IRELAND.
The trials of individuals connected with the Anti-Tithe cases con- tinue to be prosecuted in Ireland. In the most important of those yet
decided, that of Mr. Hodnett, convicted of attending an Anti-Tithe meeting, the Court of Assize at Cork gave judgment on Monday. Mr- Hodnett was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, a fine of 1004. and to find securities, himself in WM. and two others in IOU each, to keep the peace for seven years.
On the same day, the indictments against two defendants, Kelleher and Quinn, were quashed, because of the prosecutor having sat on the Grand Jury when the bills were found. In the case of Mr. Twiss, a third defendant, the plea of "not guilty" was withdrawn, on the advice
of Mr. O'Connell, who, after being long and earnestly longed for, had arrived that day; and a general plea of guilty was entered. A pretty exhibition of the Liberator's law this ! The same plea was entered on behalf of Messrs. Ronayne, O'Lomasny, and Sheehan.
Twenty-seven men connected with the Wallstown riot—the blood and thunder trespass of O'Connell's Sun letters—were arraigned on
Monday ; when an application to put off the trial was made, because of
the sickness of a principal ,--Titness, Mr. Stawell, candidate for the county of Kinsale. Most unfortunately, Mr. Stawell, a highly re-
spectable gentleman, who on Monday was not looked on as in a dan- gerous state, died in the course of the evening. He had been included in the charge of conspiracy against those connected with the Band= tithe-meeting. Seven men were arraigned on Tuesday, charged with assaulting Mr. G. B. Lowe, at Castletown Roche, on the 4th July.
The Inquest on the bodies of the persons killed at Mooncoin was not finished when the latest accounts came away; but it was expected, to terminate on Saturday, to which day it stood adjourned.
At Naas, on the 25th ult., the Reverend George Houston, Rector of Feighcullen, was shot dead in his own lawn, opposite his house, where he had walked out to superintend the digging of some potatoes. A. most respectable Jury, after a patient and strict investigation, which. lasted for two days, delivered the following verdict—" That the do.. ceased came by his death in consequence of a gun-shot wound, which there was reason to suspect had been inflicted by George Leonard."' Leonard was forthwith committed to Naas Gaol.
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