IRELAND.
The Dublin Evening Mail announces that Archdeacon Pakenham is to be appointed to the vacant Bishopric ; and that Mr. T. B. C. Smith is to be the Solicitor-General, on Sergeant Jackson's elevation to the Bench. Of Mr. Smith the Morning Register remarks, that he "never spent a shilling or lost a brief in the advancement of Conservative principles."
At the close of the Belfast poll on Friday, the last day, the numbers were—for Ross, 886; Tennent, 859 ; Chichester, 500. It is said that the partisans of Lord Hamilton Chichester intend to petition against the re turn of Mr. Tennent ; and the following paragraph in the Belfast News Letter is presumed to refer to such intention-
" After leaving the court, on Thursday evening, large groups collected round the corners, reading a placard which was on the walls. The placard was addressed to the electors, and informed the free and independent voters who were yet unpolled, that a true Conservative gentleman, of known character, and who had done his duty for the borough, would start on genuine prin- ciples; it being certain that one, at least, of the apparently successful candi- dates could not sit in the present Parliament."
At the meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. Burke, a working-man, moved the adoption of an address from the Repeal Board of Trade to the Teetotallers of Ireland, calling upon them to pledge themselves to use nothing but Irish manufactures ; and sup- porting the motion with some statistics— He contended that there were Irish absentees resident in Ireland; for what aifference was there between a man in Dublin purchasing foreign manufactured articles and a person residing in London doing the same thing ? They had many pretended patriots coming to that room with English hats on their heads; and he had seen persons frothing out of the mouth, and saying they would die for Ireland, who no longer condescend to visit them. There were three millions of hats imported into Ireland during the year ; which, if manufactured in Ire- land, would employ 18,000 workmen, and give wages to the amount of 350,000/. a year. Every shopkeeper's till and every merchant's counter was now a 311eang of draining Ireland of her income; and while the produce of the soil was carried away by steamers, these vessels come back freighted with manufactured articles, which served to complete the national ruin by depriving the people of work. Was it not a shame to mention, that even to supply the Irish Teetotallers 'with medals, 200,0001. had been expended in Birmingham, which ought not to have gone out of the country ?
The motion was carried.
Mr. O'Connell read a communication from Mr. Sturge, of the Com- plete Suffrage Association, approving of the offer of the Repeal Asso- ciation to unite with that body in order to effect their common object— an extension of the suffrage.
Tbe Dublin papers mention three brutal murders : Thomas Long had Ida brains dashed out near Limerick, on Saturday ; IIoneen, wood- ranger to Mr. Vandeleur, was killed by a drunken companion, as they were going to renew a broken temperance pledge, in Clare, on Friday ; and on the 10th, one Mercer was beaten to death at Glenkean, near Londonderry. No cause was known for either of these murders.
The first execution since the establishment of an Assize Court in the district took place at Nenagh, in Tipperary, on Saturday : James Shea or Smyth was hanged for the murder of Rody Kennedy, in one of the attacks so common in that part of the county. Shea died protesting his innocence, with much aolemnity ; a Roman Catholic clergyman having previously bespoken the attention of the bystanders.
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