IRELAND.
Captain M'Clintock Bunbury, R.N., the nephew of the late Mr. Bun bury, is the Conservative Candidate for Carlow.
At the weekly Repeal meeting, on Monday, a letter was read from Mr. Smith O'Brien, accepting the compliment of a " triumphal entry into Dub- lin and a national banquet." "No better evidence," he says, "could be given of the entire harmony which prevails among us, than that this pro- posal has originated with our illustrious chief, and has been adopted unani- mously by the Repeal Association."
Mr. O'Brien accepts the offer of the Association to repay, the fees (411. 68. 8d.) exacted from him on his liberation from the prison of the House of Commons. He does this feeling assured that the Repealera would be dissatisfied if he insisted on paying the money hirnielf; and he also thinks that such a payment is a legitimate application of the Repeal fund. [As legitimate as any other, no doubt.]
The rent was stated at 1001.
The Trustees of the Indian Relief Fund have received a letter from Sir Lawrence Peel, enclosing a bill of exchange for 1,0001., and stating that a further remittance might be expected from the more distant stations cif Bengal. This makes a total of 6,0001. from that Presidency. From the city of Delhi 1501. has been forwarded directly to Donegal. The Bank' of Ireland, in the most generous manner, has cashed the Calcutta bills with out any deductions for discount, although they were drawn at six months. —Evening Post.
A very foreboding announcement respecting the potato crop is made by the Cork Examiner-- "From many quarters we have advises which leave no doubt as to the fact that the calamity of last year has again visited us. This disease has made its appearance, not only in the immediate vicinity of our city, but in the neighbour- hood of Coyne, Ballycotton Kinsale, Clonakilty, and Castlernartyr; while from Kerry also we have received like advices. From Castlemartyr, a gentleman writes= You will be sorry to perceive by the accompanying parcel, that the de- structive disease, which so much affected the potato crop of last year, has again visited us. I have about three roods of those potatoes; and up to 'Sunday last they were the admiration of all who saw them, nearly closing up the drills. They were planted whole, the first week in February, on ground that grew turnips last season; and now they present but a sickly, burnt-up appearance, in place of the beautiful luxuriant aspect they bore last week. This is a bad beginning so early for this year: The writer further states, that so rapid has the disease spread,' he fears he will be oblig/attontplough up the drills next week and sow the land
with turnips.' It is very ul to be obliged to make this announcement; but with so many communications on the subject before us, we feel we should not be acting right in withholding the information."
The Tipperary Vindicator has this paragraph respecting the late un- happy affray at Bird Hill-
" We understand that the Attorney-General has signified to Captain Pollock, B.M., at Nenagh, his decision that informations shall be taken against Mr. Going, the Sub-Sheriff, for his part in the melancholy proceedings at Bird Hill on the 16th May when Bridget Gardiner and Henry Bourchier fell under the bullets of the Constabulary. We believe that informations will be immediately tendered." Mr. Bryan Kenny, Sir John Nugent's agent, was fired at, near Mallingar, on Saturday evening, by three men. Mr. Kenny was wounded in the back, and his life is in danger. This outrage took place at the very spot where the conspiracy was hatched to take away the life of Sir Francis Hopkins.
The prisoners in the Limerick County Gaol, one hundred and seven in number, have been quarrelling with their Indian corn meal: they struck work, and refused to resume it until they had been supplied with their old diet.
Three men, unmarried brothers, have died at Kereight, near Kyle, from the effects of poison. It is said that some arsenic, which was laid on the dresser for the purpose of poisoning rats, was inadvertently mixed with the oatmeal of which the family partook for breakfast, made into stirabont.
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