The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-16 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty arrived in town from Windsor Castle at ten minutes
past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, accompanied by her august mother,
and attended by the Countess of Mulgrave, in a carriage and four, with
an escort of lancers. The royal suite followed in two carriages and four,
and included Lady Flora Hastings, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Spring
Rice, Hon. Mrs. Brand, Baroness Lehzen, and the Hon. Col. Cavendish.
The Hon. Mr. Brand and the Hon. Col. Cavendish joined the Royal
circle at dinner last evening at the new palace. The Earl of Uxbridge
and Vice-Admiral Sir Robert Otway were the Lord and Groom
iu
waiting.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince George of Cam-
bridge visited her Majesty, the Queen Dowager yesterday, at 'Marlbo-
rough house.
'The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, honoured with
their presence the fancy fair at the Hanover-square Rooms yesterday.
Prince George of Cambridge, attended by Colonel Cornwall, returned
to town on Thursday night, front Frogmore Lodge.
Prince Schwartzenburg, Ambassador Extraordinary from the Emperor
of Austria, was introduced to Viscount Palmerston, principal Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs, yesterday afternoon, by Prince Estcrhazy,
the Austrian Ambassador.
M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, introduced the Ambassador Ex-
traorchriary from his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, to Viscount
Palmerston, her Majesty's principal Secretary of State) for Foreign Af-
fairs, yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office.
A deputation from the Colonial Missionary Society, consisting of Mr.
Baines, M.P., Rev. Mr. Wells, Mr. Gull, and Mr. Mills, had an inter-
view with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, m Downing-street.
Mr. Thos. M‘Donnell, late additional British resident at New Zea-
land, had an interview with Lord Glenelg yesterday, at the Colonial
office, on his return from that country.
Viscount Melbourne returned to town yesterday afternoon, from a
visit to her Mz.jesty, at Windsor Castle.
The French Ambassador transacted business yesterday, at the
Foreign-office.
The Spanish Ambassador Extraordinary had an interview with Vis.
count Palmerston yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Lord Pundas, Earl Mulgrave, Mr. Nicholls, and Mr. Martin, M.P.,
bad inteetiVf#With yjscount Melbourne yesterday,

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1838.

Lords year after year have refused to listen to the prayer of
the Irish, and have given them up to the mercy of Exche-
quer processes, tithe proctors, and an armed police. They
bare refused them franchises, lest the Established Church,
which is an insult to them, should be weakened. They

have insisted on binding the Irish, in order to keep them
the secure prey of the established priesthood. They have
called them aliens, and treated them as enemies. They
have denounced their faith and their teachers, and have
openly avowed that the Tory part of the Legislature is in
hostility to them. They are not righteous rulers, but
insulting tyrants, and like all tyrants they tremble
when the people show their strength. One and all
of them say, and their scribes i❑ the Press take up
'he same strain—" Oh, it is illegal—it is unconstitutional
—it is very wrong in those Irish to collect in such num-
bers, and frighten u 3 reasonable Tory Lords." Illegal and
unconstitutional, is it ! Then we ask by what means can
the Irish get redress ? The Lords are irresponsible, and
they hold their power independently of the people.
Are the Irish to trust Lord LYNDHURST'S conscience, Lord
WICKLOW'S sense of justice, Lord GLENGALL'S righteous-
ness, Lord FITZGERALD'S recollections of Clare, and
the Duke of WELLINGTON'S love of military obedience—
and are they, after so many years' disappointment, to take
oo steps to help themselves ? Are they to lie down for
ever to be trampled on by Tory lords and Protestant par-
sons ? The thousands of occupiers on whose produce the
titheowners annually seize have no voice in the Legis-
I iture. They are cut off from all share of the representa-
tion ; and if they are not to meet to inspire each other
with confidence, and assert their rights in common, they are
wretched slaves of the Tories and of the established priesthood.
If their meetings be illegal and unconstitutional, about which,
however, there are many doubts (for the fears of Tory Lords
are not the law and the Constitution), the sooner they he
made legal and constitutional the better. We do not say
that they are legal, but that they are praiseworthy. First,
to refuse the Irish all redress, to taunt them in insulting
!anguage, and then to prohibit them meeting to express
their feelings, is an odious tyranny which only cravens and
men worthy to be slaves would submit to. The Irish are
not cravens, and already the Tory Lords are terrified at
the consequences of the wrong they have done.
At the meeting at the Curragh of Kildare on last Sun-
lay, there were only, says the Pilot, between five and six
thousand persons present. More were prevented from at-
tending by the late hour at which Divine service was con
eluded. The spirit which animated them may be known
by the following extracts from their resolutions :

" That the present settlement of the tithe question, as explained in
the speeches of both parties in the House of Commons, appears to be
the result of a compromise between the Ministers of the Crown and the
'Tories. The Irish people are no parties to this compromise, and cannot
be bound by it.

" ResoliTedLThat the total extinction of the tithe system, in name
and nature, in form and substance, can only give satisfaction to the
people of Ireland.
" Resolved--That the amount of tithes now claimed, is in many cases
AO large, and in all cases so obnoxious, as to render it totally impossible
for the occupiers to discharge it ; and that in any temporary settlement of
the question, an exemption of the arrears to the occupiers is indispen-
sable."

