The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-19 00:00:00

IRELAND.

CITY OF DUBLIN ELECTION-MEETING AT
THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, SEPT. IG.

In consequence of the activity displayed by the enemies
of the Queen and Reform here as well as in England, to
oust, if possible, Mr. O'Connell from his seat for this city,
a meeting of Reformers was held this day in the coffee-
room of the Royal Exchange, to counteract tte base con-
spiracy, which was numerously and respectably attended.
Nothing could exceed the patriotic feeling which pre-
vailed, and the determination manifested to subscribe libe-
rally towards defending the return. A singular instance of
that unanimity was displayed by the attendance of Dr.
Stock, the late candidate for Trinity College, who was re-
ceived with great acclamation. This fact is extremely im-
portant. It shows the binding link which exists among all
classes and shades of Reformers, a thing hitherto unknown
in this unhappy country, and the generous feeling which
prevails that Lord Mulgrave's Government ought to be
supported. The meeting was also attended by the leading
mercantile men of this great commercial city, many of
whom, it is well known, entertain opinions widely different
from Mr. O'Connell, and even from his colleague, Mr.
Hutton ; but the paramount consideration with all is the
maintaining in office Lord Melbourne's Government. I
have see❑ and attended public meetings for many years,
and it has never been my lot to witness so respectable and
wealthy an assemblage.
At two o'clock Jour.' O'NEILL, Esq., was called to the
Chair amid great cheering. In returning thanks for the
honour conferred upon him, he observed that the only
claim he could possibly have upon the meeting for their
kindness was the zeal he always manifeAed in putting down
the infamous faction who had trodden upon his country.
The object of the meeting, he said, was to defend
himself and his brother electors from the attempt which
was being made to unseat the Representatives of the vast
majority of the people of Dublin.
Mr. LELAND CROSTHEWAITE moved the first resolution,
which condemned in strong and indignant terms the inter-
ference of the English Tories, but particularly those of the
City of London. The Speaker continued to observe, that
if' the Orange faction succeeded even in returning their
favourites by three times the majority which Mr. O'Connell
possessed, there was no doubt but they would be unseated,
as the acts imputed to them during the election were those
practised by their Tory adversaries. He then alluded to
the rumour which went abroad, that the return of the Li-
beral Members would not be defended, and denied that
there ever was a foundation for it. He concluded by
moving to resolution, and sat down amid loud cheers.
Mr. MICHAEL POWELL, of the very respectable firm of
Maunders and Powell, seconded it.

JOHN POWER, Esq., father to the member for Wexford,
proposed the next resolution, the purport of which was,
that the people of Dublin denounced the assertions put
forward by the English Tories as false and iniquitous, and
put forward for the purpose of deluding the unwary of the
English nation.
JAMES O'BRIEN, Esq., seconded the resolution, and ob-
served that though nominally that meeting was one of
the citizens of Dublin to defend their members, yet it was
one in which the entire people of Ireland were deeply con-
cerned, and he had no doubt they would come forward.
There was no doubt that the object of the faction in for-
warding the petitions against the Irish was, to deprive the
representatives of Dublin, Longford, and elsewhere, of
having Irish Liberal Members on their Committees.
Dr. STOCK, in proposing a resolution, made one of the
most eloquent speeches I ever heard. He characterised the
proceedings of the Tories, and the recommendations of the
London Standard to get up subscriptions, in order to harass
the Irish Liberal Members by petitions, as an outrage on
public morals and public decency.
The following very curious account was read, in reply to
the assertion made that the Conservatives were supported
by the rank and property of this city :—Gross number
who voted for Mr. O'Connell, 3,5.56. 1,590 leaseholders
and freeholders voted for O'Connell, and 1,065 for Mr.
Hamilton. Householders for O'Connell 1,830 ; house-
holders for Hamilton 652. Freemen for O'Connell 136 ;
for Hamilton 1,750.
1,3021. were subscribed in half an hour.

LORD PLUNKETT AND COLONEL VERNER.
(corr.)
September 7, 1837.

Sir,—ln consequence of a communication made to me
by the desire of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, en-
closing copies of a correspondence between the Executive
Government and yourself, relative to the occurrences at a
public dinner, given on the occasion of your return as a
representative in Parliament for the county of Armagh, I
think it my duty to inform you that I cannot include your
name in the warrant for the new commission of magistrates
for that county. I think it right to state, that I entirely
concur in the opinion which has been formed by his
Excellency.—l have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Col. Verner, M. P , Ric. PLUNKETT, C.

ANSWEIL

London, Sept. 14, ISh7.

My Lord,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 7th inst., which bears the post-mork of "
linasloe," and being re-directed from my residence in
Armagh, has in consequence but this moment reached me,
announcing to me that it is not your intention to inelude-my
name in the warrant for the new commission of Magistrates
fur the county of Armagh. I should not have felt myself
called on to notice that communication, but that (in your
Lordship's haste, I presume, to mark your sense of the enor-
mity of my magisterial delinquency—in having ventured to
give a toast which, proposed under the circumstances and in
the spirit in which it was by me, could not be considered ob-
jectionable by any of her Majesty's loyal subjects—or in hav-
ing presumed, as an independent country gentleman, holding
the commission of the peace, to question the right of the Lord
Lieutenant, first, to put his own offensive and mistaken
construction on that toast, and then to impute to me that
I had proposed the toast in that sense), your Lordship has
fallen into a mistake in supposing that I am a magistrate
of the county of Armagh—l have for some time ceased to
be one ; but I am happy to inform your Lordship that I
am a magistrate of the county of Tyrone, so that will af-
ford your Lordship an opportunity of doing me the honour
of removing me from the situation. Sincerely assuring
your Lordship that, although I have now, for upwards of
thirty years held the commission of the peace without an
imputation on my character and conduct, I cannot regret
the no longer holding any office under the Irish Govern-
ment, constituted and conducted as that Government is at
present.—l have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lor-
dship's obedient humble servant,
\V. VERNER.
To the Right Hon. Lord Plunkett,
Lord Chancellor for Ireland.

