IRELAND.
Another Irish Member of Parliament, Mr. Wyndham Geoid, one of he representatives of the county of Limerick, died this week of apoplexy, while he was preparing to set out for Constantinople. The estates will descend to the Reverend Frederick Geoid, Archdeacon of Raphoe ; an elder brother of the deceased gentleman, who was disinherited by his father, the late Master Goold of the Court of Chancery, after a marriage with Miss Newcome, the sister of the Countess of Eglinton.
A Mr. Thomas Mason Jones has been expelled from the Cork Chamber of Commerce, for having expressed in the Chamber a wish that the Rus- sians might be victorious in the East.
The first cargo of salt the produce of an Irish mine recently left Belfast for Rotterdam, in the screw-steamer Oscar. The working of a salt-mine in the vicinity is likely to prove very advantageous to Belfast, as pro- viding means of loading vessels from abroad with return cargoes, instead of sending them in ballast to English ports to load.
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