The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

D OCT. 1
The ceremony of the inauguration of the ÜBLIN
Civic, Officerg. for
the ensuing year took place this day in the Presence Chamber,
Dublin Castle. At two o'clock his Excellency arrived in
State from the Viceregal Lodge, Phcersix Park, and was
greeted—not as the Mail intrepidly states, by a " faint shout
from a few boys"—but by the loud, long-continued, and en-
thusiastic cheers of the whole body of the people assembled in
the Castle-yard.

MR. O'CONNELL.—The Pilot announces the publication in
its next number of " a lung and more than ordinarily impor-
tant letter" from Mr. O'Connell, the first instalment of which
had been already received by our Contemporary.
ENGLISH AGITATION.---The same Paper, speaking of Eng-
lish agitation, declares that it "proceeds not always prudently,
but in a course which forms a tremendous ingredient in the
great events now preparing. But it must force itself upon the
most reluctant."

TnE PRECURSOR SOCIETY. --.WC see in several of the
Provincial Parrs, evicknce of preparations for enrolling in
their several districts members of this Association. The
South has been most active, and in the North, Monaghan has
set an example which, it is anticipated, will be followed by the
other divisions of the county. -

66 AGITATE, ORGANISE—WOULD YOU BR FREE?"—A stir-
ring article in the Pilot, with this prefix, concludes thus:—
" Let not those who would now mar the great Irish move-
ment solace thems?lves, or the Tories and their Press, by re.
joicing over the supposed frustration of our agitation. That
agitation will grow, organise, and cause Ireland to be feared
and respected in spite of them will succeed, serpents
and incendiaries notwithstanding, and the more signally be-
cause of the popular experiment of forbearance through which
the country has passed, and by which the people have been
put upon that rock of right which true Irishmen now occupy,
and from which they cannot be dislodge but by justn:e.
Hurra I then, for the new agitation! IRELAND EQUAL 'WITH
ENGLAND—or else --- 1' "
EXTERMINATION IN THE QUEEN'S COUNTY.—Mr. Edward
Staples, of Dunmore, we are informed on the. best authority,
has latterly expended large sums in the outfit of certain rela-
tives by the mother's side for Australia and Canada, and such
of them as he has not found willing to be shipped off, he has
disposed of in a still more unceremonious stray. He had some
time past expelled no less than thirty families, and be has more
recently driven out six families more, from the Swan, near
Durrow. The misfortune of the poor people was, that, in ad-
dition to their being Roman Catholics, they happened to be
cou,ins, nearer or more remote, to their landlord.—Leir,ster
independent.
Mr. Flower Walker has lately expelled eight or ten families
from Knocksnoran. and six from a place called the near Durrow.—/biti.
A charge has been trumped up ',against Lord Cloneurry,
accusing him of an act of inhuman ejectment. The story ap-
pe rs in the Limerick Standard, in the following form :
" FouTtiLli PERSECUTION OF TENANTRY BY LORD CtoN-
coRRY.-00 Tuesday last Michael Noonan, whom we have
before mentioned as one of the tenants whom Lord Cloneurry
has cruelly ejected, appeared at the Petty Sessions of Atiing,s
ton, to answer a summons served on him by Lord Cloner7..r.),_ under agent, in his Lordship's name, for having tile,' fo 9!!ie
possession of a house on the property of his Lordship. Mr.
iu
George Dully (the under 'agent), on being examinedi
Sinukton, S. M., stated that, as he passed the museyfroenme
which Noonan had Leen ejected, perceived that some
Lad made a fire in the pig.stye, which had no door, and, on