IRELAND.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. Guinness, has been requested by some of the most influential of the city electors to stand for the representation of Dublin in Parliament, at the next election. The Even- ing Mail states that he has declined the honour. Some of the electors of Belfast have asked their leading citizen, Mr. Andrew Mulholland, the head of the flax-manufacture in Ireland, to be a candidate for Belfast; and he, like Mr. Guinness in Dublin, has declined the honour. Sir Emerson Tennent's prospect should therefore be improving.
Mr. John Power, of Gurteen,. stepson of Mr. Richard Lalor Shell, has com- mitted suicide—shot himself with a pistol. Mr. Power formerly represented the county of Waterford : he was married to a daughter of Sir John Power, and has left a youthful family.
Downhill House, near Coleraine, the residence of Sir Henry Bruce, has been almost entirely destroyed by fire. A sweep lost his life by falling through one of the floors. Thelamily were absent at the time.
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