The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

(From the Times.)
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
DUBLIN, JAN. 11.—This being the first day of the term,
the Court of Queen's Bench was more than usually crowded
from an early hour by persons anxious to witness the opening
proceedings. A considerable number of ladies were present.
Shortly before two o'clock Mr. Justice Burton entered the
Court, and the swearing in of the city and county grand juries
was proceeded with. There was a very full attendance of the
gentlemen on both panels.
CITY GRAND JURY.
Mr. Francis Blake Knox, Foreman ; Messrs. William R.
Box, Charles Carolin, Henry S. French, Vicars Boyle, Wm.
Watson, Cuthbert Eccles, Lucius 11. Deering, RobertChem-
ley, Peter R. Clarke, John Campbell, William Deane, Joseph
Henry, Thomas APEnery, William Andrews, Thomas Fot-
trell, John Molloy, Richard Wilson, Joseph Cassin, William
R. Fayle, William Curry, jun., Fergus Farrell, and P. D.
Hardy.
COUNTY GRAND JURY.
Mr. James Hans Hamilton, M.P., foreman ; Hon. A. F.
Southwell, Sir Robert Shaw, Bart., Messrs. William Rath-
borne, Alexander Kirkpatrick, A. S. Hussey, Thomas R.
Needham, Benedict Arthure, Richard Manders, C. Fitzsimon,
Francis Savage, Arthur B. Crofton, John Brennan, Robert
Alexander, Edward H. Casey, William Caldbeck, David
Henry Sherrard, Charles Davis, Emanuel Bailey, Arthur
Neville, William Worthington, Henry M'Manus, and Charles
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during the State trial had been ceded to the Sheriff of the city.
The High Sheriff for the County said, that he believed the
City High-Sheriff had arranged that the box should be occupied
by the press during the trial, but, in his opinion, the applica-
tion of the county grand jurors was a very reasonable one.
Mr. Justice BURTON said, that he had a strong opinion on
the matter himself; but it would be necessary for him, before
giving any reply, to confer with his brethren on the subject.
The Foreman of the City Grand Jury said that he had been
requested to make a similar application to his Lordship on be-
half of the gentlemen acting on that jury.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Justice BURTON replied, that in a few days a trial was
to take place in that Court in which there was a special jury,
to the accommodation of which the box in which the gentle-
men of the city grand jury sat was to be applied, and it would
not therefore be possible that the grand jury could continue to
occupy it.
His Lordship then retired, and in a short time returned into
Court, accompanied by Mr. Justice Crampton and Mr. Jus-
tice Perrin.
Judge BURTON, addressing the gentlemen of the county
grand jury, said that before he left the Court, the foreman had
communicated to him the desire of the jury that there should
be no interference with their right to come into their box when
business made it necessary that they should appear in Court.
He had been informed, that the High Sheriff for the city had
allocated their box for the reporters of those journals in which
what took place in Court was to be published. He had con-
ferred with the Lord Chief Justice and the other members of
the Court on the subject, and they were all of opinion that it
was not only proper and expedient but indispensible, under the
circumstances of the case, that there should be a place in that
Court for the reporters of the public press, and they accord-
ingly felt what had been done for their accommodation by the
High Sheriff was perfectly right. if the gentlemen of the
grand jury, however, should have occasion, in the discharge of
their business, to come into Court, every facility should be
afforded them ; and in such an event the reporters could leave
a portion of the;box for their accommodation. With regard
to the other grand jury-box, the application far it by the city
grand jury was altogether out of the question, because that
would be the place occupied by the special jury who were to
try the case.
The matter then dropped, and the gentlemen of the grand
juries returned to their rooms.
THE STATE TRIALS—THE WITNESSES.
Although there appears to be no longer any further occasion
for the observance of secrecy with respect to the actual name of
at least one of the parties suspected of having broached to the
Government some of the secret doings at the Corn-Exchange,
and who, it is now openly stated by the Repealers, will be pro-
duced as a very material witness at the approaching state trials;
still, until the fact, should it prove to be such, is announced
through some more authentic medium that that of mere public
conversation, it would be manifestly improper to make any
more distinct allusion to the matter. It may, however, be
mentioned as the very general belief that the Executive has
been put in possession by the suspected individual of some re-
markable documents, which, says report, may hereafter be pro.
duced in evidence against the traversers. There seems to be an
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anxioustrecle,stirniioaannlsowise:inlluence Ministers with regard to what ulterior
will be submitted to Parliament early in the ensuing session ap-
pears to be the opinion of all classes of politicians.