IRELAND.
The members of the Grand Orange Lodge had a meeting in Dublin on Wednesday week. They debated for two days, and then came to a resolution that the Society should be dissolved, by a vote of 82 to 62. The balance of funds and the documents belonging to the Society are to be confided to the keeping of Lord Roden. His Lordship and Mr. Boyton were the principal advocates of the dissolution. The " No Surrender" party are violently enraged at the decision of the Grand Lodge, and declare that they have been betrayed by their corrupt and cowardly brethren.
No progress has been made towards the discovery of the parties who were concerned in the blowing up of King William's statue. A cer- tain " mad Orange parson " is suspected of being the delinquent.
Mr. Longfield, the Member for Cork County, who displaced Mr. Feargus O'Connor on petition, is, it seems, left in the lurch by bis Tory and Orange supporters, who, after guaranteeing to bear him harmless, now refuse to pay his solicitor's expenses. He threatens to resign his seat unless they meet the demand made on him.—Globe.
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