POsTSCRIPT PT.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
The latest news from Ireland is contained in the following extract from the Globe of this evening. The working of another boasted mea- sure for the settlement of the Tithe question is beginning to be apparent. Ministers did well to lose no time in putting forth their puffing pamph- let on the acts of last session. The calculations of this comptc rends:, like the first showing of an insolvent's affairs, are specious and flatter- ing, but will probably turn out to be incorrect.
"It now appears certain that a portion of the clergy of the Establishment are determined to reject the liberal arrangement of Government, and to renew the contest with the peasantry for the enforcement of tithes. In the county of Wicklow one reverend gentleman has already commenced the crusade. In the county of Tipperary upwards of forty writs have been issued against the same number of farmers, at the instance of t: • Honourable and Reverend Mr. Caven- dish, Rector of Caher, for the tithes of 1832. The farmers involved in these suits have fled from their homes, leaving their harvest business unattended to, and some of them lie out at night in the corn-fields in order to avoid arrest. They have forwarded a memorial to Lord Anglesea, complaining of the proceedings against them. They labour under the delusion that the Government have the power of putting an end to the litigation in consequence of the grant of money authorized by the Tithe Arrears lull; and they seem to be ignorant of the fact that the Clergy are allowed the option of accepting or rejecting the compensation."
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