The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-25 00:00:00

IRELAND.

ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY.--His F.xcellency has suggested
severe! alterations, the adoption of which make this Society
more conformable to the constitution of other scientific bodies.
If the Members wish that the society to which they belong
should be nationally useful, they can have no hesitation in
adopting the plan of self-reform proposed by the Vicerov.
What can be more monstrous than to see a society establisliCid
avowedly for the public good, and mainly supported by grant::
of the public money, becoming a secret conclave of narrow-
ness and monopoly. The alterations which his Excelieney
proposes in the constitution of this society, are obviously re-
quired to make it capable of fu'filling the duties for which it
was originally intended. What can be more jLst than to ad-
mit members by a majority of the votes of the members pre-
sent ? We hope they will see, before it is too late,
the inevitable necessity of " setting their house in order;"
if they do not, the Irish Secretary will not—and ought
not—reccmmencl the continuance of the grant, when the
iri,h estimates are laid before Parliament—and their being
voted unworthy of public support by the people's representa-
tis es, they must needs deprive themselves of the possibility of
doing public good. One hundred and ninety municipalities in
England and Scotland pleaded their charters in defence of
their plunder; but where are those charters now, and where
are the corporations that boasted them ? The rotten corpora-
tion of Dublin may this moment boast their charter ; but in
one month it will, like themselves, be as far out of date as it is
out of practical utility. We trust that this society will at length
see that charters arc no guarantee to malversation. —Freeman's
Journal.
Lord Mulgrave, in his answer to the county Tipperary ad-
dress, which has lately been presented to him, alludes in the
following terms to the conduct of Lord Ossory, the High
Sheriff of the county, who declined to convene a meeting to
congratulate his Excellency on the present state of that
county :---" I do not mention these circumstances from any
desire to notice more particularly an extraordinary document
connected with the object of your meeting. It better becomes
sae to let such slanders pass unheeded by, and I can well afford
to leave to the judgment of public opinion the conduct of an
individual whose ignorance of the observances due from an
officer of the Crown to a person holding the high situation I
at present fill, was only exceeded by still greater ignorance of
the facts on which his accusation was founded."

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The Court of Exchequer still continues occupied with ap-
plications for writs of rebellion in tithe cases.
TRINITY COLLEGE.--There are two petitions to Parliament
now in progress of signature in Dublin, which will be sent for
presentation in a few days. One of those petitions prays
against the one pound annually for registration; and the other
prays that Scholarships will be opened to the Catholics and
Dissenters.
BLACKSOD-BAY RAILWA Y.—A meeting was recently held
in Ballina in furtherance of this undertaking. It was largely
and respectably attended.
The Corporation keep up their corrupt servile character to
the last. They have just honoured the patriotic Lord Clon-
curry's Protest against the Address carried by the Peers, in
which he truly. said, "that the majority of Irish corporators
were not only insolvent peculators, but traders in religious in-
tolerance." They have passed a resolution ! condemnatory of
his Lordship's truth.
STATE OF CRlME.—Returns, we understand, have been re-
ceived from twenty-one of the counties, and the following are
the committals of 1835, as compared with those of the pre-
ceding year : Committals in 1834, 9,915 ; committals in
1835, 9,488 ; decrease upon V 834, 427. We have taken
occasion before to observe, that the committals in Ireland are
not a very certain test of the state of crime, there being,
amongst a very large portion of the magistracy, as great a
disposition to people the gaols, as to depopulate the farms.
Even convictions do not exhibit the people of this country in
that unfavourable contrast with the inhabitants of England,
which their defamers allege to exist, and dwell upon with such
complacency.
offences. The Convictions are had in Ireland for very trivial
taken Y present an aggregate of a very formidable
kind,
without reference to that peculiarity. It will
scarcely be supposed that offences of a graver . character are
much more numerous in England,t and that their ratio of in-
crease is far greater there here. The fact,however,. is
so, as will appear by Parliamentaryon Returns.—Dublin Register.
ORANGE OUTRAGE. Monday night a desperate as-
sault, with intent to commit murder,tof
facp on the dwelling
house and family of a man of the name
pen-
sioner residing at Ballysloolugh, within a few miles ilKeser:i Ea nn'killen. A party of Orangemen, armed with loaded guns, ainsd.
either coming to or from their lodge, attacked theh
without the slightest colour of provocation, fired several shotsuuse
into it., smashed the windows, and had very nearly effected their
purpose of giving a mortal wound to Kerr.—Register.

