The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

, MA acz 23.
A deputation from the council ofDUBLIN the Chamber of
Commerce had an interview yesterday with the Lord
Lieutenant relative to the contemplated abolition of
the viceroyalty. The Mercantile Advertiser, wh:ch
mentions the circumstance, states that they were re-
esived by his excellency with the utmo,t kindness,
bat that the result has not yet transpired.
Mr. J. L Murphy has been appointed one of the
Commissioners of Cnaritable Bequests for Ireland in
the room of Mr. Corballi., resigned. The following
government apwintments have been made: Dr.
Madden to be Secretary of the Loan Fund, in the
rcom of Mr. C. Piesse, promoted to the colonies. The
Rev. Gibson Black, curate of St. George's Parish, to
be Chaplain to the Mountjoy Penitentiary, at a salary
of 1001. per annum. The Rev. M-. M'Csbe to be
Roman catholic chaplain to the same institution, at a
, salary of 1501. a year.
The trial of Dr. Langley for the murder of his
wife terminated yesterday evening, at the Nenagh
Ardses, in the acquittal of the prisoner. The case,
which was a very remarkable one, and occupied the
court for two days, attracted considerable aizention.
Tne prisoner was a physician, practising in the town
of Nenagh for several years. He had been married
for 13 or 16 years to his wife, the daughter of a
respectable clergyman named Poe, in the same town,
and was charged with murdering her by confining
her while sick and diseased to an unwholesome room,
and by refusing to allow her to provide proper food
for herrelf, and neglecting and refusing to pro-
vide it for her. This treatment was said to
have occurred between s'l]. December, 1848, and
let May, 1849, and the motive for it was alleged
to have been an unfortunate attachment which the
prisoner entertained for a niece of his wife. Letters
were produced in evidence in which the prisoner
confessed that attachment, and brought charges of
infidelity against his wife to excuse the hatred which
he felt for her. However, it appears from the testi-
mony of the witnesses that Mre. Langley died of
diarrhces, and the jury acquitted the prisoner of either
murder or manslaughter. One of the remarkable
circumstances connected with the case was the fact
of the prisoner having abstained,' from food for forty
days in the prison, taking nothing during that rime
but water, and also refusing to have his beard
removed.

The murder of Mr. Woolsey, of Cloonagh-honse,
near Portadown, continues to excite much latexes: in
the north of Ireland. The inquest had not termi-
nated when the last accounts left, and the BeTot
News Letter states:

That from the evidence there is as yet no positive charge
against any individueL The deceased was at litigation on
several occasions eith his relations end others, and had been
successful in ejecting them out of small portions of land.
Then has therefore, existed between him and them so much
coldness aa to warrant the surmise that he was shot by some
of those persons who may have supposed themselves blrehly
treated by him. His brother was apprehended on suspicion
of bong a guilty party in the dreadful transaction, but was
on Wednesday liberated by order of the magistrates, as
there was no evidence to warrant their holding him. He
attended during part of the examination of the witneues
yesterday. When leaving, we reedved information that Mr.
B. Boyd, who is brother-in-law to the deceased, and his son,
were apprehended on suspicion.
Accounts, says the Freeman, have reached town
from the Very Rev. Mr. Mathew, announcing his
being in good health, at Columbus, state of Georgia,
and preparing to continue his mission on to New
Orleans.

Baron Prochaska has arrived from the seat of the
late war in Hungary, to join his family at Dromana,
the mansion of the Right Hon. Lord Stuart De
Denim

MURDER IN NEWCASTLE.

A second edition of the Newcastle Guardian says
It is with feelings of deep pain and regret that we have to
record the death of a woman in this town, early this
morning, under circumstances which have given rise to a
general suspicion that a foul deed of violence has been
committed.

It appears, from the particulars which we have been
able to obtain, up to the hour of going to press with our
second edition, that et an early hour this (Saturday)
morning—about one o'clock, one informant says—the
policeman on duty in the neighbourhood of St. Nicholas'
Churchyard, heard cries of murder," followed by those
of "police." He proceeded to Cloggers' Entry, at the
bead of the Side, from which direction the cries pre-
°ceded, and entered the house of Patrick Forbes, on
the top fist of a wretched tenement, inhabited by the lowest
class of the population. On going into the room he found •
woman lying on the bed, apparently in a dying state. Forbes
was sitting in • chair, almost undressed. Oa the floor of
the room there was a pool of blood, and the man's hands,
sad such clothes se he had on were also stained with blood.
Of coarse the policeman at once proceeded to examine fur-
ther the appearance and condition of the woman on the bed;
she was nearly in a state of nudity, unable to speak, breath-
less' and being In the agmies of death, almost immediately
afterwards died. Further surgical examination warrants
the belief that she has been stabbed in • moat shocking
manner in the lower part of the abdomen. The man, who
it was subsequently ancerteiaed was her husband, did not
give any account as to the probable cause of death, and very
properly was not questioned by the police on the subject.
He was taken into custody sad removed to the Westgate
police station. A coroner'sary was summoned, which met
this forenoon at Hr. Sayers, sign of the Blue Bell, in the
Side, and near the place where the death took place. The
jury having assembled, and the body of the deceased having
bun identified by her daughter, the coroner, /dr. Stoker,
suggested that the inquest should be at once adjourned, in
order to afford Mr. Heine, the surgeon for the police, an
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plied with this suggestion, and the inquest was adjourned
to Tuesday next.
Upon the prisoner, when conveyed to the Westgate
station-house and darched, were found two knives.
He was charged with having murdered his wife, when he
said " I did- net strike her," He then went into • long
rambling statement as to his having slept with his wife that
night, but he did not remember that anything particular had
happened. About four o'clock he was removed to the Manors'
station.
The house has been partly searched, and a blunt instru-
ment found with which the murder may have been com-
mitted. It is utterly 'spoilable for us to state in print the
Manner in which it is suppeeed to have been used. The lower
parts of her person were saturated with blood.
We understand there will be an examination before the
magistrates late this aftersoon, but whether public or
private cannot yet be ascertained. Our reporters are at-
' ten to the case, and will furnish us with the very latest
We hear that the man is of violent character, and that ha
and his wife havenot lived together on good terms.

Tim lionorn, Captain Grotty ailed from Liverpool
on Saturday fur Halifax and New Y „...

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