IRELAND.
The Irish Chief Baron Joy is seriously ill.
The controversy between Gregg and Maguire is still carried on. The Dublin Evening Packet, in allusion to one day's discussion, says, " We dare not lay any of his (Mr. Gregg's) quotations before our readers : we feel it impossible to express our abhorrence of them: we have never heard so much filthiness and grossness before, and we trust we never shall again."
For some months past there have been strong indications of a growing spirit of resistance to the payment of tithes in the county of lVaterford ; and some meetings, very numerously attended, have been held in different parts of that county. About a month since, some tithe auctions were held ; but on two occasions it was found impossible to obtain bidders. The third attempt to effect a sale of the cattle of a farmer named Portle, within so short a distance as three miles of the city of Waterford, has led to the open and successful defiance of a company of the Queen's troops, and a large party of the Constabulary, the rescue of the cattle, and the flight of the Police, several of whom were dangerously, if not mortally wounded.
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