STATE OF IRELAND.

New Zealander, Volume 1, Issue 28, 13 December 1845, Page 1

STATE OF IRELAND.

Affairs leem to be assuming a rerious aspect in Ireland. Again assassinations have taken place iv more than one district, but ai this has been unfortunately too frequent in a country vrliere the landlord has too often the power of life and death orer bis tenantry and has not been slow in. many cases to use it, such have been considered rather fhe effects of private vengeance than serious political manifestations. But lately the Orange processions hare been revived, and armed bodies have paraded thecountry bound together by a feeling of religiou*zealy and-reliance on one another for protection. The result has been serious. Collisons bate taken place betw een the Orange and' the Roman Catholics, blood has been spilled and at least one life lost. Iv Armagh the town has been one scene of turmoil and disturbance, house* have been wrecked and the police defied. The Protestants are represented by The Times to have been banded together because they feel that British influence is too vreak t^ protect them. The Roman Catholics because they know that they cannot be coerced. Both are now separated from the English party. It must end in collision between the two former or a union, but, both are sure to equally distrust and despise the last. How it is to end God only knows, but the worst we fear must be anticipated. County of Cavan, June 28.

Mr. Bell Booth, Justice of the County of Cavan, proceeded to Kilmore Church, yesterday morning, about twelve o'clock, and after having attended Divine worship, wat proceeding iv hi« car, accompanied by three of bis children, two of whom were riding alongside of hin? and sitting in the car, the other, his son, a boy about ten years of age, was riding about thirty yards behind on. a pony j He had proceeded on his way home for about a mile, or not so much (he lived between Kilmore and Crossdoney, a distance of about two miles between), when a countryman cam along the road smoking hit pipe, with his arms folded over his breast, and as soon as the car had passed he turned round and shot Mr. Bell Booth behind the head, at the top of the neck, the ball coming out at his forehead; he was shot dead on the spot.

Repeal "Doings" in Cork. — A meeting of the Kepealers of the city of Cork, was held on Tuesday evening, in the People's Hall, when the following resolution was proposed by the Mayor and carried : That in order to carry out (he great principles enjoined by the Liberator, and sanctioned by national approval, the Repeal con* stituencj of Cork will riot support any candidate for public office who shall not have paid his subscription this year to the National Association in Dublin, and who shall not have signed the " Declaration " binding him to the Repeal agitation by all constitutional means, until Ireland shall have achieved legislative independence.

The 80th Regiment — A letter from Agra, in ihe East Indies, dated Stb July, states from the 29t!i May till June 17th (last) the 80th Regiment lost by apoplexy, brought on by the heat of the sun, thirteen non-commissioned officers, thirty-one privates, four women, and eleven children The names of the non-comissionedL officers, are quartermaster-seargent James Walwyn ; drum-major, Patrick Mnllanej; colour-ser-jeants, Bowler and Godkin; Serjeants, Robert. Crawford, who was drum-major when the regiment left sydney, Kilgour, Sparks, Norbtiry, Osgathorpe, and Hardie } corporals, Hart, Emery, Jones, and Chinn, &c,, The affair et Lahorne had. not been settled at the time, and the legiment wa« expected to proceed lo that place m the month of October.