IRELAND. {From the Morning Chronicle, Feb. 26.) Dublin, Saturday Morning.

New Zealander, Volume 5, Issue 321, 27 June 1849, Page 3

IRELAND. {From the Morning Chronicle, Feb. 26.) Dublin, Saturday Morning.

opposition to this rath in aid in ulster. Atubaby the northe.n province is moved by a ipirit of determined resistance to the rate in aid proposed by Lord John Russel; nnd Ulster, heretofore so fro? Irom agi a ion, is now excited from one end to the other The local journals, without distinction of party, oppose the new taxation with energy, and appeal to the people to meet in all quartets, to remonstrate against the injustice of taxing the north for the relief of " the improvident western Bquireß and their paupers." Several meetings hud been couvened, and it appears likely, before the end of next week, that the movement will be univeisal throughout the province. The Newry T<Ugrajth gives the following account of the progress al eady made :— "The incentive to action supplied by a rn«hminister of the Crown, hai not been inoperative. Ulster, w.th a promptitude betokening that the indomitable spirit ot '82 still animates the piovince, is on the mote already. In oider to the immediate organisation of an active resistance against the contemplated oppression, meetings are about to be held over the entire province j the first to take place in Dun^annon— -Dungannon of the volunteers 1 Let Lord John Russell have a cure how he despiies the omen! On Friduy, the 2nd of March, Lunjtm is to follow up the commencement appiopriately made in Dungaunon upon the first of the month. "' At a meeting of the qua dians of the Lurgan Union, on Thursday, Feb. 22, 1849, LieutenantColonel Blacker in the chair, on the motion of 11. 11. Dolling, Esq , seconded by Mntthew Stothard, jun., Esq., it wai unanimously reiolved, That a meeting of the ratepayers, and others connected by property with this union, be held in Lurgan, on Friday, the 2nd of March next, al twelve o'clock, for the purpose of preparing petitions to both Houses of Parliament against the contemplated measure of a ' rate in aid/ taxing UUter and Leinster for the support of idleness and improvidence ekewhere. " ' Tlie board of guardians trust the ra'opiyers will sec the necessity of coming forward, and support ing them on an occasion so connected with their best interests.' " The capital of the province (Belfast) is also mitking ready for energetic co-operation. Other northern tovvng are, likewise, preparing to unite in the movement." As to the prospect of enforcing the rate, the Newry Telegraph says : — '* The collec'ion of the money in Ulster would be an impossibility. Tint's the downright truth ; nnd therein no u*e of mincing the matter. Throughout the length and breadth of the province the feeling obtain* that, as tJie Morning Chronicle has the candour to allow, ' Antrim ha« absolutely no relations with Mayo that Middlesex does not equally share.' Ulstcrmen are so universally dull of understanding that thry cannot comprehend why an electoral division, or u union, or a county, or a province, willing and able to mpport its own poverty, without aid fiom others, should be at the tame time chargeable with a common rate. Nay, not only are dull northerns t-o obttire a3 not to perceive the lalionale of this, but they are absolutely so unaccommodating that they positively will not, even 50 icheve uu embarrassed Government from a pressing difficulty,

