The National Register.
London, England, 1822-01-14 00:00:00

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TIIE IRISII COURT.
DUBLIN, JAN.7.-liestertlay the Lord Lieutenant
attended divine service at the Castle Chapel, where
the service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Bishop,
and an excellent sermon preached by the Rev. Lord

Brandon.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has been
pleased to command, that the following splendid
unifhrms shall be worn by the Members of his
Excellency's Household, on state occasions, vix.—
Sky-blue coat, lined with white silk, and richly em-
broidered with silver lace. The waistcoat richly
embroidered. The undress is to Gnosis' of a brow❑
coat, lined with yellow silk, buff waistcoat and
breeches. The buttons are to be gold, ornamented

with a shamrock in the centre of a star.
FARMING SOCIETY OF IRELAND.
His Grace the Duke of Leinster, the Earl of Meath,
and Viscount Lismore, as a Deputation from the
Farming Society of Ireland, attended by their Se-
cretary, waited upon his Excellency the Marquis
Wellesley on Friday, and presented the following

Address :
To his Excellency the Most Noble Richard Marquis Wellesley,
Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland.
MAY ll' PLEASE YOE* EXCELLENCY,
We, as Directors of the Farming Society of Ireland, most
respectfully present to your Excellency a copy of our Charter,
by which we are entitled to the valued privilege of calling your
Excellency our Patron.
And we continently trust, that, under the guidance of such a
Patron, the running Society may be made an efficient instrument •
of much advantage to this country.
Its objects and its labours have hitherto been directed (we hope
filleCeaSllllly) to improved ploughing, draining, and irrigating—
to the imyortation and growth of seed corn, the dispersion of
good iniplements, and the improvement of neat cattle, sheep,
and swine. Whatever advancement in agriculture Ireland can
boast has been principally effected since its institution, and by
ib means.
Latterly, the efforts of the Society have been fettered by the
limitation of its funds' under the necessary system of general
retrenchment. It looks torward, with hope, to better tunes, Una
to the wisdom and liberality of your Excellency's patronage.
The Society comprises amongst its members inmost all the
rank and respectability of the country—ready to co-operate in
every exertion towards agricultural improvement which your
Excellency, their respected Patron, shall do thou thy honour to
suggest.
our Excellency's comprehensive mind, whilst it admits the
importance of improved agriculture to every country, will in-
tuitively appreciate its peculiar value to Ireland, Us the most
dlixtual means of providing permanent employment for a dis-
tressed population, and of turnishing to the ease the fun benefit
{II her great natural reseuices.
To which his Excellency was pleased to return
the following gracious answer
Under the authority of your Charter, I accept ele honourable
charge which you have been pleased to intrust to time, with a
high sense of its public iiupoitame.
It will be my anxious endeavour to aftind every assistance
within nay power to the Fanning society, in the promotion of
its useful and salutary objects; and I sincerely 1101 N: teat you
may continue to advance tne agriculture of lcrianti,siiii to dill use
the spirit of honest industry.
It is painful to me to learn, that the efforts of the Society have
been fettered by the limitation of its funds, under the sysleril of
general retrenchniun lately adopted; and I shall be nappy to
avail myself of any proper means of augmenting your mods,
consistently with the attention which is due to the strict montany
of the public finances. But I cannot omit this opportunity of
declaring, that it is nut less my inclination than my bounden duty
so give every aid to the progress of that wise and necessary ill,
tern of general retrenchment which has been adopted by his
Majesty s Government and by Parliament, and which is as essen-
tial to the true dignity of the Crown, as it is indispensably
necessary for the socuril of the State, and for the Ililtattbla
slid
welfare of the people.
am deeply Illiplts,ed with the value and the importance of
your Imanution ; and sensible as I must be of the utility of such
establishments. in whatever country they may have beetm intro-
duced, I feel that they are of inure peculiar interest and advan •
tage in Ireland—where tile introduction of habits of industrious
Inborn is indispensably requisite for the safety of property, and
for she happiness of the great body of tilt people.
DUBLIN, JAN. 9.—The Marquis of Wellesley
held his first Levee yesterday at the Castle.
The Catholic Archbishops and Bishops presented
an address of congratulation, which his Excellency
was pleased to receive in his closet. The Noble
Marquis assured the Catholic Prelates, that it 'was
ey ilia .114eatg's particular desire they reeived this
mark of special distinction. Nothing could surpass
his Excellency's urbanity, politeness, and cordiality.
It has innate an impression on the hearts of the Bight
Rev. Gentlemen present that will nut be speeltily
effaced.
The address of the Catholic laity was presented
by a numerous and most respectable deputation of
Catholic Peers, Baronets, and gentlemen, with the
Earl of Fingal at their head. This venerable No-
bleman wore time star and sash of the Order of St.
Paula, which mark of favour and distinction he
received from the hands of our Monarch, during his
late visit It) Ulla cuuutly.
Ills Excellency was pleased to receive the address
in the must gracious manner.
The levee was nuitacrouslyiund brilliantly attend-
ed. His laccelleacy was most niagnitieently attired
•in purple velvet, :Leidy embluultred. At twelve

