IRELAND.
it is remarked that there are symptoms of a recurrence of the potato disease in some quarters ; but the unhealthy appearance of the aulm is by the sanguine referred to blight. The cholera is on the increase at Lisburn.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has defrayed the expenses of 150 persons emigrating from his Kerry estates to Canada.
At a recent sitting of the Dublin Court of Exchequer, Baron Richards found it necessary to administer a rebuke to Mr. Whiteside, Lord Derby's Irish Solicitor-General. Mr. Whiteside demanded, in a declamatory manner and in an unusual style, that the Court should give its reasons for the course taken in the case, and expressed regret that there was no appeal from its decision. Baron Richards said, he had too much reliance upon the gentle- men of the bar to fear that such a style of addressing the Court would be adopted as a precedent. "Mr. Whiteside has referred to the performance of any duty as a Commissioner in the Encumbered Estates Court," said the Judge : "he has no right to inflict upon me the odium of his panegyric. I disclaim his comment, and reject his praise."
During a thunderstorm at Dublin, on Tuesday, a weaver was struck deed by lightning : he and his sister were standing close to the well of a room as a position of safety, when the les de fluid struck the roof, ran down the wall, and killed the min, his sister remaining unhurt
The flax-spinning mills of Messrs. Boffin, at Belfast, have been destroyed by a fire, which broke out at ten in the morning, while the people were at work. The exertions of the Fire Brigade to save any part of the mills were utterly defeated by want of water. The damage is estimated at 10,0004 fully covered by insurances.
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