IRELAND.
It is said to be decided that Sir William M‘Mahon, Master of the Rolls, is about to retire on a peerage and a pension, and that he has deserted his party to vote with the Whigs in the House of Lords. He is uncle to Mr. Shaw, and yet he is suspected of having "sold the pass!" Mr. O'Loghlen is talked of as successor to Sir William APMahon ; and in that case, Mr. Serjeant Woulfe would probably be the Atttorney- General.
The Orangemen are much enraged at the appointment of Liberals to be Stipendiary Magistrates, under the new Constabulaty Act. Of Seventeen, seven are Roman Catholics. Among them are Mr. Carew O'Dwyer, and Mr. French, a son-in-law of Mr. O'Connell. It was Loped that Colonel Shaw Kennedy, a gentleman with Tory predilec- tions, would have made these appointments. During his tour in the South, Lord Mulgrave released many pri- soners whose conduct had been orderly, and offences slight, from the
gaols. At Clonmel, be gave liberty to 57. This was doing business y wholesale ; but the presumption is, that the prisoners were only de- linquents in the eyes of Orange Magistrates.
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