IRELAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 531, 4 September 1850, Page 4

IRELAND.

Emigration, says the Limerick Chronicle,, is again amazingly; on the increase, not hqwever,/so much to Canada as to the United States ; and the train from this to Dublin is daily crowding with intending emigrants, mostly all agricultural, and who embark for their destination at Liverpool. The banks at Limerick are hourly paying; out money upon the orders remitted by the friends of those people in America who emigrated the last and preceding years. There are nine vessels at the quays taking passengers — three for New York and six for Quebec.

Dr. Langley, a physician iv Nenagh, has been tried at the recent assizes for the murder of his wife, by confining her while sick and diseased to an unwholesome room, and by refusing to allow her to provide; proper food for herself, and neglecting and refusing to provide it for her. This treatment was said to have occurred between December 5, 1848, and May 1, 1849, and the motive for it was al-> leged to have been an attachment which the prisoner entertained for a niece ot bis wife., It appeared, however, from the testimony of the witnesses, that Mrs. Langley died of diar-t rhosa, and the jury acquitted the prisoner of either murder or manslaughter. The guardians of the Kilmallock union have struck a rate of 7s. Bd. in the pound on the electoral division of Ballylanders. This, a local authority says, is almost tantamount to the confiscation of several properties within that unfortunate division which has suffered severely already from the excessive pressure of poor and other taxes. Cahircorney, in the same union, is called upon for ss. 6d., and Galbally for ss. in the pound. ■ How are the present prices of corn to enable the farmers to meet such demands as these ? Yet our rulers allege it can and must Le done somehow or other. Here is an illustration of the present value of land in Bruree — a district in the same county of Limerick, which is not so badly off as Ballylanders :—": — " The house, demesne, and lands of Bruree, containing 85 ' acres, subject only to the annual rent of £86, as formerly in the possession of Robert Fetherstone, Esq., upon which £4000 had been expended in improvements, and a fine of £1240 paid by the late Mrs. Cuffe Kelly, was brought to the hammer by Mr. M'Auliffe, on Thursday, when a sum of £160 only was offered in perpetuity of this estate."