The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Nov. 4.
The unfortunate Exhibition Palace is at length
advertised for sale, but the hope of carrying out
the magnificent scheme for redeeming it has not
been abandoned. Lord Mayo has appointed two
o'clock to-day to receive a deputation from the
Corporation, who are to unite with the directors
and other gentlemen in pressing the Government
to purchase it. What definite object there is in
view except to rescue the building from the fate
which usually awaits a commercial failure does not

yet clearly appear.
A stormy meeting of the Corporation was held on
Saturday. There was a large attendance at the un-
usually early hour of 11 o'clock, although the as-
se►nuly had been sudlenly convened. It transpired
in the course of the proceedings that there were two
pieces of patronage to be contended for. ['he pre-
lude to this, which was the real busness of the day,
was a letter from the governors of Mercer's Hos-
pital, applying for au increase of their grant from
£2OO to £3OO. It was proposed that the application
should be complied with, whereupon Mr. Byrne
characterised the proposition as a " cover" for sonic
other object which was kept out jof view. Smart
passages of arms took place between him, the Lord
Mayor, and other members, and at length the matter
was put to the vote,and carried by a large majority.
The cover having been thus removed the bones of
contention were revealed. Two offices are vacant--
those of physician, and inspector of the city prisons.
The Corporation claim a right to appoint to both
posts, and the Grand Jury dispute it and maintain
that the right of appointment is vested in them. Dr.
Quinlan, son-in-law of the Lord Mayor elect, is a
candidate for the first, and if the Corporation have
the power of conferring it will probably obtain the
office. A son of Mr. Byrne is another candidate, and
is said to be the favourite of the Grand Jury. Hence
with a laudable concern on both sides for the pub-
lic interest, the friends of the respective candidates
struggle to have the election made at once by
the Council or postponed until after the decision of
the Court of Queen's Bench, which the Grand Jury
expect will ratify their right. The matter was
pressed to a division, and Mr. Quinlan was ap-
pointed. It was then moved that Mr. Ryan be elected
inspector of city prisons. This was opposed by Mr.
Byrne, who proposed au amendment to adjourn tho
matter. After a noisy scene the resolution was car-
ried by an overwhelming majority. A court of law
will have to determine between the rival claims.

The wounded constables are still alive, though
suffering great agony. A sum of £lOO has been
voted by the Corporation out of the borough fund to
the families of the poor men.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and family
have returned to town from Baronscourt.

Among other important questions which came
under Mr. O'Dowd's cognisance while engaged in
the Board of Trade inquiry into titles of wreck in
this country was one involving so serious a matter
as the accuracy of the Ordnance map of Ireland. It
arose upon an investigation of the conflict of claims
between the trustees of estates in the county of
Kerry, of Lord Ventry and Mr. Robert C. Hickson,
of Castle Gregory, in the same county. The trustees
claimed in respect of the purchase of Maherabeg,
contending that the western boundary of that town-
land was correctly shown on the Ordnance map. Mr.
Hickson, on the other hand, insisted that the boun-
dary was not correctly delineated, and that it en-
croached by several perches upon the townland of
Stradbally, his property. On the part of the trustees
it was argued that the Ordnance map should be
deemed conclusive, while Mr. Hickson's counsel con-
tended that it was not so, inasmuch as all proprietary
rights were saved by the Valuation Act, the 6th of
Geo. IV., under which the Ordnance Survey was
prosecuted. Mr. O'Dowd was of this opinion, and
after examining on the spot some 20 aged witnesses
as to the true boundary,was forced to the conclusion
that the boundary was not the correct one. On his
suggestion, however, an amicable arrangement was
made between the parties, by which their respective
rights should be determined in accordance with his
opinion. The sanction of Master Fitzgibbon in
this proposed arrangement will be applied for,
and, no doubt, obtained in the course of the present
Term.

The remains of Lord Rosso will be brought to-
morrow morning to the College Chapel, where the
first part of the Burial Service will be read. They
will be then removed to the King's-bridge Ter-
minus, followed by the Vice- Chancellor, doctors,
masters, and students in academic dress, and will
be thence removed by special train to Parsons'
town.

During the past month the shipwright establish-
meat of Woolwich dockyard was augmented by up-
wards of 100 mechanics and labourers ; and yester-
day morning an announcement was posted outside
the gates intimating that 60 shipwrights were re-
quired for temporary work. About 4 o'clock the
whole a the vacancies were filled up.