Mr. Spring Rice arrived in Dublin in the beginning of
the week. "
lie has, of course, (says the Dublin Evening Post,) been welcomed by a tirade of silly abuse from the barrel-organ of the Faction, The well-meant effort has not, however, as fir as we can learn, extin- guished Mr. Rice. On the contrary, we learn from the Court Circular, as well as indeed from several deputations now besieging the Castle on the subject of railways, steam navigation, and other matters, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been busily engaged since his arrival, with the heads of the Irish Government, on the affairs of the country. We know this statement is wormwood to the Beresfords and Orangemen."
The Irish Government have conic to the determination of refusing military aid in the collection of tithes. —7'imes Correspondent.
Mr. O'Connell has been placed on the commission of the peace for the county of Kerry. The Tories spread a report that Lord Kenmare, the Lord. Lieutenant of Kern', had, in consequence of Mr. O'Con. nell's appointment, resigned his post in disgust ; and that Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, nephew of the Liberator, was to be his successor. This was a fabrication—a Tory lie. Lord Kenmore fully acquiesced in the propriety of Mr. O'Connell's appointment. It has also been rumoured that O'Connell is to be made an Irish Privy Councillor; but this report rests as yet on no better authority than the other. It would he difficult to produce any good reason why O'Connell should not be a Privy Councillor for Ireland : surely his claims are at least equal to those of Mr. Recorder Shaw.
Mr. Dominick Ronayne, M. P. for Clonmel, has been made Chair- man of the Sessions in one of the Iri,h counties.
A son of Lord Chancellor Plunket is appointed agent or receiver of the revenues of the late diocese of Cloyne, under the Ecclesiastical Board.—Dablin Evening Mail.
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