IRELAND.

The Limerick Chronicle has put forth the following announcement- " Lord Morpeth is to be the new Lord-Lieutenant." This is all moon- shine. Lord Ebrington will return to Ireland on the 20th instant.— Dublin Monitor, April 10.

An immense variety of business was transacted at the weekly meet- ing of the Repeal Association on Monday. There is no end to the letters read and speeches delivered, and they fill ten columns of the

Dublin Pilot. Mr. if promulgated, in the formal report from a Committee, his plan for a standing Select Committee of the Associa- tion, to be called the "Revived Repealers of 1782." The report pro- poses, with respect to the constitution of the Select Committee- " 1st. That every person whose contributions to the Repeal rent at any time amount to 10/., shall be declared to be, and shall thenceforth be a Vo- lunteer.

2dly. That every person who has collected or shall have collected from members or associates a sum of 10/., including his own subscription, shall be declared to be, and shall thenceforth be a Volunteer."

The functions of the Volunteers are to consist in carrying out the busi- ness of the Association in a systematic manner : they are to further Mr. O'Connell's proposed law of landlord and tenant, to report on the pro- gress of the ejectment system, to report on the state of agrarian crime and labour to repress it, and to advance the Repeal of the Union. But the list of their duties begins thus-

" 1st. The Volunteers shall ascertain and report, once a month, the names of the parishes in which Repeal Wardens have been appointed ; also the names of the Repeal Wardens themselves, and also the sum collected by each Repeal Warden during the preceding month. Such sum to be annexed to the name of each Repeal Warden, so that it shall be seen at one glance what Repeal Wardens have been active, and which of them have been negligent. " 2dly. It will be the duty of the Volunteers once in every three months to report the names of such Repeal Wardens as have neglected to make any remit- tance during such three months, so that more active persons may be substituted in the place of the negligent."

Mr. O'Connell cannot escape from Chartist annoyance, even in Dublin. He said at the meeting, that he had examined into the facts as to the alleged Chartist weekly meetings in Golden Street : and there had been such meetings, but only eighteen persons assembled, and three of those were said to be Orangemen. Mr. O'Connell begged the Association to dismiss the subject, as unworthy of their thoughts. One officious marplot, however, Mr. Hubert M`Guire, would pry a little closer into the matter. He actually went to the leader of the Chartist lodge, who gave him a Northern Star for a penny, though Mr. M`Guire offered the full price. Mr. ISPGuire said— He had promised to attend their meeting next Sunday, but had since heard that they had merged into a trade society—(" Hear ")—and had branches in the Liberty, James Street, Mary's _4bbey, and elsewhere. He had often heard it asserted that no such meetings as these were held in Dublin ; but here was proof positive to the contrary. The leading man amongst these people was a Mr. John Norton, living in Golden Lane. Mr. Norton stated, that some years since he had been speaking with Mr. O'Connell; that he had submitted to the Liberator his plan for the establishment of a Trades Society, and that Mr. O'Connell had expressed his satisfaction at the project.

Mr. O'Connell—" It would be much better for Mr. M‘Guire not to meddle with these persons at all. They had deceived and deluded him with most un- pardonable lies. When on one occasion Mr. Norton laid before you his plan for establishing what was softly termed a trades society,' with a view to as- certain whether the regulations were legal or illegal, I hesitated not in pro- nouncing them as illegal and involving transportable offences. There was a general declaration of opinion, and a test, without which no man would

be permitted to join the body. a *I implore of you not to be- lieve one word they say. I know their drift well : they fancy that we will make them subjects for discussion here, and hope that they will thus be pro- truded into notice. For my part I will never say a word more about them." [Which is the more "illegal," exacting a test on joining a society, or telling "Gaul and Muscovite" that they may count on the neu- trality of Ireland in a war with England?]

A correspondent of the Dublin Pilot describes the Chartist meeting at Newry as a ridiculous failure. He says that only four persons attended, and that one of those was an emissary of the English Chartists : the other three persons were all whom the English agent could assemble of the Newry folks-

" Another Chartist, named Kelly, has been sent over from Liverpool ; and I have no doubt that a deep-laid scheme to seduce the tradesmen of Newry has been projected by some of the Chartist leaders ; as it is said that these fellows have with them a series of cut-and-dry resolutions, approving of Chartist principles, to be passed at the meetings which they may get up. Kelly waited on one of the Catholic clergymen to take the total abstinence pledge, in order, it is supposed, that he might be enabled to pass some speciously concocted resolutions which would identify the teetotalers with Chartism ; but the clergyman very prudently refused to give him the pledge. Our reverend Bishop, who never sleeps at his post, and his respected curates, have taken the most prompt means to strangle the infant Chartism in its cradle '; and Mr. O'Connell would act wisely in leaving the matter to the Right Reverend Dr. Blake."

