IRELAND.
Notice of the appointment of Dr. Higgin, Bishop of Limerick, Mr. John Hatchell, and Mr. Montifort Longfield, to be Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, appeared in the Dubtin Gazette of Tues- day.
Fair expectations are now entertained that the generous enterprise of Mr. Dargan in furnishing capital for the construction of the Dublin Ex- hibition will be successful. Upwards of 20,000 persons hold season- tickets ; the half-crown visitors number 170,000—giving a sum of 11,2501.; and the sum already realized in shillings amounts to 20,0001. On Monday last there were no fewer than 18,103 visitors.
The improved weather has had an excellent effect on the crops, and fa- vourable accounts are now general. With respect to potatoes, there is no doubt that the disease has manifested itself in most places ; but in nearly every instance it appears in a very mitigated form.
The Town-hall of Limerick has been destroyed by a fire, supposed to have originated by the keeper having carelessly left a candle burning.
A young boy, near Fethard, having been intrusted with a gun to shoot crows, accidentally shot a servant girl, and became so overcome with grief that he died the same evening.
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