The Sun. — 1866-05-28 (London, England)

HUGH FERGUSON, 11.m.v.5."  A meeting of the members of the profession of attorneys and solicitors was held this day in the Four Courts, to consider the appointment of Solicitor to the Board of Inland Revenue. Mr. Richard J. Theodore Orpen, President of the Society, occupied the chair. The meeting rela,ted mainly to the appointment of Mr. Strong, a barrister, and city of Dublin magistrate, to the post mentioned. The following resolutions were passed :  " That the solicitors and attorneys of Ireland have been unjustly deprived of their legitimate rights by members of the Bar being appointed to be solicitors orattorneys on behalf of the Crown, under the orders of the Commissioners of the Treasury, Stamps, &c., offices which were formerly always, of right, held by solicitors and attorneys, and the duties of which, we consider, would be more efficiently discharged by solicitors and attorneys of experience in their profession."  " That the filling of such offices by members of the Daris unjust to our body, and is calculated to induce individuals to go to the Bar, not with the view of honourable advancement in the regular walk of the profession, but that by becoming barristers they may be considered qualified to fill every place connected with the administration of the law."  " That the reply given by the late Earls of Eglinton and Carlisle to the memorials presented to them in the year 1859 gave us reasonable grounds for expecting that the system of appointing barristers to the office of Solicitor of Inland Revenue would not be continued."  It was also resolved that a deputation should wait on the Lord-Lieutenant in the matter. Mr. Esmonde has issued his address to the Waterford constituency on accepting the Junior Lordship of the Treasury. He states that the position was unsought on his part, and adds he is willing to join an Administration which has evincel a desire to pursue towards this country a conciliatory, generous, and just policy. The appointment of Mr. S. L. Anderson to the office of Marshal to the Admiralty Court in Dublin, vacant by the death of Mr. C. Taylor, is announced. Unfavourable symptoms having been manifested yesterday in the wounds on Warner's neck, O'Connor, his murderous assailant, was brought to his lodgings during the day, when the injured man fully identified him as the person who had made the murderous attack upon him, and then made a deposition detailing the circumstances of the case as already reported. In the Court of Common Pleas yesterday judgment was given upon a motion for a new trial in the action for ejectment brought by the Earl of Mayo against Harriet Bentley, which was tried at the last Trim Assizes, and attracted a large share of public notice. An affidavit of the plaintiff was read by his counsel, stating that the Earl of Mayo never received the subpcena to attend the trial, it having been left at his house while he was ill, and directions given by his medical adviser that all business matters should be kept from him. The affidavit further stated that if his presence had really been required at the trial the subpcena would have been served at an earlier period. Chief Justice Monahan said the Court did not entertain any doubt whatever as to the rule they should make. According to the ordinary principles of justice there should be a now trial. Whether Miss Bentley had or had not a good defence, he know not. She swore that she had, and she said she wanted to have the benefit of the evidence of the plaintiff in support of her case. Having referred to the circumstances under which the subpcena was sent to Lord Mayo and those under which ho directed a verdict for the plaintiff in the Court below, his Lordship said that if he had been made aware prior to the commencement of the trial and before the case was given into the hands of the jury that this very necessary and important witness was absent he would have postponed the, trial de die in diem, in order that his attendance might bo procured. Mr. Justice Keogh observed that Lord Mayo, on hearing that the writ of the court had been withheld from him, ought to have been the person to travel out of his way and disregard his own convenience in order to obey it at the earliest possible moment. Mr. Justice O'Hagan concurred in the judgment of the Court, which ho believed to be fully sustained by its practice and procedure. The conditional order for a new trial was accordingly made absolute with costs, their Lordships holding that the motion to show cause against is was untenable.