The Express. — 1850-04-11 (London, England)

ROM. It was then resolved that the Lord Mayor should present the memorial of the corporation to the Queen, against the removal of the viceregal court, aed also the petition to the House of Commons for the same purpose. Then ensued one of those scares which had recently reflected so much discredit on the corporation, and which the citizens had flattered themselves were at an end. Mr. Walker brought forward his resolution, declaring that Mr. Reynolds had conticued to hold the office of Lord Mayor illegally since his name was struck off the burgess roll, and that it acs expedient that the council should immedia'ely proceed to elect a fit and proper person to fill the office. Mr. Gustavus Hamilton then moved that to revive the discussion about the mayoralty was a violation of the resolution unanimously adopted on the 12th of February, and that the question llama be left for the adjudication of the proper tribunal. The Lord Meyer was proceeding to address the assembly, when Mr. Walker called him to order, and used the expression, " How dare you, sir, state that what I have written is untrue ?" The Lord Mayor called cn Mr. Walker to retract that expression, and resume Ws seat, both of which things the latter persevered in refusing to do, and considerable confusion was the consequence, the greater number of the members exclaiming loudly against the irregularity of which Mr. Welker was guilty. Mr. Walker called one of the members, Mr. Dunne, " a fellow," but after some difficulty was induced to apologiee for that disorderly expression. 'the Lord hlsynr then read the opinion alined from the English Solicitor-Geeeral on the question of the Dublin mayoralty, and which was to the effect that Mr. Reynolds could only be remevid from la's office of Lord Mayor, under all the circumstances of the case, by means of a quo trarranto : that he did not consider he would be liable to more than one penalty for his official acts, and that he might legally appoint a locum lemma whcee acts would be valid, and who would not he pereinally liable to any penalty. An opinion of Serjeant Greene, the late Atorney•General fur Ireland, was also read, and according to it, a mandamus would be re-gaited to enable the corporation to take any step prudently for the removal of Mr. Reynolds from Hs office. Mr. Walker intimated that if he bad been aware of the existence of (Ice) document., he wool,' not have persevered with his melee. A division, however, was taken on Mr. Hamilton's motion, and the numbers were, 24 for the resolution, and early 4 against it. An icspector of police, who was call, d up to the chair by the Lord Meyer during this dieturbonee, remained near him, and it was expected every moment. that a serious row would have taken place. There were also several police constables in the room, and waiting below stairs to obey any orders they might receive. A meeting of persons interested in the sale and manufacture of Irish spirits was held yesterday at the Rotunda fur the purp,:se of petitionir g the le,gisWare for the removal of the vexatious regulations of the &aro of esciso, whereby payment is exacted on portions of spirits utterly lost by evaporation and natural waste, from which charge foreign and colonial spirits are entirely free. The meeting, which was numerously and respectably attended, was presided over by Mr. I'. O'Brien, in the absence of the Lord Mayor, and the resolutions, which complained strongly of the injustice duce t e Irish merchants by the bonding regulations on spirits, were unanimously adopted. On Saturday evening, Mr. and Lady Anne Tufnell, after a trip to Limerick and Coik, by the Great Southern and Western Railway, returned to the Viceregal Lodge, and joined their Excellencies the Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon at dit.ner ; and yesterday, having taken leave of their noble host and hostess, the hon. gentleman and his lady proceeded on their return to London. The dinner eiven on Monday evening, by the citizens of Cork, to Sir Robert Kane, the President of the Queen's College, was attended by shout 120 gentlemen; the Mayor presiding, and being eup,rorted by Mr. Serjeant Stock, the going judge of Assize, the Mayor of Limerick, Colonel Chesney, Colonel Puttloci, T. Ronayne Sarefield, Req., St. J oho Jeffrey es, Eisq , &a. Henry M. Smyth, Esq., of Castlewidenharn, in the county of Cork, bloc out his brains, by placing the muzzle of a gun to his forehead, on Sttarday lust. The Cork Examiner, which mentions the fact, shorn that he was io embarrassed circuenstanoes, sad wos labouring under temporary insanity. Sergeant Major Gearge Kirkman, of the Bsth Regiment of Foot, committed suicide by cutting his throat, at Tolls, on Saturday morning last, a h.!" on march with his company from Limerick to Galway.