IRELAND.
Another meeting of the Conservative Society of Ireland was held in Dublin, on Tuesday; the Earl of Roden in the chair. The prin- cipal speakers on this occasion, besides the Chairman, were the Honourable Randall Plunkett, Reverend D. Martin' Mr. Boyton Reverend Mortimer O'Sullivan, and Captain Walbank Childers. 711; Dublin Evening 21foi/ gives upwards of eight columns of the speeches delivered ; the chief topics of which were, the propriety of sending deputations to the Conservative Societies in England, for the purpose cf advancing the Protestant cause, the Ecclesiastical Commission, and the returns to be laid before the Commissioners, the complaints and grievances of the Protestants, and the conduct of the Government to- wards them.
The clergy of the diocese of Armagh held a private meeting on the 12th of September, the proceedings at which have only recently tram. spired. It appears that resolutions were entered into, pledging the meetieg to devote five per cent. of their clerical income towards forming a fund to defray the legal expenses of recovering their tithe next month under Mr. Stanley's Act. The Archbishop of Armagh was in the chair. Committees were appointed to collect and communicate infor- mation as to the means of payment possessed by the recusants, their religious faith, numbers, &c. and the proportion of property in the holding of the different sects.
There are eleven near connexions of the Beresfords possessed of rich church preferments; and it is calculated that the family in one way or another pocket about l00,000/. per annum of the public money.
The " W. Smith," whose letter to the Clergy, pointing out the best mode of proceeding for tithe, was given in a part of our impression last week, is not Baron Sir William Smith : the Dublin Evening 'lost was therefore mistaken in the author of the letter.
The next O'Connell tribute is expected to yield between fifteen and sixteen thousand pounds.
The Irish landlords in the county of 1Vicklow, who have been clearing their estates of Catholic tenants and replacing them with stanch Protestants, are likely to be sufferers in pocket by the proceeding. A. correspondent of the Globe writes- 'fhe new comers are getting very saucy. They have no notion of living upon potatoes and milk, and starving themselves, in order to give a rack-rent to the Orange agent of the landlord. They appear to feel that they are preferred for their religion, and that they have a right to good treatment. The Catholic po- pulation in the neighbourhood utterly detest them, patticularly the poor devils who have liven put out ; but within the last fortnight they are endeavouring to conciliate ti good-will of the Catholics and are proposing to join in a densand for a larger•• luction of rent. As yet Catholics, Catholics look .upon them with sus-
picion ai:d ; but it appears very plain that the landlord and his agent, indeperob of the deadly hostility of the surrounding peasantry against them,
have prepared the way for a tumbling of the rent. The Catholics are threaten.- ing "exclusive dealing "—a refusal to buy or sell with the " parislicens," as they call them, at fair or market, and to mark them out as they did the tithe- procters. Altogether it is a very bad business."
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners having valued the purchase-money
to be paid by Sir James Stronge, for the perpetuity of his holding under the Primate, at upwards of 80001., Sir James availed hitnself of the power given by the 14th section of the Church Temporalities Act, of having the amount ascertained by a reference to three Arbitrators— one on the part of the Commissioners, another on the part of Sir James Stronge, and a third chosen by these two. Accordingly, on Tuesday last, the arbitrators met ; and after a laborious investigation, which oc- cupied upwards of three entire days, they were unanimously of opinion that the valuation should be reduced about 30001. and that the Com- missioners should pay the costs of the reference.—Dublin Dispatch.
At an agricultural dinner in the county of Waterford on Monday week, Lord Ebrington, who presided, begged the gentlemen of the county not to be alarmed at the fears expressed by Mr. Barron, that there was a probability of the Corn-laws being repealed. There was no likelihood of such repeal—u was not, he believed, the intention of the present Government to do awsy with the Corn-laws. Besides, the manner in which the subject was received when introduced into the House of Commons, afforded no grounds that those laws were likely to be repealed. lie agreed with Vr. Milward, that the depreciation in the mice of corn was chiefly owing to the abundant harvest in this country and in England, but particulinly in England.—Globes
The steward of the District Luisa le Asylutn, Carlow, is appointed governqr of that institution ; and although pleat influence was used in behalf of another cand:date, Lord 1st:H.:milt/11 very properly preferred a man who was conversant with the estsblishment since its foundation. Irish Paper.
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