The Sun.
London, England, 1836-05-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MAYO ELECTION.—The Liberal Journalists are divided
in opinion as to whether Mr. D. Browne or the Hon. Mr.
Dillon is the more eligible representative for the County of
Mayo. They are both very young men ; Mr. Dillon is the
younger. It is urged against his pretensions that he co-
quetted and trifled with the Independent Club, and left that
body no alternative but the course they adopted. The
Freeman says that if he persists in going to the poll he will
not only be defeated at this, but that he will have no chance
of success at any future election in Mayo. The following
are the pledges given by him :
I am for the total abolition of tithes, and for a new and
just appropriation of the produce of any new charge to be
made on land, with compensation to the present possessors

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for life.
For the full reduction of the church property to the due
provision of the clergy, necessary for the Protestants of the
Established Church.
For the voting by ballot, and the extension of the suffrage
to a majority of the grand jury cess-payers.
For reform of the municipal corporations.
For reform of the grand jury laws.
For a good system of providing for the destitute, and of
giving labour to the employed poor.
For a reform in the Lords.
KILDARE ADDRESS.—The following passage is from
the Lord Lieutenant's answer to the Address from the High
Sheriff, Noblemen, Freeholders, &c., of the County of Kil-
dare to his Excellency, presented at Normanby Lodge,
April 9.8, 1836 :
" At the close of the first year of my government it is
indeed most valuable to me, that you, the congregated in-
telligence of this celebrated county, should thus unite in
bearing your indisputable testimony to its perfect tran-
quillity ; and thus hold out the gratifying prospect that,
even amongst those scenes of local misery, unhappily more
easy to deplore than remove, not one single predial outrage
shall be left to be perverted to the purposes of those, if
any such there be, who would, in spite of all experience,
strangely infer that confidence in a government must
tend to disregard of its authority, and that national con-
tentment in the disposition of their rulers must promote an
increase of popular disturbance."
TITHE CAMPAIGN.—The Dublin Evening Post says
we cannot allow a day to pass without soliciting public at-
tentiop, and the attention of Parliament, if possible, to the
following statement, which we borrow from the Kilkenny
Journal:—" Unless the Legislature be prompt in its dem-
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son to extinguish the abominable impost of tithe. the par.
sons and their confederates in mischief will, we fear, soor

force on a crisis which every friend to humanity must •con-
template with horror. This county, so recently disturbed,
and now so tranquil, is about to be become a scene of wide-
spread desolation. The parsons are determined to go to
work in earnest. The bills filed by them are innumerable,

