The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.
DUBLIN CORPORATION.
Dvatim, MAY 10.—For a considerable time the Corpora-
tion of Dublin have been trying to obtain a reform of the
Court of Conscience (which had grown into an intolerable
evil under the old Corporation); but the Irish Government,
to whom the patronage of this Court had been given by the
Municipal Oct, had taken no steps for altering the arrange-
, meats of the Court. The matter having been pressed upon
the attention of Lord Heytesbury by a deputation from the
Town Council, his Excellency has wisely yielded to the ap-
plication. The result is that the Lord Mayor of the past
year (Mr. Timothy O'Brien) will become President of the
Court of Conscience until the end of the present year. The
present Lord Mayor will succeed to the office for the next
year, unless the Corporation should deem it advisable to
apply to the Lord-Lieutenant for the appointment of a
barrister as permanent president ; but that is by no means
likely.
At a special 'meeting of the Corporation this day, the
Lord Mayor presided. Mr. O'Connell suggested that, before
the business for which they were assembled was proceeded
with, the letter which the Lord Mayor had received from the
Lord-Lieutenant should be read.
The secretary then read the following letter :
" Dublin Castle, May 9, 1845.
"My Lord,—l am directed by the Lord-Lieutenant to in-
form your Lordship, in answer to the memorial presented to
him by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and
Burgesses of Dublin, praying for the total suppression of the
Court of Conscience, that his Excellency does not deem it
expedient, with a view to the general interest of the inhabi-
tants, particularly of the lower orders, to abolish a Court
which, notwithstanding the abuses that may have crept into
it, is the only Court constantly open to them, exercising a
summary jurisdiction in cases where the matter in dispute
does not exceed the value of 40s.
" In order, however, to meet the wishes of the Corpora-
tion, so far as it can be done consistently with a view to the
public interest, I am directed by his Excellency to say, that
he will be ready, with the consent of the Privy Council, to
new model and reform the present Court in the manner
prescribed by the Municipal Act ; and, under the regula-
tions contained therein, the Lord Mayor for the time being,
or his deputy regularly appointed, to be in the first instance
to be the judge of the newly-modelled court, without pre-
judice to any subsequent application by the town-council to
his Excellency to nominate and appoint a barrister, as per-
manent judge, pursuant to the powers in that respect con-
ferred upon him by the Act.—" I have the honourLUCAS. to be, &c.,
" E.

" The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."
Mr. O'CoNNELL said be was sure that the letter must be
acceptable to every man in that assembly.—(Cheers.) He
would give notice of his intention to move that it be inserted
on the minutes.—(Cheers.) He then moved for a Committee
on the subject of municipal reform. In doing so, he said that
if he felt the slightest apprehension of party spirit gaining
the ascendant, he would abandon the motion at once.
—(lean) The English Municipal Act passed the Legis-
lature six years, and the Scotch Municipal Act four years,
before the Irish measure, and that was given in the mutilated
shape in which it was brought into operation.—( Hear.)
When the Bill was brought into the House of Lords, there
were thirty-six clauses struck out by Lord Lyndhurst—
( Hear.) Sir R. Peel has engaged to give us as good a Bill
as that given to England and Scotland. One party in
Ireland was deficient in point of numbers, the other in point
of wealth ; all he asked was, that the English Bill should be
extended to Ireland. Under the English Act, the corpora-
tion had the power of appointing the sheriffs and other civic
officers, and he claimed the same right for the Irish
(Cheers.) The Honourable and Learned Gentleman con-
cluded by moving that a Committee be appointed to prepare
a petition to the House of Commons, praying for a reform in
the Irish Municipal Act.
Sir Jotor POWER, Bart., seconded the motion.
Dr. MAussEu. said he concurred in every word that had
fallen from the Honourable and Learned Alderman opposite.
, The Committee was appointed, and the Council adjourned.

LORD MAYOR'S DINNER—QUEEN'S VISIT.
The Lord Mayor entertained the Members of the Corpora-
tidn and a select circle of his private friends at dinner, yes-
terday evening, in the Mansion-house. On the right of the
Lord Mayor sat Mr. O'Connell, Sir Percy Nugent, Bart., the
Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Sir Richard Nagle, Bart., Mr.
