IRELAND.
Mr. O'Connell, it is given out in Ministerial circles, was offered the Rolls or the Chief Baronship, but declined to accept either up- poitotment. Sergeant Woulfe will be the Chief Baron ; Sergeant Ball, Attorney-General ; and Mr. Curry, M.P. for Armagh, King's Sergeant. Mr. Richard Moore is a candidate to succeed Sergeant Woulfe in the representation of Cashel.
The private correspondence of the Dublin O'Connell paper, the Pilot, has the following anticipation of coming events- " Every one is now agreed that things cannot proceed as they have done; and, take my word, (and I prophesied the event to you some months ago,) that we will shortly have a coalition. Short-lived it will be, and attended with a ruinous damage to many public characters, who will connect themselves with it; but the public will be gainers, and the good cause will receive an immense impulse. • • • How Lord John Russell will coalesce with Sir James Graham, and Sir Robert Peel make common cause with Sir John Hob. house, (once the inmate of a cell in Newgate, the result of his democratic zeal,) would have once been rather a difficult problem to solve; but now is as ' plain as way to parish-church.' Some will be cut off front official life, and sent to the House of Lords; others shipped across the sea to administer the affairs of a distant colony. Lord John Russell will reperuse, perhaps, his Anti•Reform pamphlet of 1819, and Sir Robert Peel his Expediency Emancipation speech in 1828. Sir James Graham will abate a little of his new-born Toryism, bestow- ing the superflux upon Sir John Hothouse, or Sir John Campbell, who may carry it with their titles to the Upper House."
The Belfast Northern Whig contains a letter from Mr. Sharman Crawford addressed to the " Friends of Religious Liberty in Ulster," calling on them to meet and pass resolutions against the compromise by which the tithes are to be fixed on the Irish people in the shape of a rent-charge.
A failure of the early potato crop is generally reported in different parts of the west of this county, the seed having rotted in the ground from some cause yet unexplained.—Limerick Chronicle.
Not a single bushel of wheat has been taken to Limerick for sale during the last three weeks. Last year's crop is exhausted.
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