IRELAND.
The Lord-Lieutenant has applied the Peace Preservation Act to the barony of Clandonagh in Queen's County, the scene of Mr. Ely's 'murder. The assassin is still at large ; but the police are said to be on his track. Sir Charles Coote has pledged himself to visit with imme- diate removal from his estate, and the infliction of the severest punish- ment the law permits, in each and every case where it may be satis- factorily proved that any tenant of his either harboured or succoured Delany (the alleged assassin), since the night on which Mr. Ely was shot. Iienceforwerd if any tenant on the venerable baronet's estates shall countenance persons of bad or questionable character, be they members of his own family or otherwise, his tenure becomes forfeited, and he must seek sonic other more congenial locality. Dr. Walsh, Ro- man Catholic Bishop of Kilkenny preached on Sunday a sermon against secret societies in the cathedral of that town. The report of Mr. Gason's murder nuns out to be a wicked joke perpetrated by that person him- self. This praetieal joker is a Justice of the Peace !
Incendiary fires in the Irish farmsteads keep pace with the assassina- tions. Three have recently occurred.
Lord Chancellor Napier gave judgment on Saturday in the O'Malley ease. He nuele an order, confirming the order of the 23d of September, by which he appointed Jane Robinson their aunt guardian of the minors ; directed them to be educated as Protestants, and to be given up into the custody of Jane Robinson ; and finally referred it to the Master of the Court to inquire and report upon the best mode of carrying out the order. The three female orphan children of the late John O'Malley were, in pur- suance cf the Lord Chancellor's order, delivered up to their aunt, Mrs. Jane Robinson, on Monday last. They were iu the custody of the Sisters of Mercy and the priests el the &stied- of 1 uam.
A riot has occurred in Westmeath -and King's county. Mr. Darg-an bad lowered the wages and reduced the hours of labour of the workmen on the railway running through those counties. In revenge,sa mob drove all the labourers off the line ; and the works were suspended.
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