IRELAND.
The latest accounts from Dublin represent the fears on the score of the potato crop as increasing rather than otherwise: it is apprehended that the actual effect of the scarcity may be felt sooner than was at first supposed probable.
The Times Commissioner has brought his inquiries to a close, after a tour of five months. He sums up the results and reviews his remedial measures in a letter from the Irish capital. His suggestions may be enu- merated. They are, to abolish middlemanism; to facilitate the transfer of lands, so as to secure real and not nominal owners; to fine the community for every crime, and enforce the fine; if crime still go on, to send another thousand policemen into the disturbed county, and make the county bear the whole expense—billeting the police in the farm-houses; to appoint Stipendiary Magistrates for every district, and extend their powers where juries will not convict; to add to imprisonment for brutal offences, the cat- o'-nine tails applied at the cart's tail; rigorously to put down all combina- tions; to protect every useful enterprise; to insure to the tenant payment for his improvements; to provide suitable piers and harbours for the accom- modation and safety of the fishing-craft; to promote, with the revenues of the Crown-lands, the draining and cultivation of waste lands; to establish in different districts model farms and agricultural schools; to attend to reasonable applications for assistance made by enterprising portions of the community. It may be inferred from an announcement in the Times, that the Commissioner's letters are to be published in a collected form.
The deliberations at Conciliation Hall on Monday related chiefly to arrangements connected with the departure of the Repeal Members for London. A private meeting of these Members had been called for an earlier hour; but the attendance, owing to accidental causes, was not so numerous as had been expected. This induced Mr. O'Connell to move that another meeting of Members be held on Friday; and that the place of assembly be Radley's, so as to allow Members who are not Repealers to attend and join in the discussion as to the course which the Irish Members should pursue in St. Stephen's. The proposal was agreed to. The rent for the week was 3671.
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