IRELAND.
The Government is faithful to its Irish brigade. Mr. Francis Mac- denogh, Q.C., a deserter from the Liberals, is to be Counsel to the Ex- cise, in the room of Mr. Smyly solicitor to the Board; and Mr. John Edward Walsh, Q.C., another Ministerialist succeeds Mr. Smyly as Com- mission Crown Prosecutor. Mr. Kemmis, Crown Solicitor is to retire and, on dit that Mr. William Gibson, election agent for the Dublin Tories, is to have his place.
The committee appointed to raise funds for the family of the late John O'Connell have held a final meeting, and directed the 5100/. they have collected to be invested by trustees for the benefit of his widow and children.
A painful tragedy has happened in the county of Galway. Captain Ffrench is the son of the Honourable Martin Ffrench, a gentleman possess- ing considerable property in the neighbourhood of Ballinasloe. The son has been recently married, and has been spending his honeymoon in London, only reaching Dublin on his return on Monday evening last. He left his wife and went to Mitchell's Hotel to smoke a cigar, and from there it is since ascertained, that he must have started immediately by train for'Bel- linasloe, where he arrived at eleven o'clock the same night. lIct now went to St. Brandon's, a house belonging to his father on the family estates. Here expected to find Mr. Burke, his father's agent, a gentleman on terms -of personal friendship with himself. Mr. Burke was at Ballinamore, however, some three miles off, and to that place Captain Ffrench sent a letter asking him to come at once to St. Brandon's. This he immediately did. The meet- ing between Captain Ffrench and himself is described as warm and cordial in the extreme. After a very short delay the two drove over in.a car to the house of Mr. Checvers. This gentleman however, was out, and the car driver was directed to take them to BaLlIamore Park, the principal scat of the Honourable Martin Ffrench. At the park gates they got down, and walking off, disappeared into the plantation and were never again seen alive. At abut five in the afternoon a gamekeeper discovered the dead body of Mr. Burke lying: in the plantation, pierced with two pistol bullets, the ein,ged coat showing that the weapon must have been only a few inches from him when fired, and news shortly arrived that earlier in the afternoon Captain Ffrench had been found dead on Lord Clonbrock's estate, about four miles off, with a discharged pistol by his side and the bullet in his heart. It has been since stated by the family doctor, that the unfortunate man has all his life been subject to periodical fits of insanity, and this view was adopted by the coroner's jury, who returned a vague wordy verdict recapi- tulating the facts,
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