"The accounts from all parts of Ireland," says the Dublin Monitor of Tuesday, "as to the state of the registries are most deplorable. We do not wish to use discouraging language, but it is useless to conceal the fact that the Liberals are beaten in some of their strongest holds, and the Tories have triumphed by vast majorities." Louth is all but lost : "of all the counties iu Ireland it was considered the most secure." The Monitor says, that with few exceptions, the vents of the numerous large Whig proprietors of Louth are unregistered : "We find in the Drogheda Argus a very discreditable list of Liberal noblemen and gen- tlemen who could crowd the registry with voters if they had the man- liness to do justice to the principles they profess." The returns for King's County show a Tory majority of 215. "This," says the Moni- tor, "is the fruit of the Repeal nonsense "—of neglecting the registries to speechify at meetings of the "Registry Association of Ireland."

The Morning Chronicle gives the following figures, compiled from a return moved for by Mr. Frederick Shaw in the House of Commons, exhibiting the numbers of notices given within the year 1840 of inten- tions to register votes for the counties of Cork, Carlow, Longford, Queen's County, and Tipperary, together with the cities of Dublin and Cork ; also the number of cases in each county and city adjudicated on within the same year, distinguishing admissions and rejections.

Notices served.

Cases adjudicated upon. Cases where no Appearance.

County of Cork 10,633 993 9,640 County of Carlow 3,689 121 3,568 County of Longford 833 186 647 Queen's County.. 4,303 488 3,815 County of Tipperary 4,805 755 4,050

Dublin City 22,311 2,152 20,159 Cork City 4,191 1,323 2,868

Total 50,765 6,018 44,747

A numerous meeting assembled at the Bazaar in Cork, on Wednes- day week, to receive an address from Father Mathew, the apostle of Temperance, narrating his progress throughout the country. He gave a full account of the effects of his preaching throughout the West and the North of Ireland. He especially mentioned the absence of sectarianism which everywhere marked his reception. Speaking of the North, he said— The clergy, Protestant, Catholic, and Presbyterian, had espoused the cause; maus of the leading landed proprietors of those districts had identified them- selves with it ; nor did he wonder at it, for sure he was, that where temperance prevailed the land was best cultured and worked, and the rents were best paid. Peace and contentment were created by it, the best feelings between the land- lord and tenant once more established, and the various relations in society as between man and man improved and ameliorated. Monaghan, Tyrone, East and West Meath, Sligo, Clogher—in short, in all the towns he had visited—his reception had delighted him, and frequently made him feel and acknowledge that he was but the weak and feeble instrument in the hands of God in effect- ing a great moral regeneration amongst his fellow-countrymen.

The Reverend William Trail, of Bushmills, in the county of Antrim, has published a petition to Parliament, which he is sending about for signatures among the Irish beneficed clergy. It proposes to Parlia- ment to restore the ten mitres which Lord Stanley abolished, and to put them on the heads of divines, who are to be the great unpaid of the united Church of England and Ireland. No seats in Parliament are demanded, nor any state endowment for those dignitaries, nor is the slightest hope expressed of being able to recover any portion of the temporalities which were alienated by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. All that is asked is the revival of the Episcopal office and authority, without the pay. This being the extent of the request, it is thought reasonable to require that the election of such additional overseers be vested in the clergy-

" Your petitioners respectfully submit that it is equitable that the Bishops and clergy of the Church should have a voice or influence in the recommend- ing of fit and proper persons to the Sovereign to fill the important spiritual office; and, hoping that the Lord will direct your hearts to favour and forward this matter, they will, as in duty bound, over pray."

The Northern part of the county of Tipperary is represented as being in a very disturbed condition. The following is the account given by the Dublin correspondent of the Times, writing on Saturday-

" The town of Nenagh has the appearance of a place preparing for a siege; the streets being crowded with troops despatched thither from the garrison a Limerick, comprising a troop of the Seventeenth Lancers, and two companiei of the Twentieth Foot ; and two or three pieces of ordnance were expected to arrive there in the course of Friday evening. The orders of the military are to scour the disturbed districts day and night, in bodies of twenty-five and thirty, and to be in constant readiness for active duty at five minutes' warning. In the mean time, the work of bloodshed and outrage progresses with fearful rapidity. Two more murders were committed in the broad daylight yesterday on the lands of Curraghmore, in the parish of Kilbarron. The names of these unhappy victims to Ribandism were Tierney and Gleeson. Major-General Sir Parker Carroll, the commanding-officer of the district, has been served with a Rockite notice, warning him to be prepared for the fate which momen- tarily impends over him, in consequence of ejecting a woman from some land, the same being in direct contravention of the Riband code. The list of out- rages, in the shape of similar notices, together with tumults on the person, &c. would occupy too much of your space."

