IRELAND.

The disarming process is in full operation, but not on the whole with very obvious success. The search in the proclaimed baronies of Longford, Granard, and Ardagh, conducted by several hundred military and police, resulted in the capture of only 50 or 60 stand of arms. Few were cap- tured in Roscommon. In Tipperary the search was more productive; nearly 350 stand of arms, with a large quantity of pikes, bayonets, and ammunition, having been deposited in the Nenagh Barracks. It is sus- pected that the arms seized are the property of the well-conducted, who had no special motive for concealment. The real delinquents are said to have hidden their weapons on the appearance of the proclamation.

The Special Commission resumed its labours at Limerick on Thursday. James Skehan and James Queue were found guilty of the murder of Mr. Ralph Hill, at Ratherd; and sentenced to death. Michael Howard, for shooting Jo- hanna Houragan, at Ballyoullan, in April last, sentenced to death. John and Thomas Frewen, who pleaded guilty of harbouring William Ryan, (Puck,) were sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. The Court adjourned on Saturday, till the 10th February.

The proceedings of the Commission at Clonmel commenced on Monday

The first and principal case tried was that of John Lonergae, for the murder of Mr. William Roe, at Boytonrath. Mr. Roe was killed by a shot fired from a plan- tation; and although Lonergan was not seen to fire the gun, the circumstantial evidence of his guilt was conclusive: he was seen lying in the ditch before the act, and leaving it afterwards. The Jury found him guilty, after a trial which acted nearly two days.

The addresses delivered by the Judges in passing sentence in Clans and Limerick have been published by order of the Law-officers of the Crown, and directions given for the circulation of 3,000 copies among the pea- santry.

A letter has been addressed by Sir William Somerville to the Marquis of Donegal, as Lord-Lieutenant of Antrim, calling his attention to the 2d and 3d William IV. o. 108; under which power is given to two Justices, upon the oath of my creditable witness, that tumult, affray, riot, or felony has taken ,p1ace,' tdiecarouccial constables; and it is recommended that

the act ehouki-be-att , particularly with the object of strengthening _the Constabulary to patiol duty.

Treparations OR a liner 'emigration this season, in t than for many years past are making for and all the surrounding counties. A great

proportion of the number will be respectable Protestants, most of whom will have a considerable amount of cash with them. One person with whom we conversed informed us he would have at least 3,0001. with him: many of the others will bring large sums, thus tending the more to impo- verish Ireland, while benefiting the land of their adoption.—Armagh Guar- dian.

The condition of the Tnam Union has been brought under the notice of the Lord-Lieutenant, in a memorial from the Guardians.

They state, that although they have given diligent attention to their duties, have provided increased workhouse accommodation, and both by example and exertion; have given every facility for collecting the rates, the amount brought in by the collectors has been little more than what was required fur the maintenance of the workhouse. Meanwhile, the rapid spread of the extremest destitution causes daily a greater call upon the totally inadequate funds. The population is 74, 155; at the best of times the valuation is only 86,2341. The memorialists proceed to suggest a necessity for Goierninent assistance in the shape of "repro- ductive employment,” and employment on the unfinished public works. They conclude with a hint that aid is necessary to preserve peace and order. The Irish Poor-law Commissioners, however, appear to have found out the reason why the funds are so low. On the 15th instant, they write as follows of the Tuam Union-

" The Commissioners for administering the laws for the relief of the poor in Ireland have had under consideration a report from their Inspector, Mr. Bourke, in which Mr. Bourke states that destitution exists to a great and distressing ex- tent in various parts of the Tuam Union; but at the same time acquaints the Commissioners, that on examining the collectiou.books he observed instances in which persons of rank and consideration (some of whom were Guardians) were still in arrear in payment of their rates, and that in some instances (amongst which he mentions that of Dr. Made, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tnam) no part either of the present or previous rate has been paid. And Mr. Bourke further observes, that when it is remembered that the present rate is only the second struck in Timm Union, it will be seen that the latter parties have never contributed to the support of the poor of their district in the manner provided by law."

