IRELAND.
Mr. Edward Litton, Senior Master of the Court of Chancery, Mr. Retry Daley, and Mr. Wilmot Seton, of the Treasury-office, London, have arrived in Dublin, as Commissioners appointed to inquire into the nature and extent of the duties of the several officers of the Court of 1-inencery, the fees or emoluments, and any alterations that should be Side. They held their first sitting in the chamber of the Lord Chan- °Der's secretary, Four Courts, on Friday. .& large number of the officials of the Court of Chancery were present. The inquiry is to be conducted with closed doors. ;Lord Naas received a deputation on Wednesday from the Irish Asso- etabon for the Repeal of the Duty on Paper ; the deputation comprising 1-)r. Gray and many leading representatives of the press. Lord Naas Bald that it was merely a question of finance ; "but he should feel deep regret if the repeal of this tax did not form part of the plan of Mr. Dis- Melt, whom he knew to be opposed to it and ready to repeal it as soon ea It could be done." The deputation afterwards waited upon Mr. Whiteside, the Attorney-General, Mr. J. D. Fitzgerald, the late Attor- rley-General, and several Members of Parliament. The Dublin papers confirm a report already circulated, that Lord ES- lintoun is about to marry Lady Adele Cape!. "The Earl of Essex, the bride's father, is the possessor of large estates in Roscommon, where his Lordship has been recently a visitor. The Viceregal nuptials are to take place on Tuesday, and the ceremony is to be strictly private."
The Waterford Mail thus explains the contemplated sale of the Duke of Devonshire's Irish estates.
"The Duke anxious to lessen the mortgages which hang over the property by the disposal of part of his Irish estates, wishes to sell the property in and about Bandon, and also that in Youghal and Dungarvan ; but he wishes to retain the Lismore estates, the castle, and the property which extends towards Tallow and along into the county Cork. 'I'he trustees of the late Quentin Dick would purchase the entire property if it were for sale, and they have actually offered 1,000,0001. sterling for the entire property, which would be rather over twenty years' purchase on the rental."
An Irish landlord has been shot, it is feared mortally, in Donegal. The victim is the Reverend Alexander Nixon. He was returning in his carnage• with his wife and daughter from the Church of Myra, four-and-a-h miles from Dunfanaghy, when three men, disguised in women's clothes, stopped the carriage, and one of them fired a pistol point blank into his face. Mr. Nixon is represented us being a just and good-natured man, one un- likely to act harshly towards his tenantry. The Lord-Lieutenant has offered a reward of 100/. for the apprehension of the ruffians. According to the latest accounts there is very little chance of Mr. Nixon's recovery.
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