and the county of Kilkenny, which has had a short season
of repose, is now about to be immolated. Bills ad libitum
have been filed at the suit of the Honourable and Very Rev.
Dean Burke—:die Very Rev. Dean Dawson—the Venerable
Crinus Irwin—the Rev. Alexander Staples—the Rev.
Richard Greaves—the Rev. Luke Fowler—the Rev.
Charles B. Stevenson—the Rev. B. Pearson, the Rev.
Henry Herbert, and also by the Corporation of Kilkenny,
in the name and style of the " Mayor and citizens of the
City of Killienny,"—by John Aylmer, Esq., of Carrick-
shock celebrity—and by Mr. Martin Davis, of Kilkenny ;
eight, or ten separate bills have been filed at the suit of
,
some of these reverend and lay tithe caters. ane at-
tneneys employed are Mr. John Prim, of Kilkenny,
mid the renowned Mr, 'leery 1,1a;,7e4e. We are thus
particular in naming all parties—we may have omitted
some, but. these are the only names that have as yet reached
us-. As a specimen of the working of the infernal Tithe
machinery, we have just seen en attorney's letter, recently
written on behalf of -a Rev. Dean to one of his fleck for
the full sum of five shilEngs, being two years composition
for a plot of ground. This letter is dated on the 13th in-
!aant, and, as such ietters usually arc, writteu on a whole
half sheet of paper, and taxed with Sd. It chanced, how-
ever, to reach the gentleman for whom it was directed on
the 15th. The money was tendered to the Attorney on
the 17th (Monday)—Sunday having intervene :I—it would
not be taken without the addition of about ten pounds,
the proportion of cost far filing a bill on the 9th ! four days
before the letter claiming- payment was written, and six
days before payment could by possibility have been ten-
dered. Did we not fear that in making further .comments
we would be furnishing a clue to defeat the ends of justice
we would gladly exhibit the plaintiff and his attorney in this
transaction. This pleasure is, however, reserved for ano-
ther occasion. Every legal means should be resorted to, to
defeat such rapacious claims. However perilous and .ex-
pensive the experiment, yet it ought to be tried. The
Courts will not sanction wholesale plunder of this- kind.
Costs, in many instances, have not only been refused
against defendants, but awarded against plaintiffs, and where
such a case as the one now referred to shall arise, we are
satisfied that the Court of Exchequer will award ample
costs against the delinquent parties.
PUBLIC MEETING.—In pursuance of a requisition mot
respectably signed, a meeting of the citizens of Dublin Was
held last Tuesday at the Royal Exchange, for the purpose
of expressing their indignation at the late outrage which
was committed on the statue of King William the Third,
and of devising means for bringing the perpetrators to jus-
tice. Amongst the gentlemen present were Mr. Finn,
M.P., and Henry Grattan, Esq., M.P. William F. Finn,
Esq., was called to the chair. Mr. Power moved the first
resolution, to the effect that, although they regretted the
use that had been made of the statue of King William, as
detrimental to the memory of that Monarch, yet they re-
pudiated the act of its destruction as dangerous to the pub-
lic peace. After the other resolutions had been carried,
pledging the meeting to bring the perpetrators to justice,
whoever they might be, Mr. Marcus Costello instanced se-
veral circumstances which led to the presumption that the
man or men who blew up the statue belonged to the Orange
party. The idea that it could have been done by the Ca-
tholic party was 'repudiated by Mr. Grattan and all the
other gentlemen, excepting only :a Mr. M'Clecry, whose
speech excited disgust and indignation, and went to confirm
the suspicions as to who were the actors in this plot. It
was announced .to the meeting that subscriptions had been
received in the room to the amount of 1751. for the purpose
of carrying the objects of the resolutions into effect, soon
after which the meeting separated.
WRITS or REBELLION.—There have been seven or
eight hundred writs of rebellion served out, and passing
through the Court of Exchequer, services substituted, ap-
pearances entered, and affidavits made. The proceedings
in the Court of Exchequer are quite a lesson ; nay, they
• are a beautiful exemplification of the apostolic advice of the
Archbishop of Tuam, who, in a letter, fulminated to the
Church militant, recommends that there should be no le-
gislation on the subject—that the proprietors of tithe should
be left to the remedies of the existing law—to writs of re-
bellion—to domiciliary visits at night—to driving and ha-
rassing the country by day—to the pistols of Mr. Ryan, or
Mr. Dudley—to the writs of rebellion Smith—to the gaols
and bridewells of the country, and the families, respectively,
of the individuals, to starvation. His Grace, to a certain
extent, has had his will.—Dublin Post.
CONSERVATIVE INSOLVENCY.—A meeting of the county
Conservatives was held in this city early in the present
week, with a view of making some arrangement for the dis-
charge of the outstanding claims against Mr. Lcingfield,
connected with the election petition which resulted in his
being seated. In our former notice of this subject we had
greatly understated the extent of these claims. We have
good reason for believing that they do not fall short of fif-
teen hundred pounds ! The Cork solicitors remain unpaid,
and there is a heavy balance due to the London agents.
The meeting was but thinly attended, and from the fri-
gidity with which the subject was approached it was quite
evident that no money was to be expected. The general
feeling seemed to Io that there was no alternative, but to
leave the onus on the member, or his respected progenitor.
Applications had been made, but without the slightest ef-
fect, to several of the Conservative party holding the highest
rank, and possessing the largest fortunes in the county.
The uniform answer was, that they had subscribed largely
in the first instance, and that "they would give no more."
Many of them are liable to, and are being actually sued by
their pastor for sums of no trifling amount under Stanley's
Act, and it cannot be disputed that their spiritual guides
have the first claim on their spare cash.—Cork Reporter.
CALUMNIES ON THE COUNTRY.—The Clonmel Adver-
tiser is still at its dirty work. Wherever the ruffian com-
missioners of rebellion by their housebreaking, insulting and
irritating conduct throw the country into a ferment, that
journal invariably states that the people had predetermined,
on an insurrection, when absolutely, if the rebellion com-
missioners would rest, the country would now be in the
enjoyment of the most unprecedented peace.
COUNTY KILDARE MEETING.-011 'Saturday last a
very respectable and numerous Meeting of the Nobility,
Clergy, Gentry and Freeholders of the County of Kil-
dare, was held pursuant to Requisition in the Court-
. House, Naas, for the purpose of adopting an address of con-
gratulation to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, expres-
sive of their confidence in his administration of the laws.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant passed through
;Naas on Saturday, on his way to the Curragh, to attend the
April Meeting, which takes place this week, and where the
A ddress will be presented to hint.
' _TRADES' Um".—A ?Meeting of the Trades Political
unic n was held at the Corn Exchange yesterday, W. P.
O'Coa 'nor, Esq., in the Chair. Mr. Finn, M.P., for Kil-
kenny, was present.
CAND
.3DATEs FOR MAYO.Mr. Dillon Browne and a
Mr. John Browne, ere both in the field. The last named
by the Orange Mail,
individual a circumstance in
itself fully sufficient to ensure his defeat by the liberal-•
minded me of Mayo.