The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-18 00:00:00

IRELAND

Dublin, Aug. 16.
GREAT MEETING OF THE COUNTY KlLDARE.—Pur-
suant to a requisition, signed by nearly three hundred of
the gentry and landholders of this county, presented to
the High Sheriff, to call a meeting "to take into conside-
ration the course which should be adopted to secure to the
people of Ireland relief from the odious impost of tithes,
in such efficient manner as to obtain the appropriation, to
national improvement and education, of that portion of the
Church revenue wrung from a starving peasantry ; and also
to adopt such meawres as might. tend to obtain for Irish-
men a full reform of their Municipal Corporations, con-
scious, as the requisitionists were, that they were justly
entitled to all the privileges which Englishmen enjoy ;" J.
H. Nangle, Esq., the High Sheriff, appointed yesterday,
the 15th inst., to take the object of this requisition into
consideration, at the Court House, Naas. On the motion
of the Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, the High Sheriff was called to
the chair. After several powerful and eloquent speeches,
breathing a determination to obtain the same measure ot
freedom for Ireland as England and Scotland enjoy, Reso-
lutions declaratory of such determination were adopted.
The meeting then having given three cheers for Lord Mul-
grave, Daniel O'Connell, and Henry Grattan, peaceably
separated.
The Registration yesterday was favourable to the
Liberals.
SYNOD OF ULSTER.—The question of unlimited sub-
scription to the Westminster Confession of Faith has long
been a source of serious difference and contention amongst
the Presbyterian body in this country. The General Synod
of Ulster has been for some days past occupied in debating
the subject. The discussions terminated by a decision in
favour of unlimited subscription.
THE KILLYMAN WRECKERS.—The reader will remem-
ber that we have already recorded the exploits of the pa-
rishioners of the Rev. Murtagh O'Sullivan, a non-resident
rector, known by the name of the Killyman Wreckers—
how they burned houses and drove the people on the road
side, maimed many of them, though these excellent Pro-
testants of Murtagh failed in their designs of murder. We
further gave a report of the trial—of the charge of the
Chief Justice, a most memorable one—and of the escape
of the rebels, owing to the impossibility of identifying them.
In the course of the trial it may be remembered that cer-
tain imputations were cast upon Sir Frederick Stoven, the
Inspector of Police, in the testimony of Mr. Olpherts, a
magistrate, which imputations were caught up by the
Orange press, who opened, as is their wont, a battery of
abuse against that excellent and high-spirited soldier.—
Dublin Evening Post.
The same journal publishes a letter from Captain Duff,
a stipendiary magistrate, correcting the misrepesentations
which it seems have been put forth. Sir F. Stoven is at
present absent from Ireland.
Lord Hillsborough, the candidate for Down, has evi-
dently stole a leaf from the political directory of Peel.
The country thinks a total abolition of the blood-stained
impost, not only a national, but a necessary reform. Lord
Hillsborough thinks that tithes and religion are one and
the same thing—of course he will uphold the gorgeous
nuisance "to operate as a shield of defence." This is a
new light view of one of the most offensive and unneces-
sary establishments in Christendom.—Freeman.
Mr. O'Connell left Dublin on Saturday last for Derry-
nane Abbey, accompanied by two of his sons.
TIIE LORD LIEUTENANT'S TOUR—WATERFORD.—The
tour of Earl Mulgrave still continues to be distinguished
by those characteristics which arc so honourable to Gover-
nor and governed. There is no abatement of the enthu-
siasm anywhere in his Excellency's reception. It is the
spontaneous homage of hearts grateful to one in whora the
people, at least, recognize a ruler, a protector. The ad-
dresses of the people, too, still continue to be everywhere
characterised by great ability—by sound principles of con-
stitutional liberty—with that reasonable consideration for
the difficulties interposing between the desire and the at-
tainment of justice, which proclaims such a people cannot
long remain provincialised.—Pilot.
With reference to the incendiary attempt the same
journal states—" We saw with our own eyes all the prepa-
rations for the deed, and these, too, on the point of success.
A few minutes more undiscovered, and the fine building
would have been wrapt in flames—with plate, wine, linen,
and all other materials prepared on the most splendid scale
by Mr. Purser, who keeps the club-room ; that unoffending
individual would have been ruined, and the housekeeper of
the court-house, who slept at the top of the building inevit-
ably consumed, and all this done by the hellish spirit of
faction, enraged by the presence of the ruler, whose mis-
sion reminded them that the reign of a lawless, plundering,
and monopolising faction was at an end."
REPRESENTATION OF DOWN.—Lord Sandys, who is now
raised to the peerage, has just published a farewell address
to the constituency of Down. Lord Hillsborough has de-
clared himself a candidate.
THE HAMILTONS.-*--It is probable that this one Tory
knot possesses about 6,0001. per annum in tithe property—
a tolerably handsome share of public plunder for a single
family ! This, too, is exclusive of the revenue from glebe-
lands.—Freeman.
CONSTABULARY APPOINTAIENTS.—After having given
the list our best consideration, it is but in a single instance
that we have ground for' aying the blame of a bad promo-
tion to the door of the Government. The instance to
which we allude—let us follow Mr. O'Connell's example,
and express our opinions frankly—is the appointment of
Mr. Vignoles, a person of whose Toryism the Government
had the best means and opportunity of being informed, be-
cause he is the son of a reverend gentleman who was made
one of the Castle chaplains by a Tory Viceroy, and is,
besides, a near relative of the late Under Secretary, Sir
William Gossett. If it was not for the appointment of
Mr. Vignoles, we should have the gratification of declar-
ing, that if Lord Mulgrave had been dealt with in certain
quarters as honestly as he is disposed to deal with the
country, there would not have been an objectionable name
in the list.—Freeman.

