The Sun.
London, England, 1836-07-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MILITARY OCCUPATION OF THE NORTH.—Under this
Lead the Mail of Monday last is pleased to put forth a
kind of proclamation full of sound and fury, threatening, in
the scope of its mighty wrath, a general annihilation of
Lord Mulgrave's Government. The bare mention of any
measure to preserve the public peace against illegal asso-
ciations, stirs up the bile of our Orange contemporary.
He is exceedingly irate that the military should be at hand
in those districts, where Orange processions might -possibly
lead to scenes, the recurrence of which it is the wise policy
of the present Government to prevent. After vehemently
denying that any necessity exists for sentl'ing, troops into
Ulster and its vicinage, and politely characterising the asser-
tion of such necessity as an " insolent refuge of lies !" our
temperate contemporary hazards a 'ieclaration which is cal-
culated to excite equal astonisly.nent and pleasure. The
Mai/ declares, for the information of all men, that " there
are no Orangemen !"—but that Lord Mulgrave must not
think of dragooning the people of Ulster out of their prin-
ciples. In candour and in truth he might have substituted—
preventing their processions. The stipendiary magistrates,
and especially Mr. Gore Jones, are also objects of attack.
The article in question is altogether so amusing a specimen
of the mock heroic and Bob Acre's style, blended in
one harmonious whole, that we regret we can only find
room for the beginning of it. " Gracious Heaven," exclaims
the Mail in a paroxysm of horror, "Gracious Heaven!
4' can it be the intention of Ministers to harrass, insult, and
goad the Protestants of Ireland into an angry and self-de-
fensive position, such as may afford a colourable pretext
tor acts of unconstitutional severity—or deeds of horror not
to be contemplated without the deepest affliction ? If not,
what is the meaning of delugir, the North of Ireland with
a military force, unheard of and unrequired in that most
loyal and peaceable part of the empire ? Or what the
purport of those hostile preparations, against the occur-
rence of the 12th of July, which menace the Protestant
population of Ulster with an insulting constraint, not upon
their public acts as Orangemen—for these they have volun-
tarily abandoned—but upon their private opinions and prin-
ciples as subjects of the realm, which they ought not, and
will not surrender but with their lives ? But above ail,
what augury are we or they to draw h-om the re-appoint-
ment—the mysterious re-appointment to this devoted dis-
trict, of the most obnoxious—most suspected--and most
of all the tools which an unfriendly Execu-
tive ever employed against its unoffending subjects—of Mr.
Gore Jones, we say, whose conduct, upon a former occasion
of a similar nature, is ar,algned by the puhlic, and remains
indefensible by the Government."

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FLORAL EXIIIBITIONS.—There will be several
-floral and hczticultural shows within the next few weeks.
One in the grounds of Worton Lodge, Isleworth, during the
Present .-,oath. at which we believe the visitors will consist. of
the nol.dlity only, and the prizes and plants moft costly than
usual on such occasions, a superb silver cup being the prin-
cipal prize for orchadeus and stove plants ; a gold medal being
the chief prize for the best general collections; and similar
prizes, as well as numerous silver medals struck for the occa-
sion, being the proposed distinctions of merit for whatever else
-may be deemed worthy. The visitors will be admitted by
tickets only, issued by the atrons and atronesses. But the
largest floral exhibit on of the year will take place on Thur s-
day, the 11th of August, at the Vauxhall Gardens, which arc
found to be the most eligible in or near the metropolis, both
for the accommodation of a large concourse without incon-
venience, even in bad weather, and for the proper display of
the plants. On this cecasion the full band of the Coldstream
Guards, under Mr. Godfrey and several others, will attend,
and the Italian promenade wirt be decorated and thrown open,
besides which the ascent of balloons and numerous other en-
tertainments will he contrived to divide the numerous visitors.
KEAN.—.The Waterford Theatre closed for
the season with Massinger's play of a New Way to Pay Old
Debts; the part of the hero, Sir Giles Overreach, was
enacted by Mr. Kean. His performance in c the truth and energy with whic erh
fhe delineatedthis the fellharacter pfn.,
skiing f
the bold, .bad man, have not been exceeded by any_
applause which we ever witnessed on the stai,e, Never were
apprause and admiration more unhound'A ;'neyer were they
more honorably and deservedly Ivor., than by Mr. Kean on
this occasion; he has added 'new gems to that theatrical
cu rown,ences with which the judgr.nent of admiring and discerning
adi alrcad) t''',icircled his brow. We now take
our leave of Mr. Kean with the liveliest feelings of the
exquisite dcli:;:nt, 'which we have enjoyed in witnessing the
efforts of,kis high, and in many respects unrivalled genius
—may ..:no bright star which has so gloriously burst from all
the et.ouds that overcast its dawn, still increase in brilliancy
as it culminates to its meridian, till it irradiates the theatrical
hemisphere
" With one unclouded blaze of living light."
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Waterford Chronicle.

