The Sun.
London, England, 1836-03-07 00:00:00

IRELAND.

CORPORATE REPonst.—A petition has been agreed to in
Londonderry, and most numerously signed by the great body
of the people in that important city. It is said that the signa-
tures of Conservatives are numerous. The corruption of.the
Corporations is doomed to destruction.
Naw POLICE.—The correspondent of a contemporary says,
" There arc vast numbers of applicants for situations under.the
new Constabulary Act, but I understand all the effective er..
v.
sons at present in office, willing to take the oath hid] the
ill
prescribes, will be remined. Among the names mentioned: for
an appointment to one of the high situations under it is that of
Mr. Patrick Lalor, late Member for the Queen's county, and
one of the first and most determined opponents to the tithe
system." _ _ _

An article in Fraser's Magazine, published on the I,t
announces the startling fact, that the great majority of 22,000
Protestants, now in the Irish police, "are doubtless members c
Orange Societies."
ORANGE EXCITEMENT,--There is a twaddling article In tit
Ma"l, a column and a half long—the most lugullious,tli*,
joi ited, and stupid stuff that ever issued even from the washirg_
tub of Old Slop. The upshot, however, is a reconueen,_atiort
to dissolve. He bees about the bush, indeed—be kants the
back-scent—he is full of protestations, hypcthesi",, hesitation ;
hut the meaning, the drift is, aissolve.—Din Post.
TRIM ASSIZES.—CURIOUS SeENE. --At eight o'clock at
night .Pat. Brien and Thomas
were arraigned for no
less a crime than muruee 'The trial' immediately proceeded.
it""es
Several
W 7-ere examined for the Crown. The Chhtf
Batt decli:ed at length that he conceived it was not murders
LH' .marslaughter.
Mr. Mealy suggested that, on examination of the previous
witnesses, it would appear that they sliculd be acquitted, as be
would show that they were defending their own house,
On a slight further discussion it was conceived that' the case
should go to the Jury, on the evidence‘of one wi*:ness as to the
general peaceable conduct of prisoners, `:crdict mit:frau d
manslaughter—sentence, twelve tuoef„,,
_imprisonment from
sine
of committal.

Immediattly after; J'....nes Braly Seas arraigned fcr mar-
slaughter in Febr7.*4ry, 1834. •
Mr. Jamts O'Reilly, attorney for the prisoner, stated that
two persons who resided at a distance of from twelve to
fourtee.:imiles from the town, and who had been in attendance
!:um the commencement of the Assizes to late that evening,
had gone home for the night, conceiving that such a trial
would not come on at such an hour even as that at which they
went away, and en:reated the Court to postpone tha trial u:.til
Morning. _ _ _

Barol Smith replied that it was peculiar to the people of
tLis country to be strict in their attendance until required, and
then to be always absent, and ordered the trial to proceed at
ten minutes past nine o'clock at night I
There were several witnesses examined ; and it soon became
evident, that besides the absence of witnesses for the prisoner,
there existed good reason for postponing the trial on account
o" the state of the witnesses for the prosecution. Capt. John
Daniel, Belview, a Magistrate, somewhat advanced in life, was

