IRELAND.
The writ for Belfast has been proclaimed by the Sovereign, and the election is fixed for today. The candidates announced are, Mr. Emer- son Tennent, Mr. Ross of Rosstrevor, Lord Hamilton Chichester, and Mr. Shaft° Adair. It is supposed, however, that Mr. Tennent and Mr. Ross will be the only candidates to go to the poll.
At Cork Assizes, on Friday, Daniel Lonergan, John Drew, Daniel Sullivan, and Timothy Herlihy, were tried for an aggravated assault on Mr. John Wilson, the proprietor of some patent saw-mills ; upon whom they cast a quantity of oil of vitriol, by which one of his eyes was burned out of the socket, and the other was seriously injured. The workmen of the firm to which he belonged were discontented because they had introduced steam-power into their mills, which diminished the demand for labour ; and the prisoners entered into a combination to put the steam saw-mills down. On the 1st March, Mr. Wilson was way- laid, and the vitriol was thrown in his face. The proof rested principally on the evidence of an approver, and of Mr. Wilson, who himself iden- tified the four men. They were found guilty, and sentenced to trans- portation for life.
When the sentence was pronounced, the people in court and about the place began to shout and utter menacing cries ; and when Mr. Wilson and the informer were removed, the tumult increased to such a degree, that the Police and military were ordered out, and the cavalry charged several times before the streets were cleared.
On Saturday, application was made to postpone the trial of others implicated in the vitriol throwing, on the ground of the " great terror and excitement existing in the minds of the most material witnesses "; and the trial was accordingly deferred till the next Assizes.
Richard Wheelehan was executed at Tullamore on Friday, for the murder of his wife. He had buried her near his house, and got up a trumpery story about her having gone to America. Since his condem- nation, his hair had turned from black to gray.
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