IRELAND.
The venerable Mr. Justice Burton, of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench died on the 15th, at his residence in St. Stephen's Green. He was in his ninetieth year. His illness was very brief; he had been out walking in the course of the week before his death.
The Lord Chancellor of Ireland has been suffering under a severe attack of bronchitis. Some apprehensions have been entertained that the disorder was so severe as to preclude the hope of recovery; but the later reports describe the disease as not gaining ground.
Although no new murders are recorded this week, the condition of the-• country would appear to be getting more extensively disordered. • Lord Clonbrock has received two threatening notices from the " Molly Ma- guires." Lord Clonbrock resides on his estate, and gives extensive employment- to the people. The denunciation is directed against some persons brought by his Lordship to instruct his tenantry in the improved system of agriculture, cultiva- tion of flax, and the manufacture of drainage-tiles.
"Several strange men," says the Western Star, "have been lately observed in the neighbourhood of Ahascragh and Castlegar, prowling about the country. Twee' of them have been specially noticed, soliciting money and food at several houses., Those fellows were relieved at Castlegar House some evening this week; and while. one of them was in the act of stooping down for something that fell, a pistol, dropped from beneath his coat."
The Galway Mercury describes an attempt on the life of Mr. Michael MTG. nongh, a farmer residing at Shrew: while returning home from Outerard, he was fired upon, and severely wounded in the shoulder. Several persons are in custody on suspicton.
In the North, the same system is in full operation. A Cavan paper, the An- glo-Celt, mentions that Mr. Scott, of Fort Frederick, has been served with a threatening notice. Mr. Scott had advanced money to many of his tenants to emigrate•' dividing the farms among those who remained. It is now demanded of him that he shall not attempt to lessen the population on his estates, but that he shall put in a new man for every one who has emigrated.
A Tyrone correspondent of the Dublin Evening Mail adds another instance. A letter bearing the Derry postmark was on the 8th instant received by Mr. A., W. Cole Hamilton, of Beltnm, threatening "to shoot him like a dog." On the same evening, a Shot was fired from behind a hedge in Beltrim demesne,. at three young men returning from Gortin market. Mr. Cole Hamilton has been for- twenty years an almost constant resident; has spent a large sum in improvement; and has lately taken a loan from the Board of Works, which will give employ- ment to the able-bodied on his estate for the next three years.
"An Irish Peer," writing to the Times on the state of Ireland, throws some light on the Reverend Mr. M'Dermott's denial respecting the de- nunciation of Major Mahon- " Mr. M'Dermott says—' I have now to assure the public, by the most solemn asseverations a clergyman can utter, that the late Major Mahon was never de- nounced, nor even his name mentioned, from any chapel-altar in Strokestown, or within twenty miles of Strokestown, in any direction, on any Sunday before his death.' The reverend priest is quite right as to the word 'Sunday. The late Major Mahon was denounced from the altar on the Monday' previous to his a13- sassination ; that 'Monday ' was a saint's day, on which the !Ionian Catholic popu- lation attend mass as regularly and in as great numbers as on the Sabbath. This- fact is known in Dublin Castle. I make no comment whatever upon this circum- stance: I leave the people of England to form their own judgment of it."
The late Mr. Scully, says the Peer, "was murdered near his house, in the midst of his tenantry; yet no one has been found to bear witness against the assassins "- " His brother, the present proprietor of the property, has been threatened; an& no doubt he will fall if the villains can get a fitting opportunity. It is given out in the country, that he has made a will, stating that he leaves his property to his brother but should he be murdered, he orders that the brother shall, within two- years, eject all the tenantry, or the property shall go to the next brother, and so• on to the next akin. This is termed a safety will."
The destitution in Limerick is extreme. The workhouse, already over- crowded with 2,500 inmates, has been besieged by crowds of starving. wretches clamouring for admission. On Thursday sennight, from four to five hundred, chiefly women with children at the breast, pressed on sew. riotously that it became necessary to obtain the assistance of the police.
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