The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-02 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

Mr. M'Crca is among those who have seized the occasion to
Lint at reprisals in kind upon the chapels of the Roman Ca-
tholics. He publishes a penny-whistle, entitled " The Protes-
tant Confederate and Mirror of Truth," which on the day
after the bouleversement of the statue, put forth the following
shrill call:—
" A circumstance has occurred that will produce an awful
reaction, if we are not much astray in our conjectures, upon
the popish altars, images, and retie depos7ories, in various
parts of the country. During the last night, tho statue of
King William in College-green was blown up with gunpow-
der. For some weeks we have been aware of secret meetings
holden in two streets at opposite quarters, not laalf a mile from
the monument, and attended by bodies of priests and friars, and
an Irish M. P., a Member of the Catholic Association ; froin
which conclave emissaries were sent forth to similar meetings
in the suburbs. Such a meeting was held two nights since in
a house of ill fame (to divert suspicion from the real business)
and so late as 3 o'clock yesterday a determination was come
come to at this place to try the experiment of heretical exter-
mination by gunpowder upon the statue of Billy.' We re-
strain ourselves for the present, bid we mistake the real Spi-
't of the Ake' if—"
us. Ale, m'C r ca. The Evening Post, on the other
'`•at there was a numerous meeting of Orange-
street on the night of the exp;osion, and a
.'urplemen at an entertainment given at a
a few feet of the statue."

LIN.-SATURDAY.

(FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.)
• disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken
aer, would be ray standard of a statesman.—BoaKE.
:ice the arrival of the intelligence, yesterday morning,
,c opinion has not been idle in its comments on the con-
of the House of Lords respecting the Irish Municipal
As far as I have been able to collect the sentiments of
se most capable of thinking, correctly on such a subject,
•v are embodied in the short sentence of our countryman
&ive quoted. We ought to preserve the institution, and de-
stroy only the abuses; any other line of proceeding. is un-
worthy of a statesman of the nineteenth century. And the
prevailing opinion here is, that Lord Melbourne will act upon
this principle, notwithstanding the adverse decision of the
Upper House on Tuesday last. How this can be done is thus
exiikined.
Lord' Fitzgerald's "instruction" appears to be destructive
of the principle of the 8111, and cannot therefore be carried
into effect by the Committee. The House, having suffered
the Bill to be read a second time, adopted its principle ; they
may augment or diminish its provisions in detail during the
pprogress of the Bill through the Committee, but such aug-
„
nictitation or diminution must not destroy that which is essen-
tially its principle. The House has already stultified itself,
since the second reading, by endeavouring to introduce Sir F.
Egeron's views, when too late. The time for such opposi-
tion to the measure as these views manifest was before it was
referred to a Committee. It is now a nullity, for the Com-
mittee cannot act upon it to the extent expressed in the reso-
lution. Lord Holland viewed the question in a constitutional
light, and saw the difficulties in which the party were involving
themselves. He stated that their proceedings were contrary
to and inconsistent with the law of Parliament. And if the
Committee be constructed as it ought to be, and as no doubt
the Government will take care it shall he, no change can be
made which will not meet the approbation of those for whose
benefit it is intended. In the " Lex Parlianientaria," p. 315,
it is laid down, " He that speaketh directly against the body
of the Bill may not be named a Committee, for he that would
totally destroy will not amend it." Now, either Lord Fitz-
gerald's motion is against the body of the Bill, or it is not; if
it be against the body of the Bill, all who supported his Lord-
ship are excluded from the Committee ; and therefore the
Committee, being formed out of the minority, will deal with
the instruction so as to render it innocuous to the principle of
Municipal Reform. If it be not against the body of the Bill,
the Committee, however constructed, cannot allow the " in-
struction" to induce them to deteriorate the material provisions.
It is therefore expected that Government, seeing that Tory
opposition to this measure has involved the party in a contra-
vention of the laws of Parliament which will prevent their
doing any mischief, will persevere with the Bill through the
Committee, and allow no change or modification to be made
inconsistent with a perfect renovation of corporate bodies in
Ireland. They will thus defeat the opposition with their own
weapons, and put an end to that discontent and agitation which
seem to be so much apprehended. As to the total annihila-
tion of Irish Corporations, it ought not to be mentioned in
this age of progressive civilization. Europe is indebted to
municipal institutions for its earliest advancement in science
and knowledge, as well as for the check which they put to
feudal and despotic tyranny. And though Ireland may not Le
yet susceptible of every legislative improvement, whether of
local or general application that is suited to the sister country,
it is the duty of our rulers'to render her as much so as possible,
and to make both countries approximate. They know very
little of Ireland and of the Catholics of modern times who ap-
prehend danger to Protestantism from rectified municipalities.
The best means of preserving the Church establishment
in this country from utter contempt and total annihilation is to
make the great majority of the people contented; but this can
never be effected while any vestige of ascendancy is permitted
to remain, insulting the feelings and understandings of rP.',.:nnal
creatures. As long as the management of the P7operty
of
one class of his Majesty's subjects is exclusively '.,, the hands of
another there can be no peace. The Tori.-_,; at length say so,
and propose to remedy the evil by to the
the dark and middle ages. policy of
, '-'4O; would destroy corrupt in•
stitutions, and prevent the f.;)rination of new ones, lest the
latter should become "Schools of normal agitation," injurious
to the peace of the country and the security of the present
order of society I This is the greatest blunder and hallucina-
tion that the Causercatives have fallen into ; for the most
obtuse intellect must see that the best possible preventive of
Ochlocracy, or the overwhelming. influence of the multitude,
is the encouragement of such a little Aristocracy as may be
sustained in every corporate town under a tolerably well regu-
lated municipal system. Every man not tainted by the cor-
ruptions of rotten boroughs, or the influence of Toryism is
capable of discerning this manifest consequence of Corporate
Reform :—" Spartans cactus es; Banc exorna."

