IRELAND.
A tenant of Lord Derby in Tipperary, one Crow, was recently mur- dered. As usual the murderer escaped, aided by the peasants. Lord Derby, it is said, as a measure of retaliation, has instructed his agent to clear the whole estate ; of all, save and except the relations of the mur- dered man.
A new journal has made its appearance at Waterford. It is styled the Citizen, the title of that print through whose columns in the United States John Mitchell fulminated in favour of negro slavery. Its first act is to demand an amnesty for Mitchell, M'Manus, and Meagher, the three political convicts who broke their parole as gentlemen and escaped from Australia. Mr. Smith O'Brien, who declined to violate his word of honour, joins the proprietor of the Citizen, one Smyth, in advocating the claims of these men to pardon.
The Northern Whig contains the following extraordinary story of a case of revivalism :— " There has been, for some time back, for public exhibition, in this town, a case of convicted' imposture which equals anything yet met with in the history of the delusion. At 28, Birch Street, there was to be seen, up till Friday last, a woman' apparently about thirty years of age, tattooed in dif- ferent portions of her body like a Red Indian. The imposture having been detected, the show has been closed since the above date, by command from a certain quarter, although the poor people of the neighbourhood still assume that the delusion was the work of the Spirit of God. On her breast was im- printed a large red fiery cross, done in the rudest style imaginable. On one breast is inscribed the word Jesus,' and on the other side Christ.' A few days ago, upon one of her arms, Seek ye the Lord' was plainly visible; but from some cause or other this has been effaced, or faded away,' as the people of the house express it. The woman took the revivals' at the first meeting in the Botanic Garden, where she was stricken.' From that time till now she has been deaf, dumb, and blind by turns, until at last a miracu- lous dispensation of the Holy Spirit has been favoured her. Visions and glimpses of the other world, casting into the shade the absurdity of Joe Smith's religion, have all been part and parcel of her conversion. On Sun- day week she awoke out of one of these seraphic dreams with the above- named superscription upon her person, and since then has been almost deified. Crowds of people visited her during the past week, and the pro- ceeds of the exhibition—until, unfortunately for herself, it was ' closed '— were gratifying.' On one day lls. were realized. The lettering was the were performed we ever saw, being evidently the work of Nome unskilled person-, :o ore resembling Chinese hieroglyphics than the alphabet ; yet in the minds of the diseased and infatuated multitude it is nothing short of a revelation."
A great fire at Belfast on Monday night destroyed the printworks of Howey and Co., at Old P-rk. The whole range of buildings was burnt ; the damage is estimated at 25,00/.
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