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New Zealander, Volume XVI, Issue 1486, 14 July 1860, Page 3

The Queen has approved »f Mr. G. H. Leavenworth as Consul at the Lay of Islands, New Zealand, for the United States of America. Miss O’Brien, daughter of the lion. Judge O'Brien, has been received into the convent of St. Alphonsus. Drumcondra. Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort have recently contributed £IOO as their joint subscription to the Goldsmith statue. In an affray between poachers and tenants on Glenlark mountain, Derry, several shots were fired by the poachers, and e boy with the tenants was wounded in the arm. On Lord Carlingford’s property, Iv.lkenny, a cottage which had been unoccupied, but which was intended for a workman and his family, has been fired and burned down. There was no truth in the paragraph, taken from a Cork paper, stating that a number of persons seeing their friends off at Queenstown were carried away to America by the Portland and New York steamer, last week. Under the head of “ Protestant Liberality,” the Freemans Journal has the following:—“ The Earl Fitzwilliam has given to the Rev. Francis O’Neill, C.C., Rathdrum, a site for a priest's house adjoining the new Catholic church.” The Lord Lieutenant has commuted the sentence of death, passed at the late Kerry assizes, upon Morgan, for the murder ot his wife, to penal servitude for life. The state of the convict’s mind was the main ground for the merciful interposition of His Excellency. A farmer who stabbed a deaf and dumb man near Navail has escaped from justice, for the present at least, because neither the prosecutor nor any of his family know the deaf and dumb alphabet, and there was no satisfactory mode of obtaining the prosecutor’s evidence. The magistrates recommended that application should be made to the Crown to have the man taught. The Castlebar Telegraph confirms the previous statements respecting the fearful destitution which prevails in the district of Erris, county Mayo. Twenty thousand people are said to bo in a state of absolute destitution, and the ablebodied of both sexes are running for their lives from the famine-stricken district. Tub Clare Election. —The result of the contest for Clare county is precisely what every one must have anticipated. The priests nominee, “ honest Macnamara Calcutt,” as bather Corbett styled the hon. gentleman, has beaten lus opponent, Captain "White, by a large majority. The (r ross noli was as followsCalcutt, Jo 5 White, J,MS; majority lor Calcutt, 1,849.