IRELAND.
Without any opposition, or even a show of excitement, Mr. John O'Connell was elected for Clonmel on Wednesday.
The new Bishop of Derry and Rapboe was installed on Monday evening,.
A trial, arising out of the late Carlow election, involving Mr. Sadleir M.P., is pending before the Dublin Court of Exchequer. The plaintiff is Mr. Ed- ward Dowling, a Carlow voter, who brings an action against a Mr. Lawler for false imprisonment. According to the ex-parte statement of Mr. White- side, counsel for the plaintiff, the arrest arose in this way. Dowling had money dealings with a Mr. Crotty. Crotty accepted two bills for Dowling, and obtained a bond of indemnity for double the amount from him, and en- tered judgment on the bond, as security. The bills lay in the Tipperary Joint Stock Bank ; the manager of which, Mr. O'Shea, was a supporter of Mr. Sadleir. Dowling refused to vote for Mr. Sadleir ; and thereupon it was re- solved to arrest him before the polling-day. The bond was the pretext, and Dowling was arrested. Mr. Sadleir, on his examination, admitted that he carried the bond to a Dublin solicitor and instructed him to arrest Dowling ; but he said that he did this believing the claim of Crotty to be bone fide. He also admitted that he was willing to get Mr. Dowling arrested by legal and proper means, as Mr. Dowling intended to vote against him. The case is not decided.
The Irish coasts were visited with a hurricane on Saturday and Sunday, which inflicted great damage on shipping, and in one instance at least, near Drogheda, caused a lose of life.
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