The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-05 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Jan. 4.

The adjourned inquest on the body of William
O'Brien, who was killed at Dungarvan •on Satur-
day, was to have been resumed on Wednesday, but
it has been adjourned again till next Monday, in
order that counsel may attend on the part of the
military. Mr. Hunt, solicitor, applied for the ad-
journment on behalf of Captain Morgan, who was
present, and who had received a letter from the
commander of the forces asking that he might have
an opportunity of sending counsel to watch the pro-
ceedings. No inconvenience, Mr. Hunt said, could
arise from the adjournment, as the body had been
viewed, identified, and buried. Captain Morgan
then read a letter from Colonel Curzon, Military
Secretary, Royal Hospital, dated the Ist of Jan.,
r,nuesting him to put himself in communication
vial the solicitor going to Dungarvan, and instruct
him to require a postponement of the inquiry till
counsel should be engaged. A similar communica-
tion had been received by him from Cork by spe-
cial messenger. He therefore asked to have the
inquest postponed until Monday next, by which
time he expected Government would be able to
have their counsel present.

Captain Barry, the resident magistrate, supported
the application, stating that he had communicated
with the Chief Secretary on the subject, and also
with Captain Sawyers, the officer commanding the
troops there, who unfortunately was absent on
leave, who might wish to attend the inquest, and
that was another reason for the postponement.
Captain Morgan said three legal gentlemen in
Cork had been applied to by the military authori-
ties, and none of them had been able to attend.

Mr. Hudson (who appeared for the next of kin)
slid he had no hesitation in consenting to the ad-
journment.

The inquest was then adjourned till 11 o'clock on
Monday next, and the inquiry is likely to prove a
very protracted one.

In the course of the day a jury of 18 was sworn,
preparatory to the approaching inquest, and pro-
ceeded to view the body of the late Captain Kelly,
who died on Wednesday morning from secondary
hemorrhage from the wound in the lung.
There is a great deal of popular indignation at
Dungarvan arising from these deaths, which is at
once the cause and the effect of exciting rumours
such as those which a Dungarvan correspondent has
sent to the Cork Examiner. It is said that the order
given to the Lancers to charge the people proceeded
from a person in authority remarkable for his ardent
Toryism, and that it was conveyed in the words,
" Trample on the devils." It is further stated that
after the polling had concluded, "In the presence of
several respectable residents of Dungarvan, in a
public room, this officer repeated the gross calumny
which had been in circulation against the newly-
elected member for Waterford, speaking of that gen-
tleman as a' -- Fenian.' The use of this lan-.
guage is understood to have led to the immediate
commencement of an action for slander against the
person uttering it. This, however, appears to have
been the least violent of the officer's acts on the oc-
casion. He is represented as having uttered a gross
tirade against the Papists, and when a gentleman
present told him plainly what he thought of his con-
duct, he rushed off for a revolver to ' shoot all the
Papists.' He was actually returning to the
room with a seven-chamber revolver, loaded and
capped, in his hand, when his progress was stopped,
and the dire consequences which might have fol-
lowed were prevented."
The reporter of these sayings does not vouch for
their accuracy. But the fact that such rumours are
in circulation and are doing mischief is worthy of
notice.

The death of one of the Lancers is also an
nounced.

The military and constabulary draughted into
Waterford city for the election have returned to
their quarters, Complaints are made of the bad
accommodation provided there for the constabulary
who were quartered in an unoccupied house, where
they had to lie on damp straw while the wind
whistled through unglazed windows.
A correspondent writes to the Daily Express:—
" That Captain Talbot's committee are actively en-
gaged in collecting evidence respecting the disgrace-
ful intimidation practised by the priest-organised
ruffian mobs; and that a mass of evidence is now
collected that would coerce the most hostile Parlia-
mentary committee to declare the election null and
void."

Atßelfast on Wednesday Head Constable Jaques,
accompanied by Constable Fury and Messrs. En-
right, Thomson, Canty, and Clinghan, proceeded
to the house of Michael Donaghy, Hamill-street
(one of the men arrested on Monday), for the pur-
pose of searching for arms. On raising the hearth-
stone they found, about one foot and a half in the
ground, five rifles, to which were affixed bayonets.
The rifles are of the military pattern and of a supe-
rior make. The arms were conveyed to the Police-
office. Acting-Constable Enrigl4 next searched
the house of John Lettson, 22, English-street, who
was arrested on Monday night. The search re-
sulted in a large number of revolver cartridges being
found. The ceiling of the garret of this house was
broken. which led to the belief that since the search
was made on Monday night either arms or docu-
ments were removed from the premises.
A man named Johnston was brought up there at
the police-court, charged with proclaiming himself
a Fenian. He was remanded.

The six passengers from Liverpool by the Iron

Duke steamer, who were arrested on Tuesday morn-
ing by the police on suspicion, have been all liber-
ated, the information obtained upon due inquiry
having turned out satisfactory.
The troops in the Royal Barracks were paraded on
Wednesday for the purpose of seeing the sentence
ou Lance-corporal Devlin, of the 63d Regiment,
carried into effect. The prisoner, it appears, when
on furlough near Belfast a few weeks ago made use
of some seditious language in a publichouse while
under the influence of drink. Information was
given to the police, Rho conveyed him to Dublin,
where he was tried by court-martial during the past
month, and found guilty. Brigadier-Gen. Cunyng-
hame, C. 8., was present to hear the sentence read.
The Scots Greys were drawn up on the right, the
Artillery on the left, and the 85th facing the-south.
The prisoner was then brought into the square, and
Col. Gordon read the sentence, by which Devlin is
to receive 672 days' imprisonment with hard labour.
After the judgment of the Court was read the pri-
soner was taken away and the troops dismissed.
To give an idea of the frost which has prevailed,

since the Ist of the month, the Freeman's Journa

mentions that at noon yesterday the Liffey was com-
pletely frozen over at Essex's-bridge, and at the fall
of the tide great slabs of ice were borne down the
stream. The rising. generation are enjoying the
skating and sliding with the greatest enthusiasm in
Phcenix-park and wherever ice is to be found about
the city.

The half-yearly meeting of the Mining Company
of Ireland was held yesterday, Mr. F. Codd in the
chair. The report showed a net profit from the ope-
rations of the half-year of £5,657. The directors re-
commended a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per
annum. The chairman, after fully detailing the ope-
rations of the several mines, moved the adoption of
the report, which was seconded by Mr. T. Bewly,
and passed unanimously. Mr. E. Fox moved a vote
of thanks to the chairman, and indignantly repelled
certain calumnious attacks on the company made by
gambling speculators. The motion was seconded by
Alderman Reynolds and passed unanimously.

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Ball's Pond-road, was given on Wednesday last, Mr. J. 'l'.
Slater presiding. Spito of the snowstorm many visitors
attended, and good old English fare was abundantly pro-
vided.

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