On Thursday last, a rule was entered before the proper
officer at the Equity side of the Dublin Court of Exchequer, dismissing a bill with- out costs, in which the Reverend Richard Deane Freeman, of the county of Cork, was plaintiff, and John flegarty and twelve other farmers were defendants. The bill had been tiled for non.payment of tithes. This is the first proceeding of the kind I have yet heard of; but no doubt the clergy generally, who found it necessary to resort to the Exchequer for the enforcement of their claims, will follow the ex- ample of Mr. Freeman, in all cases where they will be enabled to do so by the act of last session. The truth is, that all attempts to renew the Anti- Tithe agitation must be totally unavailing. Even the talk upon the oubject will soon cease to attract an audience.—Times Dublin Correspondent.
The Cork Reporter, a Ministerial paper, says, in reference to the withdrawal of Mr. Freeman's proceedings—." Having concurred with she Conservative roti ity end ge: try of the county as to the principles on which the settlement of the Tithe question should be effectuated, ze.d the act of the last session having gone a great way, though not the elole length, in giving a legislative sanction to those principles, we feel ourselves bound to defend and advocate the propriety, expediency, and justice of that measure, as the best which could be bad in the temper of Parliamentary parties and under all the circumstances."
Several Anti-Tithe meetings have been held within the last week in Mayo and other counties. In noticing the Mayo meeting, the Castlebar Telegraph says, " The men from Joyce country carried a fang appropriately decorated, having on one side ' No Tithes,' in red Inters, characteristic of the blood, stained impost ; on the other side, it, green letters, ' Erin go bragh.' "—Times Correspondent.
The Precursor agitation begins to show a little life. There have been meetings to form societies at Thurles, Enniscarthy, and Temple. more, the last numerously attended.
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