IRELAND.
CRIME IN IRELAND.—During the past year, the commitments in Dub- lin were in the proportion of 1 commitment to every 90 inhabitants. In the city of Waterford, the proportion was! to 118; in Kilkenny, 1 to 150; in Limerick, 1 to 180; in Cork, I, to 200; in Galway, 1 to 220. In the counties, Sligo had the highest proportion-1 to every 249 inhabitants; in Longford, the proportion was 1 to 250; in Queen's County, Ito 310; in Dublin County, Ito 356; in Downshire, Ito 920; in Cork, 1 to 700. The total number of persons convicted was 9,902— of these, 262 were sentenced to death ; and of that number, 32 were executed. In estimating the state of a country in respect of crime, it ought, however, to be recollected, that the commitments depend not so much- on the number of offences as the vigilance of the police. If all the criminals in Ireland were committed,—and of the committed, if all that were guilty were condemned,—then we should have a true account of the moral condition of the country. But if such be the state of society that juries dare not convict on the plainest evidence, nor wit- nesses speak to the most notorious' facts, it is .not likely that the powers of police shall be very vigorously or very successfully exerted.
-O'Connell has eut the Trades -Union, because the latter have ad- mitted Mr. Lawless a member, " by.speeial grace." He deems such an not an insult to the Meath Club, winch expelled Mr. Lawless with special indignation. It is humiliating to see such a man as O'Connell quarrelling about trifles light as air, like these. After all, the honour paid to Lawless is not very great. The same day that he took his seat, Mr. Fulham, an attorney, was also admitted, by "special grace."
Mr. William Bold, civil engineer, is now, by order of Government, inspecting the line of the intended rail-way between Tipperary and Carrick-on-Sidi. This national work, which will run from the districts bordering the Shannon to the deep water at Carrick-on-Silk on the east, will afford a ready transit for all kinds of agricultural produce to the ports of England.—Tipperary Free Press.
! !! The Directors of the Provincial Bank have arranged the pre- liminaries with the Earl of Limerick for converting St. George's Church into the Limerick Branch of the above establishment.—Limerick Chronicle.
'On Friday sennight, Lieutenant Page, of the Revenue Police, sta- tioned in garrison, County Sligo, with a party under his command, seized a still. On their return with the seizure, they were followed by a number of persons using menacing language. The crowd, as the Police proceeded, increased in numbers, and were joined by a party re- turning from a funeral. Thus strengthened, they pressed in on the pasty so closely, that one man was wounded by coining in contact with the policemen's bayonets. After this, the party were assailed with stones ; and the officer finding the danger to which his men were ex- posed, was under the necessity of ordering them to fire ; by winch one man was killed, and two, it is said, were wounded. The crowd imme- diately dispersed in various directions.—Enniskillen Chronicle. On Sunday, a poor man was found dead in a vault near Fitzwilliam Place; and the same evening, another poor man was found dying in the street, and removed to Mark's watch-house, where he expired on Mon- day morning. Both deaths were caused by starvation !—Dublin Even- ing Post.
On Saturday evening, as a young man named Anthony Har- man was passing through South Great George's Street, opposite the barrack-gate, he was fired at by a person behind him, who discharged a pistol close to his back—the ball entered near the spine, when he instantly fell. The wounded man was taken to Mercer's Hospital, where all attempts to extract the ball proved un- availing. He still lingers in a hopeless state. Shortly after the occur- rence, two peace officers came to the spot, and having ascertained the wounded man's name and residence, and a description of the person who fired, proceeded to the hospital, in the hall of which they met a
. person in conversation with an old lady, who mine as a friend to the wounded man. This person in every respect, except his outward dress, answering the description, be was taken into custody, and was yester- day committed-to Newgate.—Fteeman's Journal:: •
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