home from New York.

. with this case.

,_£.5 ?—I did not challenge

New Hall, Ennis.

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urarsn NEWS.

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ANTBIM.

Two little boys named James Cosgrove and John Rat-
clifil-, of Belfast. the former about nine years of age.
nearly came by their deaths by eating the seed of the la-
burnnni, a poisonous plant.

The Bmnzer of Belfast says: A yawl race, got up by a
number of private individuals, came off in the river, the
stakes being £1 a side. The boats engaged were . the
Mystery and Lightning, both owned by Alexander Levitt,
and the course lay from the Priuoc'3_Ii~Picr round the Stone
Beacon and back again to the place of starting. The
race, which occupied about three-quarters of an hour,
was won by the Mystery. .

. The following case recently came before the Belfast
Police Court :-

Henry Parkhill charged a mangnamed John Woods with
an assault. "

Henry Parkhill examined by Mr. Secds—I was standing

‘ in my owugdoor,‘lu Bradbury Place, on the 22d of this
 month, when John Woods came up to me, and challenged

‘me to fight him, and hauled me about. I said to him,
“Slide off,” as I was not up ‘to fighting. He squared his
fist, and put it up to my nose. He hollered out to me,
if he should pay £5 for it,.he would smash my counte-
nance for me. I have not been all right since I came
am very nervous yet.

Cross-examined by Mr. Shealt-:—-How long have you
been in New York? Witness—That has nothing to do

Mr. Sheals-—Oh, ho ! Answer the question, please.-—I
guess about six months. '

How long were you in America?—Wal1, I reckon all
along about twelve months. (Laughter.)

 ,. And during that time, you have acquired the dialect.
,,What business do you follow ?——I am a tailor.

Do you know a Miss Anderson ?—I guess I do, and I
am not ashamed of her. (Laughter.)‘ She will vindicate

'dllIsay. — V

. Did you ever challenge John Woods to fight you for
him.

Mr. Tracy-—Either for love or money ?—No, sir. We

' had a slight scrimmage about nine months ago, but it was
' all right in a minute.

Mr. Sheals.——Was Woods a lover of Miss Anderson,
too ‘.’—-I don’t know. I saw him with her. Io was not
riled at seeing him with her, because I know the thing is
settled between her and me. (Loud'laught'er.)

Mr. Sheals-—I think it would be a shame if any Irish-

- woman would go and marry a Yankee, who is in the ner-
; vous state you have described :, and you should not palm
“yourself upon her. I think his worship will coincide
’ with me, as he is an Irishman. (Laughten)

Several other witnesses were examined, ‘among whom
was Miss Anderson, who said that the affair was not con-
cluded with Parkhill yet ;. and the defendant was fined in
5s, and 10s costs: .

A Belfast paper says : Of‘ the successful candidates at
the recent examination for the eighty appointments in
the civil service in India, Mr Macminn, of this town, who
gained the fourth place, and Mr D R Parke, son of Rev
D Parke, of Carrowdore, received their school education

_ at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

A child named Adam Ellwood, aged two years, whose
parents reside on the Shankhill Roak, Belfast, was very
badly burned. by its clothes taking fire, while alone in the
house. The little sufferer was taken to the General Hos-
pital, where he died. -

An alarming fire recently broke out in the house of Mr

' Joseph bell, grocer, of Market Square, Lisburn. As the
"staircase had been destroyed by the fire, the members of

the family had to be got outiof the upper windows, from
whence, by means of ladders, they were at length safely
brought away.

