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good resident landlord and magistrate; who is daily
I doing acts of kindness for the poor."
The Examiner also contains the following:—
"DISTURBANCE IN YOUGHAL.—Her Majesty's war-
steamer Myrmidon, with two gun-boats in tow, and a
large number of marines and gunners on board, arrived
in our harbour yesterday, and proceeded immediately to
Youghal, to protect the shipping interest of that port.
"FURTHER FOOD OUTRAGES.—On Wednesday last a
numerous body of labouring men, from the district of
Shanagarry, came into the town of Cloyne, and, after
exhibiting their force for the purpose of intimidating
the shopkeepers, proceeded to rifle the flour and provi-
sion shops. The bakers, seeing that resistance was com-
pletely useless, thought they might as well permit 'it
with a good grace, and, for the purpose of protecting
their remaining property, generously distributed their
loaves to the hungry claimants, who retired without com-
mitting further irjury.
" We have heard that a similar demonstration took
place yesterday in Cnstlemartyr, and that the labourers
were not satisfied until they were similarly feasted.
"It was rumoured this morning that Moore Park, the
residence of Lord Mountcashell, had been attacked yes-
terday, and a quantity of Indian corn, stored in an out-
house fur the use of the tenantry, abstracted. On in-
quiry, however, it has been ascertained that no such
outrage was committed, nor was there any attempt to
warrant even the rumour."

" CLONBIEL, 'SEPT. 23. Major-General his Roya,
Highness Prince George of Cambridge will arrive at
Limerick on the 30th instant, to take charge of this dis-
trict. It is strongly rumoured here that the 34th Depot
and the Royal Artillery stationed here will be re-
moved to make room for head-quarters of a regiment,
which could be easily effected now by the additional ac-
commodation afforded by Mr. Bianconi's house, which
the Ordnance still retain as a barracks, although the
period for which they originally hired it has expired."
THE REPEAL MAGISTRATES.
At the eleventh hour, and when the act of amnesty
has lost its grace, the Government have thought proper
to reinstate Mr. Smith O'Brien in the commission of the
peace. The correspondence annexed will tell the his-
tory of the circumstances connected with Mr. O'Brien's
peculiar case:—
." Secretary's Office, Four Courts, Dublin, Sept. 22.
" Sir,—l am directed by the Lord Chancellor to in-
form you that he yesterday received a letter, enclosing
to him a document signed by several magistrates of the
county Limerick, stating their regret at being deprived
of your advice and assistance as a magistrate, and sug-
gesting to him that your restoration to the commission
of the peace would be productive of advantage to the
county.

" The Chancellor directs me to say, that, on examin-
ing the lists of magistrates who had been removed from
the commission of the peace, which he did in conse-
quence of a communication from the Lord-Lieutenant
(as you aro no doubt aware from the statements in
Parliament and the public papers), he found that you
had not been removed for any specific cause, but had
yourself resigned the commission, and been superseded
at your own request. Under these circumstances he did
not cause any communication to be made to you on the
subject, deeming it a matter altogether for your own
discretion and judgment whether you would think fit to
intimate your wish to be replaced on the magistracy ;
but having received such a statement from a large body
of the magistrates of the county, he cannot hesitate to
inform you of it, in order that you may apprise him of
your intentions as regards the resumption of the office.
" I am, Sir, your very obedient humble servant,
" FRANCIS W. BRADY,
" Secretary to the Lord Chancellor.
" To William Smith O'Brien, Esq., M.P."

"Caliermoyle, Sept. 23.
"Sir,—l have had the honour of receiving your
obliging letter of the 22d, in which you inform me that
several magistrates of the county of Limerick have re-
presented to the Lord Chancellor that my restoration to
the commission of the peace would be of advantage to
the county, and that in consequence of such representa-
tion the Lord Chancellor desires that I should apprise
him of my intention as regards the resumption of the
office.

"It affords me extreme gratification to learn, that
without suggestion upon my part, a large body of the
magistrates of the county of Limerick have expressed
such an opinion to the Lord Chancellor.
" I will not conceal from you that I felt some surprise
that I had not received an intimation similar to that com-
municated on the part of the Executive to other magis-
trates who resigned their commissions for political rea-
sons; but I now rejoice that this delay has taken place,
as it has elicited towards me a demonstration of gener-
ous feeling, which upon every account I highly appreciate.
" The present Government having wisely renounced
the principle of excluding individuals from the magis-
tracy on account of their advocacy of the national rights
of Ireland, the motives which induced me to resign my
commission no longer exist. I shall, therefore, cheer-
fully resume my functions as soon as reinstated.
"I have the honour to be your obedient servant,
" WILLIAM S. O'BRIEN.
" To F. W. Brady, Esq., Secretary to the
Lord Chancellor."
The Limerick Reporter is by no means satisfied with
the Chancellor's explanation, ex. gr. :
" The Lord Chancellor or the Government are at
length about to perform an act of tardy justice in restor-
ing our distinguished and excellent county Member to
the commission of the peace. The delay has caused a
good deal of surprise, much speculation, and great in-
dignation on the part of a very numerous section
of the community. Even the Tory press exclaimed
against the injustice. The reason assigned by the
Lord Chancellor is most unsatisfactory, inasmuch as the
commission of the peace has long been offered to others
who also resigned for political reasons, and did not apply
to be restored. For example, the Orangeman' Mr. Rose
Cleland, who resigned in consequence of his friend
Commodore Watson being superseded, was offered the
commission without any intimation on his part that he
would accept it, which is evident from the fact of his
having refused the office; so that the justice which was
offered to an Orangeman was denied by the Whigs to
an uncompromising repealer, until the magistrates of
the county of Limerick at last reminded the Government
of their duty. With how much better a grace would they
have offered him the commission in the beginning than
to be thus forced to do him justice. Did they want the
lineal descendant of an Irish King to bow down at their
feet, and, with bated breath and whispering humble-
ness,' sue for the office from an English faction ? Somo
of the Whig 'organs and apologists of the Government
appear to think he ought to have done so, but he knew
his own dignity and proud position better than that.
The Government stated, when coming into power, that
they would investigate the merits of each case, and act
accordingly, and, for our part, we think it would be
derogatory to any gentleman who was superseded to ask
for a restoration.
LANDLORDS AND THE RENTS.

