IRELAND.
The Orange Lodge of Trinity College, Dublin, has met and re. solved, " that no legal or moral force should be conceded to the recent determination of the King and the House of Commons to discourage the Orange Institution." So much for Mr. Shaw's influence over his constituents.
The Dublin Liberals are actively preparing for another election, in the expectation of Messrs. O'Connell and Ruthven being unseated. It is said Mr. Ruthven will not again be a candidate, but that Sir William Somerville, or Lord Brabazon, will be put forward as Mr. O'Connell's colleague. Mr. O'Connell has written to the Secretary of the Tiades Union, to the effect that there is no truth whatever in the rumour that he intends to stand for IVestminster.
Mr. John 'Matthew Galway has given up his petition against the return of Mr. O'Loghlen for Dungarvon. He pretends that intimida- tion was resorted to by the Catholics to prevent his obtaining the necessary guarantees and evidence.
On the 6th instant, an inquest was held at Glanworth in the county of Cork, before Richard Jones, Esq., upon the body of Frederick Nassau Massey, Esq., late of Griston, in the county of Limerick, under the following singular circumstances. This gentleman died about the llth or 12th of last February, mid was buried in the church- yard of Glanworth, on Saturday the 13th February, in the dead hour of the night. His body was brought there in a shell, on a common car, attended only by his sons and three other persons of inferior rank. One or two labourers were called up at Glanworth, to assist in the in- terment. No clergymen uf any persuasion attended his remains to the grave, lie was interred in the Madly vault of a Mr. Sherlock. His death was kept a profound secret ; and it has even been told that a beggurnum was placed in his bed to represent him, and that when any of his friends came to make inquiries for him, they were answered by inarticulate sounds, as if personating the deceased. However, Mr. George Gubbins had an insurance upon his life, and the annual pre- mium upon this became due on the 1st of March. Mr. Gubbins heard a report of his death, and made every effort to ascertain the fact. Ile sent a man who was well acquainted with Mr. Massey to open the - vault. He did so, and there identified him. Mr. Gubbins was then advised that an inquest should be held on the body. It is supposed that this effort to conceal his death arose from the circumstance of some considerable tithe property having depended upon his life. Mr. Jones, the Coroner, was opposed in the discharge of his duty, and was compelled to call out the Police to assist him. The body was iden- tified, and a verdict of" Natural Death" returned.—Cork Constitution.
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