IRELAND.
Four candidates for Carlow are mentioned : Mr. John Sadloir, Mr. Henry Bruen, son of Colonel Bruce, sharing his late father's politics ; and two Roman Catholic Liberals, Captain Keogh and a Mr. Walsh.
The journals of the week continue their record of the astounding emi- gration movement, stimulated by large remittances from Irishmen who have done well in a new land, and resulting in an advance of wages and in some cases actual scarcity of labour.
A "California" has been found in Mayo, on the island of Actin ; and it is said that it will produce its quota of Irish litigation. Mr. M'Cormack, a recent purchaser of the lease of lands in Achil, has discovered a rich vein of copper ore, close to the shore ; and has begun to work it with great suceess, in conjunction, apparently, with another gentleman and an English mining company,. But it is reported that Sir Richard O'Donnell, the original pro- prietor, intimates that the ore belongs to him, as the "mines, minerals, and royalties" had never been conveyed to the leaseholder whose interests Mr. 11`Cormack purchased in the Encumbered Estates Court. The mining com- pany, however, deny that Sir Richard has made or thinks he has any claim.
The annual meeting of the Protestant Orphan Society at Dublin was brought to a premature close by the sudden death of one of the speakers. The Reverend John Whitestone, who had been addressing the meeting for upwards of an hour, suddenly fell down; he was conveyed into the open air, as it was thought he had fainted ; but in a few minutes he was dead : Mr. Whitestone had suffered from disease of the heart.
Three men have been killed, and several others seriously hurt, by the giving way of part of a scaffold in the interior of the Exhibition building at Dublin. At the inquest, the responsibility of erecting the insufficient scaf- fold was not fixed upon any one. A Dublin correspondent of the Times al- leges that the Coroner kept:that matter in darkness instead of attempting to elucidate it.
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