ROYAL ACADENIY.—Last Saturday the members of
the Royal Academy gave their anniversary dinner at their apart-
ments in Somerset House, which was attended by a numerous
assemblage of guests of the first rank and talent, among whom
were—the Archbishop of York, Bishops of London and
Lltndafi, the First Lord of the Treasury, Lord President of
the Council, Lord Privy Seal, First Lord of the Admiralty,
the Sreaker, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Secretaries
for the Home, Foreign, Colonial, and War Departments; the
Lord Chief Justice of the Ring's Bench, Master of the Rolls,
Vice-Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, Lord Chief Baron, Attorney and Solicitor General,
General Commanding-in-Chief, Field Officer in Waiting,
President of the Board of Controul, the Lord Mayor, Chair-
man of the Board of Customs, ditto of the East India Com-
pany, Governor of the Bank, Master and Warden of Dulwich
College, President of the College of PhySicians, ditto of the
College of Surgeons, the Russian, Prussian, Netherlands,
Saxon, Belgian, Sardinian, Neapolitan, Bavarian, Gre-
cian, Turkish, .Danish, Swedish, Hanoverian, and Wirtem-
burg Ministers.; the Dukes of Norfolk, Devonshire, Wel-
lington, Sutherland, Argyll, and Newcastle; Marquisses
Convngham, Abercorn, and Anglesey; Earls Rosebery,
CaWdor, Ripon, Brownlow, Grey, Aberdeen, De Grey, Howe,
and Albemarle; Lords Prudhoe, Burghersh, Morpeth,
Francis Egerton, Stanley, Lyndhurst, Brougham and Vaux ;
Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, C. W. Wynn, Sir J. Graham,
Poulett Thompson, J. W. Croker, Hon. Gen.. Phipps, Sir H.
Wheatley, M. W. Ridley, R. H. Inglis, J. Swinburne, Wil-
leughby Gordon, A. Carlisle, G. Phillips, B. Stephenson,
W. Knighton, F. Pollock, and W. Follett; Messrs. Ridley
Colborne, J. Human, W. Scrope, IL Vernon, E. R. Tulin°,
Davies Gilbert, 111'Connell, W. Well, J. Neeld, S. Rogers,
It Hart Davis, J. Sheenshanks, T. Lister Parker, J. Mor-
rison, J. Marshall, J. Turner, C. Babbage, C. Cartwright,
C. Hampden Turner, A. Milne, J. Delafield, H. Hallam, J.
H. Green, &c. &c.
It cannot have escaped the recollection of city
readers -how much was said in the spring of last year of the
efforts made by the Bank of England to embarrass the joint-
stock banks in Yorkshire and Lancashire, by refusing to dis-
count any bills on which they had endorsements, and how
quietly afterwards the whole affair dropped, but the, manner in
which this abandonment of hostility was brought about has not
until very lately transpired. It now turns out, that the Bank
directors were influenced by the bold stand made against them
upon that occasion, the consequences of which they durst not
venture to encounter. When the course they intended to pur-
sue was first made known, the leading men in Manchester and
Liverpool, not immediately connected with banking aftirs,
held a meeting on the subject, at which they came to the reso-
lution to resiq by all means in their ppwer a proceeding which
though aimed directly at the. banks, operated indirectly to the
embarrassment and injury of their commercial dealings. A de-
' putation was accordingly appointed to communicate with the
managers of the branches of the Bank of England in those
places,
who were desired to intimate to their 'principals, that
unless they abandoned their proposed mode of attack on the
joint-stock banks, with the details of which the London papers
at that time were so much occupied, they would contrive some
means to make the measure re-act upon them to their own se-
rious injury. No hint was given of the manner in which they
meant to proceed, but the communication, couched in that
mysterious language, was forwarded by express to head-
quarters, together with the names and characters of the mei.
chants who had attended the meeting. What occurred in the
Bank itself can only be matter of conjecture. It is supposed,
however, that the directors found upon inquirN tho read weight
and importance of the parties from whom the communication
was received to be so great, that they 111-ank from the contest
with them, and quietly wistnlrow their proscription of bills
bearing
.the endoNettoiit a joint-stuck banks. The plan of
these Liven and Manchester merchants, who were not .
fir+ii+i in standing and wealth to anv equal number of London
houses, was, it is said, to procure the pay meat in full of the va•
pital of the joint-stock banks, and trythe
expo imcvil of eX•
eluding Bank of England notes wholl,i( front the circulation of
the great manufacturing districts. rho contest :night not
have suct-wded, but the attempt alone would have, had very
mischievous effects, and if the directors have been iimupced by
these reasons, they have certainly done right to abanuon their
measure, which was not called for,-and was much blamed at
the time by all the judicious merchants and capitalists.— Times,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The unhorsing of King William is still a subject ofirnuch
div.uss'on and mutual crimination between our angry politi.
cia Is. Who blew him up—the Orangemen or the Papists ?
Thi4 is the question, to which no satisfactory solution has yet
been obtained.