Notwithstanding the continued emigration, the flight of farmers, and the
consequent neglect of the land in various districts of Ireland to the South and West, the preparations for next harvest are generally in a forward state. In the Northern province, and in some of the Midland and Eastern counties, the land is said to be better prepared, with winter sowing for spring crops, than has been the case for some years past.
A memorial from a meeting held in Ennis, on Monday, solicits Lord Cla- rendon to postpone the call for payment of the relief advances which have been placed on the cess-collectors' warrants. The memorialists say that, between April and October 1848, they had paid in one union of Clare 8s. 3d. in the pound, and in another yet higher rates, and would now be called on to pay, for pauper purposes, a new rate of 3s. in the pound; while within the lest fifteen months the amount collected as rates in Clare amounted to 130,000/.
It was reported in Dublin, on Thursday, that Mr. Justice Perrin and Mr. Baron Richards had not arrived at any decision.upon the merits of the demurrer put in by Mr. Duffy's counsel, and that the point is to be reserved for the consideration of the twelve Judges; the trial, meanwhile, to proceed, provided no fresh obstacle be interposed. The report does not obtain much credit.
It is stated that the total amount (on paper) of subscriptions raised for the wife and family of Mr. John Mitchel was something under 2,0001.; but that of this sum, the total actually received by Mr. Richard O'Gorman, the treasurer of the fund, and transmitted by him to Mrs. Mitchel, has very little exceeded 9001.
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