A DUBLIN SCANDAL.

Inangahua Times, Volume IX, Issue 1453, 6 October 1884, Page 2

A DUBLIN SCANDAL.

An inquiry is now commencing at Dublin that bids fair to 'became a "cause celebre." Some time since Mr O'Brien M.P., the editor,, owner of Untied Ireland, a print of more. than usual violence, .and animosity to the English publio, brought a ohaigf£ of the grossest indecency against Mr Custavus Cornwall, the Seoretary of the Irish Post Office. A number of persons were implicated in the accttsation, some in good positions and some in the very lowest class of life. On this charge Mr Cornwall brought an action against O'Brien, but failed to sustain it in the opinion of the jury, and by consequence, the suspicion thrown on his conduct is so great that he was suspended from office, and has been arrestod on a charge of unnatural crimes. Besides Mr .Corn well, Mr J. E. French, late director of the Department of tho Royal Irish Constabulary, has been likewise arrested, and also an old man, a grocer over seventy, and flftid ttf be a member of the Society of Friends, and father of a large family, has beeu charged on suspicion. It seems perfectly i'lcreHiW*, hut it is alleged ttmt the uolii'p have a vast quantity of evidence together against the afteueed

persons, and are now busily ev.gagrV in sifting ib. It must be admitted <j,dything originating from the offi-ie of the United Ireland must be received conigrano salis, on account of the ferocious bigotry and hatred of its editor to all officials of the Government, but never- I less the facts at present look black, and if Mr O'Brien has already good grounds for his imputations he will have done good servip§ by exposing a band of scoundrels who must have been carrying on malpractices for a considerable time. Mr Cornwall was arrested in Scotland at the residence of his brother in law. He had already telegraphed his locus to the authorities, and courts the fullest inquiry into his couduct.