IRELAND.
The Cork _Reporter announces the departure of three sisters& the.Con- vent of Mercy at Kinsale to minister to the sick and wounded soldiers in the East. They volunteered at the request of Government, and will be joined by many more ladies at Liverpool; and the whole will be accom- panied by a Roman Catholic chaplain. --- Commercial affairs in Ireland show abetter aspectIliis Week,. no-more failures being announced. In the great Northern mart, Belfast, credit has remained in a sound state, unaffected by stoppages elsewhere.
They begin to talk of shutting up some of the Irish workhouses, .fte no longer needed. The Guardians of Portman(' iTnion have voted for-a' total dissolution, proposing to distribute their poor at Loughrea and Bela linasloe.
A-man has-been killed, and a number of -persons have been wounded or burnt, by an explosion at Ballinasloe. There was a cask of gunpowder in Mr.'Harpur's stores; it had been there many years, and was thought twin very damp; to dry it, the cask was incautiously placed behind the menter open. A workman snuffed a candle with his fingers, and threw the burning' wick behind him—it fell on the gunpowder, which began to burn slowly, but-quickly exPloded, tearing the preniises to -pieces, burying those persons Who were present, and damaging surrounding houses. The man who maid the candle was killed by a beam falling on his heed.
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