IRELAND.
The vacant see of Down, Connor, and Dromore is given to the Reverend R. Knox, a moderate Whig, of very amiable character.
A return by the Irish Board of Public Works, of the extent to which operations have been conducted under the Land Improvement Act, gives these results. The nuniber of applications for loans has been 2,029; total amount applied for, 3,051,8251. 16s. 7d.; number of applications sanctioned by the Board, 1,473; amount of loans sanctioned, 1,476,4801.; number of orders for advances issued, 1,443; amount of orders issued for land improvement works, 1,457,9801.; amount of issues certified in accord- ance with the act, 511,4001. Kerry stands highest on the list, both in re- spect to the amount applied for and that sanctioned; Mayo occupies the second place, Cork third, and Galway fourth. Clare, one of the most distressed counties, applied for much less than Antrim, but had a larger amount of grant sanctioned. The repayments required by the act up to this time have been made with so much punctuality that the proportion of defaulters, or persons in arrear, is scarcely worth naming.
The cholera is prevalent in the South. A correspondent of the Morn- ing Chronicle writes, that at Cahir, in Tipperary, the cases were 54, and the deaths 33, on the single day of Friday last. " It should be remarked that Cahir is one of the cleanest and best-regulated towns in the county of Tip- perary; yet the progress of the epidemic has been more rapid there, and the mortality greater in proportion to the population, than perhaps in any other part of Ireland where the malady has yet broken out."
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