The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

DEC. 15.
The communications received to-day by tho Dublin mails
1111*(1 114 litllo to Prtraet of any Importance. The Irish
iogrnalists, Liberal as well as Orange, preserve a silence
that seems conventional on the subject of the important
meeting held at Clare, to which we have more than once
directed the attention of our readers.
The Registry closed yesterday I the numbers registered
vsere—lliberals, ), ; Orangemen, 9.
There are aevaral forgeries of the Bank of England notes
In circulation,
LONGFORD ELECTION.—In allusion to the approaching
election, tiro Dublin Evening Post has the following ob-
servations ;—" A. serious charge has been made against
Najer Edgwartb, which we certainly shall not believe until
we have better authority—namely, that though he will vote
himself for the popular candidate, he has signified, by letter,
to his tenants, to stay at home. We repeat it, we cannot
yield our credence to this statement. Major Edgworth,
we know, is a Liberal. He may have some personal or
county feelings as to the candidates. Mr. Fox, we believe,
is a relative of his ; but if he votes for the popular candi-
date, he will surely allow his tenants to vote as they please.
We might add more on the subject, if we deemed it neces-
sary. But, by-the-bye, how will the Edgworthstown people
go. If Richard Lovell Edgworth were living, they would
go the Liberals. We cannot bring ourselves to believe that
Miss Edgworth—the justly famous Miss—now residing on
the spot, will throw the weight of her influence into the Tory
camp. But it matters little as to the ultimate result. We
assert explicitly that Longford is secure, and that Luke
White will be the Momber.
THE PROTESTANT MEETING.—WC yesterday copied
the requisition of the eight noodles who, undaunted by the
signal failure' of a similar attempt when the King was in-
stigated to dismiss the Melbourne Administration, are now
endeavouring to get up another meeting for the all-wise pur-
pose of protesting that Protestantism is in danger. To-
day we find the following requisition in the columns of the
Dublin Evening Post :—We, the undersigned, request a
great big meeting of the great big Protestant Noblemen,
Gentlemen, Clergy, and Landed Proprietors of Ireland, at
the great, big rooms, at the Mansion-house, in the City of
Dublin, on Tuesday, the 24th day of January, 1837, at
twelve o'clock, for the purpose of petitioning both Houses
of Parliament, praying them to adopt such measures as
will give ascendancy to the Orangemen of Ireland, and to
prepare a loyal and slick address to his Majesty, calling his
most serious attention to the imminent dangers which
threaten his Majesty's starving poor in Ireland, along with
the attempts which are making to undermine and destroy
the Piotestant religion in this kingdom..
(Signed) FIREBRAND,
DULL-HEAD, N
DUNDER-HEAD,
NAMELESS,
B---D AND NOUNS,
SCREECHING IDIOT, and

JACKASS.
ILLEGALITY OF THE O'CONNELL TRIBUTE.—The fol-
lowing extract from the Mail, is amusing, and shows pretty
plainly the straits to which the defeated faction are re-
duced :—" Our attention (quoth the Orange Mail,) has
been directed to the following curious Act appearing in our
statute book, still in force, and unrepealed, and its applica-
tion to the case of the Archbeggarman cannot be mistaken.
We allude to the Irish Statute, 28th Henry VIII., chapter
11, entitled An Act restraining Tributes to be given to
Irishmen.' This Act amongst other things recites that,
Forasmuch as our Sovereign Lord the King having re-
spect to the povertie of his poor subjects of this his land of
Ireland, bath sent his untie royal hither for the exonerating
of his Grace's said subjects, whereby his Grace's said 'sub-
jects are highly animated and fortified, and the, said Irish
enemies greatly enfeeblished, so as nothing lieth in
them to do for having any such tribute. Be it there-
fore, by authoritie of this present Parliament, enacted;
established, and ordained, that no manner of Irishman
within this land of Ireland shall have any tribute,
exaction, or any other unlawful impositions, of or upon
any the 'Xing's townes or faithful subjects within the same ,
land, but that. all and every the King's said townes and sub-
jecig shall ho clearly from henceforth, for evermore, ae-
twitted, discharged, and exonerated, from all and every such
tributes, i9:l,letters or commandments sent to them, or any
of them, or oo4.fter to be sent, contrary to this present
Act, in anywise, 4,9twitigtanding."
" Mark this! The King having respect to the povertie
of his poor subjects of this his land of Ireland,
"rhis re-
quires no comment ; sa,tl unin, F any letters' (no matter
to whore witlressed, whether to Sharman Crawford, Esq.,
M.P.,' Lord Thnicannon, &e. &c.) " or commandments,
(bp Priests or otherwio) hereafter to be sent" to the con.
trary, &c.
" No express penalty is annexed to a breach, consequently
the offender is, at common law, guilty of a misdemeanour.
Will the Attorney-General attend to this, and, as his Ma-
jesty's legal substitute, have respect to the povertie of
his poor subjects of this: his land of Ireland ?' We
shall see."
What the Mail may see, it is not within our province to
divine ; but we will hazard a conjecture that he will never
see anything half so ridiculous and laughable as this mare's
nest of his, made out of an old musty Irish statute.