IRELAND.
It is wee said that Sir Edward Sugden has consented to resume the duties of Irish Chancellor. The report of his arrival io London, weieli wa copied 1: om the Herold last week, turns out to be premature.
At the last Assizes of Waterford, a man, supposed to be Daniel %age, was tried and found guilty, for the murder of his wife, akalt
t years two. After his sentence, and until the moment of his
. cution, he frequently, and in the most solemn manner, declared
• I enoeceee of the charge. It now appears, from a statement pith-
.1 in tie Wolcif■rd Chronicle, that the unfortunate mini was guilt-
crime, and that, though he hail been mistaken for Suvage, .1 mune was Edmoed Pine. lie had been constantly suleect .ae iits, which in a great degree deranged the faculties of his reeeered him a miserable oltiect. During the trial. ti .:cc
• - ea, who ware brought forward for the prosecution, declared macives tumble to ideutifv the accused Arben confronted whh
in the dock. Tit,: witness who swore to his identity was a 1,rothea of the murdered woman ; end he ohaervcd that there was a mark or cut upen the cheek of the murderer, and that there was a si,eilar one on the chin ef the prisoner. lh evions to his execution he was shaved, and no such mark could be discovered. One of the strongest facts in the statement of the Waierliird aronicle is the circumstance that the sister of the actual murderer (Savage), having obtained permission to visit her supposed brother, proceeded to the condemned cell, hut immediately on seeing him she turned away, exclaiming " This man is not my brother." No blame is attached to the Jury, who pro- nounced their verdict on the evidence before them. The most striking feature of the case against the prisoner was, that on being first arrested be acknowledged his name to be Savage; but this is explained by stating that he returned an affirmative to every interrogatory put to him. 1 he fits to which he was subject bad in fact reduced him to the state of a simplaton or idiot.
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