The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

TOTAL ABOLITION OF TITHES.—The Dublin Evening
Post reports the proceedings of a Great Meeting of the
County of Louth, held last Monday at Dundalk, to take
into consideration the propriety of petitioning Parliament
for the total abolition of tithes in substance as well as name,
and for a measure of corporate reform similar to that en-
joyed by the people of England and Scotland. The meet-
ing was called pursuant to requisition by M. Chester, Esq.,
the High Sheriff, who was moved to the Chair. Berkeley
B. Stafford, Esq., opened the discussion in an address pre-
fatory to proposing the first resolution, which, with the
subsequent motions respectively made, was unanimously
adopted by the meeting. The following is the resolution
referred to :—" That one of the chief causes of the do-
mestic dissensions which afflict Ireland is the maintaining
of the Church Establishment on its present scale, in opposi-
tion to the feelings and interests of the great majority of
the inhabitants of this country, and that there never can
be permanent harmony established amongst us until the
ascendancy of a sect has given way to the long-expressed
wishes and just claims of the Irish people."
The next resolution, moved by R. M. Bellew, Esq., was
declaratory of the desirableness of either extinguishing
Tithes in name as well as substance, or appropriating them
to the public purposes of the nation.

A resolution in favour of Corporate Reform succeeded.
After petitions to Parliament embodying this requisition,
as well as the other resolutions, had been adopted by the
meeting, a resolution of confidence in the Administration
of the Marquis of Normanby, was followed by one ex-
pressive of gratitude towards, and unabated confidence in,
Mr. O'Connell—" notwithstanding the late unfounded
attacks." Both were of course carried.

Thanks afterwards having been voted to the Sheriff, the
meeting separated, giving three cheers for the Queen,
three for Lord Normanby, and three for O'Connell. •
THE PRECURSOR SOCIETY.—There was a meeting of
this Association at the Corn Exchange last Tuesday. It
was convened at the desire of Mr. O'Connell, in conse-
quence of objections to some of tbc practical details of the
Precursor Society, in order that he should submit a plan
for the combination of all parties—Mr. Greene, of. Kil-
milmanahan Castle, presided. Amongst the members ad-
mitted were Messrs. Vigors, M.P., Blackney, and G. R.
Keogh, late High Sheriff of Carlow.
A large amount of money was received from various
parts of the country.

An Englishman, it appears, was present, and corrected
Mr. O'Connell. The circumstance is alluded to in our
Dublin letter thus :

" A person who stated he belonged to the English -Radi-
cal body next addressed the meeting. After stating
his approval of the principles of the Precursor Society,
he referred to the proceedings of the English Radicals. He
stated they had no communication whatsoever with Messrs.
Oastler and Stephens. He had professed himself a friend
of Feargus O'Connor."

Mr. O'Connell in a very able speech, made evident to
the meeting, that this individual, who professed himself to
he the friend of Mr. O'Connor, who it was well known was
the friend of Oastler and Stephens, and the class of persons
who were anxious to have recourse to arms, to procure the
passing of any law they wished for, must be an enemy in
disguise."

We may to-morrow find room for the speech of the
Learned Gentleman, who supported his proposition for a
revision of the rules of the Precursor Society. He pro-
posed that all the rules and regulations and the entire con-
stitution of the Society should be submitted to the stand-
ing committee, and that on the next day of meet-
ing they should report a permanent constitution for the
Society.

THE MAGISTItACY.—We perceive that the Lord Chan-
cellor has considered it necessary to remove from the Corn-
mission of the Peace Mr. Gallway, of Killarney, in conse-
quence of some illegal and ill-considered conduct of his in
the discharge of his magisterial duties. The Dublin
Evening Post observes—" So far as we are acquainted with
the particular case on which the Lord Chancellor's decision
was founded, Mr. Gallway appears to have acted rather
from a mistaken estimate of the extent of his authority than
from any less excusable motive."

GENEROUS RECOMPENSE.—The amount of sal-
vage awarded to Captain Bushell for his eminent services
in saving the French brig, Ajax, and its valuable cargo of
oils, &c., has been adjudged by the Courts of Boulogne et the
insignificant sum of 401. ! The vessel was fallen in with on
the voyage to Boulogne, water-logged, and was taken in
tow and safely harboured by Captain Bushell.—Kenash
Gazette.