21 JULY 1855, Page 7

IRELANID.

Though there was a large falling-off in the emigration from Ireland to America last year, as compared with 1853, the remittances of money from America to Ireland showed a great increase. The total was 1,730,0001. in 1854, or 300,0001. more than in 1853.

Judge Jackson, in addressing the Grand Jury at the Limerick County Assizes, last week, said that during forty years' experience of the Munster Circuit, both as a practising barrister and a Judge, he never knew such light calendars. Limerick city can boast on this occasion of a maiden assizes, there not being a single case for trial.