IRELAND.
By an act passed during the Irish Secretaryship of Sir John Young, the Irish Corporations were made the collectors of the sums levied as "Ministers'-money." This measure is unpalatable to the Corporations: the majority have refused to collect the taxes. On Thursday, a deputa- tion, comprising the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Mayors of Cork, Lime- rick, Waterford, Kilkenny, Drogheda, ClonmeL. and Hinssile, and thirteen Members of Parliament, waited upon Mr. Hemmen, and presented reso- lutions calling on the Government to abolish Ministers'-money entirely, and, pending the passing of a bill for that purpose, to suspend all pro- ceedings under Sir John Young's Act. Mr. Horan= said he could promise nothing ; all he could do he weld, namely, communicate the resolutions to the Government. The Roman Catholic Prelates have this week sat in full conclave. at Maynooth. The proceedings are, as usual, kept a profound secret, but it is said that the business has reference to the affairs of the Irish College at Paris.
The " Tenant League" agitation has been resumed. At. a meeting of the members in Dublin, on Tuesday,—the Reverend Dr. Kearney in the chair,—an address to the people of Ireland, pointing out the position of "the cause," and the beat steps to promote it, was adopted. The pecu- liarity of this meeting consisted, not in the steps recommended,—w.hiah are: the old ones, of discarding traitor representatives, and forcing a. te- nant-right bill on the attention of the House of Commons,—but in the importation of other subjects of agitation into the programme of the League, especially the "Church grievance" in all its forms. Some ob- jection was made to.this, but without effect.
The Dublin and Kingstown Railway Company are in a quandary— they are doubtful whether, they should continue to work the. Dalkey line, the property of another company, It would, seem that the Dalkey line ie notoonaidered to be very safe; it is used almost exclusively by the menus de la creme of Dublin society—the Lord Chancellor, the Judges, other high officials, and the noble and wealthy : suppose an " accident" should occur, and any of these great people be killed or maimed—would not the compensation. be very heavy ? would not dividends be extins gashed? would not the Kingatown Company be answerable for the expenses ? In the Strati-an case' some 40001. had to be paid for a solicitor Who was. killed—what would, not a Lord' Chancellor cost ! So the share- holders and directors are perplexed, all on account of the expensive nature of the article they have to carry. We do not see, from the account of the Dublin Mail, that the plan of making the line and the working safer was at all-mooted at the last meeting..
All ranks of the Dublin Police ere to receive an addition to their pay from the Consolidated Fund : the increase to the constables will be. ls. 9d. to 2s. per week.
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The Dublin .1)&4 of Monday reports a most atrocious attempt at assassi- nation. ia_the county of Cavan. "Miss charlotte Hinds, on Friday last about four o'clock, when returning from Ballyconnell, was met in the line
it is not believed. Government has offered 1001. reward, for the discovery of the murderer.
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