IRELAND.
Great exertions are made by the " Liberals" to get up a demonstra- tion against Lord Stanley's Registration Bill. Mr. O'Connell, in ano- ther "hereditary bondsmen" letter, exhorts them to activity. The Agitator says that these are "times to try mons' souls ;" a saying not quite new.
The Northern Whig of Belfast disapproves of many portions of Lord Stanley's bill, but refuses to join in the wholesale condemnation of it demanded by O'Connell and his partisans. That decidedly Liberal and patriotic paper has consequently been denounced by the O'Con- nellite press. The "pliant journalists," as be of Belfast remarks, would "shout as loudly in fhvour of the bill" if Mr. O'Connell said it was good, "as they did in favour of his plan for perpetuating tithes, though they had before, with him strained their throats in shouting 'Down with the tithes,' in every form."
Father Mathew's " temperance " converts in Dublin are now esti- mated at fifty- thousand.
In consequence of the death of the Earl of Enniskillen, one of the seats of Fermanagh becomes vacant ; Lord Cole, the Member, succeeding to his late father's Peerage. Mr. Henry Cole and Lord Loftus are talked of as candidates for the representation of the county.
Lord Blayney is a candidate to fill the vacancy in the Irish represent- ative Peerage, caused by Lord Enniskillen's death.
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