The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-18 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENT IN IRELAND.—In addition to
the other meetings which we hare before noticed, several
other counties, cities, and towns have since met to record

their adhesion to the Irish policy of the present Cabinet.
The Dublin papers of Tuesday contain reports of tke
proceedings tf the following public meetings:—
County of Galway, county of Kilkenny, city of Kilkenny,
city of Limerick, town of Sligo, and Carrick-on-Suir,
county of Cork, county of Kerry, and Carlow county.
At all these meetings a determination never again to sub-
mit to a Tory Government was strongly and unanimously
declared.

The Dublin Evening Post (from whose a lumus we
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subjoin some extracts) says, " The voice of Ireland—of
the most distinguished of her Peers, her Gentry, her inere
cantile and professional men, has gone froth, and we feel
convinced that its effect will be witnessed in the result of
ihn ("abate in the House of Commons, xhich commenced
last Momlay tight.
It could not be otherwise. Such a demonstration as
that on Thursday was never before made by the friends
cf good government in Ireland. We have spoken of
the Liberals as a "party," but we employ the term
merely in a conventional sense ; for that assemblage,
which included many such men as Mr. Balfour and Mr.
Ro:s, of Rosstrevor—whom the Tories would de-
light to claim as their own—could not be called a party
meeting. No, it was a meeting of the friends of peace
and the supporter; of just government in Leland, who
Pre daily strengthening their ranks by the adhesion of
men of the first consideration—the rei]resentatives of some
of the most distinguished Tory families in the country—
‘v ho are• commencing their political career by a chival-
rous ecclarivion of opinion in favour of the Irish policy of
the present Administration.
We have spoken of Mr. Balfour. That gentleman, who
had been Governor of the Mauritius, is the nephew of the
Earl of Enniskillen, and he stands in the same degree of
relationship to the Earl of Ripon.
We have now the gratification of announcing, that
amongst the names which arrived too late for pub-
lication in the requisition are those of Thomas For-
tescue, Esq., of Haven dale, High Sheriff of Louth,
and Thomas Lee Norman, Eq., of Corboilis, in the
same county'. Mr. Fortescue, who has but recently
attained his majurity, is the head of the great Fortescue
family, and the inheritor of vast possessions in Louth, which
had been for many years represented by members of his
family. We need not add one word as to the immenta
importance of such adhesions to the Liberal phalanx. They
may he regarded as unerring indications of the certain tri-
umph '.
of the cause of justice, and of the advent of social ;
peace and permanent prosperity in Ireland. i
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lave been hon-our&I With the following commu-
nication from that excellent Nobleman and sincere friend
of Ireland, Lord Oranmore, which we shall here intro-
duce :

TO TILE EDITOR OF TIIE DUBLIN EVENING POST.
Alculsey, April 13, 1839.
SlR,—Perhaps you will permit me to trespass on
your paper on a matter not entirely personal to my-
self, as having represented an Irish county in seven
Parliaments, and thirty years supported the principles
of her Majesty's preset:t Ministers. My not being
in Dublin to receive Lord Ebrington was caused by
being here confined to my bed; and on the 31st of
March 1 wrote a letter (which I suppose, has mis-
carried) to one of the most prominent friends of Lord
Melbourne's Administration, requesting him to affix my
name to any requisition or address to which he placed his
own, as, certainly, no Lord Lieutenant ever professed
opinions more identically my own than Lord Ebrington.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your faithful servant,
ORANMORE.
LORD-LIEUTENNNT OF TYRONE.—Wc have the grati-
fication to announce—and every Reformer in Ireland will
hail the announcement with delight—that his Excellency
the Lord Lieutenant has appointed the Earl of Charlemont
Lieutenant of the county of Tyrone, in the room of the
late Earl of Caledon.

An inquiry took place yesterday before Mr.
Wakley, M. P., at the University College Hospital, touch-
ing the death of Joseph Thomas, aged 43, a fishmoger,
who was reported to have died from the effects of a kick
in the abdomen, inflicted by his wife. A medical gentle-
man deposed that a post mortem examination of the body
had been made, and death was found to have been caused
by a rupture of the intestines, which must have been
uced cauthsed
by external violence. A kick would have prode
rupture, and it might also be the effect of a fall. Joseph
Thomas, a most intelligent boy, the deceased's son, about
six years of age, was called in and examined, but not on
oath. His clear and distinct account of the cause of Isis unfor.
tunate father's death elicited the approbation of the Coroner
and jury. In substance it was, that his father bad been out
drinking with a policeman, a countryman of his, on Thurs-
day, and that while coming down the steps of the area
with a tray of fish in his hand his foot slipped, and he fell
critic his stomach on the edge of the tray. He exclaimed
to his son—" My dear child, I fear I have ruined myself."
In the evening he beat his wife severely, and she put up
her leg to protect herself, she being forced on the sofa and
her hands clasped by her husband in one hand, while he
and t
ofrequently
hi
s g.nf e •
beat her with the other.—Bridget Thomas was examined,
after having been cautioned by the Coroner, and her state-
ment was fully corroborative of that of her son. It wall
evident the deceased was a dissipated man,
ill-used her, but she said he was a good father to his chil-
good mother,- and
dren. The Coroner said the impression that had gone
abroad, imputing the death of the deceased
r diinette,l4l,igAweenleceie:
owfa
tshevidentlyboyclearly
that The s sagacityhe v,.as
a
and
was frequently ill-used by her husband.
C:ids and admirers of that uncompro-
mising Radical, Colonel Churchill, with the view of
showing some small testimony of the honest conduct of
that gentleman, havinginteattled.—Liii
a coln lab
azetete supper at the
Black Horse, Eastg