The Sun. — 1862-10-25 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, OCT. 23. The Lord Lieutenant left Dublin yesterday for Rockcorry, county Monaghan, on a visit to Lord Cremorne, with whom he will remain till Saturday. Dr. Corrigan has just been elected for the fourth time President of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland. This election four times in succession of the same president is unprecedented in the annals of the college.  The Lord Chancellor has subscribed £2O to the O'Connell Statue Fund. The Freeman's Journal points to the significance of this large subscription, as coming from the head of the judicial bench, the head of the magistracy, the highest official next to the Viceroy, and " the keeper of the Queen's conscience in Ireland." The Daily Express comments in strong terms on the alleged impropriety of thus honouring the memory of the greatest agitator, on the part of a high State functionary, and asks whether he is to be permitted to compromise the Sovereign and the nation by thus doing homage to the memory of one who was convicted and imprisoned for violating the laws of his country by organizing monster meetings which disturbed the peace of the society and threatened the dismemberment of the United Kingdom.  A meeting was held yestet day evening at the Prince of Wales Hotel to consider the propriety of forming a committee to co-operate with the Prince Consort Memorial committee in promoting the opening of Stephen's-green. Mr. James Houghton was moved to the chair, and Mr. L'Evoy was appointed secretary. A committee was formed to raise subscriptions in furtherance of the object, with the understanding that if the green could not be opened the money would be returned. A committee of the Dublin Corporation has sat for several days to consider claims for alleged mali. cious burning in the city. Yesterday they announced their decision, and rejected the presentments from want of sufficient evidence of malice.  At the Wicklow Quarter Sessions yesterday Thos. Murray appealed against a decision of the Wicklow petty sessions magistrates, who, on the complaint of Mr. Tighe, of Rosanna, ordered him to be fined £5, and his companion, who merely carried his gun, £2, for entering some four perches on Mr. Tighe's ground. The appellant, it appeared, had leave to shoot on the adjoining ground, belonging to Mr. Synge, and he had entered, through mistake, on the land of the first-named gentleman, but had not fired a single shot. Mr. Toomey appeared in the case, and pleaded the very excessive amount of the fine iuflicted, and the extremely trifling nature of the offence committed. His worship said that he found himself coerced under the game laws to confirm the decision of the magistrates. The case has excited a very considerable amount of sympathy for Murray throughout the locality. The following is an extract from a letter written by au Irishman serving in the Federal army : " I gave up my good trade to go to the war, as many others gave up their good trades for war, and up to the present we have had war enough, for we are well beat. We were 700 strong when first mustered, but now we are only 200—all cut off by the South, and if spared for 20 days more my turn will be served, and then I will bid adieu to war. The Soutberns are brave, and many of them heroes.' buftnaked and barefooted, but they fight like We want experienced ollicers, and will be beat until we get the " J. T. Wttlah, an, Irishmen, mate of a N©W York  vessel, has been commmitted to gaol in Londonderry on the charge of having murdered one of the crew. Several of the ()filer sailors presented in their persons marks of the cruelty with which he had treated them during the voyage.  On Tuesday evening a public meeting was held in Belfast for the purpose of petitioning the House of Commons for the extension of the Forbes Mackenzie Act to Ireland. Resolutions were adopted deploring the many and aggravated evils arising from the sale of intoxicating liquors on the Sabbath. day. A petition to the House of Commons was agreed to, praying that, as the 16th and 17th of Victoria, cap. 67, known as the Forbes Mackenzie Act, had been of considerable benefit to the Scottish community, the enactment might be extended to Ireland. The Act in question prohibits the sale of intoxicating drinks between the hours of 11 o'clock on Saturday night and 7 o'clock on Monday morning.