IRELAND.
The promised letter of Mr. O'Connell to Lord Durham has been published in the Pilot. It is highly complimentary to his Lordship ; who is invited, when he shall have the power, to render Repeal unne- cessary, by governing Ireland with wisdom and justice. At the same time, Mr. O'Connell declares himself a decided, uncompromising Re- pealer. A good deal is said in the letter about the scanty reform given to Ireland : this great injustice comprehends, according to Mr. O'Connell, ten separate injustices.
The collection of theO'Connell Rent commenced on Sunday; when
about 13001. was received in Dublin at the chapel-doors. This sum is about the same as was given last year. The returns from the neigh- hoodoo' country towns show an increase generally on the amount sub- scribed. In Cork, 600/. was collected on Sunday.
The Reformers of the North of Ireland are about to invite Lord Durham to a public dinner at Belfast. The requisition in that town received two hundred signatures within a few hours. Mr. Charles Brownlow is to preside on the occasion, if Lord Durham shall accept the invitation.
The Earl of Kenmair and Lord Killeen, two Catholic noblemen, have been appointed Irish Privy Councillors, the first of that creed so appointed for the last century and a half. The Earl of Dunmore, the Earl of Leitrim, and Mr. Dominick Brown, M. P. have also been ap- pointed to the Irish Privy Council.
A considerable sensation has been excited in Ireland by the appear-
ance of a small pamphlet from the pen of a Mr. Croly, a Roman Catholic priest. The object of the writer is to prove the necessity of a Catholic church establishment in Ireland. He takes a review of the present revenue of the priests, the sources from which they are de- rived, and the objects to which they are generally applied. In the exe- cution of this task, Mr. Croly has displayed a deal of talent, an inti- mate acquaintance with his subject, and a candour which is likely to prove most detrimental to his interests. The writer has :been sus- pended from his duties as a clergyman, by the Bishop of his diocese; and such is the degree of hostility excited against him, that the very chapel in which he was wont to celebrate mass, was on Sunday beset by his parishioners, who refused even to permit a candle to be lighted In it. —Globs.
Amongst other trials of interest at the Dublin November Term will' be an action for libel against the proprietor of the Dublin Evening Post, at the suit of the Reverend Marcus Beresford.
Some of the Irish landlords, who rendered themselves responsible
for the payment of the tithes of their estates, have already notified to the tenantry that they will enforce the amount of their composition for 1834. If this be the extent of their benevolence, those landlords have been greatly eulogized without making any sacrifice of their pecuniary interests.— Globe.
Fire-signals were exhibited through the whole county of Cork on Saturday night, between Rathcormuck and Fermoy. As the mail- coach proceeded, the passengers saw fires suddenly lighted, in vast • numbers and in a great extent of country. One of these fires was lit
on the side of the road on whiCh the coach was proceeding. When it arrived at the place, there were about twenty men about the fire, which they had stirred up for the purpose of frightening the horses : the guard had to come down and lead the horses along the fire : the men shouted incessantly, " Down with the tithes.", Castle Otway, the mansion of Mr. Otway Cave, in the county of Tipperary, was set on fire by a gang of ruffians on the night of October 4th. By the great exertions of the peasanty and farmers in the neigh- bourhood, the fire was extinguished, after having occasioned mulch Nury to the property, and the loss of one life. The zeal with which
his tenantry laboured to save his property, was the .best return-they could make to Mr. Otway Cave for the kindness and liberality which have distinguished his treatment of them. It is said that the meen- diaries were instigated by one of the local Magistracy of Tipperary, and that Mr. Cave has the means of tracing home the crime to the delinquent. From the energetic character of Mr. Cave, there la no reason to doubt that the most active means will be taken to expose and punish him.
The Board of Public Works are about to advance upon security an- other loan of 3000/. for the projected canal from Lough Corrib, county Galway, to the sea.
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