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      IRELAND . A rkspbctablk farmer , one Dennis Shea , residing about three miles west of Macroom , has been captured , and is now an inmate of Cork Gaol , on suspicion of being a member of a ' secret , scieiety . , In Belfast , according to the Banner of Ulster , Barney Boyle , of . Barrack-street , still continues the last of the captured , and no formal examination of him lias taken place as yet . Another person , named M'Shane—stated to be a leader—is urgently " wanted , " but he knows it , and prudently keeps out of the way . Collections are being taken up , more or less secretly , in the mills and elsewhere , to provide for the defence of the incarcerated , and for the maintenance of their families , while they lie In prison .

      A despatch , dated Galway , Tuesday , says that great excitement was caused amongst the passengers of the Circassian , previous to her departure , by the arrest of a young man , about twenty-five years , of age , on suspicion , it is said , of being concerned in the murder of Mr . Ely . Three pistols , two of which were loaded , and a bowie knife were found on him . On investigation to-day it has transpired that the prisoner is not Delany , but a man named Kelly , a somewhat famous cow . stealer , from the county of Kildare . At Dublin , on Monday , at the head police-office , Mr . John Francis Nugent , printer and publisher , was charged with having published and sold a work known as "Nugent ' s Moore ' s Prophetic Almanack , " being a

      seditious , malicious , and scandalous publication , and calculated to bring her Majesty's Government into contempt , against the peace of our Sovereign Lady the Queen . The object of The prosecution was to bind the prisoner in recognisances to keep the peaces—that is , to 'discontinue the publication of the offensive book . Last year a similar charge was preferred against Mr . Nugent . Passages of a most offensive and seditious character abound in the production in question . On Wednesday the magistrate refused an' application for further postponement , and directed that Mr . Nugent should enter into his own recognisances , in the sum of 50 QI . and two sureties in 50 ? . each to keep the peace and be of good behaviour foe- seven years , or in default two months ' imprisonment . .

      Baron Pennefather has sent in his formal resignation to the Government , consequently the venerable judge did not take his seat at the opening of term on Tuesday at Dublin- There appears to bo ho doubt that Mr . 3 @Cayes , the Solicitor-General , will be the new Baron . In the Dublin Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Tuesday , Mr . Justice Crarapton , in his charge to the grand jury , told them he would not have many more opportunities of addressing them in his judicial capacity . It is said that in the event of another vacancy on the bench , the Irish Attorney-General means to hold his present offipe , and that the judgeship will be offered either to Mr . Brewster or Mr . Francis Fitzgerald , the leaders of the Chancery bar .

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      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Mit . Tkobiiton J . Herapath , son of Mr . William Herapath , the celebrated analytical chemist , had been for aome time engaged as the chief chemical officer of the ' Mexican and South American Smelting Company . On his passage from Herradura , Chili , on > a visit home , he fell overboard ; a boat was lowered for the purpose of rescuing him , but in vain . Mr , Thornton Herapath was a gentleman of high scientific attainments . While some improvements were being made at the shop of Mr . Lewis , draper , St . George ' s-street , Liverpool , the party wall gave way and caused a portion of the premises to fall in . Fifteen assistants and several customers were in the shop at the time of the accident : A number of persons are injured , and two of the customers ( females ) were killed on the spot . Three of the workmen were likewise severely injured , and have since died ; six other persons were severely hurt .

      The number of persons now known to have been , poisoned by eating the lozenges with which arsenic waa mixed at Bradford is 225 , of whom 18 have diod . Five or six others are still auffering from the effects of the poison , and the recovery of two of them is doubtful . 186 of the persons poisoned were adults . The adjourned inquiry into the causes of tbe acoidont at the Polytechnic Institution took place on Thursday . The evidence went to show that the accident was occasioned by a defootivo slab of stone on the top of ; the staircase , and also by a defect in what is known as a " joggle , " which is a species of dovetailing in iron . The inquiry was again adjourned , tho architects appointed Jby tho coroner and the jury not being prepared with their reports .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . At Gibraltar , on tho 4 th January , the whole of tho garrison assembled under arms to witness the execution of a private soldier of tho Oili Roghnont , named Connor . This young man was hungod for having , without provocation , killed Sergeant Taylor , of his own company , by iking at him with his rlllo . None of tho inhabitants wore allowed to witnosa the execution . It in rumourod that ; tho Government intend to augment tho Channel squadron by tvrolvo sail of tho lino .

