IRELAND.
The weekly Repeal meeting at Conciliation Hail, on Monday, was very thinly attended. Rent, 80/. Mr. Smith O'Brien, imitating O'Connell, had sent a letter to be read, reporting the progress made in obstructing the Coercion Bill. Quoth the would-be Member for all Ireland- " The Conservative party are instinctively true to their hereditary principles of action: however disunited amongst themselves upon questions of policy, they agree in imposing fetters upon Ireland. The English Whigs at first sought to cajole us; they now try to bully us. The English Radicals and Free-traders have shown that they consider Irish freedom a subject altogether subordinate to the com- mercial and manufacturing interests of England: they cavil at our tactics."
The Commissioners of Public Works, acting under the Drainage Act of the present session, have issued a notification that they are ready to receive :loans for the execution of drainage and other works. The amount re- . quired for the present year will probably be 200,0001. The sum at present required for the works in Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Cavan, Tipperary, and other counties, is 92,0001. The maximum rate of interest is 5 per cent. The security is a first charge on the lands to be drained or improved.
We have great gratification in announcing that Lord Cloncurry has re- ceived a letter from Mr. Peel, dated Calcutta, March 7th, intimating that an additional sum of 2,0001. has been transmitted to the Bank of Ireland for the relief of the distressed Irish, from the Bengal Presidency, with an intimation that more money may be expected from the same benevolent source.—Dublin Evening Post.
It appears that the catastrophe at Cashel was caused by the giving way of the floor of the Market-house, while a number of men were congregated to receive their wages for some work provided by the Relief Committee: about sixty per- sons fell, of whom thirty-seven were carried to the Infirmary more or less hurt. Two men have died since, and two others are in a dangerous state.
Ilia F. A. Moran, 6, Lower Mecklenburgh Street, gratefully acknowledges having received the sum of five pounds from the Reverend Mr. O'Grady, of Phibsborough chapel, as restitution-money received through the confessional— Dublin Freeman.
An attempt was made near Kikush, last week, to murder Mr. Brew, the under- agent to Colonel Vandeleur, in the open day, and in the presence of twenty per- Sons; none of whom attempted to prevent the escape of the would-be assassin. Mr. Sergeant, who was convicted at Dublin of having forged a bill of exchange, was last week sentenced to seven years' transportation. When George the Fourth _ was quitting Ireland in 1821, this individual was under a similar sentence for a _ similar charge. His wife rushed into the water after the King's barge, with a petition in her hand praying for pardon; which his Majesty granted.—Liverpool .Paper.
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