It is true that Colonel Alr Gregor has been offered

the place lately va-

cated in the hish Cturstaluilary by Colonel Shaw Kennedy ; but it will lien very different office indeed. The salary is to be reduced to I,000/. per annum, and the Commissioner is merely to be Chairman of is Board composed of Tom Drummond, Under Secretary, and the two Deputy Inspectors. General ; thus depriving the Chief Cominissionor of that exercise of patronage which, it was understood when the bill passed, he would possess.—Dublin Correspondent of the Morning Post.

Mr. Samuel Dixon is canvassing the electors of Drogheda, antici- pating the elevation of Sir William Somerville, present Member for that borough, to the Peerage. Mr. Pierce Alahony is also talked of.

The Lord Primate and the clergy of the diocese of .Armagli, have unanimously agreed to a petition to the House of Commons, ageinst the Irish Church project announced by Lord John Russell, in the re- solutions recently communicated to the House of Commons.

The Kilkenny Journal says, that Mr. flume's vote against SirGeorge Strickland's motion " has excited much dissatisfaction among his cone seituents, who cannot, account for the reasons that induced him to go with :Ministers on this occasion."

Mr. Cooper, M. P. for Sligo, is about to clear his estate of one bun- died arid fifty refractory tenants, who opposed him at the late election, and are in arrear of rent. —Limerick Chronicle.

The Irish papers state that the agitation against tithes is recommencing with increased vigour in different parts of the country ; and meetings have been held to petition Parliament for the total abolition of that impost.

At Maryborough Quarter-sessions, an action was brought against

Mr. Robert Moore, for tithes; when the defendant stated that his only object in resisting payment was to have an opportunity of stating publicly that the plaintiff, the Reverend John Digby Wingfield, was an absentee, and took 1,4001. a year from Ireland to spend 111 luxury and idleness.

In the Toile° Criminal Court, a wretched old man was fined six- pence, after having been imprisoned three months, for selling a ballad containing such "libellous" matter as the following,—

" You florid grand legions, well ranged in elite order, Ilave (pate oared nay ailment and painkal disorder. The fleets are preparing to nil off iron, Paris ; With great exultation we'll raise a loud suice ; The mountains will blaze it, rot flames to the skies. The boys of Old Erin for ages rejoicing. To heat all those Tories a roaring when niking; Stretched on the road in sad no when expiring -

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The refulgent bright nimbus now blezes in splendour ; The trees %till be in bloom in the course of this winter ; Those fah...hearted blne-guts, who ruined us by plunder. We'll psek down to Luther in innumerable numbers. On the top ot Kuockgrena well raise up with might, And in!cum tam Major our cause it is right.

Those voracious eagles have taken a flight.

We'll drink to O'Connell, the glory of Ireland. That sill free us front the yoke of roguish black tyrants."

l'he Provost of Tralee, the Reverend A. B. Rowan, calmed the arrest of the balladmonger; whose verses he considered " inconsistent tvitla the peace of the country."