In the Irish Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, Lord PI
r:1;• . fused an application by Sergeant Jackson, on behalf of tit.: ma, .1 P Hawkins, for it sot it of assistance to substitute service on eertai!, de- fendants in a tithe suit, by posting notices On the dux .h, char!, :a. • police-barracks. Lord Plunket said— That the application was a novel one; that lie should tithe ti III to co•-. it ; but that he could only permit substitution of srt vice ill any ca.e • extent of posting upon the houses of the defentlante, and not, a: pr ill 11131111 make the posting ;mon the church, cbaptl, aml pollee-barracks, stitlieiciit I ,1 doing this latter he did 11.,..t think there was ally puteedent, except in tile chequer, npon which the parties had turned their backs.
The Irish Master of the Rolls is dangerously ill.
Mr. Henry Villiers Stuart has been appointed a Privy Couneillem; Ireland.
'The Archbishop and clergy of the Diocese:of Tuam have pre;. a petition to the House of Lords, protesting against the Stanley s;, s- tem of education.
At the mutual meeting of the Dublin NIendieity Institution, oil ,_ clay, a m, t of r, solutions in favour of Poor.laws were bromrlit for,. by the t 'ommittee, and a discussion took place regarding them, termine•ed in their being withdrawn for the present, on the around r'• the im.stitution should be kept clear of debateable questions. I t ever, almost every member who delivered his opinions was decided; a favour of prompt legislative interference on behalf of the poor of I r,.- land. Mr. Blake, one of the Irish Poor Inquiry C0111111iS,40110C5, a-.r/ is ho, it is understood, drew up their Report, objected to the re- Guns, on the ground that they entered into details, and thew unwl:-. rantable deductions from the Evidence and Report. Ile contend 1.„ that as the Government had announced their determination to brial forward a measure for the relief of the Irish poor in the approacimmag session of Pal liament, the discussion of details at pre-ent would be ire- mature. It is in contemplation to convene a public meeting to diseum,s the question.— l'inres Dublin Correspond...id.
We cannot too strongly direct public attention to the deplotalle state of the poor at present in Dublin. The distress under which labour has assumed a form that can no longer be overlooked. Unhap- pily, disease (the never-failing, attendant of distress) also exists to sorbt an extent as calls loudly for means to cheek its progress before it assumes the awful state it attained with us on former
Dublin Post. occasioas.—
On Tuesday week, about ten at nigh1, the inhabitants of Limerick were startled by tremendous explosion of gunpowder, which shook to the very foundation all the houses in the main streets of St. Michael's parish, and dashed out the window-sashes in most of the houses in Patrick Street, George's Street, Denmark Street, Arthur's Quay, and Honan's Quay, covering the flag-ways with a profuse shower of broken glass. The concussion was so violent as to extinguish all the gas. lamps, and involve the streets in total darkness, while the report of the explosion was distinctly heard at the extreme ends of the city, and could be likened unto nothing else but the springing of a mine, the ground
itself trembling with the fence of the blast. The scene of this ap- palling calamity was the large house, corner of George's Street and Denmark Street, inhabited by Mr. Richardson, the extensive gun. manufacturer, whose entire magazine of gunpowder blew up, and le- velled the whole premises, with some adjoining houses, to the earth. A party of men belonging to the 72,d Regiment, stationed in Limerick, were immediately set to work to rescue the persons buried beneath the immense pile of rubbish. Nine lifeless bodies were got out in the course of Tuesday night, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and three persons extricated alive died in a few hours. The hospital was crowded with persons to: id and crushed in the most shocking man- ner. A list is given of thirty-five houses more or less damaged, be- sides three destroyed : one of the latter is said to have been "blown into the street." It is supposed that the explosion was occasioned by the gas-light in the lower part of Mr. Richterdson's premises coming in contact with some casks of gunpowder received on Tuesday night from Cork.
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