply to two principal objections against Repeal. One objection was, that there would be a Catholic ascendancy the answer was that there was no danger of it; that in reducing the Pro- testant Establishment, regard would be had to vested interests and the rights of incumbents ; that the funds would not be devoted to any other establishment ; and that the Catholics would have no object in desiring an ascendancy. The other objection was the fear of the landlords at the contemplated "fixity of tenure" for tenants the reply was mach argument in favour of that alteration of the law, as tending to the prosperity and peace of Ireland. The address was adopted. The rent received on that day was 3101.

Mr. O'Connell had another great Repeal demonstration at Drogheda, on Monday. Troops had been sent to guard the peace ; but there was no disturbance. Triumphal arches were thrown across the road at Balrothery, Santry, Swords, and other places; and scarcely a cottage was not adorned with laurel. At Balbriggan, Mr. O'Connell was en- tertained at a public breakfast ; the Reverend Mr. Fleming presiding : and an address was presented to the Liberator from the inhabitants of Fingal. At Julienstown, he was met by the trades in procession, with music-bands and banners : and he entered Drogheda with a procession of 170,000. Letters of sympathy were read from "John Archbishop Tuam" and other prelates. Sir William Somerville, in a friendly letter, declined countenancing Repeal ; but he is charged with giving "several cart-loads of laurel to decorate the dining-room." The proceedings are reported at immense length; the reader is already familiar with the characteristics of such afairs.

The Lord-Lieutenant has offered a reward for information which should convict the rioters who destroyed several houses in the town- lands of Lisboy, Carland, Fermoy, and Creeragh, near Dungannon on the 30th May. A great number of different versions of the affair have appeared ; all of which agree in one thing, that there was no Repeal meeting at all. The following is one of the most coherent Tory ac- counts, by the correspondent of the Times— On Tuesday, May 30th, there was an Anti-Repeal demonstration at the town of Dungannon, to which the Protestants from various directions in the neighbourhood were invited. As one of the Protestant parties, from the vil- lage of Pomeroy, were passing a quarry on their way, they were furiously at- tacked by a large multitude lying in wait for them. They were not playing party-tunes, nor had they Orange banners. While this little party were suf- fering from the fury of their assailante, a report of the affair reached their friends in Dungannon; who instantly hastened to the rescue. When they ar- rived at the scene of action, the assailants had fled; hut proofs of their barbarity were left behind. Goaded to fury by the sight of their wounded friends, (it is said that even a brute animal suffered, a poor dog having had his head cut off with a scithe, to teach him that he must never again follow an Orange party,) the Anti- Repealers took revenge on the houses of their escaped enemies; and it is, I am afraid, too true that seventeen houses were wrecked. You will re- member that the demonstration on the part of the Protestants was made after repeated and very irritating exhibitions on the part of their antagonists; and that they were perfectly peaceful until their friends were treacherously as- saulted. There were no party-tunes played; no Orange banners in the pro- cession. The only banner I saw was inscribed on one side Queen and Con- stitution,' on the other 'No Repeal.' Such, I understand, were all the ban- ners. The only tune I heard was a sentimental air called Farewell to whisky,' which they found gave good marching time."

Subjoined is the account given by Mr. Clements, a barrister, at the Monday meeting of the Dublin Repeal Association : he had been to Carland on the previous day—.

"The Repealers of Carland had been in the habit of holding a Repeal meeting on every second Tuesday ; and the 30th ultimo would have been one of the regular days, but some time previously they resolved to change the day to Sunday, and accordingly no meeting was to be held near Dungannon on the 30th. There was, therefore, no excuse whatever for any collection of Anti- Repeaters, unless they wished to select a chairman and form a regular meeting for the adoption of resolutions of their own. There were some fourteen or fifteen men at work in a quarry, by which a lodge of Orangemen, amounting to fifty or sixty, passed ; they were playing Croppies, lie down,' and some dis- pute took place between them and the quarry-men ; which ended by the latter taking their drum and hunting the Orangemen away towards their place of rendezvous. This occurred between one and two o'clock in the day. At four o'clock, when the Orangemen had been collected to the amount of upwards of 4,000, they marched out to the village of Carland, and broke the houses and furniture of all the Roman Catholics who resided •there. The hostility of these rioters was not confined to men ; they wrecked the houses of the old men as well as the young, and the widows' houses were not excepted.

A few days since, two men were brought before a County Magistrate for a breach of the peace. On investigating the cause of quarrel, it was ascertained that the belligerents had had a fierce dispute touching their separate rights to Shanbally Castle, the seat of Lord Lismore, "when the Union was Repealed."—Tipperary Constitution. •

The Dublin Gazette of Tuesday contains a proclamation, stating that on the night of the 2d instant, at about ten o'clock, Mr. John Burke, J.Pa of Tintnm, in the county of Galway, (East Riding,) as he was passing

through his hall, was fired at by some person at present unknown. The Lord-Lieutenant has offered 1004 reward for apprehending and bringing the assasFin to justice.

There was an affray between the police and peasantry at Carrick- macross, on Monday. A Mr. Wilcox and a Mr. Barry, accompanied by twenty-eight policemen, attempted to post ejectment-notices at the chapels of Maheracloone and Corduff, against tenants of Mr. Shirley ; the people obstructed them ; Mr. Wilcox read the Riot Act ; the people did not disperse at once ; he gave orders to fire ; several persons were wounded, and one man was killed on the spot.