IRELAND.

Tun TRISH Comr.—It will be gratifying to the nobility and gentry of Ireland, to learn that this once dignified and alluring circle of attraction is no longer to be vacant ; the Marchioness of Anglesey having resolved that the important statam of Vice-Queen shall not con- tinue as a sinecure, or, what is equally injurious, be discharged by de- puty. Her Ladyship gives the first of a•series of entertainments this evening, to the rank and fashion of the metropolis, which are to be con- tinued at intervals • until the holding of her first drawing-room, which will be on an unprecedented scale of splendid magnificence. The resolve is a wise one ; and if its being carried into effect have no other good result, it will deprive the advocates of the Repeal of the Union of one Of their strongest and most unanswerable arguments.—Deblin _Evening Mail;

The Marquis of Anglesea has dismissed Captain Hart from the

Office of Comptroller of the Household. Captain Hart had thought proper to vote for Mr. A. Lefroy in the recent election for Longfoid. Wow the Captain well knew, in common with all Ireland, that a more virulent opponent of his Majesty's Government than Mr. Lefrov is .nowhere to be found. But he relied upon the unusually forgiving dis- position of 'Ministers ; and thought, no doubt, that he might venture thus palpably to insult them with impunity. We rejoice to find that he was mistaken; and hope that his dismissal will be followed by that ef many others, who, though the most selnuissive of all tools to a Tory Administration, openly oppose and sneeringly deride the patient im- becility of their Whig masters.

Lord Downes will certainly lie a candidate for the vacancy in the

Represen tative Peerage, occasioned by the death of the Marquis Co- nyngham. The noble and gallant Lord will, we have no doubt, receive powerful support. It is said that Lord De Vesci has obtained a pro- mise of Government support, but we know not how the fact is.—Deb- Ain Pack& The distressed state of many of the Irish Clergy, owing to the Anti- tithe Association, has, it is understood, bece brought under the notice ,a the Government by the Bishop of London, who has advanced 1,000/. towards relieving them temporarily from their embarrassment ; 5001. of which has been placed at the disposal of the Archbishop of Armagh.

Mr. O'Connell is employed in organizing a new association in Dub- lin, under the title of Irish Volunteers. It is a political union under a .new appellation. The following extract-from Mr. O'Connell's speech at the first meeting of the New Volunteer Society, will explain the, avowed objects for which it is formed. We suppose there will belittle doubt of its illegality.

The Voluoteer's were and ought to he an unarmed body. There was no dif- ference between the old and new Volunteers, but that the old had arms. in his, opinion more could be effected by unarmed bodies, than plicsical force could ever accomplish. The latter always brought along with it great evil and much immorality—not so the moral power of the glorious volunteers 110 1782—they fortunately never were called into the field. By moral force -Catholic. emancipation %vas granted; and Ireland now recommences another -glorious career in the existence of the Volunteers of DM. Another and gftater revolution is to be achieved—Ireland is to be regenerated, and her Parliament restored. The question was, whether Ireland was to be a pro- -rime or a nation—that should be their motto, and their toast upon all public oecaSiOns. And let no man tell hini that the people should not be armed. The ilia winild soon come when they would supply the place of the paid police of the country—when they would be called on to act as the National Guard of Ireland, as in all other countries. In other countries, every householder is privileged to carry arms ; and he hoped the time was not far dis- tant when the people, armed as the National Guard, would accompany the Lord - -Lieutenant of -Ireland- coming tlown hi the hishParliament in College Green. But until the law would permit them to carry arms as the National Guard of lielaud; 'he hoped alre Volunteers would do peaceably what they cycloid then be empowered to do legally anti by force. They should prevent Whiteboyisin, aid do every duty in preserving the- pence, which is nowthe duty of the 'hired po- lice. -There was-nothing more frightful thao the paid police in this country; which could shed the blood of the people upon occasions. They shouldigo :dip by step and stage by stage. The Trades', Union would make. good agents to the Volunteers. Every parish should petition • for the extinction of tithes;

Utility English and Scotch members were pledged by their constituents to ratio. guish tithes. Every parish had a right to petition for the abolition.of an grievance. Englandgot an extensive Reform Bill; while Ireland was insulted, beeause''she Was threwit into the mismanagement of an Anglesey and a Stun..

They:Shinild also petition for vote by ballot. They should petition for alterations in the Juryslaws; amendments of the Irish law, criminal and civil; a total alteration in the Grand Jury cess; lastly, and the most important of all, for the repeal of the Union.

'The Globe gives the following extract of a private letter from a gen- tleman residing in the South of Ireland, " 'who' has the best miens of arriving at the real state of party politics there, and who is urimixed with either of the factions."

