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Jury discharged.

--Judge Halyburton, of the United States District Court, on yesterday, discharged the jury sworn to try Captain John Lockhart for misdemeanor, in being on a vessel having Africans on board. The jury stood 11 for acquittal to 1 against. Afterwards all of the jury signed a paper, requesting the Judge to admit the prisoner to bail.--The application will be made to-day.

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