IRELAND.
The last week's amount of the Protestant " Rent " in Dublin was 671L 19s.. Sd. ; of which the Marquises of Hertford and Waterford sent each 1001.
A meeting was held on the 6th July at Granard, for the purpose of " presenting " to the Lord Lieutenant the heinous conduct of Mr. French, the Assistant-Barrister, for calling the people who attended the Anti-Tithe meetings a mob, and their leaders heartless cowards ; and stating that if any man refused to pay tithe, he would " decree them, and decree them to all eternity." The Lord Lieutenant pithily replies, by his Secretary—" If the memorialists profess the objects which Mr. French so justly reprobated, and are leagued in resistance to those laws which he is bound to administer, they have no right to complain of the particular expressions or phrases used by him in the performance of his duty. On the other hand, if the memorialists con.. demn, as Mr. French does, the formation and extension of a dangerous conspiracy, they will, on a candid appeal to their own sense of right, find abundant reason to justify and excuse (if necessary) the strongest language in which admonition and censure could have been expressed."
On the 2d instant, some hundreds of men and women assembled, for
the purpose of cutting down the corn of two of the persons impri- soned on account of the Dunlavin Mounds affair, and succeeded in reap- ing and putting into a state of security nearly ten acres of oats, which otherwise might have been lost to those unfortunate individuals and their families. The persons who thus congregated to evince their sympathy for these poor individuals, consisted of Presbyterians, Protestants, and
Catholics, all emulating each other in this charitable and benevolent work.—Freeman's Journal.
On Friday last week, the corn in the haggard of Miss Archer, of
Pleasant View, near Wexford, was set fire to, and the greater part destroyed. Miss Archer has been but a few months in possession; during which she has been subjected to constant annoyance. The first outrage was poisoning the well, from which the water that supplied the house was taken ; the heads were cut off the fowls ; the hens that were sitting killed, and the eggs broken ; a large stone was thrown through the window at the servant ; the tails of Miss Archer's two cows were cut off at the butts ; threatening notices were posted and put under the door; and lastly, on Friday the barn was set on fire. [All this might be done by one person, and probably was. Miss Archer should look sharp to her household.]
On Wednesday night, a large party of Whitefect attacked the house
of Mr. Allen, near Mountgarret Bridge, county of Kilkenny, within four miles of Ross. These marauders, on being refused admittance, fired several shots through the windows of the house, to the great terror of the family inside, who expected every moment to be their last, such was the fury of the assailants and the rapidity of the firing. Eighteen bullets were found next morning in Mr. Allen's bed-room.- Waterford Mail. [Mr. Allen's offence was the ordinary one, taking a farm which another man had been compelled to quit. The frish plan, in such a case, is always to shoot the tenant, not the landlord.]
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