IRELAND.
The following important circular, dated the 6th of August, has been ad- dressed by the Relief Commissioners to the Inspecting Officers of Unions.
"Sir—The Relief Commissioners have received many communications from Committees remonstrating against closing the temporary relief in their respective districts on the 15th of August. The objections advanced are-1. That the har- vest will not be in full operation by that period; 2. General want of means of the poor; 3. That the Poor-law Guardians have no fonds. With regard to the first, the Commissioners wish it to be understood that they do not consider the actual state of the harvest, in the precise locality, to be the only datum for discontinuance of relief to the able-bodied; since it is clear that the reduced price of provisions, together with the general if not local increasing demand for labour, must afford means of earning a subsistence to many who are now dependent on public support. That this is the case, and that many who ought not have still been lingering on the gratuitous relief, has been proved in several places by very light tests. Many have given up the rations for themselves and families, rather than perform three or four hours labour, and others rather than enter the poor-house. The Tempo- rary Relief Act was passed, not as a remedy for any financial embarrassments in the union, nor for any general poverty in the country, but solely to replace for one season the food of which the people were deprived by the failure of the potato crop; and the operation of the act was to be discontinued as the different crops of the ensiling season should come forward and provisions become more abundant. As these are gradually in course of being realized, the Commissioners feel that -their functions must close, and the Poor-law Guardians must make the necessary 'efforts for such partial early collection as may be sufficient to meet the first emer- gency. There are still some remote districts where the relief may be continued by special permission after the 15th August, for limited periods, on account of the peculiar extent of distress in them, added to an unhappy neglect of that culti- vation which might have provided an earlier and more general stock for the sup- port of the people: but even in these the scale must be very much reduced. The period for the reVision of the lists, in reference to individuals only, is now past; and they must be reduced by classes, even where the relief is allowed to be par- tially colitinned. It must be recollected that nothing but compelling men to make greater efforts for self-support, and to avail themselves of means that are really *within their reach, will prevent the great amount of disastrous results that must -otherwise ensue from a sudden stoppage, on a great scale, at the end of Sep- tember; after which, all advances under the Temporary Act must cease.
"By order of the Relief Commissioners, ' R. HAMILTON."
The largest number since the concourse on Mr. O'Connell's liberation from prison attended at Conciliation Hall on Monday. The chair was taken by Mr. Lamle Murray, the unsuccessful candidate for Drogheda. The people were in spirits, but the proceedings were unimportant. They consisted of an address of confidence in Mr. John O'Connell, from the Ro- man Catholic Bishop and clergy of Derry; a speech from Mr. John Rey- nolds, the new 14.P. for Dublin; and a sort of report of election progress by Mr. John O'Connell. The rent was announced to be 60/.
' The Sligo Clutmpion mentions the failure of one of the most respectable houses in Sligo: the liabilities are estimated as amounting to 160,0001.; and the cause assigned is over-speculation in "bread-stuffs."
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