The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, DEC. 22.
The bad spirit which disgraced Tralee has ap-
peared in Galway also, where an effort has been
made to frustrate a work of charity. A county
meeting was convened on Saturday last by the
High Sheriff, Mr. Persse, and the Marquis of
Clanricarde, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county:
The attendance was very numerous, including
Lord Clanricarde, LDrd Dunkellin, Lord Clan-
morris, Lord Clonbrock, Lord Allen Churchill,
Sir Thomas J. Burke, M.P., many of the local
gentry, some of the clergy, the Professors of
the Queen's College, &e. the chair was taken
by the High Sheriff. The first resolution was pro-
posed by the Marquis of Clanricarde, who, in an
able speech, enforced the claims of the distressed
operatives upon the sympathy and aid of the Irish
people. The resolution was no sooner seconded by
Mr. Bodkin than a gentleman who had been taking
notes under the speaker rose in a very excited man-
ner, and, waving his hat to the audience, he was
about to speak, when his voice was drowned in a
tempest of applause from the populace who filled
the body of the court. Lord Clanricarde remarked
that the meeting was called for one object only—
namely, for raising subscriptions for the distressed
people in Lane! shire. If the gentleman's observa-
tions were in accordance with this object he had a
right to speak. If not he should find a more fitting
place for their utterance. He could call a meeting
for the relief of Irish distress if he wished, and in
that case Lord Clanricarde would give LI for every
ss. he gave. The gentleman was Mr. Martin
O'Brennan, editor of the Connaught Patriot. Speak-
ing loudly and with energetic gesticulation, Mr.
O'Brennan told Lord Clanricarde he would not put
'him down; that he had met his Lordship six years
before, met him now again, and "when Greek meets
Greek then comes the tug of war; " that the Mar-
quis had not subscribed for Irish distress; that
Lancashire is the richest county of the richest
country in the world; that the operatives there
have £4,000,000 in the savings-banks. He there-
fore propose an amendment, which was an excellent
specimen of Connaught logic:—
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" Be it resolved that, as this meeting fully sympathises
with the alleged distress in Lancashire, the richest county
in the world, we consider it would be a mockery of Irish
poverty to collect for this without relieving home distress,"

The chairman declined to put the amendment, as
being opposed to tho object of the meeting, and,
apparently satisfied that it had been adopted by the
mob who supported him, Mr. Brennan desisted
from troubling the meeting further.
Lord Clonbrock moved and Sir Thomas J. Burke
seconded a resolution that a subscription list be
opened, and that the clergy of all denominations be
called upon to co-operate. £2OO was subscribed in
the room.

Mr. Charles Kean and Mrs. Kean have concluded
a most successful engagement in the Theatre Royal
of this city. Mr. Kean took his benefit and de-
livered a farewell address on Saturday night week,
when the house was crowded in every part, and the
company manifested the liveliest feelings of admi-
ration. At the request of the manager, Mr. Harris,
they prolonged their stay for another week, to the
great satisfaction of the playgoing part of the
public. The enthusiasm elicited by Mr. Kean's
Wolsey and by The Wonder was as great as they
had ever excited on any former occasion.

On Thursday some of the Kanturk constabulary
were employed in guarding a gentleman who re-
sides about 10 miles from the town, Mr. Richard
Bolster, Summerville. Re was escorted from his
residence, Castlamagner, by some of the Ballyclough
police, and thence into Kanturk by two of the consta-
bulary of that town. It appears Mr. Bolster some
time ago got a threatening notice, wherein he was
told that he would meet the same death as Braddell
and others met if he would not change his present
mode of dealing with parties. The Mallow and. Bally-
dough police remain near his residence every night.
It is said he intends applying to have a few con-
stabulary left with him henceforward both night
and day.

Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual
kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore always
good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 agents.
In the heart of Berlin, on the bank of the Spree,
along which lies a dull garden open to the public, but little
visited save by nursemaids and their attendant guardsmen,
stands an old palace, where originally was a farm and dairy
of the Electress Louisa. Frederick I. having sold the place
to Count Wartenberg for the very moderate sum of G7G
dollars, the purchaser erected the central part of the pre-
sent building I At his disgrace, it passed into the hands of
Queen Sophia Dorothea, who enlarged the edifice and gar-
den, and named it, Monbijou. It was occupied by Peter the
Groat and his suite in 1717, during that visit to Berlin of
which Carlyle affords ns such strange glimpses. Since then
it has had various occupants, and for some years past its
northern wing has been fitted up and used as an English
chapel, where the service of the Established Church is re-
gularly performed. On Sunday last, a mournful Cinniver
sary,the chapel was hungwithblack,and unusually crowded,
and the Queen of Prussia and her suite occupied the pewv
habitually reserved for the Princess Victoria, now absent
from Berlin. ger Majesty was received at the entrance to
the chapel by
the British Charge d'Affaires—the ambassa-
dor, who arrived three days previously, not having, up to
that date,delivered his credentials, and being present,there-
fore, only in his private capacity. The usual selection of
appropriate psalms, &c., was made, and a sermon was
'preached by the Rey. Denson,