The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEB. 23.—1 n the case of " Smith v. Yeates,"
which has attracted so much attention, the jury were in last
night till eleven o'clock, and then, there being no probability
of their agreeing, were discharged. This is equivalent to a
triumph for the defendant, at the former trial a jury having
given a verdict against him with 3001. damages. On the
present occasion, the great majority of the jury were for find-
ing a verdict in his favour, but there were one or two recu-
sants who obstinately held out, and thus there has been no
verdict. The action was for alleged seduction, accomplished
through the defendant's position and influence as a magis-
trate. The defendant, in applying for a new trial, positively
swore that the whole business was a conspiracy against him,
and utterly destitute of any foundation in fact whatever.
He put himself, consequently, on trial in the second instance
not only for the alleged seduction, but for perjury. It is
very fortunate that he has thus succeeded. Mr. I eates is
a gentleman of fortune, and has been high sheriff of his
county.
The Cork Constitution says, that the reduction of the glass
duty has already induced parties to seek for premises in Cork
in which to carry on the manufacture extensively.
Mr. Blake, paymaster of constabulary at Carlow, is sus-
pended as a defaulter in his accounts, and committed to Car-
low gaol, at the suit of the Crown.

THE NEW ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE INDIA MAILS.
—The mail just arrived is the first under the bi-monthly
arrangement. The Hindostan left the Sand Heads, Cal-
cutta, with it on the 10th of January, and arrived at Suez on
the 4th of February. A detention of twenty hours in Egypt
occurred by the vessel on the Nile getting aground. The
th
e
morning Liverpool departed with it from Alexandria on hice
morning of the 9th inst., arrived at Malta with it on the
morning of the 13th, from whence the portion of it
ad-
dressed via Marseilles was forwarded the same. day by
Majesty's steamer Acheron, and would,
course, have arrived in London on the
four days interval for replying
to
d the de-
let2teOlrnt ordinary
ah—blyeavtinhge
tention of nearly a day over t e
outgoing mail of yesterday, 2h4thu,snaoatlw
tiimthest.tan Egypt. The
n
snow and frost in France has, however, prevented the mail
I In ordinary •
r-
cumstances the direct mail easexuspeuctaed to arrive iLcon-
getting through from Marseillesu,a3nirbonth, or four days before the
Lon-
don about the 20th of every
departure of the outward mail, and to arrive at Calcutta about
the sth of ever} month,
or four or live days before the dis-
f the homeward mail for England.
not to be generally known that letters from Bombay
m
ta tyc h
seems from that place
be forwarded by this intermediate or direct mail, by
aai, of Madras. The mail dispatched from London on the
24th will reach Madras on the 29th of the following month,
and the steamer will leave Madras on her homeward route
for England on the 14th of the month following, thus giving
an interval of fifteen days between the arrival of the outward
mail and the departure of the homeward mail. The dawk
post between Madras and Bombay occupies six days, conse-
quently a letter can be sent from Madras to Bombay, can
be answered from thence, and the reply be sent to Madras in
sufficient time to meet the homeward bound steamer for
England.
Mr. Christopher Tower, of Huntsmoor-park, near
Iver (one of whose ancestors is said to have represented
this borough about ct century ago, if that be any recom-
mendation), was on Friday elected knight of the shire
for Buckingham, the vacancy having been created by
the retirement of Mr. C. S. Murray. Mr. Tower was
proposed bey Sir John Dashwood King, Bart., and se-
conded by Ctrenville Pigott, Esq.; and his election was
unopposed.