The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-16 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, May 15.
The parties most aggrieved by the dis cassions
the Irish Bench are obliged to be silent. It has bee°,
often stated by the defenders of the Lord Chic'
Justice that he is one of the best, if not the best, of
the Irish judges. The other judges naturally feel
this statement to be a grievous disarrangement of
the Irish Bench, for the world must think them a"
sorry set of judges if they are all inferior in capacity
to a lawyer who is more than 90 years of age. 015
highest legal tribunals are certainly suffering lu
'public estimation by imputations which, if 11°-
founded, ought to be refuted by competent autho'
rity. For example, the Evening Post, referring t°
the late debate in the House of Commons, states, as
a well-known fact, that—

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" Were it not for the rule of procedure which requires
that writs be issued in rotation from each of the three law
courts not an action of any consequence would be cons'
menced in the Queen's Brnch, owing to the notorious inca-
pacity of its chief judge to preside over legal investiga-
tions of any difficulty or importance. The only alternative
e
left to parties who are driven into his Court by the rule n'
practice in question is to withdraw their records, as has
been done to a considerable extent at the present afterci
sittings, or to have them postponed at great expense 9'll
inconvenience to themselves until a subsequent period,
in the hope of some arrangement in the meantime Which
will secure them against a miscarriage of justice."
The same writer adds :
" The venerable chief justice has transferred nearly the
whole of the Nisi Prius list to the sittings after next Tern:-
—a course to be explained, we dare say, by his superabun'o
ance of physical vigour and mental energy at 91. If
consulted as little the dignity of the chief justice as do Orb
of his Parliamentary friends, we could amuse the Etigi:°,,,
public by anecdotes of the Queen's Bench which would
deed be no disclosures to the Irish public, or to that Poi
tion of it, at all events, which has business in the courts
of law."
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Such statements are continually repeated in -,
provincial journals, and they cannot but lower th©
dignity of justice.
At a meeting of the Dublin Corporation Yestel,
,_'e day, after a stormy debate, a petition was adopte
by a majority of 18 to 14,.praying that a clause :Jo.
introduced into the Irish Franchise Bill, abolisho
the freeman franchise, wherever now remaini".
throughout Ireland. During the proceedings .11 tb°
Lord Mayor was obliged to leave the chair froU' 1

health.
Yesterday a new parish church at Clontarf W.3t:
consecrated by the Archbishop of Dublin. The sib°
was given by Mr. Vernon, of Clontaif Castle, Who
entertained the Archbishop and a number of t.,0
clergy at a defamer. The church is a Ilands°u'it.
building, cruciform, with tower and spire 146,
high. The entire cost is £7,000. It will &coal--
modate from 600 to 700 persons.
At a meeting. of the Royal Irish Academy iester:
day, Sir W. Wilde, Vice-President, read a letter
from the fourth Earl of Meath, dated Thomas-e9lll
Z
sth of July, 1690, to Lady Stephens, on the battle
of the Boyne. The letter referred to an incide.ni;
recorded in several histories of that period, and
W. Wilde stated that he had been enabled to ide.n; -
tify the spot upon the bank of the Boyne, near the
Obelisk, where he believed the occurrence too:
place. The following is the letter, which is Writte
in the old style, but which is given in rooderil
orthography :
:_adtr‘tymKhDielisuynsbtgseeliniidj.ngdea,aamigyTheehemsdo.Bhomrinatydishuna-aecgp,osplubmeroeatnnt,
July
rhettde
roobeinadi
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tttt
hlhhleveei
hsflsootstirethev(fson9rijaor:ilithieoer
laghn
novauedyiraTsmawon,
fiveob uei'r
about 11 in the Morning, when King William forced t;
pass on the river Boyne called Old-bridge, three miles
Drogheda (in person), under the enemy's great gocieu
mercy, and ours—with small shot like showers of lea
the
hailstones. King William, viewing the enemy's
day before the engagement, was shot with an 8-P °d
awl) der
which took off his coat off his shoulders, and just drew' ew-ci
from his skin ; he called
after it was settled upon him he stretched out his arm tede
times and said, without the least passion, ' The enemy j'll
for a napkin and another costl7o
signed to prevellt my fighting next day, but certainly.ust
be to-morrow amongst the thickest of them.' He was j,os,
to his word, for the next day he fought through thsthe
and with loss on both sides he took the battery °tot
enemy's great guns, and killed all the small-shot raei3
en y
endeavoured to retain it. Soon after he charged the
in
in the rear, broke their first lines, and, our line beinigacao
front of theirs, we drew up to enclose the enernY's non
army; but a deep bog being between, we could nett; till
pass it, and the night drawing near, we did not pure for
f
next morning, and then it was too late, but well enoonr gr hons
they fled to Dublin, and made short stay there,
o.
James, Tyrconuel, &c., flew through the county
por-
low, in order, as I suppose, to take shipping
killed
where they can find vessels to transport them. ee___ I,y
between 6,000 and 7,000. Most of their best 0ffin...0705„
dead and gasping upon the ground. We lost Duk °lnc sew
berg, killed in the neck with a musket ball, and so
erne'
officers and soldiers, inconsiderable forsuch an ongaalgv
_ua
The enemy is so dispersed, and threw away their arms
ra,ei_ting
at thevfirst
run westward, and there is no danger of them ever
o,Yfew
again, so that you may be pleased with the eventir in_
hours' fighting, which brings you all home to yot
olyte_wa
terests and properties, which I desire may be, for learn
sake as well as yours, as soon as you can. • •
3.l;ATtr.
Madam, your one humble servant, r, who
" We took Lieutenant-General Hamilton priosothnee
cam_
I believe, will soon be executed. lam sent for tat r
near (.11a*nevin, and can add no more particulars