IRF.LAND.
At a meeting held one day last week, in the Chamber of Commerce in Cork, and which %VHS attended by a considerable number of electors, including some personal friends of Mr. Barry, it was resolved, that as Mr. Barry had pledged himself to vote for the Repeal of the Union, he could not release himself from that pledge by a resbolation of his scat. It remains to he seen what course Mr. Barry, widtake, in this rather singular state of affairs.
The valuable deanery of Lismore has fallen vacant by the demise of the Revere Id Sir G. Bisshopp, Bart. The late Barout succeeded to the ancient Baronetcy of Bisshopp, of Parham, on the death of his distant relation, Lord De la Zouche in 1828.
At the Kilkenny Assizes, last week, Philip Malone and Mary itlalore, his mother, were tried for the murder of Mr. Joseph Leonard. This was the horrid affair which occurred at noonday on the highway between Ross and Waterford; when the unfortunate gentleman was stoned to death in his gig, after which time vehicle was hacker: into a
sion of the Exeter Assizes. Sir John entered the dock, aecom 'allied ditch, and the wheels deliberately blocked to prevent the horse pro
by his brother and another gentleman. The Clerk of Arraigns having ceeding, and to expose the spectacle to passengers. The woman was read the indictment charging him with the wilful murder of Dr. acquitted, but Philip was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged in Hennis, Sir John pleaded Not Guilty. There was no evidence offered chains. The Grand Jury petitioned that the execution might take on the part of the prosecution ; and the Jury, under the direction of place on the spot where the murder was perpetrated. The principal
the Judge, found him, " Not Guilty." witnesses were James Roche, a boy of fourteen, who saw the transac- tion, and James Cashel), eighteen years of age (an approver), who was hired by Malone to kill his landlord, Mr. Leonard. The cholera has recently appeared in Dublin, Enniskillen, Donegal, and some places in Clare.
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