IRELAND.
The prospect of an abundant harvest is made matter of congratulation in the Irish journals. The accounts from all quarters, equally from the well-cultivated North and the South-east, are very favourable. With a larger total breadth of general tillage than in any former year, the parti- cular crop of potatoes is again described as immense in extent and of the most encouraging appearance.
The Reeman's Journal enumerates three Roman Catholic Archbishops, fifteen Bishops, and twenty-two Members of Parliament, who have de- clared themselves in favour of the new Catholic Defence Association.
The American steam-ship North America was to have left New York on Tuesday, and is expected at Galway on the 25th instant.
A peculiarly savage crime has been committed near Dundalk : while a young man was proceeding to mass on Sunday morning, accompanied by his stater, a gang of ruffians attacked him and beat him to death before his sister's eyes. The young man's father him, lately taken .a piece of land from which another had been evicted.
James Casey, a young man who was at the house of Hussey, a farmer at Fieldtown in 'Westmeath, has lost his life front a wound inflicted by a lurk- ing assassin, who fired into Ilussey'i residence. Suspicion fell upon James Kenny ; he was arrested ; and such evidence was brought before the Coro- ner's lury that they returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against him. Kenny, a native of Abbeyshrule in Longford, had no personal interest to serve, or ill-feeling against Hussey to gratify : 80 it ia conjectured that he Was a hired tool.
Two boys, sons of Mr. Rourke, of Celbridge, had set lines from their father's garden to catch fish in the Liffey. While examining the lines, the stream pulled one boy from the bank ; the brother in attempting to aid him, also fell in ; the father heard the cries of his children, and rushed into the river; but, alas! he could not swim—they were borne away by the current, and perished before his eyes.
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