The statement which has appeared in the Morning
rapers regarding the ill health of the Earl Aylesford is
untritteiss —lil
L.iN
s L.orDdsohN,3ip ,t;,,..ing expected in town this evening.
14Ew
NOVEL, ;i! the Reign of
George IL, which has been so long delayed by ibe fine
of her health, will appear, we are informed, in the course of
a few days. Its title is " Ethel Churchill ; or, the Two
Brides."

WILLIAM IV. AND NELSON.—" It was at this era
he first formed his character as a naval officer, and was em-
ployed in a manner highly gratifying to his feelings. It
was then," added his Royal Highness, " that I particularly
observed the greatness of Nelson's superior mind. The
manner in which he enforced the spirit of the Navigation
Act first drew my attention to the commercial interests of
my country. We visited the different islands together ;
and, as much as the manoeuvres of fleets can be described
off the headlands of islands, we fought over again the prin-
tcipal naval actions in the American war. Except the
naval tuition which I received on board the Prince George,
when the present Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Keats was
Lieutenant of her, and for whom both of us entertained a
sincere regard, my mind took its first decided naval tutu
from this familiar intercourse with Nelson." Fisher's Life
Reign of William IV,

SPORTING INTELLIGtNCE.

DONCASTER RACES.

eniog, Eight o'clock.
Several farhionables have arrived, rtfiti Itratq of the principal
lodgings arc let, but there is little of the hustle sic h'sve been
in the habit of witnessing the day preceding the meetiog. Tht,
betting-rdothd atv, .4peticti with the usual attention to comfort
and splendour, and 11t0 Ortisf.tription bock already presents a
rodly collection of names ; La7llio7 however, has been and
is s.ti!! -Very flat, at the following prices
5 tO 3 igst Me: DowaFt6.'s Epirus—take 3 to 1
t 4 to 2 ags:t Mr. GrOilic'#,lnzo—take 5 to 1
1-1 to 2 agst I.fin'd Westminster's Cardinal Puff—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. OsiiitldOston'sMaltometan—offued
1 apt Mr. S. Fox's Vie Doctor—offered
11 to 1 itL:l4.: Poke of Cleveland's ileawiade—offered
11 to 1 asst 3fe. !les4,ltino's Slashing Harry—offered
20 to I agst Lord Troilus—taken
to 1 ag:4 Lord Exeter's Dardttp-elles—taken
25 to 1 :Ig:."1 Mr. Thornhill's E7eria—e-ff.red
25 to I ap-,st 31f. Ftt'rlie's Abraham Newland---offered

'five Prime Warden and ilhikFy Topping at 40 or SO to 1 each.
present appointments of the Jockeys are somewhat dif
ferent to what fiftti been expected. W. Scott and G. Edward
will be on Epirus acid Puff, but which Scott will select is a
secret ; Darling and S. Monn Ore engaged for Lord Exeter's
two, S. Day, .!on,, for Mango instead of Nat, James Robinson
and Sam Rogers for Mahometan and Blakey Topping, Ro-
binson, of course, taking his choice ; he gallopped Blakey th's
morning, Slashing Harry will be ridden either by Heselune
or isrlt, The Doctor by Templeman, The Prime Warden by
H. Edwards, Ileuriade by J. Day, Abraham Newland by
Lye, &c.
The entries, which closed on Prlds.y, arc neither so good nor
so numerotig A, the very liberal conduct of the Corporation en-
titled them to expect, The Shield, a splendid piece of plate,
descriptive of the passage of the Granicus, has only the fol-
lowing !--Egeria, 3 yrs ; Abraham Newland, 3 yrs ; Miss
Letty, 3 yrs; Dec's Wing, 4 yrs ; Cardinal Puff, 3 yrs; Epi-
rus, brother to Elis, 3 yrs; b. c. Scroggins, 4 yrs ; Miss Eliza,
3 yrs ; The Prime Warden, 3 yrs ; bl. c. by Robin Hood,
d. by Whisker, 3 yrs ; Ilenriade, a yrs ; Wedge, 4 yrs ;
Slashing Harry, 3 yrs ; Mahometan, 3 yrs; and Dan Dawson,
(late Blakey Topping), 3 yrs.
Scott's lot of fourteen arrived this morning. It consisted of
Epirus, Puff, King of Rome, Davie Gellatley, 2 yrs ; f. by
Velocipede, out of Apollonia, 2 yrs; f. by Tramp, out of Barn-
fylde's dam, 2 yrs ; c. by Velocipede, out of Nonplus's dam,
a two year old of Lord Westminster's, Snyders, Capulet,
Conservative, Scroggins, c. by The Colonel, out of Frede-
rica, 2 yrs; and a three year old colt, by Sir Hercules, all
looking remarkably well.
A good deal of rain has fallen in the course of the week,
and the sky continues cloudy, but the ground is in excellent
order for running.
Doncaster, Monday Morning.
THE IT. LECiER.
5 to 2 agst Mr. Bowes's Epirus
9 to 2 agst Mr. Greville's Mango—taken
5 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Cardinal Puff—taken
10 to 1 agst Mr. Heseltine's Slashing Harry
10 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mahometan
10 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's lot
10 to 1 agst Mr. Fox's The Doctor—taken
16 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Troilus
22 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Dardanelles
25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Egeria
25 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Honriade
30 to 1 agst any other
It is now said that Chapple will ride Mahometan and Ro-
binson will be on Blakey Topping.
It is reported that Slashing Harry is sold to Lord B. for a
large sum.