26 SEPTEMBER 1829, Page 2

The symptoms of a tendency to improvement in Ireland multiply

apace. In other pages of this paper we notice the two great pro- jects of the day,—for cultivating the waste lands, and purifying the Church. The meeting of the lay members of the Established Church at Cork on Thursday, for the purpose of petitioning the King and the Parliament to reform that venerable establishment, by enforcing a more pious and exemplary conduct amongst its clergy, and procuring a more equitable distribution of its revenues, is said to have excited amongst all sects a most lively interest ; and it is believed that the example will be followed in other quarters.