IRELAND.
Judgment was delivered on Saturday by the Court of Common Pleas in the case of the D'Arcy minors. The Reverend Patrick Kearney and Lady Catherine Petre applied for the custody of five children of the late Francis Kingsbury, who have been brought up by their mother in the Protestant faith, contrary to the injunctions of the will of the father. But the mother raised the question of the legality of her marriage with Kingsbury ; she had been educated as and is now a Protestant ; the marriage was privately per- formed by Mr. Kearney, who is a Catholic priest. It was proved by wit- nesses that the mother attended the parish church. The Court held it had no power to take the children from the mother; the children were not clearly proved to be legitimate, and the marriage was void under the statute of Charles II.
Mrs. Blake, the grandmother of the Sherwoods, the children who were kipnapped in Galway some months ago, has died in the Four Courts' Mar- shalsea, to which she was committed by the Queen's Bench for contempt. The children were last traced to her possession : to the last she obstinately refused to give any information respecting them.
Mr. James Murray, land steward to Mr. M. G. Adair, of Glenveigh, Letterkenny, has, it is feared, fallen a victim to Ribandism. He left home on Tuesday, to look after his master's estate; nothing more was seen of him until the police discovered his body on Thursday, at the foot of a precipice about a mile and a half from his home. All along the edge of the precipice were found foot-marks indicating that a struggle had taken place. Murray's face was much mutilated. Under the right eye and on the temple were wounds, apparently inflicted by a blunt instrument; his skull was smashed. Near the corpse was found a five-barrelled revolver, one barrel of which had been discharged. The stock was broken. A large stone was found, covered with blood and hair. The medical testimony disposes of the notion that death was accidental.
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