The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DiumaN, Nov. 25.—Further arguments on the errors
assigned n the cases of Thom-F7 Francis Meagher,
Terenco Bethew Vt‘Mantio, and Patrick O'Donhoe, in
urc'r v. tha Queen, were 11,11:d yesterday in the Court
of Queen's Bench.
Tile court became densely crowded shortly after the
doors were thrown open. A number of ladies occupied
seats in the galleries, and the case scented to excite the
greatest interest. Messrs. Meagher, M‘Manus, and
O'Donohoe, were brought to court in the prison van,
escorted by a party of dragoons and mounted police,
and were conducted to the side bar by the Governor of
Richmond Bridewell. They appeared to be in excellent
health and spirits.
The full Court having sat,
Mr. BUTT, Q.c., proceeded to address their Lordships
on behalf of Mr. O'Donohoe.

The argument on both sides having then terminat.•d,
Mr. Mcazher, and his tellow-pcisoners, 11 ssrs. M:Ma-
nth; and O'Donehoe, were conveyed in the prison van to
Richmond Bridewell,

It is probable that judgment will not ho given until
next Term.

PATRICK GOGARTY, IN ERROR, V. THE QUEEN.

Mr. R. A. STRITCLE appeared as Coun,el for the pla!n-
tiff in error, Patrick Gogarty, and moved that he should
be admitted to bail, and that the security given by him
be measured, and also that a habeas corpus be issued to
brirg up his body for the purpose of admitting him to
bail. Ile moved on the affidavit of the solicitor, who
stated that Gogarty was tried at the Commission of
Oyer and Terminer, at Green-street, for illeg drill-
ing-, contrary to the provisions of the 60th of Gee. 111.,
and, being convicted thereof, was sentenced to trans-
p )rtation for a period of seven years. Having been ad-
vised that the indictment was defective and insufficient,
he applied to the Attorney-General, and obtained a cer-
tificate directing a writ of error to issue. The prisoner
had sued out the writ and lodged it with the proper offi-
cer, and he was prepared to enter into such security on
being admitted to bail as the Court thought fit to direct.
The present application was made under Lord Carsp•
bell's Act, the Bth and 9th of Victoria, cap. 68, under
which a party convicted of a misdemeanour could be
admitted to bail during the proceedings consequent on
the writ of error.

The CHIEF JUSTICE inquired if the writ had been
returned to the Clerk or the Crown's office 2 and it ap-
pearing that it had not, he said no rule could be made
at present upon the motion.
The COURT, however, intimated that they would like
to hear from Mr. Baldwin, who appeared to oppose the
application on the part of the Crown, his reasons for
resisting it.

Mr. 13ALDwrN, Q.C., said the only objection which he
had to the application was, that he conceived the pre-
sent case did not come within the terms of the Act. It
appeared to him that the Act only referred to cases of
misdemeanour where the punishment was imprisonment,
and did not contemplate the case of transportation.

The COURT directed the case to stand over until
the writ of error had been lodged with the Clerk of
the Crown.

The Court then adjourned.
MUNICIPAL ELECTION DEFEAT OF THE

LORD MAYOR.

DUBLIN, SUNDAY MORNING.—There was, as I men-
tioned yesterday, a sharp contest in St. Andrew's Ward,
between the Lord Mayor, on the repeal interest, and
Mr. Lambert, an extensive tallow-chandler, on the Con-
servative side. The election terminated yesterday after-
noon, in the rejection of the first magistrate of the city
by a majority of fourteen. The numbers polled were:—
For Mr. Lambert
For the Lard Mayor lOB
Majority against the Lord Mayor--14
This is one of the many recent evidences of the " de-
cline and fall" of the repeal movement. Only that many
personal friends voted for the Lord Mayor,.who is much
respected, the majority would have been larger.
MURDERS IN THE SOUTH.

There are further indications of the increase of crime
in Limerick, Tipperary, and other parts of the south, as
the winter advances.

The Limerick Chronicle has the following account of
an agrarian murder in Tipperary:—
" James Hennessy, farmer, of Goldengrove, near
Dundrum, went out at an early hour on Wednesday
morning, to count his stock in the fields, as usual after
the night, and his servant girl having followed her
master in about an hour - after, found him dead near a
ditch, from two gun-shot wounds in the head and body.
His brother, a land-bailiff, was murdered about nine
years ago. The lands of Kilpatrick was the scene of
the murder of the former."

The same journal has the subjoined notice of another
murder in the county of Limerick, but totally uncon-
nected with the ordinary circumstances of crime in that
district:—

"An appalling murder was perpetrated at Cappani-
hane, in this county, on Monday night last, on the
person of Thomas Walsh, a farm servant in the employ
of Denis Long. It appears, on an inquisitian taken before
John Cox, Esq., coroner, assisted by Robert Fetherstone,
Esq., J.P., that Long, having returned from the fair of
Rathkeale late in the evening, partly under the influence
of liquor, and suspecting that improper intercourse sub-
sisted between deceased and his wife, deliberately mur-
dered him, by inflicting several blows with a spade on the
head of his unthinking victim while he lay asleep in a
settlebed in the kitchen. Dr. O'Keefe, of Bruree, made
a post mortem examination, and found the skull literally
broken to pieces; the jury found a verdict in accordance,
and Long has been fully committed by Robert Fether-
stone, Esq., who had him in custody shortly after the
perpetration of the murder. Nothing appeared in evi-
dence to justify Long's suspicion, or to inculpate tha
wife of the murderer."