Mr. O'Connell, in a long letter to the people of
Clare, gives an outline of his proposed Parliamentary campaign. He specifies certain objects of local advan- tage—harbours, bridges—which he will strive to secure for the county ; besides others of a more !general nature—the removal of tithes, and the reformation of the Grand Jury laws. The banking-house of Messrs. Birch and Yates, of Stafford, stopped payment last week.
By official returns made to Government, it appears that crime has very con- siderably decreased in the city and county of Dublin during the last year. The number of persons sentenced to transportation, and against whom death was re- corded, in the year 1828, amounted to 209: in the year 1829, they fell to 145, In the former year there were no executions, and in the latter only two, namely, the elder Mellon and Magrath, for the murder of Hanlon. In 1828, the number convicted of larceny amounted to 1800: last year the convictions under that head have fallen to 1200; showing a decrease of one-third in one year. Assaults, and other offences connected with breaches of the peace, have suffered a corre- sponding diminution.
The newspaper controversy between Lord Monntcashel and the Bishop of Ferns is at length at an end. The noble Lord has addressed a last letter to the Bishop, dated Moore Park, the 13th instant, in which he congratulates his reverend oppo- nent on having "discovered the policy of withdrawing from the correspondence and prudently soundieg a retreat." Why his Lordship again appears in the field, is explained by the following passage of his letter : "Your Lordship," says he, " having now addressed five letters to me, it is but just that I should return a similar number."
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