IRELAND.
A rumour is current in the garrison of Dublin, that Sir Hussey Vivian is about to succeed Sir James Kempt, as Master-General of the Ordnance. It is also said, that Lieutenant-General Sir Colquhoun Grant comes to Ireland as Commander-in-Chief, an appointment which, if correct, would give infinite satisfaction in Dublin, from the recollection of his former conduct during the eight years he commanded in the Leinster district. Sir Colquhoun has recently succeeded to a very large fortune.—Dublin Times.
Lord Templemore having resigned the Military Secretaryship of Ireland, Captain Vivian has been appointed to the situation.
The Commissioners appointed to investigate Corporation Abuses in Ireland are—Sergeant Perrin Chief Commissioner ; Mr. Moody, Mr. Pigot, Mr. Colboun, Mr. Fogarty, Mr. Lisle, Mr. Sause, Mr. M. Brady, Mr. Corballis, Mr. Hudson, Mr. Baldwin, Mr. Hannah, Mr. M. King. The Secretary is to be a Mr. Riley, an attorney, from Monaghan. Seven of these gentlemen are Protestants, and seven, in- cluding the Secretary, are Catholics.
Nine Catholics were tried at the Cavan Assizes, on Monday week, for taking part in a" Green" or Catholic procession on the 21st July 1832; and were convicted of joining in an illegal assembly. On the same day, nine Orangemen were charged with having marched in an Orange procession on the 12th July 1833, but were acquitted, although the offence was openly committed while the Court of Assize was sit- ting in the town of Cavan. Judge Burton, who tried both sets of criminals, refused to inflict any punishment upon the Catholics. He said— Another party had been acquitted for an offence as bad and mischievous as that for which the men then before him had been convicted, and the crime of those convicted grew out of that with which those acquitted had been charged. 'When, therefore, one party escaped, the other ought not to be punished. He then ordered the Catholics to be discharged, upou entering into their own re- cognisances to receive judgment when called upon.
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