The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, SATtritta.t, Joe. 9.
The proceedings at the meeting of the corporation,
yesterday, exceeded in violence and confusion even
what might be expected in the very peculiar
circumstance' under which it assembled. The meeting
might be termed a double one, having been summoned
by two distinct nquisitions, one emanating from Mr.
Reynolds, the Lord Mayor, calling a meeting, " to do
such acts as the council shall deem neetseary, in
consequence of the writs of mandamus ;" the otl.cr
summons issuing from five members of the council,
and stating the purpose to be the election of a Lard
Mayor for the residue of the year of office, puissant
to ths direction of the same writ of mandamus. B
meetings were called for 11 o'clock, but the comer.
votive requisition added the letters p.m., which, as the
Lord Mayor reminded theca, must mean 11 o'clock at
night, unless some of the members, as he thoujeht it
likely enough, understood them to mean ",
et mcr-
tem." However the members on both sides were
punetualin attendance ; but as the conservatives found
themselves anticipated, and that the Lord Mayor was
already in possession of the chair at the hour, which,
if not specified, was at least understood, they were
driven to the expedient of electing a chairman fur
themselves, and this they did amidst the utmost con-
fusion and uproar, moving Alderman Rinahan to a
chair which was placed at the lower end of the table.
Here they formed themselves into a knot around their
own chairman, and were proceediag to carry on the
election, when the Lord Mayor announced to them
that their meetirg was altoizether irregular, their
notice for calling it not having been priLted and served
three clear day s before the time fixed for it to take place.
They nevertheless persisted, and Mr. Walker moved
that Alderman *Kenna be elected Lord Mayor of
the borough of Dublin, Mr. Vickers seeonding the
motion, and the new chairman declaring it to be car.
ried amidst a scene of disorder which baffles descrip-
tion. The following are some extracts from the report
of what followed :

The Lord Mayor, addressing Alderman !Linehan, said—
AN you sittirg there u chairman?
Alderman Kiaaban—l am.
Lord Mayor—Then I will remove you. Inspector of
police, as chairman of this assembly, I call on you to arrest
—(cries of " n t, no," from the conservative members, and
confusion)—l call on you to remove Alderman Cultism into
Parliament-street. Call in u many police is are hue Fury
for the purpose. I cannot allow him to pre ido here so chair-
man of this meeting.
Mr. Walker—We will charge you on the pollee.
Inspector Walpole—My lord, which is the gentleman
Lord Mayor (pointing to the steered chairman)—Alderman
Holahan, who is acing as chairman in violation of the law.
Send in more police here. K. collect, Alderman Kinahan, I
,
you became you mums the ethce cf chairman here
without any neuter ground for so doing.
I o or Walpole then went up to Alderman Kinahan
and placed Lis heed on his shoulder.
A scene of indescribable cohfusioa followed, in the midst
of which Mr. Wauchob handed the return, signed by the
members on the conservat ye side of the house, to Mr. Idr-
gutter, and immediately afterjumped on the table and rushed
towards the chair, station thee the document Lad b- en
taken from the town clerk, and that it had been torn by
Mr. Martin Cram
Lord Mayor—Alderman Wrenn, the investor cf ?cline
is to remove you into 'Uhl's:new-street, and to prevent y.. 0
from occupying that chair. (Canfusion.) It is a seri .ui re-
sponsibility, but I will incur at. Inspector, I order you to
take Alderman Kinahan into the street, and if he rear-a yea
bring Olin to the police office and indict him for an assault,
and I will go and prosecute him myself. I Fives you notice
Alderman Kinahan, that if yod abandon your illegal pro-
ceeding as chairman of that fictitious meeting—
Alderman Kinahan-1 will net.
Lord Mayor—l may is well tell you, gentlemen, :hot the
police are here acting under my authority, an it any man
disobeys my authority I will remove Lim by force.
Mr. Wauchnh—Well, we defy you. (Caufusion.)
Chairman—Pvlicemse, arrest that man, and 'emcee him.
He says, "I defy you."
Alderman II 4deon—l deny that you are Lord Mayor of
the borough of Dublin; therefore, you cannot legally inter-
fere. or order him to Le arrested.

