An attempt was made on the life of Mr. Justice
Lawson last Saturday, which was fortunately foiled by the vigilance of one of the Army pensioners who were with him as a guard. A man of the name of Patrick Delany, who had suffered five years' penal servitude, for firing at a constable who arrested him in 1869 for robbery, was observed by one of the Army pensioners to be dogging Mr. Justice Lawson's footsteps, and to put his hand into his breast-pocket immediately after pass- ing the Judge, at whom he stared intently. M‘Donnell, the Army pensioner in question, immediately closed with him, and after a struggle, in which he was aided by the police, secured him, when it was found that he had a seven-chamber revolver, fully loaded, in the breast-pocket in question. Delany was brought up before Mr. Curran on Monday, and remanded. It does not yet appear whether the man was employed by others, as is most likely ; nor, if so, does there as yet seem any clue to those who employed him,
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