be either coaxed or coerced to practically yield assent to the principle." The Northern Standard, the Tyrone Constitution) and several other Ulbtcr journals, contain similar denunciations against ihe t rntc in aid. The Si'ate Prisonkrs in KtLMArvrrAM. — An Investigation Ins been onletcd by tbc Government rcupecting the treatment to which, it is alleged, the six State prisoners, still confined in Kilmainham, liavo hoen subjected. The inquiry Is to commence this dny, before a cominissbner appointed by the LoidLuu tenant. Mr Joseph Brcnan ban written a letter to (lie Free' man's Journal, complaining of Sir G orge Grey'< statement in the House of Common*, that •• all the prisoner* had threatened to ofleml as Mr. Meany bad offended," by writing ai tides /or newspaper*. Mr. Brrnan sayg that Messrs Meany end lion were the only gentlemen of the six confined atKilmainhum who published any articles; lie himself, with O'Higgiui, Meyler, and Halpin, was twding to {,-iie a plod^e to the contrary. Yet they a\w nero " acnt to the dump cells of the felon yard." Tub late Sri'ci.u, CoMMi&sroN iv Tivprhaiiy.— The Chmmcl Chronicle co iiains the fodowing:~11 The expenses of witneascs nt (he laic* Clonmel special commission amounted to €157,"), which, in Ui™. first instance, were paid bv the county tuasurer to the Clerk of the Crown, sul.jcct to the opinion of the Judges in Dublin; (heir loidslups drcided that the proiccutionn being for high ticasrn, not for merfi felony, the expenses weic chaigtable, not on ibc county, but on the Govemtncnt 7'hc amount paid, therefore, bus be. n refunded to tbo treasurer by th« Crown Solicitor," The Lord-Lieutenant hai refused any remission of the sentence of two years' impmoninent, p'saedon two persons named Quirke and Murphy, who w re found guily, at the Clonmel Quirler Sessions, of participatlm in the insuucciionary proceedings ncr Car-rick-on-Suir last Autumn. THE CIIJLERA IN tRELA^fI). Bblfast.— Wo rogret to s«y that though olioicra hai been neatly four months extending its ravages in tbii town, there are as yet few sy.uptoms of its abatement, and its fatality has been of lute on the increase. The official report is as follows:— NlW cases on Wednesday, 16; died, 2, recovered, 7 : yestculay, new cases, 19; died, 3 ; recovered, 6*. Total cases, 563; deathi, 1.96 ; recoveries, 238 ; remaining under treatment, 129.— News Letter of F> iday. Combicr. — It is our melancholy duty to slate that cholera hub en for some time making rupid progress in Comber, about thirty cases, moie thon one half of which have proved fatal, having occurred there since the commencement of the present momh.— banner of Ulster. NcwuY.-^-Since our la t publication, tvrn other case^ of cholera have occurred in th.s town. The first was that of a tvonnan named Djran, residihg in Castlestieet, and who died on yesterday (Friday) morning; the ireond that of a man nimed Mooney, living in William street; he is not expected to biuvive.— Newry Telegraph.

Thb Pope, — On Sundiiy an address, prepared by Dr. Wiseman, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the London District, and expressive of sympathy and concance with the sufferings, and attachment to tho person of the Pope, was road from the alta sof the various chapels in the metropolis ; and it was announced that it would He for signature by the laity on iho approach* ing Sabbath. A collcctton is also to be made on the same day, the proceeds of which will he transferred to the Pontiff ; and it was fuithcr stated that addresses and pecuniary asustar cc would ho sent from all puts of England, on the most convenient ojpoituuiiy tv him at Gaeta. — lYickly Di.sjmd/i, Feb. 18. Singular Prophecy — At a meeting of the Institute ol Actuaries, held a few days since, Mr. Nelson reFe>red to a prophecy, m.de in 18<i9, by their nev\ly elected president, Mr. Fiulayaon. Many years ago their president prophesied that in 1848 the whole of Europe wou'd be in a state of commotion, lie need.not tell them how fuily his prophesy had been verified. Mr. Finlayson, in reference to this said, " He had no wish to be considered n prophet, but the circumstances actually took place. He merely arrived at the opinion; ( h/j had given by calculation, in a committee which t-at in 1829, on the subject of friendly societies, before whom he was cximiucd as to the probable rates of interest on an average of many \ ears thenceforth. He (the president) answered tlmt the rate on a medium of petct and war would ranpe at 4 percent; on which Loid Althorp asked if he allowed nothing for the increase of philanthropy, belicxing tluit the state of peace ' was itself nothing else but a stnte of incapacity to make war. The committee seenud bb onioned at this doctrine, and one of them (Mr. I'uscy) asked, wus the war the natural state of men ? Ho answered that all history showed that the number of years of peace and war from any given era, was precis* ly rquul ; and not only so, but that the duration of each succeeding peace was in exact proportion to the sacrifices of the antecedent war j and when the exhaustion so occasioned is jepaired, war will immediately follow. On this dictum he and hss son completed, from many element!, an eitimate of the exhaustion which Europe hud sustained in (tie 25 years of the wur wuich ended in 1816, and he confidently predicted that the peace of the world wonld not be distuibed by any great commotion until after the year 1817. M*ny or most of Ins literary friends have been aware of thia prediction for at le.»st 15 years or more. It has oltcn been discussed, but not in print. He regictted te Had that the result he anticipated had occurred."