IRELAND.
His Majesty and the Queen, it is confidently stated in London, pur- pose paying an early visit to Ireland, accompanied by the Dutchess of Kent, the Princess Victoria, and the principal members of the Court of St. James's.—.Dublin Evening Mail.
It is rumoured that the Marquis of Anglesey is to be created Duke of Mona.
The rumours relative to the law changes in Ireland are these. It is said that Mr. Blackburne is to go to the Rolls Court, and Mr. Cramp. ton to the Exchequer, in both of which resignations have for some time been expected. The Attorney-Generalship, it is thought, will either go to Mr. Blake or Mr. O'Loghlen. A Solicitor-General is not yet named ; but it is said the choice is likely to fall on the individual agree- ing with the Administration in politics who has the best chance of a seat in Parliament.—Dublin Morning Register.
The Commissioners appointed by Government for the purchase of Irish home-growth tobacco, have already prevailed on the holders to bring in about twenty tons at various prices, according to its quality. These have been altered in some degree from what were originally offered, and now are Is. 6d. for first quality, Is. 3d. for the second, Is. Id. fo-.. the third, and 6d. for the worst. To clear the market effec- tually of this abortive effort at native manufacture, and to prevent the possibility of any further injury to the revenue by the possible inter- mixture of these twenty tons with others, the Commissioners have de- cided on burning them ; and afire has been kept up in the Customhouse- yard, fed solely with "the weed" of native growth ; very much to the regret of the sailors, porters, and the mobility in general, whose mouths are watering at " the waste of batty," and who cannot well understand how his Majesty's Exchequer is to be rendered richer by the burning of these purchases.
The Limerick Evening Post says, that some respectable gentlemen of Limerick have been arrested, on a charge of being implicated in the Terry Alt system.
Mr. St. John Long, on his recent tour through Ireland, was visited by Dr. Townsend at Cove ; where that gentleman, in the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Dublin, formally communicated to Mr. Long a proposition, the result of which must be decisive of the success or failure of the latter gentleman's system of treating consump- tive patients. The proposition is to place six patients under Mr. Long's care, in the reduced stage of consumption ; so that he may have a fair opportunity of convincing society and the profession of the merits of his discovery. The offer, candid and creditable as it is to the Irish
[physicians, was promptly accepted by Mr. Long.—Limerick Chronicle. It is to be hoped that these six patients are not to be experimented apon by Mr. Long, like dogs used to try the strength of poisons, with. .out their own consent being obtained.] Eighteen hundred guineas were found, a few days ago, in an old house in Patrick Street, Waterford, by some workmen who were en- aged in repairing it. They were stowed away in some worsted stock- ings. The money belongs to a person who married the daughter of the former penurious occupant of the house ; and he rewarded the work- mien who found the treasure by giving them one shilling each.
Last Tuesday week, about a, hundred reapers marched from the county of Tipperary with fife and drum to cut down the corn of a man named John Young, residing at Lis, in the barony of Cranagh. They finished the work merrily, and then marched off again.
Last Tuesday week, at sun-rise, six men, armed with a gun, four pistols, and a spade-handle, went with their faces blackened to the lands of Rathsalla, in the county of Tipperary, on the estate of Mr. Andrew Roe, and attacked two keepers that were placed on some pro- perty distrairied for rent by that gentleman, due to him between two and three years. One of the keepers begged his life, and was suffered to escape ; the other fought them, and was fired at and beaten in a shocking manner, Next day, Mr. Roe seized all the cattle belonging to his-refraetory tenants, and- ladge&theas-in--timsadjaaent poundolae- ing an additional guard over them. The tenantry then came in and paid up their arrears.
At Dublin, last week, a number of casks of whisky were discovered on board the Express steamer, for Bristol, marked and labelled as Guinness's porter. Mr. Guinness is not suspected in the least of being i implicated in this smuggling transaction.
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