Mr. Sergeant Adam has given it as his opinion that

Mr. Callaghan is disquali- fied from sitting for Cork, from the relation in which he stands to Government as it contractor.

In Tipperary, Roscommon, and Clare, bands of armed ruffians have been laying the country under contribution. Their pretext is arms; but if we may trust the Irish papers, they do not object to inoney or plate. In several instances they have been guilty of gross outrages.. On Monday night, a further respite arrived in town for Shine, Roche, and Ma- gna, who were convicted at the late Cork Special Commission, for the conspi- racy at Doneraile. The period at which the execution is fixed is nominally for the '20th of April, the they to which Leary had been previously respited ; but the extension of the time amounts to a full reprieve.—Cork Constitution.

The Reverend Mr. Dav, Curate of Roscommon, in Ireland, was attacked about a fortnight ago, on his return from the house of a sick parishioner, by a man, who discharged a pistol at him, by which he was severely wounded in the shoulder. The Lord Lieutenant has offered a reward of 5001. for the ruffian's apprehension. Mr. Glover, whose lady was called on at the late Cork Commission to identify one of the Doneraile conspirators, was shut at last week by some ruffian, who escaped. There was a meeting last week of the Magistrates and landed proprietors of Roscommon, at Elphin, for the purpose of considering the state of the county. It was resolved, after some discussion, that the re-enactment of the Insurrection Act was necessary to suppress the spirit of disaffection in that quarter. Cropley, chief constable at Doneraile, and recently a Dublin police-officer, has been appointed a magistrate in the counties of Sligo and Roscommon. The emoluments of his present rank are 500!. a year, while his former yielded about 40/. The situation to which this person has been promoted is one for which many gentlemen of limited incomes have been candidates ; and the appointment has given great dissatisfaction. His activity in apprehending the Doneraile " Conspirators" is alleged to have been his recommendation.

A new candidate ffir the representation of Kerry has been named within the last few days in the person of the Earl of Kerry, the eldest son of the Marquis of Lansdowne. This young nobleman is, we believe, of age, and has much distill- gnished himself in college. We understand that it is not the noble lord's inten- tion to oppose either of the present patriotic members for the county, and that he will only offer himself to the consideration of the electors in the event of a

vacancy.—Trake Mercury. The Standard states that the Irish priests, in defiance of the law winch accom- panied emancipation, are not at all disposed to lay aside the titles which their Church bestows Amon them. They have got a Bishop of Cork anti an Arch- bishop of Cashel, it seems ; and in their correspondence with the see of Rome, these titles are still made use of.

Mr. John Lawless left London for Ireland last week, after having served all his terms for the present year at Gray's Inn. It is said that the Government prose. cution against Mr. Lawless is given up.

On Sunday last, the Rev. Dr. Hincks preached a sermon in the church of Killileagh, in reply to one which had been preached on the preceding Sunday by the Rev. H. Montgomery, within the bounds of Killileag-h parish, After the conclusion of his sermon, Dr. Hincks proceeded to Derryboy, to a place in the immediate neighbourhood of that where Mr. Montgomery had preached. Here • he went over the same ground to a crowded congregation in the open air, the house prepared for his reception being too small for the multitude that assembled. —Belfast News Letter.

A Cork paper states, that Doctor O'Shea, a tenant of Lord Ennismore, has lately had large quantities of his hay burned ; and that the incendiaries had been discovered to be Lord Ennismore's steward and his wife.

The following Catholic noblemen and gentlemen have been added to the core. ! mission of the peace for the county of Norfolk—the Duke of Norfolk, the Earl of Surrey, Lord Stafford, and the Honourable Henry Stafford Jerningham. It was mentioned last week that Mr. Blackburn had retired from the represen- tation of Lancashire ; and that Sir Thomas Hesketh and Mr. Stanley were ex- pected to start for the county. Lord F. L. Gower and Mr. Wilson Patten have since been added to tire list of candidates.

