The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-31 00:00:00

IRELAND.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

DUBLIN, MONDAY EVENING, OCT. 29,

The case of the disputed franchise of Mr-
M.P., and Lord Mayor elect for Dublin, his excied
great interest here, and a fierce warfare is raging on
the subject. It appears that the time having ar-
rived for the Hon. Gentleman to re-register as a
burgess, he applied for that purpose on Wednesday
last at the Revision Court, held in the Nisi Prius
Court, by the Lord Mayor and his two assessors,
Messrs. Mullins and Hayes. It was, however, dis
covered by the Conservative party that Mr. Reynolds
(who sought to re-register on his original certificate)
had let a portion of the premises out of which he had
been registered to a Mr. Wisdour, a merchant, and,
therefore, came forward to register on a mis-
descriptive certificate. It is well known that on
this " law point" numbers of votes were struck oil'
during the Parliamentary Commission on the Dublin
Election Petition. It is popularly termed " the
house and premises" objection. The case of Mr.
Reynolds having been before the Court since the day
above mentioned, was decided upon at four
o'clock this afternoon. Mr. Mullins decided in
favour of Mr. Reynolds's claim; Mr. Hayes, in an
elaborate judgment, against it; and the Lord Mayor
concluded the decision by saying that, although he
had grave doubts on the matter, he would give the
benefit of his mind's uncertainty to Mr. Reynolds,
and he did so the more readily as, if any one felt
dissatisfied with the decision, there was a power of
appeal to the Court of Queen's Bench. The result
was hailed with loud cheers by the friends of Mr.
Reynolds, who, in my opinion, are " hallooing" too
soon, for affidavits are already prepared for an appeal
to the Queen's Bench, of which Judge Blackburne—
no friend of Mr. Reynolds or the popular cause—is
chief. The Hone Gentleman is in a most annoy-
ing dilemma. He has gone to a very great expense
in the purchase of carriages, liveries, horses, &c., for
his mayoralty ' • and if the decision of the Queen's
Bench—which will consider his case about the end
of November—be adverse, as I have little doubt it
will, the Honourable Meintier will not only be
disfranchised as a burgess, but his hopes
of civic eminence will be wholly frustrated. The
novelty of this case, which is unexampled in Dublin,
has naturally caused much excitement, and anta-
gonist politicians regard it as a turning point in their
respective interests.

Two regiments have already been sent to the north
to prevent the expected Orange demonstration on the
approaching sth of November. It appears from the
Northern newspapers that extensive preparations have
been made by the Orangemen to present a demon-
stration of defiance on that anniversary ; but we un-
derstand that Government, acting on Mr. Ber wick's
report, are resolved to treat such party exhibitions as
unlawful, and to prevent the expected collision by not
allowing the intended marching to take place.
There will be a " great meeting of the Pro-
testants of Ulster" held in Belfast to morrow, Lord
Downshire in the chair, for the purpose of evincing
their respect for Lord Roden and sympathy for his
dismissed brethren. The gathering has been for some
time in contemplation, and every effort has been made
to render it as numerically imposing as pos-
sible. The Government has taken due precau-
tions to prevent a collision, or the probable results of
the stimulants in which Orange "loyalists" are as fond
of indulging, after the rarefaction of their lungs in
cheering the eloquence cf their chiefs.
Couciliation-hall to-day was but thinly attended.
The sum of 281. 104. was announced as the receipts
at the hour of adjournment. The only document
read worth noticing was the following letter from Dr.
Cantwell, Roman Catholic Bishop of Meath. The
speaking was of the usual sort, and confined almost
entirely to John O'Connell :

'Tells, Oct. 28, 1849

"Dear Mr. O'Connell,—l hailed with delight the
re•opening of the association, and have been ever since
anxious to congratulate you in your new efforts in be-
half of poor afflicted Ireland. I have been on duty for
the last our days in this district ; it is the richest part
of this great and fertile county—it might with justice be
called the garden of Ireland, yet it exhibits a state of
things unknown or unheard of in any civilized country.
" During the period in which the association sus-
pended its meetings, the Irish people endured an
amount of suffering and wrong disgraceful to any
Christian Government. The peaceful and constitutional
effs.rts of the association will inspire hope, and check
that growing despondency among all classes so danger-
ous to social order. It should, without loss of time,
direct its labours to the tenant question. The state of
the 'law on this head has created a life or death struggle,
destructive of public peace and ruinous of the happiness
or prosperity of the country. That monster iniqui,y,
the overgrown and gorgeous Church Establishmeist, must
also be got rid of. The hatred of the Irish people towaids
that insulting remnant of ascendancy (although a Minis-
ter of the Crown has shamefully asserted the contrary)
is, and I trust will be, as lasting as, their love of justice.
You will oblige me by handing in the enclozed subscrip-
tion.

