The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE ELECTORS OF DUNDALK AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVE.
—The Freeman of Monday communicated the gratifying in-
telligence that the question of policy, on which a difference of
opinion existed between a body of the electors of Dundalk and
their right-principled Member, Mr. Crawford, is still open to
adjustmeat. We.,..shaU be rejoiced by, a result that will secure
to Ireland the valuable services of • a man whose purity of
motive—whatever opinion may be formed on the line.of policy
his judgment pi-erupted, perhaps prematurely prompted—has
never been.questioned. We heartily concur with our Contem-
porary in hoping that " a trifling difference of opinion on a
question of policy will not lead to the severance of those
affectionate ties by which Mr. Crawford and his constituents
have hitherto been so closely united."
LORD GASTLEREAGEL—The Noble Lord. has replied to Mr.
Crawford's letter, in which he
,says, " that in the passage in
my speech at Bangor to which you have referred, I never said
one word about canvassing landlords for the votes of their
tenants."
ELECTORS OF TILE COUNTY OF LINIERICK.—MT. 'O'Brien
has addressed a long letter to his constituents, dated Limerick,
".lan. 25. The crowded state of our columns precludes • the
-sossibility of its publication by us • nor is it, -perhaps' necei-
-.sery, since it consists but of a reply in detail to Mr. o'eon-
inell's last letter. The spirit of the communication will 'be
.seen by its beginning. It commences thus :
•"• 'Tis a base
Abandonment ,of reason to resign
and right of thought—our last only place
.• . Of refuge. This, at least, shall still be mine.
CHILDE HAROLD.
" Fellow-countrymen—Another long letter has been ad-
dressed to you by Mr. O'Connell, in which he has superadded
much of contumely and contempt to his continued impeach-
ment of my Parliamentary conduct. In the use of vitupera-
tion I shall not dispute 'Mr. O'Connell's pre-eminence, and I
can smile at his sarcasms, though pointed against myself; but
my public charactr is a property of your own acquisition, and
in vindicating it' I am defending the heritage of your own
choice. As regaids the public at. large, it is painful to me to
obtrude upon thew attention the private situation of au indi-
vidual, but in a discussion which appears merely personal is
involved the moral problem, interesting to the empire at
large, whether a representative possessing the confidence and.
_avachment Of a lazsepopplar constituency in Ireland, can hold,
his position independent of that capricious dictatorship to which
it is the policy of the enemies of, popular rights to attribute un-
limited sway."
.CARLOW ELFCTION.-The Leiaster Express states that
Lord Dunlo, brother-in-law of the late member, and son of
the Earl of Clancarthy, starts on the Conservative interest for
Carlow. [A fool and his money is easily parted. Lord Dunlo
must be aware that he has not the most remote chance of suc-
cess. If he relies on a Tory Committee, he may discover to
his cost that he has been sadly mistaken.]
We aro rejoiced to learn that Mr. J. Ashton Yates has ar-
rived in town, on his way to Carlow, in order to be introduced
to the electors, preparatory to a general election. This is a
judicious course, as no moment more apt for such a purpose
could be chosen than that in which the spirit of the consti-
tuency is evoked in favour of the man who is already looked
to as the successor of Mr. Kavanagh. Of Mr. Vigors's suc-
cess we cannot bring ourselves to harbour a doubt; and when
a general election shall give the opportunity, the disgrace
which the name of Bruen brings upon the representation of
the county will be blotted out ; and Mr. Yates, in whose name
and the character of whose family the electors have a sufficient
warrantry.of his trust-worthiness, will take the place of one
who, though of the county, is against it. We are also grati-
fied to learn that Mr. P. R. Walsh, so favourably known to
the people, means to avail himself of the opportunity to can-
vass the town.—Dublin Pilot.
DROGHEDA.—Mr. Carew O'Dwyer has addressed a letter
to the electors of Drogheda, stating that circumstances have
rendered it expedient to offer himself as a candidate at the
next election, and thanking them for past favours.
LIES OF THE FACTION.-....1t is most melancholy to see the
lengths to which the reckless partizans of a few of the baser
sort of the Irish hirelings in the pay of the Orange faction
will go in their criminal career. They often exhibit the spec-.
tacle of men lost to shame and dead to virtue. With unblushs
'ing effrontery upon any occasion that offers, they not only mis-
represent and torture the truth, but they do not hesitate to state
as matters of feet, with all the corroborative circumstances of
time, place, and persons, what has never taken place. To
such discreditable shifts are these miserable Janissaries of the
Tories reduced. The, miscreants lie without a blush—without
recollectioncompunction. of our readers that on on one
It feeling,Trill b oe
i f n
the
Wed-
nesday .Mr. O'Connell arrived in Carlow, and that he ad-
dressed the people from the College there in terms appropriate
to the occasion. Now, will it be believed that in a paper ac-
tually published on the very spot where Mr. O'Connell
spoke, professing to furnish a correct report of his
speech, an address is published as Mr. O'Connell's which that
Hon. and Learned Gentleman never uttered, and the newspaper
writer in question has been hardy and unprincipled enough to
fabricate the following furious address, and then to palm it on
the public as the ipsissima verba of Mr. O'Connell :—" Boys,
the names I call your enemies do you call every friend of
theirs You meet in the street.. Girls and women; when you
meet the Bruentinee spit in their faces, particularly if they are
_Catholic Conservatives. Write traitor on their doors with
chalk, and tell your friends at home to do the same. You who
are wives of the Catholic electors, if their husbands do not vote

