The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

WRITS OF REBELLION.—The Leinster Express (an
Orange paper) gives an account of proceedings so out-
rageous, brutal, an despotic, that we can with difficulty
believe that such s nes can have been enacted in a ci-
vilized country. Eight families, according to the account,
were forced out of their beds at dead of night, their houses
broken into, their doors smashed to atoms ! Here is a
process for the recovery of Tithes. Six gentlemen-farmers
were seized on, dragged along the country for eleven hours
at night, and then lodged in the common jail. The report
concludes thus :—" A Mr. Reddy was the next they took,
but finding him in a very delicate state of health they did
not remove him ; they then searched several houses, but
did not succeed until they came to Mr. Henry's, whom
they arrested without the slightest opposition, and brought
with them. Mr. Patrick Ryan, of Inch Castle, was the
next on the list who refused to admit them, but they soon
overcame his unwillingness by breaking in the door with
their sledges, and captured him. It being at this time nine
o'clock on Wednesday morning, they did not go further,
put their prisoners on a jaunting-car, and drove them into
Athy jaol, where they still remain. A good many of their
friends accompanied them to the town of Athy, and were
evidently enraged at witnessing the committal of some of
those who were the very head and front' of the tithe con-
spiracy. They are all strollg farmers and very respectable
men. The little agitators of Athy may take a lesson from
this—at least those who have anythinc, to lose by an oppo-
sition to the law. The party were out for twelve hours, and
could not have traversed less than twenty-five miles."
A letter dated 16th of March, from Athy, published in
the Freeman of Monday, confirms the report of the out-
rages committed by the midnight marauders there.
DUBLIN SOCIETY.—The last letter which Mr. Drum-
mond wrote to the Society was after a debate ordered to
be placed on the minutes. In the Society's answer, time
for consideration is asked. His Excellency intimated
pretty plainly that the large grant hitherto voted would
not be proposed by the Government.

The conduct of the servants of the visiters at the
Duchess of Kent's banquet on Saturday is said to have been
most flagitious ; and their conflict with the police such as could
only emanate from persons accustomed to an audacious disre-
gard of all control and decency.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.—On Monday morning,
about 11 o'clock, as a man named Jenkins, in the employ of
Mr. Bryant, of Oxford-street, was exercising a pair of spirited
young horses in a break, on passing along Little Borlow-
street, contiguous to Marylebone Police Office, the animals
suddenly took fright at a youth who was bowling his hoop,
and after several desperate plunges, dashed forward on to the
foot pavement with irresistible force. The wheel of the ve-
hicle coming in contact with the story post of the house No.
10, shattered it to pieces, carrying away several feet of the
brickwork, and shaking the building in such a manner as to
cause considerable alarm among the inmates, one of whom
had just entered and shut the door. By the violence of the
shock the unfortunate driver above named was precipitated
from his elevated position on to the pavement, and had his
skull fractured and his left leg badly broken in two places.
He was conveyed to Middlesex Hospitable in this deplorable
condition, where he remains without hope of recovery. The
horses were with difficulty stopped without doing further mis-
chief. The break was shattered to pieces.
MILITARY CHALLENGE.—TheEspanolof Madrid
contains a letter from Don Fernando Fernandez Cordova
(brother of General Cordova), dated Lizaso, February 26, to
Don
Joaquin Elio, a Colonel in the Carlist army, whereby the
former accepts a challenge proposed by the latter, to fight
with an equal number of men, with the permission of General
Cordova. And in order to show the superiority of the
Queen's troops, with the authoritylie of his brother,chal-
lenges the Carlist Colonealgat an engagement with 300 cavalry
of the Queen's troops
and
doo chosen Lancers of the
enemy's. With 16 battalionsst
cavalry;
cavalry he will meet
20 battalions of Carlists and 50ne,
, 600 and with 23 bat-
talions of the Queen's troops, cavalry,vhoarlied 4 pieces of
artillery, he will fight on open ground the whole forces of the
Queen's enemies united, in the four provinces, which,4l accord-
ing to the Carlist official accounts, amount 'to battalions
and 1,000 cavalry, with several pieces of artilley.
should have thought the opportunities to fight had beren.Ve
Nsuffi-
ciently abundant in the North of Spain to render special
challenges useless. It would be more profitable to act than
to bluster. Suchfulfurronades are sufficiently characteristic
of the men who have recourse to them.