The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY. JUNE 30, 1836.

IRELAND.

' MEETING OF THE COUNTY OF DUBLIN.—A meeting
of the county Dublin was held last Monday at Kihnain-
ham, to protest against the miscalled amendments of the
Lords, and to demand a fair and final settlement of the
tithe question. The meeting was held at the Court-house,
and was very numerously attended. Henry Arabin, Esq..
was called to the Chair, and in the course of an impressive
address said, " We are no longer safe in our houses—an
authorised armed force may break them open in the dead of
the night, when we have no means of ascertaining whether
we are assailed by the ministers of justice, or by a band of
armed banditti.—(Hear.) No doubt the robbers will avail
themselves of the opportunity, and by calling themselves
policemen obtain a facility of committing their robberies.—
(Hear.) It is true the police have more splendid unifbrms
—that their arms are more polished and bright—but how
are those to be distinguished in the shades of the night ?
A most merciful, mild, and liberal Administration has en-
deavoured to soften the rigours of such harsh anti oppres-
sive decrees, by only allowing writs of assistance to be exe-
cuted by day-light ; but I fear these Draconian laws mill
not yield to such wise and considerate care and regard for
the peace and well-being of society ; but that, urged on by
the folly and intemperate zeal of a faction, who, it is said,
pay for and abet stitch nocturnal incursions, they will conti-
nue in their desperate course until they plunge us in some
dreadful calamity."
Mr. Baggot followed. In proposing the first resolution,
this gentleman, who was loudly cheered throughout his ad-
dress, said—" His Majesty King William the Fourth, has
been graciously pleased to send us his true representative,
in a Viceroy who seems resolved to give to all Irishmen the
full benefit of the long-forgotten articles of Limerick ; the
Royal charter of King William the Third, truly immortal,
though often misrepresented with pious and inglorious mum-
mery ! And it is a duty incumbent upon us to join with
him in protecting the people, and to protest against the sys-
tem under which they are deliberately taken down, with
deadly aim, like crows in a rookery, with a cross-bow.
The Sampson of the Emerald Isle calls upon us all to use
our most strenuous exertions. Diabolus Dan, he is called by
the Tories ; and that same Dan draws greater Houses even
of Tories, than Robert the Devil himself did. Mirabilia
Dan, I would name him—
The gods 1 0 chief, from whom all honours spring,
The gods I have made thee now, by halves, a king
Mirabilis Dan, the thundering Jupiter, from the Kerry
mountains, is the head schoolmaster of the political aca-
demy of accomplishments. Mirabilis Dan has taught us a
better lesson than even Lord Stanley himself ! the Lord of
" thirnblerig " notoriety ; and now the sorry victim of the
mud bath.--(Laughter.) Kildare-place "schooling" and
the march of intellect have enlightened us too much to
submit any longer, with superstitious veneration, to hypo-
crisy and fraud in Church and State. We shall not rest
until Ireland shall have full, ample, and equal privileges."