A late number of the Nenagh Guardian describes the district as con- tinuing in the same disturbed state : the military still patrolled the streets of the town at night, and occupied the country in detachments ; while Rockite notices still issued from the rioters.

An inquest was held on the 7th, on the body of Patrick Hayes, of Urrow, who was murdered at a place about six miles from Nenagh, on the border of the Shannon, and in one of the wildest districts of Ireland. The chief witness produced was the wife of the deceased. A man entered her husband's house on the 5th instant, armed with a wattle, and asked to light his pipe. Hayes and he got into conversa- tion; the man's manner being gloomy and abrupt. Her husband sud- denly changed countenance, as if be were afraid ; and immediately afterwards she saw the stranger strike him with the wattle. She rushed between them lest he should strike her husband again; when he caught her by the head, tore her cap and handkerchief, and dragged her out into the yard. He then said, "Go, or I will give you the same treat- ment that I have given him !—give up the laud now." The ruffian fled, and Hayes was raised into his bed in a helpless state by his wife and a neighbour : he died next morning. The Jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."

Government have offered a reward of 100/. for the discovery of the murderer.

On Sunday evening last, the town of Fintona was thrown into a state of excitement, by the arrest of six persons by the police, under a charge of Ribbonism. A strong body of police marched into the town, direct to a public-house, and arrested six men, whom they immediately placed on cars, and drove off to Omagh; where they were safely lodged in geol.—Hellas/ Northern Whig, April 10.

At Tullow Quarter-sessions, on Saturday, several persons were in- dicted for a riot, and for assault on James Byrne and .James Haydon, at Rathvilly, on the 3d December, during the Carlow electiou. Byrne said that about seven in the evening several persons passed his house, shouting " Bruen" and " Bruen's cub." One said that they would kill him ; another, Tom Aughney, struck him ; a third jostled his elbow, and a fourth spat in his face. On his cross-examination, however, Byrne said that he went out of his house among the men voluntarily, and followed them; he was not afraid, and he was in no danger ; all was quiet in

Carlow ; he was not molested there, nor prevented from voting. The other prosecutor, Hayden, heard the men shouting " Bruen's cub" a mile off; he went out to them ; they jostled him ; he seized two of them by the breast, and asked if they were going to kill him ; upon which they said they were not : they did not touch, he admitted, except to jostle him ; and they called him nothing worse than Bruen. All the prisoners were acquitted. Byrne, one of the prosecutors in the fore- going case, was then convicted of a slight assault on Tom Aughney ; and James Whelan was convicted of pushing James Haydon. They were fined 10s. each. Thus the " Rathvilly riots" were disposed of : they were the occasion of many exaggerated statements at the time. A passage in the speech with which Mr. Barrett, the counsel employed by the Crown, opened the first case, is worth quoting in juxtaposition with the results of the trial- " I have been instructed by the Government to vindicate the laws which protect the free exercise of the elective franchise. The prosecutors are electors of this county, and went into Carlow to vote on the 3d December at the elec- tion. They voted for I care not whom. He was the object of their choice. In Carlow all was temperance and moderation ; but after their return home at ten o'clock at night, when they were on their knees returning thanks to Almighty God for having preserved them from the dangers of the day, their houses were attacked by a banditti of ruffians, who called them nicknames, and hustled them. There was a great number there, but only ten have been iden- tified. You see them there, that banditti of felons in the dock. They did not break their beads, to be sure, for they were afraid of Van Diemen's Land. Is this to be tolerated in this division of the county, which has hithoto had the pure streams of harmouy flowing through it—where the Magistrahlgact with so much moderation that they are entitled to all praise fof diffusing streams of justice through the barony ? If this banditti are acquitted, the newspapers will teem with it."

A son of Archdeacon Ryder was accidentally killed at Ballintarry, last week. The Archdeacon had invited a juvenile party to meet his sons, who were at home for the holyday-s ; and the lads went out rabbit- shooting on Saturday. The eldest son was trying to pull out a ramrod which had stuck in his gun, his brother holding the stock ; when the gun went off, and the ramrod passed through his body. He lingered till the next evening, and then expired.