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THE NATIONAL RECIISTER

living with him at the • e but his wife and servant.—
He was seen at hie house on Sunday the 4th ; he was not
seen there or about the farm on the Monday after by any
of his neighbours, and it was not till Tuesday that his
body was found in an old house contiguous to the dwel-
ling. A criminal connection was subsisting between
the prisoners before the nturdr.
The Jury, after an absence of an hour and a half. re-
turned lino the Conn, bring in a verdict of guilty against
Leary, anti not guilty against Mary Stanley ; but the
forenisti accompanied the issue by saying, it was merely
on accotini of a deficiency, as they conceived, in the
chain of es irkiice, and not front any doubt of her parti-
cipation- in the guilt of the other prisoner.
His Lordship then passed the sentence of the law in
the usual manner,

Exacurtorr.—On the 11th inst. at Cork, William
Leary, for the murder of D. Stanley, to whom he had
been servant, underwent the awful sentence of the
the law at G3llows.green. Ile was taken from the county
gaol a little after twelve o'clock, and walked with a firm
step to the place of execution. His conduct since his
sentence was extremely penitent. 1V hen the melancholy
procession had arrived at the gallows, the ftes. Mr. Eng-
land said, that he had beets &situd by the prisoner to ac-
knowledge his guilt. IL was the murderer of David
Stanley, and 110 person had aided him in the commission
of that dreadful crime. Ile was not led to it by any per-
sonal enmity or hatred to Mr. Stanley, who had always
been a kind and indulgent master, hut entirely at the in-
stigation and desire of the wretched woman, Mary Stan-
ley, with whom the prisoner had been induced to lead a
criminal life for a long time. Various modes of destroy-
ing him had been suggested by her: at one time it was
proposed to cut his throat with a razor; at another time
to poison him; but this latter mode she feared would
lead to detection by the appearance of the body. The
gums with which Mr. S. was shot belonged to himself,
and the powder and halls were furnished by the wife,
who retired to bed whilst the murder wis perpetrated.—
After hanging the usual time, the body was taken down
and conveyed under a guard to the county infirmary for
dissection, aureeably to the sentence.
DUBLIN, Amur. 17.—The Kerry newspaper announces
the arrival at Tralee of the Sandwich Bay schooner, Capt.
Lavice, from Devonshire, laden with one hundred tons of
potatoes. This is, perhaps, the first importation of pota-
toes into Ireland (tor the purpose of immediate cousump-
tion) known to any of our readers.
SHERIF/ Salmi% DINT4EI2.—Sir William Smith, the
senior High Sheriff, entertained the Corporation yesterday
at a public dinner. Various efforts were made to prevail
on him to give the toast which had been so long a watch-
word of divisiou in this conntry—but lie constantly
declared that his resolution against it was inflexible. He
was resolved to regulate his conduct by the " parting
admonition and injunction" of his venerated Sovereign,
and while he obeyed the COIIIIO4IIIIS of the King, he had
no apprehension of being taunted as disloyal. Finding
the determination of the Sheriff was not to be shaken, a
few " back bone men" had a table prepared in another
• apartment, whither they retired to consume the Sheriff's
wine, in celebrating orgies offensive to their Soseieign,
his distinguished representative in this country, and their
entertainer!
CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.
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The four men who were capitally convicted at the last
assizes of Naas, for a litirglauy and rolibely at the house
of the Widow Daly, have hail their sentence mercifully
commuted by his Excellency the Marquis Wellesley, for
transportation.
COUNTY CORK ASSIZES.
SMITH V. ALLEN, O.ILEEIFIY, AND COLLINS.
This WA,. au action for assault and battery. The da-
mages were laid at 4,00 A. The defendants pleaded Nut
licilty and the geu•eral issue.
From the evidence it appeared, that in the month of
July last the illhalotants of Newmarket and the sill round-
ing country resolved, as a mark of and giatittide,
to celebrate the coronation of his Majesty by a niihlic
dinner at that village. Up to ten o'clock all was peritct
harmony, and It was hoped all would separate With the
same feeling. This was iuterroplyd, however, by Mr.
Allen and Ms patty refusing, on account of sonic old
grudge, to pledge the !width of a Mr. Alilisorth along with
the le.t et the company. Subsequently, a Mr. W. Lowe,
also one of Mi. Allen's party, and his Mother in law (who
has since Iled the country), observing a reverend gentle.
man snmen.hal overcome With the lestivitiei of the even-
ing, intiotbiced a tumbler of whiskey punch instead of a
wine glass Olt the tahie before him. This seas resisted by
the plaintiff, and an altercation eti,uilig, Mr. Lowe first
threw the rowel' in his face, and afterwards the glass
itself. The tither defendants were not idle, intliedin:x
wounds on the plaintiff with jugs and candlesticks, which
confined him to his Led fur upwards tit three weeks in a
very precarions state.

Ali.. Sergeant Lefroy briefly summed ap the evidence,
ronatnenting on the Law as to malice propense end the
Jory, alter retiring and tototoltintr for abont halt an hour,
rettn nett a verdict for the plaintiff, with lid. damages untl
tid. Costs.