" The elections have terminated ; some under distressing circumstances, owing to the loss of lives, some quietly enough. You may see by the newspa-

pers the state of parties,—Repealers, Conservatives, Conditionals, and Govern-

ment men. The question of Repeal has made great progress here amongst certain classes. Men who are giving these pledges are, generally speaking, neither of much weight, character, or education. Sonic of them may. be able to throw off

a speech full of froth, fury, and bombast, talking of the woes of Ireland,' and attributing all the misfortunes of their country to the Union, without adducing

one tangible argument Oil the subject, except, perhaps, Absenteeism. Such things as these do well ad captandum culaus ; but sober- minded amen see through these gentlemen, who merely take up this question for the sake of,: getting into Parliament, to which otherwise they would have no pretension* The 10/. freeholders throughout the country do not feel any interest in the gaestion • all their anxiety is on the question of Tithes. If Government introduce-the subject of abolition of Tithes, 'Vestry Ceases, Ministers' Money, a change in the Grand Jury Laws, the election of Magistrates by the tax-payers, and Tiiennial Parlia- ments, I think that the e of the question of Repeal would subside, the angry waters of political strife be quieted, and the swollen turbulence of politi- cal demagogues would soon meet its level."

[There can be no doubt that _Ireland will be in a disturbed. state until all these reforms are effected. Whether she will then be -tranquil, is a matter of much greater uncertainty. The mode in wl chi the Irish seek to redress their grievances is bad, but that any people should quietly submit to such wrongs as they stiffer, is neither to be expected nor hoped.] All the country papers are filled with the most melancholy details of the inflictions under which Protestants are suffering. 'We might select a hundred extracts similar to that which we subjoin from the ark constitution, as indicative of what Protestants and the Ministers of Christ are condemned to endure. " The clergymen are coining into town with their families, to save themselves from assassination.. The churches of ell such as have been driven to this step for the preserva- tion of their lives are necessarily closed, and their congregations, must want the word of God, which they had heretofore enjoyed. This is a summary way of overthrowing religion—murder or put to flight the clergy—the churches must be shut up, and religion will no longer have preachers to instruct, nor congregations to bairn the ways of salvation. It is a fatal symptom in the character of the times that all this should proceed without a single effort being made to interrupt it : a short time ago who' could have believed such a state of things to be possible ?"— Dublin Mail.

(Not a short time ago, but many years ago, this state of things was distinctly predicted as the sure consequence of the frightful system under which Ireland has been governed for centuries. Ecclesiastical tyranny, under the name of Church Government, will brutalize and in- furiate a people sooner than any other mode of oppression which human ingenuity can devise. The High Church and King, the Orange Tory party, have borne sway in Ireland almost without an in- terval since the restoration of Charles the Second ; and now the only way to keep the people from cutting each other's throats by wholesale, is to maintain a standing army of 30,000 men. 'What must we-think of the riders when their subjects are reduced to such a state of bar- barism?'

An Irish paper gives the following notice, beaded

DEFEAT OF PROSECUTIONS rots TITRES IN THE COUNTY OF WATERFORD.

At the quarter-sessions on Friday, held in the city of Waterford, the Atterney- General's list of tithe prosecutions amounted to 820. The first called on was at, the suit of the Reverend Mr. Mannsell, against a flamer minted Halfpenny, the proclaim:that of which appelred in the Gazette on the 21st of November.- Mr. Don:inick •Rtmlyne, :51.P., on the part of the defendant, argued' thatthis proceeding was intbrulal, and should be quashed, inasmuch as the notice that had been posted through the parish Was dated the 8th of December, which did not allow the month of grace between the proclamation and execution, provided and ordered ill the-hate Tithe Act.

Mr. Hamilton, for the prosecutinn, contended that the posting did not amount to the legal execution contemplated in the Act ; but I

The Assistant Barrister thought otherwise, and decided in favour of the de- fendant. He then inquired if the remaining eases, were similarly circum- stanced; and finding that they were, ordered the entire 820 applications to be nonsuited.

. The country-people are in raptures at the defeat of the Attorney-General, who must begin de nom, if the Legislature permit him.

[We suspect that the Attorney-General will not begin de novo.. Mi- nisters, we should imagine, have had enough of Tithe prosecutions; and perhaps are not grieved over much by this unlucky, and of course, unintentional blunder of their law officers.] s Two parties of those foolish factions which disgrace this county [Tipperary] met last week on the lands of Coalbrook, for the purpose of deciding, by combat, their senseless quarrels. Roth" parties- were well armed—not with that celebrated Irish weapon the shillelagh, but with the deadly musket. Some shots were fired, and one man's arm was shattered; I have heard since he is not likely to recover. The consequences of this shocking affray might have been still -more dreadful, were it not for the interference of some respectable farmers, who lad sufficient influenee to induce one_ of the parties to withdraw from the scene of combat.--=Tipperary Free Press.

• On Christmas flight, hundreds of fellows visited the neighbourhood of Knockbridge, tke., and by sounding the dhudhog, and compelling un- willing persons to join them, their ranks were increased to thousands. They declared their object was intimidation, not want, as they refused money frpm some persons who, through fear, volunteered to give it. Some hundreds, of the peasantry assembled on Wedbesday at the -Petty Sessions held at Diumcar —fbr the purpose, as they avowed,. of

ating the magistrates from seeking to put the Insurrection Act in force the: county. A publican, who seemed to be a leading orator amongst hem, descanted at considerable length on tithes and other abuses. Sir atrick Bellew and Mr. Clintock addressed the mob on the illegality d impropriety of their proceedings; assuring them, that if the osten- ble object of their visit was to prevent the Insurrection Act from eing put in force, that they were taking the most effectual method for insuring its general adoption in the country. The party, on receiving the Magistrates' admonition, dnpersed.