The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-08 00:00:00

IRELAND.
(raesi OUt' CORRESPoNDENT.).
DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. G. The
" 2,..l3.res"—as the irco. fe,titY:len :e aI.:A--
is as bud, and eeemingly as a:l4,y, as ever ; but, like
Sir Charles Coldstream, who could not observe, after
a careful scrutiny, any novelty on Vesuvius, the
initiated "see nothing in it," after all—save a very
paradoxical demeanour on the part of the legal
world. It must be acknowledged that the cen-
tralizing principle has gone far enough to be
sufficiently injurious, without the unparalleled at-
tempt on the part of the English Government to
carry off the jurisdiction of the superior courts of
eight millions of people to a great legal emporium
400 miles distant. Such a consummation it is not
which the Dublin lawyers fear; but they apprehend
most gravely the subdivision of fees and loss of self-
ease consequent on a localization of jurisdiction. There
are, in the first instance, local practitioners to parti-
cipate in the retainer—men, too, more likely than
your hoity-toity Dablinian to know the arcane of
provincial suits and their mode of pursuit or defence ;
and, in the second, the inconvenience to the " metro-
politan counsel" to leave other business for any por-
tion of the practice which can at present be so
commodiously centraliz .d an I transacted in
Dublin. Those who get up the cry of " Cen-
trelization," when putting forward a pretence, in
order to defeat a principle, seem to forget
that they are working hard themselves for a
positive evil which they seek to perpetuate by the
alarm of a presumptive one. "Is it in these days of
railroad and facile commuwication," they say, "you
would complain of a trip to Dublin to settle your
suit, or grumble at the expenses of your witnesses ?"
oblivious that the Government could adopt the
same argument in their alleged intent of
abstracting the Irish courts altogether, and still less
amiably forgetful that railway companies are not
accustomed to carry either suitors or witnesses for
nothing. Whether-the argument of quick arid inex-
rensive travelling and stopping in town, Providence,
or the lawyers, knows how long, or the incompre-
hensible dread of some future Minister, Atlas-like,
marching off the globe-crowned building
called the Four Courts, will weigh most with the
THsh people, when the wise project, which I have
r 'on to believe is in contemplation, shall assume
s!.eete and presence, I leave to the shrewdness of those
:oest interested. I know myself of a case which
has been three years pending; it is a most
complicated one, involving a large amount of
eroperty, and in which many witnesses have
summoned. It has had four hearings, in
fear different terms, the witnesses have had
e-.) he brought up from Belfast (in the vicinity of
se:iiela all tee parties reside), and immense expenses
ease been heaped upon the litigants, all from the
weer, of 4 loeel jurisdiction in a case at common law.
.!-.iad I time eow I could prove that by the Act of
jnten, tit- eighth section of which would be violated
by the removal of the Irish Courts to Westminster,
as well as by the speech of William Pitt, that it is not
the firer, time this cry of " Centralization " has been
i eard, though in the former case with far purer mo-
tives, and far higher designs.
dismissed of Mr. Grattan, M.D., of Drumrnin
House, Kildare, from the magistracy of two
counties, has taken by surprise no one who
is aware of the understanding between the
Whig Chancellor's office and the bureau of the
_Evening Mail, which paper six days ago informed the
public that Dr. Grattan's dismissal was in contem-
plation. For a man, whose father receives 8,000/. per
annutn, and himself, in fees, upwards of 4,0001., the
let.er dimissive might have been couched in more
presentable English. The head and front of the
Doctor's otlbriding were the presiding over
the "Irish Alliance" meeting, in which,
as we are informed by Mr. F. W. Brady,
" speeches were made testifying warm approval of
the conduct of several individuals who are now under
sentence of transportation a., having been convicted of
the crimes of high treason," &c. The answer of Dr.
Grattan is a highly spirited and yet temperate
document. The Learned Gentleman is a true model
o' an Irish gentleman-resident, benevolent, educated,
an I courageous. lie is a choice agriculturist,
and some four years ego, to the great regret of his
many friends, lost his right hand, by its being caught
in a new minnowieg machine of his own invention.
The Doctor is brothel of Colley Grattan, the distin-
guished author of " llighways and Byways," &c.,
ate! now, or at least recently, British Consul at New
York.

E/VITMBEIZED ESTATES COMMISSION.
The Commissioners sat to day in the Court cc
Common Pleas.

