IRELAND.
Mr. Nathaniel Sneyd, a well-known merchant of Dublin, and lately member for Cavan, was attached on Monday, in the middle of the day, by Mr. John Mason, the son of a gentleman of respectability residing in Dawson Street. Mr. Sneyd was returning from the Bank, along Westmoreland Street, to his house in Sackville Street, when the assassin discharged a loaded pistol at his head. He fell immediately, and then received a second shot, and a violent blow from the but-end of the pistol. Mason was secured by the sentries of the Bank : he made no resistance or attempt to escape. He was soon examined at the Police.office ; but nothing was extracted from him, except his name and residence, and an avowal that to have shot either of Mr. Sneyd's partners, Mr. French or Mr. Barton, would have answered his purpose equally well. He had no particular grudge against Mr. Sneyd ; but bad resolved upon killing one of the concern eighteen months ago. There is some reason to think the man insane. Mr. Sneyd died on .Wednesday.
Mr. George Cooke, who held a situation in the Civil Account Of- fice, Dublin, destroyed himself in a fit of insanity, on Saturday last, by taking prussic acid.
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