The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-10 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN,
_May 9.

The Exhibition Palace and Winter Garden were
opened to the public on Monday for the purposes
originally intended. The building had been let to
the committee of the International Exhibition which
was inaugurated by the Prince of Wales, acting for
the Queen, on the 9th of May last and closed in
October. During the winter the additional build-
ings, or annexes, rendered necessary for the Exhi-
bition, were taken down, and the unfinished designs
of Mr. A. G. Jones, the architect, have been com-
pleted. A gallery has been erected in the great
music-hall, and the promenade called the Winter
Garden has been stocked with shrubs and flowers
in great variety, and so arranged as to produce a
very beautiful effect. The severity of the weather
during spring has greatly retarded the growth of
the trees in the grounds, the bare appearance of
which was a little disappointing.
The Fitzgerald will case came before the Court of
Probate again yesterday morning. After a trial
which lasted 21 days, a jury selected by consent of
both parties, composed of most respectable gentle-
men, brofight in a verdict breaking the will of the
late Sir Edward Fitzgerald. Yet Dr. Ball, Q.C.,
on the first day of term, moved for a new trial, on
the grounds of misdirection by the learned Judge,
and that the verdict was against the weight of evi-
dence. The case was postponed till yesterday, in
order that it might be argued by Mr. Butt, Q.C.,
but that gentleman said that he had urged every-
thing he properly could at the late trial, and being
of opinion that he would have no chance of chang-
ing his lordship's mihd, he thought the better thing
for all parties would be to let the case go to an ap-
pellant tribunal. Judge Keatinge said that he en-
tirely approved the verdict, and would have given
the same himself had he been on the jury. The mo-
tion for the new trial being abandoned, he made no
rule. Dr. Ball, Q.C., moved for liberty to appeal,
which the Court refused, observing that the appli-
cation could be renewed before a Court of Appeal.
The death is announced of Mr. Denis Canny, of
Clonmoney, county Clare, from injuries received by
repeated falls from a horse which he rode at Scariff
race 7, on SaturJay last, in one of the steeplechases
there. Mr. Canny, though deaf and dumb, was re-
puted one of the first horsemen in Ireland, and cele-
brated for his extraordinary courage in steeplechasing.
Mr. John Brady, a builder, of 47 and 48, Cam-
den-street, went to the Detective-office yesterday
morning, and made the extraordinary reque..4..thpes
his premises might be searched, as, for aught he
knew, there might be arms concealed there. This
prudent step may be accounted for by the fact that
his brother, who worked in the yard, had been
arrested last week, and his own men had since found
a quantity of cartridges. Mr. Superintendent Ryan
accordingly sent some officers to the place, and they
found in a sawpit a wooden box, within which was
a tin box containing 216 rifle bullets and 04 revolver
bullets. In a carpenter's shop over the pit, between
the floor and the wall, they made the more important
discovery of nine rifles, four bayonets, two sword
bayonets, a pikehead, and an old sword. Mr. Ryan
has expressed his conviction that the arms and ammu-
nition were placed there without the knowledge of
the owner of the premises, and that he never approved
the business for which the arms were intended.

Yesterday, Inspector O'Connor and Acting-ser-
geant Lynam proceeded to 20, Trinity-place, and
arrested a man named Connolly, -whom they found
concealed, and who, it was alleged, hal threatened
to shoot the police. The prisoner has been fully
committed under the Suspension Act. Brophy, the
man who was shot some time ago in Thomas-street,
having recovered from the effects of his wounds
and left the hospital, the two men, Webber and
Graham, who had been in custody on account of
their connexion with that affair, were let out yester-
day on bail, to appear when called on.

At the Sligo Petty Sessions on Monday a Man
named Cryan was sentenced to two months' impri-
sonment for endeavouring to seduce two soldiers of
the 83d Regiment to become Fenians and desert.
The Nenagh Guardian states that " the Lord-
Lieutenant has refused to accede to the prayer of
a memorial presented to him to allow John Cun-
ningham, lately a warder in the gaol of this town,
but now confined in one of the Dublin prisons un-
der his Excellency's warrant, out on bail. The
memorial was signed by nearly all the Nenagh
Town Commissioners and by several Roman
Catholic clergymen."

A remarkable libel case came before the Court of
Common Pleas yesterday—Kane v. Mulvany. The
action was brought by the plaintiff, Mr. R. D.
Kane, solicitor, against the defendant, an architect
and engineer. The libel was alleged to be con-
tained in certain publications, stated to have been
circulated by the defendant, of observations made
by Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., in a speech before a com-
mittee of the House of Lords, to whom the Dublin
Trunk Connecting Railway Bill was referred ; and
also in a petition presented to the house praying
for a recommittal of the bill. The summons and
plaint sent forth in detail a document pur-
porting to be a report of the speech of Mr.
Rodwell, who said that while the bill was
pending in Parliament, and was opposed by the
corporation of Dublin, Mr. Kane intimated that he
could give important evidence, favourable to the
promoters, and that he was accordingly examined,
and that the testimony so elicited was of such a cha-
racter as to procure the immediate rejection of the
bill. Mr. Rodwell charged Mr. Kane with having
" sold" the promoters, and with having acted in
collusion with the Parliamentary agent for the cor-
poration, to whom he had furnished the particulars
necessary for his cross-examination in a manner to
be hostile to the bill. Some of the promoters after-
wards presented a petition for the recommittal of
the bill, in which they stated that Mr. Kane's evi-
dence, which they all alleged had been given by him
to the Parliamentary agent for the Corporation, was
really evidence in opposition to the bill, and not fa-
vourable to it, as he had represented to the pro-
moters that he would give. Two of the paragraphs
in the summons and plaintgave innuendoes to those
statements, averring them to charge that Mr. Kane
acted corruptly and treacherously in the matter of
his evidence. The defendant pleaded that the charges
were made bona fide and without malice ; that when
he made them he believed them to be true ; and
that
they were justifiable-continents on the conduct of a
public man. To these defences the plaintiff demurred
that he was not a public man in the sense contem.