IRELAND.
The Dublin Evening Mail makes the following announcement, which will be more welcome in general than it seems to be to the Tory journalist
" We believe we may now state with certainty, that Sir James Graham, and that portion of the Cabinet which encourage everything Anti-Protestant in Ireland, have come to the resolution of founding two Co' lle --ges—the one in Ulster, the other in Munster; Belfast and Cork being the localities fixed upon in epposltiou to, if not in rivalry with, Trinity College, Dublin. It is, we understand, puided
upon, that these new establishments are to be founded and provided for by special charters and Parliamentary grants, independent of all other funds; and that for the present they are to have the power of granting degrees in medicine, law, and arts."
Several public meetings to petition against the Charitable Bequests Act have been held about the country, and a good deal of extravagant language has been used. To show the strength of the feeling against it, we may quote a letter written at Drogheda on Monday " I never saw such excitement about any measure as at present exists in opposition to the Charitable Bequests Act. In this town, the seat of the Roman Catholic primacy, efforts were made to prevent the traders and shopkeepers from signing the requisition for a public meeting against the act: but only taro shopkeepers could be induced to withhold their names, as a mark of personal respect to Archbishop Crolly, one of the Commissioners. In fact, a feeling of alienation is manifestly growing up between the Roman Catholic laity and their Archbishop."
The business and speaking at the usual meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, were of the driest kind. The rent was 1791.
The Honourable Rely Hutchinson has declined to stand as a candidate for the representation of Tipperary, on the score of ill health.
The death of Mr. David Ear, which took place at his Antrim seat on Monday last, occasions a vacancy in the representation of Downpatrick. Mr. Ker had sat for several years in Parliament; he seldom spoke, but he give his vote to the present Ministry.
Mr. Jehn L. Arabi'', the new Lord Mayor of Dublin, was installed on Wednesday, with the usual processions and ceremonies.
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