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o'clock the carriages began to arrive at the grunt
portal, and in less than half an hour the state-
rooms were literally crowded. The carriages conti-
nued to set down until four o'clock. The appear-
ance of the streets leading to the Castle during this
time strongly recalled to our recollection their ap-
pearance on the memorable day of the King's Levee
in August last.
STATE or TIE COUNTRY.
A meeting of magistrates was held on the 6.11
inst. to investigate the late to6rtunate occurrence
at Droniore. The Earl of Belmore presided, with
great intelligence and impartiality. Several wit-
nes es were examined.
We lament to state, that the last Clonmel papers
report several new attempts to plunder arms. Se-
veral notices have also been posted, and sent to in-
dividuals in the county of Tipperary against tithes,
rents, and taxes.
1t is said that tha special commission will resume
its sittings at Limerick on Saturday, and that the
judges and crown lawyers will also proceed to Kerry
and Tipperary.
The following is an extract of a letter received
yesterday from a gentleman residing at Omagh :
" I have got hold of a famous Captain, who com-
mandeal too men. who broke into houses, robbed
arms, and swore people in the parish of Sydannet.
He is a tenant in a property to which I am agent,
and has kept the country around in u state of dis-
turbance for years back. This is the first attempt
to rob arms in this county "
ORANGE HOMICIDE.-011 Tuesday, the Ist of
January, according to an account in the Dublin
Evening Poll, a general meeting of the magistrates
of the county of Tyrone, among whom were the
Earl of Bellmore, Sir John Stewart, Major Craw-
fbrd, and several others of the most respectable per-
sons in the county, assembled in the Court house,
for the purpose of investigating the circumstances
connected with the murder of Michael O'Brien, at
Dunmore on the 26th of December. .Ihe entire
of Friday, and a great part of Saturday was taken
up in the examination of witnesses, whose concur-
rent testimony clearly proved, that previous to the
wanton attack of the yeomen, no riot or disturb
once of any kind whatever had taken place, either
within or without the house, when the man was
killed.
Lieut. Hamilton who commanded the corps had
been apprehended and taken before slime magis-
trates, who would have committeil him for the of.
fence, had not his father, who is himself a magis-
trate, most solemnly pledged himself to deliver his
son to those gentlemen on Friday, the day of the
investigation. On the faith of this assurance he
was suffered to remain at liberty, and has escape'l
from justice by absconding front the county. Atter
the investigation was closed, application was made
to the chairman, the Earl of Belmore, on the part
of the much injured publican, fur military assist-
ance to apprehend the offenders. His lordship,
however, very properly declined granting it, ob-
serving that the civil power must be first employed,
but that if, utter their exertions, the perpetrators
of the crime could not be seeured, he would then
endeavour to procure for them the aid of the mili-
tary.

lleductionqf Rents.—The tenants of Mrs.Hankev,
of Grosvenor-square, London, who is nearly the sows
proprietress of Essendine, near Standiird, having
presented their petition a short time back tor an
abatement of rent, have this week received, in and
swer to it, an unouncement of the generous deter-
mination of that lady to return .8(y per cent. upon
her rents due at Michaelinas last, in addition to 16
per cent. returned at Lady-day, and that her te-
nants in Essendine shall nut be called upon tOr the
last quarter's rent due at Michaeimas last, until
Lady next. One of those tenants who has desired
the publication of this gratifying instance cf libera-
lity, observes, in corroboration of the strict truth of
this statement, that his half-years rent has been re-
duced from 1251. to 521. Ws. (or 661. per cent.)
The Roman Catholics of Dublin have voted a
congratulatory address to his Excellency the Marquis
of Wellesley. Au address trout the liberties of the
city was also vated to the Lord Lieutenant, his an-
swer to which is in the pure of concillasion, and
perfectly in unison with the recommendation of the
King to all those in authority under his Majesty.—
A King's mes,ienger arrived on Wednesday iennight
at Limerick, with a respite, directing that the exe-
cution of Martin and J. Grady, which was to take
place on the following day, should be postponed till
further orders. This clemency, it is hop
santred, will
hays a salutary effect upon the deluded pea y.
A commercial letter of the 26th ultimo, from
Trieste, states, that news had arrived there, ben
vessel from Smyrna, of an embargo having
laid by the 'lulls on all Greek property. Theme
was, however, according to the report, no wan! of
ships, of different klutopean flags, he Asehill
1360, for the protection of their commerce.