In the barony of Gorey, county of Wexford, the scene
of so many ineffectual attempts at tithe sales, there have recently been sotne very decided symptoms of opposition to rent, in cases where the landlord has availed himself of the provisions in Lord Stanley's bill regarding the payment of tithes.
The Waterford Chronicle mentions that the tithe process was ac- tively going forward in that county. Several poor people were lately consigned to gaol, and a farmer of the name of Goff was obliged to fly from a home where he had resided for eighty years ! His family are disconsolate; yet he is more resolute than ever in his opposition to tithes. Men from all parts had collected to dig the potatoes and save the crops of the sufferers. Three hundred Wexfordians are pre- pared at a moment's notice to cross the water, and join their friends in Munster in doing the work of incarcerated farmers.
A meeting of the parishioners of Ardpatrick took place on the 26th of last month, at which the people of many of the surrounding parishes attended. A resolution to defend themselves, by every constitutional means in their power, from Deans and Chapters, rebellion writs and ruffians, hired falsificators, &c. was unanimously entered into. The sum immediately required was paid down in less than ten minutes. The parties further entered into a resolution to pay the amount of one-half year's tithes when occasion should require, and to make up as much more as might be necessary for future defences. The non-collectibility of tithes is a point not only now established to demonstration, but candidly admitted by the most rabid organt o Toryism in this country. The Clare Journal, a newspaper of Ultra- Tory principles, contains the following significant words : "It is now evident, and we must make the acknowledgment, however annoying it may be to our prejudices or our feelings, that tithe must be abolished.* Here is an acknowledgment which is echoed by the good sense of every Protestant in this portion of his Majesty's dominions who is not also a rabid fanatic. The Clare Journal proposes, as the only substitute which its sagacity can discern for the pregnant evils of the existing system, the purchasing of the tithes of the Irish Church at the ex- pense of the State. To this, however, the Irish people will never consent. " Abolition" is the universal cry ; and so rapidly has the anti-tithe feeling latterly risen to ungovernable hostility, that it requires but a slight attention to the signs of the times to arrive at the conclu- sion that nothing short of utter annihilation of the " blood-stained impost" will satisfy the Irish people. May they never be content with less ! A few facts will place upon indisputable ground the posi- tion that the hatred of tithes is rapidly growing (as I have observed) " into ungovernable hostility." I have attentively examined the pro- vincial newspapers ; and within the last ten weeks have witnessed the details of no fewer than ten abortive tithe sales—an unsuccessful at- tempt for each week. —Dublin Correspondent of the Courier.
During the present week upwards of four hundrel of those who vote with the priests in this county registered THEIR amts. The movement must have been simultaneous, as we perceived the applicants came from even the remote corners of the county, and appeared in batches, as if drilled and sent in by parties behind the curtain. One month has not elapsed since Mr. Barrett of the Pilot told us the "people bided their time." We hope the Protestants will take the hint, and keep their arms in good order.—Carlow Sentinel.
Warrants have been issued for the apprehension of sixteen persons charged with the murder of Hogan, Ryan's assistant at Dunkerrin. Eight of them have been arrested. One of the Committing Magis- trates is said to be a Mr. Minchin. Is he the Mr. Minchin who re- mained in the room with the Coroner's Jury while they were deliberating on their verdict, and pressed most indecently fm a verdict of wilful murder against the peasantry?
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