called on the part of the Crown, and it appeared at once, to
use the most lenient language on the subject, that his consti-
tution was not so strong as his friends wished. He was to
prove the dying declaration of the deceased, and be was unable
to say whether he signed his name to it or riot. To decsLihe
the scene is impossible; the roars of laughter from the Jury,
from t c Counsel for the prisoner, from the unfortunate p:i-
oner 1 imse.f, who, for aught he knew, was on trial for his life,
from the multitude in Court, from the Magistrates in :Attend-
ance, at length from the Counsel for the Crown, and from the
Clerk of the Crown, until the scene could be only likened to
the hilarity at an Irish wake of the olden time. Yet it was
an Irish Court of Justice. The Pilot coneludn a description
of general inebriety, in which the Jurcrs art said to have been
disgracetilly drunk, in these words ec This is ail eccurate
description of the Court of Assire for the Home Circuit,
ounty of Meath, on Friday nipl,e, the 26th February, 1836."
REJECTION CF
.THE LORD I_,IRUTENANT'S PROPOSITION BY THE
DUBLIN SOClETY.—raere was a general meeting of the
members of this sr,ciety yesterday (March 4), when the pro-
position of tbP, Lord Lieutenant for a modification of its rules
and, gYste7.l of management, were taken into consideration.
The proposal that a majority of members, instead of two- c.
mnrds, should he sufficient for the admission f candidates, was.
after much ii.iscussion, rejected without a division, although
some individuals present expressed their opinion that the Pat%
limnentary grant would be withdrawn, in case of non-compli-
ance. Another of the propositions—for a " governing coun-
cil" instead of " house committees," was rejected by a majo-
rity of 61, the numbers being 79 to 18. All the other mate-
rial propositions were rejected. We trust the Gnvernmeet
will withdraw the annual grant of 5,000/. ; and let the confe-
deracy, who thus set at defiance reason and common ser.se,
club together, as they say they will, for the tbrmatinn of a
private society. They must, however, first be brought to book,
and return to the public, public property.
REBELLION.—It seems that we arc not as yet done with the
Court of Exchequer and the Writs of rebellion. A Farce' o£
those terrible missives have been despatched to the parish of
Dunlavin, County of Wicklow, against a respectable land-
holder, Mr. Copeland, and several farmers. We IrAve not
yet heard the progress made by the " Commissioners," or
whether they have demanded that the Kines trn...lps and the
police should go a hunting through the Wicklow mountains
and the Devil's Glen after the rebels ! Rot we shall posi-
tively have some news on Tuesday.—Dubier. Post.

CAVAN ASSIZES.—The Grand Inquest of this county lave
ignored the several bills of indictment preferred against a
number of Orangemen for the riots, &c., at Killeshandra,
Fare in one instance, that of tl.e King v. Henderson. Th•
outrages then and there pernarated rendered it necessary for
the Attorney-General tr, institute prosecutions against the
offenders. Twelve hoses were attacked and broken into, the
inmates beaten amk_ battered, yet—as in times of Orange
ascendancy—the:A: unprotected peasants are left either to
brood over the injuries inflicted on them, in silence, or else to
adopt the best measures they can devise to guard against a
repetition of such aggressions. The proofs adduced against
the persons charged were not sufficient in the eyes of a
Cavan Grand Jury, to warrant their sending the cases to be
inquired into in open Court. The mischief has been done,
but the sufferers have nut obtained redress.
A person named Forbes, against whom true bills have been
found for murder at Ballyduff, had his trial postponed ; Hen-
derson also, charged with being implicated in the Killeshandra
riots, pursued the same course.
The jury by whom Fitzsimons was tried for the murder of
Archibald Johnson, disagreed, and, after a confinement in their
room of a night and two days, were discharged.
"To HELL WiTn THE POPE ! !"—On Saturday night and
Sunday morning last, the town and neighbourh.;)od of Porta-
down experienced one of those fierce and lawless visitations,
which the Orangemen, the boasted upholders of the law, but
the practical violP.tors of it, have so long been in the habit of
paying. NW_ do not know whether the expressed will of the
King had' aught to do in rousing those loyal despisers of his
Maibsty's authority—but, at any rate, they behaved with a
aegree of lawless violence greater than. is usual with them.
They began shouting .‘ To bell with the Pope," " Verner
for ever," (Colonel Verner at length repudiates them),
" We're Verner's men," &c. ; and attacking those who re-
fused to join them. About twelve o'clock at night, they
commenced an attack upon the houses of many of the Ro-
man Catholic inhabitunts. Not contented with this, they
afterwards traversed the country for two or three miles, break-
ing the windous of almost all tl'e Roman Catholics on their
way. About a score of bowies, we learn, were thus attacked
some of them being very :finch damaged. Next morning,
Colonel Osborne (stipendiary magistrate) and W. J. Han-
ccck, Esq., were very active • and five of the rioters have
been com&lted to Armagh gaol.—Northern IVhig.
llHTalauTtva!—All the Counsellors and attorneys who ap-
erqued at the Crown Bar in the City Court at Waterford on
'Monday, had their pockets picked of their pocket handkcr-

