IRELAND.
The Commission for Inquiring into the Condition of the Poor in Ireland—or rather it should be styled, according to the Nyords of the
address of the Douse of' Commons, the Commission to Inquire into the Institutions existing for the Relief of the Pour—has been issued, and consists of the followirm gentlemen : the Arelibishop of Dithlin, the Most Reverend Dr. _Daniel _litany, the Reverend Dr. t'Inirles
AIessrs. Richard Alore 0.Ferrall, AI.1'., Reverend .Fanies Carlisle, Fenton Dort, John Currie, Jellies Napier, and William Bettie ilrightson.
The Irish Ctiminissioners have recently visited Als lansmeh, and made a comphee exposure of the jobbing of its I s that that worshipful body, haying determined,
meta of the borough ut the 1 .1::01!, to mink no new tocnitese them, have dwindled tee the r of five. Pot in fat::), ! number was thirteen, the v :timidly parcelled out the corp,
among and confirrecd their po:;sussion of tit... by je: iind severally exc, eting leases each other for nine bombed and Hi,
nine years. Sir lkory Purnell has become, by inlieritaiive, the co nel of one of these leases : but it would rtoati he has been lit some thus l...:,(sii)11:3 of getting rid of' it ; for in 1S2-1 he \vrine as follows to his -„, (as:flood .:■■,:o 1 int• 1::.f•k. :Mit explained nlys-if
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itta a pc riy ,1.•11 Ily nitirL I :P.: elat.::C..,■■■:1111.11.4.41 to apply it to soil,. 11,11,• ■•11;cul for Oro 1,21,•lit Alaryborp,•2 it. ' It appears, from Twenty-first Report of' the e7oninliesioners Auditing l'ublic Aceonnts in Ireland, that the total loss to the public
front Deputy re Thtlasters, who leave been either dismissed or declared
insolvent, is al ..o12/. This large sum less been talien from the pnblie revenue from emission on the part of the heads of the Post-miler, te take proper security from the Postmasters on Heir tole:ha:yew,. No portion of the money is likely to be reeovared ; for th,• of the l'ost-oflico, on being directed to proceed again: t sole:‘ er suretir,, p\odneeul the sum of -211. t.,1. after twelve months' li;i_afion, probably to a further expel!) e to the public of many litimiAal ieoturhs, to be paid under the head of costs.
Oil the lath September, Jeremiah Boyse, son of Air. W. lloyse, of I-s:altittills, aged eleven, having been corrected at school, tied home. 1 father ordered him to return, and followed at a distance to see lie e, served his directions. When the boy arrived at Campile Bridge, unhappy father saw him leap r n the battlements and plunge instantly into the stream. Assistance was IfOrded, but in vain : those who e.- erted themselves brought up a _lifeless corpse to the wretched permit.— It "eajimr/ Conservative.
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