The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-01-29 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

ASSOCIATION.—The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided at the weekly meeting of the body on Monday. Mr. J. O'Connell handed in a " splendid contribution" of. £4l from the Right Rev. Dr. Higgins, Roman Catholic bishop of Ardagh, accompanied by a truly M‘lialian letter, in which he describes the men who object to such contributions to the repeal fund whilst the poor are starving, as "base and hypocritical," and speaks bitterly of "the Pagan press and heartless oligarchy of England," and of the lord-lieutenant, whom he mimes "absolute dictator," and speaks of him as one who, "unless the consequences of his conceit act as a check upon his tendencies, bids fair to be the least candid and the most thoroughly injurious- viceroy that ever ruled the destinies of the kingdom." The right rev, gentleman recommends the de-patch of paid repeal lecturers to England and Scotland, and a " gratuitous distribmion of Trish newspapers," as likely to promote the cause; and as to the necessary funds, says,. "he shall be able to demonstrate, in a future communici:tion, with what peifect ease they can be procured."—The rent of the week was announced to be £lO7. Is. 9d.  SPECIAL Commtssum—At Limerick, on Saturday, James Quaine, another of the persons charged with the wilful murder of Mr; Ralph Hill, in November last, was convicted. He. was afterwards, together with James Skehan and Michael Howard, also convicted of murder, sentenced to death. They were ordered, for execution on the 22nd of February. John end Thomas Frewen, who pleaded guilty of harbouring a murderer. were sentenced to imprisonment. The imme. (Hate- results of the special commission in Limerick .and Clare are, that eleven men have been left for exectitio,l—six in Limerick end five in (7lare—that upwards of thirty have been sentenced to transportation, and- a number Of others to imprisonment for various periods. The "success" of the .special commission so far is unquestionable. The effect of those proceedings alone, and of those dreadful exaMplesi with respect to the prevention of crime, remains to be seen. The special commission for Tipperary was owned at Clonmel on AI mulny Inst. There are upwards-6f prisonein in the gaol, hut only the principal cases w II he tried ti-fore the commission, the .others being - postponed until the stssizAs. The Lord Chief Jostice, in his address to the grand jory. recommended the formation orati association in every pariah vv.. A lIIVTGOVG•  FEVER IN BALLLYCASTLE:—CUR lOUS C I lICUMSTAN CE.— We are sorry. to learn that a malignant fever has appenre,l.in Ballycastle and its -neighbourhood, end th,t a umnher of respect,ble people have been carried off by it. A very cnrious remnstanee is conneeted with this viSitktion,:—BelwePn four and five weeks since, "a soiri!e" was held in the Methodist chapel of the town ; and, it appears, that, within a few days after the disease broke out, it seized upon it very large number of those who had been at the meeting. no one being attacked who had not been present. Persons had been present, from various districts around, to-the-distal/re of -a. munber of miles, and several of those- have, been similarly attacked. We have -received a number of particulars, but the foregoing is a general statement of the facts. The ease has excited considerable interest among some of the medical gentlemen of Belfast; and, as it is desirable that all the circumstances should be as carefully collected as possible, in the hope of arriving at an explanation of the cause of the calamity, we would suggest to the medical gentlemen. of Ballyeastle, .the propriety of collecting and publishing as accurate a statement of particulars as they can jointly make out. We trust tio:t we shall soon hear of an abatement of this strange, sudden, and very calamitous infliction.—Nordtern Whig.