IRELAND.
The Marquis of Clanricarde has published in the newspapers a set of papers intended as a vindication from the imputations arising out of the Handeock and Delacour case. It consists of• a correspondence with the Lord Chancellor and the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and a lengthy davit dealing with the allegations affecting him made at the trial. Lord Clanricarde, on arriving in Ireland, and finding the suit of Ilandcock versus Delacour terminated, addressed a letter to Lord Chancellor Brady, stating that if the Lord Chancellor believed the charges brought against him of fraud, perjury, and conspiracy, the Lord Chancellor must take steps for removing him from the Lieutenancy and superintendence of the Mi,- gistracy of the county of Galway ; and asking his Lordship whether he desired " any explanation upon any matter" from him, or to enter into any investigation of his conduct " in any respect, or at any time." The Lord Chancellor replied, in. a letter which by some mistake he did nit sign,—declining to enter at all upon the case, which "for aught he knew may yet be matter for judicial inquiry," and in regard to which it was open to Lord Clanricarde " to have made the fullest statements he might have thought proper in his affidavit sworn in the cause." The Lord Chancellor adds, that it is not within his province to.take any steps for the purpose; of removing Lord Clanricarde from the office of Lieutenant of the county of Galway ; and refers him to the Lord-Lieutenant. In the mean time, Lord Clanricarde thought he had found an article la- the Times which seemed liable to a criminal prosecution, in the course of which his conduct could be explained ; but he was advised by an eminent counsel that in a legal point of view the article was not a criminal libel He next filed an affidavit in Chancery, dealing with the charges against him, and enclosed it to the Lord-Lieutenant. Lord St Germans, about to quit office, handed the papers to his successor ; and Lord Carlisle re- plied to them through Major Thomas Larcom, declining to interfere, as the charges in the affidavit do not contain any accusations against Lord Clanricarde of irregularity in the discharge of the duties of Lieutenant or Magistrate of the county of Galway, and ne judicial decision has been pronounced by the Chancellor condemnatory of him in the matter ad- verted to.
General Lord Seaton, accompanied by his staff, visited the Curra,gh on Monday and Tuesday, for the purpose of inspecting the ground selected- for the encampment of the Militia force.
The Mountgarrett Peerage case has again been before the courts. Our readers may remember, that Mr. Pierce Somerset Butler obtained a verdict against the claims of the present Lord Mountgarrett to the estates and peer- age, on the ground of illegitimacy. That decision was reversed on Tuesday, at the Kilkenny Assizes, on a new trial.
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