IRELAND.
The Tipperary Independent County Club recently sent a deputation to Mr. Smith O'Brien for the purpose of inducing him to permit himself to be put in nomination for the seat at present held by Mr. James Sadleir. Mr. O'Brien, however, would not be moved from his purpose. He is still of the same opinion he was in 1843, when, after assiduously attend- ing Parliament for twelve years, he found he should have done more good had he remained in Ireland. The Club having failed, arrived at this among other singular resolutions-
" That, Mr. O'Brien having declined our earnest invitation, this Club, strong in truth and unity of purpose, will not interfere in any contest be- tween Whig and Tory, because the former has at last made of the Irish representation nothing more than an organized political swindle, and as such, a vital national calamity; the latter, if Whiggery be crushed in Ireland—a result easily achieved, as has been abundantly proved at our late few Irish elections—must at least entertain a respect, if it be not compelled to legis- late, for the protection of the Irish tenantry."
The mutiny eases at Nenagh were finally disposed of on Tuesday. Thomas Cair, a lance-corporal of the Tipperary Militia, was put on his trial as a ringleader in the recent riot, and was found guilty ; whereupon all the other prisoners, under the advice of their counsel, pleaded "guilty." Mr. Justice Moore thus sentenced the prisoners—Stephen Burns, for the wilful murder of Patrick Curley, a soldier of the Forty-first Regiment to be hanged, and his body buried within the precincts of the gaol; John Barron, Edward Laffan, William Cummins, Thomas Carr, and Cornelius Ryan, to be each transported for fifteen years.
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