The Dublin Court of Exchequer was crowded on Tuesday, to
hear the argument of Mr. O'Connell in support of his motion to set aside the writ of rebellion in the ca,e of Green versus Hogan. The ground of the motion was that three writs, called the alias subpoena, the plurics sub- poena, and the attachment with proclamation, which should intervene
between the issue of the first subpoena requiring the defendant to ap- pear and answer, and the issue of a writ of rebellion, had not been issued at all. Mr. O'Connell argued this question with his usual acumen, or, as the Chief Baron said, " very ably, and like a lawyer." Sergeant Jackson, on the other side, contended that the Court had es- tablished a new practice, and that the omitted writs were mere matters of form, which could be dispensed with under the authority of the Court. The Judges appeared to be of a different opinion. The effect of this, Chief Baron Joy intimated, would be to reverse all their previous decrees in writs of sequestration. This would be a most serious matter to the reverend plaintiffs and their lawyers. On Thursday, theCourt discharged Hogan, without payment of costs, Mr. O'Connell entering an appearance for him ; and without prejudice to a decision on the main question.
In the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, on Friday, a conditional rule was obtained against the Marquis of Westmeath, to stay proceed. ings in forty-four writs which the noble tithe-claimant had caused to be issued for small sums.
The Irish Judges have been " doctoring" the list of Sheriffs, so as to serve their own party purposes. The Dublin Weekly Register says- " There is no gentleman in Mayo better entitled to be put at the head of a list of persons to serve the office of Sheriff than Mr. Taaffe, of Woodfield. He is a Catholic gentleman of genuine Whig principles, and the representative of a large fortune. Accordingly, his name was put first in the Sheriff's list ; but it is wholly omitted in the Judge's list, which contains no name but that of a Tory; for of that party is even Mr. P. C. Lynch, of Clogher, Papist though he be. Ontelf the grossest things done throughout the whole kingdom, in the concoction of the Judges' lists, was, unquestionably, the total exclusion of Mr. Taaffe's name."
In King's County, the same game has been played-
" The names returned to be Sheriffs the ensuing year, are a repetition of the rejected list of last year, with the exception of one person, Mr. Berry, substi- tuted for that of Colonel Lloyd. Mr. Parsons, Mr. O'Moore, and Mr. Berry, are all rank Conservatives: the first is the brother of Lord Oxmantown, a Tory Lieutenant of Whig creation, who seizes every opportunity that presents itself to thwart the views of our beloved Viceroy; the second on the list is Mr. 011oole, an inexperienced young man, who has foolishly ranged himself on the side of Orangeism, contrary to the principles of Liberality by which all his family were distinguished ; the third, Mr. Berry, is the agent, and conse- quently the creature, of Lord Charleville. It is a gross insult to the Lord- Lieutenant to furnish the names of individuals that werebefore rejected. Doubt- less the Liberal High Sheriff, Mr. Armstrong, returned a list of persons in every respect qualified by rank and fortune to fill the office; but such list, I sup- pose, was cushionefl."
Mr. R. D. Kane is mentioned for the Assistant-Barristership of Cavan. It was mentioned last week, that Archdeacon Magee had thought properto suppress an important part of the correspondence as to the "inhibition " of the Archbishop of Dublin, which prevented Dir. No.. Ian from preaching in the church of the " Venerable Tommy," as Archdeacon Magee is familiarly called in Dublin. The Archdeacon retorts the charge of suppression on Dr. Dickinson, the Archbishop's chaplain ; but the latter says that he did publish the whole of what passed between Magee and himself; which is true. The suppressed letter was one from Magee to the Archbishop ; and a very insolent one it is—indirectly imputing to his Grace an affection for Socinianism and Popery. Subsequently, Magee addressed a letter of apology to the Archbishop for having written the above epistle; which letter of apo- logy Dr. Whateley returned unopened. Nolan has published a long letter to the Archbishop, also full of vulgar impertinence. He says that Dr. Whati•ley pronounced him "miserably ignorant of the Scrip. tures " merely because he stumbled at a word in the original Greek of the New Testament. But nobody will believe this on the authority of Nolan, especially as Dr. Dickinson and Mr. Wilson, Dr. Whate. ley's chaplains, state positively, that at the period of his only examina- tion by the Archbishop, Nolan was ignorant of the Scriptures, and that he subsequently acknowledged himself to have been so.
Archdeacon Magee preached a violent political sermon in his church on Sunday last. He said that his knowledge of the presence of a dis- tinguished member of the Government (Lord Morpeth) should not deter him from speaking out.
The Reverend Dr. Willis of Limerick having proposed to resign the charge of the Diocesan School, which he has superintended for many years, in favour of his son, the Reverend Thomas Willis, and sought the approbation of the Lord- Lieutenant for such transfer of its duties, an official communication was received from Dublin this
week, intimating that Lord Mulgrave could not think of extending his sanction to the proposed change, because the Reverend Thomas Willis
is in connexion with the Orange Society.—Limerick Paper. [ Willis is an ostentatious Orangeman—the advertised chaplain of an Orange lodge.]
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