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IRELAND.
A correspondent of the Dublin Evening Mail,
writes from Monaghan—" A very horrible murder
was committed about two miles from this village
last Thursday night [January 3] or early on Fri-
day morning. Two brothers, Robert and James
Shaw, lived by themselves in the townland of
Belderg. During the morning of Friday the house
continued shut up, but as the men were often
away from home no suspicion of any
thing extraordinary arose until the after-
noon, when the house was entered by some per-
son. A terrible scene then presented itself. Much
men were found deed, the bodies bearing evident
marks of gunshot wounds. The police arrived
soon after, and in the course of the evening two
men were arrested on suspicion. The murder
was probably committed at midnight of Thurs
day, as some people living in the neighbourhood
were awoke by the barking of dogs. Robert and
James Shaw were unoffending men, holding
small farms; they were, however, pretty well to
do in the world, and were in the habit of lending
small sums out at interest. It is rumoured by
their neighbours that they had made enemies in
consequence of exacting a high rate af interest."
An old man of 80, named Callaghan, and his
wife and servant, were brutally murdered, on the
night of January 9, in Ballymote, county of
Sligo. Mr and Mrs Callaham were found with
their throats cut in bed. The girl was killed in
the same way. The object of the assassins was
plunder. [This makes five persons murdered in
Ireland for the sake of plunder within the last
five or six days. Hitherto murders in Ireland
have been chiefly of an [agrarian character. The
murderer of the Callaghans is a man named
Phibbs. He has been committed for trial at the
next assizes.]
A fearful amount of distress caused by the
severity of the weather, want of employment, the
high price of provisions, &c., exists in the county
Louth, and in many districts of Meath. Out
door relief is loudly demanded to enable the poor,
who are out of employment, to get over the
present hard season without the necessity of
entering the workhouses.
The British Revenue.—Revenue tables,
showing the gross produce of taxation for the
year and quarter ending the 31 at December, hava
just been issued. For the year 1860 tha total
revenue amounts to £71,967,196, against
£66,070,469 for the year 1859. The nett in
crease on the year is £5,897,020, and that on tha
quarter £1,157,518.
The following appeared in an extraordi
nary on Saturday:—
The Balclutha arrived at Adelaido short
ly before midnight, with the January', mail
from England, bringing dates to the 26th
of that month. The following is tho sum
mary of the news telegraphed by The Argus
correspondent:—
ADELAIDE, Saturday Morning.
Tho Peninsular and Oriental Company's
steamship Northern, Captain Potts,.with
English news to tho 26th January, arrived
King George's Sound at 5 a.m. on the 11th
inst, having left Gallc on the 21st February.
Passengers for Melbourne.—Colonel Rob
bing, Dr. Gibson, Mr and Mrs Rosenbat,
Messrs. Josephs, Coe, Lawson, Harris,
Angas, Furlong, Dodgson, and Glover. For
Sydney.—Sir John and Lady Young,
Mnjor-General Cameron, Major Whitmore,
Captain M'Neill, Lieutenant Ferguson, Mr
and Mrs Gordon, Mrs and Mis3 Ware, Miss
Cherry, Miss Daltou, Mis3 Macaulay, Messrs
Bartlcy, Button, Watts, Byrne, Turvillo,
land Stewart. Captain Ellis, Admiralty
agent.
The great domestic topic of tho month
has been the unparalleled severity of tho
weather. The sufferings which have been
I endured by the poor in England since
Christmas arc reported as indescribable.
The thermometer registered in many places
14 degrees below zero. The streets of
London and of all the large manufacturing
towns were paraded by masses of unfor
tuuatb labouring men, begging forassistanco
for their hungry families.
The mortality in the metropolis for the
week ending January 19 reached the appal
ling number o£ 1,926. . .
The Prince of Wales has gone to pursue
his studies at Cambridge.
| Prince Alfred has sailed for the West
Indian Islands.
Major-General Cameron has been nomi
nated to the command of tho troops in Mew
Zealand.
The Navy Estimates for the year will
show an important reduction in the number
of seamen.
Parliament was again prorogued until tho
yth of February.
Several important meetings of the landed
capitalists have been held in themanufacur
ing districts, for the discussion of measures
for securing the country against the defi
ciency in our supply of cotton threatened
by the American crisis.
Messrs Francis Ede and Co., one of tho
| oldest and largest firms in the Levant trade,
have suspended, withfliabilities believed to
amount to upwards of half-a-million.
The financial affairs or India arc agais
exciting much discussion, and Sir Charles
Wood's recent grant of L500,000 to the
Mysore l'rincc has been severely con
demned.
Mr J. L. Phillips, the Conservative can
didate, has been returned to Parliament for
the county of Pembroke by a large ma
jority.
The North Atlantic Telegraph is about,
to be proceeded witb, under the auspico3 of
its original promoters.
A communication to Lord Palmcrstoa
is being circulated for signature amongst
the Liberal members of Parliament, having
for its object a reduction of public expen
diture.
Obituary.—Sir Hugh Lyon Playfair, tho
Countess of Eglinton, Sir Peter Fairbairn,
Dr Noble, M.P„ Major-General Goldsmid,
and Sir II P. Jodderell.
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