IRELAND.
The Lord-Lieutenant has requested leave of absence, in order that he may visit his aged father, who is ill, in Devonshire. The Lord- Lieutenant was expected to leave Dublin on Thursday.
Some meetings in support of the Ministerial propositions have been held in Ireland: one at Cork, on Wednesday evening; another at Macroom, in the county of Cork, in the midst of a highly agricultural district ; and a third in Drogheda, on Monday.
The Chamber of Commerce in Limerick have carried, by an over- whelming majority, petitions to both Houses of Parliament against the Ministerial propositions respecting the Corn-laws and Colonial timber.
Another murder, arising from the system of ejectments in Ireland, was committed in the county of Wexford on the 27th of May. Mr. Robert Butler Bryan, who purchased the palace and demesne of the deceased' Bishop of Ferns, was shot on the evening of that day, while riding alone in a wood near the house. Some tenants who had held under expired leases of the late Bishop, having refused to surrender to Mr. Butler, he was obliged to commence proceedings in ejectment against them : these succeeded, and the tenants were dispossessed; and Mr. Butler was shot in revenge. An envelope was found lying by him, ad- dressed to him, but containing no writing : it is from this conjectured, that a stranger, brought from a distance, was the culprit, and that he had taken the paper to ascertain the identity of his victim. Mr. Butler was liberal in politics, and is said to have been of a very amiable and inoffensive character.
A correspondent of the Dublin Pilot attributes the murder of Mr. Bryan to Orangemen. 'The bishopric of Ferns was a Protestant bishopric, says the Pilot, and a " den of Protestantism."
" Some eight or ten months ago, there was a solemn office and high mass celebrated here for the repose or the soul of our late lamented and pions pariah- priest the Reverend William O'Neill, at which the Right Reverend Dr. Keating, Bishop of the district, and a number of clergy assisted. In the even- ing of the above day, a set of low Orange ruffians assembled at a public-house du the town; .and when elevated with whiskey, they had the daring impiety :and gecklessness to go through a mock representation of the sacred rites which -had been performed at the chapel during the day. Mr. Bryan was so much -displeased with the act, that he at once dismissed some of the persons in his -employment, who were reported to him as having taken part in the proceed- ings; and several of the Orange party, it is said, vowed that they would be -revenged on him for so doing."
The effects of the thunder-storm of Thursday week were severely 'felt in Ireland. At Limerick, a woman was killed by lightning while sitting at the fire with her husband. Three persons lost their lives in Galway. Houses and cattle were injured at Marlborough ; five cows and a horse belonging to one man were killed. A person living at Tallaght gives the following account of the tremendous phenomena witnessed there-
" A convulsion took place about three o'clock this morning, at Old Bawn, Tallaght : the earth trembled as if it was only held by suspension ; the houses rocked most frightfully, as if inclined to bury the inmates; when on a sudden the heavens opened to the eye as one mass of living fire ; immediately after the elements grumbled and sent forth their awful noise, which was loud and terrific. The lightning, or some other uncontrollable power, tore up a part of the road, small at top, and opened as it sunk to the form of a balloon, well worth seeing."
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