IRELAND.
The Dublin Exhibition is now attended by nearly 10,000 visitors daily, including a share of the Irish aristocracy. Its success is therefore no longer doubtful.
Sir Joseph Thackwell visited Cork this week, and was heartily received. Bonfires blazed on the hills ; his former regiment, the Thirty-ninth, sent out a detachment to greet him; the ships dressed, and the people cheered.
Mr. Delmege the Magistrate who was engaged in the affair at Six-mile Bridge, has obtained 100/. damages, at the Limerick Assizes, from Mr. Wil- son for slander. Mr. Delmege charged Mr. Wilson with coming up to him, jusi after the occurrence took place, and saying, "Oh, Mr. Delmege you have murdered the people!" The defence was, that the expression used was employed interrogatively, and was to the effect, "lam told you have murdered the people?" or, "Is it true you have murdered the people ?"
At the Monaghan Assizes, the case of the murder of Mr. Bateson, in which Juries have repeatedly been discharged without giving a verdict, again came before the Court. The prisoners were Grant and Cooney ; the latter was charged as an =essay/ before the fact. The Jury were locked up on Wednesday evening ; the Judge recalled them several times, but the answer was always that they could not agree ; on Friday morning they were called to the box for the sixth time—they said there was no prospeot of their agreeing : the Judge then discharged them, 88 be believed that their health must suffer by a longer confinement and fast.
John Mulligan, a policeman, was convicted at Limerick of the murder of his illegitimate child, and was remanded to prison. Next day., when sen- tence was to have been pronounced, it was stated to the Judge that the cul- prit was dead : he had that morning hanged himself to an iron railing. One Hudgins has been convicted of lying in wait to sheet Patrick M'Ida- lion_, for whose murder he and others bad- conspired. He wie, sentgneed to t,e hanged. Another man, Breen, was found guilty of conspirinin'
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