The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-01 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, AUG. 30.
The Orangemen of Belfast do not seem satisfied

with their last demonstration,—which they called

" Protestant," though none of the clergy gave it
the sanction of their presence. They have resolved
to hold a great meeting in the open air, having en-
gaged for the purpose the Botanical Gardens. It
is to be a monster meeting on the plan of the great
Hillsborough demonstration in 1834. The Belfast
News Letter, the organ of the movement, declares
that " once more there is a great emergency ; once
more a special effort is, called for, once more Pro-
testant union, and determination must have a con-
stitutional victory." The Protestantism of Ulster
will assert in the face of England that it will no
longer tolerate a partial administration of the laws,
or remain silent while the policy of repressing the
loyal and encouraging the seditious is developed.
Thus they have every confidence that " the 17th of
September will witness in this centre of Ulster a
demonstration which will leave its mark upon the
history of the times, and be fraught with moral
and political consequences of the utmost moment."
Let us hope that while leaving its mark on the
history of the times, it will not also leave its mark
on the heads of some of the citizens. It is hard to
conceive what the Orangemen want, unless it be
what the News Letter means, when it says—" The
Rcman Catholics of Dublin may lose the exclusive
privilege of breaking the law, and insulting their
Protestant brethren, and the Government may lose
their seats, or else make up their minds to administer
the law impartially." The Protestants of Ulster
ought to be well pleased with the Government
now. The appointments to the Episcopal bench
ought to put them in the best possible humour,
for the men selected are conservatives, whom
they admit to be men of the right stamp, and
who bear names which they have long venerated.
And as to the administration of the law, they have
seen Roman Catholic judges as sternly frowning
upon crime—even agrarian crime—and punishing
it as severely as the most "loyal" of the Protestant
judges could do. The only thing they can aggravate
into a grievance is the denial of the privilege to
violate an Act of Parliament, which they allege the
Roman Catholics enjoy; and to protest against this
they would agitate the industrious and well-die-
posed population of Ulster. It is net likely they will
get much encouragement from the respectable and
really religious portion of the Protestant community.
Ultra partisans will make speeches against May-
nooth and the Pope, and the Lord Chancellor, and
there the matter will end. In the meantime, the
Northern Whig protests against profaning the Bo-
tanic-gardens by " such a demonstration of the
bigotry and folly of Orangeism." The gardens are
common ground; the flowers and plants belong to
no party. The public, who seek a pleasant recrea-
tion there, do not wish to see the serpent trail of
faction upon those scenes of beauty. They do not
like to see its verdure trampled into mud by what
they regard as the hoofs of bigotry.

Mr. R. G. Annesley, sub-inspector of constabu-
lary, has contradicted a statement in the Clunmel
Chronicle, to the effect that the room in Gowsan
Castle where Mr. Coates was to sleep Was marked,
and arrangements made for opening the sash from
the outside. Mr. Coates has sent for publication to
the Kilkenny Moderator the threatening letter he has
received, remarking that it would be very gratify-
ing to him, and perhaps to Lord Clifden, if the
writer would find some means of communicating to
him any act which has been done on his Lordship's
estates calculated to cause revenge, even to the
taking of life. The following is the threatening
letter, which was posted in Dublin, and addressed
to Mr. Coates, Ballincasherberry, in the county
of Waterford, near Clonmel
" Mr. Coates,—We are very sorry that you have escaped
your life in Kilkenny, but when I reach home you will not
escape death in the county of Waterford ; that w iii put an
end to your days; in less than one month from this date
you and Sir Nugent /jumble will meet the contents of a
blunderbuss. So prepare in time for the last home. I had
been sent to the forth of Ireland to shoot Mr. Percival, of
Moor-hill Fallow, but I did not meet him. Our society
have sent rue. lon one of Beckham and Walsh. This
is the last notice. A County of Waterford and Tipperary
man.

" Engage your coffin in time."
At the head police-office yesterday, George N.
Wilkin was brought up in charge of Acting-In-
Vector Craven, charged with having forged and

uttered a cheque for £2,000. The facts of the case
were detailed in the evidence of George Russell, a
detective sergeant of the London police, who came
over with the prisoner. In the absence of the soli-
citor of the Bank of Ireland, on which the cheque
was forged, the case was remanded till Tuesday
next.

The refractory female paupers of the South Dub-
li❑ Union, who attempted to burn the workhouse,
were brought up at the same office and committed
for trial. When they were being removed they
rushed upon the woman Struddart, who had given
evidence against them, and it was with the greatest
difficulty she was rescued by the police. They were
brought down to the cell screaming and shouting
in the most savage manner. _ _