PERKECUTION OF PROTESTANTS.—WO take the sub-
joined passages from a letter addressed to the Freeman, com-
municating the ill treatment of two gentlemen, curates in the
diocese of Limerick, for the offence of patronising the na-
ctional schools in their respective parishes. We find dial
the Protestants of Rathronan, Newcastle, have addressed
a memorial to the Bishop of Limerick in favour of the Rev.
W. S. Ashe, "their curate for twenty years." The Catho-
lics would have joined in this memorial, but apprehended
their doing so would weaken its effect with the good Bishop.
" That the Protestant Bishops," says the writer, "exer-
cise summary punishment on such of their diocesan subjects
as dare to dissent from their views, and are within the reach
of their vengeance, daily experience demonstrates. To the
recent instance of this kind, in the person of the Rev. Mr.
Grattan, I shall furnish you with others which probably are
unknown to you. Have those who keep watch and ward'
on the towers of Protestantism in this country heard of the•
cases of the Rev. Messrs. Ashe, curates, and brothers, the
one of Ardagh and Rathronan, the other of Creagh, both
in this county? The former has been lately driven a wan-
derer upon the world, from his curacy, with a wife and ten
children, and without a prospect of another appointment.
And what was his crime ? Why, Sir, that he had the har-
dihood to be patron of some national school' in the pa-
rishes where he officiated. I know his removal will be put
upon other grounds. I boldly affirm his liberality was the real
cause of his removal from the curacy which he filled during
eighteen years. Was not a formal notice served upon his
brother, the curate of Creagh, to withdraw forthwith his
application for the establishment of a national school in
Creagh, or else— ? Was not the resolution to that
effect passed at a meeting of the clergymen held in Lime-
rick, the Lord Bishop in the chair, and the notice formally
served upon Mr. Ashe, in ace.ordance,with the letter of that
resolution ? Thrice happy for the cause of Protestantism
if all who preach its doctrines were like unto him. Mr.
Ashe is not one of those who wipe away the mock tear
with a finger dripping with human gore, sited in the collec-
tion of the abominable impost.'"
The following particulars relative to the distress in
Donegal are found in the columns of a Contemporary :
" We have before us a statement of the actual condition of
one of the parishes in this neglected region, which are now
enduring the heavy visitation of the ' hungry meagre
fiend.' rhe classification is curious, and, notwithstanding
the misery it paints, highly ludicrous in some of the circum-
stances which it brings into the foreground.
" There is (says the writer) about 4,000 persons in this
parish, and all Catholics, and as poor as I shall describe,
having among them no more than 1 cart, no wheel-car, nor
.any other vehicle, 1 plough, 2 stables, 6 cowbouses, 1 na-
tional school, no other school, 1 priest—no other resident
gentleman ; 16 harrows, 8 saddles, 2 pillions, 11 bridles, 20
shovels, no bonnet, no clock, 3 watches, 8 brass candlesticks,
no looking-glasses above 3d. in price, no boots or spurs, 32
rakes, 7 table forks, 93 chairs, 243 stools, 10 iron grapes,
no fruit trees, no turnips, no carrots, no clover, or any other
garden vegetable but potatoes and cabbage ; no swine, bogs,
or pigs, 27 geese, 3 turkeys, 2 feather beds, 8 chaff beds,
no more than ten square feet of glass windows in the whole,
except the chapel, the school-house, the Priest's house,
and the constabulary barracks.
" None of either married or unmarried women can afford
more than one shift, and the fewest number can afford
any ; and more than lhalf of both men and women cannot
afford shoes to their feet ; nor can many of them afford
a second bed, but whole families of sons and daughters, of
mature age, indisoriminately lying together with their
parents, and all in the bare buff.
" The generality of the peasantry are on the small allow-
ance of one meal a day, and many p•.milies one meal in two
days, and sometimes one meal in three days ; their children
crying and fainting with hunger, and their parents weeping,
being full of grief, hunger, debility, and dejection, looking
at their children likely to expire in the jaws nistarvittiuttth
This Is coarse painting, 411 d sulTiol44 grntes4tte
tration ; but we doubt if an attempt to soften the touches
would not detract from the natural pathos and the geniune
tone of truth which pervades it.
We are naturally prompted to ask, who are their land-
lords Y What Noble Lords or gentlemen draw Ocir
venues, and are content to draw them, NM Creatures in
such a degraded state of villainage ?
The state of another parish, Lettermaoaward, Is thus
described by a person of credit and ability, who lately
visited it. " ittermacaward, I fear, could never have
been otherwi? than the abode of poverty and wretched-
ness ; its coast being barren and exposed, and insulated
from all markets by the want of even the most imperfect
description fit,roads. And the inhabitants of Arranmore,
who are numerous, appeared in an equally wretched condi.
tion." He adds, hat all the accounts which had been re-
ceived would have been realized to their fullest extent
h,-,1 It not been for the assistance of GOvernment, so judi-
ciously applied by Mr. DOMbnliO, In keeping down the
price of potatoes in these districts," This was written a
month ago; but the landlords have done nothing since;
and of course the sufferings of the poor deserted inhabitants
must. have been greatly increased in the interim. Another
gentleman who resides amongst them, but possesses no inte-
rest besides that of human fellowship in their well-being,
insists upon the completion of this road to Letterkenny,
as the first step towards the civilization of the country ; and
adds—" I have seen many parts of the world, but I never
did behold a people in so degraded and wretched a state—
half-starved, nearly naked, and as ignorant as savages. Na-
ture has done her part ; the place abounds in limestone,
sea-manure, sand, shells, and many other auxiliaries most
valuable in reclaiming bog land ; and I feel confident, if
the present condition of this poor people could once be
brought under the notice of any benevolent individual or
persons possessing the power as well as the wish to serve
their country, I might still live to see them an honour in-
stead of a reproach to human nature."
411 these thing tend inevitably to the enactment of an
efficient poor-law, to MPH those who have no pity to learn
justice, It is a lesson which cannot he taught them tan
soon. In the mean time the Government is doing as much
as it can, and more perhaps than in the circumstances it
should do, towards alleviating the heavy pressure of this

