IRELAND.
Mr. John Reynolds has been served with half a score writs of summonses in actions to recover penalties of 501. each for the illegal performance of acts as Lord Mayor of Dublin. The proceedings have been held over till now, in order that a beginning might be made rieder the recent Process Act, which puts Members of Parliament on the same footing in regaid to law proceedings as other subjects.
An attempt has been made to burn the Waterford Fever Hospital. At midnight, Dr. Hamilton was roused by the matron, and found the straw- house on fire : the flames were extinguished with some tubs of water. A burning straw bed was also found placed against a wooden shed where patients were lying. The lives of a hundred sick people were endangered by this villanous attempt. Janus Nocher, a respectable farmer of Drumaness in the county of Down, has been murdered ; his body was found near a cottage riddled with slugs. Nocher had recently been appointed gamekeeper to the Reverend W. B. Forde, in the place of a man discharged. Suspicion has not fallen directly on this man ; but his nephew and other men are in custody.
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