Writing on the state of then:-ops, the JV'orthem Whig
says: With regard to the potato crop, the prevalent ex-
pression is unfavorable, though in several localities it is

well spoken of ; but it is not difiicult to gather, that, on

the whole, the prospects of a large crop are scarcely to

. be depended upon. , Wheat is almost uniformly reported

as a fair average crop, but cats are not deemed likely to

I‘ come up to expectation. Much of the heavy oats, in

many localities. has been lodged by the heavy rains, and

‘the straw is short and thin. ‘ Flax is expected to turn out

well, and though the acreable amount sown has not been
so large as last year, the quality is stated to be superior,

Vandlikcly to prove remunerative to the farmer; The
‘saving of bay has been much retarded, owing to the

rains; but advantage has been so well taken of every
hour of fine weather, that it will be put in the stackyard
in excellent condition, and the after-grass is stated to be
of a verysuperior, description, and likely to compensate
for any shortcoming in the first growth. Of the turnip

crop, which has now become an essential element in every

well conducted farm, where the preparation of fat stock
for the market is properly attended to, we are as yet un-
able to offer an opinion, but we have reason to believe
that it will prove, at least, an average crop. ‘

V _ _ ARMAGH.

A meeting of national teachers was lately held in Ar-
magh. of which a considerable number were from T ronc.
The object of the meeting was for the purpose of aking
steps to endeavor to further the sale and increase the
circulation of a. publication entitled the National Teachers’
Gazette. . V ‘ i

There has been a falling ofl‘ in the supply of home
linens in the Armagh market.‘

, CAYAN. ,
At the last fair of Killcshandra, strippers were rather

‘ scarce, fair demand, figures running from £5 to £9 per

head. Dry cattle not very plentiful in ‘supply, in good

request at from £6 to £11 10s per head. A fair show of

store cattle, selling briskly at from £10 to £12 per head
for three year old heifers; two year old brought from £7

: to £10,. and ycarlings at from £3 10s to £6 each.

. , CLARE. ,
William Smith O’B,rieu,-V Esq, of Cahermoyle, is about

building a marine residence in the neighborhood of Lie-

cena House, near Kilkee, which latter is a perfect gem of
the Grecian order, the seat of -Major M‘Donnell, Dé,

The Limerick Chronicle gives the following account of

 "an execution which took ‘place in Ennis on the 1st of Sep-
"tember: At I1'o’c)ock.

anus Heddermau, aged 52, was
executed for-‘the murder of Patrick Mahony, at Kilrush,

- in April last. - Ever since the trial the culprit has been

attended by,the Rev H 3 Kenny. G C, from whose reli-
gious zeal and instructions he has derived the greatest
advantage.‘ He has all along been perfectly resigned to
his fate and uncoosing in his devotional exercises. Not
a word has escaped him relative to the murder, and no
declaration has been made 0-8, to the guilt or innocence of
the crime. On one occasion he said he was willing to
meet his fate, and that he would five no objection to be
burned alive if he thou ht his soul would thereby be sav-
ed. On yesterday his éife ond eldest daughter, a girl of
about twenty years of ago, accompanied by his brother-
in-law, came to bid him a final adieu. The scene was an
affecting one, and concluded by tho unhappy man and

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his relatives uniting together in offering up a rosary -to
Almighty God forihis salvation. The unhappy. man re-

quested particularly that hiswifc and daughter should f

not witness the e‘xecution’,"an--injluno-tiou with which they
complied, as they wcrein , _ V ,
ther-in-law, his wife’s brot er, was pres-ent,_to Whose care
liedderman the day previous bequeathed hisvfamily. On

Yfifiiefday the R9‘? -Vlichael Methane P P» C“”.‘lg5h0.“'-e. in '. informations were sworn against, and I fear some danger

whose parish both Mahony and Hedderman resided, visit-
ed the latter. Nothing could exceed the joy of the con-
vict at finding that he had not been altogether abandon-
ed by the good pa:-:tor.. He said he was afraid the rev.
gentleman would net visit him‘iat all, but that he w,_as~de-
lighted beyond measure to find his anticipations w饒c~ er-‘
roneous. Father Meehaniconsoled, in the most soothing
manner, and remained with him, in company with Rev
Mr Kenny, who seldom was absent from him, up to a. late
hour last night: Hedderman went to bed at tefifclock,
and slept to three, when he quickly startedup and occu--
pied his time in prayer until six o’clock, when the Rev
Mr Meehan and Rev Mr Kenny arrived at the prison, and
never quitted him until the moment of execution. These
excellent pastors offered up the holy sacrifice of the Mass
twice on yesterday and twice today, and remained cou-
stantly engaged in prayer with the unfortunate man un-
til his removal to the gallows. About an hour before the
execution the culprit was taken to the press room after
having partaken of a slight repast of bread and tea. He
appeared throughout the entire trying ordeal firm and
self-possessed, and joined in an audible voice, sometimes
in English and sometimes in the Irish lapgtiage, in the