The Clare Journal (Conservative) strongly impresses
upon the landlords the actually necessity of foregoing all
demands for rent pending the present crisis, for, although
the farmer may obtain a remunerative price for his corn.
he must, in self defence, reserve it for his own consump-
tion now that his usual resource has been swept off the
land:—

" It were well, we think, if the exertions of the Go-
vernment received a corresponding assistance from the
landlords of the country. They must be forbearing to
the tenantry. We do not desire to retail the com-
plaints that are hourly spreading of the conduct of the
landlords and agents pressing for rents at this season.
It is true, for every commodity that the farmer has
to sell he has high prices to get ; but then it must
be remembered that the corn upon which he depended
to meet the greater portion of the rent, must be
now kept to feed his family, in place of his potatoes,
that failed. Can he sell that, and depend on the chance
of public employment to support his family ? It is folly
to think it. We know, too, all the complicated demands
that those rents may be, in idea, allocated for, but they
must, in fact, be laid aside for the present. There must
be mutual forbearance on all sides, and, as none of tho
demand that is to be laid upon the land will be levied
during this year, the landlord is relieved from any bur-
den by its presentation. Again, we repeat, we do not
desire to report the various complaints every day cir-
culated of parties who are pressing for rents, and where
a gale's rent has been refused, yet when to meet tho
year's rent the tenant should deprive himself of every
ounce of subsistence for his family. It is the extreme
of folly to ask for this ; no matter what the pressure
upon the landlord may be, he cannot hope to get this
demand ; and if he endeavours to do so, the consequences
will be dangerous to the peace of the country."

DEATH OF DR. BENNIE OF LADY YESTER'S.-•-•
It is our painful duty to-day to record the death of the
Rev. Archibald Bennie, D.D., which rather unlooked for
event took place at Dunoon on Monday night, at half-
past ten o'clock. He had been complaining for a con
siderable time past, and was lately attacked by erysipelas
in the head, which, we understand, was the immediato
cause of his death. Dr. Bennie was ordained to the
ministry in 1824, and was translated from Stirling to
Edinburgh in 1836, having been appointed, by the town-
council, on the 28th April of that year, to the church
and parish of Lady Yester's, in which he has ever since
ministered. He IN as one of the most eloquent and
popular clergymen of the day; and the estimation in
which his ministrations were held will be judged by the
fact that his church was always filled, and the sittings
fully let. Dr. Bennie was much beloved by his friends
and his congregation, and, indeed, was held in general
respect. The congregation whom he has left will
naturally look to the town-council for one fitted to bo
his successor— a task in which the lager may perhaps
find some difficulty, but to which, we are assured from
past experience, they will employ their most zealous
endeavours to accomplish. By the death of Dr. Bennie,
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The Earl and Countess of Yarborough have left
tovi n for Brocklesby, Lincolnshire. The superb testimo-
nial, valued at 1,000 guineas, called "the Worsley testi-
monial," subscribed for by the constituents of his Lord-
ship, was to have been formally presented at Brocklesby,
on Tuesday list ; but in consequence of the sad intelli-
gence of the death of his revered father reaching this
country on Thursday se'nnight, the ceremony was post-
poned.

DISMISSAL OF GENTLEMEN CADETS AT WOOL..
wrcu.—On Saturday four cadets, named Kennedy (pre-
iously reduced from corporal), Lock, Barrett,- and
Nugent, attached to the Royal Military Academy, Wool-
wich-common, under the command of Colonel Parker,
C. 8., the Lieutenant-Governor have, by order of tho
Master-General of the Ordnance, been dismissed from
the aeademy for alleged ungentlemanly conduct. It has
caused a. great sensation in the establishment amongst
the rest of the cadets. It is stated that the Commander-
in-Chief's serious consideration has been .
drawn to the
repeated acts of misconduct and insubordination the
establishment, and that an important change will take
place in some of the departments.

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