"I have the honour to remain, my dear Mr. O'C
your affectionate, devoted, and ever faithful servant,
" JOHN CANTWELL.

"John O'Connell, RP."

side of him ; and the Learned Gentleman then pro'
ceeded to rekd the following address. The Prince of
Wales seemed struck, and ahnost awed, by the em-
phatic reading of the Learned Recorder, and scarcely
took his eyes off the learned functionary during this
part of the proceedings :
"TO HIS ROYAL lIIGLINESI PRINCE ALBERT.
" May it please your Royal Highness,—We, Her
Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Commons of the city of London, in Com-
mon Council assembled, hail your Royal Highness's pre-
sence within these walls with the liveliest sentiments of
gratitude and esteem, whilst we sincerely lament the
temporary indisposition of her Majesty, which has this
day deprived the citizens of London of her Majesty's
Royal presence.
"The favour her Majesty has conferred upon her devoted
subjects the citizens of London in deputing your Royal
Highness to represent her Majesty on this interesting
occasion is greatly enhanced by the indulgence accorded
to their wishes by the presence of their Royal Highnesses
the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal; in whom
o joyfully behold the pledges and promise of a line of
illustrious descendants, to preserve to the united houses
of her Majesty and your Royal Highnsss through future
generations the hereditary throne of these realms. "
To meet the demands of a rapid extension in the
great elements of British commerce----the coasting trade,
the nursery of seamen and of our commercial marine,
this capacious building, the Coal-Exchange, clue fly con-
structed of iron, at once light and durable, has been
erected.
" When with the purpows of this Exchange are asso-
ciated the creation and increase of commerce and manu-
factures and the naval superiority of this kingdom--when
the essential article of coal ministers by appliances innu-
merable to the wants and prosperity of millions, illumi-
nates our houses, streets, and manufactories—when every
metal at the forge is obedient to the fire it feeds, whilst
it commands as its agent and its instrument the mighty
power of steam, it became the wisdom, and accorded with
the enlightened beneficence of her Majesty the Queen,
to regard this edifice with the favour and consideration
ever graciously extended by her Majesty to objects of
national importance.
" From the days of the heroic 'achievements of Nelson
to the present, the tonnage of the shipping, and the
number of seamen employed in this important branch
of trade, in the commodity of coal, are more than
doubled.
" When in a protracted naval warfare, happily remote
from our times, this nursery of British seamen was not
found unequal to the necessities of the country, with
what security may we not venture to repose on the force
of the navy now called into existence by the expansion
of our commerce and the inexhaustible resources of
British enterprise.
" We congratulate her Majesty on these great and
beneficial results, which the records of Parliament abun-
dantly testify.
"May her Majesty long live to enjoy, with your
Royal Highness, the blessing of health ; to exhibit to
her beloved offspring and to an admiring nation the
bright pattern of domestic duties and of public virtues;
to reap the fruits of that ardent and unceasing solicitude
ever evinced by her Majesty for their welfare; and to be
enshrined in the hearts and the affections of a free, loyal,
and religious people.
" Signed by crder of the Court,
" 11. A. MEREWETHER."
The Lord Mayor having delivered the address to
Prince Albert, the latter handed it to Sir G. Grey,
the Home Secretary, who placed in the Prince's
hands the following answer, which was very distinctly
read by his Royal Highness :
"I have received with satisfaction your assurances of
attachment to her Majesty, and I thank you for the
expressions of concern with which you have noticed the
temporary indisposition of the Queen.
"I rejoice to hear that a great increase of tonnage
and of the number of seamen employed has taken place
in that branch of the coasting trade which has required
the erection of the magnificent building which I now
behold.
"Her Majesty ever relies on the fidelity of her free,
loyal, and religious people. It is our earnest hope that
the Prince of Wales may be regarded with those feelings
of affection which have been at all times the beat security
of the throne."
The Lord Mayor then introduced Mr. Wood, the
mover, and Mr. Adkins, the seconder of the address,
with whom the Prince was pleased to converse ; then
the Sheriffs, and Mr. Bunning, the architect of the
building. The Prince, with the young Prince and
Princess, retired to an ante-room on the first tier,
where a number of City celebrities were introduced
to the Prince and the royal children. The little Prince,
we may remark, seemed quite to enter into the
spirit and commotion of the scene—the Princess Royal
seemed a little abashed. Both on their arrival shook
hands with their uncle the Duke of Cambridge, and
when the Prince had replied, he went up to the Duke
of Wellington, and shook him heartily by the hand.
During the absence of the royal guests the carpet
was removed from the floor, in order that the flooring,
which is of polished oak tastefully fashioned, might be
