IRELAND.
The Marquis of Ormond, the Lord-Lieutenant of Kilkenny, con- vened a meeting of the Magistrates on Tuesday last, to consider the state of that county. They passed resolutions in approval of the Coercion Bill ; and stated, that from the 1st to the 17th of March, no fewer than 114 outrages, four of them homicides, had been committed in Kilkenny alone. A petition was agreed upon, which prays tor the enactment of severe measures to repress these 'disorders. It is to be presented by Lord Duncannon.
A number of Magistrates assembled at Banbridge, near Newry, on tha.12th instant, and entered into resolutions contradictory,' in the most direct terms, of the allegation made by the Dean of Dromore that they had refused to attend with the military to aid the Reverend gentleman in the collection of his tithes. These Magistrates also state that there is no organized opposition to tithes in the country, but there is a great unwillingness to pay tithes to non-resident dignitaries. Amongst the Magistrates by whom these resolutions are signed, is a Rector of the Established Church.
The run for gold upon the Irish banks seems to have entirely ceased.
Mr. George Penson, late of Covent Garden Theatre, committed suicide, by drowning himself in Dublin Bay, on Monday. The body was taken out of the water on Tuesday morning. It appears that he had been for some time affected with a nervous disease, which had in- capacitated him from appearing on the stage. The part of Fiyaro, in the opera of that name, was the last character he performed.
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