The Press.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

" CATALINF," AT THE TREASURY.

THE Duke of NEWCANTLE's Lord of the
Treasury, Mr. JOHN SADLEIR, has lately been
figuring at Dublin in one of the most extra-
ordinary trials that we ever read. Not the
least singular thing about this memorable snit
of " Dowling against Lawler" is, that Lord
Aberdeen's organ has avoided giving the details of
this case, which disclosed such a scene
of turpitude, conspiracy, and compromising
treachery as is seldom revealed to a court
of justice. The case was tried before the
Lord Chief Baron of Ireland ; able counsel were
employed on both sides ; and from the pub-
lished records in the Irish journals we find
the following facts attested by the oaths of
credible witnesses, and affirmed by the un-
hesitating verdict of a Dublin jury.
At the last general election Mr. JOHN
SAULEIR was a candidate for the town of
C►nlow. He was up to 1847 a practising
attorney in Dublin ; but, smitten with ambi-
tion, he got returned for Carlow in that year.
At the election of 1M he was opposed by Mr.
CLAYTON BROWNE and the contest was ex-
pected to be extremely close. DOWLING, the
plaintiff in the ease, had in 1847 voted for
Mr. SADLEin ; but, being a tenant of Mr.
CLAYTON BROWNE, he wished to vote for his
landlord. The Sadleirites, however, resolved
to bring influences to bear upon him of a kind
which is extraordinary and perhaps even unique
in Irish electioneering annals. A conspiracy
was entered into for the purpose of casting
him into gaol and preventing his recording his
vote against Mr. SAPI Eln. The way in which
this nefarious scheme was carried out dis-

DECEMBER 31, 1853.

played an audacity of design. mixed with chi-
canery. probably unparalleled unless at the Old

It appeared that Dowi.iNo owed money to at
bill-discounter of the name of (Norm who is
since dead. CROTTY had put DOWLINO'S bills into

the branch of the '• Tipperary Bank " estab-
lished at Carlow. The partner* of that bank
are four SAULEIRR, including the Lord qt. the

Treasury, along witlt an attorney of :he name

(if MOftROGII—A/tylie`e " Moattow• ;" .►nil its
a►auager iu oue THAuvErs O'SHEA, un active
ally of SAtn.EIR. It appears that when O'SHEA

cashed, in Itcr2, these aeceptances of DowI,ING,
for the sum of 1001. and Mt, (*nom ob-
tained from Dowumo a bond with warrant of
attorney, merely as an indemnity. The
election came on, and Caorry canvassed
Dom.'s°, and warned him "that his bills
were in the bank." Along with threats he
employed hopes, and told DOWLING " that
" the bills would be renewed as often ns
" they came due, and that a further credit for
" three hundred pounds would be established
" for him." The offer of the bribe failing
to influence him, it was resolved to send to
his confessor, a Roman Catholic priest of the
name of DEMPSEY. But neither the broker of
the bank, nor the casuistry of the confessor,
could move I)owLiNu from his desire to vote
for his landlord.

It was then resolved by the conspirators to
arrest DOWLING, and leave him imprisoned on
the bond which he had given to Caorry merely
as a security ! It appears that they obtained for
this purpose a false and fraudulent cart fleate by
using (without his knowledge) the name of a
dying attorney ! The unsuspecting DowuNo
went to the hustings on the day of nomination,
and was actually arrested iu the presenee of
Mr. SADLEID, one of the partners of the
" Tipperary Bank," and now a Lord of the Trea-
sury ! The whole proceeding was an outra-
geous violation of common honesty and
the law of the land. The sensation pro- •
dueed by the facts when they were pub-
lished was extraordinary, and for a long
time past the Irish journals have teemed
with allusions to this disgraceful ease. The
Court of Exchequer sent four issues in it
to be tried by a Jury. The whole of the facts
have been investigated within the last few
days, and the jury have found in favour of
the facts as deposed to by DOWLING, although
Mr. Joni SADI.EIR was examined as a witness,
and although he denied upon his oath the as
sertions that he personally had mixed himself
up in the abominable treatment inflicted upon
DOWLINO. But upon the question of Mr. SAD
LEIR'S connection with this ease let us hear
the concluding address of Mr. MAeDoxocou.
Speaking to evidence, the eminent counsel
said—( we quote from the Dsblin Ereniny Post
of December 24th) :

Who was the teal defendant in this case ? It was not
Lawler--was it rutty? Nil; his (counsel's) oppt meta was
the chief, if not the sole, criminal—a lArd of the Treasury—
Mr. John Stanek, gentleman, One of the attorneys. Mr.
Stanek had sworn that he had neither hand, act, nor part
in the arrest of Dowling. What evasion was this ! If
wretclusl Itiltbonman were on his trial, and it were
proved that he g.tve a coal of fire to another, and that
he had seen no more of him, hut if it was proved that the
other man went to the thatched cottage of the destined
victim of a lawless confederacy and placed the coal of flee itt
the thatch, who would believe the matt if he had sworn on his
fush.lllll oath that he had neither hand, act, 11111' 11211 ill
tie tt tt ;.; tire to the 1 se ? This is what .lulus Stack
t•Alled on them to believe—not before the assembled county
of Carlow, hut before a jury of his fellow.eitizetts.
Mr. MACI)ONOUOu, who delivered this remark-
able speech, is a supporter of " Coalition"
polities, but he did not flinch from castigating
the " CALM\ E," its he afterwards termed Mr.
SADLEin. But, when Parliament assembles,
Mr SAnt.xin will probably hear some further
speeches upon his conduct besides that which
we have extracted from the columns of one of
his supporters in the Irish press !

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