IRELAND.
There was a numerous meeting in Dublin on Tuesday, of men of all parties, to petition Parliament for an Irish Poor.law. Some gen- tlemen were desirous of restricting the petition to a prayer for a bill for the relief of the aged and infirm only; but the general opinion of the meeting was in favour of a measure similar in principle to the English law.
The gentlemen connected with the Dublin press had a meeting on the same day, and authorized Mr. Sheehan of the Evening Mail, Mr. Staunton of the Morning Register, arid Mr. O'Driscoll of the Cork Southern Reporter, to proceed to London to impress upon the Irish Alembers the necessity of obtaining a reduction of the Irish Stamp- duty to a lialf-penny, if the English duty is to be lowered to a penny; the difference of a halfpenny in their favour being, according to their calculation, absolutely necessary to eatable them to stand a competition with the London 'newspapers! A scurrilous Orange-Tory journal, the Belfast Guardian, was dis- continued last week.
The Belfast Northern Whig quotes with exultation the order of the Excise Commissioners to dismiss all Orangemen from the service of the Excise: and then adds-
" Now, gentlemen of the Customs, of the Stamps, of the Post-office, of the Excise, of the Revenue Police, and all you who pocket Treasury money, see that you obey these instructions, in the spirit and to the letter. Leave off your back-stair cabals, your private and nightly elubbings with Orange, and Con- servative, and newly-christened Tory societies. Do not draw your bonnets
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over your brows, and muffle your faces in the dark, to hide yourselves and your actions, whilst engaged in plotting treason against your Royal Master, and is planning the return cif Tony Members to Parliament. We say, quit these doings, and that too in good earnest, and attend to your duties as money-takers, weighers, and drawers; or, if we find you erring to the breadth of a hair, we shall take care that you shall try your strength against the powers of a Trea- sury Minute."
A letter has appeared from the law agent of the Marquis of West- meath to a tenant, intimating that unless he immediately pays up a tithe arrear of twopence, proceedings will be taken against him by his exact lordship. Mr. W. S. O'Brien has pressed on Government the necessity of providing a general registration of births, marriages, and deaths in Ire- land, either by supplementary clauses to the English bill, or by * special measure. Lord John Russell is friendly to the object.—Globe
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