IRELAND.
'Lord Bandon had been elected a Representative Peer of Ireland, in the room of the late Earl of Longford, by a majority of 81 to 31. The adjourned meeting, to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament upon certain observations said to have been delivered by the Right Honourable Frederick Shaw at a Corporation dinner on the 14th of July, took place on Monday in the Coburg Gardens. So early as five o'clock on Monday, parties were seen going to the place of meeting ; and between eleven and twelve, not less than between twenty and thirty thousand persons were assembled. At half. Fasteleven, a party of Orangemen, about five hundred in number, attempted to force their way into the meeting : they were opposed by the opposite party; and the consequence, as might have been anticipated, was a collision in which several severe wounds were inflicted—one man, a painter by trade, is so severely injured as not to be expected to survive. The Orangemen were eventually forced to retreat. The Lord Mayor and Police were in attendance, and Sir Edward Blakeney and Staff arrived about two o'clock. At this hour, there were in Harcourt Street alone not less than ten thousand persons assembled. The shops in Grafton Street were partially closed during the day; and the excitement consequent on these proceedings has had the effect of nearly suspending business in the city and along the canals. .--At three o'clock, a separate meeting was held by the Orangemen, at the hall, Wellington Quay. From the excited feelings of the opposite extremes, serious apprehensions were entertained for the peace of the city. Every possible precaution on the part of the Magistracy was adopted. It would not, perhaps, be too much to calculate the number of persons assembled, including those in the neighbourhood of Harcourt Street, Stephen's Green, and Cuffee Street, at 60,000. At half-past three, the meeting separated, without further mischief. At four o'clock, a body of between ten and twelve hundred men passed the College, brandishing sticks and shouting, but without further demonstrations of a hostile nature : they were met by another mob, who arrived by way of Wellington Quay, at Carlisle Bridge and after a mutual exchange of greetings, separated peaceably. Most of those who had sticks or bludgeons, flung them over the Liffey walls, prior to dispersing.—Dublin Observer.
A horrible murder has been perpetrated in the county of Galway. The victims are three brothers, who lately prosecuted some ruffians at the Quarter-sessions, for an assault. Their assailants, who were sentenced to a term of imprisonment, were liberated previous to the murder, and are strongly suspected of having been the authors of it. They have been arrested by the Police.
The Reverend Mr. Walshe, Catholic priest of Borris, in Carlow, was killed last week, when on his road to London, to give evidence before the Carlow Election Committee. A Coroner's Jury have found, " That the deceased came by his death by the infliction of a wound upon his head, by means of a blunt instrument, by some person or persons unknown." It was stated early in the week, that Mr. Walshe had been murdered ; but this was positively contradicted in the Orange papers ; and it was said that he fell from his horse, on riding homewards, after dining with a friend. It now appears that he was violently put to death ; and there is no reason to suppose that be killed himself.
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