The Press.
London, England, 1854-02-18 00:00:00

Irellllo.

THE ACTION BROUGHT BY Miss MARGARET CANT-
WELL against the firm of Messrs. Cannock, White,
and Co., for false imprisonment and malicious prose-
cution, was concluded, after a four days' trial, on
Saturday last. The Lord Chief Justice having
summed up decidedly in the plaintiffs favour, the
jury retired, and after three hours' deliberation re-
turned a verdict on the first count, for false imprison
ment, 3001. damages and Od. costs for the plaintiff ;
on the second count, for malicious prosecution, the
jury could not agree, and were discharged by con_
sent of both sides.
THE ROYAL IRISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY have
arranged to hold their meeting for 1854 in the city
of Armagh.
ARCHBISHOP WHALE has addressed a pastoral to
his clergy, in which he calls on them to make a
census of the people in their respective parishes,
distinguishing Protestants from Roman Catholics,
for the purpose, as he says, of showing that the
numbers of his spiritual subjects have not been di-
minished in the proportion generally stated.
A JEW N.kMED COHEN, who followed the trade of
a pencilmaker, and for a great number of years had
been a resident of Dublin, died about three weeks
since at an obscure house on the outskirts of the city.
Although living, to all appearances, in a state of
utter wretchedness, he was known to be possessed of
wealth. As yet the exact amount is not ascertained,
but it is believed that the sum will prove to be not
under 00,0001. With the exception of some trifling
annuities to two poor relatives in England, and
another of 1001. a year to the Jewish congregation in
Dublin, the whole of the property is demised to the
Hebrew charitable institutions of London. A brother
of Baron Rothschild is the executor of the will.
AN ACTION was tried in the Dublin Court of

Queen's Bench, brought by a physician named
Fleming against the executors of an old lady named
Megan, who had recently died, leaving the whole of
her property, some 12,0001., for Roman Catholic cha-
rities. The plaintiff, who was a distant relative, had
been attending her for several years ; and to remu-
nerate him for this service a sum had been paid into
court, but in addition to this amount the jury gave
him 2001. damages.
THE REFORM BILL FOR IRELAND, according to
Lord J. Russell's announcement in the House, will
not be ready for some weeks to come—probably not
until the end of March. Meanwhile the Irish jour-
nals are publishing and proclaiming statements of
its nature and effects. According to the most proba-
ble of these foreshadowings, given by the Dublin
Freeman, the following seventeen Irish boroughs will
be disfranchised, viz., Athlone, Bandon, Carlow,
Cashel, Coleraine, Downpatrick, Dundalk, Dungar-
van, Ennis, Enniskillen, Kinsale, Lisburn, Mallow,
New Ross, Portarlington, Tralee, and Youghal ; and
in compensation the following constituencies will
return three instead of two members each, as at
present, viz., city of Dublin, counties of Armagh,
Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Down, Galway, Kerry,
Limerick, Londonderry, Mayo, Roscommon, Tippe-
rary, Tyrone, and Wexford. There is also a rumour
that the Irish bar will be represented as a body by a
member of the House of Commons.
THE RUSSIAN VICE-CONSUL IN Dtiermi has received
a letter from his Government, dated 6th inst., stating
that, while diplomatic relations between Great Britain
and Russia are for the present suspended, such will
not cause any alteration in the commercial transac-
tions between the two countries.