The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

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DUBLIN, DEC. 12.
LONGFORD ELECTION.—An adjourned meeting of the
Independent Club took place on Saturday last. The Rev. T.
Kennedy, a Presbyterian clergyman, was called to the chair,
amid the loud cheers of the assembly. Mr. White was en-
thusiastically received, and declared that his canvas was
everywhere crowned with complete success. Mr. Lefroy
is beginning to think himself not quite secure in his seat.
He is right—the spirit is awake in Longford that will unseat
him.—Freeman.
We believe the election will commence to-morrow week.
Mr. Murphy has been appointed in Mr. Trail Hall's
place, Assistant-Barrister for Cavan.
There is a swindler going about London levying contri-
butions under the pretence that he is authorised to collect
subscriptions for the Irish " Justice Rent." From one gen-
tleman he fraudulently obtained fifteen pounds. There is
no person so authorised—he is a swindler, and it would be
well if he were stopped by the first person he attempts to
impose on, and given up to justice.—Pilot.
CITY REGISTRY.—It is not improbable that the registry
will terminate to-day (Monday), as the barrister said on
Saturday if the claimants do not come up he would close
the Court. If, then, the registry terminates to-day, the
absence of tho Liberals will be the cause, for the Orange-
men and Conservatives are all registered.—Freeman.
Mr. S. Crawford, M.P., is to be entertained at a public
dinner at Newtownards on the 22d inst. From the object
of the entertainment, the arrangements which are in pro-
gress, and the feeling that exists among the independent
freeholders of Down, we anticipate a highly influential
meeting.
POOR LAWS.—On Saturday, pursuant to requisition to
the High Sheriff, a meeting of the gentry and landholders
of the county of Clare took place in the Court-house,
Ennis. John O'Brien, Esq., the High Sheriff, who pre-
sided, philosophically reviewed the question of a Legislative
provision for the poor. In the course of the Hon. Gentle-
man's speech, after some remarks on the evils of absentee land-
lords, he declared his conviction that " a well-regulated poor
rate would in a degree have the effect of an absentee tax,
from which the resident landed proprietors would derive
important advantages. It is apprehended (continued he)
that a poor-rate may encroach upon rental ; but whatever
part is so applied will produce an abundant equivalent, and
I know no more ,appropriate application of national rental
than in protecting the great body of the people from pe-
riodical starvation ; nor let it be feared that such will su-
persede the exercise of private charity, for let legislation do
its best, enough of human misery shall still survive to call
into action the benevolent sympathies of our nature." After
several other gentleman had addressed the meeting, Mr.
Steele rose and proposed the following resolution, which
was passed without a dissentient voice :—" That this country
can never enjoy peace, nor progress in civilization, till every
man is made to know that he has a right to supneri. from
the soil on which he stands a freeman."
LORD MULGRAVE'S VISIT TO NAVA N.--His Excellency
having come on a visit to Somerville, and on a former occa-
sion having promised to revisit the town of Navan, a com-
munication was made to Sir William Somerville, to ascer-
tain on what day his Excellency would carry his intentions
into effect. Thursday, the Bth inst., was appointed. At
an early hour all the houses in the town were decorated
with laurel. Triumphal arches were erected in the different
avenues leading to the town with appropriate devices. The
windows were filled with all the fashion and beauty of the
town and surrounding neighbourhood. The sturdy pea-
sants and men of Meath assembled in thousands. After
partaking of the sports of the field, his Excellency arrived
at two o'clock precisely, accompanied by the High Sheriff,
the Earl of Fingal, Sir William Somerville, Bart.
The Trades Union held their usual meeting at the Corn
Exchange. The registry was the principal topic discussed.
THE CHURCH MlLlTANT.—Artillery iS brought to
play on the bodies of the recusant tithe-payers—and artil-
lery is not inappropriately brought to thunder over their
graves. This is, of course, a la militaire. We learn from
the Limerick Star, that two pieces of cannon, and a party of
foot and artillery, went out to Doone on Tuesday, for the
purpose of attending the funeral of the tithe martyr, Dwyer,
on Wednesday last. This is something like what the
grave-digger in Hamlet calls Christian bu-ri-al.—Freeman.
The fact of an Hon. Member's constituents having ac-
tually given the Representative, Mr. Stewart, a dinner, in-
stead of being the recipients of his bounty, would seem to
indicate a degree of public spirit which the mind of a mo-
dern Tory cannot reach, nor sympathise with, by any pro-
cess whatever, mental or otherwise. It is the Asses'
Bridge that they never can or could get over.—Kendal
Alercury.
The distress in Enniskillen is dreadful. The Earl of

