The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-22 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FEE. 20.

Caat-ow.—Vigors is Member for the county. A little after
five o'clock on Saturday, the Sheriff declared Mr. Vigors
duly returned. His majority, on that day's poll, was 7 ; his
gross majority 36—Vigors having polled 669, Bunbury 633.
The tenantry of the unsuccessful candidate being deter-
mined to vote according to their own wishes and convictions,
came up on Saturday, and in the presence of their landlord
and his agent, and of the whole Tory aristocracy of the county,
who crowded into Court, hearing of their intention, voted to
a man for Vigors. Charges of intimidation are made on either
side, but the Mail, as usual, is loudest in affirming that Bun-
bury, the stalking-horse of the Conservatives, would have
been successful but for the shameful intimidation exercised
upon that landlord's tenantry ! The blustering tone affected
by the Tories is natural enough to braggarts when beaten. A
petition of course is already in preparation, and the Mail says
that when it is presented, as it will be in a fop/ days, the
friends of Bunbury will tarn the tables on Vigors—" they arc
quite confident as to the result." And so are we.
Mr. Vigors sailed from Dublin last Monday night, to be at
the division on the Irish Municipal question.
CAPTAIN ROCK IN CARLOW.—With this attractive heading
the Carlow Sentinel sends forth the following notice, said to
have been posted up in order to coerce the electors to vote for
Mr. Vigors :—" Friends and neighbours, look around you,
and any person you see going into Michael Wilson's shop, of
Graigue, the Orangeman, please stop them, or if not I will
ease them with a coffin." Here the form of a coffin was drawn,
and the letters " T. J. 0." were affixed at the bottoms of the
notice. This is a stale trick of the Tories. The device is
transparent, and evidently the work of Tory-craft.
CITY RIMISTRT.—Seven Corporation hacks were converted
into freemen on Friday; they registered their votes on Sa-
turday, and thus gave the faction a majority, the numbers
being—

Orangemen 1 1
Liberals

The manner in which the Corporation are swamping the
legitimate electors should rouse them to an increased activity.
If our friends do not bestir themselves, two Members will be
lost to Ireland.—Freeman.

COLLEGE DEGREES.—Dr. Cooke has received the degree of
LL.D. from the Dublin University. Th'e students of the
Belfast Institution have refused to congratulate the Doctor on
his-new dignity, and have thus virtually protested against the
act of the Provost and the Senior Fellows. On this the
Freeman says that " as the Board has taught us the full value
of its honorary distinctions, we would take leave to recommend
the Rev. Lawrence Nolan and the. Rev. .1. M'Crca as per-
sons deserving_doctor's degrees."
SHIPWREOK.—The Glasgow, laden with Seven hundred
tons of wheat, and having seventy passengers on board, sailed
under Captain Robinson from Liverpool for New York, on
last Wednesday week. On last Wednesday morning, at the
hour of half-past four o'clock, she struck on a rock off the
coast of Wexford, and after three hours sunk. In conse-
quence of the prompt and spirited exertions of Captain
Walshe, of Wexford, who brought his schooner to their as-
sistance, all the passengers, except twenty-three who pe-
rished, were saved, Those who escaped complain bitterly of
the conduct of Captain Robinson and his crew, and allege
that when made aware of the danger, the former was heard
to say, " Save the crew, and to hell with the passengers."
The passengers saved were brought into Wexford by Captain
Walsbe.—Pilot.
ORANGE MASSACRE.—An investigation into the murderous
assault committed upon a number of peaceable and unoficnding
people by an armed mob at Ballyjamesduff, on the 4th instant,
took place at that town on Saturday, by order of Government.
The result is that there are ten persons already committed on
the charge, and the proceedings appear to implicate others of
the desperate faction.
MURDER OF A MAN BY lIIS WIFE AND SISTER-IN-LAW.-
On Sunday, the 12th inst., an inquest was held at Esker, in
this county, on the body of Emanuel Begley, who died the
previous day, in consequence of a quantity of poison having
been administered to him by his wife and sister-in. law. It
appears that Begley and his wife had not been on the most in-
timate terms, neither had they lived together for some time
previous. The wretched woman, under the pretence of re-
conciling matters, invited the poor man to spend Shrove Tues-
day evening with her at her sister's, when she took the oppor-
Unlit/ of administering the poison in a cup prepared for the
purpoge. They are both committed for trial.—Longford
Messenger.

ADVERTISEMENT.—CHORCII REFORM.—Two
things much more unlike cannot well be imagined, than a Pro-
testant National Church, and the sect of the Thirty-nine Ar-
ticles. We will notice but a single distinction between them.
A Protestant National Church would not only of course em-
brace, but hold worthy of double h .Hour, all the inhabitants of
the realm, who, true to hs futi, .mental and comprehensive prin-
ciple adopted the religion of the Bible-L-aul:red, whatever might
be their creed, and well content, anti faithfully att..4 exclusively
adhered to the phraseology as well as in tb deatrinc ""
Lord Jesus Christ and his Apostles. Now these afe pftifkely
the men, above all others, whom the sect of the Thirty-"ln6
Articles shuts out, in liminc, from her portal, and anathematized
totis riribus. The sect of the Thirty-nine Artiele, spite of all
the mere amateurs who always swell the list of a State religion,
from the narrowness of its base, ranks not among its members,
in the present century, one half of the population of the evil-
try. As Englishmen, not less than as Protestants and Chris•
tians, we protest against the broad farce and grievous wrong of
such a National (0 Establishment.
MAILS BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND DUBLIN.

—A public meeting, of the merchants and other inhabitants
of Liverpool, Was held on Monday in the Sessions'-room, for
the purpose ()finking into consideration the necessity of peti-
tioning the Government against any change in the present
conveyance of the mails to and from Ireland in his Majesty's
packets, as established at that port. Several resolutions were
adopted. Sir Edward Parry has been in Liverpool during
the last eight days, transacting business connected with the
mail communication with fvf:jand, and has since left for Beau-
marie and Holyhead.