exhibited. It contains no less than 4,000 pieces of
various kinds and qualities, namely, black ebony,
black oak, and common red English oak, white holly,
mahogany, American elm, red and white walnut, and
mulberry. The wood has undergone the patent
dessicating process, by Messrs. Davidson and Sym-
ington. The work was much admired.
After a lapse of some few minutes, the Prince again
appeared, and proceeded with the Lord Mayor and
Lady Mayoress into the apartment set apart for his
reception, where he partook of the splendid luncheon
provided for him. The royal children were entertained
in another apartment abutting from the first tier.
The parties at the several tables then began to break
up. Lord J. Russell and Sir R. Peel came together
into the open area. They stood next to each other for
about five minutes, Lord J. Russell occasionally con-
versing with Mr. Goulburn, and Sir R. Peel with
another gentleman. Some of the company were
amused at observing that when the Premier and the
ex-Premier had stood for a full minute next to each
other without speaking either to one another or to
any cne else, and both looking very grave, or, as it
might seem to many, somewhat stern, one of the
Gentlemen-at-Arms who was behind then), finding
himself in the way of the company, stepped forward
and stood with his halbert between the two illustrious
statesmen.
By desire of Prince Albert, Mr. Wood then brought
the royal children down from the retiring rooms, and
conducted them to the Prince's table. His Royal
Highness rose and led them forward into the body
of the hall, where they were received with great
cheering.
The visitors began to leave as they concluded their
repasts, and the hall rapidly thinned. Many of the
citizens, however, entertained themselves for some
time with a dance in the noble area, and seemed
rather unwilling to let the dusk terminate their
amusement.
Shortly before three o'clock, Prince Albert, ac-
companied by the Prince of Wales and Princess
Royal, and attended as before by the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and civic authorities, returned from the
Exchange to the pavilion, where they were received
with the usual honours, the troops presenting arms
and the bands playing the National Anthem. The
royal party were accompanied to the place of em-
barkation by most of the noble and distinguished
individuals who had been present at the ceremony,
and were loudly cheered in their progress along the
gallery, and as they descended the gangway leading
to the Fairy yacht.
As Prince Albert stepped on board he turned
round and expressed to the Lord Mayor and Mr.
Wood his gratification at the mode in which the pro-
ceedings had been conducted ; the Prince added, ad-
dressing the royal children,—" Remember, you are
indebted to the Lord Mayor for one of the happiest
days of your lives."
The royal yacht lost not a moment in returning to
Whitehall-stairs with the Prince and the royal chil-
dren, and so little time was occupied that the Palace
was reached at half-past three o'clock, and at ten
minutes past four his Royal Highness took his de-
parture for Windsor by the Great Western Railway.
The return by the Fairy took the crowds collected on
the banks of the river completely by surprise. Yet,
notwithstanding this disappointment and other draw-
backs—of which her Majesty's inability to take part
in the proceedings had not been the least—the cere-
mony of opening the new Coal-Exchange yesterday
passed off with great eclat.
The Lord Mayor came forth, and with the per-
mission of his Royal Flighness Prince Albert, in
the name of the Queen, proposed the following
toasts, which were warmly responded to :—" The:
health of our Most Gracious Majesty the Queen,
" The health of the Queen Dowager, " The health of
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, and the rest of the Royal
Family," " Prosperity to the City of London."
His Royal Highness led in the lady of the French
Ambassador, and placed her on his right hand. The
Duke of Cambridge, the Prince of Mecklenburg
Strelita, the Turkish Ambassador, and the French
Ambassador,
sat on the other side of the table, and
the Prince invited the Lady Mayoress to take her
place opposite to them. The Lord Mayor remained
standing for a few moments by the side of Prince
Albert, apparently to receive the commands of his
Royal Highness, who was regarded as representing
her Majesty, but the Prince desired his Lordship to
join the distinguished party, taking his place between
the lady of the French Ambassador and the Lady
Mayoress.
The following is the bill of fare at the Prince's
table :
Potages—Potage de tortue i l'Anglaise, potage de
venaison I la St. George, potage de tortue clair, purk
de faisans a la Reine.
Entrees:Chaudes—Filets de perdreaux it la Volappiere,
croustades a la Russe, mauviettes d is Nivernoise,
telettes ii la Palestine.
Entrées Froides—Salade de filets de dorii, mazarine
de coq de bru3 Le aux truffes, filets d'sgneau aux con-
combres. homard ala Cardinal, dame de saumon i
Montpelier, cailles i la Royale, poulets en fricasse
l'Aspic, filets de levrates a la Portugaise.
Grosses Pieces—Perdreaux a l'Albion, filet de Wait
au chasseur, petits poulets a l'Estragon, jambon de
Mayence a l'lmpQriale, galantine de faisans, pa.i de
besassines.
Eutremets—Truffes en serviette, salsifika l',Espagnole,