IP. ELAND.
It has been communicated to the Irish Members, that the provision of the English Reform Bill, which preserves to freemen, by birth or servitude, the right of voting at elections, is net to be extended to Ireland.—Ceek 14ot/cr. IRISH TITI1ES.—On Sunday the 1Stb, a numerous and respectable meeting of tin' farmers and the landholders of the united parishes of Kil-
moleran and Dysart, in the county Waterford, took place in the old pa- rish chapel of Carrickbeg, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best manner of opposing tithes. John Power, Esq. M.D. was
called to the chair ; Mr. John Boyle acted as Secretary. A reeolution was passed to oppose the payinent of tithes processed for by the Reverend Paris Bradshaw; and a subscription was then entered into by the farm- ers at the rate of Id. an acre, and persons were employed to collect the subscriptions in every village in the Union. A threatening notice against any attempt to collect tithes in that part of the country Was posted on the chapel of Powerstown, near Clonmel, on the same day on which the meeting at Carrickbeg was held a and si- milar notices have been given in almost every part of the country.
The official investigation of ;the murder of the policemen at Knock- topher terminated on Thursday. Five out of eight men, who were brought into Kilkenny gaol, have been fully identified and committed for trial. There are now seven men in custody.
The Kilkenny Modera'ur gives another specimen of the resistance made to tithes. .11r. Ambrose Williams, of Castlecomer, processed one of his tenants some time since for rent tied arrears. The man granted a promissory note for the amount ; the note lately became due, and Mr. Williams expressed a determination to proceed for the recovery of his money. A large party of Whitefeet, who were made acquainted with the matter, went to Williams's house, which is within one hundred yards of the military barracks at Castlecomer, on Tuesday evening; and two of them, who were armed, entered the parlour and demanded the promissory note. One of the fellows kept a pistol presented at Williams until be opened his desk, and handed out the required paper ; after which they left the house.
Mrs. Fanning, a respectable young woman, only a few months since a bride, occupying with her husband a bedchamber in a house in Thurles, which was somewhat damp, a turf fire had been kindled in it for sonic nights. The turf in that neighbourhood emits a heavy and sulphurous stnoke. The chimney being examined, was found stopped up, yet the fire was unfortunately continued. 'Wednesday night, some hours after Mr. and Mrs. Fanning had retired, a young man who slept in a room beneath was alarmed by the sound of something heavy falling: and rushing up into their apartment, found Mr. Fanning in an insensible state, and his young wife a corpse !—Limerick Evening Post. On Friday evening last, about six o'clock, a party of resurrectionists rushed suddenly into a house in Bow Lane, where the corpse of an aged female, named Carrol, was being "waked" by her friends and neighbours, in an upper apartment, and succeeded in possessing them- selves of the body, which they bore off, before the persons present could offer any effectual resistance. The ruffians acted with the most revolting indecency, dragging the corpse in its death-clothes after them through the mud in the street, and unfortunately baffled all pursuit.— Dublin Freeman's Journal.
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