Irish-American September 5, 1857 News from Ireland Cork - Head Constable PORTER, of the Cork Constabulary, has retired after 28 years service. Patrick MURPHY, a man in the employ of Sir Thomas TOBIN, in the Ballincollig Powder Mills, was recently fined ten shillings and a fortnight's imprisonment for having ignited a match on the sawdust loft, thereby endangering the lives of all within the building. On Tuesday, the 4th ult., a man named Charles McCARTHY, employed on the Great Southern and Western Railway, Cork, was moving some vans in the tunnel, when he was caught between two of them which came rather violently together, and his lungs and chest were severely crushed, and his collar-bone broken. He was taken to the North Infirmary in a precarious state. Fifty female paupers are to be sent from the Cork workhouse to the Cape of Good Hope. Kerry - Julia PRENDEVILLE (an unmarried female) and her mother have been committed to Tralee gaol for the murder of the illegitimate child of the former, whose body was found floating in a pond on the premises of the Rev. Mr. MAUNSELL, Castleisland. In the list of officers of the Crimean army whose services during the Russian war the King of Sardinia has recognised, by conferring upon them the Sardinian medal, is Lieut. Arthur LEAHY, of the Royal Engineers, a native of Kerry. A court was held in Tralee on the 1st ult., by the Sheriff, to confiscate (for the crown), the property of John MURPHY, of Knockanish, an Income Tax Collector, who abandoned with 700 pounds leaving his sureties in for his defalcation. Thomas M. USBORNE, Esq., has been declared the purchaser, from the Earl of Cork, of the extensive estate in Kerry, containing 2,600 acres, situate between Killarney, Tralee and Listowel. It is a large tract of fine land very favorably situated; the Killarney and Tralee Railway passes through it. Limerick - Mr. Henry KNOX O'GRADY, second son of the late Rev. John De C. O'GRADY, of Knockany, on the 4th ult., passed his examination at Addiscombe for a cadetship in the East India Company's Service. The commodious store in Ellen street, Limerick, recently occupied by John QUIN, Esq., and the two adjoining, were sold by auction, pursuant to an order of the Court of Chancery. After a brisk competition, the interest, about 41 pounds annually, was sold to Mr. John QUIN, for five hundred pounds. On Sunday, the 9th ult., the Right Rev. Dr. RYAN, R.C.B., and Rev. William BOURKE, P.P., visited the parish of Rathcahill, where 250 pounds was collected for St. John's new Cathedral, including forty pounds, a donation of the Rev. Mr. DONOVAN, P.P. Dudley O'GRADY, youngest son of the late Darby O'GRADY, Esq., of Aghamarta Castle, Co. Cork, has purchased Mantle Hill and Court Brown, part of the estate of the Right Hon. Earl of Cork, in the West of county Limerick. Waterford - Miss HANLY, a near relative of the late Right Rev. Dr. FORAN, received the white veil at the Presentation Convent, Lismore, on the 10th ult. Very Rev. Dr. FOGARTY, P.P., assisted by the Rev. P. MEANY, C.C., Clashmore, officiated. There was a numerous attendance of priests from the surrounding parishes. Michael CURRAN, of the parish of Kill, died on the 11th ult., of a fall from a horse. Galway - Mr. Edward COFFEY, Sub-Inspector of police, has taken charge of the Dunmore district. The Rev. Warden STUBBS, curate of Ballinasloe, has been presented to a valuable living in Staffordshire. The Consistorial Court of Tuam dismissed with costs the case of Miss CUTHBERSTON v. Mr. John HOGARTY, of Westport Quay, Harbor Master, for using language affecting her moral character. The Town Commissioners of Tuam have contracted for the erection of a new townhall. Mr. Charles BLAKE, one of the board, has resigned, owing to what he conceives extravagant expenditures. Mayo - A young lad named COCHRANE, aged 13 years, was burned to death in Castlebar on the 6th ult., a quantity of rackets which he was carrying in his pocket having ignited. Michael O'SHAUGHNESSY, Esq., Barrister, county Mayo, has left Dublin for the Continent. Captain W.W. Fitzjames BARRY, of Glandore, has been appointed resident magistrate at Castlebar. The Rev. Mr. CURLEY, P.P., has written to the Dublin papers appealing to a generous public to assist him in completing the new church of Louisburgh, now in course of erection. Valentine BLAKE, Esq., of Towerhill, in a letter to the Mayo Guardian states that he has no intention of standing for the county. Cavan - The Cavan people have determined to provide themselves with a reading room. A meeting, at which Mr. James KELLY, provision merchant, presided, was held lately, and resolutions were then entered into that the Ulster Banking Company be Treasurer, and James FAY, Esq., the Secretary for carrying out the contemplated object. One pound is to be the annual subscription of each member, and the room is to be open each day from eight o'clock a.m., to ten p.m. On the 25th July, a deputation, consisting of the following gentlemen: Martin O'FARRELL, Edwd. KENNEDY, Francis McCABE, John FAY, Patrick M. FAY, William HAGUE and James O'BRIEN, Esqrs., waited on the Right Rev. Dr. BROWNE, for the purpose of presenting him, as founder and patron of the Kilmore Diocesan College, the first installment of books for the library of the college. Monaghan- Charles P. LESLIE, Esq., has been appointed Lieut.-Colonel of the Monaghan Militia, vice Lord ROSSMORE resigned.