IRELAND.
The rumour of a vacancy for Tralee is revived. It is said that Cap- tain O'Connell is to be provided for, and Mr. O'Ilagan, tho Solicitor- General, is mentioned as a candidate.
Lord Plunket, Bishop of Tuam, has evicted several of his tenants, for good and sufficient cause, as his advocates assert, but the act has brought down upon him the hostility of the Irish journals, and the cen- sures of the Times.
In the Court of Common Pleas, on Monday, Sir Colman O'Loghlan, Q.C., on the part of Miss Margaret Aylward,. lately committed by the Queen's Bench to Grangegorman Female Prison for contempt in not bringing up the child Mary Mathews, applied for a writ of habeas corpus, in order that she might have an application made for her discharge from custody, on the ground that she was not in legal custody, the Queen's Bench, by the Act 19 and 20 Victoria, cap. 63, no longer possessing the power which formerly be- longed to it of selecting any prison which it might deem proper for the cus- tody of person held guilty of contempt, but being bound m accordance with the provisions of that Act to commit such person to the four Courts Marshal- sea only. The Chief Justice granted the application, and announced that the Court would sit specially on Friday next to hear the case argued. The Court observed strongly on the fact that, although Miss Aylward was im- prisoned for more than three weeks, the application for the writ was not made until the last day of term, when it was impossible to apply to the Court of Queen's Bench to amend its order if erroneous.
Dennis O'Connor, imprisoned for kidnapping in the Sherwood case, was brought up on Saturday on his own application for discharge. He alleged that he was in bad health, in destitute circumstances, unable to give bail, or render a better account of the children than he had already done. The dis- charge was opposed ; and the prisoner was directed to answer interrogatories as his fellow-prisoners have done.
The motion for the discharge of Dennis O'Connor, one of the persons in cuetody in the Sherwood kidnapping case, was renewed in the Court of Queen's Bench on Monday, and he was allowed to stand out on his own re- cognizanees in 1001. to appear when required. An application for the die- charge of rd'Robins was refused. The Chief Justice stated that there was another way of vindicating the law than by merely appealing to the juris- diction of that Court. They might commit parties for not making returns to their writs, but it was a mistake to suppose that it was the duty or in the power of the Court of Queen's Bench to inflict the full extent of punish- ment for the offence charged. Mr. Breret,on stated that the matter—a cri- minal prosecution for kidnapping—was under consideration.
At the adjourned inquest on the body of John Murray, on Thursday week, the Jury returned a verdict "That the deceased was feloniously, wil- fully, and maliciously murdered by persons unknown." Mr. Adair has offered a reward of 1001. for the discovery of the murderer.
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