10 AUGUST 1844, Page 11

At Londonderry, last week, two men were found guilty of

conspiring together to accuse the master and schoolmaster of the Belfast Union Workhouse of murdering one Stewart. Stewart was alive ; and on seeing the accusation in the papers, he wrote to say so.

Peter Larkin, the pensioner who murdered his two sons at Gort, has been tried at Galway, and acquitted on the ground of insanity.

Mr. Joseph Martin, brother to the late Member for Sligo, and his wife, were drowned last week, while crossing in a jaunting-car to their lodge, on an island at the mouth of the river that runs into the bay of Sligo. It is supposed that the storm from the West on that day had risen and kept the tide higher than usual on the passage.

A Policeman has been struck dead by lightning, at Ballintubber, near Stradbally.