Commissioner Farrell, Mr. John Ennis, Mr. Fetherstone-
baugh, Baron Brochaza, &c. • and on his left Lord Stuart de
Decies, Sir John Power, Mr:George Roe, Mr. Smith O'Brien,

M.P., &c.
The cloth having been removed and thanks returned.
The LORD MAYOR rose and said he had now to propose
the first toast upon his list—a toast which he felt confidently
assured would be received by such an assembly as the present
in a manner becoming the character of Irish gentlemen. He
had to propose the health of her Most Gracious Majesty the
Queen.—( Loud cheers.) She was the first Sovereign of her
race who ever entertained a friendly feeling towards this
country ; and as her virtue, no less than her exalted station
recommend her to the admiration of her subjects, he was
sure that her name would be received with every demon-
stration of affectionate loyalty wherever Irishmen were as-
sembled.—(Cheers.) Her Majesty was, he trusted, about to
visit the shores of this country. That very evening he (the
Lord Mayor) received a piece of intelligence from a most
authentic quarter, which left it beyond all doubt that her
Irish subjects would have the happiness of seeing their
Sovereign in this country during the course of the summer.—
(Cheers.) Whenever she came she would be welcome, and
the reception she would receive would be one becoming alike
the Monarch and the people.—(Cheers.) The cead mills
failthe of the Irish heart would resound throughout the land,
and wherever she turned she would be greeted with the
blessings of a grateful, attached, and loyal people. It af-
forded him great pleasure to propose "The health of her Most
Gracious Majesty the Queen."
The toast was received with every demonstration of
loyalty, nine times nine and enthusiastic applause. Song by
Mr. Reilly, " God save the Queen."
The LORD MAYOR next proposed—" The health of the
husband of their gracious Queen, Prince Albert." The toast
was received with enthusiastic acclamations.
The LORD MAYOR again rose and proposed—" The health
of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the rest of
the Royal Family." The toast was drunk with all the
honours.
The LORD MAYOR said he had now to propose—" The health
of his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant, and the Prosperity of
Ireland." The toast was warmly received.
The LORD MAYOR next proposed—" The health of
Daniel O'Connell, the first Lord Mayor of the new Cor-
poration ; long life and happiness to 'him." The toast was
honoured with every demonstration of the warmest enthu-
siasm. Nine times nine, and great cheering.
Mr. O'CONNELL rose, and was received with renewed ap-
plause. He did not know that he had ever felt so much
pleasure as he had experienced that evening, from the re-
flection of his having been once the Lord Mayor of Dublin.
At one time of his life, to be sure, he could scarcely have
hoped to get credit for sanity were he to have said seriously
that he ambitioned to be one day a chief magistrate of
Dublin.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And yet, though he
felt pleasure in having attained the dignity, he protested
that he would regard with no other feelings than those
of deep sorrow, if he thought that his advancement, and
that of his party, could have the effect of creating
or increasing divisions and differences amongst his fellow-
countrymen.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He sought no
triumph whatever, and if it was true that during part of
his life he had been struggling for one portion of his country-
men more than another, the reason was that the section for
whom he was struggling, though multitudinous in number,
were inferior in political rights, and the object he had in view
was not ascendancy for any class, but equality for all.—
(Hear, and cheers.) He had succeeded, but he would regard
his success with deep regret if he thought that it could create
party rancour in the minds of any class of his fellow-country-
men, or be productive in any degree of a feeling of unkind-
ness. If he knew himself, the dearest wish of his heart was
to bring Irishmen of every creed and every class into one
communion of fellowship, and although a neutrality of poli-
ties was observed at that board, which he would respect,
and which prevented him from alluding unreservedly to
passing events, yet he would take leave to say that he
would wish to be unsuccessful in the struggle he was en-
gaged ia, if it was not to result in the benefit of all classes of
his fellow-citizens.—( Applause.)
Lord STUART DE DECIES proposed "The health of the
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor."
The Loral Keeton returned thanks, and proposed " The
Liberal Peerage of Ireland, and coupled with that the health
of their respected guest, Lord Stuart de Decies."—(Cheers.)
