IRELAND.
Guns were fired and bells rung at Dublin on Monday when the news reached that city that a treaty of peace had been signed at Paris ; "but there was no appearance of popular excitement on the occasion to be ob- served in the demeanour of the citizens, who seem to take the gooctniws with wonderful coolness."
We hear that in all probability Mr. Christian, QC., will succeed Mr. Fitzgerald as Solicitor-General for Ireland. We believe that no appoint- ment could be made calculated to give more satisfaction to the Irish, bar or the public. Mr. Christian is no politician ; and his promotion is entirely owing to the position which he admittedly occupies as the first Chancery barrister in Ireland.—Globe, April 4.
In the course of the proceedings in the Master's Office respecting the af- fairs of the Tipperary Bank, it appeared that in August last John Sadleir transferred some twenty conveyances of property to the London and County. Bank, as security for advances, though previously to that date he had agreed to transfer the estates to the Tipperary Bank as security for the large advances he had taken from it.
On the second floor of an old-house in Penrose Square, Cork—a miserable locality—some fifty persons were assembled on Saturday night at a " wake" ; soon after midnight the floor gave way, and in falling crashed in the floor beneath, with its lodgers : dead and dying and wounded_were miugled in one shocking mass. It has been ascertained that nineteen per- sons lost their lives, and that forty others were more or less hurt.
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