IRELAND.
As three Irish Peerages have lately lapsed by death, it fell to the lot of Lord Palmerston, under the provisions of the Union Act, to create one new Peer. The Premier has nominated Mr. Edmund Burke Roche, late Member for Cork County ; who will take the title of Viscount Fermoy, a title formerly in his family.
It is stated that Mr. Alexander M'Carthy, for a short time Member for the City of Cork, will probably be elected for the County. He has met with an opponent in Mr. R. Deasy, Q.C.
A fierce contest is anticipated at Cavan in the room of Sir John Young. The candidates arc Mr. Hughes and Mr. Burrowes ; a Whig and a Derbyite.
Dr. John George Beresford, the Primate of Ireland, completed his fiftieth year in that sacred office on the 29th March. It is an incident unprecedented in the history of the Irish Church ; and, to mark the ac- casion, an address from the prelates and clergy, drawn up by the Arch- bishop of Dublin, was presented to the Primate at Armagh.
"The three stones" placed on the railway at Trillick to upset a train of Protestant excursionists are to be preserved as mementoes—in the Protestant Halls of Deny, Enniskillen, and Belfast.
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