for their religion, bless yourselves and then swear on your
prayer books to separate from your husbands if they do not
obey your commands—you who are their daughters, I tell
you if your fathers vote against you, spit in their faces ! and
them the names I taught the boys to call them. I will
send you two reformers for your county—honest Vigors
and: Ashton Yeats of London, with Mr. Hume, sent
me 9,0001. to defray my expenses in Dublin. Did you
hear of the Longford election?—Well; I will tell you about
Mrs. Prunty, whose husband was taken away by that lickspittle
swaddling fellow, Lefroy. She followed him to the hustings,
dragged her husband off the,table, and made him vote for White
and the people, and by doing so saved his soul from damna-
tion ! 1—( Cheers.) Will you, women and girls do the same.
Mark every house where the owner opposes you. Don't you
recollect 1798, when the, bloody yeomanry hid under the beds,
and when the army entered the streets, they ran from their
hiding places, and butchered the people. I tell you if the
Tories come into power they will do the same I" We need
not, we are convinced, repeat that Mr. O'Connell never made
any such speech as he is here reported to have delivered, It
is a scandalous misrepresentation of what he really did say.
After this most gross, barefaced, flagitious act of newspaper
forgery—by no means a solitary one—can any man doubt that
some of the organs of the Irish faction arc the most utterly
shameless, degraded and detestable things that deface and crawl
upon the earth.

•
The first signature affixed to the Perth copy of the
requisition, calling on Lord Stormont to come forward and
contest that county against its present Member, is a person
who lately assisted in getting up and setting a-going, the
Perth Radical and Voluntary Cnurch newspaper, and, at
this moment one, of the proprietors of that paper—not only so,
but the same person, at the late contest, voted for Fox Manic,
in opposition to Sir George Murray. Such is the fact, as
vouched by the Perth Advertiser.
The elevatiOn of Mr. Fraser of Lovat to the Peer-
age will give great satisfaction in this quarter, where his prin-
cipal estates lie, and where is so well known and respected.
Residing on his property, which he is 'constantly improving,
and attending to the condition of his tenantry, and the wants
of the poor, Lovat is one of our best country gentlemen. He
will now be elevated to a higher field of action, and 'he will
carry to it a mind distinguished for plain good sense, sterling
integrity, apiliberal political principles.—lnverness Courier;

Mr. JACOB, with whom was Mr., Jemmett, moved that the
defendants should pay into Court 1,4001., being the amount
awarded to the plaintiff for:coinpensationfor premises- which he
occupied at Bermondsey, and which had been taken by the de-
fendants for their railway ; or, in the alternative, that they
should be restrained from continuing their works on the pre-
mises. The Learned Counsel observed he did not know whe-
ther the defendants were ready to pay the money or not.
His HONOUR said the motion must be refused, with costs.
HOLIDAYS AT PUBLIC OFFICES.

