IRELAND.
The Earl of St. Germans rode into Dublin on Thursday afternoon. He was received and preceded to the Castle by the Lord Mayor and the Cor- poration, and cheered, in passing the College, by the students. The Countess of St. Germans and the Ladies Eliot were also cordially greeted.
Lord Aberdeen has exercised the first piece of Government patronage which has fallen into his hands in such a way as to indicate that ho is not likely to be guided by party politics in reference to matters which are not strictly political. He has conferred the green riband of the Thistle, vacant by the death of the Earl of Stair, upon the Earl of Eglin- ton. This graceful act must be exceedingly gratifying to Lord Eglin- ton, while, we believe, it will be approved of by men of all parties. It is a testimony, on the part of the head of the Government, to the able and conciliatory manner in which his Lordship discharged the difficult and important duties of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.-21'Orlhern Whig.
An open-air demonstration in behalf of " religious equality " was held at Kells, in the county of Meath, on Tuesday last. Some two or three thousand persons assembled, but nobody of imperial notoriety except Mr. Frederick Lucas and Dr. Gray. The Carlow election was styled a " great popular victory," and the traitors Keogh and Sadleir were duly denounced as the betrayers of their country. In the evening there was a dinner. " The Pope" preceded the Queen as a toast. Mr. Lucas con- firmed the surmises that existed at one time in London as to the friendly relations between the late Chancellor of the Exchequer and the dema- gogues of the Brigade. The Tenant-righters, he said, had got more from the Derby Government than from the Whigs and Peclites; Mr. Disraeli would be worth six Members, in the Tenure Bills Committee—if the Irish do not make an enemy of him. Soldiers were held in reserve during this meeting, but not needed:
There has been another murder in Westmeath, and an attempt at assassi- nation, both near Monte. Thomas Kerry, a convert to Romanism, was em- ployed by Mr. Sills, an English farmer. At night, four men fell upon him in the public road, and beat him with bludgeons. Kerry managed to crawl to Mr. Sills's. house : he spoke a few words, and said he knew his assailants ; but before he could tell their names he became insensible, and died a few hours after. The motive for this murder is unknown.
Marsh, a labourer in the service of Mr. M'Donald, a Scotch Roman Ca- tholic, who had recently purchased an estate in the Encumbered Estates Court, was shot at in his own cottage. Fortunately, he received only a slight wound in the thigh, but a quantity of slugs lodged in the wall behind him. Mr. M'Donald had been frequently annoyed by threatening letters, and Marsh was his confidential man.
Two Ribandmen are in custody in Dublin who were arrested in England —one at Liverpool, the other at Warrington. They are officers of Riband lodges in those places; and the books and papers seized proved the existence of an extensive organization. It is said that the arrest caused two hundred persons in Lancashire to change their domiciles, fearing a visit of the Police.
In consequence of a Government investigation into the manner in which Kirwan was treated in Kilmainham Gaol—where, it was said, he met with undue indulgence—Mr. M'Manus, the Deputy-Governor, has resigned.
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