The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-11 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MR. S. CRAWFORD, M.P., AND THE ELECTORS OP DUN-
DALK.—We had the satisfaction yesterday to announce, on
authority, that an amicable adjustment of the differences of
opinion, which recently existed between the Hon. and Patriotic
Member for Dundalk and his constituency, took place or
Tuesday last. A conference was held on Chit day, the result
of winch will afford great and general satislietion.
In the Times of Thursday last, the Dublin Correspondent
of that consistent and pure-principled Paper put forth a column-
fill of most veracious compost, mixed up with an abundance of
Joseph Surface-like matter, touching the Dundalk resolutions,
that led to Mr. Crawford's contemplated resignation, with
some fine-drawn speculations, more strongly marked by silliness
than by subtilty, concerning Mr. Crawford's moving principle
of action in connexion therewith. A vast deal of labour and
ingenuity has thrown away by this premature pi-oceedieg.
Had the Times been discreet enough to have waited till to-
day, not only would the space cf that journal have been saved,
but the character of its correspondent would not have been so
manifestly compromised. How mortifying must it be to the
apostate organ of the Tories to perceive that all its efforts to
sow the seeds of dissension in the grounds occupied by the
friends of liberty are vain and abortive. All the fine specula-
tion and elaborate argumentation of the Times' Irish corms-
pendent are nothing now more than indices of malignant
weakness, and are therefore wholly, undeserving of notice.
There is, however, one part of this precious production—that
which professes to account for Mr. Crawford taking his scat
in the House during the debate on Tuesday—so curious that
we will give it in the correspondent's own words. It is not a
bad specimen of his inventive capabilities. After quoting the
following passage from Mr. Crawford's letter, " Gentlemen,
look out for a representative fit to take the post you desired to
assign to me. I shall proceed as speedily as possible to sur-
render the trust you placed in my hands," our fabulist eon-
thews : " From this ' as speedily as possible,' it would be
expected that the Chiltern Hundreds would forthwith be the
Hon. Gentleman's portion. But he proceeded to Dublin, and
there a change came o'er the spirit of his dream.' The
traitors of the General Association saw that they had gone
too far. They saw that the cry which had been raised
against their lord and master for tampering with the electors
of Limerick, in the case of Mr. 'S. O'Brien, would be
strengthened by the course which Mr. Crawford had taken to
resent his interference with Dundalk. Something must be
done. A pacificator' must be found, and the King's repre-
sentative was selected as the go-between.' Ever ready with
his yes and no,' the dignified Viceroy accepted the office, and
the Banquet-room of Dublin Castle was the place•of rendez-.
vous. A dinner,_ party was forthwith invited. O'Connell,
the father of his country,' was the first of the guests, and
upon him devolved the duty of receiving his lost son' of
Crawfordsburn. Lord Mulgrave had seven or eight of the
tail' Members at his table. The prospects of the Session
were, of course, dilated upon ; the necessity of supporting__
i. e. obeying--O'Connell, was enforced ;:the propriety of gra-
titude for a recent Vice-regal favour bestowed upon Mr. Craw-
ford's eldest son, was gently hinted at ; the possibility of Mi-
nisters requiring all their friends, was not forgotten ; the pro-
spect of many Castle honours, lost none of its charms; and
Mr. Crawford at last consented to go and put his shoulder to
the Ministerial wheel, to help it out of the mire."
To offer a single syllable in the shape of oorementary on
this invention of the enemy would be an offence aeainst the
common sense of -our readers. The best answer to the evil-
minded rigmarole of the Times will be found, we apprehend,
in the following resolutions :
THE RESOLUTIONS.

" At a meeting of the electors of this independent borough,
held on the 7th instant, at Arthur's Hotel, Dundalk,
" HENRY CORBALLY, Esq., in the Chair,