During the argument of a motion, it having been stated that
the Affidavit Office 'and- other Offices-were closed yesterday
(King, Charles the rirst's. Martyrdom)„ in consequence of
which parties were bnable to prepare for proceedings in Court,
His HONOUR said it was a most ridiculous holiday to be kept
in public offices connected with the Courts ofJustice;

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, J. 31.
THE KING V. THE DIRECTORS OF THE POOR OF THE PARISH OF

ST: PANCRAS.
Mr. Justice CoLeatipoussaid that in this case the defendants
had shown cause against a rule for a certiorari to remove into
this Court an order of the Poor Law Commissioners, by which
they directed the Directors of the Poor of 'the parish of St.
Pancras to elect a Board of twenty Guardians to take upon
themselves the management of the poor of that parish. The
question, intended to be brought under the consideration of the
Court was," whether this was a valid order of the Poor Law
Commissioners. At the time that the order was issued the
parish of St. Pancras was under the direction of a Board of
Guardians elected under the authority of a local Act.of Par-
liament. The question' in fact amounted to this—whether the
general Poor Law' Amendment Act amounted in fact to a
repeal of the local Act, for if it did not, This order was clearly
illegal. His Lordship concluded an elaborate judgment by
declaring that, on the Whole, he was of opinion that the order
could not be supported. and that the rtde for the certiorari must
thereforekbe made absolute.
Mr. rustice WILLIAMS said that it was his misfortune to
differ froom the rest of the 'Court. 'He was of 'opinion that the
'Comtriiisioners had the , power .to constitute a new Board of
Guardians, `-and that the order of the Poer Law Commis-
sioners 'waS.tberefore good,' and, consequently; that the rule
for the certiorari must be.discharged.
-Mr. 'Justice PATTISON expressed his concurrence with the
opinion delivered by Mr. Justice Coleridge, and went very
fully through the clauses of the Poor Law Amendment Act,
with a view to show that the power of the Commissioners was
in this instance confined to regulating what already existed.
Lord DENMAN, after re-stating tile question and the, objec-
tions which had been urged to the order of the Poor Law
Commissioners, went through the various sections of the Poor
Law Amendment Act, and.. said that, in his' opinion, the best
construction of the Act was unfavourable to the present order.
If it bad been the intention of the Legislature to place the
constitution of each Board of Guardians at the pleasure of the
Commissioners the. Legislature would clearly have expressed
that intention. He should have been happy to be able to give
a different opinion, but he felt bound by the force of the ex-
pressiohs- in the "Act, And lie ilier-efore declared opinion to
be that this order of the Commissioners could not be sustained.
—Rule for the certiorari absolute.

VIE KING V. TIM INHABITANTS or STOKE DANIEREL.

In•;his case a similar rule was made absolute, as of course.

THE KING V. COOKE.

Sir W. FOLLETT showed cause against a rule for a quo
warranto, calling on the defendant to show by what authority
he claimed to exercise the right of a burgess of the borough
of Ipswich. The ground of objection to his doing so was
that he had pleaded guilty to the charge of bribery at a Par-
liamentary election for that borough in the preceding year. It
was contended that under the 2d Geo. 11., c. 24, he was dis-
abled from being a burgess after such a conviction.
The COURT, without expressing any opinion, said that the
writ of quo warrant° must be issued, and the question raised
on the return to it.—Rule absolute.

THE KING V. THE MAYOR AND CONIMONALTY OF YORIL._

L 07- -11-itiMAN delivered the judgment in this case. The
question was, whether the Lord Mayor and Commonalty of
York were liable to be rated to the poor, in respect to certain
larids, under these circumstances.
The COURT was of opinion that they were rateable upon
all the land, except the five acres, which were not placed
exactly on the same footing, inasmuch as they were not vested
in the corporation. The order of the Sessions must there-
fore be confirmed.

THE KING V. THE TRUSTEES OF THE PARISH OF ST. PANCRAS.

Lord DENMAN delivered judgment in this case. The Court
was of opinion that the writ of mandamus could not be sus-
tained. Although it might mould the rule, the Court could
not mould the writ. The mandamus wbuld therefore be
quashed.