Ireland: Indictment Against News Publisher; Arrests in Kilkenny, White Cholera.

IRELAND.
DUBLIN, May 8.– The indictment against the proprietor of the Pilot newspaper, for publishing Mr. O’Connell’s first letter to the Irish people, charges him with bringing the act of Legislative Union and the Irish Disturbance Bill into disrepute. This is a novel accusation, and involves an extremely important point as regards the agitation of the question of repeal. Mr. Barrett is to be tried in the sittings after the present term, if the crown can succeed in bringing forward the trial so soon; and I have heard that he intends to retain amongst the counsel for the defence, Mr. Sheil and Mr. Pigott.

The question at issue is a very interesting one, and excites much speculation as to the result. The third letter of Mr. O’Connell appears in the True Sun, which arrived this day. I have heard that few of the Dublin journals will give it publicity, lest, on account of the prosecution already instituted, they should expose themselves to the artillery of the Attorney General. For the same reason the Messrs. Johnstone, news agents in this city, have abstained from vending the True Sun this day.

More Arrests in Kilkenny. — Twenty-eight men who were regaling themselves in a public house near Grainge, after their return from a funeral on Sunday evening, were arrested and conveyed to a neighboring police barrack. Eight of them were subsequently liberated, but the remaining twenty were detained during the night, and the next day transmitted to the county jail.

A sentinel, while on the guard, at the custom house in Galway, between one and two o’clock on Saturday morning, was accosted by a decently attired man, who, after enquiring what the hour was, pulled out a pistol which he fired at the sentinel, and then de-camped. The ball entered the hand and passed out the elbow. The guard, alarmed by the report, immediately repaired to take spot, but no trace of the assassin could be discovered.

The Influenza. — The White Cholera. — The last epidemic has nearly disappeared in the metropolis, perhaps in the consequence of the vast change that has taken place in the weather during the last week. The heat was 70 degrees in the shade last Saturday, but has since decreased. The disease rages, however, in the North of England, and has appeared in Dublin; the vulgar call it the “White Cholera,” and suppose it the forerunner of the blue disease. Notwithstanding the warmth of the weather, the disease of the throat, wind pipe, and lungs are still prevalent.
[London Medical and Surgical Journal.]