IRELAND.
A great tithe meeting, which was intended to be held at Nobber, county Meath, on Sunday last week, was dispersed by Mr. Pollock, a magistrate of the county, at the head of a party of military ; not, how- ever, before the whole of the resolutions intended to be submitted to the meeting had been agreed to.
One of the most important assemblages in honour of the 12th July occurred at Belfast. Fifty-two lodges assembled (forty-three of them bearing banners), and marched in procession to Ballymacarret Church ; where a sermon was preached by the Reverend C. S. Courtney, rector; the text, the 28th verse of Acts xxii.—" At a great sum have I pm- chased this freedom." A crowd of Protestants accompanied the pro- cession. The church and churchyard Were completely filled ; few heard the sermon. The dread of cholera deterred ninny lodges joining in the Belfast -procession. Twenty-four lodges of Saintfield district were absent, twenty-four from Lisburn, nineteen from Six Mile-water, four from Carnioney, and various others. There were no Catholics shot : this omission is attributed to the abortive bill.
There have been numerous minor meetings in different parts of the country : all of them passed quietly oft; with one exception, where an Orangeman returning from the festival, was stabbed by a Catholic, in • revenge of an old grudge. The murderer has been seized. The Bishop of Dromore threw open his gates to welcome the lodges of the neighbourhood in the course of their procession, and appeared With a frill-blown orange lily in his breast.
Owing to the delay in obtaining the new loan for carrying on the Wellesley Bridge Works, Limerick, and the present funds being wholly exhausted, Mr. Spring Rice has from himself kindly advanced the sum of 1,0001. to prevent the poor artisans and labourers, now engaged on the work, from being thrown out of employment.
Colonel Dawson, Mr. Prittie, and Mr.. Bagwell, having declined a contest, Mr. Butler will be returned for the county Tipperary, in con- sequence of the elevation of Mr. Hutchinson to the Peerage.—Lime- • rick Chronicle.
True-bills have been found, by the Monaghan Grand Jury, against Messrs. Gartlan, Bermingham, M. Costello, and M. W. Reddy, for aiding and attending at a meeting lately held at Carrickmacross, in that county, assembled for the purpose of evading and resisting the payment of tithes. The trials of these gentlemen have been postponed till next term. Mr. Costello surrendered on Monday : the bail required was .500/. for himself, and two friends for 250/. each.
The Reverend Mr. Aylward, Roman Catholic curate of Thomas-
town, got out of bed about one on Monday morning, in consequence of hearing a noise in the street, occasioned by the rioting of some persons on their return from the anti-tithe meeting at Ballyhale. He threw open the window, and was in the act of addressing the mob below, when he unfortunately fell into the street, and was killed on the spot : his skull was extensively fractured.—Kilkenny Moderator.
The corn in Ireland is even more prolific than the people. The Kilkenny Journal says—" There are now at our office seven stalks of oats (the longest six feet five inches), the produce of a single plant, bearing one thousand and ninety-two grains. This, with two stalks of wheat, five feet ten inches in length, were sent to our office yesterday, from a field belonging to Mr. Byrne of Clara." There is great com- fort here for Mr. Sadler, and the other pious Anti-Malthusians.
We have been presented with a sample of twenty aeres of black oats, which were cut down yesterday off the lands of Woodside, the resi- dence of the Reverend E.-M. Carleton. The grain is plump, and the quality first rate...... Cork Reporter.
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