IRELAND.
The Repeal Association met as usual on Monday, in Conciliation Half; Mr. Maurice O'Connell in the chair. The talk was all about the elections, and the number of stanch Old Ireland. Repealers returned. The chair- man announced that the Repeal Members would meet in Dublin before the opening of Parliament, to consider how the Repeal fight should be waged in the House of Commons; and also to agree upon some measures of relief, so as to be ready with a plan, if asked by the Government to propose a remedy. Rent 82/.
The Dublin Evening Post recounts the melancholy suicide of a clergyman. "It becomes our most painful duty to record the death of the Reverend Alexander Hoops, Rector of Glankeen, county Tipperary; which took place at his glebe, on Sunday the 15th instant, under the most distressing circumstances. A local cor- respondent thus writes= But two hours after he returned from officiating in his church, labouring under strong mental derangement, he put an end to his life with a loaded pistol, by his, own hand. For some time his family observed that he was suffering- under unuaaal depression of spirits, owing to the harrowing scenes of distress among the starving poor around him, in behalf of whom his. warmest sympathies were called forth. Previous to the carrying out of the Go- vernment measures of relief, he was daily to be seen distributing with his own hands meal procured by private subscription' to the famishing multi- tudes around him. In ministering to their wants the interests of his own family were almost disregarded. Subsequently the reverend gentlemen filled the office of Chairman of the Relief Committee. Advanced as he was in years, and pos- sessing an over sensitive mind, its onerous duties proved too much for him. He was sinking beneath their weight, until, by the advice of his friends, he resigned the office. But his mind was not thereby relieved from the intense pressure of anxiety. The gloom became settled; and his name may now, be added to the long_ list of generous men who have fallen victims to their devotedness in the cause of our famishing poor, and who, in showing mercy to others, have had no mercy on themselves.' " A letter from Lloyd's Agent at Westport, on the Irish coast, relates a daring act of piracy. "On the evening of Sunday the 15th instant, the schooner Royal Victoria, of and from Belfast for this port, with Indian corn meal, was boarded by the crews of seven boats, who proceeded to take off the hatches by force, for the purpose of plundering the cargo; when they were opposed by a force of two ma- rines and an officer, who had been previously placed on board, from the Dasher steamer, for protection. The plunderers having offered violence to the Marines, one of their party was shot dead, another wounded, and three made prisoners. This occurrence took place off Eagle Island, in this district."
Darrnody, a military pensioner and poet-boy, living near Nenagh, having re- turned home one night very drunk, took one of his children, a little girl, from the bed, put her on the fire, and held her there till she was dead! The Police found him stupidly gazing on the corpse, apparently unconscious of what he had done.
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