P. BnuEN, EsQ., NI.P.—In a letter which Mr. W.
Malony has addressed to this gentleman in consequence of
the chargo made against him in the course of the debate on
Mr! Wilil44§ inPtiq9 relit' re tg the PersPco99 9f freer
holders in the county of Oartow, 4-ealtuppy against
a Catholic priest must, inded, be considered very valuable,
when 4 ;
• 4ePIIIPCI necessary to devote, in the leading Tory
,journal of the empire, an entire column to the attempt at
fixing a charge upon so humble an individual as I am,
which, however, I thank 'leaven, the' united efforts of all
the Tories In the kingdom cannot, in this particular in-
stance, slimed efrectinx." Mr. Maloney then refutes
the calumny in the most eonvineleg and triumphant nmn-
ner. Towards the close of the irrefragable evidence
which he adduces, he observes on the Times—" It

amuses me, Sir; to .be described by a London papef as .a
disturber of -the peace. This is going far beyond Irish
Toryism, which has always conceded to us the character of
peace-makers. I have in my possession letters of two ma-
gistrates—one of them of high Tory politics, commending.
in fcLttering terms, my exertions in preserving peace and
order ; and acknowledging the receipt of nearly 30 stand
of arms, which 1 had succeeded in taking out of the hands
of those whom local oppression . had banded together in
illegal societies. If the Times he to!d these things, will he
be the less ready, on that account, to call me a "sacerdotal
miscreant, a hateful tyrant, a pestilential incendiary, a ran-
corous disturber of the peace ?" Most assuredly these men,
had they the power, would not long confine themselves to
the unsatisfactory recreation of calling names. " Those
infernal passions," as Mr. O'Connell has well said it.
which at present find vent only in the audacious atrocity
of vituperation, would then, in the musket and bayonet,
the pistol or stiletto, exhibit still more:congenial weapons."

PROFESSORSHIP OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.—The chair
of political economy in our University (founded by his
Grace the Archbishop of Dublin) was filled on last Satur-
day by the election of Isaac Butt, Esq., to that important
professorship.—Dublin Evoning Post.
APPALLING DEATH.—Monday morning James Murphy,
a labourer in the employ of Mr. Smith,.proprietor.of the
lime works in Church-street, while employed about the
mouth of the kiln, missed his footing, and was precipitated
into the body of the burning pile, then at its highest height.
Ropes were immediately lowered by his fellow-labourers to
the assistance of the unfortunate sufferer, but they were
almost instantly consumed by the glowing furnace. One
piercing scream was all that reached them. After some
time the remains were get out, and presented a spectacle
of the most frightful descriptbn. They await a Coroner's
inquest.—Register.

GIIRMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, JUNE 26.—The Count de Latour Maubourg,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of
France at Brussels, having obtained from his Governmenst
leave of absence, M. Bremer will act as Charge d'Affaire
in his absence.