Michael Passage, of the ship Tryagain, was drowned oe
Monday, being in a state of inebriety, from drinking immo-
derately of whisky.—Southern Reporter.
A Mr. Fox, who kept caravans on the Rathmines road,
had a horse that died of the button farcy ; and in order to
ascertain the root of the disease, he had the animal opened ;
during the operation of which some of the poisonous matter
came in contact with a sore on Mr. Fox's hand, which
communicated with the system, and in spite of the best
medical advice, the poor man died in a few days. This is
a case deserving the attention of the Faculty.—Dublin
Register.

A forgery has been discovered at the Bank of Eng-
land, and the party arrested, but the circumstances connected
with it have not fully transpired. The current statement is,
that the person who has committed the fraud was the agent
and legal adviser of the party defrauded. The whole affair is
under investigation, and one account is that it will compromise
more persons than the one in custody.
It will be seen from the proceedings of the House
of Lords last night, that our predictions respecting the offen-
sive clause in the Inns and Alehouses Licensing Bill were com-
pletely verified. The clause was thrown out without almost a
dissentient voice; and the Bill is now stripped of every thing
offensive. We shall give a copy of it to-morrow. Whether
the Commons will adopt it, shorn as it is of its former propor-
tions, remains to be seen. —MorningAdvertiser.

A traveller in the shoe trade at Thetford, of the name
of Palmer, died on Sunday last, shortly after bathing in a river
in that town. Whilst bathing he complained that something
had struck his upper lip ; but on his makirr, the complaint no-
thing extraordinary was observed to be the' matter with him.
His lip, however, continued to swell so much that he expired in
the course of a few hours. It is supposed he must have been
bitten by some species of snake. Suffolk Paper.
A LONG SPEECIL—In a recent case before the
Prerogative Court in Doctors' Commons, Dr. Addams is said
to have addressed the Judge for eleven consecutive hours.

It was decided last week by the Magistrates of Ba-
singstoke that a member of the Establishment attending any
other place of worship than his own parish church, is not ex-
empted from the payment of toll under the General Turnpike
Act.

The payments on the East India remittable loan,
which have more than once been adverted to, as exercising
an important influence on the money market, have now been
completed. The total amount receivable under this instalment
was 1,700,0001., of which 1,500,0001. was paid on the 13th, and
the rest subsequently. Inquiry was made by persons desirous
of ascertaining the strength and true position of the money-
market as to the tenure of these bills, and it was satisfactorily
proved that no portion of this amount had passed through the
hands of the discount brokers, the whole being retained till
due by the parties to whom it was remitted. There could not
be more conclusive evidence of the sound state of one very
important branch of our trade. The Bills drawn from Cal-
cutta on the East India Company, in consequence of the con-
version, arc divided into two parts, the first of which, num-
bered from 1 to 888, is that just due, amounting, as already
noted, to 1,700,0001. ; the other series will complete the con-
version, and be numbered from 888 to the end. Its amount
is computed at double that of the first series, and it will be-
come due on the 18th of January, 1837.

An Act of Parliament has just passed, which set-
tles a disputed point in regard to bills of exchange, and which
of business generally.
ought, therefore, to be known to men
The point alluded to is that respecting acceptors or referees
for honour, in which no uniform practice existed, some houses
presenting the bills so marked on the day when they became
i
due, and others the day after. It s now declared, however,
that it shall not be necessary to present such bills of exchange
until the day following that on which they become due, and if
the address of the acceptors or referees for honour shall be in
any other place than that in which the bills shall be made pay-
able, they need not be forwarded until the day succeeding that
in which they become due. If the following day shall be either
Sunday, Good Friday, or Christmas-day, they need not be pre-
scnted or forwarded until the day succeeding such day of non-
business.