Irish-American August 22, 1857 News from Ireland Cork - Mr. Edward BROWN, of Passage, was recently drowned while sailing a schooner yacht belonging to his uncle, from Queenstown to Passage. The vessel was suddenly struck by a squall, which made her go down stern foremost. Mr. BROWN was the only person lost. Captain DE COURCY, R.N., Emigration Agent at Cork, has been appointed to the command of H.B.M.S. Pylades. A Cork paper says: "Reports have become general that the potatoes in the City Park are generally diseased. This is erroneous. Professor MURPHY says that disease has only appeared in the tubers of the potato called the 'pink', of which but a small quantity is planted in these grounds. He further states that the seventy acres of oats sown there is the finest crop he ever saw, and promises to be so remunerative as to enable him to push forward in the course of this year the improvements contemplated to make it a public pleasure ground." Kerry - The Tralee Chronicle, speaking of the potato failure, says: "We are sorry to find by the accounts from different parts of this county, that the blight has most unmistakeably made its appearance to a much greater extent than at this period last year. Whole fields, which presented a most healthy appearance ten days ago, have not now a green stalk; and the peculiar miasma of the disease is everywhere present, particularly along the sea coast. At Callinafercy, Milltown, Killorglin, Cromane and on to Rosbeigh, the potato fields everywhere present a wretched appearance, being (to the eye) a mass of weeds and blighted stalks. As yet, we believe the tubers ar partially safe. The cereal crops present everywhere a most delightful and luxurious appearance." There are only 170 papuers in the Listowel workhouse at present. Two years since the numbers were 730, or between four or five fold more than at present. At the Petty Sessions of Ballylongford, Thomas EDGEWORTH, one of Mr. MAYNE'S fishermen, of Ardee, was fined two pounds for using a boat not marked with the owner's name. Limerick - A young girl of the name FARRELL, a resident of Clare Street, Limerick, died suddenly on Monday, 27th ult., after dancing in a jig-house. What renders this event remarkable is, that on Monday, she is said to have told her sister that she would be dead that night, and her prediction ws fulfilled. A son of Capt. PHAYER, Paymaster of the Depot Battalion, was drowned on Saturday, 25th ult., while bathing in the Shannon, near Limerick. Tipperary - On Sunday, the 26th ult., in (illegible), attached to a public house kept by William CARROLL, in the valley, Roscrea, a fight occurred between two men named Andrew BYRNE and Michael GLENNO, in which the latter laid hold of a stone, which he violently threw at BYRNE, but which missed him, and unfortunately struck on the head of a man named EGAN, who was standing close beside BYRNE, and inflicted a severe fracture on his skull, from the effects of which the unfortunate man died next day. EGAN who was an industrious and well conducted man, was employed as a ganger on the railway, and has left a wife and four children, whom he maintained in comfort and respectability, and who are now thus deprived of their only means of support. GLENNO is in custody. A ticket-of-leave convict named John DWYER, together with four men and three women, have been arrested for breaking into and robbing the house of Mr. T. BYRNE in the town of Tipperary. On the 26th ult, a tenant-farmer named Richard LONERGAN was found dead in bed. On the previous day, the deceased and a number of others were assisting to draw turf from the mountain for Mr. Samuel CLUTTERBUCK of Kilgrogy; and he, when the business of the day had terminated, regaled themselves with some porter. In the course of the evening, James AHERN and Richard LONERGAN were placed in bed drunk; and in the morning the latter was found lying dead in his bed. On the 25th ult., a man named James HALLORAN of Castle Kyle, went to Clonmel and, it appears, was "pretty hearty" when leaving on his return home with his horse and car. When he arrived opposite Marlfield gardens, he fell off the car, and the wheel passed over his body. The injuries the unfortunate man received were of such a fatal character that he only survived until Monday, when he died. Waterford - At the last examination for Matriculation in Queen's College, London, Mr. Walter HARRIS, formerly a pupil at the Waterford School, passed successfully, and was placed in the first division. The Right Rev. Dr. O'BRIEN, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore, lately concluded the visitation of a large portion of his extensive diocese. He was on Wednesday, 22nd ult., at Ring, the parish of the Rev. John MULLINS, P.P., where he confirmed a great number. Jane McGREGOR was lately received into the Roman Catholic Church at Dungarvan by the Rev. M. MOONY, and lived but a few days after her reception. A boy, about nine years of age, was amusing himself fishing on the steps, near Hady's Bridge, Waterford, when he lost his balance and fell into the water. A young lad named Peter POWER, jumped into the water, and got entangled with the child, and finding the stream, which was running strong was carrying him away, he managed to save his own life, but could not bring the child with him. His brother, Thomas POWER, foreman mason at Anderson & Deane's, then plunged in and rescued the child, who had sank twice, and was in a very exhausted state. Antrim - On Monday, 27th ult., a man named David BELL, who resided at Ballee, and who had been employed at Leighlamohr bleach green, adjoining Ballymena, was found to have committed suicide, having suspended himself by the neck with a handkerchief, fastened to a projection in the apartment connected with the engine house in which he was employed. His rash act is implicated to delirium tremens. Queen's County - On the night of the 21st ult., as a young woman named Mary SPELLAN, of Ballyroan, was returning with her little nephew from Maryborough, in an ass's car, both persons fell asleep, and the ass, as is supposed, had been browsing along the ditches, the car upset, when the young woman was killed. The boy was not hurt, but was found at four o'clock the following morning asleep near the car by the side of the corpse of his aunt, and it would appear the accident did not even awake him.