IRELAND.

The Lord-Lieutenant has returned to Dublin Castle. One of his first " measures" since his return is the reply to an address presented by the market-town of Lurgan, in the North. The address contained an allusion to the subject of tenant-right. Reminding the signers of the address " of the difficulty that has been found in legislative interference with con- tracts between individuals, and in framing a general law for cases which must often differ widely from each other," Lord Clarendon says—" No good end can be served by arraying against each other interests which rightly understood are identical, or by putting forward claims which are unreasonable, and cannot therefore be entertained by the Legislature."

The Tenant League has published its programme—fortified by opinions of its legality from Mr. Fitzgibbon, Mr. Hagan, and Sir Colman O'Logh- len ; and has commenced its campaign of agitation. Great meetings have been held at Enniscorthy, the capital of Wexford, and at Kilkenny. Mr. Gavan Duffy, Mr. Shea Lalor, Mr. David Bell of Ballibay, and Mr. Lucas, were the best-known speakers. The speaking, in spite of Mr.

Duffy's hoarseness, and Mr. Lalor's affliction with a "ra • tooth- ache," is described by the Freeman's Journal as " exceedin41 able, argu- mentative, and eloquent, and received with enthusiastic apj use " ; but

we observe in it nothing worthy of specific reproduction. feature of the meeting at Kilkenny, on Wednesday, was the presidency of Mr. Ser- geant Shee, the accomplished laWyer and advocate of the English bar.

Mr. Shee "confessed that he was an early convert to the main principle on which the League is founded." In Ireland the position of the tenant differs essentially from his position in_England : _"he is net a free agent " ; he is "in the position of the meachant seaman who arrives from a long voy- age in a port where others like him are in need of employment and require protection." The Irish people never had a better opportunity to influence their position by their votes. The calamity of Sir Robert Peel's death will give rise to new combinations, and to a new struggle by public men for place : the whole sveight of the Tenant League thrown into the struggle, could not fail to secure a good landlord and tenant act,

- Mr. Pierce Butler, M.P., was present at the Kilkenny meeting, to give his "support to the movement," also to "receive the instructions of his constituents."

- The judicial changes reported last week, but left in doubt by the latest

accounts, are this week confirmed. Mr. Attorney-General Monahan be- comes Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, in the room of the. late Judge Doherty ; and Mr. Solicitor-General is promoted to be Attorney-General The delay in determination is ascribed to the ineffectual efforts of Mr. Baldwin, late Law-adviser at the Castle, to throw up his recently accept- ed appointment as Judge in the Insolvency Court and secure the place vacant by the rise of Mr. HatehelL Mr. Vincent Scully, Q.C., brother of the Member of Parliament, is mentioned as likely to be Solicitor- GeneraL

Mr. Hatchell's reelection for Windsor will, of course, be a mere for- mality.

The Dublin Erening Post persists, on behalf of "the Castle," in its be- lief that the Pope will not denounce the Colleges— ".We repeat it—a full moiety, if not the majority, of the Catholic Bishops repudiate the notion that they have denounced the Queen's Colleges and sys- tem of National Education. The lay Catholics of Ireland agree with the Most

_ Reverend the Archbishop of Dublin and the full moiety of the Catholic Pre- lates.. . . . The Pope has acceded to the French system, and it is simply ridiculous, to pretend that the head of the Catholic Church will repudiate the much more Catholic system of Ireland."

At tho time of the famine in Ireland a subscription was made in the Austrian dominions, where there are a vast number of Irish emigrants, for the relief of the poorer classes of Catholics in Ireland. The unsettled state of affairs at Vienna prevented the transmission of the fund so raised Until recently, when it was sent through our Government for distribution. The sum of 32001. has been received ; and, under the advice of Lord Cla- rendon, has been forwarded to Ireland, to be disposed of in the following proportions by the Roman Catholic Archbishops of the several Provinces, —Dr. Slattery, for Munster, 12001. ; Dr. M'Hale, for Connaught, 1200/. ; Dr. Murray, for Leinster, 2601.; Dr. Cullen, for Ulster, 540/. ; total, 32001.

The system of crop-lifting is said to spread in Kilkenny county. A de- tachment of the Pohee reserve, forty strong, has been sent down from Dub- lin to aid the local powers in checking it.

Mr. Roger North, Justice of the Peace, of Kilduff House, King's County, was assassinated on Monday afternoon, soon after leaving a friend who had driven him in his car for a mile or so. His corpse was found on the road, about a mile from his house ; " no less than twenty-seven slugs and pellets had penetrated the chest and side."

A young man has met with a horrible death at a corn-grinding mill at Newport in Tipperary : his arm was caught by the machinery, his body was dragged in, and he was ground to pieces.

While a large iron rib was hoisted to its place on the Cork and Bandon Railway, one of the workmen let go the guide-rope, the mass fell, and cut off the head of a labourer as if he had been guillotined.