The Sun.
London, England, 1836-06-23 00:00:00

IRELAND.

In reference to the two petitions from the diocese of Xil-
more and Armagh against Lord Morpeth's Church Bill, t'io
Freeman says, " These productions abound, as usual, with
convincing proof of the parson's acquaintance with the law,
aiLl equally copious demonstration of his thorough and pro-.
found ig.6.7ance of the Go'spel. The Acts of Lord Stanley
are evidently ;;?finitely more familiar to their reverences
than the Acts of. ,4.he Apostles. Money is in all their
thotig,itte=--they think, ti;s7 speak of nothing but money.
They are the only profession with which gain is the sole
consideration. The soldier serves for honour as well as for
pay ; the lawyer pleads for fame as well as for fees ; die
physician loves science as well as his guznea ; but the parson
has no regard for anything but pelf."
PUBLIC MEETraros.—On Friday a meet* of the people
of the independent County of Longford was held in the
county town, to petition for the abolition of tithes, and fir
the extension to Ireland of a measure of municipal reform
similar to that already conceded to Scotland. two
o'clock an immense concourse of persons, to the numb,lr of
between 15,000 and 20,000, were collected.
ORGANIZATION OF THE PEASANTRY.—A correspon-
dent of the (Orange) Mail writes—" Middleton, County
Cork,l4th June :—A circumstance occurred in this neigh-
bourhood a few days ago, of what would, in other times,
and under a different regime, be ludicrous enough, but it
really presents a frightful state of the county at present :
Mr. and Mrs. Harriet Poole, the latter the daughter of
Joseph Deane Freeman, Esq., of Castlecor, a newly mar-
ried pair, returned to Cahirnane, the seat of Mr. Poole, on
Tuesday, the 7th instant, the tenantry assembled in
thousands, and drew the carriage from Middleton to Collis-
nane, and bonfires were lighted on the neighbouring biit.c.."
The O'Connellites mistook the fires for a political move-
ment, and every hill, from Middleton to Watergrass-hill,
Rathcormac, and as far as Cappoquin, County Wateribrd,
was in a blaze. Never was a marriage in any rank of life
so extensively celebrated I 1 "
• REVlEW.—Saturday being the anniverszry of the glori-
ous .18th June, the customary inspection of troops by the
Lord Lieutenant took place in the Phoenix Park, and was
followed by a sham battle. This 'eplendid spectacle at-
tracted, as usual, immense numbers from the metropolis.
TITHE WAR.—We wish it were fought hr the Court of
Exchequer by only "Iwo" parsons—hut theavGyd two was
a misprint in yesterday's impression for " the"—meaning, of
course, that the Irish Protestant parsons generally conti-
nued to sue out writs of rebellion.
POOR LAWS PROSECUTION.—In a letter to the Pi/cr4
enclosing twenty pounds ten shillings as the contribution to
the O'Connell tribute by the parish of which Mr. Phelan is
the Clergyman, the Rev. Gentleman says,—" 1 must in
candor admit, that Mr. O'Connell's opposition to a legal
provision for the poor of Ireland, and his apathy on that
subject since he became a convert to its necessity, have had
a very unfavourable influence on the collection of the tri-
bute in this parish, particularly for the last two or three
years. The state of destitution to which so many hundreds
of the poor have been reduced here, the crowds of mendi-
cants (owing to the system of depopulation which is here
acted upon) which surround the houses, and block up the
doors of the middling and industrious classes, have forced
us to observe with peculiar regret that Mr. O'Connell, when
pleading the cause of Ireland, did not make use of his ta-
lents and his influence in advocating the cause of the poor,
who, above all others, stood in need of an advocate, and
whose wants and privations called more loudly and more
urgently for relief than any other class in society."
In alluding to the sufferings of the conscientious Catholics,
Mr. Phelan observes, that " there is. not a parish its this
county, nor in Ireland, that has latterly suffered so n.nch
as this, for tefusine to submit tamely and passively to Tory
domination and Orange' ascendancy. The single fact that
in this one parish alone upwards of fifteen hundred acres of
land have been taken from Catholics and given to Protes-
tants (who have been almost all Orangemen), and between
fifteen and sixteen hundred Catholics dispossessed (I include
those at present under ejectments), affords pretty good
proof of the truth of my assertion. Whoever may say the
contrary, it is certain that all this has been done by way of
punishing the Catholics of the parish, for asserting against
the will of their landlords, their religious and political
opinions, and with a view of upholding Tory influence in
this county, by men who coincide in principle with the
Rev. Marcus Beresford, and who have agreed to reduce to
practice the Christian admonition of that minister of reli-
gion. The spirit of Tory persecution has had recourse to
so many ways of annoying and harrassing those whom it
sought to punish, that the fact I have stated, howover
strong it may appear, affords but very imperfect means of
judging of the extent of sufferings which the Catholic and
liberal portion of our population had to endure."
TITHE WAR.—In referring to a long list of cases sum-
marily disposed of by the Barons of Exchequer, among
which is one of the Bishop of Ossory against the Catholic
parish priest and the Protestant rector of the parish, the
Dublin Evening Post has the following observation :
" The attorneys will make a fortune, but it is likely that
some have overshot the mark. It is a sad truth, that the
chief monies collected go into their coffers. We learn that
nearly four hundred bills are prepared for the next Term.
Great expense has unquestionably been incurred by these
preliminary steps—expenses which it is likely, we under-
stand, that the parties cannot easily recover from the de-
fendants. The mode of resistance will be changed, if the
Lords do not pass the Law. Those liable under Lord
Stanley's Act will pay—that is to say, fifteen per colt.
upon the tithe will be recovered. The remainder is spre
over a pauper population—and, we really think, that the
Church will have to whistle for their arrears, notwithstand-
ing all the Rebellion Smiths, Bags, Prims, &c , in the Hall."
CUNNEMARA.-..WC suppose the Lord Chancellor
not find it a difficult matter to decide upon the case put
before him by the meeting held at Clifden. Conduct
more unbecoming of the magisterial office we never
heard of, than that of the Messrs. Darcy, who attached
their names to the scandalous and inflammatory document,
published by the Society calling itself " the Cunnemara
Christian Committee." The mingled insolence and fana-
ticism displayed in that production exceed any thing that
we have heard, even from the lips of the great O'Mulligan
himself. It is impossible for charity itself to put any
laudable construction upon such language.---Freeman.

