An important meeting took 'duce in Ballinasloe on Sunday. to
peti- tion for the repeal of the present Tithe Bill, and for the total abolition of tithes. There is one of these resolutions to which we west avail ourselves of the pleasure of referring, because the Orange party have calculated upon the exhibition of a regular split amongst the Liberals at this meeting. The Government was to be denounced, and Mr.
O'Connell was to be denounced t'or supporting such a Government !
The following resolution \VHS proposed by Sir Michael Dillon Bellew, and seconded by Sir Francis M•Doneell—" That we, is common with
the rest of the people of Ireland, entertain the most trebounded confi- dence in and attachment to Daniel O'Connell, mid that we have heard with great satisfaction his expressed intention of giving his able assist- ance to obtain the repeal of the present Tithe Bill : we also tender to him our grateful thanks for his able support of the present Govern. meat, by which he has prevented the retut a of the Tories to power."— Doblin Evening Post. [Many of the persons who assembled to protest against the Railway Report, probably staid another day at Ballinasloe to attend this meeting. It has been said that there is a general opposi- tion to the new Tithe Bill, but we cannot find evidence of any exten- sive movement against it. It is a satire, quite as much as a compli. ment, to thank Mr. O'Connell for a promise to oppose a measure which but for his instrumentality would never have been carriod ; and which now he wishes to represent in as favourable a light us poAsible to his countrymen. As for Mr. Shell, he is a placesnan, and, by his own admission, must support the Government.1 Seven more clergymen of the county of Cork are announced as having discontinued tithe suits against their parishioners. A consider- able number of the clergy in Waterford, Tipperary, Wexford, Lime- rick, and other counties, have availed themselves of the lute act to drop legal proceedings. Already upwards of 1,000 farmers in the South of Ireland have been extricated from the meshes of the Court of Ex- chequer, and the ruin attending the litigation.—Dublin Correspondent ti the Times.
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