IRELAND.
The abuse of delay having manifested itself in the practice of solicitors having the "carriage" of sales under the Encumbered Estates Act, the Commissioners have struck at the evil with a trenchant directness, that must appear shocking to practitioners who have inherited Chancery suits and the costs thereof into the third and fourth generation, At the sales on Friday, Commissioner Longfleld called attention to the rule of court enjoining. that every case once entered must be prosecuted with all possible diligence. and despatch. He read a list of cases in which unnecessary delay had taken_ place ; stated that such a list would in future Ix published periodically in. the Legal Diary; and announced that if the -parties to the suit took no remedy, the Court itself would displace the procrastinating solicitor, and appoint any one of its own choosing who might be likely to exercise a more conscientious alacrity.
The Irish papers state that Ballinasloe fair passed off with a success that astonished everybody. A correspondent of Saunders's Newskiter wrote, on May 7th- " The sales were quick, prices paying and high, and such another tone of business purpose and active traffic as used to distinguish our business men be- fore we heard or dreamed of the potato rot. The fair of Parsonstown was held yesterday ; both buyers and sellers seemed satisfied. According to the ordinary traffic they should have been so • but I can tell you that many why brought their stock to Parsonstown regret deeply they did not overhold and stand in our green today. The sales were early as regards first-class or im- portant stock ; the change of hands was without delay, and the cattle were cleared out before nine o'clock. The average sales were from 81. 6s. to 121. los. for first-class heifers. As to sheep, prices were very good, notwith- standing the low price of wool."
A Limerick paper has the following paragraph concerning ICilrush, where such desolating distress has long prevailed-
" A depot is opened at Kilrush for the purchase of eggs for the London, Li- verpool, and Dublin markets ; and during the week ending Saturday last the quantity bought up was 100000, at the rate of 3s. 4d. per 120. In one day Last week, eighty-five large boxes, brought up by the Garryowen steamer the evening previous, were forwarded by rail from this city."
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