IRELAND.
We are assured, on reliable authority, that it is not improbable that the pro- visions of the Irish Encumbered Estates Act will be carried into execution by Sir Edward Sugden, as Chief Commissioner; Sir Edward Ryan and Mr. Coulson, Commissioners. Should Mr. Coulson not obtain a Commissioner- ship, he is likely to be the Secretary. Ilis services in drawing up the bill were adverted to in flattering terms by Sir John Hominy. Sir Edwin Sug- den will receive a salary of 3,0001. per annum, in addition to the pension of 4,0001. per annum which he enjoys as retired Chancellor. Sir Edward Ryan held for years high judicial offices in the East Indies.—Cork Examiner.
The State prisoners were transferred from Bridewell prison to the Swill packet on Monday, and sailed on that day for Van Diemen's Land.
"At the last moment," says the Freeman's Journal, "the prisoners were once mere surrounded by their friends, many of them ladies; of whom they took a tender and affecting farewell. They were dressed as usual—certainly not with less care; and Mr. Meagher had in his hand Oesian's Poems, as he said, 'tore- mind him of the old country, of which he still did not despair.'"
The publication of a new series of the Nation, suppressed during the State prosecutions last year, is announced for Saturday the 25th August next, to be edited by Charles Gavan Daffy, assisted by a corps of efficient contributors."
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