IRELAND.
The annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society opened at Armagh on Wednesday. It was a very satisfactory exhibition. In the evening the Society had its banquet, with the Duke of Leinster as Chairman, and the Lord-Lieutenant as chief guest. The Purcell Challenge Cup, a prize for the best animal of the neat cattle classes, was carried off for the third time by Mr. Charles Towneley, of Towneley Park. He announced that he will give a cup of equal value to be competed for under the same con- ditions.
The first arrival of English Militia in Ireland occurred last week, when a part of the West York landed in Dublin.
The great trial of Pierce Somerset Butler versus Lord Monntgarrett, at the Kilkenny Assizes, was decided on Saturday, after four days' argument. The Jury, believing the witnesses brought to prove the allegations of the plain- tiff, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 6d. costs. They were engaged three hours in coming to this conclusion ; and so great and painful was the excitement in the court, that a gentleman named Browne was seized with a fit on hearing the verdict. The property at stake is about 10,0001. a year, and a contingent peerage.
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