Archbishop M'Hale has at length made what purports to be a reply to the Earl of Shrewsbury, in a long epistle, dated from St. Jarlath's, on the "Feast of the Chair of St. Peter's" It, however, studiously avoids any answer whatsoever to the point of Lord Shrewsbury's letter; the whole composition, from first to last, being a vituperative tirade. On two single and minor points only is there any reply: Dr. M'Hale avers that his dio- cese has been free from crimes of violence; and he enumerates some con- ventual and other schools as affording means of education for children. For the rest of the letter, which fills four or five of the longest newspaper columns, we- borrow a general and quite sufficient description from the Times— "He charges Lord Shrewsbury and the other Roman Catholic Peers of England with lending themselves to a foul conspiracy against the lives of the Catholic people and the character of the Catholic hierarchy '; and if a loophole—' some, I hope, unconsciously'—is providedLit is Only M exclude his Lordship from the benefit of it. His letter, it is thMintimata;bfeathes a' slavish and unchristian insolence,revealing, at once the assiduous suitors of Ministerial favours as well as the fastidious dispensers of a subordinate patronage, who for the taunts and hu- miliations encountered in the pursuit of the one take care to indemnify themselves by an equivalent exaction of revolting servitude in the distribution of the other.' Lord Shrewsbury's profession of zeal for the honour of the episcopacy naturally reminds the Archbishop of Iferod's homage to our Divine Redeemer, who sought for an opportunity to destroy his victim in the hypocritical professions of reve- rence under which his deadly purpose was concealed.' After Herod, the next celebrated character of whom his Lordship's conduct reminds Dr. M'Hale, is Tar- quin, the brutal violater of Lucretia; who of course represents the priesthood of Ireland. His Lordship's hypocritical pity' is then briefly discussed and repu- diated; such wolves' not being wanted 'to protect the lambs' of Dr. M'Ilale's flock. We are then carried back again to Scripture. Lord Shrewsbury, and we suppose Lord Arundel, are discovered to be worse than Pharoah's chief butler and chief baker, who only forgot Joseph's bondage, whereas these help to forge new fetters for their deliverers. Ingratitude' is thus gravely stated to be one of the privileges of the British Peerage. After an interval of general discussion, Lord Shrewsbury again appears on the scene as Dioclesian, and something worse. The English Dioclesian, unlike his humble prototype, has built certain churches, which the Archbishop. indirectly sneers at as architec- tural bijoux.' This opens a new vein of allusion. The comparison of, the chapel at Alton Towers with the humble structures of his Grace's diocese it very s - gestive. In the former instance, the priests are the paid pensioners of the lordly patron; who, of course, sends them to the right-about if they don't smooth hint down. His Lordship and his friends are sketched to the life, entering a gorgeous chapel, and sinking into their seats with cushions under their elbows,' and, like the proud and impious Pharisee wearing broad phylacteries, to trumpet forth their own virtues, to compare !their own excellence with the defects of others.' There are some significant allusions to Theodosius, who once massacred a few thousands in cold blood; to a certain British tyrant, who made an onslaught on St. Patrick's flock, and was duly rebuked; to Constan- tius, who, like Lord Shrewsbury, tried by hypocritical attentions to sap the faith of his Bishops; to Attila, the chief of the Huns; and, treading again on Irish ground, to one Morochad, an adulterer, and a friend of the British connexion. These instances, and some others, are introduced for the particular purpose of giving historical variety to a sort of ecclesiastical tableau, devised by Dr. M'Hale, and representing his Grace as using his staff and crozier variously on the person of the noble delinquent. Sometimes these spiritual weapons are flourished over his Lordship's head, sometimes the Archbishop dips into his proud flesh' with 'the spear-end of the staff'; sometimes the wanderer is recalled with the crook, and sometimes it would appear that both are applied fairly on the shoulders of the calprit."

Dr. Maginn, Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, has just completed a series of three huge epistles in answer to Lord Stanley; who, late in the session, ascribed the prevalence of crime in Ireland to the secrecy of the confessional. Dr. Maginn's last letter is a vehement tirade against " non- confessing England "; to whose want of the confessional be ascribes the most appalling extent and degree of crime. One short passage will exem- plify the fashion of the Bishop's letter-

" Your Pour-law inquiries, your Ashley. revelations, your high and low courts of justice—your divorces for nameless crimes, your poisoning of children by the mothers that bore them, of husbands by their wives, and wives by their husbands —your thefts and robberies, year shedding of human blood for filthy lucre sake— your barbarity without the pretext of poverty, your cold-blooded truculency with- out the excuse of persecution, oppression, or destitution—the profligacy of your principal cities, casting into the shade that of the olden Pentapolis, swallowed up by the wrath of God in a lake of brimstone—exhibit to the world a picture of moral depravity and corruption among your non-confessing Christians, which has no parallel in the filthiest, darkest pages of the annals of Gentilism. Your prin- ciples are not a whit better than your practice. 'Quid liceat nescitis adhuc, et cuncta licere creditis:—Ausonius." The main piece of work at last Monday's meeting in Conciliation Hall was the reading of a letter from Dr. O'Higgins, Roman Catholic Bishop of Arclagh, enclosing 411. as the year's subscription from the clergy of his diocese.

in this epistle, Dr. O'Higgins descanted on the misery of being " at the mercy and caprice of an absolute dictator"—Lord Clarendon; who bids fair to be " the least candid and the most thoroughly injurious Viceroy" that ever was. "One day he bespatters the Irish Bishops and priests with his diplomatic laudations; the next he proposes for our imitation in faith and morals the Arians of the North, who blaspheme the divinity of Jesus Christ, and deny altogether the existence of the third person of the most adorable Trinity." While neglecting to apply the Poor-law, "he introduces his nauseous coercion nostrum," proclaiming whole dis- tricts where there has been no agrarian outrage: " and, judging by such facts, it is no wonder that low-minded Orangemen and unprincipled Tories are now uni- versally believed to be the foul sources of his apocryphal information. His dis- anning.the Catholics exclusively in some districts will speak for itself." Writing in haste for the post, Dr. O'Higgins has only time to glance at the outlines of a " plan " which he propounds "for acquiring national strength from the tyranny of our rulers." Competent lecturers to be sent into every corner of England and Scotland, and Irish newspapers copiously and gratuitously dis- tributed. Deputations of Protestants to be invited to come over from every county in England to see the awful state of the people. "If Irish and English thus fraternize legally and constitutionally, vote by ballot, tenant right, triennial parliaments, and household suffrage, will soon be obtained, and the people of this realm once more placed within the pale'of our constitution. In this struggling for liberty and fair play, we can vett, easily secure` the prayers and good wishes of America and France; always maintaining the most undivided and most faith- ful allegiance to our gracious Sovereign and the laws of our country. Fends will, of course, be necessary for carrying on this plan; and I think I shall be able to demonstrate in a future communication with what perfect ease they can be pro- cured."

Mr. John O'Connell adopted these sentiments, and added some further disparagement of Lord Clarendon. He denounced the projectors of the forthcoming United Irishmen, as being secretly hired by the Government to betray the people into some futile but criminal outbreak. Rent 1071.