prayers recited by the clergymen. Imtiediately before '

be mounted the gallows he thanked‘ the elergymen for
their zeal, care, and attention, and voluntarily kissed
them affectionately. He said he forgave the world, and
prayed God to bless" all. He held a cruel _ in his hand,
which he told the executioner when he mounted the trap
to take out of his hand, evidently not wishing that it
would fall to the ground. This closed thezmortal career
of Heddermau, for iua few seconds the drop fell, and he
died without a struggle. The day before -the execution,
Hodderman expressed his warmest thanks .-for the kind-
ness with which he had been treated by the governor and
all the jail ofiicials, who left nothing u ',one that could

render his brief existence asflree as pos. ble from any

painful feelings. From an early hour a} party of the
constabulary, under Sub-Inspector Heard,.éatteuded, and
it is satisfactory to be able to state that only about one
hundred and fifty spectators were present, principally
children. The executioner is the same who executed
Holden, on Monday last. The wife of Heddermau dread-
ed that her husband would be buried without ahofiin;
but on the Rev Mr Meehan assuring her that a cofiin was
provided, she appeared much relieved from anxiety.

CORK.

An attempt at suicide was committed by a party nam-
ed Attridge, the master of a sloop trading between Cork
and Kilrush,»which was lying near the Anglesea Bridge.
It appears that he was in a very advanced stage of intox-
ication, and his wife, who was on board the sloop with
him, had told him he had better go and drown himself.-
The man, in a maudlin state, proceeded to carry out the

suggestion of his spouse, by throwing himself overboard, _

but he was picked up by some policemen who went to
his assistance in a boat. 

The Cork Examiner says: A car driver from Blackrock
left his horse and car on the Parade, opposite the estab-
lishment of Mr Ross, engraver, whilst he went to transact
some private business of his own. The horse, which was
blind, having been frightened, ran towards the shop of
Mr Ross, and before his course could, be stopped, broke
through the large plate shop window, completely destroy-
ing it. The window was composed of one single plate of
glass which was value for £15, and was the largest ill the
city. . Ll _ ,  

The consecration. of a new 

 P‘. g’ o
gmld, was recently performed by ithe,m v1fit

Keane, bishop of the diocese, assisted by the Right Rev
Dr Quinlan, bishop of Mobile, United States, and a large
number of clervy, including the following: Dean Russell,
Cloyne; Rev J Culliuane,_ Admr, Queenstown; Rev T
Walsh, P P, Imogeela ; Rev R Seymour, P P, Carr1gtwo-
hill ; Rev Mr Ahern, Castlemartyr ; Rev T Murphy, PP,
Youghal ; Rev Professor Hickie, St Colma.n’s College,
Fermoy ; Rev Michael Barry, .All—Hallow’s College,
Drumcondra, Dublin; Rev Michael Moore, P P, Glan-
worth; Rev Mr England, Youghal; Rev Mr Cashmau,
Lisgoold; Rev Mr Buckley, Fermoy; Rev Mr Buckley,
Glasgow, «in.

The races of the Cork Mechanics’ Rowing Club recent-
ly came off on the river.

First Race—For boys under 15 years of age—Go My
Honey—T Murphy, M Corkran, J Aherue, VL Connell;
Michael Rcardon, coxswain. Faugh-a-Nown—R Sullivan,
W O’Brien, J Finn, and W O’Su1livan; James Finn, cox-
swam. ~

Go My Honey won by two lengths. _ -

Second Race-—Two boats started. P3.l2I'lOli~—C‘ Murphy,
E Burdon, T Flinn, R Sullivan ; J Finn, coxswain. Fang-
a-Bealac—J Reardon, M Foley, W 0’Brien, J Connell ;
M Gorkran, coxswain. 2

The Patriot won by half a. boat’s length.

