Last night's Gazette notifies that the Queen will hold a
dramingroom at St. James's Palace on Tuesday next, to celebrate her birthday. This present Saturday is in fact the auspicious day; but it is only marked by family rejoicings, in strict privacy, at Claremont.
The great "Repeal demonstration" at Tara took place on Thursday. It proved to be, not a parallel, but a contrast to the celebrated Tara monster meeting. There was a rude altar, a few tents were pitched, a multitude collected.-.perhaps eight or ten thousand, and some gentlemen wore the uniform of the Eighty-two Club: but the horsemen were few, the carriages not often more than farmers' carts; and the speeches were replaced by an exhortation to order from the Reve- rend Mr. M'Evoy, and the performance of high mass. A procession was then formed, and Mr. O'Connell was escorted towards Navan; where some hundreds of gentlemen were to entertain him at dinner in the Town-hall. Neither military nor police were in attendance; and the whole affair passed off in the utmost quiet.
The Sheffield Iris states that several cases of" Asiatic cholera" have occurred in Sheffield. The" cholera victims" of 1832 were buried in a plat of ground to the South of the town; this was lately raked over, to clear it of weeds: on Whit Monday some children from the Workhouse played in the ground; a workhouse- boy was taken ill, and died on the following Saturday, previously turning black all over; and eight other persons in the workhouse have been seized with similar symptoms, but no other death has yet happened.
At Windsor, on Thursday, James Dean, of East Hampstead, was charged be- fore Mr. P. H. Crutchley and Captain Bulkeley, County Magistrates for Berk- shire, with having unlawfully offered for sale four pheasants and six pheasants' eggs, on the 13th instant. Dean, who is more than sixty years of age, is a de- cayed shoemaker. The information was laid by George Vihite, one of Prince Al- bert's game-keepers. Dean, it seems, had been suspected of poaching: James Milky, game-keeper to Sir John Walsh, sent a letter to the shoemaker, offering to deal for some breeding pheasants and some eggs, and desiring that they might be brought to his own house: John Shakespere, one of Prince Albert's game- keepers, was concealed, saw Dean offer the pheasants and eggs for sale, and heard him confess that he had caught the birds in wires. He was sentenced to pay fines and costs amounting in all to 10/. 1 Is., or to be imprisoned for four months with hard labour. The ugly feature of this case—the trepanning of the man into the offence—has not escaped the effective animadversion of the Times.
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