The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-01 00:00:00

THE MAYOR OF CORK.

The weekly -meeting of the Improvement' Department
of the Cork Town Council, on Friday, waslargelyattended.
The Mayor was interrogated by Alderman Thomas Lyons
As to the words he made use of in his speech at the banquet
given to Warren and Coatelloe on Tuesday last, with
reference to O'Farrell, who fired at the Duke of Edinburgh.
The MAYOR replied that while denying the right of any
public body, except the Government, to call him to
account, and while asserting that his letter in the Cork
Examiner, denying that he intended to instigate to the
assassination of Prince Arthur, ought to satisfy every
honest Irishman, he explained that what he meant to
convey was that O'Farrell may have been actuated
by pure, high-minded, and honourable motives.
He did not know, but he dared say he was. He strongly
repudiated the allegation that he sympathised with
assassination, and declared that the construction put
upon his wordson that point was utterly false. He depre-
cated the taking of any man's life under any circum-
stances, and if he saw a weapon aimed at a prince or a
peasant he would be the first to turn it aside, even if it
came upon himself. He would not deny to any country.
men of his—he would not deny to the men who had been
hanged at Manchester, or to Barrett, who was supposed
to have blown up Clerkenwell prison—the possession of
honourable motives, or that they were sincere lovers of
their country. That was his answer to my Lord Lifford
in the House of Lords, to Mr. Peel Dawson in the House of
Commons, to Mr. Lyons, to all the Orangemen of Ireland,
and to the traitors to the Liberal partyin the country. He
asked what right had Lord Lifford or Mr. P. Dawson to
question any words of his ? He would ask Lord Lifford.
who was one of the same party in Ireland, as he sat in the
House of Lords to-night, if he did not hold his lands in
this country under the Act of Spoliation of 1714, and
through that violated Treaty of Limerick, through which
the Irish nation was robbed by the Orange party of Ire-
land ?

Mr. LYONS said if the mayor did not repudiate in toto,
in every possible way, the sentiments attributed to him
in the Examiner's report, he (Mr. Lyons) could not con-
scientiously, with his political and religious convictions,
continue to sit at that or any other board presided over
by a gentleman who could hold such opinions, and left it
to the council to say whether the explanation was satis-
tory or not.

After a warm discussion, in which several members
took part, the meeting broke up, it being comiidered that
as the matter of the mayor's conduct was under the con-
sideration of the law officers of the Crown, it would be
improper now to place the mayor on his trial, as it were.

THE CASE OE MR. BENNETT, 07 roita

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In the Court of Arches, yesterday, this case was decided'
on an application by Mr. Sheppard, as promoter of the
office of the Judge, that the Court of Arches should a°'
cept letters of request from the Bishop of Bath and Wells',
in order that certain charges of alleged heresy by Mr.
nett, of Frome, should be heard and determined. v"
the former occasion Mr. A. J. Stephens, Q.C., and 'PI..
Tristram urged that the court was bond to accept the letters
of request from the Bishop that they were letters of °°lll-
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His Lordship now gave judgment, and lucidly revievred
the whole ecclesiastical law on the subject of letters of re-
quest. He cited several cases, and discussed the state °`
the law both before and after the introduction of the
Church Discipline Act, under which the present er
plication was made. No reason was assigned in
the letters of request why they were sent to
the
Appeal Court of the Province, instead of to the 131'
shop's Court. The charges were as to heresy on sours
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of the awful mysteries of our religion, and in his opinion
was of all others a case for the bishop to hear in his
ova
Court. His Lordship therefore declined to accept the letter'
of request until some reason was stated why he should do o°'
Judgment accordingly.