IRELAND.
Some persons were tried last week at Tralee for riot connected with the burning of Lord John Russell in effigy : the Jury could not be got to agree, and the prisoners were discharged. Their discharge was instantly celebrated by a mob of two thousand persons, with a repetition of the effigy-burning, and by proceedings almost as riotous as the first, under the window and in the very sight of Mr. Justice Ball, who presided at the trial.
The amount of money issued through the banks of the city of lime- rick during the year 1850, on drafts from America in favour of rela- tives of emigrants from that part of the country, was 40,000/. La- bourers who only went out in the last spring have in many instances re- mitted 10/. and 121.
The Dublin papers describe a fatal case of cruelty and starvation to young girl, Fanny Powell The child was the daughter of Powell, "an English engineer" on the Dublin and Drogheda Railway, who has resided in Ireland only a year and a half. With him and his wife lived the wife's mother, Mrs. Pearson; and to this person the active cruelty is ascribed. The child had been sent over to Ireland only a few months, when its ema- ciated and wo-begone appearance excited the sympathy of its neighbours. It complained of being starved and beaten ; and after those complaints had been made, several neighbours saw it cruelly beaten by Mrs. reunion. A post-mortem examination was made by surgeons; and at the inquest these professional gentlemen stated that they had no doubt the poor girl "died of starvation." "The immediate cause was effusion of the brain ; but that arose from want of nutrition, the child having no disease whatever. The stomach, intestines, and all the organic parts, were perfectly healthy ; but there was not a particle of food of any sort, or the remains of any, to be found. "The body was so attenuated that the skeleton was held together only by integuments and skin." It was proved that Mrs. Pearson, the stepmother, had the solo care of the child ; indeed, the child had often under the cruel beatings of Mrs. Pearson, shrieked in vain for her "own mo, ther." The Jury found the following verdict- " We are unanimously of opinion that the child Fanny Powell came by boa erstit in consequence of want of sufficient food and due care on the past of Mn. Nei
Pearson, who, it appears, had the entire care of the child ; this want of care and of food producing effusion of the brain, which appears, by the medical testimony, to have been the Immediate cause of death."
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