IRELAND.
Mr. Lucas, the Under-Secretary for Ireland, has resigned. Ill health, and especially a serious affection of the eyes, are said to be the cause of his resigna- tion; which had twice before been tendered. Mr. Pennefather, son of the Chief Justice, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Lucas. The Dublin Gazette of Friday announced that John Earl of Erne had been Chosen a Representative Peer for Ireland, in the room of John Baron Carbery.
Mr. O'Connell has had another monster-meeting, at Galway. He entered the town in procession, about half-past three o'clock on Sunday; his retinue being estimated at 100,000, and extending three miles in length. As they paraded the town, " showers " of bouquets fell into his carriage from windows filled with ladies. The march closed at the square; where an out-door meeting was held: Mr. Francis Comyn, once a Justice of the Peace, presided; and 250,000, it is said, were present. Mr. Otonnell's speech, mutatis mutandis the reader has already perused times out of number. On Monday, he held a idnd of levee for the re- ce.ption of addresses; and there was a great dinner in the theatre, at which four Bishops were present, The speeches including that of Dr. M.Hale, Archbishop of Tuam, were not striking, if we except some beauties in an oration by Mr. Steele. Me talked of the voice of the Lion of the Fold of Judah [Dr. IdEale]. speaking to the Saxon Ministers, and combined with the "repercussive roar at e multitudinous assembly of the people of Galway." "Your chairman," he remarked, "has said that we were ready to die with the Liberator: why, to be sure we were; and blasted be the thrice-infected traitor, who professing in words to be devoted to Ireland, is not ready--ay, ready and aeady, for weal or for wo, for good or for evil, for every extremity, however ghastly, to share the fate of O'Connell I" At the meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday, the most prominent sub- ect was a dispute between the Repeaters in London. A section of that body were in rebellion against their Warden, Mr. W. J. O'Connell; and they threatened to call a public meeting at the National Hall, in Holborn, to lay their grievances before the public. Mr. O'Connell said, that if they did so, their names should be expunged from the Association. The rent for the week was 3381.
An important will case closed at Limerick Assizes on Friday. It was a case of ten issues, sent for trial by the Irish Court of Chancery to test the validity of the late Lord Gnillamore's will, which the present Lord had impeached, on the ground that his father was in a state of mental prostration at the date of the exe- cution, July 1836. Lord Guillamore was paralyzed and speechless; but he was diverted by hearing the newspapers read aloud, and manifested intelligence in the choice of what he would have read; preferring Parliamentary reports and political commentaries. He could only converse by means of a printed voca- bulary. The will was drawn up by the Honourable Walter O'Grady, his younger son, in whose favour it contained several limitations. The Jury pronounced the will to be null and void.
-An action for criminal conversation was tried at Tyrone Assizes last week. It excited great interest, less because there was anything remarkable in the in- cidents, than because there was something peculiar in the condition of the per- sons implicated. The plaintiff, Mr. Roberts, was a Lieutenant in the Navy; who had been two years at sea. His wife was a Maltese, young, attractive, and amiable, and not able to speak English very fluently. She lived with a Mr. and Mrs. Moody, friends of her husband's, in Ireland. Mr. Hardman, the defendant, had come to reside in their neighbourhood: he was very wealthy, charitable, and "serious" in religious matters. He was much struck with Mrs. Roberts, whom he invited to visit his wife. He also became the lady's pupil in learning Italian; in which language he wrote some love-letters: they containedreflections on the man- ners of the ladies in her host's family, who were accused of snaking a noise while eating, and of not being so gentle as the lady he admired. When accused of misconduct by Mrs. Moody, who had already drawn a confession from the lady, he too confessed without reserve, wept much, and said he feared that God would never forgive him. The Jury awarded 1,000/. damages.
Jennings, a Revenue Policeman, has been committed for trial, at Killala, for causing the death of a publican's wife and child. The man, accompanied by an- other officer, entered the house of M‘Hale, the publican, to search it: there he behaved with great brutality to the woman, who was in bed, pulling her out and rolling her about the floor: she was pregnant, this maletreatment made her ill, a child was prematurely born next day, dead, and the mother also died.
Two Revenue Policemen of the Ballyconnell station, county Cavan, have been committed to the county gaol, charged with the murder of Mr. Gallagher, and also with being Ribandmen.
The Ballinhassig affray has left a bad feeling among the people of the locality, On Sunday, a Protestant schoolmaster who gave evidence for the Police was hooted and assaulted by a mob; and Tait, a farmer who had expressed himself friendly to the Constabulary, has had a cow-house and offices maliciously set on fire.
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