IRELAND.
Mr: Stephen de Vera is returned for Limerick, in the room of the late Mr. Wyndham Goold. The election was on Tuesday : there was no op- position, and no excitement.
Captain Pakenham, of the Guards, has succeeded his brother the late Colonel Pakenham, as one of the Members for the County of Antrim. He was elected without opposition on Wednesday.
Cholera still lingers in some Northern localities,—at Newtownards, Ballymena, and Aghadoey; and it has appeared at Comber, among a frightfully distressed class of people.
Patriak Gribben., an old cottier-farmer, at Warrenpoint in the county of Down, has been murdered: he was found in bed, with wounds on his head, but still alive; he indicated his son-in-law as the murderer, and then re- called the accusation. Gribben is supposed to have been slaughtered because he was poor t—he WAS about to give up his little holding, instead of keeping it to be transferred to his family.
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