IRELAND.
The Orangemen in the North of Ireland are becoming very turbu- lent. The Dublin correspondent of the Times says- " For many years, with the exception of occasional disturbances arising from party ferias, the North has been remarkable for the quiet and good order, as well as the industry and comfortable circumstances of its people; but for two or three years past, society has become so poisoned by party hostility, that the humbler orders can scarcely meet in fair or market without some dreadful con- flict, which often terminates in the loss of life. I am not going to trace the causes of this melancholy state of things ; but it is a fact which cannot be denied, that at no period of history has there been such furious excitement, such bitter hostility, between the Protestants and Roman Catholics of Ulster as at the present moment. " A pamphlet, entitled A Voice from the North, has just been published in Belfast, in which the writer sets forth the grievances of the Orange party; and endeavours to prove that if that portion of the King's subjects are not pro-
tected by the law, they are not bound to yield it obedience. He says, I tell you, Or angemen, that if the Cover nment does not punish a breach of the law, the law might to be broken.' He contends that the conduct of the Government in allowing ' foreign Jesuits to swarm in our land, monasteries to raise their pol- luted heads,' is itself a violation of the law, while the Orangemen are punished for the observance of those festivals which modern legislation has branded as
illegal. I notice this pamphlet merely as an indication of the state of feeling in the North. It will undoubtedly haves powerful effect on the portion of the population to whom it is addressed."
Mr. R. J. Tennent is the Liberal candidate for Belfast, in the room of Mr. M‘Cance ; a Mr. Dunbar and Lord Arthur Chichester are both mentioned as Tory candidates.
The British Association closed its meeting in Dublin on Saturday. In the evening Mr. Moore visited the theatre, and was the lion of the house.
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