26 SEPTEMBER 1835, Page 4

IRELAND.

We mentioned last week, in our second impression, that Mr. 11;.reus Costello had taken steps towards prosecuting Dalton, the 51111111, A‘110 accused him of bribery in the Dublin Election for O'Connell and Ruthven. It seems that Mr. Costello has been called to account by the Commissioners for proceeding against the witness, as he undern eat the following examination.

" In consequence of a communication received by us, we wish to know whether you were at College Street Police- office yesterday ?"—" I was." " Can you say at what hour ?"—" I think it was about twelve o'clock. 'd hit makes me remember it was about this time was, that I met Mr. Gabbett, and I told hint that I wanted a summons • after pulling out my watch to ii-eertaiu the hour, he said he would be back in a few minutes." " Did you not leave the witness Dalton under examination before the Commissioners, and did Non not find him so when you came back ?"—" I did." " Did you make any, :Ind what, application at the Police-office?"—" I applied against Dalton; he having, to my knowledge, sworn in every particular what was false as resards me. I did not give him OL or any suns of money whatever, or to airy other human being at the last election for the purposes alluded to by him ; I have never received one fraction of money from any person respecting the election, up to this present moment, except sums of money handed to me by nh,, repre- sentatives of different trades on the platform, and given by me to the TEL asurer of the Trades' Union." Mr. Joy said that Mr. Costello was only required to give an answer to the question put to him by the Court. Mr. Costello—" I stated to the Magistrate that I believed it was not usual in the first instance to grant a warrant ; and I therefore applied for a summens against Thomas Dalton, for having been guilty of wilful and corrupt porjoiry at the Dublin Election Commission. I applied for the summons in order that I might indict him for wilful and corrupt perjury, in having sworn deo I lave him a a or any note, or any money, at the late election for the city of Unblin, having never, to my knowledge, seen the man before. I got the order for the summons from Mr. Tudor, but did not take it out, as my intention was. not to serve any summons or execute any warrant, if grouted, until the exationatio.n of the witness had finally closed, lest it should have the appearance ot inti- midating the witness, or showing disrespect to the Court. .My object was to secure the service of a summons upon a person who I thought It probable might abscond. My desire was to vindicate my own character from the stain which the evidence given was calculated to fix upon it." " Are you aware that Dalton produced to the Commissioners one of the newspapers in which it was stated that you had made the application ? "—" I was not present at the time, but I have heard it since. As to the publication respecting the Police- office, I knew nothing about it, nor was I any party to the notice of the appli- cation. I thought the examination would have closed yesterday, and wanted the summons with the intention of having it served upon the witness after his leaving this court, lest I should not be able to find him again." " Do Y131 not believe that the effect of such a summons would be to intimidate the wit- ness under examination ?"—" I am free to admit that in some cases it might have been the case, but my firm conviction is, that Dalton, in the face of the public and this court, had made up his mind, to use an expressive but vulgar phrase, to go the whole hog,' and therefore would not be influenced by any thing of the kind."

Dalton has since confessed that the whole story was a fabrication, and Ile with an accomplice named Geeson have been committed for contempt of court.

It would seem from this that the Tories were endeavouring to bolster up their cause by subornation of perjury. Again, we ask, why does not Mr. Recorder Shaw imitate Mr. Costello's example, and prosecute Mr. Bradshaw, who accused him of bribery, for wilful and corrupt perjury? Mr. Shaw has, DO doubt, conclusive reasons for submitting in silence to a charge so preeminently injurious to a judge who has any character to lose.