Tbe Supreme Military Tribunal, by a decree of the
21st of this mouth, has confirmed the sentence of the
Military Tribunal of Brabant, which acquitted Lieutenant
Milling of the charge of murder committed in a duel.
Out of 500 men of the Ist regiment of the line who have
been quartered in the city for a few days, 50 were sent
yesterday to the hospital on account of being afflicted with
opthalinia. The .Journal des Flandres gives an account of
the visit made to its office by some students of the Uni-
versity, which is-much less serious than that of our cor-
respondent. It says :—" The truth is, that seven or eight
medical students came on Tuesday to require the insertion
of a letter insulting to 'the Journal des Flandres, and our
editor refusing, some impolite expressions escaped them,
but finding that by this means they only made it still more
irnpossible to insert their letter, they retired very
quietly, and took it to the illessager."
BRUSSELS, JUNE 27.—The Moniteztr contains the Re-
port made to the Senate on the 18th June, by M. de
Haussy, in the name of the Committee appointed to exa-
mine the project of law relative to duelling. It fills eleven
closely printed columns of that journal.
A letter from Antwerp, of the 26th, states that, at
half-past ten o'clock that morning, Captain Thomson, of
the English brig Amelia, had cuthis.throat with a razor.
The wound is so deep, that M. Sera, the surgeon who was
called in, has but little hopes of saving him. He com-
mitted the rash act on board his ship, which was taking in
ballast, to sail on Tuesday for Archangel, and thence re-
turn to Dundee, to which port she belongs. This morn-
ing he complained of being melancholy to a friend, who
advised him to go on shore and amuse himself. He was
alone in his cabin at the moment, and it was on the noise
made by his falling that some persons went in. Ho has a
wife and family. The motives for this rash deed are not
known. He does not appear to regret what lie has done,
since, at half-past eleven, after the wound had been dressed,
he entreated the surgeon to bleed him, that he might tlio
the sooner.

BELGIAN FUNDS, BRUSSELS, JliNg Z 7,
Actual Debt, •2t per Cent. „
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lot
Loan of City, 1832.4 per Cent 99%
Society of Commerce, 4>.; per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 119%
—Brussels Papers, June 28.
BERLIN, JUNE 17.—The King will not go to Toplitz till
the 15th of July, which is rather later than usual, so that
he will probably not return to Berlin before his birthday,
as was the case last year. The Grank Duke of Mecklen-
burg Strelitz, who arrived hero yesterday afternoon, went
immediately to Schonhausen, to see his sister the Duchess
of Cumberland, who is daily recovering. We hear now
that the Empress of Prussia will not come to Germany till
the at umn, and will probably pass the winter at Berlin. It
is still believed that two of the Royal Princes will visit
tile French Court.

ROVEREDO, JUNE 20.—The Dukes of Orleans and Ne-
mours arrived here on the lettrfrom Botzen. The joy of tho
people, who were assembled in great numbers, was damped
by information that the Duke of Nemours was suffer-
ing with a severe inflammation in the throat, and had im-
mediately gone to bed. M. Aberle, an able surgeon,
was sent to him by the Government, and found it neces-
sary to apply a great number of leeches. This not
having produced the desired effect, it was deerned proper
On the 19th in the morning to bleed him, and as the in-
flammation did not abate, again to apply a great number of
leeches. Towards evening the Inflammation abated, so
that Ilis Royal Highness passed the night pretty quietly.
To-day he continues to grow better, and it is hoped that he
will soon be quite recovered. The Duke of Orleans, who
did not quit his brother's bedside on the 18th and 19th, is
gone to-day to Vienna, to meet the King of the Two Ski-
lies and the Prince of Palermo, in whose company 11Q will
probably return to Roveredo.

VIENNA, JUNE, 20.—Five per Conts„ 104 ; Four per
Cents., 991; Three per Cents„ ; Bank Shares, 1,397.
—Alt'eruchw gs-44-40. June 2.5.
-,kuvE, JUNE 27.—We have heard for utme limo
past of splendid fetes which are to be aim here in the
course of the summer. It is now ttilitllled that his Royal
Highness the Prince of -Orange has invited a number of the
English Nobility, who have received him with so much dis-
tinction, to come hither in the beginning of next month,
when a series of entertainments will take place in honour of
the British visitors, who will be brought to Rotterdam in
two yachts.

