IRELAND.
The accounts from Ireland are of the same complexion as those of last week. There have been numerous meetings in every county and district to petition for the abolition or remodelling of the Tithe sys- tem, and for a large measure of Municiral Reform. It appears that the anti-tithe feeling is spreading rapidly among the Protestants of the North.
One of the most remarkable circumstances connected with the pre- sent " agitation campaign" is the fact, that no High Sheriff who has yet been applied to has refused to convene his bailiwick. Hitherto, instead of this universal compliance, it was a rare thing to find a High Sheriff convening his county for the purposes of agitation. But the ' change is the natural result of the rule laid down in striking the list of High Sheriffs in the present year, the great majority of those func- tionaries being Ministerialists.— Times Correspondent.
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