2 FEBRUARY 1839, Page 7

Mr. O ' Connell was entertained at iii egheda on Thursday week, by

a numerous party. lie descanted ;to hiree on the 11.!-11:11 101)I 0S ; and de- clared that he would " give up his experiment " if the 111)1' se of' Com- mons rejected a bill which it would les his first lmsiness My on the table, for equalizing the eleetive frata hist, in England and irelaud.

Mr. otP7tomell has paid into the Court of' Exchequer eSi. 14n. 4d., amount of his tithes due to the Reverend Long-field, and the costs, antomeine to treble ties sum It will be remembered that Lord tlorieville, Ibr the envies., of fixing the charge of Is»sl Norloury's murder Intel the peteantry of his county, alleged that he had it in evidence that two persons, before the murder was communicated to them, approached the lodge-gate, addressed them- selves to the woman there, and aelted the astounding questiom, Whe- ther Lord Norbury was not shot " The womae, in an affidavit, now declares that the men came to he'r irifter the murder had been known by many persons in the neighbourhood. Great stress is laid upon the fact that no deposition was taken from Lord Norloury, though be hived three days after he was womuied: and that lie was »ot asked (publicly) whom he suspected. It is also said that the track of the murderer's footsteps showed that he wore nicely-made boots, not a peasant's thick and clumey brogues. The person pointed at wits Lord GI:outline, Lord Norlatry's son : who had been on had tenes with his father. But it is no W said that the track was made by a peasant's lorogues, one " nailed," the other with an iron sole. Several persons are in custody ; but as yet there is nothing that can be called evidence agniest them. Meanwhile, the reward offered is grown to nearly 4,000/. Durrow Abbey and the demesne are advertised to be let.

A mob has destroyed the premises owned by Mr. Campbell and used for extracting farina from pot ;Imes, at Newtownards. The peasantry fhncied that the demand for this purpose would cause a scarcity of po- tatoes in their neighbourhood.

A sister of Cornelius Hickey, one of the prisoners convicted of' the murder of Mr. Cooper, dropped down dead on hearing that eentence of death NV11:3 passed upon her brother.