IRELAND.
The Tuam Herald contains the following statement- 4, So formidable is the resistance to the payment of poor-rates in that part of the Ballinasloe Union called Scheehan, that Mr. Nolan, the collector, attended at the petty sessions of Mount-Belle on Tuesday, for the purpose of making an affidavit to ground an application to Government for a sufficient force to pro- tect him in the execution of his duly."
To this statement the Dublin Evening Mail appends another— "It may not be uninteresting to country gentlemen to be informed, that a process of sounding is going on, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the collection of the poor-rate could not be put upon the landlords."
The Magistrates of the county of Tipperary have presented an ad- dress to the Lord-Lieutenant, expressing their regret that the tranquil- lity of the county should have been broken by the murder of Mr. Scully, at Kilfeacle, and their hope that it will prove to be an isolated case ; but on it they found a general recommendation, that the law for seizing arms in illegal possession should be rendered more stringent-
. We respectfully observe to your Excellency, that the present law having been in force for many years, by great length of time, and from the loose manner in which the registration of arms was formerly conducted, that fire-arms have fallen into the bands of persons not qualified to bear them, although they may be legally entitled to possess them. We therefore earnestly hope, that as many months must elapse before such alteration can become law, that your Excellency will be pleased to direct the adoption of such measures as may have the effect of withdrawing from persons not duly qualified the possession of arms, although, perhaps, legally registered, if such can be legally done. We respectfully submit, that by so doing, great practical benefit will accrue to the community at large."
The Repeal Association, on the motion of Mr. John O'Connell, have adopted an address to the people of the county of Tipperary and Fresh- ford, exhorting them, in declamatory terms, to check " red-handed murder" among them, in order to avert the curse of Heaven, and not to impede the efforts of the Association to procure redress of Ireland's grievances through Repeal of the Union.
The Tipperary Free Press says, that several persons who were as- sembled at a dance given by Mr. Scully's herdsman, on the night that he was murdered, have been arrested on suspicion. Their examination before the magistrates had begun, and was expected to last several days.
More outrages are recorded— A proclamation has just been issued, which states that, "On the 9th instant, Daniel Keefe, steward to Mat Pennefather, was fired at and wounded, when
proceeding from his master's house to his own, at Gannonmove, near Newpark, county of Tipperary. 801. reward."
A second proclamation has also just been issued, which announces that, "On the 8th instant, at ten o'clock, Richard Murphy, steward to Major-General Sir James Kearney, of Blackfield, county of Kilkenny, was fired at and wounded, when passing from the stable-yard to the dwelling-house. 801. reward." A daring and barbarous outrage was committed in the neighbourhood of Shanagolden last Sunday night ; when, at the early hour of seven o'clock, an armed party of marauders, whose faces were blackened, attacked the dwelling- house of Mr. Gerald O'Connor near that town, and broke his doors and win- dows, robbed him of a blunderbuss and case of pistols, broke his desk, and took what money it contained. Not being satisfied with their booty, as they did not find Mr. O'Connor (the object of their vengeance) at home, they beat and cut Mrs. O'Connor severely, and inflicted a ghastly wound with the butt-end of a musket on the head of Charles M'Donnell, who was on a visit in the house, and had resisted the savages when breaking the door. Young Mr. O'Connor, too, received a severe beating ; notwithstanding which, he gave the alarm to constable Lilly, who, with a party of only two, pursued the sanguinary ruffians; but they escaped, with the advantage of an early start, and the night being very dark. Mr. O'Connor lately set up a public car between Shanagolden and Limerick, and thereby reduced the fare considerably ; and possibly this may be one cause of his being obnoxious to some persona.—Limerick Chronicle.