In the end Alderman Kinaban left the meeting
with the police, and proceeded with his frierde to
the head police office, where he tendered information
against the Lord Mayor for an illegal arrest, but that
course having bees objected to by the magistrates a
summons for the purpose wan issued.
The conservatives, with their new Lord Mayor,
then proceeded to the city assembly-house, w..ere the
ceremony of swearing in was gore through, the
former proceedings hiving taken place at the Royal
Exchange. Thus terminred the tarce of the day.
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The meeting of the tenant right oonfereree has
been postponed from the 15th of the month to the
6th of August, at the ugliest of the people of B lfast,
who are to hold ac important meeting on the ttb.ic,:t
on the 12th inst.

Two returns to the writ of mandamus were t!:'s
day presented at the Crown-office, aq the re—ilt of
yesterday's proceedings. Thc Lord Mayor, with his
solicitor, attended for the purpo-e of kdgi: g the one
emanating from the majority, and stating that the
office of Lord Mayor was already filled. Mr.
Wauchob tendered the other document, which stated
that the corporation had, in obedience to the writ,
duly elected a Lord Mayor yesterday ; hut this return
not having the city seal attached to it, the Clerk of the
Crown declined receiving it. It remains to be seen
whether the Court of Queen's Bench will now issue a
peremptory mandamus to have their previous order
carried into execution, or will be cont,nt with the
return made in the name of the conservative mino-
rity, and consider Mr. Alderman M'Kenna as the
rightful holder of the office. Thus st tnhs the quarrel
for the present : but it absorbs for the present public
attention here.

The Evening Post gives the following account of
the harvest prosptcts in its commercial summary:
The reports of the growing crops are favouralsle in the
highest degree, with the single excepti, e of wslut, which,
in some districts, is described as rather bs.kward, on account
of the harshness of the weather during the spring; but the
late rains must have greatly benefl'ed this as well as other
crops. Respecting the potato, there are some vague rumours
of the reappearance of blight, bus we can trace no well-
authenticated instance, whilst all the accounts in the pro-
-1 vincial journals are highly encouragirg. In Cork market,
new potatoes of flne quality, grown in the open ad% have
been on sale for some days, for those who can afford tc pay
• high price for the lexury. A week or two of the press:at
seasonable weather would bring a considerable portius of
the early crops into the markets.
RUMOURED DEATH OF SMITH ORRIEN.—The
following (says the Leinster Erprers) is an tx.ract fr on a
letter received from • friend, dated Liverpool, Jure 4. We
g.va it without a word of comment:—Oa Tuesday I tra-
velled from London, and met a sailor on his way here, who
relates that he bad just arrived from Sydney, ►nd that, about
two days before he sailed, Mr Smith O'Brieu had died. He
acknowledged the falsity of the statements smarming his
ill treatment, and says that, although he refused the amid
ticket of leave, he was not confined, b.:t, on the contrary,
was well treated in every respect : that there was a rumour
of his being about to he sent to Norfolk lii nd shortly pre-
vious to his death, which occurred about the 3rd of D. cestiOcr
last, after a short illness of three days. I know not whither
this may be a yarn. hut give it you es I have it.

SUPPOSED MURDER AT AIIEitYSTIINTITII.—The
town of Aheysthwith, South Wales, boa been thrown into •
,tats of much consternation and sham, in conic queuce
four men, named Rogers, William Jonas, Ecorh Jones, ar d
Morris Lewis, and • woman named Elie thrill doves, tivirg
been taken into custody by Vie police, on • chairs of hating
been attuned in causing the death of Mr. Edward EA-
wards, of Roaallan, who during his lifetime uteri d on t: •
business of • farmer. Mr. Edwards, n the 14'h of Let
month, left hi home for the purpose of trar.saeting husitirs•
at the Aberystkwith May fair. and during that de) wu seen
by many persona at dos rant points of the town. He did
not return to his home that night, and the iont day
friends becaseseriouely alarmed, and itiquiri a were Logi-
toted and prosecuted day alter Jay forgone@ time. but the orly
information which could be prxured rap. etiva him was that
hi had been men at about three o'ebek during the night of
the 14th at a how* kept by •person of loose, chamfer, whin
he gut into a wrangle with, and, it ie b hued, had a fish!
with four men who are sin posed to have been too.. esp.
weed by the oonezall 5. Weeks pawed ever, and, at length,
the body of the unfortunate gentleman was bound is the
rarer th• new pier. It was got out, and, upon he:no
lsndH, it was soon Been that it bore marks of ou..ideroMer
viclenee. Information was given to the coroner, who sum-
moned a jury and diricted that • poet wiertAie
of the body should be male. This was &me by • hr.* *cr-
owns of trio n. ighhourhsad. Mr. Thor Junes, Mr. Wm.
Means, and Mr. Jacob Roberts, who found townie on the
bead, the teeth looie, and some of them broken out, the
lett eye forced from ita socket, and other indications of
violence. The medical gentleman ars of opinion that the
wounds were intlic•ed during life, and that death w.s rot
natural but produced by violence; they Jo nor, however,
cuivider that the wounds were mortal, and owing to the
decomposed state of the body they found • difficol, in de
in, upon the precis cause of death. Vie:saw mauls be-
fore the magistrate live hitherto been private, Mt • great
many witnesses have been /lammed, and others aresum-
moned for nee r week, whom* testimony. It is hoped, will tend
to throw light upon the painful occurrence which at verse:it
I. veiled in mash mystify.
WEIONTO AND 1111LABURES.--On Satorelty, the
bill, as amended by the °plummet, to alter and suneed the
' law relating to we-ghts and measure. wee printed. Since
the bill was n iticel in the Daily News ward =porton%
alterations have been made. It now contains bourn en
clauses. It is provided that ex %seinen are to cease to nold
office on the lit of February, and to transmit the standard
weights to the Clerks of the Pesos. There is power given
to Impostors to enter pristine and seise uhetire or unjust

