BALLINA CHRONICLE Ballina, Mayo, Ireland Wednesday, April 17, 1850 MISCELLANEOUS The Workhouse of Limerick contains no fewer than 7,500 paupers. John Barton and John Barlow, Esqrs., are elected Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ireland. Father Thadeus O'Malley has offered himself as a mediator between the Irish Alliance and the Repeal Association. The Marquis of Ormonde has given his large school-house at Kilcesh, diocese of Cashel, which cost him £500 to the National Education Board. Saturday and Sunday last a fleet of thirty-three foreign bread stuff vessels and eight more sail with foreign sugars arrived at the Cove of Cork. The Waterford Town Council have agreed to apply £500 towards baths and wash-houses for the labouring classes there. Mr. Robert Shearman, of Kilkenny, a reduced gentleman, dropped dead near that city on last Monday. Circulars are again issued calling upon the pensioners to register their names for services as Guards for convict ships to Australia. Florence Donohue, a pensioner, and porter to Mr. Herbert, M.P., at Muckross, Killarney, dropped dead on Sunday last. The Roscommon Workhouse is refused relief by the Poor Law Commissioners, with 2,500 paupers starving. Islandmore in Lough Dherg, determinedly resists every attempt to pay poor-rate in Nenagh union, not having sent a pauper to the workhouse. Private H. Harris, 43d, died on Thursday at Carlow, of the effects of intoxication while on the march. There has, since New Year's day, been an accession of forty-six ships, and increase of nearly 13,000 tons to the port of Shields. Major Anderson, Sir John McDonald and Sir Archibald Galloway, who attended the recent complimentary banquets to Lord Gough, died each in successively a day or two after the occasions. The range of stables adjoining the Hibernian hotel, Killarney, was burnt down on Monday morning, and five horses of Mr. Killiher, the landlord, perished in the flames. James Walsh, waiter at the Kenmare arms hotel, was crushed to death under a wall on Saturday. Cathy Joynt Labath Ireland Old News http://www.IrelandOldNews.com/