At the last petty sessions, Kilmallock, county
Limerick, John Beckham, of Bruree, nephew to the
convict Beckham, who was executed in Limerick
for the murder of Mr. Fitzgerald, was brought
before the magistrates charged with " wheeling"
(with an open knife in his hand) for Beckham, close
to the house of a respectable person who gave evi-
dence in the above murder case, He was committed
to gaol for six months, in default of his finding
bail for his future good behaviour. Also, at
the same sessions, Thomas Ryan, who was formerly
employed as gardener to Mr. Fitzgerald, was
brought up charged with being drunk, and shouting
in the street for Beckham and Walsh. He would
have been sentenced to simiiar imprisonment as
Beckham, but that he procured two sureties to go
bail for his good conduct for the next 12 months.
On Thursday, at a private meeting of the Law
and Finance Committee of the corporation, an ap-
plication was read by the town-clerk from the Com-
missioners of the Board of Works, requiring an
assessment on the rateable property in the city of
Cork to the amount of £7,200 to replace the build-
ing, the property alleged to have been maliciously
burnt by the fire which took place in the western
wing of tho Queen's College, in this city, on the
15th of May last. There was no discussion on the
subject further than an order being made to refer
the application to the Town Council Presentment
Sessions, wnich meets on the first Monday in Sep-
tember. The application, it is anticipated, will be
negatived by the council, and it will then go before
the recorder and a petty jury, who will try the
question of malice. Should the Crown get a ver-
dict on this issue the jury will then be required to
assess the amount of damage. The corporation will
resist by counsel and witnesses the appeal before
the recorder. Should the verdict be against the
ratepayers for the full amount claimed, the assess.
ment will amount to about ls. 6d. in the pound on
the total valuation of the city.
Defalcations to an enormous extent have been dis-
covered in the stores of the Drogheda workhouse,
where the paupers were lately found selling their
bread. The master is implicated, and an investi-
gation is about to take place. There is also an in-
vestigation in progress relating to charges made
against the master of the Waterford workhouse.
The Portpatrick Railway was open for traffic on
Thursday. A special train left Belfast for Dona-
ghadee, and the steamer Heroine started for Port-
patrick immediately on its arrival with 600 passen-
gers. She made the run in one hour 27 minutes,
and back in about the same time without a single
accident. This is the shortest sea passage between
Great Britain and Ireland. The railway commu-
nuication will bring many that way who dislike the
sea.

THE CONDEMNED MURDERERS IN
KIRADALE GAOL.

The Liverpool Mercury of Saturday says :—lt
has already been stated in these columns that on
the 23d ult. Taylor, the Manchester murderer, had
a final interview with his wife, and that the scene
at parting was of a heartrending description. We
find that in the last particular our informant was
slightly in error. Mrs. Taylor was passionately
fond of her husband, and therefore the inference
was drawn—and very naturally so—that their
meeting together for the last time on earth would
be of a most affecting painful nature. Strange to
say, this was not the case—at least so far as those
who witnessed it were concerned. The criminal was
much surprised on learning that Mrs. Taylor had
come to the conclusion to take leave of him and quit
Liverpool at once, and seemed to be greatly an-
noyed and disappointed that she was not -going to
remain here until after his execution, as he wished
her to do. He said but little on the subject, how-
ever, and they separated for ever with but little
manifestation of emotion on either side. For some
time after Mrs. Taylor had left the gaol the
wretched man evinced disappointment and great
uneasiness at what he evidently felt to be unkind-
ness on her part ; but on it being represented in a
kind and feeling manner for her and for him that
she had left Liverpool, he seemed more resigned to
the early separation. Mrs. Taylor left Liverpool for
Somersetshire on Saturday evening, 23d ult., we un-
derstand. It is to be regretted that Taylor does not pay
that attention to spiritual matters which the fearful
position in which he stands demands. On Sunday
he attended Divine service in the chapel with the
other prisoners, when a very appropriate sermon
was preached by the esteemed chaplain of the gaol,
the Rev. T. Appleton. The reverend gentleman's
discourse was not at all liked by Taylor, who after-
wards expressed his disapproval of it. It is stated
that he does not receive the attention or ministra-
tions of the chaplain in a becoming spirit, and that
he is prejudiced against him, because that function-
ary plainly told him that there is no hope of his life
being spared. Taylor formerly was connected with
the Wesleyan body, and since his condemation his
sister, a very intelligent woman, has written to
him, affectionately urging him to allow a minister
of that connection to visit him, but he refused to
do so ; indeed, he evidently dislikes the idea of
being attended by any minister of religion, and
when spoken to upon the subject, he says that what
has taken place is between him and his God, and
he needs no assistance in preparing for his end.
On Monday he was busily employed in drawing up
a petition to her Majesty, asking for a pardon, set-
ting forth in the document the whole of the circum-
stances connected with the murder of Mr. Meller.
Having completed it, he made an application to the
governor of the gaol to be allowed to deliver the
manuscript to a friend,'whom he expected to come
from Manchester to see him, for the purpose
of getting it printed before it was presented.
Captain Gibbs, however, informed Taylor.
that he had no authority to grant such
a request, and that he must apply to the
sheriff or the visiting justices. At that time the
culprit laboured under the delusion that if he could
only get his petition presented to the Queen he
would receive a full pardon, inasmuch as he con-
siders the murder of Mr. Mellor was justifiable.
Indeed, it is stated that, alluding to his trial and
conviction, he has said that Mr. Pope in his defence
proceeded upon a wrong basis, and that instead of
setting up the argument that he is insane he should
have argued that the murder was justifiable, add-
ing that, had he done this, the jury would have ac-
quitted him. On Tuesday, at the convict's request,
Mr. Thomas Wright, the well-known prison phi-
lanthropist, had an interview with him. Having
informed Mr. Wright that he had drawn up a pe-
tition to the Queen, he handed it to that gentle-
man, no doubt thinking he would get it presented
by his instrumentality. Mr. Wright, however,
very properly placed it in the hands of the Governor
of the gaol. Taylor was made aware of this, and
he has now made up his mind not to send the peti-
tion to her Majesty. It appears that he would not
acknowledge to Mr. Wright that he had done
wrong in committing the murder, and voluntarily
said that he would never state how the poor
children came by their deaths.
The wretched men, Michael Burke and John
Ward, sentenced to death for the murder of the
policeman at Ashton-under-Lyne, have, since their
condemnation, manifested much contrition, and are
preparing for their approaching end. Burke is a
Roman Catholic, and is attended daily by the Rev.
Mr. Gibson, a zealous and earnest priest of that
communion, whose services have been very beneficial
in several cases of this kind.

TIE OUTWARD AMERICAN MAIL,—.QUEENS-
TOWN, Sunday.—The royal mail steamship Australasian
arrived here at 8 a.m. to-day, embarked mails, passengers,
and latest telegrams, and proceeded for New York at 4 p.m.
All well,