The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-07 00:00:00

THE MAYOR OF CORK.

The Mayor of Cork seems to have made a pause ill
performance of his many numerous beaks. By this till
he has learnt what estimate the Government and
country at large have of his proceedings. It is said t'j'A
he went to Dublin to get the Lord-Lieutenant to rero-
- brother magistrates. He now finds himself about t°
be removed by Act of Parliament. The special Wch;
senger sent to apprise him of the action taken by

Ministry has delivered his packet.
In Cork the news has created the greatest excitement:
The Cork Herald says : " The parliamtntarY int'elll;
gence of Tuesday in connection with the mayor's c"'",
has already given rise to great excitement and consterrlde
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tion throughout the city. Arrangements have been IttAa.ry
for a thorough organisation of the wards, prelindyTot
to a public meeting, for petitioning against the hill el,
the removal of the mayor. It is also, we understas.o
in contemplation to organise a popular subscription 10
order to secure the professional services of Mr. Butt :0
counsel in Parliament against the removal of the ma e-_,'
The following is the text of the Bill of lternov3l. e
"Whereas Daniel O'Sullivan, Esq., has been for some theiB
past and now is mayor of the city of Cork, and by cirt.t
of his said office of mayor is during his year of `:.:hcBo
a justice of the peace of the said city; and whereas
said Daniel O'Sullivan, being such mayor and Pitt
of the peace, has, while sitting as such justice in the
city, so misconducted himself as to bring the adn3inshtja
tion of the law into disrepute and contempt, and, 1"-/e
he was such mayor, has, in the said city, uttered laDgileti'p
of a seditious and scandalous character, and has held
to public approbation the conduct of one O'Farrell of
firing at the Prince his Royal Highness the DIJP- he
Edinburgh in Australia ; and whereas it will tend to t,Ol
better administration of justice that the said 12331:0f
O'Sullivan should no longer hold or exercise the en'etior
mayor or justice of the peace in the said city, or anY °,:e it
office or place of magistracy elsewhere in Ireland 140
therefore enacted, &c. : 1. The said Daniel O'Suaflter
shall be, and he is hereby, from and immediately to
the passing of this Act, disabled, and made incaPsl)'; of
have, hold, exercise, or enjoy the said office of ialale-.0,
the said city of Cork, or of justice of the peace there:et
and the said Daniel O'Sullivan shall be and he is f°r,,eold,
hereafter disabled and rendered incapable to have, " the
exercise, or enjoy any office or place of magistracy
said city of Cork, or elsewhere in Ireland. 2.
diately after the passing of this Act, a new mayor s'ito
be chosen for the said city of Cork, in the room °f id
said Daniel O'Sullivan, in the same manner as if the -
Daniel O'Sullivan was naturally dead."
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The mayor may probably present himself at the •"et,IP,
the House of Commons. This proceeding does
placed very frequently, and the Telegraph, from liii;to•
rous precedents which it adduces, gives the plan °l;ti'dc
ceeding in the examination of witnesses, &c., and
went. on delinquents. " The regular mode of proceet
is, m all cases, for the House to determine, first, thAve
inquiry shall be instituted before any member can bet'lot
mitted to produce witnesses to be examined to anY °tor
relative to that inquiry. When a witness is called in
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to be examined, the constant practice, both in the
and at committees of the whole House, is that the bar is ut; its
Whenever any person, already a prisoner, whev.tijoe
custody of the Serjeant or of any other person, iS 'Jr
to the bar as a witness or to attend the hearing 0.,1 the
cause, he must be brought in by the Serjeant,
Serjeant must stand by him at the bar, with the
during the time he continues there. A prisoner OA: (aS
brought to the bar to be examined, or to be Preset;r:lll
Mr. Wilkes was on the hearing of the charge '70,0g
petition against Lord Mansfield), without the necesßal yet,
the Serjeant's standing by him with the Mace ; au Weyer
in supposition of law, Mr. Wilkes and the others the
during the time they were at the bar, in the custody etedi
Serjeant. When a witness, not in custody, or in cuts 136,
without the Mace to stand by him, is at the 1,3%; Al`
examined, the House supposes the Speaker to ask the
the necessary questions ; and these questions rnnY',,bile
the
rules of the House, be proposed, at the time %",,
witness the
is standing at the bar, by the members ::utileeg.
chair, and the Speaker is to put them to the
This is the rule ; but the practice, for the sake 0f „Jill°
venience, often is that the members themselves
the witness without the intervention of the chair' to
practice, however, is irregular, and seldom fallllgbt
produce disorder. "When Mr. Horne was br°,teo°
in custody in 1774, notwithstanding the to
inconvenience that attends what was fev.t `l,g9be the invariable rule of the House, 1
strictly observed ; the members putting down uPendY,
ke„
v/14 such questions as they thought necessary to be as
delivering them to the Speaker before the prisoecflore
the
brought in. So, on the 14th January, 1673, brrem the
Duke of Buckingham was admitted, it appears: the
journal that several questions were agreed t 2:030
House to be proposed to him by Mr. Speaker. r-l-:loaryi
proceeding was taken the next day, the 15th of " „
The questions:a:o
with respect to Lord Arlington.
%aced him were all proposed and debated al/4W
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