A. long investigation took place in Dublin on Tuesday, by
Lord Morpeth's direction, into charges advanced by Captain Vignolles against Mr. Thomas Fitzgerald, son of the Secretary of the Carlow Liberal Club, and a Sub-Inspector of Police. Captain Vignolles accused Fitz- gerald of perjury, and of suborning witnesses to commit perjury, in a case of conspiracy against Vignolles. Some evidence which the Cap- tain offered, Mr. Brooke, Queen's counsel, who conducted the investi- gation, refused to receive ; and the complainant threw up the case. Evidence was then given in exoneration of Fitzgerald ; of whose ac- quittal there can be no doubt.
Captain Vignolles has been dismissed from his office of Stipendiary Magistrate, in consequence of an offensive letter addressed to Lord Normauby, and forwarded by his Lordship to Lord Ebrington.
The collection in Dublin on Sunday on account of the O'Connell rent was 1,175/. ; but it was expected that the sum would be raised to upwarIs of 1,70o1.
At no former period of dearth and destitution have such multitudes of naked And 'must:less wretches been seen in our streets, imploring re- lief from the inhabitants, as at present. Every shop-door is blocked up with theta ; and a well-dressed persam cannot stop five minutes its any parts of she city without beiag literally surrounded by suppliants, both old and young, who seem to have no resource or hope beyond his com- passion. It is hard for a person of any humanity- to refuse or withhold the scanty dole which they require, though many of those that ask it are doubtless impostors and drunkards. Misery and starvation are so strongly depicted in their colourless cheeks and wasted forms, that the necessity is palpable, v. hatever may he surudied as to the vice or im- providence which may have occasioned it—Morning Chronicle's Dublin Gweepondent.
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