The last Dublin Weekly Register has three closely-printed columns of
English outrages, headed " State of the Country." This is a thic set-o11 against the long catalogues of Irish offences which the Orange- Tory journals delight to display.
At the Quarter-sessions for Limerick, King's County, Kilkenny, and Longford, last week, the presiding Barristers, in their charges to the Grand Juries, congratulated them on the tranquil state of their respective counties, which were formerly among the most disturbed districts in Ireland.
At a meeting of the Dublin Corporation, on Friday, a correspon- dence between the Lord-Lieutenant and the Lord Mayor was read 'relative to the disgraceful drunken conduct of several members of the Corporation at the Castle of Dublin during the entertainment given by tile Lord-Lieutenant after the inauguration of the new Lord Mayor. The meeting resolved to suggest to his Excellency the propriety of dis- continuing the refreshments usually supplied on such occasions at the Castle, as the only means of preventing the repetition of such scenes.
There was an abortive attempt at Thurles, last week, to sell some sheep taken for tithes. Not a bidding could be obtained, and the sheep were given up to their owner. The farmers and peasantry assembled in great force to overawe those who might be disposed to bid. About five hundred farmers were on horseback, and rode in pro- gression.
The lady of the Reverend J. Gwynne, Rector of Portstewart, county Antrim, went, on Wednesday week, with her waiting-maid to bathe. Unfortunately, the tide ran so strong as to overpower both, and swept them away.
At the last Carlow Sessions, two men, tenants of Mr. Alexander, a Tory landlord, were sentenced, one to three months' imprisonment, and Ito pay a fine of 51., the other to two months' imprisonment and the same fine, for forcibly carrying off two Liberal voters, and detaining them till the election was over. One of the prosecutors had refused a bribe of 1001. to vote for the Tory candidates. This was the only ease at the Carlow Sessions on which the Jury agreed upon a verdict.
In Ireland the stacking and ultimate securing of the abundant crop know past jeopardy, and the markets evince the superiority of quality and condition of the new growth—Mark Lane Express.
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