IRELAND.
In the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, Mr. Attorney-General Brewster applied to have the depositions against the traversers in the case of " the Queen versus Delmege J. P. and others "—the Six-mile Bridge affair -4returned to the office of the Clerk of the Crown for the county of Clare, foe the purpose of the prosecution at the next Assizes. The documents in question were brought up to town upon an order of the Court on an applica- tion made last term to quash the finding of the Coroner's Jury. The Court ranted the order. [Government, therefore, prosecutes the soldiers of the Thirty-first Regiment; and will also have to prosecute Burke and Clune, the Roman Catholic priests engaged in the fatal riot.] A daring murder has been committed at Gureen, near Kilbeggan, in Wettmeath. The victim was Thomas Farrell, a man of sixty, a Roman Ca- tholic, farming a small tract of land. He lived in a comparatively populous neighbourhood, a quarter of a mile from the town, and near a well-fre- quented road. About seven o'clock in the evening, the moon shining
brightly, five young countrymen, in no way disguised, with arms in their hands, went to the house. Two remained at the door on guard. Farrell was at his fireside, telling a story to his family—his wife and two daughters, and a servant-boy—and three of his neighbours, young men, all sitting round the fire, without any candle burning, when the three men, armed with guns, raised the latch of the door and came into the house. One of them pulled out a candle, and giving it to Farrell's servant-boy, desired him to light it. He then said, " I am in search of a person I want" ; and proceeded towards a room, the only other apartment of the house, the door of which was closed. This room he ransacked, but found only 2a. 6d. in money. When he re- turned to the kitchen, one of his companions asked him, had he got what he wanted? and he replied, "No; I will make a short job of it." Presently he said to the old man,," Tom, lend me your gun for a few days, and I will return it." Farrell desired the servant-boy to reach him the gun, which was beside him; Farrell stood up when the boy handed him the gun; get- ting it in his hand, the assassin desired the boy to stand back, and in an in- stant the two that kept guard fired their muskets at Farrell, who fell dead. The assassins then departed, apparently unrecognized by any of the persons who witnessed the murder. As usual, no one offered resistance ; it was not till Ferreira son came home that the Police received information. The Co- roner's Jury have been obliged to return their verdict against "persons un- known."
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