We hear much of a decision at Petit Sessions lately in Roscommon. Forty-eight tenants of the Marquis of Westmeath were convicted in July of cutting turf on land in their own possession for twenty years. They prayed an appeal, addressing themselves to a Bench consisting of Sir Wiliam Lynar, S.M., Patrick Howley, S.M., Francis Nesbitt, and Godfrey Hogg, Esquires. The latter Magistrate was in favour of the right of appeal ; declaring, he considered it a cruelty that persons should be convicted for the exercise of a privilege to which they considered themselves entitled for so long a period. He was overruled by his bro- ther Magistrates, including the two Stipendiaries; and the accused parties (men and women) were duly committed to the county prison, to the amazement and terror of the whole population.—Dublen Pilot.
In the Insolvent Debtors Court at Cork, Andrew Coughlan, a very old and infirm man, applied for his discharge. One Michael Coughlan was =ern, and deposed that he bad arrested the insolvent and brought him to Cork. The Commissioner—" What relation are you to the insolvent?" Witness—" He is my father." " And did you arrest your own father ? " " I did, when I was paid for it." The witness retired am id a murmur of execration. The insolvent was discharged.
Referring to the Morning Chronicle's recent strictures upon crime in Ireland, the Dublin Pilot thus repudiates the miserable party-truckling of the unprincipled Whig paper— appears that, come what may, the Chronicle must contrive to fasten its Government—to upon the Government. To criminate the Government—that is the Tory asoernment—to place to its account each and every act ofoutrage and dis- "lees that is evidently the object—not only the leading and auxiliary object, but the sole and only object of the Morning Chronicle. For our parts, we need scarcely say that, provided the Chronicle had not omitted to share at least the odium of those discontents—that connected with the opposition to the payment of rents with the misconduct of landlords, and that to the payment of the Poor-rate with the mismanagement and impertinence of the Poor-law Commissioners—we had allowed it its full fling at our Executive, for all we bad minded. But we must say, that it does appear to us as looking rather like going the whole hog'—head, tail, feet, and all—to remain silent as to the misconduct of the Irish landlords, the real source of agrarian outrage, and to say nothing as to the glaring defects of our Poor-law management, when assuming to deal with those subjects, but to keep over, and over, and over again asserting—and that, too, without proving it—that the Government, and the Government alone, is to be made responsible for all. " Now all this we should have allowed to have passed unnoticed, save at least by a very mild remonstrance, did we not attribute all this bellowing away at the present Government to a desire to serve the individuals who composed that one—that weak and foolish one—to which it has succeeded. That, and not a desire to serve the wretched tenantry, or to correct the glaring abuses of the Poor-law system, is, we fear, the object at which the Chronicle aims ; and, thus feeling, we do not hesitate to object to it. To thus make Irish grievances and discontents subjects, not for inquiry and redress, but merely as furnishing topics of abuse against a hostile Government, is to continue to treat this coun- try and its interests, now that the Whigs are out of office, on the same princi- ple on which they had ever used them when in office—that is to say, for the furtherance of their own selfish objects. And here is precisely the point which has aroused our disgust—for we can use no milder term—that the Chronicle should imagine that weare such fools in Ireland as to look upon such proceed- ings with a friendly aspect. We really cannot but imagine that our partisan contemporary makes merry and rejoices that there does exist in Ireland sufficient wrong and misery to furnish it forth with topics of accusation against a dovern- meat which it is anxious to displace; and that it feels disposed to hawk those grievances about, as beggars do their diseased and mutilated children, rather as objects in enrich themselves than for the purpose of aiding those afflicted crea- tures. Now we beg to tell the Chronicle, that this will not answer. No, not even though the Sugar-duties, and the discontents of the agricultural districts in Eng'and, and the threatenings of the Morning Post against the renegade Conservative Members who support Sir Robert Peel's contemplated inroads upon the agricultural interests,' should make the Chronicle opine that the return to office by its patrons is not far distant. It won't do, we assure it; in- deed, indeed, it won't. Ireland is not an very, very easily gulled as the Chronicle or its patrons may imagine : ' Experientia docet."
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