IRELAND.
The election for Athlone isthe third that has gone against the Govern- ment. Two candidates went to the poll,—Mr. John Ennis, nominally a liberal, but one who is very unpopular, and considered as a sort of "Tory Catholic"; and the Honourable Mr. Handcoek, a Derbyite. The result of the po11 on Saturday was the return of the latter ; the rela- tive numbers being Handcock 80, Ennis 70. This election is regarded as a fresh triumph of the "'Independent Opposition" ; who boast that "in every constituency in Ireland they will exert themselves to return a Tory in Opposition to a Whig or unacceptable Liberal."
Mr. Justice Keogh took his seat on the bench at the opening of Taster term on Tuesday. There was a great attendance, chiefly of the fair sex. When Judge Keogh entered the hall, "instead of being a mark for po- pular odium, he was cheered to the very echo by the dense crowd"; and the moment he entered the Court of Common Pleas and made lie bow, "he was greeted with a fresh cheer."
Two men are to die for the murder of Miss Hinds—Murphy, one of the assassins, and Thomas Dunn, who collected money to pay the murderers and hired them. The trial of Dunn produced some extraordinary revelations. He was a man of some little property, had been a Poor-law Guardian, and was a tenant to Miss Hinds; he seems to have been unable or unwilling to pay his rent. He eanvassed the tenants for money to hire assassins to kill his landlady ; he himself and several others subscribed money—one "gave 21. towards the transaction," though Miss Hui' de was very kind to bins. "fled Pat Banon" and Murphy were engaged as murderers ; while they proceeded to their bloody work, Bunn went to a neighbouring market ; when the "transaction" was completed, Red Pat was paid 81., and Murphy 4/. Red Pat has escaped. Murphy was not a tenant to Miss Hinds—he seems to have been merely a labourer hired for the occasion as he might have been for any ordinary job. The Jury soon returned a verdict of guilty of conspiracy to murder' against Dunn. He and Murphy were then sentenced to be hanged. Apparently, proceedings will not be pressed against other tenants who subseribed towards the murder-fund—they seem to have been led away by Dunn, or influenced by fear for themselves if they did not sub- scribe.
The Jury that sat on the body of Mrs. Kelly were unable to fix upon any persons as the murderers but returned a verdict against "two persons own." Besides Mr. murderers, a relative of the deceased, the police have two tenants of Mrs. Kelly, a nephew of one of these, and a stranger from Roscommon, in custody. -The scene of the murder was a large field on a hill-aide, much exposed to observation : in fact, many persons saw the dis- guised murderers in the vicinity, but no one can or will identify them.
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