IRELAND.
The cholera has appeared at Kanturk. From the 21st February to the 9th March there were 30 cases in the workhouse and 12 in the town. Nor is it a wonder. In the spot where it broke out, no fewer than fifty persons of both sexes and all ages were found in one cabin—in eleven cabins eleven families in each ! Steps had been taken to purify the place.
The Lord-Lieutenant, through Major Lamm, has addressed a letter to Mr. O'Callaghan, the Police Magistrate so conspicuous in the notorious tract-distribution case, conveying to him "strong disapproval," not only on the manner in which the proceedings of his office were conducted, but in the decision pronounced by him. A copy of the letter was forwarded to the Dublin Protestant Association, and read at a meeting of the mem- bers on Tuesday last.
At the Carlow Assizes, a jury have returned a verdict of 1100/. and 6d. costs for the plaintiff in the action of Dowling venue Sadleir. This was the charge against Mr. Sadleir M.P. of conspiring to prevent Dowling from voting for Mr. Sadleir's opponent at the Carlow election in 1852.
Neal Quin and Bryan Grant have been convicted at Monaghan Assizes of murdering Mr. Bateson ; and Patrick Coomey has been found guilty of in- stigating them to commit the clime. The chief witness was Patrick Nogher, an approver. For the sake of a promised reward, he went with Quin and Grant to murder Mr. Bateson : he was willing to have a hand in the butchery, but when they came up with Mr. Bateson, Quin motioned Nogher to keep back. Quin fired a pistol at Mr. Bateson, then Grant fired ; Mr. Bateson fell; the murderers kicked him, and all the assassins ran away. Subsequently, Nogher received meal from Coomey, and money from one M`Guinness. All three prisoners were sentenced to be hanged.
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