IRELAND.
The Relief Commissioners have issued their third monthly report. Out of 2,049 electoral districts, 1,677 are now under the Temporary Relief Act, In these, 1,923;361 rations are distributed gratuitously, at an average cod of 20., and 92,326 rations are sold. The number of persons receiving gratuitous relief, when the act is in full operation, will be 2,622,684. The report complains of the want of earnestness and honesty of purpose exhi- bited by the parties called on to form the requisite machinery. The Fi- nance Committees have worked with zeal and intelligence; and where there has been properly combined action, the administration has been nearly. perfect. The abuses have ranged in degree from apathy and wrongheaded. ness down to positive connivance as fraud. The Commissioners give enss amples -to show the kind of abuses commonly practised -ft "The first to be mentioned is the demand, in a wholesale way, of rations for a greater number of destitute than there are individuals in the entire population of the district: this has occurred in several cases, and for thousands in excess.
"it is difficult to conceive the motive of such a reckless course. With some it appears to bean idea that, as an opening is afforded of drawing largely upon the public resources, it should be the endeavour of each locality to get as much as they can; while others, who are not blind to the future consequences of such proceedings upon property, would completely drain it for distribution among the poorer classes, under the delusive hope, it is presumed, that the latter would then be permanently raised to an easy and independent state of existence. "In several instances the Government Inspecting-officer, on the occasional visits he is able to make to any one Committee, (having perhaps the charge of sixteen or twenty,) found no difficulty in striking off hundreds of names that ought not to have been placed on the lists, including sometimes those of servants, and men in the constant employ of persons of considerable station and property: these latter are frequently themselves members of the Committees; and in some cases, the very Chairmen, being Magistrates, have sanctioned the issue of rations to tenants of their own of considerable holdings, possessed of live stock, and who it was found had paid up their last half-year's rent. "Intimidation (a very common cause of abuses) has in some places been openly encouraged by members of Committees. It is a remarkable fact, how- ever, that wherever intimidation, or the violence of the populace, has been met with perseverance and energy by the Committees and the kspecting-officers, it has in all instances been successfully resisted." The report speaks of the benefit arising from the issue of cooked food. The Commissioners describe the advantages that must result from the powers conferred by the act to insure proper burials in preventing fever. So many as 207 temporary hospitals are about to be established. The condition of the people is decidedly better than it was; and they are beginning to turn their attention to future occupation and improvements.
From other accounts we learn that with the exception of Sligo, where fever still rages, there is considerable amendment in the general health and condition of the people. The improvement has extended even to Skibbe- reen. Food is becoming plentiful and cheaper; and the bright prospects of the harvest give general confidence.
The nomination of candidates for the vacant seat for Cork County, in the room of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, took place on Monday. The candi- dates are Mr. Leader and Dr. Power. The former is an opponent both of the present Government and of Repeal; the latter is a Repealer. Mr. Leader declared himself the supporter of practical measures, which were what the Repeaters neglected. Judging from the questions put, the elec- tion turns upon the tenant right. Mr. Leader is for a nineteen-years lease; while Dr. Power "would not give the snap of a finger" for any lease if not for three lives and thirty-one years, as well as compensation for im- provements. The show of hands being vastly in favour of Dr. Power, Mr. Leader demanded a poll.
Sir Charles Coote has declared his intention to retire from the repro- saltation of Queen's County.
The retirement of Mr. Bridgman from Ennis is announced.
A new candidate has come forward for Dublin University, in the person of Professor M`Cullagh. Mr. M'Cullagh's address is silent on the subject of education, and contains no hint of his views on the endowment of the Boman Catholic clergy; omissions which are the subject of remark. At the Repeal meeting on Monday, Mr. John O'Connell announced himself a candidate for the city of Dublin.
Mr. John's appearance in the field has occasioned the fiercest rupture that has yet occurred between the Old Repeaters and the Young Ireland party. At a meeting of the Confederation, a resolution was adopted, de- claring that every Irish Member who is a professed Repealer, yet allies himself with the English Government, is really an Anti-Repealer; and as- serting that Mr. John O'Connell has done so, as well as laid himself under obligations to the Government. On this the Pilot retorts in a long paper headed " Treason Unmasked"; pronouncing that "Anti-Irish faction" the Confederation to be an "unmasked Orange faction"; and disclosing a story against the Young Irelanders-
Oar informant states he is ready to come forward and swear that, a day or two before the secession' three leaders of the clique, whose names he has given us, and which we will publish if called on, were closeted in her Majesty's Castle of Dublin for some hours! It is not uncharitable to suppose that the principle' upon which they were determined to secede formed some portion of their deli- _herations."
Downpatrick is to lose the services of Mr. D. S. Ker; who thinks it his duty as a landowner, at this peculiar crisis, to devote himself to the im- provement of his property. His brother is to be a candidate.
An opposition has been organized at Waterford against Sir Henry Barron and Mr. Wyse. The object is to bring in two Repeaters, Sir B. Morris Wall and Alderman Meagher.
The Repeal Association met as usual on Monday. The proceedings opened with the reading of a letter from Dr. Browne, Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin, transmitting resolutions of condolence and adhesion from four deaneries of his diocese. A letter was next read from Mr. John Col- lett, M.P. for Athlone, enclosing a check for ten guineas in aid of the de- pressed funds of the Association, and promising an early visit at Concilia- tion Hall.
" Mr. John O'Connell made the speech of the day: he mentioned, that Although about to stand for Dublin, he was to be returned also for Kil- Itenny, to make all safe. Rent 771, At the Dahlia Commission Court, last week, Mr. Henry Lananze, the stock- broker, was tried for embezzling money which Mr. Clayton had intrusted to him to invest in the Funds. The circumstances of the case were mentioned some months since. Mr. Clayton had inherited 9,0001. in the Funds; Lanauze told him that to have it transferred to his own name it mast first be transferred to the broker's; this, Mr. Clayton being ignorant of the usual procedure, was done; and the broker then sold out the stock, appropriating the proceeds. He was found guilty on a count charging embezzlement. Judgment will be pronounced next term; Lamaze standing out on bail.
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