IRELAND.
A proclamation was issued by the Lord-Lieutenant on the 10th, placing the barony of Tireragh in the county of Sligo under the Prevention of Outrage Acts, in consequence of the numerous agrarian outrages which have happened there since the general election.
Formal informations were sworn on Monday, by Colonel Stretton Cap- tain Eager, and others, against Mr. Wallace, the proprietor of the Iliaglo- Ceit newspaper, for libel on the Thirty-first Regiment. The libel alleged that the Thirty-first had lost their facings by cowardice, and now they were crimson,—meaning that the regiment had staineditself with the blood of innocent and unoffenffing people at Six-mile Bridge.
At a meeting of the projected Conference Committee, called by the Irish Members, and held in ]Dublin on Saturday, it was resolved that the Conference should meet on the 28th October, "to receive the report of the Committee appointed on the 10th instant to consider the manner in which the question of religious equality ought to be brought before Parliament next session, and to take such measures in reference thereto as may be deemed advisable."
Touching this subject, the Limerick Examiner cries out, " Delenda eat Carthago and prints it at the head of an article. Speaking of the Dub- lin meeting, the Journal says— "The meeting was composed of Members of Parliament, and of priests and laymen, both Protestant and Catholic ; and there was not one dissentient to the demand that the country should, with one voice, require the destruction of the Establishment. No one desires to interfere with the religion of Pro- testantism—with what is taught in the liturgy or from their pulpits; but, as no Protestant believes that Protestantism means rent-charge, or glebe-lands, or endowments, so Catholics do not feel themselves, by any law, prevented from dealing with the latter, confident that no just man will interpret the same into an attack upon his faith."
The Cork Exhibition, after a successful run of four months, closed on Saturday, with a grand concert and promenade.
Richard Hatebett and Thomas Noonan have been fully committed for trial, by the Clonmel Magistrates, for the murder of Mr. Ryan. Hatchett is nephew of a tenant lately ejected from the estate of the deceased.
James Finnegan, a man who had become approver for the Crown in re- spect to the conspiracy to murder Mr. Eastwood, and also with regard to Riband conspiracies generally, has committed suicide at Dundalk, by cutting his throat, and then throwing himself out of a lofty window of the Police- barrack. It is supposed that he suffered remorse for betraying his guilty friends and relatives.
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