IRELAND.
John Cavendish, Baron Kilmaine, has been chosen-by .8 majority or votes to be the Peer to it in thelfouse of Lords of the United Kingdom, in the room of Archibeld *Earl of Gosford, deceased.
Mr. Smith O'Brien, and the other three State prisoners, will be sent to Van Diemen's Land in her Majesty's ship Swift, ordered to the Pacific sta- tion.—Tinies.
Irish commercial correspondence states that there has been a That in- creme in the manufacture of butter this season; a fact explained by the general conversion of farms, surrendered to landlords by defaulting tenants, into pasturage. The Cork Constitution says, that in the past meek there was an increase of 4,723 firkins over the corresponding week of last year.
In opening theQuarter-Sessions at Carrick-on-Suir, the focus of the abortive insurrection of 1848, Mr. Sergeant Hawley alluded■to the curious fact, that upon the calendar, under the head of "grievous assaults," there was a blank; and that the offences were merely confined to cases of larceny and cattle-stealing. Be proceeded to contrast the present favourable con- dition of the country with that which existed just twelve months since; hinting, however, that the emissaries of sedition are still abroad, and cau- tioning the people from becoming a second time their dupes and victims-
" I do not," be said, "lightly allude to this matter. I have some grounds for giving this caution ; and I would most earnestly impress upon the people, if they value their own safety and that of their families, not to disregard the advice 1 now give them."
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