Lord Lorton had obtained it rule for a new trial
of his action against Widow Murphy ; but the death of the defendant has virtually put an end to the disgraceful proceedings, Mr. Robert Harman, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour for purloining books from Trinity College Library.
There are two convict-ships now lying in Kingston harbour, the William Nieholl and the King 'William, boils bound for Sydney. In the latter, 180 males are to be embarked, ;0 of whom have arrived from Tipperary alone, at the convict-depict, Kilmainham. The same number of female convicts are assigned to the William Nieholl. All expect to be embarked and to sail for their destination before Saturday.—Dublin Correspondent of the Morning Post.
Mr. Maurice Roche, formerly an officer in the Commissariat Depart- ment, Limerick, killed his wife and himself, a few days mto, in a fit of phrensy. He seems to have cut his wife's throat while she was dress- ing, and then his own, with a razor. A Coroher's Jury found a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."
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