1 MAY 1852, Page 6

IRELAND.

The harvest prospects are now described, from all quarters, sines the fall of geuial rain, as surpassing those of many years.

A considerable sample of Irish beet-root sugar has arrived in the Dublin market for sale, and is said to be of an excellent quality.

The gross amount of funds already contributed to the Irish National Exhibition at Cork is 15,000/.

The Cork Constitution states that the Celtic exodus still goes on at flood height—

The Jessy left Limerick on Tuesday, with 345 passengers ; the Anna Maria left Limerick the same day with 92; the Jeannie Johnson left Tralee with 188 passengers for Quebec ; and on the same day the Brunswick set sail with 324 for New York; on Friday the Emerald, of Wexford, carried over 200 to New York, and 110 more set sail for the same place in the Reliance, front Galway ; over 1100 emigrants left Waterford in a single week, in the ships Mars, Orinoco, and others ; and six other vessels are taking passengers to sail direct from that port to their Western destinations—Newfoundland, Quebec, and New York."

A Riband lodge has been arrested in the county of Longford while in full deliberation. "Sub-Inspector Hemsworth, with a strong party of Police, proceeded to the town of Granard ; where i , n a small public-house, he found eight fellows sitting in conclave, with all their Riband books and documents, their signs and pass-words, lying before them. Two threatening notices of

s violent character—one directed to a neighbouring Protestant clergyman, and the other to a farmer who had recently taken some land—were found among the papers. One of the party was actually writing a third threaten- ing notice when the Police surprised them." Mr. Denehy, the resident magistrate of the district, committed the lodge to Longford Gaol, for trial at the next Assizes.

John Walsh, convicted at Kilkenny of the murder of Thomas Ball, was executed last week. Shortly before his execution, he made an extraordinary attempt at suicide : while alone in his cell, he thrust pieces of wood into his earn, and seems to have struck them against the walls in the hope of pene- trating his brain : he was found exhausted by loss of blood ; when he re- vived, he told an improbable story that he had hurt himself by falling from his bed. He had made a somewhat similar attempt a day or two before the Assizes.

The capital sentence on Sohn Aherne for conspiracy to murder, pronounced at Waterford Assizes, has been commuted to transportation for life.

Two fires have occurred in bog-land in Kildare, by which much damage was done. One which originated in the bog of Betaglistown, from the care- lessness of turf-cutters, spread for a distance of three miles; not only de- stroying the surface of the bog, but sweeping away crops and cabins; leaving many poor families destitute.