The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—The sales in the Encumbered
Estates' Court yesterday presented some remarkable
features. The properties offered are situate in the
counties of Galway, Roscommon, Westmeath, Carlow,
and Limerick, the principal estates being those of. Lord
Gort and Count Nugent. The entire sum realised was
42,6151. A small estate of Mr. Sunbury, in the county
of Carlow, consisting of 194 acres, held in fee-simple,
yielding a rental of 1421. 103. a year, was sold for 4,0001,
nearly thirty years' purchase. Other properties, far less
inviting for the investment of capital, were sold at rates
varying from six to sixteen years' purchase, on the pre-
sent lettings. The castle and demesne lands of Loughcooter,
in the county of Galway, late the property of Lord Viscount
Goa, containing 1,269 acres, the present nett annual
value of which is 779/. 13s. 9d., were purchased for
17,000/. (in trust) for Mrs. Frances Ball (sister. of Mr.
Justice Ball), superioress of the Loretto Convent, near
this city. The religious order to which Mrs. Baon ll be-
longs have established several conventual schools, an
extensive scale, in this city and its vicinity, and it is
stated that a convent of Loretto nuns is to be founded
in the princely mansion of Loughcooter, one of the
finest residences in the west of Ireland, upon the erection
of which nearly 80,0001. had been expended by the late
Lord Port.
THE EARL OF KENMARE.—The Rev. W. Barron, P.P.,
of Hospital, in a letter to the Dublin Evening 4ost,
states that Lord Kenmare has given 3001. towards, the
building of a Roman Catholic chapel in that village,
situate upon his Limerick estate; that Mr. William
Brown has contributed 100/., and Mr. George Gabbins
501, for the same object; and that the Noble Earl has
erected two large schools for the poor children of the
district. It is also stated that Lord Kenonro ," is
giving to his tenantry the most cheering encouragement,
by remission of liras arrears. abated rents, See."

PRINCE OF WALES'S YACHT CLUB.
The very interesting match amongst the yachts of this
highly respectable club, for two purses of specie, which
came off yesterday, was, notwithstanding the extremely
wet state of the weather, most numerously attended and
well contested. The following took their stations at
Blackwell, to sail to Gravesend and back:—Britannia,
tons, Mr. G. Legg; Julia, 7 tons, Mr. W. I'. Bain; Idas,
6 tons, Mr. E. Knibbs; Valentine, 8 tons, M. B.
Wallis; Ottilia, 7 tons, Mr. W. E. Matthicssen; Alba-
tross, 7 tons, Mr. Berncastle. The Valentine took the
lead at the commencement, and kept it. They came in

Luis :
Valentine 5 hnirs 5 min. 48 secs.
Ottilia
Julia 27 ~ 20 If
Ida
Mr. Berncastle, the spirited commodore, presented
be purses with appropriate speeches.

BATH or SIR WILMAM HENRY;PEDINTAI etNt PART.
-We have to-record .the demise of this venerable Baronet,
who died on the Bth instant, at Ormesby tall, county of
York, aged eighty-eight. This title is an old one, having
been created so far back aa 1663, and conferred for the Bev,
vices which the first holder rendered to the 'royal party'
during the civil war. The deceased was the son of the sixt/i,
Baronet, by the daughter aHenryir Hen Grey, Bart. '*
William married the daughterof Bethel Robinson, Esq„,_:6l
the h, county of York, but leaves o issue. He succedea
to the n
title in 1808. ,
vsay ..GooD.--Tbeodore Hook was walking, in
of_Warren's blacking Where one of the • -
thef ,
" Try War-
° had been -frightened from his
tbdaaYtsshining character had written on a wall
? 13" but , . ,propriety and
lied. , lacking,' said tlook, almost before he
' " The rest is
,
saw It. 0
INIQUITT.—Th Government stamp
TOR STAMP OF punch .
of quack pills.—
on ,a box
statement appears in the. Belfast
The following .
autho-
rity, informed, on the heat
..- . -c, we have been i
News Letter:-
11 is about to be appointed to the Go-
that Lord Glengaindia.
vice Lord Dalhousie."
vernOr-Generalship of
AG ENT.;--The Augsburg
FLIGHT• OF A, MINING
agent of a French jofnt-stock_
that local
lead mine at Braie-`1
Gauge states the
worka
silver and nt _
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company, formed to
With the AuCa GI 35Y PUU
absconds' loss Of eighty
bacb, near Coblentz, bas
itself with a
dissolves
francs. The coMPADY
per cent.
T lionsunv.—From the
Tits MURDER OF LORDDublin
hief of the police,
information just forwerded by the c
statement made by Pa-
Castle. there is little doubt that the 8
of the 67th
trick Daugheney, a private attached to the depot
the murderer of
Regiment, stationed at Dover, as to being
to
be
a tissue .of
Lord Nurbury in Ireland, has turned out
falsehoods. Daugheney has been put under arrest, and will,
doubtless, be punished.
b
Sir Fitzroy Kelly has become the pure User of the
Chauntry estate near this. town. The SolicitOr-Genera 1 thus
becomes a landed proprietor in Suffolk, and will further be
entitled to be registered upon the burgess roll of Ipswich.--
Ipswich Journal,
Mr, James-Finch, a retired farmer, of Wrinet.,l'e°ll3b '
near Cheltenham, whp had reached 04Q
,Agg
.9f 70, put a
period to' his existence on Saturday morning—first, by cut-
ting his throat, and then by climbing into a large plum-tree,
A the top of )114 garden, mid thoo hanging lihnoolf.