IRELAND.
The Commissioners are actively engaged in obtaining returns of the different religious parties in Ireland, and several parishes are already completed. No serious difficulty is anticipated in finishing the Report early next spring.—Globe Correspondent.
The tithe-battle between a Reverend Mr. Whitty, who has refused the aid offered by Government, and his parishioners, who declare they will not pay tithes, continues with unabated vigour. Formerly the people had an opportunity of knowing the movements of the troops as they approached the parish of Rathvilly, along the hills from Carlow, and persons were stationed to give a signal of their approach. The troops have since been moved to Baltinglass, on the other side of the parish. Baltinglass is in a low ground, and sentinels from the recusant tithe- payers are stationed on the adjoining hills. The moment the troops are drawn up in marching order a woman comes out of a house as if to spread clothes on a hedge : the instant she spreads a white table-cloth, that moment a person on the top of the hill lights a fagot of furze, and instantly every human being in the parish is out, and every four- footed animal is removed from the parish long before the troops can reach the scene of action. —Globe. The reverend gentleman is attended not only by his own numerous drivers (whose fees must amount to a pretty coneiderablededuetion from bis imaginary fund), lett he is ii s) sod sd, at the expense of the public, by a captain and company of the 90th Regiment of Foot, a detachment of' the 9th Lancers, and forty of the constabuletory force ! Bet, rot-haps, this triumph over the law has been arhie red in a remote unci- vilized distriet into which his Majtaty'a writs had rever run ? J:y no means. The scene of those remarkable proceed:11as is the homey of Riahvilly, near Hakim:Jess, irs Wicklow, the neat :tad adjoieing comity to the metropolis. No one will essert that the Covernment are to blame; for the force whieh I have mentioned must be cott.idered ample at lea•t for one claiinant ; and if all rim clergy should iat redtwed to a similar necessity, it may reasonably be inquired haw, or by what mCIUI,tlwy ran be supplied with infantry, cavalry, and police, sufficivet for the redress of their grievances ?— Courier.
Two hundred and fifty ohjections to the tithe claims of the Bev. Mr. Stephenson were entered at the Kilkenny Tithe Sessiues lust Fridey. Many of them proved successful. The rest were withdrawn by the parishioners on hearing the good news from England regarding tithes. Morning Register.
The Commissioners for inquiring into the unions of Irish perishes have published a second repert, the gist of which is, in brief, that they desire leave from his Majesty to anspend all further ittquiries into the subjects proposed for their eonsideratima until a final seal:went shall hare heen nuuk ef the tithe tpteNti.n. After the vote of the I louse of Lotds lest Monday, the shove request of the Ecclesiastical Comink- sioners looks, we mast say, very like an adiournment aim: die of' all official inoceedings. So far front assisting the " final settlement of the tithe question," their Lordships seen very much disposed to preven sueh a settlement front ever beieg begun.--Ti uses.
Among the convictions in the County Cork Coma, on Wednesday, Ives that of Henry Robinson, a soldier, fig the robbery of Ceptain R. Smith. He is son to the eelebatted clown, Grimaldi ; by whom he was apprenticed to the equally celebrated equestrian. Duerew ; but one day, while practising in the circus, not acquitting himself to the satis- faction of his master, Ducrow, sifter repeated remonstrances. laid on him pretty smartly with the whip. This did not accord with the offender's notions of what was due to a personege of his coasequence ; so he eloped, changed his name, enlisted, and is now sentenced to be trans- ported for seven years.
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