• rtiftt.IPS'S 'DEFENCE TN REGARD TO Ms WIFIt'S DEAT0.—Mr. Phillips o' Finchley has published in the Chronicle of this morning, a long defence of him self from the insinuations which have been levelled at him since his wife's death. He states, and offers to prove, that the mixture which destroyed Mrs. Phillips was compounded in Mr. Snow's shop. He thus comments on Mr. Hill's translated prescription :—" ' Two ounces of the infusion of cascarilla bark, three ounces ' of senna tea, half an ounce of manna, and one ounce of the tincture of gentian. He might as well have given it accurately when he was about it, and have said

infusion of senna, three ounces,' which was the way it stood in the prescrip- tion, especially as he has given the first article correctly, ' infusion of cascarilla bark.' But he was afraid, as senna is the precise colour of laudanum, that unless

the word tea was mentioned, it might have been mistaken for it. He then says— I did make the infusion of cascarilla from cascarilla itself,and I made the infusion of senna from the leaves of senna.' This, although I have reason to believe that it is unusual in the profession, I shall dismiss for the present." Mr. Hill, on examining the bottle afterwards, said that it contained two-thirds of lauda- num, while none of the materials of his piescription bore that proportion to the rest ; and Dr. Tweedie corroborated the apothecary's statement as to the proportion

of laudanum in the bottle. On their evidence Mr. Phillips makes the following remarks :—" I was almost astounded at Dr.Tweedie speaking so glibly on the subject of the quantity of laudanum in the bottle before the Jury, when he had on the day of Mrs. Phillips's death, told me at my house, after smelling and tasting the mix- ture, that he could not tell whether there was any laudanum in the bottle; and when asked to explain why he did not give his opinion on the subject at my house, he sheltered himself under the paltry subterfuge of his having been taken by surprise ! Surprise indeed ! A doctor of medicine, so surprised at the taste and smell oflaudanum, that he could not tell what it was! But I shall be able to show * * * that this bottle contained just one ounce of laudanum, being a sixth part of the whole contents, instead of ' two-thirds,' or, as Mr. Snow asserted,

four-fifths. As to the one ounce of gentian, there is no such ingredient in the mixture at all. This point has been since established by the concurrent decision of several persons, at least equal to this medical trio ; and I should not be much surprised if it has been confirmed by one other individual to whose opinion they must bow, as having been selected for the analysis on their own part—Professor Thompson ! ! ! This gentleman's analysis was promised by.' one of the medical witnesses. The analysis by Professor Thompson has been going on since. Surely

it cannot now be contended that the present is not a fit time for laying the details of the analysis before the public If it at all support the opinion put forth by the medical men at the Inquest, they will not hesitate to avail themselves of such an au- thority. I shall now confidently state what the medical men must be aware of—that when the prescription is made up with one ounce of laudanum instead of the gen- tian, none could trace a difference between that and the fatal mixture; and I assert

this upon the authority of a better chemist than either of the three. So that here is the ' mystery ' solved ! And I have further to add, that a greater quantity of laudanum than is here stated, alters the appearance materially; and that if g two-thirds of laudanum are put in, the colour then ceases to be at all like the fatal mixture.' It is said that Mr. Snow examined his laudanum bottle as soon as Mrs. Phillips's situation was made known to him ; if so, it is a Ayery suspicious cir- cumstance; for it can be proved that my man was at Mr. Snow's to apprise them

of Mrs. Phillips's situation by seven o'clock in the morning, and that Mr. Snow was then informed of her death ; and, as nothing was said about laudanum, why should he go to the bottle The same messenger went again at ten o'clock, when

Mr. Swan Hill said that Dr. Tweedie had gone to my house ; but, notwithstanding his starting so early, he did not reach there till five o'clock in the afternoon—

being ten hours after he was first sent for. It is not necessary to repeat here all that was said when he did arrive, as the principal part has already been detailed before. It is enough that I should repeat, that he refused to go up stairs to see

Mrs. Phillips; that he insinuated she must have destroyed herself; and when defeated on this point, said at any rate he was not to blame—that he did not compound medicines himself—that he only prescribed;' and added, that It is no wonder these accidents happen—when they do, the only wonder es, that they do not happen oftener, when doctors allow such boys to mix their medicines;' that having examined and tasted the medicine, he said—' he could not say whether there was any laudanum in it;' that he wanted to take the bottle away, which I prevented ; and that.he should not attend the inquest unless compelled.

