IRELAND.

New Zealander, Volume 8, Issue 663, 21 August 1852, Page 3

IRELAND.

"John, Archbishop of Tuam," in along letter, dated ' St. Jarlath's,' recommends Mr. Swift, the Catholic high-sheriff of London, to the electors of Sligo. From one offico in Cork, since the beginning of tlie present season, so many as eleven emigrant ships have been despatched for America with 1715 passengers. Somo failures in the timber trade, on a scale sufliciently large to create no little uneasiness in the mcrc.'iutilc circles of Dublin, have taken place within the last few days. Within the last few days thirteen ships left Limerick for tho United States, with 10. r )4 emigrants, and nine ships for Canada, with 1055 omigrants; grand total of twenty-two ships, with | 3301) passengers. Prince Albert has contributed £100 towards tho funds of the proposed Irish Exhibition at Cork. ! A mine of pure rock salt has been discovered 'near to Carrickfevgus : quite a now tiling in Ireland. The Lord Lieutenant will bo present at the public dinner at the opening of tho Cork Exhibition, on tho 10th of June. Unfavourable accounts have been received of the state of health of the Right Rev. Dr. Townsend, who had been elevated to tho Sco of MeatU during tho viceroyalty of Lord Clarendon. His lordship is suffering from a pulmonary affection. A considerable sample of Irish beet-root sugar has arrived in the Dublin market for sale, and is said to be of an excellent quality.

Kiijandism. — Tho report of the Inquisition, appointed by the Lord Lieutenant, to investigate the causes of crimo in tho disturbed districts, opens with the intimation that the publicans of the north of Ireland, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, and other important towns in England and Scotland, are tho great promotors and fosterers of tho wholo Riband system, for their own advantage.

Lord Dkrby and the O'Connem,s. — The old fend between Mr. Chief Secretary ("Scorpion") Stanley and the O'Connell family bids fair to be revivea second-hand. According to the Free" man's Journal, Mr. Kinderlcy, law agent of Lord Derby, has started for the representation of Tralee, the scat occupied by Mr. Maurice O'Connell. Lighthouses aro to be erected on the South Taland of Arrun, and on Brunswick Island, and at a cost of X'lo,ooo. Mr. John O'Connell has addressed a letter to the Evening Post, stating that he has no intention of returning to an active political ltfo. ThoLeinsteria.vprcssaWndQsto the burningof tho bog of Batagstoime, Kildare, by which potatoes, oats, rape, vnd several houses havo beon devastated. The entire of a furze mountain belonging to the lofty Galtees flared up in ono sheet or flame, on Tuesday night week. The reflection of the firo not only lighted up the Vale of Aherlow, but was seen so far as Caber, ten miles off. The Gazette dc France announces that Dr. Paul Cullen, late Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland has been appointod by the Pope to be Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin. The celebrated Arthur O'Connor, one of tho chief's of tho United Irishmen, and a member of the Irish Directory, died at his chateau at Bignon in the Loiret, on the 23rd of April, in tho 89th year of his age.