IRELAND.
The election of a successor to the late Catholic Archbishop Crony was held in Armagh on Tuesday. The candidates were three: Dr. Dixon, Professor of Scripture in Maynooth, who obtained 26 votes; Dr. O'flanlan, Professor of Theology in Maynooth, and Dr. Keiran, P.P. of Clogher, who each obtained 1.2 votes. The confirmation of the Holy See is very rarely refused to the successful candidate. Dr. Dixon is a most erudite and amiable man, and a very moderate politician.
There are two candidates in the field for the seat vacant by the civil death of Mr. Smith O'Brien; Mr. Samuel Dickson, a large proprietor in the county of Limerick, and Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, of Merrion Square, Dublin. Both gentlemen are "understood to profess Liberal principles." The election is fixed for Friday the 1st of June.
Emigration continues at a rate which the local papers deem "really marvellous." Three vessels, fully freighted, sailed from Belfast on Friday morning, one for Quebec, and two for the United States. It appears front the Northern Whig that the Canadian emigrants were of the most sub- stantial class that have left Ulster for very many years. One of the pas- sengers carried with him 700/. in gold, and the majority took out sums of money beyond their immediate necessities.
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