IRELAND.
Mr. Crampton is appointed the successor of Judge Jebb; Sergeant O'Loghlin, a Catholic' Solicitor-General, in the place of Mr. Cramp- ton ; and Mr. Richard Wilson Green, a protégé of Lord Plunkett, is the new Sergeant, to the exclusion of thirty-eight of his seniors at the bar; among whom are Mr. Sheil, and many good Whigs, and friends of Government.
A second letter from Mr. O'Connell to Mr. Sharman Crawford, on the subject of Tithes, has appeared in the Dublin papers this week. In this letter, Mr. O'Connell recapitulates his plan for the extinction of tithes, the substance of which we stated last week ; and expresses his conviction that the mixing up of tithes with rent, and the attempts of some of the landlords to collect them together, will lead to 1Vbiteboy outrages, and a formidable resistance to rents. He, therefore, solemnly protests against the course the landlords are at present pursuing.
The O'Connell Tribute day is fixed for Sunday the 26th of th's month.
Mr. Cobbett, having left Dublin, made an attempt to lecture in Kil- kenny. About one hundred tickets were sold at a shilling each; but a crowd of ardent patriots forced into the room, forgetting to leave their money at the door ; and this caused so much squabbling that Mr. Cobbett would not appear. The unlucky ticket-holders clamoured for their money ; which was not given back ; and the Police had at length to be sent for to clear away all parties. Mr. Cobbett then hastened to Waterford ; but the Mayor refused the use of the Town .hall, unless the receipts were sent to charitable institutions,—a condition to which the honourable lecturer would not agree. The great annual fair of Ballinasloe, contrary to general expectation, commenced on Saturday. The number of sheep sold on that day was 20,026. The number sold on the first day of the previous fair was 32,425; which shows a deficiency in the present year of 12,399. This. however, may have occurred from the fact that many farmers supposed the fair would not open until Monday : further returns may show an increase. The present sale is not more than a fourth of the amount usually disposed of about ten or twelve years ago. The prices on Saturday were lower than last year; in some instances the full was considerable.
The passengers on board the Erin steam-packet, from Dublin, on the 27th September, were, as appears by the following extract from the letter of a correspondent of The Evening Post, placed in a most awk- ward and dangerous situation. "We left the quay on Saturday, at three o'clock in the afternoon, with the engineers and firemen all drunk; and before we arrived at the Light-house, one of the engineers and firemen mutinied, and stopped the engine ; so we had to remain all night in the river ! We had the fireman and engineer landed on the Light-house wall, and at six o'clock yesterday sailed again."
The freedom of the city of Cork was presented, on the 30th ultimo, to Lord Charles Wellesley, as a mark of approbation of his spirited conduct in assisting to quench the fire, which, as was mentioned last week, broke out on board the Innisfail steamer at Cork ; also in token of the respect of the inhabitants for his father, the Duke of Wellington.
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