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The Provostship of Trinity College has been filled up by the appoint- ment of the Reverend Richard Mac Donnell, D.D., senior Fellow of the University. It is said that Dr. Mac Donnell's appointment will bo very popular one, as he has been for many years a Fellow of College; and his opinions on political and educational subjects are well known to be liberaL At the late election of Chancellor of the University, Dr. Mac Donnell alone voted for the Earl of Reese.
Lisburn election takes place today. Sir Emerson Tennent is expected to " walk over."
An English correspondent of the Belfast Northern Whig says that Mr. W. Terms M'Cullagh, the Member for Dundalk, has just succeeded in obtaining from Government a charter, enabling Messrs. Hartley, Weal- mont, and others, to form themselves into a company with the intention of plying steamers regularly between Galway and Halifax.
A large and influential meet;ng of the Magistrates of Armagh, convened by the Lieutenant, took place et. Tuesday, for the purpose of considering the disturbed state of the Southern and Western portions of the county. No reporters were admitted, but the following resolutions were unani- mously adopted— "That application be made to the Government to make such an addition to the police and military force in the disturbed districts of the country, as may be necessary to enforce the law and protect life and property ; and that in all cases of trial for any agrarian outrage special juries may be empanelled to try the accused parties.
" That all the expenses incurred in the maintaining of extra police be chargeable upon the townland or townlands for which such extra force may be required, and that the rate rendered necessary for their support be levied forthwith by the police authorities." A local writer observes, that this is but " the old nostrum of physical force," which has been already ineffectually tried against the agrarian disaffection.
Mr. Eastwood, a gentleman residing near Dundalk, was assailed by three men, not far from his house, beaten with sticks and stones till he was insen- sible, robbed of his watch, and thrown into a quarry-hole. A woman in Mr. Eastwood's employ saw her master in the hole ; he was then able to speak ; when conveyed home he again became insensible for a time, but sub- sequently rallied, though his skull was fractured. Mr. Eastwood is a Magis- trate and Deputy-Lieutenant; he is a kind and considerate landlord, and had no reason to expect any attack : in August last he had to remove some cot- tiers who paid no rent.
Overend, a land-bailiff of Louth, near Dundalk, has been wounded by an assassin. On his way home at night, two men passed him • one immediately turned round and discharged a pistol, which lodged two ballets in his back ; Overend fell down, and the assassins thinking that they had accomplished their object—his death—went off; but it proves that the wound is not very dan- gerous. Two men have been arrested on suspicion.
John IsPICain has been stabbed to death, near llaphoe in Donegal, by James Galbath, in a scuffle arising from the seizure of some goods belonging to the deceased.
A great amount of drunkenness was noted in Dublin this Christmas.
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