These resolutions were unanimously agreed to, and the
Tory Lords are now sensible that they have revelled too
long in injustice, and that the tithes cannot be saved.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER forestalled Mr.
PEASE last night, and proposed to reduce the drawback or
bounty now allowed on the exportation of Refined Sugar to
the extent of 7s. 2d. per cwt. He admitted, too, that the
full extent of the bounty in a case which was carefully in-
vestigated was 10s. 10d. per cwt. on Reined Sugar, and
we see no reason to suppose that the selected 7s. 2d. is
nearer the average than the 10s. 10d. On the contrary,
we believe, as the object of the Refiner, under the present
law, is to leave his sugar as coarse as possible so as to pass
muster, that the larger sum is still below the sum taken out of
the pockets of the people on all the sugar they consume, for
behoof of the Wrest Indians. In the course of the debate Mr.
GLADSTONE admitted that this bounty was given to the West
Indians, in order to compensate them for the disadvantage of
being obliged to take their manufactured articles and lumber
wholly from our dominions. We first fleece the West
Indians for the advantage of the Canadas, or some other
colony, and then we fleece the people here to compensate the
West Indians, thus running for ever on the same round of
inflicting mutual and reciprocal injury. The public, how-
ever, is scarcely sensible of the mischief it suffers from this
drawback or bounty. By its means the West Indians are
enabled to sell their surplus sugar on the Continent,
and if it were abolished the price of all the sugar consumed in
the empire would fall to the full extent of the bounty. Mr.
HumE implied that the reduction
proposed by the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER Will cause all sugars to be sold
at 7s. per cwt. less than at present, benefiting the con-
sumer to that extent. It is also stated by those conver-
sant with this subject, that the reduction of the drawback
leading to a great reduction of price, will cause the refiners
to work more for the home market, and as they can pro-
duce the best refined sugar at only Id. per lb. more than
the riw sugar, they calculate upon a great increased
consumption of refined sugar at home, which would
more than compensate them for any little loss they may
suffer from the bounty being withdrawn. The subject is,
however, again to come under the notice of the Legislature,
and we shall probably recur to it on Monday.

We are glad to see that the Bill for extending Farring_
don-street northwards to Clerkenwell passed the Com-
mons last night. The improvement effected by this Bill
Hill be as great as any that have of late been made in the
Metropolis, and Sir MATIIEW WOOD is entitled to great
credit for the very active part he has taken in bringing
it about.

The lrishonf Commons
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The chief point of discussion was an amendment proposed
to be introduced, for the purpose of protecting the electors
ndlc Municipal
of the city of Dublin from the consequences of neglect or
ty Houseam e
partizanship of the collectors of taxes. It is well known that
many of the Parliamentary electors have been disfranchised
by these causes. Either the collector has forgot to call, or kept
out of the way until the day of payment was past. To secure
the voter against a similar Municipal disfranchisement, it
was proposed to insert a clause fixing the Bank of Ireland
as the locality to which the electors might resort with the
amount of their taxes. The clause was opposed on two
~rounds ; first, because being so worded that a sum of
Money might be paid into the Bank by any individual, in
payment of the taxes of any number of voters, it was consi-
dered likely to lead to wholesale bribery on the eve of an
election. Secondly, because if the principle were good, and
that was admitted on both sides oftho House, it ought not
to be confined to Dublin, but extended to the other cities
and boroughs. The clause was eventually withdrawn, but
will probably be brought forward in a less objectionable
form at the reporting of the Bill on Monday next, when
several other postponed clauses will be taken into con-
ideration.

The Paris. journals of Thursday, the whole of' which we
have received, bring no news of any political interest. On
Wednesday the Chamber disposed of the whole of the bud-
get for 1839, the grants for the ensuing year exceeding
402e,i5n0e0n,t0ay
Oro/. sterling, exclusive of a vote of credit for sup-
uer e
wasof theo. p
adebatewd
of thea
smuggling of xtphecnEsensg.lisllfnattlleass7g
a violation of the quadruple treaty, whereupon the Minis-
ter of Finance stated that negotiations on the subject were
pending between the Cabinets of England and France.
Our advises from Madrid are of the 7th inst. Generals
CORDOVA and l'AftniNAs, and MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA,
were among the guests at the dinner given on the previous
day to the French Ambassador by Sir GEORGE 'VILLIERS.
Letters from Saragossa of the Otis state that the Carlists
were tnabing great preparations for the defence of Mo-
rella. General SAN MIGUEL encountered a division of
the Carlists on the 7th at Muniesa, but the affair terminated
in the loss of some fifteen killed on both sides. Among the
slain were two Christino cavalry officers.
FRENCH FUNDS. - PARIS, JUNE ]4.
LATEST PRICES.
Fll:4olv,reiemi,:ieipr,erCieConel:i.t.s nfifof4.
Bank Actions, t3,7t111.
Belgian 'Loan, 10'21i•
Belgian Bank, 1,450 c.
Haytian Loan, 3sof.
Spanish Actives, '22}4.
Spanish Passives, 474

BANK OF IRELAND CH A RTER.—A Petition from
Carrick on Suir, very respectably and numerously signed by the land.
owners, merchants, and traders of the town and neighbourhood, was
presented to the House of Commons last night by Mr. Mayer, M.P. The
prayer of the petition was against the renewal of the Bank of Ireland
Charter, with its present exclusive privileges.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, YESTERDAY.—In the
case of Layburn a,;(1 others v. Crisp and others, which was not conellldVit
yesterday when we went to press, a considerable quantity of eyidence
having been heard, the Court adjourned the further ittlaring, which is
expected to occupy a greg leoith of gin,

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)