Lord S. de Mews said, prevented as I have been by the
state of my health, for some time past, from taking any ac-
tive part in public affairs, I really feel quite at a loss to ac•
count for the kind and very flattering manner in which you,
my Lord Mayor, have been good enough to propose, and you,
gentlemen, have had the kindness to receive the mention of
my name.—(Hear, hear.) I can only attribute it to that
cordial spirit which, actuating Irishmen, distinguishes them
beyond almost all the people of every other country in Eu-
rope, and prompts their. to draw closer and closer the bond of
fellowship with those in whose society they mingle. But,
gentlemen, there is common bond of union between us—a
bond of union which I am sure my Hon. and Learned Friend
(Mr. O'Connell) would never wish to see repealed—the coin-
mon love of our common fatherland.—(Loud cheers.) I
have ever, I confess, found it a pleasant land to live in, and,
therefore;l have consulted my inclinatien as much as I have
discharged a duty, in making it my home during the
greater part of every year.—(Cheers.) And I cannot help
feeling that, perhaps, more proprietors would act so likewise,
were it not for that certain tone of acerbity in politics which
unfortunately pervades too often our domestic discussions , but
whilst deprecating political acrimony, I am no advocate for
political inactivity.—(Cheers.) And I do trust, as my Right
Hon. Friend has chosen to connect my name with that of the
Liberal Peerage—l say Ido trust that, inasmuch as lam a
member of a branch of the Legislature, that that Legislature
will follow the lead of public opinion, and concede those mea-
sures of justice necessary to raise Ireland to her proper posi-
tion in the scale of European nations.—(lmmense cheering.)
STOCK EXCHANGE, SATURDAY.—The Government Funds
continue to droop, although not as yet to any material ex-
tent. The Railway Share Market WAS again heavy to-day,
with considerable fluctuation in some of the lines. Irish
Great Western (Dublin to Galway) and Kingstown and Bray
each closed heavily, the former at 3%, the latter at 7%.
Great Western (Dublin to Mulliogar) have been tolerably
steady during the week, and opened and closed to-day
at
41.2. No change of importance in the other lines.
GOVERN)/ENT FUNDS.—Three per Cent. Consols, 7k;
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 1001 ; Four per Cent.
reduced to 21. I3s. 4d. sterling per annum, 474 ; Six per
Cent. reduced to 4/. sterling per annum, 711 ; Royal Canal
Stock, 36, ex div. ; Grand Canal Stock, 10.
MISCELLANEOLTe.—City of Dublin Steam Packet Shares,
106, ex div. ; Hibernian Bank, 31 ; Mining Company of
Ireland, 13)m.
RAILWAYS.—Great Southern and Western Extension,
13 ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 101; Great Western
(Dublin to 31n1lingar), 41 a a 1 ; Irish Great Western 0-Jub-
lin to Galway), ; Belfast and Ballymena, 7i 4 a 8;
Waterford and Limerick, 8 7ic 8 ; Dundalk and Enniskillen,
445; Wexford and Carlow, 44 ; Kingstown and Bray, 74
1 4: Cork and Bandon, 7i 8; Londonderry and Enniskile
len 4h 4; Newry and Enniskillen, 5; Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine Junction, :31; Londonderry and Coleraine, 3i.

'TIE MISSING PACKETS.—We learn from Captain
Spavin, of the ship Norman, arrived from Mobile, that he was
in the terrible gale of the 12th of December while on his
passage from New Orleans to Liverpool; and on the 20th,
in lat. 50, ion. 35, he saw the skylights, bulwarks, and booby
hatch, painted green, drifting on the sea. From the know-
ledge he has of
.our packets, he supposes that they belonged
to one of the missing ships. Indeed, he feels sure that they
did. At the time he saw them he thought they belonged to
a packet-ship. These facts have been in his possession since
the 20th December, but he did not have them published,
because he has been at sea part of the time since that date,
and because lie did not wish to create any unneeessary alarm.
They were a part of one of the ill-fated packets, there is
carcely a doubt.--a New York herald.
ARRIVAL. OF A RARE AND CWPOIJS ANIMAL.—The
London Docks wars crowded on Friday to wituess the lao..
ing of a curious animal of the Qurang utang species, which
was conveyed to the Surrey Zoological gardens for a few
days, previous to being sent abroad.
ERRATUM.—In the first line of the article on
French intelligence which appeared on Monday, for "farm-
ing the fortificetins of Pais," re e 4 t ArTinf, kg.