IRELAND.

Lord Auckland has paid an unexpected visit of inspection to Cove, in his capacity of First Lord of the Admiralty. He arrived on Sunday, in the Queen's steamer Fire Queen, accompanied by Lord John Hay and Captain Eden, R.N. The visit, which is official, had reference to improvn. ments in the port and harbour of Cove. After inspecting Spike and Rook Islands, Lord Auckland visited the public buildings of Cork.

The cessation of' assistance under the Temporary Relief Act has caused a meeting of the principal inhabitants of the division of East Skull, recently so remarkable in the annals of famine. Acting on a statement that the produce of the district is not more than sufficient to feed one-fourth of tho people, they have appealed by a memorial to the Lord-Lieutenant for Go- vernment aid. Mr. T. Swanston of Cmnliath said, they would deceive themselves if they thought that adequate relief could come from any earthly source except the Government of the country.

The objection to the Relief taxation is rapidly spreading amongst the Unions. To Fermoy, Kilkenny, Enniskillen, and other Unions, are now to be added five Unions in the South Riding of Tipperary and the Tralee Union who have all pronounced against repayment. In their memorial the Tralee Guardians make this representation- " They submit that advances made under the Temporary Labour Rate and Temporary Relief Acts by an Imperial Parliament, out of an Imperial treastuy, to save a people cosubjects of the same Crown from famine, should be an Imperial debit, and ought not to be charged exclusively to Ireland. That, in the present embarrassed state of the country, repayment even of Ireland's legitimate propor- tion of such advances, if sought to be immediately enforced, would not only fail to be effected, but would most assuredly as immediately lead to the total destruction of the tenant ratepayer as a class, and the pauperization of the entire people. Memorialists, therefore, most humbly hope that Ireland may be altogether released from payment of such advances; or, in accordance with the seventh article of the Union, be only charged with her own fair proportion thereof, repayable by mode- rate annual instalments from and after the let January 1850."

Amongst the Repudiators must be classed the Guardians of the Kan- tuck Union, in the county of Cork. At a recent meeting, they told Lieu- tenant Swinburne, the Inspecting-officer, that it was out of the question for them to make any attempt to repay the relief advances. A rate suffi- ciently large to repay them, and meet the expenses of the poor under the new act, would in some electoral divisions amount to more than the rent paid by theaoccupiers.

Meanwhile, the difficulty of collectine' the rates is becoming serious. In the Kenmare Union no persons could be found, at the meeting of the Board on Saturday, to undertake the collection of the rates. The col- lectors in the parish of Emly in Tipperary seized some stock to enforce payment of the rates; but, although aided by the police, the cattle was twice rescued. In Carlow, Father Hickey, speaking from the altar, had directed his flock not to pay any rates for out-door relief.

There are, however, evidences of a better feeling in some quarters. The following example is given by the Tralee Chronicle- " Robert Conway Hickson has directed his agent to facilitate the collection of the temporary relief rate, by announcing to his tenantry that he will take the -collector's receipt as so much rent paid, and this without deducting the propor- tion for which he is liable as a landlord. Mr. Hickson's application for a loan for drainage and other reproductive works, to be extended over an area of 12,000 acres, and the expenditure on which will exceed 14,0001., has been gazetted. Accordingly, without waiting for the first advance from the Board of Works, Mr. Hickson has commenced operations with his own money, allocating for that pur- pose a considerable sum. We hope we shall see his example, and that of Mr. Crosbie of Ardfert, Imitated by other proprietors; for it is a fact self-evident to all but the blind and apathetic, that nothing but reproductive employment can save the landlords as well as the occupiers of the soil in this country from utter and irretrievable ruin."

At a meeting of the ratepayers of Rathgermac, on Thursday sennight, the Marquis of Waterford, who presided, volunteered to pay all the rates, both for present purposes and repayment of advances, falling on his te- nantry; trusting to his tenants to repay him when they should find it con venient to come in with their rents. This example was followed by Mr. E. Roberts and Mr. T. Nugent, who made similar declarations.

The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle mentions, that last week from 500 to 600 poor occupiers of a property in the county of Cavan, held under the Court of Chancery, were evicted from their dwellings. The receiver under the Court, a Member of the House of Commons, acted with all possible humanity and forbearance; but 160 families were ousted, to seek shelter in temporary huts erected in the hedges. An application was to be made to the Court for a grant out of the funds in the cause, to enable the poor people to emigrate.

The usual meeting was held on Monday at Conciliation Hall. The chief subject of comment by the speakers was the recent death on board . the Dutchess of Kent steamer: the English authorities, it was averred, had _murdered the boy Dinguan. Mr. John Reynolds promised to ring the changes on the subject "in another House which should be nameless." Mr. John O'Connell condemned the conduct of the Government in stop _ ping the public works; and he warned them to provide means of employ- ment for the people during the coming winter. He shuddered at the tor- rents of blood which must flow in attempting to collect the " oppressive " poor-rates. Rent 89/.

