At the outports some activity exists in clearing cargoes from
vessels grain- laden, to avoid the operation of the duty whichem and after the 1st of March will again be levied under the existing Corn-lawse the order in Council for the suspension of those laws being at the date mentioned at an end.—Globe.
The " People's Estate " at Snig's End has had its harmony disturbed by an encounter between one of its " happy" owners and its projector. Mr. Dewhurst, formerly a schoolmaster at Leicester, gave up that occupation, repaired to Snig's End to become a landowner, and to that end placed 4001. in the hands of Mr. Fear- gas O'Connor. But Mr. Dewhurst seems to have had some doubts as to ob- taining proper possession of a farm-house and its appurtenances; and so, the other day, armed with a hatchet, he entered a room where Mr. O'Connor was seated, with the intention of assailing him. Mr. O'Connor settled the matter by knock- ing down Mr. Dewhurst; who was then taken away by some of the landowners.
At Roscommon Assizes, on Wednesday, Donoughoe was convicted of shooting the Reverend John Lloyd, in October last.
The Coroner's Jury which sat on the body of the Reverend Thomas Maguire has returned a verdict of " Wilful murder " against Mary Reynolds, his house- keeper.
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