IRELAND.
Mr. William Keogh, a rising young barrister and a Roman Catholic, has begun canvassing the electors of Athlone on the Conservative interest. There is a second opponent to Mr. John &lett in the field, in the person of Sir George Beresford.
The Dublin Evening Mail collects from various parts of the country in- stances of inordinate rating, to show the difficulty of working a poor-law in Ireland. In the Nenagh Union, the Guardians have just struck a rate for three months, which in some electoral divisions will amount to 24s. to the pound, and in one to 36s. The Guardians of Scholl have rated the Union at 12s. 6d in the pound for three months, equal to 21. 10s. to the pound for the year. Ardmore is rated at 10s. 10d. for three months, or 21. 3s. 4d. for the year.
The pressure for money is severely felt in Dublin, and many aomptaneeti of small traders have been protested.
The markets are again showing a tendency to advance.
Pestilence is still raging; Sligo preserving its deadly preeminence. In one cabin, used as a lodging-house for beggars, sixty persons have died within the last three months.
A turbulent spirit has broken out into overt acts in several parts of Clare, Limerick, and Cork counties. On Monday, the Police-station at Ardnacrusha, on the Clare side of the Shannon, was besieged by a mob of 600 men; who had demolished the soup-kitchen! The Police fired, and so drove off the mob; which threatened to return. Two companies of In- fantry, a troop of the Eighth Hussars and a troop of Horse Artillery, were sent from Limerick. Troops had been sent to Kildysart, lower down the Shannon. At Mealick, within two miles of Limerick, assembled 10,000 men, "all armed with knives," (1) and they threatened to kill all the cattle; declaring that they would never accept out-door relief. At Castle- martyr, in Cork county, the residence of the Earl of Shannon, the people began to demolish a bridge, but were driven away by troops. At Cloyne the military were needed to suppress a tumult. Preference for public works in lieu of " relief " appears to be the motive to these rebellions Times.
In Galway, Kerry, and Tipperary, there have been outbreaks among the labourers recently discharged from the public works. A pay-clerk has been waylaid and robbed of 3501. by a party of six men, near Ballinamore. We abridge the accounts of this affair— Mr. Slack, a pay-clerk on the public works, has been wounded and robbed near Keshcarrigan, in the neighbourhood of Ballinamore. He had incautiously dis- pensed with an armed escort; and while driving along a road, six men with blackened faces sprang upon him, seized his horse, and fired a pistol, which, how- ever, did not injure him; they then dragged him to the ground, and seized the money he had with him, amounting to 3501. Having gagged him by tying the thong of his whip round his mouth, the robbers were about to decamp; but one cried out, "You sha'n't follow us!" and deliberately shot Mr. Slack through the leg. The wounded man was shortly after discovered by a labourer, who assisted him home.
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