INCIDENTS IN IRELAND.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 485, 1 April 1869, Page 3

INCIDENTS IN IRELAND.

I A letter from the Mayor and corporation of Limerick to the Lord ; jlayor of Dublin, with reference to the Fenian prisoners, was read at the ' meeting of the Dublin Town Council on Jan. 18, and the Lord Mayor expressed his readiness to go to London at any moment to present a petition to her Majesty for their release. It was thought better that several corporations should go together. It has been resolved by the Dublin Town Council to present a memorial to the chief secretary on behalf of Mr Dominic Marquis, who was governor of Richmond prison when James Stephens, the Fenian "head-centre," escaped. At an inquest held on Mr Baker, at at Ballydavid, on Jan. 1, an open verdict was returned. It appeared that Dwyer, a yearly tenant holding 12 acres, had received notice of ejectment, and called on the deceased the lay before the murder, and requested the withdrawal of the ejectment, which was refused. Shortly after six o'clock on Thursday morning the deceased left his residence to visit his father, the Rev Mr Baker. A woman in the neighbourhood heard shots fired, and found the deceased lying dead on his own avenue, shot through the head. The skull was fatally fractured. Thomas Dwyer, the tenant, and his son were both arrested, and remanded for eight days. Mr Pierce, a lessee of land about which a lawsuit is pendinsr, was driving from the sessions of Trim, county of Meath, on Jan. 5, when he was fired at by two men, and four slugs and some shot lodged in one of his shoulders. The alleged reason is his having served notices of ejectment on two tenants. The wounds are not dangerous.

Mr O'Sullivan, the mayor of Cork, was in the theatre on Jan. 8 during the pantomime. The piece contains a number of local allusions, and at one containing the words, "Down with the Tories," the mayor rose and said "That's right, down with the Orangemen!" These words produced the Htmost commotion and loud hissing. The mayor, greatly excited, repeated the words'and made hostile demonstrations at the gentlemen in the boxes, but was pacified by the box-keeper.