IRELAND.
Mr. Hallewell was returned without opposition on Friday last week to represent the borough of Newry, in room of the late Viscount Newry and Morne. Mr. Hallewell adheres generally to protection, but in very guarded tone.
It is stated to be the intention of Government to erect artillery fortifica- tions at different stations along the Irish coast. At Solden Point, near Dun- dalk, one has just been completed, on which a large piece of ordnance is to be placed.
In the county of Down, so strong and unanimous is the resistance to the payment of the rate-in-aid of 6d., that the collector is going through the country to levy his distresses with two sub-inspectors and eighty con- stables of Police.
A gang of six ruffians attacked the house of a man named Harvey, near Mullingar, wounded some of the inmates by the discharge of a blunderbuss, and shot a young man dead with a pistol. The previous tenants had been ejected from the farm now held by Harvey.
A dwelling-house belonging to a gentleman named King, in the county of Westmeath, was maliciously set fire to on Sunday night fast, and burned to the ground.
It having been decided by the Magistrates that the fire at Downhill House, the scat of Sir Henry Bruce, was of an incendiary character, the enormous sum of 50,0001. will be levied off the barony of Londonderry as compensation for property destroyed, at the next Assizes. In the valuable gallery of pictures destroyed, was a picture by Raphael, well known as the 46 Boar Hunt."
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