chiefs, gloves, &c.
The Lord Lieutenant has approved of the Earl of Antrim
being appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Antrim.
The furniture of the Rev. John Dunne, P. P. of Bailin-
daggan, near Enniscorthy, including his bed and breakfast ar-
ticles, were sold for tithes, claimed 13y his landlord.
SIR FREDERICK STOVEN. —THE CoNsrAnui.AßY. -- The
charge against Sir Frederick was partiality in his appointments,
the accuser was a certain Mr. Sammerset Carrig. And the
Public Orator chosen was the Orangeman, Sir Robert Bate-
son. The Orangemen find out that they have no friend in the
honest Englishman, the present Inspector-General of Ulster
—and, therefore, they select an Orangeman to make the ac-
cusation. But though Sir Frederick is no friend •to the sys-
tem, he is no enemy to the man. But he is resolved that jus-
tice should be done impartially, and hence the hostility with
which he is received by the high as well as the low Orangemen
of Ulster.—Dublin Post.
MINISTER'S MONEY.—By a clause in the Tithe Bill to be
brought in on the 25th inst., what is called Minister's Money
will cease to be collected.
COUNTY OF WATERFORD—TITHES.—There has been held a

very important anti-Tithe Meeting, at which that excellent
landlord, Mr. Boyce, of Bannow, took a prominent part, and
read a very rewrrkablc letter from the Hon. N. Fellowes,
Member for North Devon, and brother and heir of the Earl
of Portsmcuth, who possesses an extensive property in that
county,

THE OLYMPIC TH&ATRE.—This now fashionable
place of amusement was originally built in 1805-6 by old Ast-
ley, the stage being made of the timbers of the Ville '.le Paris,
a French man-of-war we captured some years Lefore. Its
1811 Elliston bought the theatre, then a paviiioa, for 3,150 L
and an annuity of 1001. to Astley, which he lived but two yearrs
to enjoy. Elliston's success was equal to that now enjoyed by
Madame Vestris whilst he himself acted there ; but when he
of persons,vi none of
was absent the attraction failed. Captain Barlow, Oxberry,
until adatne Vesteg
and many others, became lessees for a short period ; but no.
speculator succeeded, and the house was purchased by Mr.
Scott, the present proprietor, for 4,000/., subject to 100/, per
annam ground-rent. Opening it with his own company, and
nwohto proving o Liptuoraisovariety
took it in 1830, at the rent of 1,000/. per annum, and raised tl-14..
establishment to the first rank as a place of fashionable A:
he
their let
it
meat. The receipts now are seldom less titan 1 anP-
ungndPri°tfitaaibisieWer
100 . per r.,ght;
on one occasion, in the winter of 1824, th
there to nineteen shillings, and fell • e curtain ''rent
up
at mid
New Monthly Magazine. night to Sal. 10s.—
I'. CooKE's LAST.---A gentlemen, blnerving that
the Drury-lane play bills Were •
asked Mr. Cooke the printed in ree, ink on Saturday,
Mr. Bunn consider • reason.
" Why," said the punster,
them read." s it will be advantageous to him to have

There are various Turnouts in this city from the sat
of Indian warfare that Tallahassee had been surprised, and
sacked, that Apalachicola is in. the possession of the savage
enenlYi and that Columbus is likely to share the disae.rous fate
of the Florida towns and fortifications,—Mobile Cfr made.