IRELAND.
Master Curry, of the Irish Court of Chancery, died on the 15th, at the residence of his nephew, Mr. Maziere, in the county of Wicklow. Mr. Litton is mentioned as his successor; others talk of Sergeant Greene, or Mr. Brewster, the Crown Solicitor. Should Mr. Litton re- ceive the appointment, it seems to be thought probable that Mr. T. B. C. Smith would stand for Coleraine.
The World publishes the following extract of a letter from a leading Tory Peer-
" If you had tried that case anywhere but in Clonmel, you would have bad a verdict.
"The Jury were in your favour, aU but one or two; so the others gave way to get you out of it on the terms you procured.
"You ought to have had a county attorney who knew the jurors, and who would have looked to the panel.
"There are a set of attornies in Tipperary who get up these cases against newspapers and Magistrates, merely for the costs, and do not care whether they win or lose. "A mistake by the clerk in a Petty-sessions warrant is quite enough for them to go against the signing Magistrates. "Forty shillings damages alone In England carry coats.
"You ought to petition both Rouses on the point.
"Your paper runs great risks. No paper can withstand prosecutions : that you may rely on—in the long run. "I am, fiw, yours faithfully, " GLE$CIALL."
Mr. Patrick Littleton has addressed a letter to Lord Eliot, dated Casbell, September 141h, In which be charges Lord Eliot with giving currency to misrepresentations respecting the trial of the World for libel : it was not a "prosecution," says Mr. Littleton, but a civil action, in which the defendant was admitted to prove the truth of his allegations ; it was not instituted by a party, but by Mr. Littleton himself, as a de- fence against libellous aspersions on his administration of loans made to certain tenants of Mr. Pennefather's brother who voted for Mr. Per- rin in 1835, and were immediately subject to rigorous demands for rent ; and the motive was not revenge fur the support which the World has" given to Lord Eliot, the action having been commenced a year before his government was in existence.
There has been a marked fall in the prices of agricultural produce in Ireland : at the great fair of Banagher last week, sheep were valued 4s. or 58. under the prices of last year ; and a further fall is apprehended.
• An able-bodied person, representing himself as a monk, guided from house to house by a sturdy-looking peasant, has during the last week been soliciting money in Drogheda, for the erection of a monastery to be erected in Galway. The Drogheda paper observes—" This way of levying contributions from the people is becoming of daily practice, and calls for the interference of the superior priests to put a stop to it."— Correspondent of the Morning Post. A person named Shaughnessy was convicted at Limerick Petty Ses- sions, of employing a " climbing-boy " for the purpose of sweeping a chimney, and fined Si. This was the first conviction of this nature. The Limerick Chronicle mentions the murder of an old man who was guarding his orchard at Rahan, three miles from Mallow, on the night of the 14th: some men who came to steal apples heat and stoned him to death.
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