" The following resolutions were unanimously adopted :
" Resolved—That in the resolutions which we adopted en
the 24th of January last, while we declare that we consider it
our bounden duty to use all the influence we possess to main-
tain the present Government in power, we did not, nor did we
intend to controul our representative in the free exueiso of his
judgment on the Church. question.
" Resolved—That having always placed the highest confi-
dence in Mr. Crawford, we regret that any misconception of
our views should for a moment have existed on his part ;
and as he still possesses that confidence unabated, we re-
quest that he will continue to fill that situation which ho
has occupied with so much credit to himself and advantage to
the country.
" A deputation waited on the Hon. Member with these re-
solutions, to which he returned the following answer :
" Gentlemen,--I accept the continuation of your confidence
tendered to Me by the resolution which you have now passed.
I will endeavour faithfully to discharge the trust reposed in me,
in such manner as to meet your wishes in every way which I
can render consistent with the principles under which I became
your representative, and I have now great pleasure in volun-
tarily withdrawing any expression contained in my former
answer with reference to the conduct of the constituency of
Dundalk, which could be considered offensive to your feelings.
" SHARMAN CRAWFORD."
Ma. SMITH O'BRIEN AND THF. LIMERICK CONSTITUENCY.
—At the last meeting of the Limerick Club, the following
resolution was adopted :
Resolved—That whilst with unaltered confidence in his
integrity, we return thanks to Daniel O'Connell, Esq., for the
solicitude with which he has heretofore watched over the inde-
pendence of our country, we pledge ourselves, that any advice
which he may in future impart, will be received by us with
that respect which is due to his high character, and that what-
ever he may recommend shall be made the immediate subject
of our most serious consideration."
THE CARLOW ..CALGMN REFUTED.—The thrice-refuted
calumnious statement pertinaciously retailed by Mr. Clayton
Browne, the would-be candidate for Carlow, is now, we hope,
at length silenced. It had been asserted so often that Mr.
O'Connell called upon the men of Carlow to be ready to shed
the blood of their fellow-subjects, that really it would seem
that the utterers themselves of the base falsehood had begun to
think the assertion true.. The letter of the distinguished pre-
late whose name is attached to the document, is conclusive. If
the Carlow Sentinel and Mr. C. 13rowne have still remain-
ing any, the least love of truth and fair dealing, they will no
longer hesitate to admit their error. The prelate's letter is
addressed to E. Haughton and Howard Moore, Esquires.
" Braganza House, Feb. 4, 1837.
" Gentlemen—l have learned with surprise that Mr. Clay-
ton Browne has not thought proper to return any answer to
the letter 'which we addressed to him on the part of those
Gentlemen who entertained Mr. O'Connell lately in this
town. This is not what we expected from Mr. Browne's
pol;teness and sense of justice. On the authority of a person
whom he did not name, Mr. Clayton Browne brought for-
ward, at a public meeting, a most serious charge against Mr.
O'Connell and a numerous assemblage of the respectable in-
habitants of the town and county of Carlow. He asserted,
that Mr. O'Connell called on the people of Carlow to be
ready to shed the blood of their fellow-suljects; and repre-
sented the meeting as adopting unchristian sentiments with
applauding cheers. Mr. O'Connell has already repelled this
charge with becoming indignation ; and we, anxious to wipe
away from our characters an aspersion so false and foul, re-
quested of Mr. Clayton Browne to enable us to do so, by giving
us the name of his informant. It cannot be said that there
was any thing in this request unreasonable or disrespectful ;
yet Mr. Browne, it appears, thinks it consistent with good
manners and with justice to treat it with utter disregard.
" It then devolves on us, Gentlemen to vindicate ourselves
without his assistance : and, for my part, as one involved in the
general accusation, I deem it incumbent on me to declare, as I
now do, that the charge of exhorting the people of Carlow to
shed blood, made by Mr. Clayton Browne, against Mr. O'Con-
nell, contains a gross mis-statement of the words which Mr.
O'Connell did really use on the occasion alluded to, and a total
perversion of their plain and obvious meaning.
I remain, Gentlemen, your very faithful servant,
fi E. NOLAN.
CARLOW ELECTION.—The election is fixed for this day
se'nnight. Poor Bunbury, who was once a Whig, having re-
mained so long in such evil company as the Squirearchy of
Carlow, has at length not only caught the infection, but is let
loose on the county, with only Clayton Browne—the most no-
torious in the county—in lieu of a Bear Leader.
Neither 13ruen, however, nor Browne, nor Bunbury himself,
expect to succeed. They are calculating on the chances of a
petition ; it shall be our business, and will be, no doubt, the bu-
siness of the men of Carlow, to swell the majority so high as to
leave no chance of success, even before an Orange Committee.
—Pilot.
DUNGARVAN. —Mr. Sheil and his step-son, the candidate for
that town, left Dublin to-day to canvass Dungarvan.
THE LATE LONGFORD ELECTION.—A Tory protest, in the
shape of a petition, has been presented to Parliament against
the return of Mr. Luke White. The ballot takes place on
the 28th inst. As it appears the Longford election will again
be contested, not on the hustings, but in the House of Com-
mons, the liberal members will be false to their own colours,
if they allow an exclusively Tory Committee to convert Long-
ford into a second Drogheda.—Pilot.
PROTEST. —The worthy Karl of Shrewsbury, the premier
Earl of England, has signed the protest against the resolutions
of the illegal weeting held under false pretences at the Mansion
Howie,

PVALIC MEETTNoS.—At Carberry, Kildare, and other
places meetings have been held, and resolutions adopted, con-
demnatory of tithes and corrupt corporations.
THE BLACK Nowrn.—The apathy which existed here has
given way to an activity instinct with patriotism. Donegal
has boon roused ; and in Londonderry now lives a spirit that
will occasion dismay and defeat in the camp of the corrup-
tionists.

UPRIGHT JunnEs.—That upright, eloquent, learned, and
impartial man, Mr. Richards, so distinguished for the manly
avowal of constitutional principle when Attorney-General—
no matter who might wince under its applicability—sat to-day
as Baron Qrtfiy ENchcquer, Baron Joy did not sit, and it is
4441 wlii 21t again. Great as is the accession of the one to
Oie judicial bench, what will be said of the ioss of the other ?
Nous verrons.—Pilot.

A RECEIVER OVER TTIC PROPERTY OF MR. O'CONNELL.-
In the Court of Exchequer, yesterday, on the motion of Mr.
Sproule, In the cause of the Rev. Mountiford Longfield v.
Daniel O'Connell, M. P., a conditional order was granted for
the appointment of a receiver over the land of the defendant
in Kerry, until the amount of the tithes due to the plaintiff,
with costs, &c., should be fully paid and satisfied. A bill
had been filed against the defendant in this cause, to which he
merely appeared, but did not answer. An order for sequestra-
tion, and a decree founded thereon, were granted. The ap-
pointment of a receiver is the next step. Mr. O'Connell has
declared in his letters that he will never pay one shilling of
tithes I—Mail.

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