IRELAND.
Lord Lorton has been again defeated in an attempt to set aside a lease by which an old widow named Murphy keeps possession of a cottage and plot of' potato- ground on his Lordship's estate in Longford county. At the last Assizes, a verdict was given for the widow, who produced the lease in court. A motion for anew trial WM subsequently granted, and the cause came on at the Longford Assizes on Wednesday week. The noble plaintiff had obtained a Special Jury, but was again nonsuited. A question then arose as to which party should pay the twelve Jurymen their guinea each. Baron Foster, the Judge, decided that the widow, losiug the succeseful party, must pay the money. Her counsel and attorney declared that to be quite impossible—she could not procure so much money. The Judge was unmoved. The plaintiffs attorney offered to pay the money if' she would give up possession. This offer was refused ; and at length Mr. O'Ferrall, the defendant's attorney, paid the Jury.
At the Limerick Assizes' Philip Henry Holland, a solicitor of Lime- rick, and Frances Holland, his wife, were each sentenced to be im- prisoned nine months and kept one week in every six in solitary confinement, Philip Holland also to pay a fine of 5001. to the Queen, as punishment for cruel usage of a boy and girl apprenticed to them as house-servants, by the Charitable Protestant Orphan Union of Lime- rick. The particulars of this atrocious case were stated in the Specta- tor of 12th October last,
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