IRELAND.
The Lord-Lieutenant set out on Tuesday for Killarney, on a visit to the Cattle Show of the Royal Dublin Society. The dinner was fixed for Thursday.
Dr. Higgin, Bishop of Limerick, is appointed to the National Board of Education, in the place of the Archbishop of Dublin.
The 'Timm Herald reports a lull in the emigration from that part of the West. It is feared that there will not be a sufficient supply of hands to get in the harvest, " at a reasonable rate of wages." The same journal remarks on the great change in the agrarian system resulting from the exodus.
" There is not only no inclination on the part of landlords to encourage a resident population, but, on the contrary, all seem anxious to lay down as much as they can of their land into permanent pasture-ground. At present there is such a high price for wool, beef, and mutton, that all are grasping at the quick profits which are to be realized by rearing and feeding stock and cattle. The poor labourer sees no chance of employment in a place where a few shepherds are superseding the spade and the plough ; and hence he takes to his heels. Meanwhile, the country is becoming a wilderness. It is ge- nerally thought that large numbers of the small peasant-farmers now re- maining, who are deprived of their lands and crushed out to make room for cattle, will quit the country next spring."
The Belfast Mercury reports that there will be a scarcity of agricultu- ral labourers in the North. Good pay in manufactories causes much ab- sorption of labour. There are no shoals of harvest hands leaving Belfast this year for England and Scotland.
The Lord-Lieutenant has assented to the prayer of a memorial from the Magistrates of Kilkenny, and has removed an extra Police force which had been stationed in the county since 1848, the present tranquillity warranting the reduction.
Sortie English missionaries sent to the South of Ireland by the Evangelical Alliance to preach Protestantism in the public ways have met with a rude, reception. The Catholic priests have been bitter in their denunciations; and the missionaries have at times needed the protection of the Police. Th same animus is not displayed towards the local Protestant clergy.
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