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Dr. Murray, the Roman Catholic Archbishop.of Dublin, has sent his subscription to the O'Connell fund with this letter to Mr. Power, one of the Trustees- " Dear Sir—I base the honour to enelose 10/. for the O'Connell Fund ; a fund which, I. trust, will prove on this occasion, as distinctly as at any former 'period, the lasting gratitude of Ireland to the most distiuguielied of her sons. " I have the honour, &c. " t , Morgan O'Connell, M.P., second son of Daniel, succeetbi to the Office
eee, of Register of Deeds, void by Mr. Kildahl's death. MiaDtConeea will,of -course, leave a vacancy for the mepresentation of Meath...,.. Limaiek Chronicle. The same paper says that Mn, Corbally, a relative of Lord Fingall, will be the Liberal candidate to succeed Mr. Morgan O'Connell.
The Dublin correspondent of the Times mentions a story current in Dublin, that Lord Stuart de Decies, always supposed to have been a bachelor, has been married since 1825, to a German lady, by whom has five children. His brother, Mr. William Villiers Stuart, always sup- posed himself heir to Lord Stuart's immense property, which more than neutralizes the influence of the Beresford family in Waterford.
On Wednesday, the Reverend Dr. .Armstrong, clergyman of the Presbyterian congregation of Strand Street, in Dublin, met his death in a manner awfully sudden. After celebrating a marriage between Mr. D. Hutton, a relative of the Member for Dublin, and Miss Barton, a daughter of the Bank Director of that name, the reverend gentleman sat 'down to breakfast with the bridal party, when he dropped from his chair and died almost instantaneously.—Times Dublin Correspondent, A trial for libel against the proprietor of the Dublin Evening Mad, at, the suit of Mr. Ex-Sheriff Junes of Dublin, occupied the Common Pleas on Tuesday until nearly seven in the evening. The presiding Judge was Chief Justice Doherty. The libel affected the plaintiff's character as it banker, and went to state that his attacks upon the Re- corder were likely to injure the Royal Bank of which he was a Director; that several had closed their accounts in it, and others were preparing to do so. The plaintiff's case was ably stated by Mr. Holmes ; who eloquently contended for the right of commenting freely on the public acts of public men. Mr. Brewster spoke to evidence, and with great Personality against Mr. Jones. He accused him of seeking to drive the Recorder from the representation of the Dublin University and get elected for it himself. A verdict against the defendant would, he em- phatically said, ruin time Recorder. Witnesses were called to prove that Mr. Jones made violent speeches against the Recorder, and also as to the accounts being closed in the Rosal Bank on account of Jones's violent language ; but the evidence failed. The Chief Justice, in charging the Jury, said "he had seldom seen so large a statement with So little of' actual proof given : the question of damages rested exclu- sively with the Jurv,"—who, having retired for 11(:;fl,t.' trosItisi.mr, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff, 300/. damages and James Ryan, formerly storekeeper in the Dublin Customhouse, and John Ileiliv, a workman about the same establishment, have been ex- amined luta rem mded on a charge of setting fire to that building on Monday week. Little damage was done, and scarcely any notice was taken of the occurreace, until circumstances transpired which caused suspicion that the fire was wilful. The chief evidence was given by - Wright, a dockninn ; but that amounted to little more than seeing the prisoners together in the part of the premises whence the fire first issued, and in which a quantity of bark was stored. Some balls of' grease, wrapped up in paper, were found among the bark ; near to which a large quantity of teas, sugars, and valuable merchandise was stored.
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