IRELAND.
Mr. Thomas Conolly was elected on Tuesday to represent Donegal county, in the room of his father, the late Colonel Conolly;—in whose footsteps he promises to tread, and whose principles of the "supremacy of Conservatism" he will uphold.
The trial of Mr. Duffy on his fifth indictment has ended, like the preceding trials, without being finished. The Jury were locked up on Wednesday night, but could not agree: when they were visited in the morning, two of them were ill, and the foreman thought that if they were imprisoned for a twelvemonth they would be no nearer to agreement. Medical certificates having been furnished to the Court, that the lives of the ailing jurors would be endangered by further eon- finement, the Jury was discharged; and Mr. Duffy was remitted to prison. The evidence differed in no respect from that on the former trials; and the only guess at the reasons of the no-verdict is suggested by the remarks of the Judges after the discharge of the Jury. Baron Lefroy wished to say, that he had not given any opinion to the effect that it was necessary to prove the actual writing of an article by a prisoner, to make him liable for the publication under the act. Judge Ball observed, that having never heard the question argued, he was not in a posi- tion to give any opinion one way or the other. Bail was again refused. The Court was adjourned to Saturday the 7th April; and Mr. Duffy will be put on his trial again on Monday the 9th April.
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