The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, OCT. 23.
The Lord Lieutenant left Dublin yesterday for
Rockcorry, county Monaghan, on a visit to Lord
Cremorne, with whom he will remain till Saturday.
Dr. Corrigan has just been elected for the fourth
time President of the Royal College of Physicians
in Ireland. This election four times in succession
of the same president is unprecedented in the annals
of the college.

The Lord Chancellor has subscribed £2O to the
O'Connell Statue Fund. The Freeman's Journal
points to the significance of this large subscription,
as coming from the head of the judicial bench, the
head of the magistracy, the highest official next to
the Viceroy, and " the keeper of the Queen's con-
science in Ireland." The Daily Express comments
in strong terms on the alleged impropriety of thus
honouring the memory of the greatest agitator, on
the part of a high State functionary, and asks
whether he is to be permitted to compromise the
Sovereign and the nation by thus doing homage to
the memory of one who was convicted and im-
prisoned for violating the laws of his country by
organizing monster meetings which disturbed the
peace of the society and threatened the dismember-
ment of the United Kingdom.

A meeting was held yestet day evening at the
Prince of Wales Hotel to consider the propriety of
forming a committee to co-operate with the Prince
Consort Memorial committee in promoting the
opening of Stephen's-green. Mr. James Houghton
was moved to the chair, and Mr. L'Evoy was ap-
pointed secretary. A committee was formed to
raise subscriptions in furtherance of the object, with
the understanding that if the green could not be
opened the money would be returned.
A committee of the Dublin Corporation has sat
for several days to consider claims for alleged mali.
cious burning in the city. Yesterday they announced
their decision, and rejected the presentments from
want of sufficient evidence of malice.

At the Wicklow Quarter Sessions yesterday Thos.
Murray appealed against a decision of the Wicklow
petty sessions magistrates, who, on the complaint
of Mr. Tighe, of Rosanna, ordered him to be fined
£5, and his companion, who merely carried his gun,
£2, for entering some four perches on Mr. Tighe's
ground. The appellant, it appeared, had leave to
shoot on the adjoining ground, belonging to Mr.
Synge, and he had entered, through mistake, on the
land of the first-named gentleman, but had not fired
a single shot. Mr. Toomey appeared in the case,
and pleaded the very excessive amount of the fine
iuflicted, and the extremely trifling nature of the
offence committed. His worship said that he found
himself coerced under the game laws to confirm the
decision of the magistrates. The case has excited a
very considerable amount of sympathy for Murray
throughout the locality.
The following is an extract from a letter written
by au Irishman serving in the Federal army :
" I gave up my good trade to go to the war, as
many others gave up their good trades for war,
and up to the present we have had war enough,
for we are well beat. We were 700 strong when
first mustered, but now we are only 200—all cut
off by the South, and if spared for 20 days more
my turn will be served, and then I will bid adieu
to war. The Soutberns are brave, and many of
them
heroes.' buftnaked and barefooted, but they fight
like
We want experienced ollicers, and
will be beat until we get the "
J. T. Wttlah, an, Irishmen, mate of a N©W York

vessel, has been commmitted to gaol in London-
derry on the charge of having murdered one of the
crew. Several of the ()filer sailors presented in
their persons marks of the cruelty with which he
had treated them during the voyage.

On Tuesday evening a public meeting was held
in Belfast for the purpose of petitioning the House
of Commons for the extension of the Forbes Mac-
kenzie Act to Ireland. Resolutions were adopted
deploring the many and aggravated evils arising
from the sale of intoxicating liquors on the Sab-
bath. day. A petition to the House of Commons
was agreed to, praying that, as the 16th and 17th
of Victoria, cap. 67, known as the Forbes Mac-
kenzie Act, had been of considerable benefit to the
Scottish community, the enactment might be ex-
tended to Ireland. The Act in question prohibits
the sale of intoxicating drinks between the hours
of 11 o'clock on Saturday night and 7 o'clock on
Monday morning.