The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Friday Evening.
The result of the inquest at Dungarvan you have
received. There was a report that two more men
had died from the effects of injuries received at the
election. This report was conveyed in a telegram
supplied to the newspapers on Wednesday last. It
has been contradicted by the Cork Examiner, which
says that one man pursued by the Lancers has died
within the last few days of fever—not of wounds,
There was a meeting in the city of Waterford
yesterday, attended by 200 of the most influential
citizens, to adopt measures for the relief of the great
distress that prevailed there at present. The Mayor
presided. Resolutions were moved by Mr. W. Mal-
comson, Rev. I'. Kent, P.P., the Dean of Water-
ford, and Messrs. Laler, Barron, and Grubb. The
sum of £2OO was subscribed on the spot, including
£lO each from the two bishops, Dr. Daley and Dr.
O'Brien.

There was another meeting held in Waterford for
the purpose of taking measures to obtain the assist-
ance of Government in improving the harbour. It
was a special meeting of the Harbour Commissioners.
The following resolution was adopted :
That the chairman, Mr. Clibborue, Mr. Denny, Mr.
Kent, Mr. Slattery, Mr. Malcomson, with our,engineer Mr.
A. Stephens, bo appointed a deputation to wait upon the
Board of Trade and Lord Derby, to press upon the Go-
vernment that the port of Waterford has imperial claims to
an outlay for its improvement ; that this board are willing
to subsidise their income so as to raise a sum not exceeding
£17,000 in part payment of the necessary outlay in renewing
the bar at the entrance of this harbour ; that the city and
county members bo solicited to join the deputation ; and
that the Harbour Commissioners of Ross be requested, by
deputation or otherwise, to support this application.
At Belfast on Weinesday three brothers named
M'Closkey, residing in Irvine-street, were arrested
by Head Constable Jacques on suspicion of being
connected with the Fenian conspiracy. The persons
arrested are shoemakers. The prisoners were brought
before Mr. O'Donnell, R.M., at the police-office,
and remanded. In the course of the day they were
taken to the county gaol.
Yesterday the seven persons arrested in that city
in connection with the discovery of a large quantity

of arms and ammunition were brought up before

Mr. Orn►e and Mr. O'Donnell, resident magistrates.
After a lengthened investigation, Mr. Rea called
for the discharge of the prisoners, arguing that non-
production of the proclamation issued by the Lord-
Lieutenant vitiated the case in its inception. The

four prisoners were commited for trial on the charge
of having bullets in their possession, and remanded
upon other charges lodged against them.

Yesterday morning Denis Dowling Mulcahy was
brought up on a writ of habeas corpus, to hear the
judgment of the Court on the writ of error which
was argued before their Lordships last November.
The prisoner was convicted at the recent Special
Commission for the city of Dublin, under an indict-
ment framed under the Act 11th and 12th of Vic-

toria, called the Treason Felony Act. lie was con-
veyed from Mountjoy Convict Prison in custody of
two wardors and one of the civil guard of Portland
Convict Depot, in a police van, escorted by a detach-
ment of cavalry police with drawn sabres. He was
in the convict dress and handcuffed ; he was placed
at the side bar, and the sister was allowed a seat
near him, but was not permitted to hold any com-
munication with him.

The case having been called, Chief Justice White-
side proceeded to deliver judgment. Having referred
to the pleadings in the case, he proceeded to give a
history of the law of treason from the earliest times
to the Revolution, and thence down to the Phoenix
Conspiracy, in which he had himself prosecuted as
Attorney-General, in 1859. He gave an exhaustive
resume of the authorities upon the subject, and then,
coming to the case before him, he examined the
arguments of counsel for the convict on the points
reserved. He said :
On the whole the Conit were constrained by their duty
to give judgment for the Crown. They wore only to declare
what the law is. If that law is to bo altered it must be done by
a higher tribunal. His lordship then proceeded to refer to the
challenges (which had been overruled) by the prisoner to
the array, and to the poll. The former was that the panel
for the trial was taken by the Sheriff from the jurors' book
for the year 1865, and not from the jurors' book for 1866,
the then current year. He held that both challenges wore
radically defective in point of form ; but even were they
not so, upon the construction of the law applicable to tha
mattq he held that the panel returned at the beginning of
the sittings of the Commission, Nov. 26, 1865, was the
proper panel from which to select the jury faro trial taking
place at an adjournment of the Commission. With regard
to the challenge to a juror for being over the ago of GO
years, ho had come to the conclusion that the jury acts
dealing with the question of disqualification contemplated
property and residence alone, and did not refer to age. As
none of the errors had been sustained, the judgment against
the plaintiff in error must stand. It was satisfactory that
cethdeuprrei,soannedrowf oeuveldryh;vrievitihe ogebewnehtiict
hofthboothlawforamilsowoefdprfoo;
a complete answer to this indictment. If he found that
any of those points could be decided in favour of the pri-
soner, he would cheerfully decide accordingly ; but it was
equally his duty in the present case to pronounce judg-
ment for the Crown.
Mr. Justice O'Brien expressed his concurrence in
the judgment as the Court on the two main ques-
tions ; but differed on the point raised about Mr.
Boothe, one of the jurors, who was over 60 years
of age. He held that a juror must be between 21
and 60 years of age.
Mr. Justice Fitzgerald and Mr. Justice George
agreed fully with the Lord Chief Justice.
On the application of Mr. Longfield, Q.C., the
prisoner was then remanded to the custody of the
governor of Mountjoy prison upon the execution of
the judgment standing against him. A large crowd
assembled in the hall and vicinity of the court dur-
ing the day. If the Court had decided the other
way, the decision would have affected all the Fe-
nian convictions at the Special Commission in Dub-
lin in 1866, for they were tried by juries taken from
the jurors' book made in 1865.

An international regatta is to be held on the
Seine, in which the Imperial Commissioners invite
Great Britain to take part. Her Majesty's commis-
sioners have accordingly appointed the following
committee to make the neeessar3r arrangements :
Duke of Sutherland, K.G., Marquis of Drogheda,
Earl of Wilton, G.C.11., Earl of rai•anard, Earl
Vane, Lord Alfred Paget, Hon. C. Denman,
M.P., T. E. Chitty, Esq., J. Macgregor, Esq.,
Allan Alorrison, Esq., John White, Esq. ; Charles
Wylde, Esq., secretary. A sum of £BOO has been
set aside for prizes at the regatta, and contributions
have also been promised by his Royal Highness the
Prin?,e of Wales, his Royal Highness the Duke
of Edinburgh (£1.00), the Duke of Marlbo-
rough, Sir John Pakington, Bart. (£25), Hon.
George Denman (110), and others, which there is
reason to hope will bs largely augmented. The ap-
propriation of the subscriptions from the United
Kingdom in prizes, &c., will be hereafter announced.
The regatta will probably ba held in the second
week of July, and it will comprise races for boats
of all classes, from sculling boats and canoes up to
eight,gars. Boats duly entered for the races will be
conveyed from London to Paris and back again free
of expense, and proper arrangements made for their
care and custody at Paris under cover. This notice
g
has been officially issued to the rowin cluN
%throughout the country.