IRELAND.
The death of Earl Rosse occasions a vacancy in the Irish Represen- tative Peers. The Earl of Caledon is named as his successor.
The Ulster Reform Association held a general meeting in the Theatre at Belfast on Thursday, to make a demonstration in favour of Lord. Morpeth's Irish Registration Bill. The Earl of Charlemont presided ; and the attendance was very numerous and respectable. Mr. Sharman Crawford postponed his resolution about Household Suffrage, which stood over from the last meeting, in order not to mar the unanimity of the present assemblage.
At the meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday, there was no communication from Mr. O'Connell, as had been expected. A vote of thanks was proposed to Miss Brennan, for her " patriotic conduct in collecting the Repeal rent." The sum received last week was 52/. ; all of which had been collected by the " Repeal Wardens."
The following is the way in which the Pilot, O'Connell's organ, speaks of the Ministerial manoeuvres on the Irish Registration Bill-
" Lord Morpeth's bill is postponed until after the recess ; in other words, it is a finesse to foil Stanley's bill and quash his own. Let us not be humbugged any longer. You who only hang back expecting something to be done, join Repeal at once : you will get nothing. Nine-tenths of the people who have not joined Repeal agitation are, we know, in this state of suspended animation. Let them awake : they may as well wait until the river passes as wait for justice from English legislation."
The Dublin Pilot takes a leaf out of O'Connell's book in its recom- mendations to the rate-payers for the election of Poor-law Guardians-
" We do not want," says the Pilot, " to make the electors sectarian or party; let the candidate only not be a Tory. Toryism is in itself a standing immo- rality. No Tory can be just, impartial, or honest in his management of any public trust ; for if he were, he would cease to be a Tory. A Tory never votes -for a Liberal—let no Liberal vote for a Tory ; if he does, he is a traitor to his neighbour, himself, and his country."
The Dublin Evening Post states that the old charter of the Military School in the Phoenix Park, by which the children of Roman Catholic soldiers were prohibited from attending to the duties of their religion, has been revoked, and a new charter granted, according to the terms of which the full privileges of religious worship are allowed. It is said that this measure has been adopted in consequence of improper inter- ference with the religious observances of the children ; whose Catholic manuals were taken from them and burnt.
Mr. Shaw, the Recorder of Dublin, had some difficulty in returning in time to his judicial duties after the division on Lord Morpeth's br..11 last week. He did not take his seat on the bench till half-past one o'clock on Saturday ; the Jury having been kept waiting from an early hour. After taking his seat, he retired for some time, until the noisy impatience of the Jurymen brought him back into the Court.
At the Assizes lately held in Ireland, the number of prisoners for drial has been much less than usual, and the Judges have in most in- stances congratulated the Grand Juries on the diminution of crime which the calendars exhibited. As a proof of the more tranquil state of the country, propositions were made by some Grand Juries to reduce the number of police. As a further proof of the improved condition of the country, the Lord-Lieutenant has issued an order that the police shall in future be armed with batons instead of carbines as at present. At Louth Assizes, three men were tried under the Whiteboy Act for attacking the house of Mr. Brabazon. The trial was, however, not al- lowed to proceed ; as it was necessary, to sustain the indictment under the Whiteboy Act, that the neighbourhood should be in a disturbed state : but the police examined deposed to the contrary effect.
At the Louth Assizes, a conviction for Ribandism took place. The convict's name is Owen Kearney. His connexion with Jones, now a prisoner in Newgate, was fully proved, as well as the identity of the pass-words found in his possession with those traced out in Junes's books written in short-hand. The Jury were locked up until ten o'clock p.m.; when Judge Torrens went down to court, and said he should lock them up for the entire of the following day (Sunday.) They reexamined one of the witnesses as to the latest time the prisoner was connected with the society ; and after a few minutes returned a verdict of " Guilty," with a recommendation to mercy. The sentence was imprisonment Sor twelve months.
At the same Assizes, Patrick Regan, a young man farmer, was found guilty of the abduction of Miss Sarah Anne Weir, with in- tent to marry her. The young lady was entitled to some fortune ; and having been at a party at the house of the prisoner, on her way home with her sister and brother-in-law, a party of men stopped the vehicle upon which they were riding, and carried Miss Weir off forcibly. The police found her out the next day, and restored her to her friends. Judge Torrens, after dwelling upon the enormity of the prisoner's crime, directed that " judgment of death " be recorded against him, sub- ject to any commutation the Executive might think suitable.
The case of the widow Murphy, whom Lord and Lady Lorton have endeavoured to eject from her cabin, was tried at Longford Assizes last week, for the third time, and decided against the widow.
An attempt was made to open the great safe of the Bank of Ireland in the course of Wednesday night or Thursday morning. It would appear that some person secreted himself in the bank, and forced open a desk, with a view to obtain the key of the great iron safe. In this effort he failed; and he next proceeded to wrench off the large padlock on the outer-door of the safe, without being enabled to effect an entrance. He did not succeed, but he escaped without detection. The first discovery was made by the ordinary servants of the Bank, in cleaning out the 'offices for the day. The whole affair is wrapt in mystery ; and an in- vestigation is going on to find out through whose neglect any Burglar could proceed so far in his vocation.
A murder was committed on Monday night, near Gorey, county Wex- ford. A dumb man had been married that day, and was bringing home his wife, when they were set upon by a party, and the bride beaten so much that she died next day. The cause of hostility to the bride arose from the circumstance that her husband had been paying his addresses to another female, whom he jilted ; and some of her friends are supposed to have instigated the attack upon the unoffending bride.
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