HAMBURG, FEBRUARY 16, 18.36.
EINE BROTHERS, Contractors for the
State of HAMBURG'S GREAT LOTTERIES, beg to
decline further orders for the SIXTY-SEVENTH LOTTERY,
as they would most probably not reach them till after the
LARGEST PRIZE shall have been drawn.

To CORRESPONDENTS.—The official communication respecting
the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain came too late for insertion
to-day. It shall appear to-morrow.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1836.

We have received another communication from our
correspondent " Mentor," on the subject of Lord
BROUGHAM and Law Reform, which is well worth
our readers' perusal, from the able, dispassionate, and
convincing manner in which it canvasses the subject.
Speaking of the uniform dispatch of business in the
House of Peers, when Lord BROUGHAM presided

therein, our correspondent says—
' " When appointed Lord Chancellor, ninety-four appeals were
undecided in that supreme appellate tribunal ; besides the
number of appeals and writs of error had gone on regularly
increasing during his period of holding office. Put Lord
Brougham suffered no delay to interpose whenever the parties
were ready to proceed ; nor was there a single case for brat--
jug at the conclusion of the Session in 1811, which had been
entered before the commencement thereof—which was most
remarkable, as appeals have been frequently seven, eight, or
nine sessions in ;:rrear. The number of appeals to the House
of Lords in 1825, 1826, and 1827, was 221 ; in 1828, 1820,
and 1830, they were 214: 1831, 1832, and 1833, they
amounted to 240. Lord Brougham having afforded every fa-
cility to all parties for the purpose of hearing their causes, ad-
judicated between the arrears and appeals entered during these
tie ee years upwards of three hundred and thirty—thus far ex-
ceeding t'3 e number ever disposed of by any of his judicial pre-
decessors. Notwithstanding some of these appeals were of
great importance, and involved points of much difficulty, dors
not the fact of all the arrears, and other substy-,xtent appeals
having been adjudicated, unquestionably demonstrate that his
Lordship's judicial proceedings in the supreme appellate juris-
diction deserve national commendation ? Were not the ap-
peals, causes, and motions so prudently determined that, is hen
Lord Brougham resigned the Chancellorship, no arrears existed
either in the Court of Chancery, or in the House of Lords ?
During the first and second, besides a great portion of the
third Session, Lord Brougham had heard and adjudicated so
many Scotch appeals, that the parties at length informed him ,
they were not ready to proceed, having been overtaken by the I
dispatch of business."
Yet this is the man whom the Tories have so long
been endeavouring to degrade in public estimation. 1.
His Law Reforms, notwithstanding that the people
are daily reaping more and more benefit from them,
have been pronounced inadequate to their object ; and
he himself a rash, shallow, equity lawyer, simply be-
cause he was an indefatigable one, and dared to be
' expeditious in his judgments. It is not, however, in
the power of his enemies to lower a man like Lord
BROUGII AM to the level of their own mediocrity. He
towers far above them all, and can set the whole
snarling crew at defiance. None know this better
than the Tories themselves, and hence they hail
his absence from the House of Lords as a
sort of God-send to their party. But their triumph
will be short-lived. His Lordship, as we hear on
excellent authority, is in the enjoyment of excellent
health ; and when he next makes his appearance in
the Upper House, which may probably not be before
Easter—for the struggle of parties in that most
amiable Institution will not take place before then—
we venture to predict, that he will give the affrighted
Conservatives such a shock as they have not known
for years. Never had the people a stauncher, abler,
or more indefatigable advocate than Lord BROUGHAM ;
and never did Statesman deserve to stand higher in
their estimation. He is the very key-stone of the arch
that supports the Reform Ministry in the House of
Peers. Had it not been for his Herculean exertions
last Session, Lord LYNDHURST would have carried
all before him.

Our Portsmouth Correspondent has forwarded to us
a file of New York papers from the 22d ult. to the 2d
inst. inclusive. On the 28th, the fact of England's
mediation to prevent a war between France and the
United States was known in that city, and produced
a very general conviction that no hostilities would take
place. In a letter addressed by a Member of Con-
gress to a friend at Baltimore, dated the 28th ult., it
is stated that the PRESIDENT was opposed to British in-
terference, but that Mr. VAN BuREN approved of it, as
did a majority of the Cabinet. Another Member writes
that there is no war-spirit in the United States,
and that to prevent such a catastrophe all that is
wanted is sincerity on the part of France. The deci-
sion of the Cabinet was not officially known in New