Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1885-06-27 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

IRISH INTELLIGENCE.  Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M.P., is to be Lord Mayor of Dublin for 1886, having been selected by the Nationalists, who constitute two-thirds of the Corporation. _  It is stated that Mr. Charles Hawkes, controller of the Money-order Office, London, has been appointed secretary to the Dublin Post Office in succession to Mr. Cornwall. At the adjourned Limerick Petty Sessions, the Mayor Presiding, a scene occurred which created quite a sensation in court. Mr. W. E. Connihan and Mr. J. 11. Moran appeared as solicitors for complainant and defendant in an assault case. Mr. Moran argued that the throwing of a poker at complainant and not striking her was not an assault, and he quoted a maxim of law which left to the solicitor on the other side to understand if he could. Mr. Connihan replied that Mr. Moran in the law he laid down wax misleading the court, and he referred the Mayor to Humpluey's view on the point. Mr. Moran in loud and indignant tones denied that he was misleading the Court, and said he never misled the Court, whatever others might do. The accusation was an insult not the first time made by the person opposite in that and other courts, and he only wished he had him outside the Court at that moment to kick him into it again, and from one Court to another. -The vehemence of the speaker, and the apprehension of immediate consequences, brought the occupanta of the gallery and other parts of the Court to their feet, amazement and wonderment being pictured in every face. The Mayor, interposing in the midst of Mr. Momn's violent remarks, said it pained him to hear such language uttered in a public Court, and he trusted there would be an end to it. Mr. Moran was about to proceed, when the Mayor insisted that he should sit down. He did so. Mr. Connihan made no observation, but stood with folded arms, mute, motionless, and defiant. After a lapse of a few minutes, the Mayor said matters having now calmed down, he thought it was due for Mr. Moran to make an apology. Mr. Moran (excitedly) Me to apologise to that whelp? Never, sir. Mr. Connihan : Mr. Mayor, I want no apology from this man. lam used to this sort of thing, and I shall not bandy words with him. Mr. Moran interrupted with observations similar to those he had already uttered. The Mayor: Mr. Moran, I have nothing to say to the matter at issue between you and Mr. Connihan, but I say that you have used words which, being spoken in this Court, are an insult to him and to the Court. You owe an apology. I trust you will not render it necessary for me to insist upon that apology being made. Mr. Moran said he meant no disrespect to his worship or to the Court, and he would gladly apologise, but he thought at first it was to that whelp opposite he was to apologise, but instead of doing so he would kick him from court to court. Matters soon after subsided.  The magisterial investigation into the charges of triple murder at Castletownroche, against the men Sheehan and Browne, has terminated at cork. Dr. Curtis, who examined the remains, stated they were those of two female and one male adults. On the skull of the latter were two fractures, one caused by ts sharp instrument, the other by a blunt weapon. No marks were discovered on the female skeletons. The prisoners were committed for trial at the Assizes, and on being removed were hooted by a large crowd. The panel recording that the stained glass window in the Jesuit's church, Dominick-street, Dublin, had been erected by Lord Spencer to the memory of Mr. T. H. Burke, Under-Secretary, who was murdered in the Phcenix Park, has been unscrewed and carried off. Mr. J. May, assistant accountant of the Ulster Bank in Dublin; aged 23 years, has committed suicide at his lodgings, Charleville-road, Rathmines, by cutting his throat with a razor in such a determined manner as to nearly sever the head from the body. A Bible was found close to the bedside, which it is supposed the deceased had been reading immediately before be committed the act. He had been suffering for some time from religious melancholia. In the Dublin Exchequer Court, Miss Mary Ann Grayson recently claimed £5OO damages from Mr. Lawrence Hope, a farmer, and an owner of racehorses, for breach of promise of marriage The breach of promise action was settled on defendant paying £2O. The Irish Law Students' Debating Society, Dublin, have elected Lord Justice Fitzgibbon to succeed Lord O'Hagan, as president, the Chief Baron receiving the next highest number of votes, while Lord Chancellor Naish and Mr. Healy, M.P., had only six votes each.  As the Countess Spencer drove off from the shop of a Dublin photographer the other day, cheers and cries of "Coercion" were raised by an assembled crowd.