26 JULY 1851, Page 9

IRELAND.

Lord Dunsandle will succeed to the vacancy in the Representative Peerage of Ireland, caused by the decease of the Earl of Charleville.— _Daily Nem The ashes of Richard Lalor Sheil are to be conveyed to Ireland for burial. Long Orchard, in Tipperary, is said to be their destination. A war-ship has been sent to fetch home the remains.

At the Waterford Assizes, the trial of John Cody senior, John Cody junior, and James M'Carthy, charged with the murder of John Phelan, in the month of October last, by shooting him on the road near his house, terminated in an acquittal. A singular feature of this case was, that the chief witness for the prosecution, who swore most positively to the identity of the prisoners as having been at the spot at the time of the murder, and that he heard a shot at the same time, and saw a man lying as if dead upon the road immediately after, and not only this, but that he himself was actually robbed by the prisoners, whom he well knew, at the same time, had been one of the Coroner's Jury that sat upon the murdered man, and joined in returning a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."

A very Irish verdict has been given at Carrick-on-Shannon. James M‘Caffrey was indicted for the murder of Thomas Gieheany, on the 11th of December last. On the night in question, a body of armed men broke into the house of the deceased, and deliberately murdered him, in the presence of his wife, son, and daughter ; saying while they were perpetrating the deed, that it Iv:is about land. Three witnesses—namely, the wife, son, and daughter, who had also been beaten by the gang—swore m the clearest manner to the identity of the prisoner as one of them. They had never seen him before, but had a distinct view of him while he and another man were looking round the room after the murder with a candle in his hand for a pistol they dropped, and they saw the prisoner's hands covered with blood. In opposi- tion to this clear evidence, an alibi defence was set up for the prisoner, and only sustained by a bad specimen of that class of bad evidence that is generally produced on such forlorn occasions; yet, to the astonishment of the whole court, the Jury acquitted the prisoner !