27 APRIL 1839, Page 7

IRELAND.

Judge Johnston, who was prevented from going the last Circuit in consequence of a fall in his own hall, has met with another accident of the same kind, which is likely to be attended with more serious results. In the Court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, on Thursday sennight, Mr. Smith, Queen's counsel, applied for a conditional order to set aside the verdict obtained against Lord Viscount Lorton at the last Assizes at Longford, in the ease of the Widow Murphy, which was more than once alluded to in the House of Commons. Mr. Smith moved on the ground that the lease, put in evidence at the trial, purporting to have been made by Sir Thomas Fetherstone, for a term of eighty years, or on life, was a forgery. The Court granted the application.

The Londonderry Journal notices a rumour that Mr. Stronge, the eldest son of Sir James Stronge, will oppose Lord Claude Hamilton, who, it is added, has become extremely unpopular with his own party. Lord Claude is an Ultra Orangeman. The same journal remarks, as an " example of growing independence, that a requisition, signed by no fewer than 475 freeholders of the Western part of the county, prin- cipally tenants of the Earl of Belmore, has been presented to a gentle- man of Reform principles, inviting him n to stand for the representation."