IRELAND.
At the usual meeting of the Repeal Association, on Monday, Mr. O'Connell presented the first report of the Committee on the Tenure of Land Commis- sioners' Report It consisted mainly of long extracts setting forth the nature and advantages of the tenant-right in Ulster, with a recommendatory comment. Mr. O'Connell declared that an Irish Parliament would extend the right over the whole of Ireland. He moved that the meeting be adjourned to that day fortnight, because on that day week the Repeal" martyrs "would be on their way to a dinner at Kilkenny. The rent for the week was 3981.
At Kilkenny Assizes, last week, Patrick Larkin was convicted of putting oil of vitriol into flour made at a mill in which he was employed: he had a spite against the head miller, and adopted this plan of injuring him and his master. He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment.
Divers murders are reported this week. A man of Lisnagole, in Fermanagh, who is eighty years old, has killed his wife, by chopping her on the neck with a hatchet. One Grady, returning from Ballybricken races, was attacked with sticks and stones_by a number of men, and was so severely beaten that he died In a few hours. While three brothers were at work on their land at Fannet, in Donegal, a young man named Dogherty came up with a gun in which he bad fixed a bayonet, and gave one of the brothers a mortal stab. Dogherty said, "he - would have more lives before he lost his rights." He has been arrested.
• Chawner, a blacksmith, has been convicted at Tullamore of murdering his little daughter, by putting her into a bog-hole, and placing a large sod on her head. The chief witness against the culprit was another daughter, six years of age, who witnessed the drowsing of her sister.
A Magistrate and four Policemen having arrested four armed men near Cas- tierce, last week, some three hundred fellows, all armed, collected to rescue the prisoners, and drove the Magistrate and Constables into a house' which they set on fire: the greater part of the building was consumed, but the officers of the law fortunately escaped.
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