THE ANDERDON CASE OF LUNACY.—Dr. Burrowes, in a letter to the Editor o

the Morning Chronicle, has remonstrated against the clamour which the press still raises against him, notwithstanding his pledge to the public, that, if they would suspend their judgment, he would shortly justify his conduct. He has

been goaded, he states, by the attacks on his character, to enter hi his letter upon a general defence of the measures which lie sanctioned ; a defence sufficient, he

conceives, to appease the public prejudice, and to be followed speedily by a disclosure of those specialties in Mr. Anderdon's case, which will procure for him a triumphant acquittal. Dr. Burrowes then adduces the presumptions of madness which Mr. Anderdon's general habits supply—still reserving those which he cannot divulge without a breach of professional confidence; and afterwards urges arguments to prove that he is warranted by the practice of medical men, and the approval of that practice by courts of law, in pronouncing mad a man whom he had not previously examined.

"Some of the eccentricities (he observes) in the person and dress of Mr. F.A., but by no means all of them, have been described in the police report. But these eccentricities are not confined to external appearances ; and as they are notorious

and relevant, I may give publicity to them. Although still a young man, this gentleman has for several years estranged himself, without any known cause, from

his highly respectable relations and connexions ; and shunning all human associa- tion, taken up his abode in a very obscure, disreputable part of Lambeth Marsh* There he resides, in a small, miserable, dilapidated house, with broken windows, and a few iron bars across the lower one, It may be inferred that he has few visitors ; for neither the gate of the fore-court nor house door has bell or knocker. He lives a solitary being, without any servant or inmate. His meals he takes at cook-shops, where the lower orders resort. No one knows when he goes out, or will return, or can give any account of his movements. Let me ask, here, how an interview or medical examination was to be obtained within twenty-four hours with such a peculiar character ? Had he by chance been found at home, murder

might have been the consequence of intrusion ; for he was said to be likely to make a desperate resistance, and was well known to keep loaded fire-arms at hand." [These are undeniably (strange peculiarities of conduct, but they do not, of themselves, establish that Mr. Anderdon is mad ; however Dr. Burrowes may

know that he is,by other undivulged proofs.] On the second point, Dr. Burrowes says-

" In our courts of judicature, medical opinions are permitted to be received respecting the soundness or unsoundness of a mind, though the witness may never have seen the alleged lunatic. Dr. Monro and I attended at a trial (Farmer Field), which occupied nearly two days, at the last Assizes for Surrey, wheeler after hearing the evidence on both sides, we were examined as to the soundness

of an individual's mind at a specific period, when he had been visited by neither

of us. I remember a more remarkable instance in point, at a trial (the King v. Hibbert) before Lord Chief Justice Tenterden, to traverse a commission of lunacy, a medical gentleman, eminent for his knowledge in mental affections, was attend- ing merely from curiosity ; and he was put into the witness box by the present Attorney-General, and desired to give his opinion from the evidence he had heard in Court, never having examined the lunatic, whether he was of sound or un- sound mind ; and that opinion, so delivered, had of course an influence with the Jury in consigning him to all the degrading consequences of a verdict of unsound mind. I hold myself blameless for acting on the evidence adduced by the Messrs. Anderdon of their brother's malady ; and so in candour and justice ought every one till they learn the nature of the evidence I received. They were known to me to be gentlemen of the highest character and respectability ; and with one of them I had been personally acquainted several years."

[Does it not occur to Dr. Burrowes, that there is little resemblance between these cases and that of Mr. Anderdon ? In a court of law the whole evidence is sifted, and medical opinions are only brought to bear upon facts which have been previously established to the satisfaction of a jury. In Mr. Anderdon's case, how. ever, the evidence on which the opinion of Dr. Burrowes seems to have been founded, has been furnished by one party, and that the party most deeply inter- ested in establishing Mr. Anderdon's madness.] Dr. Burrowes has stated in another part of his letter, that the Mr. Wells of Sud- bury, wha has been forcing himself on the notice of Mr. Peel by his outcry against the administration of Madhouses, is himself a released lunatic; and adds farther that Mr. Peel's Secretary, in complying with the requisition of his master, was not warranted in dragging Dr. Burrowes before the public by name.