Third Race--Two boats ran. Irish Volunteer-—-P Mur-
phy, B Murphy, H Hendrick, W Bowen ; J Bowen, cox-
swain. Lalla Rookh-J Forde, T Farren, J Paul, W.
Farren; J Reardon, coxswain. .

The Irish Volunteer won by a boat’s length.

The Cork Examiner of the 5th says : We are happy to
be able to record a continuance of fine weather since our
last, and a vast change for the better in the aspect of the
crops. Ripening has proceeded with amazing rapidity
for the past few days, and in every part of the county
harvest work is busily goihg forward. Fields which were
green a week ago are now ready for the sickle, and many
that, at that time, were looked upon with a troubled eye
by the owners, are safely stacked. The grain is far sur-
passing expectation, both in wheat and oats; barley, as
yet, proves rather indifferent. The change in the general
aspect of things has caused prices in our local market to
tumble with extraordinary velocity.

_At Cork, on the 10th of September, the thermometer
stood at 73 degrees. .

A man named Denis Murphy got entangled in the ma-
chinery at the John street saw mill, Cork, and got one
of his legs severelylacerated by the saw. He was taken
to the North Infirmary,-where amputation was immediate-
ly performed, but the operation did not avail in saving
his life, as he died next day. A man named John Bar-
rett, residing in Burn-lane, fell a‘height of twenty feet
from a ladder, while engaged on Dr. Bullen’s house, and
received serious injuries in the back. Patrick Keeley, a
porter employed on the Great Southern and Western
railway, received some severe bruises by being crushed
between a carriage and the latform. John Curtin, a
man employed at the Messrs mith’s foundry, fractured
his log by slipping and falling. ',

Mrs Godson, a resident of Rathcormack, had a quarrel
with her husband, when in a fit of frenzy she ran from
the house, and, before she could be prevented, threw her-
self into the river which flowod within a short distance.
She was drowned bofore any assistance could be rendered.

The folloving scene recently occurred at the Skibber-
een police court :— V _

Mr Jeremiah O’Donovau (Rossa) at this stage of the

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ner, pespecting a report which he said was prevalent
th§:9ugh~the town about him and two or‘ three other
persons,,narnoly—--that some mad follow. had
l0d3°Qlf‘finf0rm8»tlOIis against. them ; he wished to know if
it was the case.; V.  '  '
Chairman—1s this Inanls nameon the book, Mr Atkins?
Mr John Hayes-—-I one of the persons report says

to my wife from the fright she got
Mr Fuller——I never saw such disgraceful conduct in at
court of justice. ' «

Mr O'Douo_vau—I want to know if informations have
been sworn agaiustme. :
Chairman—-I know nothing, but what is in thisbook.

" - Mr 0‘Douovan-Then it is not true: there are no in-
formations sworn against me. ,_ 9?’
Mr Michael Burke—It' there isn't, there will be.

,A sudden death occurred in Slea’s-lane, Cork. The dc-
ceased was a_ woman named Eliza Carroll, of George’s
Street, who had been long subject to disease of the heart,-
which finally proved fatal to her. 1'

DERRY. - 

The Derry Standard says : During the last fortni t,
the grounds about the Magee College have been i f
cess of “laying out,” according to plans furnishe by
Mr Ferguson, of the Botanic Gardens, Belfast, and a few
days ago the men employed, while excavating one of the
sewers, dug up an iron or metal bullet of considerable
size, which had evidently been discharged from one of
the field-pieces used in some of the fierce encounters re-
corded as having been fought during the siege, at Penny;
burn Mill, in the immediate vicinity of the college, the
besiegcrs having stationed a strong force in that quarter
to command the river. This relic will, of course, be pre-
served in the museum about to be established in the
Magee College. On Wedne day, another cannon-ball
was discovered by the workmen in the Magee College
grounds. The bullet first found was apparently a canis-
ter shot ; but the second is an iron ball of much heavier‘
quality, having been fired from a. five or six pounder, if
we may judge lrom its present weight. -.

