23 MAY 1846, Page 7

IRELAND.

Lord Ifeytesbiny has received an official summons requesting his Ex- cellency's presence in London, so as to be enabled to take his seat in the Lords when the Ministerial measure for repealing the Corn-laws shall have been advanced to its second stage in the Upper House of the Legislature.--a The Repeal meeting at Conciliation Hall on Monday was stormy; the adherents of Mr. Smith O'Brien having come into open collision with the followers of Mr. O'ConnelL Mr. Doheny, a barrister, after handing in some money, proceeded to read a passage in a letter from the Reverend Mr.. Burke of Clonmel, eulogyzing Mr. Smith O'Brien. He was interrupted by Mr. Clements; who stated that it was a rule of the Association not tea allow any letter to be read till it had been inspected by the Committee, lest it should contain matter calculated to compromise the Association. Mr. Doheny replied, that he got the letter but two minutes before; that he was not aware of the rule; and if he had been he should have broken it. This daring reply was resented by the O'Connellites; and a scene of great confusion followed.

The letter was at last referred to the Committee. The rent was 1441.

Facts are daily coming to light respecting distress in Ulster, which prove that, in several counties of the Northern province, the labouring classes are suffering almost as severely from the effects of the potato disease as in many parts of the South and West, although potatoes are not by any means the exclusive food of the working people in the North.—Morning Chronicle.

A fatal affray has occurred at Bird Hill, in Tipperary, originating in a resistance to the law. A farmer named Mansell was in arrear, and re- fused to quit the farm. To compel him to give up possession, the Sub-

Sheriff of the county, attended by a Police force, proceeded to the place qrt Saturday. The Dublin Packet gives this account of what then happened- " Dr. Twiss attended in his Magisterial capacity, and assisted the Under- Sheriff in remonstrating with Mansell against the preposterous course which he

had adopted; but without effect. He had filled the house with peasantry, and fortified it in such a way as to render it almost impregnable. The party within were furnished with large stones and boiling water intended to be showered on the heads of those who should approach the building. Some of those missiles were flung at the bailiffs. The Doctor and Sub-Sheriff offered Maunsell, who was on the outside of the building, to allow him a week, or more if necessary, to

keep possession, as care-taker, provided he would give quiet possession: but the

offer was rejected. While this parley was going on, the crowd was accumulating at a rapid rate, and it became nem:emery to command them to disperse by reading the Riot Act; which was done, but proved alike ineffectual. The Police were ordered to fire blank cartridges in the direction of the honse; but this experi- ment also failed. Ultimately, the Police were ordered to use balls; which struck

a man and a woman in one of the windows ; whereupon Maunsell ordered the people inside to open the doors. The Sheriff then delivered possession, and ar- rested five of the leaders of the opposing party; who have been drily committed for triaL The persons shot were servants to Maunsell. They have died of their wounds."

The Tipperary Vindicator says, the case of Maunsell was one of great hard- ship. He rented the farm twelve years ago; since then he had laid out all his

capital—some 1,5001—on improvements, including a substantial farm-house and offices; a succession of bad crops had reduced him to difficulties; he underlet portions of the land to a number of persons, but still got into arrest with his rent. On Saturday, all the under-tenants gave up possession; but Maunsell fortified his house, and placed seven or eight persons within to resist the Sub Sheriff. The hall-door was thickly boarded inside and out; large blocks of wood"

were placed inside the doors and lower windows, capable of resisting a very powerful pressure; the sashes were taken out of the upper windows, and large stones were piled on the sills: bat Mansell himself remained outside. It ap- pears that the Sub-Sheriff was accompanied by forty soldiers in addition to the Police. Mansell and his landlord are both high Tories and Protestants. The inquest on the bodies of the people killed—a girl and a young. man—was held on Monday. Mr. Going, the Sub-Sheriff, described the proceedings at the farm-house. He entreated Maunsell not to allow his people to resist the writ of habere, which it was Mr. Going's imperative duty to carry into effect. The far- mer was obdurate, exclaiming, "I don t care; I'm outside; fire away !" The SON-

Sheriff's bailiffs made repeated attempts to force an entrance into the house; but were repulsed by showers of stones and hot water. The Police were ordered first to fire over the house, bat eventually they fired at the defenders: a little time after, the place was surrendered. The military did not fire. Other witnesses were examined; and the Jury returned this verdict—" We find that Bridget Gni- diner and Henry Bourchier, servants of Mr. George Maunsell of Bird Hill, came by their death on Saturday the 16th of May instant, in consequence of fear min- shot wounds, inflicted on them by a party of Police acting under the orders of Mr. Going, Sub-Sheriff of this county."

Daniel Delany, a farmer in his seventieth year has been murdered near Rath- downey, while returning home at night. The deceased had been engaged in some ejectment affair against John Keys. Keys and a servant were with Delany on the night of the murder, apparently endeavouring to pick a quarrel. They have been arrested, and committed to prison.