The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-08 00:00:00

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Adair, U: Ewart, W. Paxton, Sir J
Baring, A. • Ewart, J. Pease, Henry
Baring, sir F. Ewing, Crum Petulant, Col. E.
Baring, T.
SSitßobert Pevensey, Viscount
Ferguson,.
Bass, M. Finlay. A. . Philipps, J.
Beale, S. - Gaskell, J. Pigott, F.
Biggs, John • Gifford, Earl of Pinney, Col.
Black, Adam Glyn, G. Itawii,son, Sir H.
Blackburn, Peter ' Graham, Sir J. Ridley, George
Boldero, Col. H. G. Greaves, E. Roliaxtes, T.
Bramley-libore. J. Hankey. T. Robertson, P.
Brainston, T. 1V Hanmer, Sir John Bolt, P.
Briscoe, John Hassard, Michael Scott, F.
Brown, J. Hea.dlam, T. . Seymer, 11.
Brown, W. Heathcoate, Sir W. S..e.ichin, H.
Brace, Major Hill,llon. H. Malley, It.
Buxton, C. Ilode, Alexander Smith, Sir T.
Calcraft, J. llorstalli T.___ ,- - - Smyth, Col.
.
Clifford, Lt.-Col. H. IL Horsinau. E. Sinallett, A.
Colebrooke, Sir E. . Howard,. Lord B. Spaigkt, James
Cowan, C. liaghain, it. Stanhope, J.
Coz, W. Jossay.t...., Flops Stsinloy, W.
Crawford, B. W. Johnstone. Sir J. Steel, John
Crook, J. Kinglake, A. Stirling, W.
Deedes, William • Langton, 11. G. Stewart, Sir H.
Denison, E. Legh, G. C. Sykes, Colonel
Dent, John Leslie, C. P. Talbot, C.
De Vere, S. E. Liddell, 11. G. Tattered, 11.
Dillwyn, L. 'L. Locke, J- Thompson. General
Duff, L. Lockhart, A. E. Vane, Lord EL
Dunlop, A. Lyall, ,leorgo Verney, Sir 11.
East, Sir J. Macaulay, Kenneth Wegaelin, T.
Egerton, Edtv. C Marjoribanks, D. White, James
Eloho, Lord Meigund, Lord Willcox, B.
Ellice, E. Milnes, It. • Willoughby, 3,
Ellice, E. Morris, D. Winnington, Sir T.
Elliott. J. E. Nicoll, D.
Elphinstone, Sir J. Nisbet, B. P. TELLEII.B.
Elton. Sir A. 11. Paget, Lord C. Gladstone, W.
Euston, Earl of Pakitnhanl, Colonel Bort'', W.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.

INDEPENDENT OPPOSITION.

The Cork Constitution, publishes a remarkable
correspondence which has passed between the Irish
Executive and Mr. John Francis Maguire, one of
the leaders of the independent contingent in the
House of °ominous. it is quite unnecessary to
recall to mind the support given by those gentle-
men to the Ministry on a recent very urgent occa-
sion. Whether that support had anything to do
with the offer of the commission of the puce to Mr.
Maguire is, of course, a matter of speculation, and
no more. Meanwhile, the public will read with
pleasure the interchange of courtesies between the
ni3mber for Dungarvan and the head of the Irish
I Government :

" Secretary's Office, Court of Chancery,
"Sir,—llia Excellency Dublin, May 29.
the Lord-Lieutenant having
thought it advisable to acsign to you her Majesty's com-
mission of the peace for the borough of Cork, I am to in-
form you that to enable You to take out the commission it
will be necessary that an application either in person, or
by some person in your behalf, should be made at this
office for the warrant.—l. have the honour to be, sir, your
obedient servant,

. " JOHN ADAIR, Secretary.
"John Francis Maguire, Esq., M.P., Cork."

" Cork, May 31.
" Sir,—In reply to your communication of yesterday,
apprising me of the fact that his Excellency the Lord-Lieu-
tenant had been pleased to assign to me the commission of
the peace for the borough of Cork, I beg to inform you
that—for reasons which, by this post, I have stated to his
Excallexcy—it is not my intention to apply for the said
commission.
Sir, I have the honour to remain your obedient ser-
vant. " JOHN FRANCINI MAGUIRE.
John, Adair, Esq., Secretary to the Lord Chancellor."

" Cork, May 31,1853.
it Ary Lord,—I have, in the first place, to return you my
sincere acknowledgments for your kindness in ' assigning
to me the communion .f the p......, _,,, f,,,ct, of which I have
been made aware through an official letter ri &tressed to me
by the Seoretary of the Chancellor. Having thus expressed
my thanks for your Excellency's unlooked-for kindness, I
bog leave, with the greatest personal
respect for your Ex-
cellency, to dectoe accepting
the honour intended for me.
.. my motive is a simple one. I desire not only to main-
tain my political independence in and out of the House of
Courmeio,
but not to risk even the appearance of its forfei-
ture. I gave a cordial support to her Majesty's Ministers
in their late struggle againat a dishonest resolution and an
unprincipled cabal. I did so because I felt the Govern-
ment were in th right, and that their enemies were in the
wrong. But did I receive even so trifling a favour as the
commission of the peace from your Excellency's hands it
might be said—by
those who do not know me or who have an
interest in misrepresenting the
Party to which I belong,
and the policy
which I have persisten`ly pursued—that I
was anxious to propitiate the Tory Administration, and
acted with a view to some ulterior object.
4, Under these circumstances, I feel compelled, in self-
defence, to perform the
seemingly ungracious act of refus-
ing a favour kindly intended and delicately offered.
" I assure your Excellency T
- appreciate 3 our unlooked-
for courtesy the more from the fact that the application of
the Town Council of this . .
?Il city, over which I presided as
Mayor in 1853, was refused iR
—5l, from motives of hosti-
lity, the result of political animosity the application being
made with a view of furtber rewarding one who,
with
all
his faults, hail been as acive chid magistrate.
" Respectfully requesting that your Excellency will
communicate the purport of this note to Lord Naas and
Mr. Whiteside, —I remain, gratefully and sincerely yours,
" JOHN FRANCIS MAGUIRIL"

"viceregal-lodge, June I.
"Sir,--4 regret, that you should find it necessary to refuse
to be placed on tho co nmissi(,n
of the peace for the city of
Cork, though I cannot but honour the motives by which
you are actuated. I can only assure you on my part that
if you had accepted the Her, I should not for a moment
have imagined that you were in the slightest degree
pledged to support the. Government of which I am a mem-
ber ; nor did I consider that in making the offer I was
doing more than a
simple act of justice and impartiality.
I have the honour to be, your obedient servant,
EGLIINToN AND WINTON.
nire, Esq., M. p."

" J. F. lliag

Messrs. Look andßrassey have acquired fresh laurels
by the punctual delivery of the Cherbourg line to the
French Government.