A most melancholy case of hydrophobia terminated fatally on Monday, near Groody Turnpike, in the Parish of St. Patrick, Limerick.

The victim was a fine boy named John HOGAN, aged 14 years, and the attacked was made on him a few days ago by a wretched cur dog allowed to roam abroad without log or muzzle and which bit him over the right eye. His agony was so intense that those who witnessed his dreadful sufferings were painfully affected, and he shrank in horror when mention was made of water.

Another fatal case was that of a young man, 19 years of age, named William BAXTER, who lived in Aughnacloy, near Portglenoe. According to our information, it appears that about ten weeks since he, his mother and three or four members of the family, had been bitten by their own little dog (a puppy of six weeks old), but as the dog was immediately killed, no fears were entertained that anything serious would follow. However, on Monday (week) this young man felt unwell, and on Tuesday he took some medicine, but still continued to get worse. On Wednesday evening two medical gentlemen were called in, and though the symptoms were not thoroughly developed , yet they saw enough to convince them of the nature of the disease. They visited him on Thursday, and he was still walking about and conversing freely with his friends chiefly about his approaching dissolution, shaking hands with them all, and bidding them farewell, saying, that “he had gained the victory, and was going to his Saviour.” During all Thursday he became dreadfully excited and when water was presented, or even named to him, and the slightest current of air blowing on him had the same effect. His eyes were greatly engorged with blood, his sense of hearing exceedingly acute, the whole expression of his countenance wild, his skin covered over with clammy perspiration, and an excessive supply of viscid frothy mucous issued from his mouth.

About two o’clock on the morning of Friday the power of life became extinct. He in general talked rationally until the last.