      At all the dockyards the completion of those line-ofbattle ships which have been on the stocks several years is hastened in order that they may be commissioned and made . ready for sea . During the present year several first-class screw steamers will be launched at Portsmouth , Chatham , Devonport , and Pembroke , when other lineof-battle ships are to be immediately laid down . It is generally understood at Woolwich that a reorganisation of the regiment of "Royal Artillery will take place after the 31 st of March . The regiment will be augmented by two battalions , to be designated the 15 th and 16 thy and the sixteen battalions comprising the regiment will form four divisions , each division to occupy a station ( home or foreign ) having its own regimental staff .

      The Trusty floating battery last week underwent the test of Armstrong ' s 32-pounder long-range gun . The gun , which loads at the breech , -was charged with a 6-pound cartridge and one of Armstrong ' s invented shot . The shot are about ten inches and a half long and about four inches in diameter ; they are covered with lead , the outer end of some of them very much resembling the circular end of Mr . Hall ' s rockets ; others form a square of about an inch and a half . The barrel of the gun is rifle-flated down to the chamber . Some common shot were fired , none of which exceeded 400 yards ; these shots started the plate bolts , woodwork inside the plates , beam knees , decks , &c . One

      of the hewly-iuvented shot , steel pointed , was then fired , which drove in a portion of one of the plates , went through the side , tearing away one of the beams , deck , &c . j and passed out over the upper deck ; another imbedded itself in the shattered plate arid lodged in the woodwork , the outer end being just flush with the surface of the plate . Some idea may be formed of the powers of the gun from the following statement : —The 12-pouuder guu at Shoeburyness has passed 1500 of the newly-invented shot , one of which , at 800 yards' distance , passed through a solid body of oak timber nine feet thick . Mr . Armstrong now purposes bringing out a gun of much larger calibre to carry a 5 G-lb . shot .

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      Public Heaz / th . — The registrar-general ' s return for last week shows that the health of the metropolis was in about the usual condition for the period of the year . The deaths from measles , scarlatina , whooping-cough , and typhus had declined . The total number of deaths was 1338 , and of births 1738 . Health : of London during the Quaktkk . — the thirteen weeks that ended January 1 st the mortality in Londbn . was high . The deaths registered in that period rose to 17 , 088 , whereas in the four corresponding autumnal periods of 1854 t-7 they ranged from 13 , 8-10 to 17 , 238 , the latter number having been in part tbe result of cholera and scarlatina in 1851 . The excess of mortality in the quarter that has just passed arose from two causes—scarlatina ( including diphtheria ) , which has been extremely prevalent throughout the

      period , and in the earlier part of it carried off about 160 persons ; in a week : and bronchial complaints , which became unusually fatal towards the end of November , the air nt that time having been remarkably cold for the season . Though the mean temperature for tho quarter , 14 degrees , was high , the early severity of the weather , and its quick transitions , proved fatal to young and infirm constitutions . Pulmonary diseases , which include chiefly bronchitis and pneumonia , carried off 4075 persons ; in the four corresponding quarters tho numbers ranged from 2510 to 8732 . Scarlatina was fatal in 1814 cases , 70 of which occurred in Westminster , 141 in Marylobone ( 59 of these in the subdistrict of Christchurch ) , 206 in Pancras , 84 in Islington , 88 in Poplar , 110 in Lambeth . These are some of the parts in which it was rife . Of 471 violent deaths , 896 wore by accident or negligence , 12 by murder or manslaughter , 68 by suicide .

      City Sewers . "—On Tuesday tho Commissioners met for the despatch ! of business , Dr . Lotheby , tho City officer of health , presented his quartorly report on the sanitary condition of the City , from which lc appeared that during the autumn quarter the mortality had boon higher than usual , and that zymotic diseases had prevailed to a largo extent . A conversation' took place respecting the injury done to the pavements by telegraph and other companies disturbing them , but it led to no rosult . Complaint was then made regarding the deficiency of light afforded by the gas company to the private houses as well as public lamps in the City , and the clerk was directed to draw the attention of tho company to tho subject . A motion was tlion made to alter an existing rule respecting slaughter-houses , with a view to amend the same , but after some discussion it was negatived .

