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IRELAND.

Agricultural Distress. — In consequence of the continued wet weather great privations have been endured by the labouring classes from the total stoppage of employment in all branches of husbandry, and the poor people are once more crowding ihe workhouses. In the rural districts, especially in the south and west, there is much distress, caused by the interruption of labour in the fields, and io drainage and other public works. At the recent meeting of the guardians of the Galway Union, upwards of 200 applicants were admitted to the workhouse. The graziers and' sheep farmers are complaining of the spread of' distemper amongst their stock, owing to the long continuance of wet weather ; and it is feared there will be seriou3 losses, and a corresponding advance in prices.

The Six-mile Bridge Affray. — In the Queen's Bench on Mouday, in the case of the •'Queen v. Demege, J.P., and others," the Attorney-General applied, on behalf of the Crown, that the depositions against the travelers might be returned to the office of the clerk of the Cro v/u for the county of Clare, for the purpose of the prosecution at the next assizes. The documents in question were brought up to town upon an order of the Court for an application made last term to quash the finding of the coroner's jury. The Chief Justice granted the order. The Sixmile-Bridge Affair. — The Court of Queen's Bench on Monday gave judgment on the application for a new trial made on the part of the propr ietor of the Anglo Celt newspaper. Their lordships were unanimously of opinion that' there were no grounds for disturbing the verdict. The 18th of April was appointed for the judgment.

Agrarian Murder in Westmrath. — A. dreadful murder was perpetrated on Thursday week at Kilbeggan. The victim was Thomas Farrell, a respectable farmer, residing at a place ■called Gurteen. While sitting at his own fireside with his neighbours,' three ruffians, fully armed, entered the kitchen and demanded Farrell's gun. The order having been at once complied with, the whole party fired together at Farrell, who instantly fell dead at their feet. The assassins were Btrangers, and at present the police hare been unable to trace them.

Encumbered Estates Court. — The total number of petitions lodged from the issuing of this Commission to the 31st of December last, (a period of three years and two months,) was 2580. The number of estates (or parts of estates) sold was 858. The total estimated rental of the lands, comprised in the petition for sale, was £1,41 1,413 6s. 4d. The estimated amount of mortgages, judgments, arrears of nnnuities, and other securities affecting these estates, was £31,527,613 Bs. 7d. The amount received for properties sold was — for sales in Court, £5,364,507 10s. ; from provincial sales, £1,741,920 ; from private sales, £1,145,520 2s. Bd. Total, £8,251,147 12s. Bd. Out of the funds thus received, the Commissioners have disbursed in payments to iucumbrancers, and in allowance to purchasers who are incumbrancers, no less than £5,000,000. For some time after the issuing of the Commission, the properties realised very small sums, but within the last few months there has scarcely been a sale that has not given signs of returning confidence in the value of land as an investment for capital. Last week the property sold realised 33£ years' purchase.

FIXING A PaOIESTANT CHURCH. — The Scotch church at Crevelea, recently built hy the Crevelea Iron Works Company, has been burnt down by an incendiary. It had been erected for the use of the Scotch miners, and is said to have become objectionable to the priest because some of his flock were frequent attendants at the service.

Progress of Ribeonism. — The Ribbon system, is increasing to an alarming extent jn some parrs of Westme'ath. Last week we 'gave an account of the murder of a respectable 1 farmer named' Farrell, in the \icin'ity^of Kilbeggan, whose offence was that he had taken land from which the former tenant had been ericted. Another murder has beeu perpetrated at Joneslake, near Moate, in the same county. The victim in this case, Tb.omas Kerry, was waylaid by four men, who beat him so dreadfully with blu.lgeons that he died on the following morning.. Ttie unfortunate man was in the employment of

an English farmer, Mr. Sills, who rents the farm at Joneslake, where be hat been successfully carrying on tbe manufacture of cheese. In the same district Mr. Dargan, the railway contractor, has purchased a considerable estate, and one of his farms is held by a Cheshire agriculturist, who has introduced the manufacture of cheese on a large scale. In this part of tbe country the labouring population are fully employed, and there have been no complaints about "clearances," or disputes between landlords and tenants. These crimes, therefore, in a district heretofore remarkable for tranquillity, are attributed solely to tbe spread of tbe Ribbon system,. the extensive ramifications of which have been exposed by the recent arrests in Dublin and in England. The effects of the system of secret combination have since been shown by another outrage. A labourer named Marsh, in the employment of Mr. M 'Donald, a Scotch Roman Catholic gentleman, who purchased the demesne of Castle Daly in the Encumbered Estates Court, was fired at last week in his own house, but fortunately escaped with' a slight wound in the thigh, a quantity of slugs having lodged in the wall beside him. It is stated that Mr. M'Donald, since be purchased his property, has been so tormented with threatening notices, that he contemplates removing his family from the country. Death of a whole Family from Glanders. — A whole family named Uncles, residing at Maugherow, near Lisadell, in Sligo, have been swept away by glanders. The /ather purchased 4 horse some time back at a fair in Mayo infected with this distemper ; be soon afterwards took tbe disease himself, then bis wife and fonr children caught it, and they all died in great agony. Two girls, living at a place called the Windy Gap, about two milles from Sligo, have also died of this disease. The Convict Kirwan. — Mr. John Wynne, the late Under- Secretary, states, under bis band, that Lord Eglintoun was induced to commute the sentence at tbe suggestion of tbe two judges who tried him, the late Lord Chancellor concurring in the recommendation. No other person or party had anything to say in the affair. — Mr. M'Manus has " resigned " the deputy-governorship of Kilmainham Gaol. The resignation was the result of an investigation, by order of the Government, into the conduct of the prison authorities with regard to their treatment of the convicts.

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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 819, 8 June 1853, Page 3

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IRELAND. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 819, 8 June 1853, Page 3

IRELAND. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 819, 8 June 1853, Page 3

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