A MAD BULLOCK.—Yesterday ID:ailing a bul-
lock, Which had been teased and hurr:ed by a number of men
and boys, 'became dreadfully- outrageous, and ran off with
fearful v•.efocity up the New.i.o„d, to the great alarm of foot
and ot'Aer passent:::rs. NVe arc sorry to state that in its pro-
grePis the inf...risted animal ran against and knocked down an
oVierly female, who was considerably bruised and hurt; at this
'period upwards of 150 blackguard; armed with sticks, &C.,
came up, and owing to the shouting which they made, the
bullock became wilder than before, and tossed a young man
from the footpath into the road. The znimal then turned
down the ffitnystead-road, and tossed and gored two other
persons? Out happily without doing them any serious injury.
Some butchers, armed with pole axes and other weapons, at
ICOgth rushed upon the bullock and deprived it of life.
ORATORY AT A. DISCOUNT.—An itinerant show-
trttan appeared to make a complaint before the Mayor of
Carlisle, against the contractor of the Railway for detention.
't'he showman was required to give an account of his daily
expenditure, and after going through the common items, he
tamed that be paid one man 30s. a week. " What for?"
enquired the Mayor: " Vy, please your vorship," replied the
showmen, "he is vot you'd call an horator. He stands on the
stage, -and asks the ladies and gemmed to walk up, and see the
curiosities, and a capital good un he is, and be is dirt cheap
tour vorship, He is a capital horator." - •

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LONDON,
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 13, 1836

The history and fate of the South Durham Rail-
way Bill, which on Monday was, thrown out by the
Lords on the ,second reading (i. e. without hearing
evidence at all), though the measure did not involve
any political principle, or propose any object more
important than a reduction in the price of coal to the
•1 poor of the metropolis, afford, nevertheless, a more
striking illustration than has iperhaps yet been given
of all the peculiar vices that are inherent in a body of
men brought together in the manner, and upheld in poli-
tical privileges on the principles upon which that assembly
is constituted which we call in this country the House
of Peers—their arbitrary temper, the private and
personal motives and connections which determine all
theiracts, their disregard of the nation at large, and above
all their insolent defiance of the true Legislature of this
country—the representatives of the people. Without
inquiry, without hearing evidence—nay, shutting out
the only means by which any knowledge of the na-
ture and object of the measure they were to ad-
judicate on could by possibility reach them, viz., an
investigation before a Committee—these men, without
even the appearance of a hearing, passed sentence on
a measure which the House of Commons, after one
of the fullest inquiries which it ever applied to
any similar subject, had passed without even a divi-
sion. And all this for what ? Because Lord LON-
DONDERRY and Lord WIIARNCLIFFE are coal-
owners, and a reduction in the price of coal would
affect their incomes—because Lord LONDONDERRY
and Lord WIIARNCLIFFE have large houses, and give
great dinners and balls to the members of that body, with-
out whose consent, forsooth, the acts of the represen-
tatives of the people are to be of no avail.
Because there are fifty men in that body who are
socially and conventionally responsible to Lord
WIIARNCLIFFE and Lord LONDONDERRY fox their
votes in any measure touching the purses of- these
Coal Proprietors—here is the control to which the
Peers are amenable ; this is the kind of responsibility
under which hereditary legislators dispose of the inte-
rests of the people.

The rejection of the South Durham Railway Bill
by the Lords adds another to the many instances in
which we have lately experienced the unspeakable be-
nefit of hereditary legislation—of having our laws
framed by sages responsible only to Gon. This Bill
had passed the Commons, where, although there was,
as we have been told, some dirty, sneaking, backstair
influence employed against it while in Committee, no
one ventured to oppose it openly and manfully.
• Of its great utility, particularly to
the inhabi-
tants of the Metropolis, nobody pretends even
now to entertain a doubt. By the opening of
a new and- copious source of supply in the article of
coal, the price of that commodity—next to food, the
greatest necessary of life—would have-been lowered to
the public. But what care the Lords for the public ?
What are the interests of the community when put in
comparison 'with those of a Peer—and that Peer, too,
no less a personage than the Gallant Nobleman who so
frequently exhibits himself .for the amusement of the
Order, and who, should, it ever be thought advisable