RELAX D.
Lord Blaney died on Tuesday. His son, the Member for the county of Monaghan, succeeds to the Peerage. The Dublin Er 'ling Post says, that Mr. Westeura will be probably chosen to succeed him in the representation of the county.
At the Limerick Assizes, on Thursday week, Mr. Robert Cole Alaxwell, a gentleman of good family, was sentenced to death, 14 shooting at his cousin, Mr. Robert Lowe Holmes, with intent to kill him. The two cousins had quarrelled respecting their right to the poses- sion of a farm, which bad been forcibly taken possession of elternately by one and the other. On the 31st of July last, Mr. Holmes was in possession of the farm, and the prisoner went with a party to drive him out. He knelt down, took deliberate aim, and fired at his rival ; who was wounded, but not mortally. The Judge, in passing sentence, ani- madverted upon the conduct of Maxwell; who, his Lordship said, had been the cause of raising the country into a state very little short of rebellion, and of spilling the blood of one of his ill-fitted followers. " But (continued his Lordship) you shall battle no more ; your career is run ; the law has at last taken bold of you ; you shall no longer dis- grace or injure this country ; you have been found guilty of a most foul deed, and you must suffer the penalty of death for it." ( Here a cry was uttered. "(ih ! God, who thought it would come to this? ") His Lordship then pronounce d sentence, directing that the prisoner should be exoeuted on 1Vednesday the 16th instant. The tin lbrtunate young gentleman heard this awful award with firinness ; but on reaching- the middle of' the dock, he became quite faint, and required the support of the gaoler's assistants.
There was a counter prosecution against Holmes; who was ntented to n;ne moriths' imprisonment.
At the late Galway Assizes, an action was brought by Mr. James O'Dolinty, a merchant of Galway, against Ensign Barrow, of the 3t It Reginamt of Foot, for seducing -his daughter, a girl of sixteen. The following account of the proceedings, which orcapicd two days, and excited great interest, is taken from the Irish correspondeueo of the ceitri "Mr. West stated the filets of the case, as they were subsequently detailed in the evilence of the principal witness, Miss Celia O'Doherty, a young lady of about sixteen years of age, rather fashionably attired, and possessiog consider- able personal attractions. She stated that she was the third daughter of the plaintiff, a shopkeeper in the town of Galway. About six months ago, the 311th Regiment of Foot arrived in that town ; and some time after, the defendant, who is an ensign in that regiment, and the sou of Colonel Barrow, after several attempts to become acquainted with her, at length sent her a message, request- ing an interview at her father's door on the evening of the 19th of November last. She was returning from a walk with her mother, and immediately after the latter had entered the house, the defendant came up, expressed his anxiety to have the pleasure of her acquaintance, and attempted to kiss her. She then shut the doer in his face ; -hut held a communication with him on the next and following evenings from the drawing-room window of her father's house, which was opposite the Barracks. [The Globe report says, her father discovered their acquaintance, and punished her by cutting off her hair, and whipping her.] The deendant mad:: several promises of marriage; and on the night of the 12th of January, at the hour of twelve, he persuaded her to elope with him from the drawii.g-room window, assuring her that he hail a chaise at hand for the purpose of conveying them on their way to Gretna Green. The defendant then pretended that he could not find the chaise, and requested her to accompany hint to his barrack-room, in order to find his servant, and dis- patch him firr the chaise. On her arrival in the defendant's barrack-room, he renewed his promises of marriage ; and he accomplished his purpose. He then induced her to leave the barrack with him, and insisted on her returning to her father's house; on their way to which, they were met by her married sister, who, with other members of the family, had gone in pursuit of her. Defendant, on seeing them, immediately ran away to his barrack. " Such is the substance of the statement of the principal witness. Bet the case was rendered peculiarly remarkable by the nature of the defence, as it was disclosed in her cross-examination, which lasted five hours. The defendant's counsel relied on several alleged instances of encouragement given to the defen- dant, and to other officers of the regiment; a denial altogether of having given promises of marriage; her frequent communication with hint from the draw- mg room windows at the hour of ten o'clock in winter ; her carrying with her no other article of dress but her bonnet on the night of her elopement, although believing that she was proceeding to Gretna Gteen and lastly, Mat no criminal intercourse had actually taken place, inasmuch as, upon the witness demanding a promise of marriage in the barrack -renal, and making resistance, the defendant (as his counsel intimated) immediately conducted her out of the barrack; and was about to restore her to her father's house, when he encountered her sister, as detailed in the direct examination.
" There were no witnesses produced for the defendant; and the Jury having retired for two hours, intimated that they could not agree. Soon after, both parties consented to withdraw a juror. Air. Lambert, the late Representative for the county of Galway, was foreman of the Jury."
Mr. Goodshaw's flour-mills at Leixlip were attacked on Friday night, the 4th instant, by four or five men, who belong to a daring gang of
robbers which has long infested that neighbourhood. By the nicest chance, the mill-wheel was set going, and caught three of them ithis its shafts. One of the men was killed upon the spot ; and another ass much hurt that he was unable to get off with the others, who elk(' tai their escape, and was left in the bawds of the wurkmee belonging to the place, who were awakened by the noise made by the wheel. In ease- sequence of information obtaitied from this man, the remainder of tbe party have been arrested—Dublin Paper.
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