EMIGRATION.—From a statement m an Ulster paper, it
appears that the number of emigrants increases yearly, and
that during the last year 6,514 persons have left that dis-
trict for America.

MEETING OF ORANGEMEN !—We learn that a meeting-
of the Masters of Orange Lodges, hi the county of Ar-
magh, took place, on Monday last, at Rich-hill ; and that,
as our informant states, " the resolution of the said Master►;
was, no surrender!'" We beg to call the attention of
the Government to this movement. It appears, though
Cie Grand Lodge has been broken up, that the Society is
not yet dissolved ; but that the leaders are determined to
►cork the danerous old machinery. Such a proceeding, at
the present moment, and in that particular county, ought to
excite the utmost vigilance on the part of Government.
We have some other information from the same county,
which we shall notice in our next.—Northern Whig.
FATAL OCCURRENCE.—On Friday night last, the Bel-
fast and Enniskillen coach was upset, in the city of Ar-
magh, when the coachman, James M'Garr, was killed. No
one else was seriously hurt.
On Sunday evening last, as a farmer named John Power,
of 1,;111vale, near Coolnamuck, was sitting in his house,.a
man naint;:i Ward came in behind him and struck him on
the head wit a stave, which fractured his skull. " The
green-eyed monite:" is the cause of this home blow, for it
appears that the partie.: lived together, and Ward being a
first cousin of Power's wife, considered himself privileged to
make that freedom which Power thought it his duty to
reprimand, for which hint Ward rt:.nrted in the above as-
ssssin-►ike manner, leaving his victim with no hopes of re-
covery. Ward has absconded.

A silver chalice was stolen out of Rosetea chapel on
Friday night.
ARCHBISHOP CROLLY.—The Catholic clergy of the
T) rope district have met ar.d adopted resolutions, in con-
sequence of the attack made in the House of Lords. by
Lord Lyndhurst upon the Archbishop.
" It is now clearly established, says the Dublin Evening
Post, " that so far from having any ground whatever for
complaint, Mr. Mulholland was treated with a degree of
kindness and lenity which prates the extreme unwilling-
ness of the venerable Prelate who presides over the arch
diocese to resort to any extreme measure, even under cir-
cumstances of extreme provocation. Flow very different
was the conduct pursued towards a most worthy and ffs-
eellent Clergyman of the Established Church, the Rev.
Mr. Lyons, who was absolutely driven cut of his curacy by
the Ikresfords, without even a pretext for a charge against
him? Never have we read a more unanswerable case than that
established by Dr. Crolly. Lord Lyndhurst has utterly
fltiled in the object of his manoeuvre in this matter ; but he
certainly has been the unconscious and unwilling instru-
ment of exhibiting to the world the admirable discipline of
the Catholic Church, and the perfectly blameless conduct
of the Archbishop of Armagh."

EAST INDIA HOUSE.—Yesterday a half-yearly
General Court of the Proprietors of India Stock was held. at
the India House, for the declaration of a dividend and upon
other business, Sir James Curiae, Bart., in the Chair. The
Chairman acquainted the Court that the pc titions which had
been agreed to by the General Court of Proprietors, praying
an equalization of the duties upon East and West India sugar,
had been committed to the care of the Earl of Clare in the
• House of Lords; and that to the House of Commons to Lord
m. Bentinek.

Ace_utints f;on► Belgium state that the ►uanufacture
of beet-root sugar is becoming rapidly developed there, and a
-..ornpetition nith France ►nay' be expected. Six new mane.
f4lcteries have just been authorised, as well as eight distilleries
frwri grain and fruit, and an establishment fur rcfiaing salt,