IRELAND.
The Belfast N'orthern Whig announces that Mr. W. Carey Dobbs, M.P. for Carrickfergus, will succeed the late Mr. Medley as judge of the Landed Estates Court.
It is said that in the event of a dissolution, the friends of Sir John Young, the ex-Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian islands, mean to rally round him once more, and return him as the representative for the county of Cavan.
The mob of Ennis, instigated by "two turbulent Mayo priests" have burnt in effigy the borough Member Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald. But all the respectable inhabitants, including Roman Catholic priests, have publicly -condemned the scandalous proceeding.
The Marquis of Waterford has been killed from a fall in hunting. He went out with the hounds on Tuesday. The pack had rare sport and had killed two foxes, when a third was found and started. Lord Waterford was preceded by Ryan, his huntsman, and on coming to a small fence the huntsman cried. out, "My Lord, there is a bit of a gripe at the -other side." "Oh, never mind," said the Marquis, as his horse got his forefeet over easily, but at the outer side of the gripe some loose stones -earned the animal to fall forward on its knees, throwing the Marquis over on the side of its neck. He remained in that position two or three moments, but, the horse not recovering itself, Lord Waterford fell out of the saddle sideways, and came down upon his head on the road—a very slight fall, but yet unhappily sufficient to cause dislocation of the neck, and probably con- -mission of the brain, causing almost immediate death. Assistance was promptly rendered, but it was of no avail. After killing the fox, the field returned to find the .master of the hounds a corpse. It was carried slowly back to Curraghmore, where the Marchioness, who had awaited the return of the living, found herself in the presence of the dead. The Reverend Lord John Beresford succeeds to the title and estates.
Signor Gavarai attempted to lecture in Galway, but his appearance -caused a riot. He was driven into the Police barrack, chased from the town, and his life only saved by the judicious arrangements of the police, who prevented the mob from following in a direct line of his retreat, and who had cut off; with a force of fifty men with fixed bayonets, the advance of the Claddagh fishermen.
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