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tion of Irish Members waited on the Chancellor of eck, for the purpose of requesting that a Govern- ..., Iroq■a OW. should be made to defray the expenses of public in- (11. . ing. The petition was granted.
F Je-g g in Ireland have, in consequence of the quiet and
‘. of that country, been reduced from about 26,000 to
a of 18,000 men. It appears from the Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday, that the Ame- ricans, undaunted by the failure of the experimental trip of the Viceroy from Galway to New York, have themselves taken in hand the enterprise of establishing a first-class steam service from their coast to the nearest point of European shores. The Mail announces that "the splendid and powerful now steam-ship North America, Captain Blethen, United States Navy, is appointed to leave New York for Galway on Tuesday the 17th instant. The North America has eighty state-rooms, with ample accom- modation for two hundred passengers ; and it is predicted that she will make the swiftest passage on record across the Atlantic. The directors of the Irish Midland Great Western Railway are already making arrange- ments to convey the passengers with the greatest possible speed from Gal- way to Dublin."
At the public examination for Fellowships, which will commence to- morrow, [the 11th,] in the Dublin University, the practice of conducting the examinations in Latin will, for the first time since the foundation of the College, be partially abandoned, and the English language will be used in the departments of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. It may be just at the same time to remark, that the Board of Trinity Col- lege have of late evinced an anxiety in general not to be backward in the way of reform, and entertain a sincere wish to meet the exigencies of the times.—.Dublin Correspondent of the Daily News, June 10.
The death of Dr. John Torrens (in the eighty-third year of his age) places the Archdeaconry of Dublin and several other pieces of preferment at the disposal of Dr. Whately, the Archbishop of Dublin.
A ease of murder long concealed hasjust come to light near Kilkenny. Mary Fleming, a widow, informed the Police that one night between the 25th December 1847 and lst January 1848, she chanced to pass the door of John Walsh, at Castlegannon ; she turned for the purpose of going in, but drew back in terror upon beholding the body of Walsh's brother-in-law, Thomas Ball, a cowjobber, lying dead and covered with blood on the floor, and Walsh and his daughter making ready to remove it by the back-door. She contrived to get away without being observed ; and upon reaching home, informed her husband of what she had beheld. He strictly enjoined her never to divulge the circumstances ; and during his life she kept the pledge. Ball had been suddenly missed at the time referred to by the woman Flem- ing, but it was supposed that he had gone to America : he had a large sum of money in his possession. Walsh and his daughter have been arrested. Search was made at their house in Castlegannon, and a skeleton was found buried in the earth a few yards from the back-door. A Coroner's Jury sat upon these remains, and returned this verdict— "That the said deceased was discovered dead in an old yard, late in the occupa- tion of John Walsh, on the lands of linockmoylan ; that said deceased's skull was extensively fractured on both temples, with a blunt or some such weapon, feloni-- ously and of malice aforethought, by him the said John Walsh, late of Castlegannon, aided and assisted therein by a person or persons unknown ; and that the said mur- der appears to have been perpetrated on or about the close of the year 1847."
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