• The news from Ireland is of an extremely distressing,
though not of an unwonted character. At Borris-o-Kane, in Tipperary, on Friday sennight, there was a fair and a fight, in which one man was • killed by the mob, and three or four were slain by the police. This . the Irish papers state to be so common an occurrence as hardly to deserve notice. On Sunday, however, at the funeral of one of the sufferers, five men are said to have posted themselves in a house by the i !wayside, and forming loopholes n the walls, to have deliberately shot four of the unarmed attendants. These men are described as Orange' men in one paper. The Morning Journal points to this riot and murder as one of the consequences of Emancipation : similar atrocities used, some years ago, to be attributed to the want of it,—perhap. with equal truth in both cases. It is extremely difficult, amidst the conflicting accounts of opposing -parties, to calculate the chances of O'Connell's return for Clare. They appear to depend very much on what shall be the character oi his opponent. Government, it is said, are determined not to interfere: in which case it is not unlikely that he may walk the course. The last accounts make the ten-pound freeholders amount to about 600. II has been repeatedly stated by O'Connell's friends that if they should reach that number his return was certain.
