IRELAND.
It is rumoured in Dublin, that Mr. John Leely Townshend, the octogeniatian Master in Chancery, has resigned ; and that Mr. Maziere Bredy accepts his appointment. Mr. Richard Moore, who lately re- signed the place of Assistant. Barrister fur Louth, is named as Solid- General in place of Mr. Brady.
It would seem that there can be Ito distrPaition of the residue of the IihIiou Loan until the arrears of' landlords ;yid others held bound to repayment shall have been recovered. This might possibly put off he distributimi for some two or three years ; and on this ground the Sautaern &rater recommends, that upon the meeting r f Parliament a
supplemental bill should ba introduced, to enable the I ord. Lieutenant to make an immediate distribution of 260,000/. in hand, leaving the fund to be obtained from the present arrears to be paid proportionally to the cleimatits afterwards. This proposition seems to us to lie be-
yond objecion.—.1forning Register.
The Media Evening Post, the organ of the Whig Irish Government ; (a journal in which, according to the Times, Mr. Secretary Drum- mond, and other pa.rsolis about Lord Normauby, if not the Viceroy himself', occasionally write,) has declared in favour of the Precursor neitation,--the Ballot, more Members for Ireland, abolition of Tidies, all except the alternative of Repeal, which it coaxes Mr. O'Connell to give up. But the Pilot says that the adhesion of the Post is a sus. picious symptom, and spurns its alliance. The following are pm-sages from the Post's article-
" We are, then, for agiaition. Perhsps there may be some tined friends at
e tipper en I of the seale, arra .mue doubters towards the middle of the series of that section to which we referreil above, who might shriuk front the word, tlatiagh we do not imagine, after all, that they would be displeased at the thing —there may be many, nay, there are many, upright and patriotic men, vtho think the period has not come, and who seem to hope that it may never arrive, for a general, national, thorough movement. On the other hand, it is our (mi- nima. and the opinion of those lime entitled to eonsiheration than we pretend to Ls, that the Mac now is ; that we ate in a crisis, when halting, delay, indeci- mon, might he fatal—iMght bring in the Tories—might give us an Orange
government in Ireland. *• * " s'enee till rejection of the Corporation Bill, looking at the strenuous efforts made by the Briti.lt Tories at the Registry Courts, of the Irish Orangemen in the counties :rod cities, to add a totteu constituency to the elective boily—ob- serving the lairguor which, in too many places, appears to have overtaken the lia.e lung, come to the conclusion, that to save ourselves from im- pending n mm,, or, at least, from the horrors of another Ilathlington interregnum, it is absolutely, indispensably necessary, to AGITATE, ACETATE, AGITATE. 0 We iriroinlil suppose there will be little, if any, difference upon any of the rc•
lution• beween Englishmen and Irishmen, except one. We refer to the to_ventli. Now, while we would not interfere with—while we should not even discuss the latter part of that resolution—we would submit, with a view to the thorough union, in which alone our salvation can lie, whether that resolution should not he reL1011S:tleretl; or, to come to the point at once, whether the alter- native [the Repeal] should not be omitted. * • a " " There have been objections, futile ones, most of them, we believe, against tte Precursor Society en account of its name—on account of its seetniug to polio to some ultimite extremity. We do not care much about the mere name. Nu man of bt:i•e, mu touch less than most men would Mr. O'Connell, higgle about a mere designation. If he and the Society should be of this opinion—if they should think it conducive to the genet al purpose they and we have in view —we almost take it tin. granted that the name will be changed so as to include all the Liber,ds of. Ireland in the union. We shall not, however, suggest a nanic. It will come with mute effect from the highest quarter." The Pilot will not consent to either of these suggestions- " Not so fast, good Mr. Post—net so fast ! The alternative of Repeal or fair p:ay is the thing, the very thing, we want, and the very thing we win stick to. No, no, there shall be no omisiion of Banda by particular desire. There shall be no mistake this time—at least if we can help it. • • a We shall not,' says the Post, suggest a name.' Ah I dear, how modest ! Pray do stand forward, Mr. i'ost, as the confirming minister on this occasion. Pethaps the %%Tait-a-whiles ' would be a good patronimic, or the ' Leinster Declaration Society,' or The Anglesey Prorlamation Eucouragetnent Society,' or • The Anti-Dreakfasting Society,' or • The Thief catching, Dungeouizing, .1nti-itepeal Society,' or The Anglesey, Oosset, Baron Tuyll, and Couway Society, fin Discouraging the Freudian of Opinion in Ireland.' Now, any of these titles would answer exceedingly well for the friends of the Evening Post to rally under; and as the editor aided in the establishment of all these uumerous societies Millie half a dozen years ago in Ireland, he can of course have little difficulty now in finding a name to supersede the Precursor Society.' But will the Precursor Society be changed in name? Nu, not a letter of it ! Precursor it is, and Piceursor it shall be, until its mission is fulfilled : Ireland its ohiect—lier good its aim—the constitution its shield—argument its weapons —money its magazine—the press its artillery—the people its soldiers—O'Cou- nell its toul-anisnating leader !"
The reason for the sudden fondness for agitation manifested by the Castle paper, may be guessed at from a declaration of the Pilot, that- " The British Tories and the Irish Orangemen are certainly getting the tipper hand of the wish-washy Whigs on the registries, simply because the people see nothing in the policy of the Whigs of a thorough substantial cha- !ranter to encourage them to continue their battle."
The Marquis of Headfort, then, is probably acting in direct com- munication with Lord Normanby in getting up what they both must know is an utterly vain attempt to set aside the Tithe Bill of last session, and procure a nati anal appropriation of Church property. We have always thought the new agitation a " humbug; " the cooperation of the Whig officials in it confirms that impression.
As an additional evidence that the threat of agitating Repeal next year is a mere humbug, we take the followinga ssage from Wednesday's Pilot. The writer is arguing against the demand that the Repeal alternative should be struck out of the P r sor resolutions- " It could not be supposed, that if at the end of the session a rational hope re- mained of yet obtaining justice, the society would have been cramped by the technicality, not spirit, of its own rules, and that it would throw away the chances of justice, and injure the cause of Repeal itself, by wantonly obtrud- ing it at a period when there was a general expectation that our demands would be acceded to without it."
On this principle of "rational hope," the Repeal may be staved off to the Greek Kalends. And wisely too : but would it not bespeak an honester earnestness to discard the humbug at once?
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