IRELAND.
After lingering many days in a state of hopeless exhaustion, Lord Bes- borough has at length sunk under his malady. He died on Sunday night; being up to the last moment in possession of his faculties. He dictated a letter to Lord John Russell on the state of the country only two or three days before; being then quite aware of the approach of death. He took leave of the several members of his family about an hoar before his decease. The usual notification of the event was made to the Mayor of Dublin; and on Monday the tolling of the bells and firing of minute-guns proclaimed it to the citizens.
A proclamation has been issued by the Lord Chancellor, summoning the attendance of the members of the Privy Council for the election of Lords Justices to take charge of the government ad interim. It is sixty years since there has been any necessity for a similar proclamation; the last oc- casion of a Lord-Lieutenant dying in office being on the death of the Duke of Rutland, in 1787.
With the exception of Dublin, which keeps free from very extensive dis- ease, the provinces continue to suffer from the unmitigated ravages of fever. Many of the upper class full victims.
Meanwhile, the markets are steadily advancing; and outrages continue to be perpetrated by the demoralized people.
The crops in the South are very promising in appearance; and cultiva- tion seems to have been pretty generally extended.
The Dublin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle states, that " the class of small farmers have planted very little, and the conacre system of hiring land for the growth of potatoes appears to have been entirely aban- doned. This, at all events, is one great source of danger and misery removed."
The Dublin Evening Post announces, that as Mr. Hugh Morgan Tuite intends to retire altogether from Parliament, he will not again come for- ward for Westmeath.
As a tribute of respect to the memory of the deceased Viceroy, the Re- peal Association adjourned on Monday without doing any business. They met, however, on Tuesday. Mr. John O'Connell emphatically disclaimed any intention of being the leader of the Repeal agitation: he was only the deputy, the mouthpiece of his father; of whose returning health he spoke with some confidence. Rent 491.
The Repealers of Cork have had a meeting to revive the drooping ener- gies of the cause in the South. The Mayor presided on the occasion; and various resolutions were carried, embodying the well-known Repeal views. A resolution calling on the Queen to assemble as early as possible her Irish Parliament, excited a characteristic opposition from a Mr. Maguire; who, although a stern Repealer, thought that to petition was not the right way—the thing must be done through the elections.
John of Tuam has again thundered. In a long letter to Lord John Russell, in the Freeman's Journal, the irritable dignitary rates the Premier for " doggedly " refusing to import " that cereal which nature, experience, medical science, as well as human instinct, point out as the only sustaining, food of man."
A murder has been committed near Rathfriland, in Down County, of a pecu- liarly shocking nature, if the assassins are really those suspected of the crime. Early one morning, before ri
ore his servantsviere Stirring, Mr. James Paxton, a farmer, wealthy and a bachelor, left his house, apparently as if be had been called out by some one: several hours afterwards, a boy discovered. his master's body in a pool. of water in an avenue leading from the farm-house. The corpse was frightfully- disfigured. Around the spot there were marks showing that a desperate struggle had taken place: the pockets of the deceased had not been rifled. Some days later, suspicion fell on Mr. Paxton's brother, John, who resided in the neigh- bourhood, and John Paxton's son, James. Their house was searched; and the coat of the father was found to be bloody, while the son's shoes seemed to corre- spond with marks by the pond: both were arrested; two men named Kelso, father and son, were also taken into custody.
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