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The new Town Hall of Coleraine was inaugurated re-‘

cently by a public dinner. The proceedings went off
quietly ; Sir H H Bruce and Counsellor Greer being the
favorite speakers; Placards had been posted up, indicat-
ing political dissension in the event of anypnominence
being given to our county members, and all matters of
“ doubtful disputation” were accordingly ignored during
the evening. '
DOWN.

At the last fair of Saintfield, in the horse department,
the demand was greater than the supply, and prices were
accordingly good. Some very fine animals sold as high
as £60. Farm horses met a. ready sale, at prices ranging
from £15 to £30 each. . V '

The return of the contributions from the diocese of
Down and Connor to the Papal fund, is £1,960 45 11d.

School, being one of sixthat received a premium at the
examination hold
Geology. by Prof or Thomson, and the only pupil that
was successful. Dr Sidney has awarded the usual fee
granted by the Science and Art Department to Mrs
Clarke, teacher, for her services in preparing her moni-
tor for the examination. ’

DU_ IN.

1 Mary A Johnson, monitor in Dromorc Female National .

egter the course of lectures on Physical ‘ ‘

, There are at present in this city, says the Dublin Even- '

ing Post, two gentlemen who escaped from Damascus, and
subsequently by-a mere accident from the’ massacre at
Zahleh. One the Rev William H Palgrave, son of Sir
Francis Palgira_.ye, formerly of Oxford and an officer in
the British arm, and now a Jesuit missionary; ‘the other
is the Rev Father’ de Damas, son of M de Damasgwho

to Charles X, in 1823, and whom many of our readers
-will recollect as Chaplain-General to the French army in
the Crimea. -

The manager of the Garibaldi Fund in London received
£20 last week from a lady in Dublin.

Several additions to the roll of peers entitled to vote
at the electionof the representative peers for Ireland
have been made this session. The} following claims, un-
der the guidance of Sir Bernar"Q,£Burke, Ulster King at
Arms, have been investigated and admittted by the House
"of Lords: viz., Duuboyne, Aylmer, Gormanston, South-
well, and Carew. ,

David-Alexander Hay, E.-tq, was sworn in, by the Lord
Chancellor, as second clerk in the Crown and anaper
Oflice, vice 0. O’Connell French, Esq, retired.

George M’Nally, of ' College Green, in the city of Dub-
lin, watchmaker and jeweller, has become bankrupt.

W Fray, T Smyth, M Connolly, and F Hutton, have
been appointed clerks in the Education Ofiice, and passed
their examinations. '

Mr F W Weldon, assistant book-keeper, Office’ of Pub-
lic Works, Dublin, has been appointed accountant, Office
of Works and Public Buildings, London. '

FERMANAGH.

The Fermauagh Regiment of Militia have left Dublin
for Enniskillen, to be disembodied. This regiment num-
bers 500 rank and file, and has been one of the best
trained and best conducted in the service.

GALWAY.

The Galway Patriot informs us that a meeting has been
held in Tuam, to present the Rev Eugene Coyne with a
suitable testimonial on his promotion
Mount Bellew.

The Galway Vindicator says : We /have again to record
a succession of wet weather. For the last two days the
rain came down in such a way, as to alarm those who
weretnot; frightened before. From one or two quarters
we have had some intelligence of injury to the potato
crop,-but very slight.

The same journal states that three or four persons left
the quays in a boat, for the purpose of getting on board
the steamship Pacific in the roadstead. The boat carried
a sail, and the wind being very high, accompanied with
occasional equalls, she was overset, and one of the men,
a quarter-master of the Pacific, was drowned.

