IRELAND.
The prospects of the crops of all kinds are deemed so highly favourable that the subject is almost the only one of a general nature discussed in the Irish journals. There is no appearance of potato blight, and "in all quarters there are the indications of a harvest of unusual plenty."
The starting of the North-American steam-ship from New York for Galway seems to have been postponed a week : so her arrival is not to be looked for till about next Wednesday.
Some soldiers of the depot of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, stationed at Londonderry, got into a squabble with a number of rustics : the Police in- terfered; the soldiers beat the constables with their belts, one of them to. such a degree that he died in twenty-four hours. A Jury has found that the homicide was John Day, three other soldiers aiding and abetting.
The coachman of Lord Dunally, in Tipperary, has had a Rockite notice left in his coach-box, (from which 3/. was stolen at the same time,) that early death awaits him for having caused the discharge of a servant.
Alfred Winstanley, a young English soldier stationed at Cork, has killed himself for love. He was enamoured of the daughter of a pensioner ; the father refused to let them marry unless Winstanley got leave of his command- ing-officer, which for some reason he was reluctant to ask. To break off the intimacy, the pensioner resolved to send the girl to London. The soldier lost all control over himaelf, bought half a pint of vitriol, met the girl on her way
to the London steamer, and asked "if she would deceive him—if she was about to leave him who was so fond of her ?" His sweetheart and her party snored on; and the soldier, exclaiming that he could not live without her, drank off the vitriol. After great suffer ing for two oy three days, he sank under the effects of the poison. He had served with credit in India, for which he had a medal and a star.
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