The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JAN. 2.—The judgment of the Court on the
demurrer in the case of the Queen against Duffy, will be
given this day.
The following extraordinary statement appears in the
Evening Herald of last night:—
"It appears that the Government had published a
report of the previous trials at the former commission
from the notes of Mr. Hodges, their reporter. This re-
port, which constitutes a goodly volume, has been in the
hands of the Crown Counsel during this trial. It has
been frequently referred to by them as a book of autho-
rity on points ruled on the trial it reports, and a copy
was forwarded previous to the trial to one of the Judges.
" Application, we are told, was made on behalf of the
prisoner for a copy of this report for the use of his
Counsel. Reference was made to the Attorney-Gene-
ral, and he refused to comply with his application, alleg-
ing that he was not called on to supply his opponents
with she notes of his own short-hand writer.
" How the Learned Gentleman can call a book,
printed and paid for at the public expense, the notes of
his own short hand writer, we are at a loss to under-
stand; but if it be a private document, we are still more
at a loirttoweomprebend why the Leaned Gentleman
should venture to send it to the Judges, or to cite it as a
document of authority in Court.
" We would have thought the mere fact of its being
so sent and so cited entitled the other party to a copy.
" We can scarcely credit the story of this refusal of
this book. It is not credible that any one in the posi-
tion of Attorney-General would disgrace the administra-
tion of justice by such paltry littleness."
REPEAL.—Mr. John O'Connell has sent five guineas
as his renewed subscription to the Repeal Association
for 1849.
INAUGURATION of THE LORD MAYOR.—Alderman
O'Brien, M.P., was yesterday inaugurated Lord Mayor
of Dublin for the present year.
Dr. Kane, late a prisoner under the Habeas Corpus
Suspension Act, was yesterday inaugurated Mayor of
Kilkenny.
BARBAROUS ASSASSINATION.—On Sunday evening a
man named Fitzgerald, steward to Sir David Roche,
Bart., was shot dead at his own door at Barntick, within
a few miles of Ennis, by a person, who was lying in
wait for the purpose. The perpetrator of this bloody
deed has not yet been discovered, but diligent search is
being made by the constabulary. We have not heard
that suspicion yet rests upon any person for the murder,
and no cause can be assigned for it, is the deceased was
much esteemed in the neighbourhood. He came from
Limerick to Barntick about seven months ago to super-
intend the drainage works at present in progress on Sir
David Rcche's property in that place, and had been en-
gaged yesterday, previous to his murder, in paying the
workmen, about fifty of whom are constantly employed
on the laid. He was standing on the steps to his hall
door when the fatal shot was fired, which took effect on
his left side ; he instantly fell, and was only able to say
to the persons who came to the door on hearing the re-
port—" Take me in, lam shot through the heart." In
a few minutes afterwards ho expired. Deceased was
only a few weeks married. Thomas W hitestone, Esq.,
coroner, proceeds to-day to hold an inquest on the body.
—Clare Journal

BOYLE, SATURDAY.—A man named John Gunning,
while travelling with some of his neighbours from the
market of Ballyfarnon to Cressna on Thursday even-
ing, was brutally murdered on the high road. It ap-
pears the parties had fallen out among themselves.
The deceased was so dreadfully beaten that he died
within an hour. A person named MiCeon has been
apprehended, and lodged in the gaol of this town.—
Boyle Gazette.
Emirs Gen.—There are at present nearly 600
prisoners crowded into Ennis gaol, one of the smallest
in Ireland. _ _ _

DEATH FROM STARVATION.—An inquest was held
on Wednesday last, at Kilkishen, county Clare, on the
body of a man named John O'Donoghue, who was
found dead on the way to the relief depot. After a
lengthened investigation, the jury brought in the fol-
lowing verdict.—" That the body of the deceased,
John Donoghue, was found dead on the road at Derra,
between Kilmurry and Kilkishen, and that he died of
want; and that his death was assasioned by the neg-
lect of Pat O'Mara relieving officer, and Michael Sexton."
The relieving officer was not present at the beginning of
the inquest, but arrived tome time after the proceedings
had commenced. He then objected to the jury, on the
ground that several of the members of it were per-
sons to whom he had refused out-door relief. But the
Coroner informed him that it was too late then to ob-
ject, as they had already been sworn, and had heard the
evidence.
DREADFUL SUFFERING ON BOARD AN EMIGRANT
SHIP.—By a letter received in this city yesterday, writ •
ten from on board the Surinam, emigrant ship, now at
Cove, we learn the following particulars. The writer is
a person of intelligence, and well known to the gentle-
man whom he has written to. It appears that the ship
left Dublin on the 11th of November, with 120 pas-
sengers, and after having made Cape Clear she en-
countered a dreadful storm which drove the vessel
about until the 28th December, when she got into Cove,
after enduring the greatest hardship. From the 12th
to the 28th December, all hands were at the pumps,
and the writer gives a very deplorable account of the
eondition of the poor people on board, who are now left
without the means of proceeding on their voyage to
America.