A Galway letter says: The increase in our commercial _

trade for. the past year, in consequence of the establish-
ment of the packet station, is very great. . For. the week
ending Saturday, the 25 th August, the quantity of goods
' forwarded from this terminus of the Midland Great West-
ern Railway, reached 500 tons, being an increase of 300
tons over that which was forwarded during the corres-
ponding week last year. A similar increase has taken
place in the trafiic of this railway for the past three
weeks. The goods consisted chiefly of American flour
and wheat. Commercial men in Dublin and other ‘parts
of the country will find this mode of importing their
American stock an expeditious as well as a cheap route.
KERRY. _ ‘

John A Roebuck, Esq, M P, Mrs and Miss Roebuck,
accompanied by John Orrell Lever,.Esq, M P, Mrs Lever,
Jonathan Dorning, and Pliny Mileo have left Galway for
Killarney.

It is again announced that the venerable Marquis of

proceedings addressed the bench, in a rather excited man- jliansdowne is shortly about to be elevated to the Duke-

‘-succeeded Oha~téa'1ibritind'as' Minister of'.For'eign’Afi‘airs i

to the parish of‘

 

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dom of Kerry. His lordship is already 24th Baron of
Kerry and 4th Earl of Kerry in the peerage of Ireland;
and it will be remembered that the Earldom of‘ Kerry
was adopted and borne as his courtesy title by the Mar-
quis’s eldest son, who died in 1836. Our readers mav be
interested at learning that his lordship’s great-grand-
father, Thomas FitzMaurice, the 21st Earl of Kerry, mar-
riedfln 1692, Anne, only daughter and heiress of Sir Wm
-Petty, physician-general to the army in Ireland, so cele-
brated for his extraordinary talents, and still more for
his extraordinary union of foresight and gocd fortune,
Sir William was the father of the science called ‘‘ polifi.
cal arithmetic,” and amongst his other public services
We_‘ may mention that, lI.l;7';]__B6~l, he undertook the arduoud
duty of making a survefi," Ireland for the government
cfthe  He enterc__df_, on his work in the December
of that year, and in March, 1666, he had completed the
measurement of no less than 2,008,060 acres of lands
forfeited in the “ troublous times.” For this service, he
had contracted with the government to receive the remu-
neration of one penny per acre, and by this means he
acgnred an estate, which eventually proved worth some
£6,000 a year, and which is not only still in the possession
of his descendants, but has proved the nucleus of the

  

- large Irish possessions of the Marquis of Lansdowne.

+J:I1s second son, Sir William Petty’s grandson maternally,
who ultimately became head of the family, was created
about a centu_ry_ago Earl of Shelbourne in Ireland and
Lord Wycombein England ; and his eldest son, the father
of the late and present Marquises of 'Lansdownc, was the
celebrated Earl of Shelburne, who succeeded the Marquis
of Rockingham as head of the coalition ministry in 1784.
The present Marquis is also of Irish descent in the ma-
ternal line, his mother having been a daughter of the
Right Hon John Fitzpatrick, Earl of Upper Ossory a
title which became extinct in 1818. ’

KILDARE.

The following horses have been winners at the Curra la
races: Mr Concklin’s Lena Rivers, Mr Longfield’s Druid
Earl of Miltown’s Afern, and Mr Disney’s Bourbordier. ,

LONGFORD.

The Papal tribute in the diocese of Ardagh amounts to
two thousand pounds.

LIMERICK.

A correspondent of Sawnders states that on Saturday
evening, Sept. lst, there was a tornado in Limerick. Thai’
water rose rapidly in the Shannon, doing gamage to the
underground apartments in the houses on Arthur's Qua
The wind was terrific. Torrents of rain fell - trees arid
shrubs were swayed to the ground. It was haid that a
large water-spout, previous to the setting in of the tor.
nado, was seen at Beigh Castle, on -the Lower Shannon
Much damage was done to the fishing boats. A turf-
hooker went down in the river, and two men who clnn
to the mast, would have been drowned but .foi° the time]
assistance of the Earl of Duuraven, who gallantly at
off in a boat, and picked them up. P

