IRELAND.
Sir Michael O'Loghlin, as locum tenens for the Lord Chancellor, on the opening of term last Monday, intimated to Mr. Pigot that his appointment as her Majesty's Attorney-General for Ireland had been received ; and the Right I lonourable gentleman was accordingly sworn into office by Mr. C. Fitzsimon, as Clerk of the 1Ianaper. How the immediate progenitors of the above three officials, ,v ho are all Catholics, would have wondered and exulted at the scene, could they have wit- eessed it !—Pi/o€. The Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland intends, with the consent of the Bishop, to constitute out of the parish of A hogil, diocese of Connor, three separate rectories--Ahogil, Portglenone, and Craigs ; and to ip point the Reverend William Tyrrell, Rector of Raddenstown, Meath, to be Hector of A hiogil : Reverend John Nevin to be Rector of Port- glenone ; and the Reverend George Kirkpatrick, late curate of Ahogil, to be Rector of Craigs.—Tintcy.
Colonel Bruen has addressed the electors of Carlow as a candidate at the ensuing election ; which is fixed for the 14th instant. He seems to be confident of success.
Mr. Tighe, of Woodstock, county Kilkenny, though he has not as yet addressed the electors of Carlow, will, it is said, contest the repre- sentation with Colonel Bruen. A letter in the Pilot of Wednesday says, that Colonel Bruen is likely to be returned without opposition.
The Earl of Glengall and the Conservative gentry of Tipperary have resolved to bring forward two Conservative candidates for the county on a vacancy occurring. We understand that the success of the Con- servatives on the registries of Clonmel and Clogheen have induced them to take this step.—Times,
It appears by a Waterford journal, that on Thursday week Mr. O'Con- nell was met by the trades of Carrick-on-Suir, bearing wands topped with green ribands, preceded by a band of music, and followed by several clergymen and the girls of the Presentation Convent School, who con- ducted him into the town. There he addressed eighty thousand people. The ladies of the convent were honoured with a visit from the Liberator ; whom they hailed with delight, and invited to breakfast next morning. In the evening he was entertained at a public dinner, which was presided over by Mr. James Power, Deputy-Lieutenant, Justice of the Peace, and attended by a great number of Roman Catholic cler- gymen. At the dinner, Mr. O'Connell abused the Ulster Association, as a "paltry scheme" invented to annoy him. He spoke of the Earl of Charlemont as "but a feather cast on the guttery torrent : he floats on the surface, and does not feel the filth that lies at the bottom." Ile referred to Belfast as the most criminal town in Ireland, and wound up in the following style-
" Belfast is the seat of the greatest criminality in Ireland; the seat of Tory gain, of Reform loss, and the seat of the operations of the Constitutional Asso- ciation. What a brilliant galaxy does Belfast present Tory triumph—crime unequalled in the land—Reform loss—the Ulster Association—a combination of crime and Toryism—bad polities, injury to Reform, and an association which might be called as well by any other name as that which it enjoys."
The following incident is mentioned by the Dublin correspondent of the Morning Post, though it is not noticed in the reports of the Irish papers. " The Chairman, J. Power, Esq., proposed "rhe health of the Marquis of Waterford,' a resident nobleman, who spent so much money, and affords such capital sport to the gentry of the surrounding neighbour- hood. Several of the buchlaghs, who are in the habit of riding to the 'Waterford Tips,' were called upon to respond; but their native modesty would not permit them. At length O'Connell said, he would not let the health of a brother sportsman go unheeded by, and remarked on the singularity of his returning thanks for a Beresford. It was a sign of the times, however ; and if we had Repeal, the Marquis would be a great man in an Irish House of Peers, while he is nothing in London. In conclusion, Mr. O'Connell called for a regular 'Tally-ho!' for his Lordship."
The National Repeal Association held their weekly meeting on Monday, in the absence of Mr. O'Connell, who has retired for a while to Darrynane Abbey. his son, Mr. John O'Connell, officiated for him. The proceedings were of little interest. Several new members were admitted : amongst them, two Roman Catholic clergymen, and one barrister, Mr. R. Duffy ; for 'whom there was a cheer called for, and responded to. A communication was read from Mr. Duggan. of Man- chester, enclosing the subscriptions of two hundred and twenty- four associates. Mr. Barrett, editor of the Pilot, gave notice of a motion for next day of meeting, to the effect that a Committee of Correspond- ence should be appointed to communicate with oil parts of Ireland, for the purpose of procuring facts relative to the present system of rooting out the tenantry of Ireland, as practised by Irish landlords to an ahnost incredible extent. The Repeal rent continues to amount to about I00/. 'weekly.
The Limerick Chronicle states that a special memorandum is made at Dublin Castle of the name of every Magistrate or professional man who attends a Repeal meeting.
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