IRELAND.
Conciliation Hall was thinly attended on Monday. Mr. Caughy, a bar- rister, was in the chair; but he made no speech. Mr. Thomas Steele was anxious to make one; but he had a sore throat, which prevented him from getting on smoothly. Recent ejectments from the property of Mr. Tuthil in Tipperary was the subject of which he treated: full particulars of that occurrence would soon be supplied; Mr. Ray would be employed to con- dense the facts. Rent, 1951.
Provision riots continue to be reported. The most serious outbreak oc- curred at Carrick-on-Suir, on Wednesday last week. "A plan of attack upon all the bakers', butchers', and hucksters' shops was arranged; and when all was in readiness, the mob spread themselves over the town in large bodies, entered the provision-shops, and seized anything eatable or valuable they could lay hands on The tills and money-boxes were the first objects sought for; tobacco, bottles of whisky, and tea, were also anxiously demanded, and seized. The plunder was carried on deliber- ately: no Magistrate could he found to call upon the military to come to the protection of the poor shopkeepers, till the town looked as if it had been sacked by an invading army. Several respectable persons applied to the officer in command of the troops quartered in the town, to come to the protection of the shopkeepers; but he declined, as he said he could only do so by the order of a Magistrate."
A public meeting of Magistrates and influential citizens took place on Thursday; when the demand made for is. a day wages was agreed to. On the following day, two hundred persons were sot to work on the roads.
Outrages have also taken place at Fethard, Cahir, and Roscarbery.
Provision-boats coming up from Waterford, on Thursday week, were at- tacked by a numerous band of men, women, and children; and the mis- cellaneous goods with which they were laden carried off in all directions.
Public meetings continue to be held in the districts, in furtherance of subscriptions to be expended in giving employment. Contracts are adver- tised for works amounting to 25,0001„ for improvements in Clonmel and the surrounding districts.
A very serious accident happened at Cashel on Monday. It occurred in tha. Town-hall; but the accounts of the circumstances are far from explicit. A large number of persons had collected in the building to receive relief, or to hear a lec- ture; either the floor gave way or the roof fell in. Numbers ofpersons were hurt, but while one statement says , 'no lives lost," another set forth that "fifty-one persons were killed on the spot."
Mr. Pollock, the Clerk of the Peace for the county and city of Dublin and thir- teen other counties in Ireland, died on Monday, at Mountains Town, his country- seat. The demise of this pluralist will create several vacancies, which will be filled up by fifteen separate appointments I
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