IRELAND.
Mr. Stanley had better add a clause for the immediate return of the new College member; the Church will be defeated before he be ready to defend it. The Cork Reporter states that there were 70,000 persons in attendance at the Anti-Tithe meeting at Imokilly. The Wexford Independent mentions, that stock-purses have been formed in several baronies of the county Wexford, to resist the demand for tithes. The spirited men of Carrick-on-Suir have called an anti-tithe meeting for Sunday the 10th. A tithe seizure made near Ardfert, county Kerry, by Mr. Rice, on Monday last, was rescued by the peasantry, who collected in great force, and beat Mr. Rice and the drivers. The system of passive resistance to tithes has been introduced at Athenry, county Galway, and acted upon.
On the 8th instant, the Reverend Mr. Robinson, of Tallaght, sent an application to Alderman Darley, requesting the aid of police, as be was about to make sale of a bullock which laid been in pound fifteen days for non-payment of tithes. A force of horse police was accor- dingly sent. The sale of the bullock, the property of Mr. Christopher 31‘Grane, commenced about half-past twelve. The demand of the Reverend Mr. Robinson amounted to 30s. '1 koalas Cole, the clergy- man's servant, who acted as auctioneer, the reverend gentleman himself, and a man named Maurice Reilly, a "saver of bacon," residing in Glenismore, near Tallaght, were the only bidders. Reilly bid 8.9. 2d.
for the beast; the Reverend Mr. Robinson bid 88. ; and at the particular request of Reilly, the reverend gentleman permitted him to be the purchaser at 8s. 6d. ! There were about fifty people present.— .Dublin Times.
The Trappists have taken possession of their new establishment on the estate of Sir Richard Keene, in the county of Waterford. It is designated New Mount Melleray.—Limesich Chronicle.
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