IRELAND.
Mr. McCrea, the Dissenting Minister, who has recently distinguished himself in Dublin by exhibitions of frantic Orangeism, last week for- warded some resolutions passed by his congregation, to Sir Robert Peel. The obiect of the resolutions was to signify disapprobation of Mr. Timothy Last's Birmingham Anti-Tory resolutions ; and to abuse the Catholics. Sir Robert Peel returned the following reply to his partisan in Dublin.
" Drayton Moor, 14th January.
have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 8th or Jamo ary, transmitting to me a copy of the resolutions entered into unanimously i by the con- gregation of which you are the minister, disclaiming any participation n the senti- ments recently expressed at a meeting of tine Dissenting Deputies in Birmingham, with regard to the King's Government, and the light in which measures of relief originating with that Government ought to be viewed by the Dissenting body. I am gratified by the assurances conveyed m your resolutions of your disposition to ascertain the inten- tions of the King's Ministers, and to understand their measures before you condemn them ; ILIA above all, by the just and liberal opinions you express with regard to the Established Church, and its intimate connexion with the true interests of civil and religious liberty in Ireland. I am bound at the same time to state ex licitly, that I wholly differ from you as to the policy of curtailing the privileges which the Act of 1829 conferred on our Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, and that I consider it indispensable to maintain the great principle which has been practically incorporated into the con Mitution of the country—the equality of civil privilege and civil capacity among Churchmen, Roman Catholics, and Dissenters."
The Reverend J. A. James of Birmingham, on behalf of his large congregation, has also disclaimed concurrence with Mr. Timothy East's resolutions.
The failure of Hutchins Williams' of Dublin, who carried on busi- ness under the firm of Gibbons and Williams, is not by any means so serious as was at first apprehended. It appears that the debts do not exceed 50,0001., and that the assets are 30,0001.
In the Dublin Court of King's Bench, on Thursday week, applica- tion was made for a writ of certiorari to remove the proceedings affect- ing Captain Bagley, Captain Collis, and the Reverend W. Ryder, for the part they took in the Ratlicormac tithe affray, to the Court of King's Bench. The application was granted. In the same Court, Mr. Latouche applied for and obtained a rule for a criminal informs. tion against the publisher of the Freeman's Journal, for a libel upon him, relative to his vote at the late Dublin election.
The Dublin Evening Post announces, with most Irish simplicity, that it has received certain sums of money for the benefit of the survivors of those who were slain at Rathcormac !
At a quarter-session for one half the county of Kerry, the civil causes entered for trial amounted to 1,476, and the criminal cases to 199.
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