IRELAND.
The province of Ulster is in a state of alarming commotion on the agi- tated questions of tenure and rent. Incendiary fires are lighted in every direction—fifteen of them are reckoned between the 21st January and the 20th February ; and the tenantry, hitherto esteemed most respectable and attached, very generally refuse to take any steps towards checking the -outrage. They hold meetings and formally "deprecate incendiarism "; but complain that the refusal of justice and want of consideration on the -part of their landlords have excited the general discontent, and unhappily led to excesses over which they possess no control, and for which they cannot be accountable. 'Last week, in public meeting, the tenants of the Marquis of Londonderry—a nobleman famed as an excellent landlord— refused to affix their signatures to a document offering a reward Or the apprehension of the parties who burned down some farm-offices in the preceding week. It is stated that the tenant of the farm was compelled to emigrate to America, and was not allowed the full value of his im- provements, worth 5001.; that a stranger was put into the farm on terms not customary on the estate ; and that the remonstrances of the tenants on the breach of custom were unheeded. The tenantry passed a reso- lution that the crime "has arisen altogether from the conduct of our land- lord the Marquis of Londonderry, who refused to accede to the prayers of our repeated memorials." So the criminal was indirectly shielded, and the crime directly justified.
John and Patrick Egan, brothers, residing together on lands at Ballyduff in King's County, often quarrelled on pecuniary matters. The other day, John was making a ditch to add a bit of land to his garden ; Patrick in- terfered; a quarrel arose, and then a struggle. Only the brothers were pre- sent at the conflict. Subsequently, one of them was found dead, his head gashed, and beside him a broken and bloody spade. The fratricide ab- -sconded.
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