IRELAND.
The Irish Conservative Fund is described by the Dublin papers as a failure. The sources are rapidly drying up. The people at large do not subscribe, and of the aristocracy many will not and many cannot subscribe. The following are a few of the contributors,—not a very promising list it must be confessed. Lord Enniskillen's "females" give .51. ; Lord Roden's English friend, 10!.; three ladies of Captain Anderson's family give 18s. 6d. Where are Captain Gordon's family? and Sir William Rae's? An open air Anti-tithe meeting was held on Sunday, on Baby.. bricken .Hill, Waterford. Mr. Wyse presided. The authorities gave no opposition ; but the Mayor attended the meeting, to enable him to judge of its character.
The Blarney inquiry has terminated in the full acquittal of the civil and military authorities from all appearance of blame.
Mr. Barrett, proprietor of the rhiblin Pilot, has been held to bail for an article in his paper connected with the same subject which led to the fining of the proprietors of the Comet.
About ten days ago, an attempt was made to value the parish of Brinny, near Bandon, under the provisions of Mr. Stanley's new bill;
but the universal indication of opposition to tithes which the people manifested being too marked to be mistaken' it was deemed right to
enforce the process by the aid of a military force. Accordingly, a company of the 69th Regiment, accompanied by a Magistrate, repaired to the place and the business of estimating was commenced ; when between 6,000 and 8,000 country-people assembled, with the apparent determination of resisting the authorities and military. The assembled thousands had but a short time previously entered into a vow never again to submit to an impost which was not more unjust in principle than odious in exaction, and, come what may, they would carry into effect their promise and feelings. Fortunately, R. Popham, Esq., of Kilmore, a gentleman who has signalized himself during the late antitithe meetings, came up ; and seeing how matters stood, he interfered, and succeeded in drawing off both parties. But the parish was yet unvalued ; and the period was fast approaching when the operations of the sickle would put it out of the power of the valuators to ascertain the produce of the ground. On Thursday last, therefore, a park of artillery from Ballincollig, two troops of Lancers, and the 9th Regiment, from Cork, and three Companies of the 56th, from Kinsale, marched into Bandon, and yesterday proceeded to Brinny; where, under an unceasing pelting of heavy rain and wind, the King's troops stood for hours silent and suffering spectators of the carrying into effect, as far as valuating went, the recently passed tithe-bill of the Irish Secretary.—Cork Reporter.
The Lord Chief Baron hears motions in his country-house among the mountains, seven miles from Dublin ; whither and whence the lawyers have to find their way in the best manner they can.—Dublin Paper.
In a house on the western side of Smithfield, in Belfast, a respectable old man, named Linn, had long resided; he was a turner and wheelwright. His son, John Linn, has long been noted for his enormous muscular powers, and his pugilistic feats, which rendered him the terror of all who knew him. For some time past a difference had existed between him and his father, in regard to several articles of property, which he claimed. On the afternoon of Wednesday, he came into his father's house evidently in a state of irritation ; and, proceeding to the workshop, which was above-stairs where the old man with his two apprentices was engaged at his bench, lifted a cage containing a bird, which he was about to take away; when the old man obserred that the bird and cage had been purchased by himself; and desired him to leave them. The son, in a frenzy of passion, jumped upon the cage, which he smashed to atoms' bird and all ; and then snatched up a hatchet, with which he struck his aged father several desperate blows, one of which broke his arm. The two apprentices fled and shortly afterwards the old man was found dead, deep wounds having been inflicted on various parts of his body, and one, inflicted apparently with a chisel, passing quite through his heart. The son, after this diabolical act, proceeded to break the windows, and to destroy with the hatchet every article of furniture in the house. He then went into the yard, where he observed a man named Tate ; and using some desperate expression, he seized a stone, with which he struck Tate on the head with so much violence that he instantly fell, and was carried home in a state of insensibility. The police speedily came ; and, after some parley, the wretch surrendered himself without making any effort to escape. He was sent immediately to Carrickfergus Gaol.—Belfast News Letter.
On Wednesday, an inquest was held in the city of Waterford;Cm the body of a chimney-sweeper's apprentice; who came by his death on Tuesday through the unfeeling barbarity of his master, who forced him to ascend a chimney at Tramore, the soot being almost in a state of ignition. The poor child, it seems complained that the flues were burning, but his master insisted on seems, soot being removed at once. The little creature had scarcely commenced his work, when he found himself utterly unable to proceed. He descended as quickly as he could, and dropped on the floor in a state of insensibility. The master, anxious to conceal his brutal behaviour, took the sufferer on his back ; but on his way to Waterford, the child died in the most excruciating torture. The master then left the body in a ditch until the night fell; he then removed it to his house, procured a coffin, and was making preparations for his interment, when the circumstances were made known to the authorities. Immediately constables were despatched: to the residence of the master, whose name is Corbett; where they found the body as described, in a state of preparation for burial. Corbett was then removed to gaol, to abide his trial at the ensuing Assizes.
(There is a great deal of honest blame bestowed here on the mater, all of it well deserved, we admit ; but why did the owner of the chimney, the particeps in this act of brutal slaughter, escape censure? The effect of habit might have rendered the chimney-sweep callous to the complaints of his apprentice ; but the employer of both had no.such excuse. Persons who call for a chimney-sweep's service must know as well as he can—they have eyes as well as he has—whether a flue be. in a burning state. Were they (who, by the by, are seldom introduced into such discussions at all) influenced by feelings of humanity, the brutality of the master sweep would soon disappear; he is cruel, for the most part, only because they are exigent.] The Belfast Chronicle notices, as a novel production in.lreland, a formidable species of snake. They are attributed to the Reform Bill. Fortunately they are not venomous.
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