SEAN McCaughy (23), of Belfast, died in Maryborough prison, near Dublin, early today, after a hunger strike lasting 23 days and a thirst lasting 18 days. He began the strike in the hope that he would eventually be released from the sentence of penal servitude for life for unlawfully assaulting and detaining Stephen Hayes, chief of staff of the IRA. Mr De Valera, Eire's Prime Minister, said: "Surrender to hunger strikers would mean surrender to anarchism.

THE entertainments at the Circus last night were for the benefit of the Bolton Infirmary. The house, we are sorry to say, was not so good as either the occasion or Mr Adam's liberality ought to have secured. The performances, however, went off spiritedly and were much applauded. The act of horsemanship, by Sig. Codona, in which he impersonates Sir John Falstaff, Shylock, and Richard the Third, met with rapturous applause. The more we see of this gentleman's riding, the higher is the opinion we form of his talents.

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