According to the Cork Constitution, there is reason to believe
that very extensive changes are about to be made in the Poor-law in Ireland, and that the entire system will undergo very extensive alterations— "Attention is in the first place devoted to equalizing the unions in respect to amount of valuation, as it is intended to propose to Parliament to make the es- tablishment charges of all the unions a uniform and general tax throughout the country, the paupers to be supported by their electoral divisions as at present. Every effort will also be made to bring the unions under one uniform system of management, and to devise such a system of supervision as will prevent the job- bing by contractors."
The State prisoners of Clonmel were taken from that place for Dublin on Thursday, in order to be present on Friday in the Court of Queen's Bench on the "assigning of errors" under their writs of appeal. At four
o'clock in the morning, a company of the Sixty-fourth Regiment marched to Clerihan, a village four miles on the road to Dublin-' soon afterwards
another company took its station in the outskirts of Clonmel, and a third drew up at the gate of the gaol. At six o'clock, a four-horse stage- coach and several of Bianconi's four-horse cars drew up. Mr. Smith
O'Brien' Mr. Meagher, Mr. O'Donohoe, and Mr. M•Manus, entered the
coach; the Governor of the Gaol and his constables riding outside. The cars were mounted by an escort of some 250 military and police. De- tachments of cavalry had scoured the road in anticipation, and a cavalry force preceded and followed the coaches and cars. Before the cortege set out, the military and police were commanded to load their muskets: they did so with their usual air of precision and defiance; which greatly startles bystanders, and did not fail to have a due effect on the crowd assembled on this occasion. The start was made at about six.
"When the coach containing the prisoners appeared in the street, the crowd set up a cheer, and many vainly endeavoured to thrust their hands in at the win- dows. This was productive of some slight confusion, but no serious fracas oc- curred. Mr. Meagher put his head frequently out of the window, saying, 'Never mind, boys; keep quiet and peaceable; I'll soon be back; you'll have me standing for the borough of Clonmel yet'; and other similar soothing and encouraging ex- pressions• which were, of course, loudly cheered."
At Cashel a great crowd had assembled to witness the procession, but beyond the cheering there was no demonstration to excite an alarm of turbulence or interruption. No greater delay occurred than that required for changing horses; and at Thurles, a special train being in perfect readi- ness, the escort proceeded on its way to Dublin without any interruption. A troop of Lancers and more armed police awaited the arrival of the train at the Kingsbridge station; and the prisoners were conveyed immediately to Kilmainham Gaol. "Mr. O'Brien looked rather delicate, but the other prisoners all appeared to be in good health. Several of their friends, amongst whom were some ladies, were at the station to meet them; and on the covered cars which conveyed the prisoners to the Gaol coming out of the terminus a slight cheer was raised." The Times quotes the following extract from the Dublin Evening Herald; believing it to be "substantially correct "—
0 An occurrence has taken place of a very suspicions nature, and which will have the effect, in all probability, of further 'postponing Mr. Duffy's triaL This is the abstraction of an entire barony from the county jury-lists, which had been placed in the hands of Mr. Shaw, the printer, on Bachelor's Walk. In the cir- cumstances attending this procedure there is conclusive evidence of contrivance and design."
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