IRELAND.
The sentences of the Court-martial that tried the mutineers of the Tip-
f:peraryMilitia have been promulgated : four were sentenced to transportation r life, commuted to twenty-one years ; two to twenty-one years' transporta- tion, commuted to fourteen ; two to twelve years' transportation, commuted to four years' penal servitude. The sentences passed at the Assizes have also been commuted—Patrick Burns, who killed a soldier, is not to die, but to be transported for life; five men who were sentenced to fifteen years' transportation are to suffer ten years of penal servitude.
The North Tipperary Militia have been disembodied. General Sir James Chatterton lectured the men severely on their disgraceful mutiny ; but he held out hopes that if they behaved well henceforward the sentences on their comrades who have been tried and convicted may be further commuted. He bestowed the fullest approbation on the conduct of the officers. But a memorandum from the General commanding in Ireland, subsequently read, stated that the officers had adopted "no efficient measures" to restore dis- cipline, had not "zealously exercised" their influence and control in en- deavouring to remove the alleged causes of complaint, and had not sufficient- ly exerted themselves to explain the regulations about clothing and bounty. Each Militiaman on his dismissal received 258. and travelling expenses. Sir Edward M'Donnell, Chairman of the Great Southern and Western Railway, has stated that it is probable the frauds of the transfer-clerk Knighting will amount to 25,0001.
For some time past rumours have been prevalent that James Sadleir is still lurking in Ireland, somewhere about Coolnamuck : it would seem that the Constabulary believe it possible that such is the case; for only last week a party of fifteen constables made a search in the neighbourhood, but in vain.
Mr. James Barry, of Rockfleld, land-agent for a number of noblemen and gentlemen, and a most estimable man, has been drowned at Limerick. He appears to have walked off the quay into the river at night, at a very awkward place where the wharf had a sharp angle. A splash was heard by a watchman, who called out; but receiving no answer, he thought it must have been a dog that had plunged into the water. The body was found next day.
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