The accounts respecting the state of Ireland received by the
Dublin post of Thursday have rather a favourable tone. The number of persons employed by means of public funds, up to the close of last week, is de- clared to be 110,251. The increase of disturbance at Tulle has led to the introduction of a military force.
The Lord-Lieutenant left Dublin on Thursday, for Beaborough.
Colonel Mine, of Caldwell, has offered himself as a candidate to re- present in Parliament the county of Renfrew, vacant by the death of Mr. P. M. Stewart.
The Health of Towns Association met yesterday, at the rooms of the Statistical Society, to devise the best means of circulating a report pre- pared by a Committee of their body on the measures of the late Govern- ment for the improvement and drainage of towns. Lord Ashley presided; the chief speakers were Lord Ebrington and Dr. Southwood Smith. Re- solutions were adopted, deprecating the exclusion of the Metropolis, and of Ireland and Scotland, from the immediate operation of any sanitory mea- sure; directing measures for circulating the report; and requesting the Go- vernment to grant a conference with a deputation from the Association.
The Guardians of the Risbridge Union have decided not to prosecute the pauper nurse Slater. They met at Haverill yesterday; but, as if ashamed of themselves, they refused admission to the reporters for the newspapers. [It is difficult to guess at any but one reason for the decision not to prosecute—that the officers of the union dread some disclosures which the defence of Slater might involve.]
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