An official notification has been published to this effect, "that
her Ma- jesty's Government are prepared, in certain cases, to advise her Majesty to accept the services of Volunteer Rifle Corps, provided that the proposed formation of such corps is recommended by the:Lord-Lieutenant of the county, and that the members of the corps undertake to provide their own arms and equipments, and to defray all the expenses attending it, except in the event of the corps being assembled for actual service."—Titnes.
The Queen has granted the dignity of an Irish Barony to Mr. Thomas Fortescue, of Ravensdale Park, county Louth, with remainder to his bro- ther Christopher, by the title of Baron Clermont of Clermont and Dro- misken, in the county of Louth.
Mr. John Isaac Heard was elected Member of Parliament for Mimic, on Thursday : it was the expected "walk over."
Joseph Carter, proprietor and editor of the Dundalk Democrat, extreme Tenant-right journal, was arrested on Thursday night, by order of the Government, for malicious and wicked libels, exciting hatred and malice between landlords and tenants. He was admitted to bail, and will be tried at next Louth Assizes.
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