IRELAND.
Almost every corporation in Dublin have met and forwarded petitions to Parliament against this Municipal Reform Bill. The speeches of certain Conservative Members at the other side are very freely com- mented upon by men who feel strongly upon the question, and who look upon it as destructive to Protestantism in this country, and leading remotely to a repeal of the Union. This may be carrying their appre- hensions somewhat too far, bat they appear, however, to be sincere ir. their conviction, that it will totally destroy all the remains of Protea• tenant in this country.—Times Dublin Correspondent.
The Reverend Father Mathew administered the Temperance pledge to 70,000 persons at Gort, the majority of whom were intoxicated at the time.—Globe.
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