The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-09 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.
THE LATE TRACT DISTRIBUTION CASE.-
DEPUTATION TO THE LORD LIEU-
TENANT.

A deputation, consisting of Mr. John Martin,
P.L.G.; Mr. John Ouseley Bonsai], P.L.G.; Major
Boyes, and Mr. Litton, J.P„ waited on the Lord
Lieutenant yesterday, at the Viceregal Lodge, to
present to his Excellency a memorial on behalf of
a meeting of Protestants recently held at the Ro-
tunda. praying for the dismissal of Mr. O'Callaghan,
one of the magistrates of Capel-street, Police-office,
because of his decision in the case in which Mr.
Martin A. O'Brennan recently preferred a charge
of assault against a tract distributor named Smith.

The Right Hon. the Attorney-General was pre-
sent with the Lord Lieutenant, who was attended
by Captain Molyneux, A.D.C. in waiting.
The deputation having been introduced, _

Mr. Martin read the memorial, which recited the
facts of the case, viz., certain Protestants in Dublin
have, for some time, been in the habit of printing
small handbills, setting forth the errors of the Ro,
man Catholic Church, and handing them to mem-
bers of the Roman Catholic persuasion as they
passed through the street. On the 14th ult. one of
these papers was given to a Roman Catholic, who
seized the distributor of the tract and placed him
in the hands of the police. The distributor was
brought before Mr. O'Callaghan, a magistrate,
who stated that his conduct in putting into a
person's hands a paper likely to make him angry
was calculated to lead to a breach of the peace, and
the magistrate ordered him to enter into his own
recognizances to be of good behaviour for the future.
The memorial then went on to say, that Mr. O'Cal-
laghan had audaciously, daringly, unconstitution-
ally, bigottedly, lent himself to sustain the intoler-
ance of a bigot, and to crush the rights of British
subjects, which rights were bought with the blood
of their fathers, and shall never be surrendered but
with their own.

" That we therefore, in the exercise of constitutionla pre-
rogative, thus approach your Excellency with our complaint,
and do most humbly pray that your Excellency may be pleased
to cause official enquiry to be made into the premises, and if
you find them to be true, and that this 11,1 r. O'Callaghan has
yielded to the suggestion of his Romanist principles, and
severely dealt with an humble citizen for praiseworthy zeal,
instead of, in the spirit of noble and free England, rebuking a
narrow-minded and intolerant bigot, your Excellency may
forthwith dismiss him from an office which he is disqualified

e the "ll
to fill, and thus teach society in general
government will not, directly or indirectly, becoT
toleranci
porter of tyrannous, enslaving, and unconstitutional
In
"And your petitioners will ever pray."
\ring rep: • •
His Excellency then read the folio\
• to this
" GENTLEMEN,—I have listened with much
Painetiog on
memorial. It is a matter of deep regret that the the
whose behalf you present it, should have """ with
use of language which appears to me to be inconsistent_ll
_bp
Christian charity, and to be calculated to prejudice r
opinion the right of flee discussion. isconduet
‘c The memorialists impute to a magistrate gross m
iv, ino,
in his office. They say that he ' audaciously, daring .nee of
lently, And bigotedly lent himself to sustain the int '`
Theny de.
a bigot, and to crush the rights of British subjects.' ,
tteriy us-
scribe the judgment pronounced by him as being
sug.gest,
constitutional, tyrannical, and intolerable,' and theY otiva
that, in pronouncing it, he was' actuated by improp!,
tatitute yn
Having thus stated the case, they pray me to ins
inquiry into the facts of it. that the Brine
his 133e1°.
" I will not advert further to the language of t
orisiists
rial, but will proceed at once to remind the tne,tuigiate
that if the charges which they prefer against Mr. o'‘'. tbst
be well founded, his office can afford him no protectio,ievrti
the' Court of Queen's Bench, which is opened to all *grow
persons, can inquire not only whether the judgment wa',,tote
neous, but also whether the motives by which the Ins,g'ict ao
was actuated were improper. That tribunal can Corr
error, and it can punish an offender. ;di tb'
" For these reasons I must decline to comply "'
prayer of the petition." otttw
smart discussion then took place, the L.ex„ro•
tion denying that the Queen's Bench was thelf it
per tribunal to apply to. Several members 'Ili()
then referred to the want of protection, front
it was- alleged the parties connected with toff
Missionary Movement" throughout the Tod,
suffered. This the Attorney-General denied'
subsequently, after a little further disputati°ll'
memoralists hdrew.
of
THE CLONCUIIRY FAMILY.—.-The Hon. Cecil„„00
less, whose death I reported yesterday, was
death
son of the late- Lord Cloncurry, whose den'''. orti
ceded his but a few days. Some curious rep 0.1
were afloat as to the nature of Mr. Lawlessso
ness, and some of the papers stated that it wits',
result of nervous excitement. The rumour °got,/
head was that he had been wrought into the;lois
represented, by a fit of chagrin, at the Pr°`lj' left
of his father's will, in which he expected to
better off than he was. That this was not the The
however, there is every reason to believe•
deceased gentleman had been suffering froiri
fever some time before his death, and it isotetl,
sudden relapse his death is more correctly ing out
nor does the story about the will seem boilit'or
by the fact, that Mr. Lawless was left by his 1011;
with a realty of .R5OO per year, X 12,000 in
Moreland, the elegant sea-side residence
Cloncurry family. Apropos to this, it is stated.ot
I should say with great probability of trutib,
the late lord died a Roman Catholic. The ffiatba
family did originally belong to that creed, fol, fro'
present nobleman's grandfather was the firs' if
testant of the name. The present lord hiolseDlS
however, not only a Protestant, but a toleflli
high Conservative, and worked might ancl,.oo
against the priests' candidates at the last P-100
Election, when he proposed the Derbyite no
Sir Edward Kennedy. 10.

THE FLOODS.—NO more recent news of M tit!
portance on this subject has been received Tlletoo
of Cork on Sunday was even more melancholl Der
the preceding day, on account of the lowerings
ther, but no correct estimate of the damage
yet been made. In Clare, a considerable (11111701
of agricultural produce has been destroyed 'JO
late overflow of the Fergus and Killame• or
number of deaths by drowning, is varionsl97,,,
mated at five, six, and eight. The Munster
describes the amount of cattle, horses, Sze., 1199108
frightful, and several trains on the Junctiond:
have been stopped. Meanwhile, from the too'
some further damage is reported, and the Y. •jti.
viaduct is in an exceedingly precarious conch°