The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JULY 19.
The Pilot of this day states positively that Mr. R. Hutton
will stand for the city on the Liberal interest, and that of his
return, by an immense majority, not the slightest doubt exists.
Our patriotic contemporary, in congratulating his fellow-
citizens on the selection of so excellent a candidate, says :
" Mr. R. Hutton is a Protestant in religion, and a Liberal in
politics. His liberality is not of a recent date. * *
A partner in one of the longest established and most respecta-
ble of the mercantile concerns of the metropolis—he is highly
qualified to represent the commercial interests of his native
city, and it would not be possible to find a man more likely to
conciliate the good will of all classes and parties." iNir.
O'Connell is the second candidate.
The Freeman inclines to the belief that after all there will
be no contest.

THE FRANCHISE.—It is impossible to overrate the import-
ance of the decision to 'which we alluded yesterday. Byron
Richards, recent exposition, at the Assizes of Sligo, of the in-
tention of the Reform Act, respecting the' JO/ franchise,
will be attended with the happiest results on the elections.
Two issues were put to the Jury. The first, es to whether
the claimant had a beneficial interest to the amount of 10/.,
according to the liberal construction of thr Act; the second
was, whether a solvent tenant could afford to pay 10/. a year
in addition to the rent. On the- first the jury found in the
affirmative, on the latter in the negative.
At the King's County Assizes yesterday the individuals
charged with the murder of Hogan ( Phil Ry;:n's assistant at
the Dunkerrin affair) were put upon their trial and acquitted.
They, with others, will he again arraigned for a riot and assault.
GENERAL ASSOCIATION.—At the meeting of this body ycF-
terday Mr. O'Connell read the following Address to the
Queen:—

" TO TILE QUEEN'S MOST EXCEI.LENT MAJESTY.
" We, the undersigned electors and other inhabitants of the
city of Dublin, beg leave to approach your Alajesty with the
tender of our most dutiful and unalterable allegiance to your
Majesty's person and Government.

1(;ok forward with confidence to the cheering prospect
which lies before us of a long reign of prosperity to all parts
of the empire, and of happiness and glory to our revered So-
vereign.

" But that prosperity can never reach your Majesty's most
faithful and dutiful sajects, the people of Ireland, and that
happiness must be interrupted, and the lustre of that glory
dimmed, unless the efforts of a powerful, long-cherished, but
most malignant faction to continue a system of oppression,
partiality, and injustice in Ireland be effectually counteracted
and ended.

" All that your faithful people of Ireland ask for and de-
sire is a system of equal laws, privileges, and political institu-
tions with the rest of the British empire ; they wish for no
more, and they would not deserve your Majesty's gracious
protection if they could be content with less. They have
ever been amongst the foremost in every battle and 'in every
struggle against the foreign and domestic enemies of the
throne and Constitution. But whilst their exertions have
been recognized, and their services admitted by all the wise
and the just, they are still deprived of many of the most va-
luable rights, privileges, and franchises enjoyed by their
brethren and fellow-subjects in England and in Scotland,
and they are daily oppressed and made the victims of a ruth-
less and too often sanguinary faction.
" We respectfully solicit your gracious Ma;esty to under-
rand that the universal people of Ireland turn with hope to
the throne which .you now so happily occupy ; they look
with just expectation to that Government which is honoured
with your confidence, and they anticipate from your sway the
diffusion over all parts of your dominions of equal laws,
rights, and liberts.

In this conviction they have determined to bring to the
attention of your Majesty all just cans.. cf complaint that
have arisen since your Majesty's accessi.m to the throne, or
that may hereafter ar:se tl rough the ma:hinations of the ma-
ligtaant faction which they have such ample grounds to im.
peach.
_•

" They beg most respectfully to state that since your ac-
cession to the throne two facts have occurred most afflictive to
the people of Ireland, but at the same time highly significant
of the disposition and attentions of the faction inimical to that
people.
The one fact is of a civil, the other of a criminal nature.
" The first fact relates to a Bill brought into the House of
Commons to remedy an admitted evil. It is this :—lt has
been found by experience that the Irish Reform Bill did not
provide for a sufficient number of polling-places to allow all
the electors to vote. The Bill did no more than empower the
sherdrs to provide a sufficient number of polling-places for the
electors.

" This Bill, in this form, was passed by an unanimous vote
of the House of Commons.

" The faction of which we complain caused this bill to be
rejected by a large majority in the House of Lords.
" The bill did one act of justice to the people of Ireland ;
it was, may it please your Majesty to understand, rejected on
that account through the machinations of the faction of which
we complain.

" The second fact is as simple as it is heart-rending in its
details.

" On the evening of the 28th of June, the eve of the festival
of Cie holy apostles St. Peter and St. Paul—it was a lovely
evening—and some Catholic children had, at a place called
Mollyash, in the county of Monaghan, lighted a bonfire, ac-
cording to an ancient and innocent practice.
'• 1 hey were, most gracious lady,—the children were in
their cheerful gaiety, sporting inoffensively and innocently
round the lire, when, as the dusk covered the approach of the
assassins, a shot was heard, and, behold ! one of the children—
his name was Devine—fell dead ; a second shot, and the
brother of the slain lay murdered at his side; a third shot
but we have stated details more than suffif7ient.

