On Monday, a Coroner's Jury sat in Dublin on the
corpse of Mr. Goddard Sterne, son of General Sterne, who has lived for some years in the Marshalsea prison, with a woman named Eliza Mauls,. On Saturday, the deceased was found hanging from the rail of the bed- stead in his father's apartment. He had been wounded in the arm in Spain, and could not have hanged himself. There were also appear- ances of poison. The evidence is, as yet, so imperfectly reported, that it is impossible to say whether the following verdict of the Jury was borne out by it or not. " The deceased came by his death from deleterious preparations of morphine administered to him, and also from suffocation; and that Eliza Mullaly aided in administering the same."
The Orangemen were quite rampant on the 12th of July. The fol- lowing accounts of some of their exploits is taken from the Irish cor- respondence of the Morning Post ; a journal not likely to exaggerate their misdeeds- " In Belfast, the day passed off in harmony ; but at a late hour at night a mob rushed through the streets, shouting and breaking windows. Doctor Denoir, Roman Catholic Bishop of Connor, was struck with a stone ; and mine of the Constabulary received so severe a wound in the head that his life is despaired of. Eighteen of the ringleaders have been arrested, and will not he admitted to bail until the Policeman is out of danger. The windows of the Roman Catholic chapel were broken in the melee. "In Drotnore, there was a great muster of Orangemen. Two flags were hoisted, one on the church, another on the market. house. The Police required them to be taken down ; but the request was not heeded to ; and, lest that lives might be lost, they were allowed to float uninterruptedly. "In the neighbourhoods of Armagh and Dungannon, there were processions. The Orangemen, taking advantage of the Police and Military being cantuned in the towns, held their festival at a distance from them. Soule six or eight were held to hail.
"In Donegal, Ballyshannon, Pettigo, Ballintra, Mouotcharles, Dunkaneeby, Stranorlar, Castlefiu, Litter Kenny, hunerana, and Hamilton, the Orangemen were content to meet and dine together.
"In Limerick city, the joy-bells were rung, and the members of the various lodges supped together in their lodge rooms."
The Dublin Pilot and other Liberal journals furnish many more par-
ticulars of the same description. Orangeism is still alive ; and threatens to become, under our Tory-Whig Government, as insolent and turbulent as ever it was in the days of Lords Talbot and Man- ners and Mr. Goulbion.
The Wexford Independent, a Liberal paper, has been crushed by a successful prosecution of Dr. Elrington, of Trinity College, Dublin, for a libel, in which 400/. damages were given.
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