The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-15 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE AGGREGATE MEETING.—The meeting to be held
this day will be the most important political movement
ever made in Dublin. The Dublin Evening Post of Sa-
turday says, " The columns of signatures to the requisi-
tion contain all that is wanting to adorn and secure the
triumph of a great cause. Whether we look to rank, for-
tune, intelligence, or numbers, we see in the array before
us all that our anxiety for the victorious issue of the con-
test in which we are engaged leads us to desire. In the
front we see the illustrious and inspiring name of Charle-
mont, shedding its hereditary lustre a second time over
the struggles of Ireland for her rights. The people of
England have been told the Irish popular party area rab-
ble, that their force is purely physical, that their ignorance
and violence have disgusted and driven from their ranks;
not only the whole aristocracy of the country, but all that
is respectable and influential in the middle classes. If a
single Englishman has believed this, the vast catalogue of
distinguished names subscribed to the requisition for this
meeting will give him corrector notions. The names of
Headfort, Meath, Fingall, Talbot, Gormanstown, Cloncur-
ry, Rosmore, and Milltown, will undeceive him. In the
long liss of peers, baronets, Members of Parliament, opu-
lent merchants, and worthy and substantial citizens, which
it will fatigue him to peruse, he will see the true nature and
character of that party which the House of Lords con-
tinues to pronounce unworthy of British institutions, or to
be trusted with the management of their own affairs. It
is most important at this juncture that such a demonstra-
tion as this should be made of the true resources of the
popular power. At a moment when, in the enjoyment of
all the advantages of a just and beneficent Administra-
tion, we are openly menaced with the revival of a system
of government fatal to our nearest interests, it is of infinite
consequence that the depth and the extent to which hatred
of Tory principles, dread of Tory power, anxiety for order,
and attachment to British connexion, pervade the people of
Ireland, should be made thoroughly known both to the
Crown and to the empire.

GREAT COUNTY MEETING.—One of the most numerous
and influential meetings ever held in Wexford took place on
Wednesday, for the purpose of placing implicit confidence
in the present paternal administration. The Lord Lieute-
nant of the county, Lord Carew, presided. The market-
house of Enniscorthy was fixed upon as the placed meeting,
but the crowd was so great that it was found necessary to
adjourn to the Abbey grounds, where about lil,ooo people
quickly assembled. The meeting was addressed by the
Noble Chairman, Sir Thomas Esmonde, Messrs. J. Boyse,
Waddy, L. E. White, Dcrinzy, Harvey, Martin, Doyle, Sze.
KINSALE.—Mr. Mahony has declared his intention of
standing for this borough, when the opportunity arrives for
soliciting the suffrages of the electors. He is a genuine
Reformer, and speaks his sentiments with a frankness that
must command the respect of all.
We beg to call the attention of House of Lords to the
following statement, which we abridge from the Wexford
Independent :
In our last number, we endeavoured to convey to our
readers a faint idea of the public ferment caused here on
Thursday last by the strange doings of the tithe eaters.
It will be remembered, that the friends of the quadruped
prisone:4, confined in Wexford gaol, offered bail for their
forthcoming on any future day, if they (the p: isoners)
would be liberated, which offer was refused by the Sheriff ;
that the country people suspected there was some foul
play, in the shape of a secret or collusive sale, intended, and
consequently were on the qui vice for the three days pre-
, vious to the sale. However, we must say, that the Sheriff
acted in this instance, in a fair and impartial spirit ; and
gave the legal notice to the owners of the cattle of his in-
tention to offer them by public auction to the highest and
best bidder on Monday. In the morning of that day all
the avenues loading to our town were actually choked with
pedestrians and horsemen of all classes, and from all parts
of the county, north and south, extending to Arklow on the
one side, and Hook tower on the other, anxious to be pre-
sent at the expected immolation , and before one o'clock,
every street in the town, the extensive gaol-grounds, and
contiguous passages thereto, presented one living mass of
human beings. Two companies of the 14th Regiment,
now stationed here, with about one hundred of the
constabulary, were in attendance to keep the peace. A
horse was first brought out by the bailiff—every auc-
tioneer, as usual, refusing to sell—who laboured with
unwonted zeal to get a bid from the surrounding
thousands, but in vain. Captain Rathbourne, then an-
nounced that there was no bidder, which announcement
was responded to by a shout that made the welkin ring—
so long, so loud, so truly from the heart, that it conveyed
more forcibly the indomitable hatred of the people to tithes,
than the most gifted eloquence or irrefragable written argu-
ment could possibly do. The sale was immediately after
declared to be adjourned ; but no day has yet been named.
Again, the owners of the cattle offered bail for their repro-
duction, if they would be permitted to go home ; but such
offer was as pertinaciously refused as before. We hear that
the Sheriff received a letter from Mr. Stevens Goff, plain-
tiff's solicitor, ordering him to adjourn from day to day
until bidders can be procured ; but, if that scheme should
fail, to ship them for Liverpool. Will the English people
buy? There's the rub. Is was argued by the Tithophagi,
during the late shrievalty, that if the army and police were
brought out against the people ; or rather we should say,
ostensibly to protect bidders, sales could be effected. Well,
the experiment has now been satisfactorily tested ; and the
abortion has been more calamitous for those who conceived
so sans a project, than any that ever befel the. tithe men
since the beginning of the campaign. The military, Capt.
Rathbourne, and the Hon. Captain Hay, were cheered
throughout the day.
It is true we have had to record many scenes of this kind
heretofore ; and, if the House of Lords continues in its
present obstinate mood, we shall, we imagine, have much
more of the same kind to lay before it.
O'CONNELL.—A grateful nation is again about to li-
quidate a portion of the debt it owes to its liberator and
regenerator. The citizens of Waterford, ever alive to the
claims of the distinguished champion of their liberties, have
been the first in the field on this occasion to record their
sentiments in his regard.—Waterford Chronicle.
Humouous.—A letter of credit from the Kilkenny Bank
was presented, a few days back, by Mr. Gallaher, the cele-
brated ventriloquist (who has arrived in Dublin), to be
cashed, which was objected to until the inimitable Paul
Doherty would be identified as the proper person ; on this
account he was obliged to view all the clerks of the great
hall, to find some person who knew him ; and one gentle-
man in particular recognised him, and most kindly went
with him to the cashier ; but this would not do, as it was
written in the letter the word ventriloquist ; the gentleman
merely said he knew him from a late transaction in the bank
as a Mr. Gallaher, put had no idea he was the ventrilo-
quist. This greatly confused Mr. G., who stated that if it
was only that doubt was to be cleared up, he would do it
to their satisfaction, and greatly to his. At this moment
he threw his voice in one of the desks, and then in the sto-
mach of one of the clerks, which so annoyed them that they
required no further proof, and very politely discharged his
demand.