IRELAND.
The applicants tinder the Church Million Act are creating a couvi- &Table stir at the Castle. The clerks work early and late, and at nigh: the windows present an appearance of illumination on a small scale_ Even Mr. Littleton's bedroom is converted into an office pro temp:re; and the Commissioners of Ecclesiastical Inquiry, for whose accommo- dation apartments have been furnished lately with great care and cost, have been politely informed that they can no longer be accommodated in that quarter, as the increasing business uraler the Church Relief Bill, alld the distribution of the million require every square inch of roots in the Castle.— Times' Correspondent.
The Commission is daily adding to the heap of evidence on the sub. ject of the Corporation of DOOM. Mr. O'Connell was examined ae length yesterday. The questions put to him were not many, but ha, converted each into the opportanhy of making a speech. His evidence will fill three columns at least in to-morrow's paper. There was ont very singular feature evident in his testimony and revommenilations- viz. a desire to get up funds for the expected Reformed Corporation, of which be naturally expects to have the chief management. One of his suggestions was the reestablishment of a thorough toll at the city- gatesl—a measure so obnoxious to both citizens and countrymen, that when it existed on a very modified scale a few years since, for the be- nefit of the existing Corporation, all hands were joined to abolish the
hated impost. Mr. O'Connell will have enough to do to uphold hiss popularity and his seat for Dublin, if he perseveres in this attempt to
tax his constituents riolens miens. Some of his partisans openly de- clare that they will oppose the project with all their strength,—Tiers Correspondent. The Crown Solicitor has addressed a letter to Mr. Barrett, the pro- prietor of the Pilot, stating that the Government has riot, and never him had legal evidence to prove that Mr. O'Connell is the author of the letter which bears his name, and for publishing which Mr. Barrett has been found guilty of a libel; but that if lie will procure Mr. O'Con- nell's acknowledgment of the authorship, or furnish evidence sufficient to convict him of having written the letter in question, then the Govern• meat will abandon all further proceedings against Mr. Barrett, and nee cell him up to receive judgment. Mr. Lambert, member fo Wexford, has penned a pungent names upon Mr. O'Connell, in a letter addressed to the Dahlia Evening Post. With reference to the Repeal question, he says-- "Mr. O'Connell has been driven into a position front which there ie na re- treat—I will not say with honour, but with safety. 'there is but one het, of conduct left for the constituted authorities of the country, and I have no tbskt they will adopt it with a wisdom and a determination Slated to the awful re• sponsibility which has been imposed on them."
Mr. O'Connell has declared that lie will make his Repeal motion is the House of Commons on the 15th April,
Meetings have been held to petition for the Repeal of the ITnion at Kingstown and Cork : the latter was a very numerous one, and at- tended by several persons of property and high repetition.
It is said that Mr. Daniel O'Connell junior, one of the younger sonic of the Liberator, and a brewer in Dublin, is to be the Repeal candidate for Dungarvon, in opposition to Mr. Ponsonby, who will be brougle forward by Government to succeed Mr. Lamb.
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