The Express.
London, England, 1856-01-23 00:00:00

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DUBLIN, Ste. 22.
A good deal of local interest has been excited
dorint the lest year by a discussion as to a right
claimed by government to appoint chaplains to the
Belta.t Lunatic Asylum ; the popular feeling being
stroo„;:y e;.,,sted on the part of government in the
matter, while the governors of the asylum resisted
the right, on the ground that the appointment elf
chaplains would not be conducive to the welfare of
the institution, and that government could not sew
gel them to paz the chaplains salaries. Three dig.
lairs, of the Protestant, Przabyterise, and RUNS
Catholic persuasions, were appointed by the Lad
Lieutenant in 1843, and the question was at taiga
brought to an lane, by an application to the Court of
Queen's Bench for a mandamus to the governors of
the asylum, to compel them to include in their tied-
mates the chaplains' malarial. The return made to
the mandamus was, that the appointment
was illegal, and that the salaries could not
legally be paid; and a demurrer to this re-
turn having been duly argued, the Chief Justice
prooouuced the judgment of the court on the ques-
tion yesterday, overruling the demurrer, and refusing
the perruirory mandamus sought. The Chief Justice
having spoken as to the construction of such acts of
parliament as were material to the consideration of
the matters which the court had to decide, came to
the conclusion that the acts of parliament relating to
those asylums—with au exception as to criminal
lunatics—required that everything should be done by
the Lord Lieutenant and the Privy Council, and not
by himself personally. It was contended that by the
right of his prerogative authority the Lord Lieu-
tenant, independent of the act of parliament, could
nominate chaplains; bat the court could not say,
unites they saw his excellency's patent, whether he
had all the powers of the crown vested in him ; but
even assuming that he had, the crown could not ap-
point persons to an office which involved a charge
upon the &eject without the authority of the kits-
lature. The Chief Justice then proceeded to ob-
serve that independently of the grounds already
meatiosed against granting the peremptory writ of
mandamus, it was very doubtful whether the legis-
lature ever intended to have paid chaplains in those
asylums, the names of the officers being very specifi-
cally enumerated who were to be paid, and no men-
tion
of chaplains once occurring. There was also
another objection, that the rules of 1843, with which
the admission of the prosecutor would conflict, WON
still in force and binding; and even if the cos were
not so clear as it was, the court would not grant al
perensp:ory mandamus in a doubtful matter. Jades,
went had been postponed until now, not that that
had any doubt as to what that judgment ought toile,'
bat from a becoming respect to the authority wider
which the proceeding took place. The courOliminti
give the case the fullest consideration.
The Evening Mail says:
Mr. Conway Eduard Debbr, jun , has wattemesd the
electors of the bwoogh of Carrickfergus on tie oneenative
tatemt, and has received sash as amount of 'typist that
we belie.* his return at the nest general e'ection hike quits
secure. The preeeet repriesestative does sot Wad again
to eqieit the suffrage' of the eleatln, bat Mr. Fusels
Dl'Dmoven, Q C., is, we believe, la the &Id ea as
kWnl in:srest.

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