" Besides the wcunded, the mother of the Devines, aho
sent out her children healthy and merry to play, had them
laid on the hearthstone bloody and stiffended corpses. If
she be not mad, it is not that she expects justice from man—
for the faction is po►verful in that county—but she does, we
hope, feel the mercy of that God who, sooner or later,
punishes the shedders of human blood, and always affords
the consolation of divine mercy to the desolate and to the
broken-hearted.

" Never, in the savage wilds of North America, was a more
foul murder done by the uncivilized Indians. Never, by the
barbarous Caffres, was the blood of innocent children so cru-
elly, so wantonly, so diabolically shed.
" All that we implore, most gracious Sovereign—all that
we humbly and most respectfully implore of your Majesty—is
to protect your mcst faithful and dutiful people of Ireland and
their children from the machinations of that faction whose in-
fluence procured the noon-day. irjustice in the House of Lords,
anti the evening slaughter of your juvenile subjects in the
county of Monaghan.
‘• Let us not, gracious Sovereign, be misunderstood—we
do not seek, we totally disclaim seeking, that you should in-
terfere with the decision of the House of Lords. All that
we humbly desire is, that you will be pleased, everywhere,
and in everything, to discourage and discountenance a faction
whose minions are capable of perpetrating the plainest in-
justice and the most terrific crimes.

" So may your gracious Majesty exceed in length of reign
any of your royal predecessors; and may that reign behold
the increasing prosperity and ever-secured freedom of all the
people of yeur dominions, and the always accumulating hap-
piness and glory of your royal person and throne—the un-
doubted Sovereign, as you are, of the first nation on the fact
of the earth."

The inimitable John Reeve is, we regret to an-
nounce, on a sick-bed, having unfortunately, on Wednesday
morning laSt, at five o'clock, burst a blood-vessel. During
the whole of that day he was considered in great danger, and
attended by three medical gentlemen ; but, from inquiries
made yesterday evening, "the immortal John" is considered
much better, although it is feared that it will be long ere ho
will again resume his professional duties. The circumstance
has occasioned a considerable sensation in the theatrical world.
Mr. W. Smith has kindly undertaken to perform the parts at
the Surrey Theatre lately sustained by the invalid.
AT TORQUAY, IN SOUTH DEVON.—This de-
lightful watering-place is progressing very fast in public fa-
vour, and is now full of the best society. It is only during
the few last years that the public have appreciated its various
attributes—the society who pass the summer there are of a
different character to those who sojourn during the winter,
and it is doubtful if the latter do not preponderate both in
quality and quantity. The south of France is now accounted
a work of supererogation for those who labour under complaints
of the chest. The climate is so mild that orange trees and
all tender plants live triumphantly, through frost and snow,
without the auxiliary of a conservatory to protect them. The
little village of Babbicombe, within a short distance, claims
from its romantic situation, to be preferred even to Torquay;
in England it cannot be surpassed. We will quote only a
few lines, in token of some of its leading features, from the pen
of Mr. Robins, who has the control of one of its most imposing
features next month : We believe we do not exaggerate in
stating that nothing more recherche in the shape of a villa
can be fouu.d in Devon. It is called Beech Cottage,' and
is situate in the romantic village of 13abbicombe, a.spot which
even those accustomed to the varied loveliness of this beautiful
county, universally admit to be the Garden of South Devon ;
it is completely embedded in its own wild luxuriant grounds
of about six acres; it stands in need of no auxiliary beauties,
for nature hath most liberally gifted it ; it is inaccessible to
the sight, save only from the sea, upon which it peeps, and
obtains a view of the limpid bay of Babbicounbe, which has
been with great truth and justice likened to theßay of Na-
ples ;' it may, indeed, be safely asserted, that no spot through-
out the world can surpass the sweetness and salubrity of situa-
tion in which this delightful little retratt has been placed."
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—TIic returns to the
Committees of General Evans and Mr. Leader, up to yester-
day, were very favourable, so far as the electors have been can-
vassed. In St. James's they have a majority of GO in their
favour; in St. Martin's parish, 60 ; iu Covent-garden, 50;
St. Ann's, Soho, 80 ; St. Clement Danes, 30. In St.
George's, Hanover-square, Sir Francis Burdett had Lis chief
support, but his majority there, so far as relates to the present
Tory candidate, is reduced to a mere cypher. Sir George
Murray chiefly relies fur support on St. George's and St.
James's. The contest will be sharp, but the Reformers arc
confident of obtaining a victory. The canvassers fJr Sir
George Murray very kindly place the doubtful, and those
electors who will not promise, to bi 3 account.
Sir Thomas Lethbridge, who was charged with
presenting the address from the county of Somerset, arrive I
too late is London for the levee on Wednesday, and etiquette
forbidding its being presented at the drawing-teem on Thurs-
day, the lion. Baronet carried the same to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department, who will lay it before her
Majesty.