-
By a Royal Resolution of the 24th May, Mg iiAtage of
newspapers from the mother country; tci The Colonies, and
vice versa, is reduced ono lAlf,
AMSTERDAM, jp,ttiN qii,,..=WO have received the news or
a tiM Mterfil4 14 Aasasalnate King Louis Phißippe,
DUTCH FUNDS—AmsrEttniot, JIINR A.
Mcmcy. Dills.
Actual ()At, 214 per Celt. u.,.,.,.,,,,,,.,, ~,,,,,.., • Stir,se,/
Ditto, ditto 5 per co% „,
A !lioi t :,vilititl, 41.11,,,,,, pent ,
91 fit{ tiltt%_ .Ag per cent SI Fl
t,ominercial Company, 4,4 per cent....
Ditto, (1A32 and Ittl3) 5 per tout. .. .......
1.999 isa!3, 4, rer cent.
LxphaNte on London, One month l2 IN
Two months
...Ditich Avers, June 29.
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HAMBURG 11ORSEN lIA LLE, JUNE 25.
FOREIGN FUNDS. tills. Money.
Austrian Metalliques, 5 per cent.
Ditto ditto 4 per cent.
Ditto ditto 3 per cent.
Ditto Bank Shares ... —lna 1371
Russian 5 per cents. Metal. .......... „„,„„... 100% 10%
Anglo- Russian Loan
... t•weat•gt••• ...... iiiN 106
Paper InAliptio9, 0 lor wilt. .. . .
.._
Itit,ian I tisortptmn, 4-14110 Anti Cu., al and 4th
.10i1114 .3e....1 Mk Of;%
Ditto, Certitica tes
Portuguese Regency Bemis. 5 per cent 791,4 79
nut., 8 per cent. soi, 5M4
14111,11 23, ievr Cinits..
Flittu . pet Cents _ _
pohh U.:otitis, 3 per cents.
A Iniirt.Danish lion, 3 per cents
Not wegian Loan of 1E434, 4 per cents. ......
spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents —
Cot tes Loan, 5 per Cent
r;teck I per cents. 11;33, uuaranteed by France 98th 98

POST OFFICE.—The Chancellor of the Exche-
quer gave notice last night, that on Thursday next he would
bring in a Bill for the regulation of the Post Office.

We are requested to contradict the paragraph, co-
pied from a country paper, which appeared in our columns,
relative to the upsetting of the Times Bedford coach. A
gentleman, who was a passenger by the coach on the day al.
laded to, assures us there was no accident of the kind. The
only thing that occurred was, one of the leaders bolted, but
by the good management of the coachman was. prevented from
doing any mischief.

ATTACKS ON THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—
The United Service Journal for July has taken high ground,
as. the representative of the British Military Servioe, in re-
plying to the recent authorised attacks of the Prussian Generals
on the Duke of Wellington and the Army of England, upon
pretexts arising out of the Duke's evidence before the Military
CUlPUlission. The United Service Journal elaborately argues
the whole question, and, while it temperately, but convin-
cingly refutes the imputatinua so boldly east upon our troops
by their late allies, tealuusly vindicates the nation at large
(r.:l!n, the tivanidasa reproaches of her jealous friends. These
articles will doubtless make a stir.not only at home but abroad.
GOLD AND SILVER PLATE IN SCOTLAND.—
The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave notice t 1141,, o Mon-
day next, he would bring in aßill t(k fil.tllcA 4tpdapi of gold
and silver plate in Oepilail4, to er.ktdo fQr the assaying
OCTP4

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Pc:qc 'Ol4 114 S&A4osm ; on, THE CA-
oF NATcuE, WkLLIAM AND MARY He W ITT.—
Tlals WOrk has culled up visions of primroses, quivering leaves,
shining waters, and rose-embowered cottages—all that is as-
sociated with the youth and manhood of the year, with poetry,
with nm,ie, and with affection. It is a perfevt/ delightful book.
A fourth edition ! We thonglt 11:nt re4c ;ed 4. tenth; and
shall think wqrse of the reading public tilt it has done so. It
is Ane thgce wotiss that come upon us poor pent-up critics,
with the fragrance' of new-mown hay, and the freshness and
the feeling of the song of summer birds.—Athenceunt.