IRELAND.
The latest accounts from Ireland state that tithes are collected with the greatest rigour. Sheep, pigs, furniture, even the clothes and bed- ding of the wretched peasantry, are all seized to pay the clergyman's demand. The honourable and Reverend Thomas Cavendish is men- tioned by the Times' correspondent as being peculiarly harsh in his mode of exacting "his own." He commenced " driving " for his tithes on the 19th May, and served fifty.two landholders with &Wats from the Court of Chancery by four bailiffs. He attended himself, mind saw mill the processes served. The costs to each person are 2/. 10s., although, if he had proceeded against the defaulters in a summary way at the Quarter Sessions, the expense on each summons would only have been 6d., as all his demands were under 10/.
Mr. John Walsh, who was convicted of uttering a seditious speech at a meeting of the Trades Union, was sentenced, on Monday, in the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, to six months' imprisonment amid a fine of 20/. He also gave security to keep the peace, himself in 2001., and two sureties in 100/. each.
In the county of Carlow, a private levy is making amongst the farmers to raise a fund to Contest the forcible entry and collection of tithes, bylaw; but the majority of counties seem to be quiescent under the threatened powers of the Coercive Bill, and to suffer the seizures unresistingly, the defaulters paying up as well as they can.
Three murders in Wexford, one in Tipperary, and one in London- derry, are among the Irish occurrences of the past week.
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