IRELAND.
The registrations in Wicklow County show a Conservative gain of 103 votes ; and Sir Ralph Howard's return as a Conservative is deemed secure.
William Page, a private in the Thirty-eighth Regiment, stationed at Dublin, was brought into the yard of the Royal Barracks on Thursday, to hear the sentence of a court-martial, before whom he had been tried on a charge of attempting to shoot Sergeant Michael Dolan. The usual formalities previous to the execution of a prisoner were observed on this occasion. The culprit walked in the centre of the firing-party, with the Provost-Marshal, and the Chaplain, "who had previously ad- ministered to hint the consolations of religion." The band played the Dead March in "Saul." The prisoner's every limb appeared to quiver, and the firing-party were pale as death. The troops being formed in a holloW square, the finding of the Court-martial, by which the prisoner was propounded guilty and sentenced to "be shot to death," was read by the Town-Major, who then paused ; and the prisoner attempted to come forward, but was prevented by the Chophiin. The Town-Major proceeded to read a contmunication from Lord Hill to General Sir Edsvaid Blakeney, commanaag in Ireland—" I have to acquaint you that her Majesty was pleased to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court." But " "Her Majesty was further pleased, under all the circumstances, to extend her most graeinus pardon to the pri- soner; and inetead of causing The said sentence to be carried into exe- cution, to order that he, the said private William Page, of the Thirty- eighte Regiment, be transportts1 as a felon to New South 'Wales, for the period of his natural lit b." Su the soldier was marched back again to prison, and tat speisick ended.
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