IRELAND.
The Honourable Colonel Cole has been returned for Fermanagh without opposition. He fills the place of the late Sir Arthur Brooke.
The Tablet made grave complaint that the Roman Catholic chaplains to the British army in the East were obstructed in the discharge of their duties. This statement has met with a prompt and direct reply from "Denis Sheehan, Catholic Chaplain, Light Division" ; who from Balak- lava avows himself obliged "in common fairness" to state that "no such obstruction is within his own experience," or that of his new colleagues ; and that had the late Mr. Wheble met with such obstruction, he would not have failed to mention it to the writer.
The Belfast School of Design has been closed. It was established in 1849; and the Board of Trade then guaranteed, in effect at least, an annual grant of 500/. towards the maintenance of an entirely untried project. The school has now been closed for want of funds. The Limerick School has also been closed.
John Rafferty, of Lislea in the county of Antrim, has been murdered by Henry M`Kildra, in a fit of jealousy. MIlildm pounced upon Rafferty as he was escorting a young woman home at night, and struck him such a fearful blow on his head with a stick that the skull was fractured, and he died soon after.
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