      Amukxoan Protectionists .- —It is rumoured that the iron manufacturers of Pennsylvania are about organising a vast protective league to promote their interests in differ on t states of tho Union , with a view to a control of tho next presidential election . Kx-Sonator Cooper will address a convention of tho leaders of this movement during the coming week at Philadelphia . They will demand not only the specific duties on iron , but tho adoption of iron buildings and ships by Government , and discrimination generally in favour of iron .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . KRAN . CE . . ¦ ¦ The Moniteui' contains a decree convoking the Senate and the Legislative Assembly for the 7 th of February

      . . The Emperor ' s speech to the Austrian Ambassador has caused the greatest alarm in France , which his subsequent civilities to M . de Hubner have utterly failed to remove . Public securities throughout Europe have been fearfully influenced by it . The shares of the Bank of France continue to fall rapidly . At the commencement of last month they were at 3180 franbs , and to-day they are at 2850 . Most of the great mercantile houses have countermanded all the large orders they had given ; MM . Derosne and Cail have countermanded to the extent of 5 , 0 . , 000 f . to G , OOO , 000 f ., and other houses proportionally .

      It is reported in Paris that M . Fould , Minister of the Emperor ' s household , has gained upwards of 5 , 000 , 000 francs bv the recent fall in the price of tbe French funds . M . de Mornay is said to have been even more fortunate . Both gentlemen are supposed to speculate largelv at the Bourse . In the list of promotions in the French army on the occasion of the new year , the name of M . de Montalembert , Colonel in the Imperial Guard , does not appear . Five or six officers junior to Colonel Montaleinbert have duly received their promotion ^ been increased bthe

      Apprehensions of . war have y King of Sardinia ' s speech . The more it is commented upon , the more warlike it is considered to be . The assurance of the Moniteur that nothing in ^ the state of the "diplomatic relations" of France justifies the fears entertained , so far from being au anchor of confidence in any mind , only makes matters worse , so utterly is it at variance with indisputable facts . On Tuesday it was rumoured in Paris that M . dc Hubner is about to receive his passports . Another report is that General MacmahOn is appointed to command the " army of the Alps . " of Prince with

      The approaching marriage Napoleon the Princess Clotilda of Savoy , daughter of King Victor Emmanuel , is officially announced . The Prince has left Paris for Turin , where lie was to remain eight days , returning'as soon as the ceremony of betrothal has taken place with the Sardinian Princess . The Princess is in her sixteenth year , the Prince in his thirty-seventh . By this marriage the Bonaparte family will be allied not only with the House of Savoy , but with the House of Austria , as the Princess Clptilde is the daughter of an Austrian Archduchess . The mother of the Prince was a daughter of the House of Wurtemberg . The pplitival bearings of the match are at this moment amply suggestive . It is affirmed that the Emperor gives a dotation of l , 000 , 000 f . to his cousin . This last is , of course , but a trifle , if the state of tho finances , as described in tho flowery report of M . Magnc the other day , be correct .

      A telegraphic despatch received from General Macmahon , dated Algiers , announces that General Desvaux had received reinforcements , and that he was to march on the 10 th of January to chastise the rebel tribes in tho mountains of the Aures . Orders have been sent to Toulon to arm two lurge steam frigates and ten minor vessels . Tho marshals charged with commands in the great military districts , and generals commanding military divisions who are on leave of absence , have received orders from tho War-office to return to their posts .

      AUSTUIA . When all the reinforcements have reached their destination tho Austro-Italian army will consist of no fewer than 150 , 000 men . Tho garrison of Veronn , Mantua , Milan , and Pavia , have bcow rulnforced . Orders have boon given for the various fortresses to be completely provisioned . A letter from Milan ., dated tho 6 th of January , says : — •« Wo shall soon have a now oorpa < l ' urm

      said that yesterday , in tho saloons of Count Giulay , a council of war was hold , when it was proposod to place Milan in a state of siege . It is certain that the nresouco of thq Archduke alone prevonts tho execution of tho project . " Later letters from Milan , dated January 9 th , say that the Archduke Maximilian has loft for Trieste , ami it is rumoured that ho is not likely to return to Milan , 'iho Austrian brigade of General Kaming , forming tho advanced guard of tho reinforcement * for Italy , ontoroa Milan on tho afternoon of Monday last . Another correspondent wrttoss Tho dJtelUcQ cntortainod for Count Gyului increasee . Ho la reported to have said , » I know how to lcoon Milan quiet ? I will hang a inan at the corner of every street . " You are awaro that id was ho who commanded at Milan , ia , 1848 , tho most

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      70 THE LilDEB . " [ No . 460 , January 15 , 1859 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1859, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2277/page/6/