The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE ORANGE IDOL.—On Saturday Colonel Webber Smith
of the Artillery, Sergeant Innerdale, of the Engineers, Mr.
Kertland, the chemist, and some other individuals, were exa-
mined by the Magistrate of College-street Police-office, re-
specting the means used in destroying the statue of King Wil-
liam, in College-green. They have all arrived at the conclu-
sion that gunpowder was not employed in the affair; and Mr.
Kertland is of opinion that the fulminating silver discovered
by Dr. Fordyce, or Howard's fulminating mercury, was the
medium used to effect the explosion. No positive infcrma-
tion has been yet obtained that can lead to the discovory of
the persons concerned. Several proposals have been made
to the Corporation for replacing it, bet many think it would
be better to substitute a figure of bronze, and to place it on a
much higher pedestal than that on which the horse now stands.
The Mail concludes a long string of denunciations on this
subject with the following very awful monition, addressed to
Lord Mulgrave. " Let him beware," proclaimeth the Mail.

" Let Lord Mulgrave beware. The Orangemen have acted
generously—nobly. Let him act justly. History is an im-
partial witness, and we promise his Lordship, that, unless he
wash his hands out of this foul transaction, the record on her
pages, by which he will be known to posterity, will run to the
effect, that in the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Mulgrave, the
Statue of King William the Third, which had stood in Col-
lege-green for above one hundred and thirty years, was blown
up with gunpowder by the hands of midnight conspirators, be-
longing to the Government patty."
REYNOLD'S FUND.—The sufferings of Mr. T. Reynolds,
are awakening in the provinces substantial sympathy.
WRITS OF REBELLION.—The following are the terms in
which one of the many outrages sanctioned by a disgraceful
state of the law, is alluded to by the Mail:—" We have the
gratification of announcing that Mr. Matthew Kennedy, of
Ballahane, finding that all attempts to evade the activity of
the Commissioners of Rebellion must prove fruitless, and
having experienced the inconvenience of being excluded from
attending the markets at Nenagh, and being, in fact, impri-
soned in his own fastness among the mountains, on Friday
last caused the full amount of his tithe and costs to be dis-
charged. We trust this will be effectual in opening the eyes
of the deluded contemners of the law."

The Orangemen, we learn, in several districts still refuse
to disband.

Mr. O'Connell's expenses for defending his scat are to be
defrayed by subscription.
Johnny M'Crea gave the Recorder a terrible castigation on
Friday evening, in a political sermon preached in his conven-
ticle. He stated that the Recorder betrayed the cause of the
Orangemen in the House of Commons, for the purpose of
conciliating the Corporation under the new Bill. We seldom
agree with M'Crea, but in this case we are not disposed to
quarrel with his assertion. —Freeman.
CATHOLIC LIBERALITY.—The Members of the Central Club
are at present more than five hundred—among this number
there are scarcely thirty Protestants. On Wednesday last a
secretary was ballotted for—the candidates were six, of whom
two were Protestants. Mr. Kertland, a Protestant, was elected
by a great majority. Mr. Seton, the other Protestant, was
second on the poll. —Freeman.
TITIIES.—On Sunday the Armagh police were 'marched to
Newry, where they were met by a troop of horse and two
companies of foot, who repaired to the parish of Killeavy, late
M'Clellands, now the Rev. Mr. Alletts, to serve tithe notices.
No opposition whatever was given them, and the week before,
that a similar force was similarly employed in the parish of
Forkhill, no opposition was given them.
THE STATUE.—The Liberal Protestants and Roman Ca-
tholics of Armagh have offered a reward of one hundred pounds
for the discovery of the persons concerned in the blowing up of
the statue of King William.
WRITS OF REBELLION.—On Monday, a number of con-
temners of the law, to use the feudal slang of the Court of Ex-
chequer, were brought,to the bar, and being unable to satisfy
the Commissioner Dudley for the expenses of the writ, which
their haggard and miserable appearance but too well declared,
were remanded to prison. —Freeman.
The tithe war goes bravely on. While Mr. Commissioner
Dudley and Mr. Commissioner Ryan are hunting their prey
in the South, the Court of Exchequer is inundated in Dublin
with the returns of the writs, and the Four Courts Marshalsea
are throwing wide their gates, like those of the grim God, to
all the inmates, which our Holy Church pleases to consign to
the safe custody of Judkin Butler, Marshal and Orangeman
thereof. It is a blessed state of things truly. And this is a
condition of society which the Lords think it for the good of
the Church to prolong. What a mass of suffering it has pro-
duced ! what deplorable, what incurable mischief it is inflicting
won the Established Church !
CONSERVATIVE GRATITUDE.--It is announced in the
Southern Reporter that Mr. Richard Longfield, the Conser-
vative candidate for the county Cork, has been called on by
his electioneering agent for the balance of his costs, amount-.
ing to upwards of 4001. His expenses last election were about
4,0001., notwithstanding that his committee put down their
names for large subscriptions, and generously promised to back
him with the wealth and influence of the country. The ur-
gent claim now made by the electioneering firm has put these
promises to the test, and all that the Conservative wealth of
the county has afforded, is thirty shillings. Mr. Longfield has
declared, however, that if the money be not forthcoming
against a certain day, the committee must he prepared for a
reszynatton of his seat. Such is the alternative offered ; we
shall be curious to sec whether the Conservative gentry of
Cork prefer their money or their member, or whether the
former will afford them to keep the latter. Mr. Longfield is
not the first Conservative candidate who has reason to exclaim
against the backing of his friends.

It is rumoured that a recent domestic ,occurrence
is to furnish occupation for the gentlemen of the long rope•