The Warrington Examiner. — 1869-05-08 (Warrington, Cheshire, England)

FIE MAYOR OF CORK.  At a largo meeting of magistrates, held at Cork, on Saturday, under the presidency of the Lord Lieutenant of the county, the recent conduct of the Mayor of Cork was strongly denounced, and it was decided to appeal to the Government to take some steps in the matter. Mr. O'Sullivan has had constant disputes with his brother magistrates and the police, and these have at length culminated in a scene of a very extraordinary character. On Saturday, Mr. O'Sullivan demanded that the charge sheet should be handed to him, and, upon the magistrates refusing to accede to this request unless he conducted himself with decorum, he attempted to seize the document, which was torn in the struggle that followed. These proceedings are naturally exciting some commotion in Cork, and on Saturday an open-air meeting was held, to express sympathy with Mr. O'Sullivan and to condemn his "persecutors." Placards have also been posted in the city denouncing Alderman Lyons the gentleman who, at the meeting of the Town Council on Friday, questioned the Mayor on the subject of his Fenian speeches, as a "traitor," a "spy," and an "inormer." On Sunday night the mayor addressed a meeting disavowing sympathy with assassination, and expressing confidence in Messrs. Gladstone and Bright. At midnight tar barrels were burning in honour of Mr. O'Sullivan, and there .were other rejoicings, but no disturbance. On Sunday the Mayor went to the bridewell and discharged the prisoners confined there. On Monday morning he went to the police court at ten o'clock; and before the other magistrates arrived, the usual hour of sitting being eleven, he had disposed of all the cases, leaving, as he remarked, nothing for them to do. At the monthly meeting of the Cork town council on Monday, some of the mayor's friends tried but w6re foiled, in an attempt to get resolutions passed condemnatory of the magistrates generally, and also that the i explanation of the mayor n reference to his language at the Fenian banquet was entirely satisfactory. An angry discussion took place, and the mayor took the opportunity of abusing, in very intemperate language, the conduct of Lord Fermoy, Mr. T. Lyons, and the magistrates generally, whom he styled "Cat-throat Orangemen" and "Traitorous Catholics." The Irish Law Officers have come to the conclusion that, in the present state of the law, the Government has no power to remove the Mayor of C3rk from the commission of the peace. A bill has, therefore, been introduced to prevent Mr. O'Sullivan "from continuing in the office of justice of the peace, or any other office connected with the administration of justice in Cork or in Ireland."  Prince Arthur arrived at Douglas, Isle of Man, on Tuesday, and was, of course, enthusiastically received by the Islanders. Rev. W. J. Bennet, of Frome, preached at Bristol on Sunday night in favour of the separation of Church and State. At Walsall, on Saturday, a girl aged 16 attempted to commit suicide by taking two pennyworth of vermin poison. It is stated that Lord Elliot will come forward as a candidate to represent Liskeard, in the room of the late Sir A. W. Buller. The death is announced of Mr. Toulmin Smith, well known as a writer upon parochial administration and other subjects. Mr. Smith was in his 53rd year. The refusal by the members of the Additional Curates' Society to elect Mr. W. H. Gladstcne, M.P., as a member of the committee is regarded by the John Bull as significant. The wife of a workman of Ternitz, near Wilhelmsburgh, Austria, was last week safely delivered of four children, two boys and two girls, all of whom with the mother are doing well.