The County of Clare Liberal Club held their adjourned meeting lest Saturday, at which the rules for their guidance were adopted. The list of members of the club includes the names of Sir Coleman O'Loghlen, Sir Edward Fitzgerald, Sir Burton M•Namara, Ur. John O'Brien, M.P., and • Mr. Cornelius O'Brien. This last gentleman addressed the meeting on the " unconstitutional " proceedings during the late election.

All, he said, had witnessed the outrageous conduct. A furious mob, drilled and directed by the agents of Sir Lucius O'Brien, and frequently headed by the County Lieutenant in person, had assaulted and carried off the electors in the pre- sence of the High Sheriff. He called on the independent freeholders to aid him in prosecuting a petition against Sir Lucius O'Brien's return, for which be had ample means at his disposal. It did not surprise him to hear that Mr. Augustus Stafford, who had just cast away the barbarous name of O'Brien, had congratu- lated the county on its having proved, by the result of the late election, its return to the "good old times "—yes, the good old times of the penal laws, when a priest was hunted like a beast of prey, and confiscation and exile were the certain rewards Irishmen had to expect for attachment to their country and religion. He was not surprised that a Stafford gloated over the recollection of those times: but he was indeed surprised and disappointed—he was going to say disgusted—that such an address could have been listened to, not only with patience, but applause, in the once Liberal and Catholic county of Clare.

At'the Sligo Assizes, Mathew Gam, Eleanor Shacket, Bridget Burke, and James Shacket, were tried for the murder of Michael Burke, at Clogher, in No- vember last. The proceedings at the trial were of a peculiarly distressing nature; the chief witness being Ann Giblin, a girl of thirteen, the daughter of the woman Burke, who proved her mother's complicity in her stepfather's assassination. Under examination the girl was violently agitated; crying out "Oh, let me to my mother !" and "Oh, wirra, wirra, mother, will you speak to me? Where are you?" At length she PM allowed to go to the dock; and then the prisoner and witness embraced each other, the child crying, "Now, mother dear, come along with me. Oh, mother dear, what will I do?" With more than one interruption of this kind, the little witness described the mur- der. The parties were all drinking one night; Burke got very drunk, and the others put him to bed; in the same room were the witness and three younger chil- dren of Bridget's. The prisoners knelt down and said their prayers—" T prayed God to help them to do-it" Gera and James Shacket killed Broke with a hatchet; the other prisoners were present; Bridget Burke was very drunk. After deliberating an hour, the Jury found all the prisoners guilty, but recom- mended Bridget Burke to mercy because she was drunk. The assassins were sen- tenced to be executed.

A soldier of the Sixty-seventh Regiment, stationed at Cork, has attempted to assassinate an officer. As Adjutant Graham was crossing the barrack square, a ball whizzed past him, tore up the ground, and rebounded into an officer's room. The gun was fired from a window: the soldier's cartonche-box was found minus a ball-cartridge. The motive for the outrage does not appear.

An inquest was held in Dublin, on Friday last week, on the bodies of the boy Dnignan, who died on board the Dutchess of Kent steamer on her voyage from Liverpool, and of the unknown man whose death took place three hours after the vessel's arrivaL The man's body was not identified. It appeared from the evi- dence, that Michael Duignan was one of eleven paupers placed on board the vessel, on the 1st instant, by the parish-officers of Rochdale Union, for removal to Ireland. He was about twelve years old. The boy's brother stated that their father and mother died of fever at Rochdale; and that the deceased had been ill of the fever for three weeks in Rochdale Hospital, before the day of his removal. He was then taken to the railway in a cart, and placed in a third-class carriage; where his brother had to hold him up in his seat. On reaching Liverpool, a distance of forty-seven miles, the deceased was taken straight on board the boat. His brother then remarked that his "eyes were getting weak in his head "; and a MAU observed that he would not live long. On board, the Rochdale paupers were put into the stable, which is capable of containing from twenty-five to thirty The passage was very stormy, and the deck passengers, upwards of five Eirnirreed. in number, suffered greatly from cold, wet, and inability to lie down. Michael Duignan was "put on the top of a box, and they lay on him." Early on the Thursday morning, the deck passengers cried out that there was a child dying; and on going to the spot the carpenter found the boy lying by the stable on the starboard side, though it did not appear how he got there. He was immediately carried down to the cabin, and every possible effort made by the captain, with the assistance of a medical gentleman present, to restore him; but in vain.

With respect to the man, nothing further could be learned than that he was one of the Rochdale paupers; that about four in the morning he was observed to be so weak, that he was carried down to the cabin; and that, in spite of every attention, he died in about three hours after the vessel's arrival at Dublin.

The medical gentlemen in Dublin who made the post mortem examination gave as their opinions, that, in the case of the boy, "death was produced by the ex- posure of his delicate frame to the cold of a tempestuous night"; that the man "must have been delicate a long time," and that -his "death was accelerated, if not prematurely caused, by his exposure."

The Jury found that the deaths were caused by cold and exposure; and in the case of Duignan a strong censure was passed on the inhumane conduct of the parish authorities of Rochdale.