IN THE MITTEM OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS DE MASSY,

A MSSOR.
Mr. CANE, Q.O , on behalf of the guardians, sp..
,d for an extension of the time for showing cause
against the conditi,nal order for a sale granted
in the matter. When the order was served on
the :,,olicitor for the minor he apprised Master
Murphy of the circumstance, and -consulted
him as to whether any pro.:.!eedings should be taken in
r.:,ereoee to that order; and the object of the present
wAs to extend the time for showing cause,
til the *first day of next term, by which time the
!stej.., report would be made.
i;a:ro fit It:citanDi said that the Court had no objet •
„, to ,4ive reasonable., time—say a week from that
hat tl-;zit, they could not think of postponing it
.•,•11 ii-st day of next term.
IN THE MATTER of TIE ESTATII OF WILLIAM

ITASTINGS GREECE.
M'Enor moved that the conditiOnal order ob-
tained in this case, on the petition of David Daly,
he made absolute, notwithstanding cause shown to
the con-rary. The owner, Mr. Greene, was pos-
sessed of three estates, but the conditional order for a
•, granted upon the petition of Mr. Daly, only
reierred to onp of those estates, situate in the county
Kilkenny. Mr. Robert William Cherry, the solicitor
of Mr. Greene,nad made affidavit of cause against -
Baron RICHARDS—You had better let him state his
co% a case.

Mr. HAMILTON SMYTII, who appeared for Mr.
Greene, stated that his client was the owner of three
estates, in the counties of Gork and Kilkenny,
and they were subject to vast incumbrances,
amounting, he was afraid, to almost the entire value
of than. Some of the incurnbrances affected only
one of the estates, and others the three. Mr.
D4ly4 petition, founded on an incumbrance of
1,0001. affected the estate of Dangan, held under the
Marquis of Waterford, on a lease of lives renewable
fur ever ; but Mr. Greene, who was also a petitioner
and tenant for life, and his son who was tenant in tail,
were anxious to have all the estates sold, in order that
all the incumbrances might be paid off, and the
re6idue of tho proceeds invested for their own benefit.

Baron RICHARD3—Does the incumbrance petitioner
seek to sell all ?

Mr. SMYTH—No, my Lord, only the estate called
Dangan. But Mr. Greene is desirous to have all
sold, as he thinks there can be no satisfactory result
from the sale of one estate only.
Mr. M'Enor said that what Mr. Smyth had stated
was not cause against the conditional order obtained
by Mr. Daly. It had not been shown that the
lands in question were not subject to the
incumbrance, nor was the motion supported
on any of the grounds allowed by the Act. Mr.
Smyth had not shown that the sale for which Mr.
Daly
,had got the conditional order was not expe-
dient; on the contrary, he stated that it was, and
therefore he (Mr. M'Eboy) submitted that it was
scarcely within the discretion of the Court to refuse to
make the conditional ()Her ab3olute.

The Commissioners having consulted together for
some time,

Biron Rim" Alms pronounced their decision. He
said they were of opinion that Mr. Smyth's client had
misapprehended his course in coining to show cause
against the conditional order granted on the petition
of the incumbrancer. No cause had been shown ;
the petitioner could not go for more, and the Court
thought his petition was properly brought.
On the part of the owner it was stated that
another course would be more convenient
and expedient, but the petitioner was not in
default, and if he hal not come forward now he
would ha turadd out of court, with costs. Though
ft:e Court might be of opinion that it would be better
t proceed on a petition that embraced the whole
platter, and woull enable the Court to do full justice,
C-.?y were also of opinion that the incumbrance peti
ionar was entitled to his costs on the motion and in
t., mutter, and that his petition should be stayed, the
owner undertaking to proceed to have his conditional
order for a sale of the entire estates made absolute.
Mr: SMYTH—That quite meets our views ; we wish
t have all sold. I submit that Mr Greene is entitled
to his costs.

B Iron Rico kR DS—Ye4; his proceeding was for the
h-TO.it Lti 1 parlies and we think he is entitled to his
Co t, nthv mAtt.-r.

•
.:::..r:Smicru observed that costs were incurred in the
in,,tft.r in the Court of Chancery, to the amount of
401. or 601. a day.

business b3fore the Court having been all dis-
posed of,
13:;.4nn RrCIrtRDS stated that, froni the state of the
hu,iness for the full Court. and froth the portion of
it that coma he trans2.cted in chamber asicl in the
Commissioners thought it better to defer
sitting in full Court till Saturday week. The
public, and the profession were aware that applications
for the carriage of decrees could be always made in
chamber; indeM there were very few applications
that could not be made there. Therefore, the full
Court would not sit until Saturday, the 15th, he
hoped the Prerogative Court, as great inconvenience
ng felt from sitting at a distance froui the offices of
the Commission.

The Court wai then adjourned till Saturday, the
15th k.st., at half-past eleven o'clock.

UDDER.—The inhabitants of Ferbane were