IRELAND.
Mr. Drummond is now at Besborough, with Lord Duncannou and Mr. Nich011, the Poor Law Commissioners, paving the way for the Irish Poor Law Bill.
Mr. Edmund Power, a solicitor, well known for his active exer- tions in favour of the Reform cause in Carrick-on-Suir and its neigh- bourhood, has been appointed to the office of Filacer at the Law side of the Exchequer. The situation is said to be worth 8001. a year.
A foolish story has been in circulation, that a Miss O'Reiily had been pushed into the canal of Dublin on Sunday week, by a Catholic
boy, simply because she was a Protestant and walked to church with a Bible in her hand. At the Magistrates' office, the young lady certainly gave evidence in confirmation of this view of the affair ; but her brother, who was walking just before her, discountenanced it ; and there seems little doubt but that Miss O'Reilly fell accidentally into the water, close to which she was welkin.
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