Steps are being taken in Limerick‘ to
Newcastle and Rathkeale Railroad. ,
The Munster News sa s: .Ver reat inco ' '
already felt, and much liiss is lilielgy to folloviv1,"ef?b:r1i1c(tl;1¢E,

carry out the

scarcity of agricultural labor in the rural districts of this V

count . In the west from Patrick’s W « -

Rathlzzale, Newcastle,,Askeaton, &c., the iihesty ttliggrié
fully ripe, and not yet half out, owing to the impossibiti-
ty of procuring reaper-s. The h crop, whiclrought to
have been mown and saved long since, is still‘ far from
being out down. The wages of -agricultural laborers
were two shillings and a penny a day, at which Miphael
Leahy, Esq, paid forty men, and four times forty would
have lipund employment on the same terms if they were
‘to be ad. » Z « 

MAYO.

We.understaud, says the Mayo cai.:zzi.ao..,’1;,;¢ cap;
Barry, for some years past the resident magistrate‘ here.
has been changed at his own desire, and on promotion 1;.’
Dungarvan, and has been succeeded by Mr. Gernon ex.
Sughlnspector of laonstabulary. ’ ’

e widow of r. James Morris, of the Neale, count
Mayo, was. on the 18th ult., received into the Cathctiév
Church by the Rev, Edward Waldron, P.P. ' 7

The Castlebar Telegraph says :—The good folk of West-
port entertained at a sumptuous dinner to Messrs. Lever
and Roebuck after presenting the address to the former,
Bolh gentlemen delivered speeches on the occasion‘, which
we‘ would consider every way appropriate had Mr Roe-
buck avoided the subject of Repeal. On this point. how-
ever, he was most infelicitous, and nothing but the ex-
treme dellcacy of his audience, we are sure prevented
them from expressing their dissent in terms little
mentary to the honorable gentleman.

MEATH.

A correspondent of Saunders so s .-—I v‘ '

tract of country‘ district around Diioghedalsaihedi iii {rafts
of the county Meath some miles off, and I hm sorry to ma '
that the appearance of the leaves and stalks of the pothtg
is anything but cheering.‘ The fears of the farmers are
increasing, as they say these ‘signs foreshadow the fatal
blight. In‘ other places many of the potato fields show
but trivial marks of disease; but one great fact is that
every day brings with it fresh proofs that alarge amount
of the crop is threatened with destruction, if the witherin
leaves indicate such. However, it would be premature
I think; to 9-Y1”iVe 3-15 that conclusion at once as I have;
known that last year the decayed leaves in many in.-
stances bad sound tubers beneath. At our potato mar-
ket to-day, which is a very extensive one second to none
in Ireland, I waited on the principal factor for info;-ma-
tion. I learned from him that the kemp potato is all but
gone by the disease. Sacks containing twenty-one stone
(3 barrel) presented regularly four stone of unsound
gubers. The kemps are being dug out quickly, and not

eing sound enough for exportation are sold at reduced
figures at the different markets. Many loads have been
sent into Drogheda from Skeries, Balbriggau and other
parts of the county Dublin, which would be exported
were it not for the cause given above. The potato
known as Scotch downs exhibit small indications of da-
mage for so far in our market places. They are selling
from 55 (id to 7s 6d per barrel of twenty-one stone.

QUEENS COUNTY.

The Hon. Miss Flower eld t d ht f V’ I
Ashbrook, Durrow, is to be’ maffiiedaiilegizt friofith 
Blakeney, nephew to General Sir Edward Blakeney.

ROSCOMMON.

The Roscommon Iessenger says :-—The rain appears to
have at lengthceased, at least, the last shower fell on
Thursday. Much of the apprehended evils to the crops

will benow remedied if the drought continues, of which ~

there appears some prospect. The only drawback bein _
that a Slight frost hid set in, Which, if It pronvresgeg wi [
seriously affect the late crop. ° ’

John McLoghlin of Keadue ' .1 a 1
dealer has become ti bankrupt: grocer’ taper an genera

SLIGO. -

The Sligo Qhampén of the 1st September says :—VIo
have had ram every day this week, with occasional
gleams‘ of sunshine; Thursday was a perfect winter’:
day, very cold and wet, but yesterday and this morning

compli- .