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COURT OF QUERN'S BENCH.-BAnatmy.

kernels ce Basco
Tan Drag or Ilarneirtcc v. Haunts.
la eis case au scion had hoes haven monad the de.
Isagast, as the yropriete of a neworsper called the Weekly
Dispatch, for two alleged libels which had appeared is
tint paper—ese is 1119), and the ether is ISM. Tice defers.
dist pleaded two pleas to tbe antioa—tbe Stet, tbs Statute
of Lissitatiass, sad the second sot guilty. Is disproof of
W Ana elm. 'be plain•iff rifled a winter to show that he
bad meetly pareturseii a copy el the paper of the lath
September, IPSO. in +kith the libel had appeared, at the
ease or the DWAIN Dispatch, sad it was contended that
Ys sale el the paper to the witnem was • republication
M lied. The Plaintiff dad a verdict. The defendant
dim garde obtained • rule to show cause why there should
set b • • sew trial.
The Duke of Bruuswiek. in person, now appeared to show
saw against the rule—his lint objection being to the suf.
Stingy of one of the saidavirs, in the jarat of which no date
bad less iasertird. The court suataned this objection and
refund to have the *Maris read, after Sit F. Danger and
Mr. Munn had adarened it in opposition to th.. obj.etion.
&rani other still wits were afterwards put in end read
• bash aid m
the as to th
Di e allegrd parctimer, at the time stated,
lithe copy of patch.
The court was of opiniue that the rule for • ow trial must
be made absolute. It Rave so opi,.ion as to to the conflicting
• .c: rof the seta limits, as it would be by the jury to de-
cide upon evidence of so conflicting a chancre?. The opinion
of the court, therefore, was that Mae should be a now trial,
testa to abide the anis.
Rua absolute.
Tae Qrsing e. Cc-res.
The defendant is this age bad bees convicted of perjury
Is certain Chancery proceedings.
e Attorney-General. Mr. Lee, Mr. Serjeat Shoe, and
Mt. Beausweil sow apparel& foe this deksdant, burlap is a
Siemer 00UMAJOI obtained a rule for a sew trial or in wren of
indat, contend's, that the indictment did not sufficiently
is lsrth that the defendant's statement wag material to the
peat is issue.
The Attorney-Gears' said that although his client wished
the oeoe to be heard on lb merits, ye: he must take his ow.
erne, sod el jeer to the indictment.
Mr. K.:calms %as hoard in support of the inlictment.
The court directed the jalement to be arrested.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER—SATUBDtT.

WICSAIIIIMISIL—BEr;as Ma. &DOS P•uci •l/ •
ILIDDLIML COMMON Jt IT.
Baszot: O. WISTUNIXER.
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In this can, I;ifieb washr;,d.;,iiiii;;, the jury were
beked up until about 2 o'clock ow Saturday months/. They
thee mused into court and delivered a verdict for the plain-
tiff on the count for wthee--daniagee, 13e. 2d. On the
authorial We" however, they found G r the delesdact.