Enniskillen supplies the half-famished and frozen people
with timber from his woods.
FILACER OF THE EXCHEQUER.—The death of Mr.
Richard Eames, which took place yesterday at Artane, has
caused a vacancy in the office of Filacer in the Court of
Exchequer. The income has been 1,8001. ; it is said to
average, however, only about 6001.
The organs of the fallen faction must be in a woeful con-
dition, when even the Cork Standard, with all its talent, can
do nothing snore efficient than call names, and designate Mr.
O'Connell as the Poissarde of the Rebel Convention in
Dublin—the male fish-woman of the Corn-Exchange, Bil-
lingsgate !"
The Mail seems in a similar state of destitution, and en-
deavours to ground a grievous charge against Mr. O'Connell
for using the following words, in his character of Advocate.
It seems that in the case of the Attorney-General v. Em-
merson, tried on Saturday last, Mr. O'Connell said that
" be believed there was no country in the world which pro-
duced better men than Scotchmen ; but he also knew that
it produced some exceedingly bad ones in New South
Wales. The Parliamentary returns showed the characters
of the individuals there. The word class out•and-out were
the Scotch, upon the philosophical principle that nothing
was so bad as the corruption of that which had been ex-
ceedingly good ; the second class was the English, and the
best behaved class, strange to say, was the Irish." Our
Contemporary may rest assured that the Scotch are too in-
telligent to imagine an affront to the national character,
which Mr. O'Connell never contemplated. The men of
Scotland have besides that proud consciousness of high
descent, which never forsakes a great and wise people.

One of the unfortunate creatures taken out of the ruins
of the houses which fell in Mallow-lane, as mentioned in
our last, died at two o'clock yesterday morning. An inquest
was held on the four persons who lost their lives by the me-
lancholy catastrophe at the North Infirmary yesterday, and
verdicts were accordingly returned. We have since learned,
that the high price of coals this winter caused the people
of those houses to cut away some of the rafters for firing,
and that the usual support having in consequence been
taken from the roof, it came down the first gust of wind that
prevailed, with a desolating crash.—cork Standard.
FIRE IN WATERFORD.—Between two and three o'clock
on Wednesday morning, one of the most tremendous fires
which has been recollected for many years broke out in the
corn stores of William Peet, Esq., in George's-street. At
four o'clock the lofts, on which many hundred barrels of
corn were lodged, gave way with a fearful crash. The ap-
pearance of the fire at this moment presented a sight
awfully grand ; nearly the entire city was partially il-
luminated, while the high wind which prevailed carried
sheets of wreathed flames to a considerable distance. Ap-
prehensions were entertained for the safety of the adjoining
houses, but, fortunately, they were groundless. All yester-
day workmen were employed in removing the rubbish, and
a fireman engaged in playing the engines upon the smoul-
dering ruins, and up to our going to press there was consi-
derable uneasiness felt lest they should burst out anew.
The premises, we understand, were insured by Mr. Peet
for 5,000/.—Waterford Chronicle.

OPPOSITION TO THE COLLECTION OF RENTS AND
TITHES.—If the following statement be correct, and look-
ing the authority upon which it is given we very much
doubt it, the Tory landlords of Ireland will have reason
to lament the predicament in which they have been placed
by their friend, Lord Stanley :—On Thursday fortnight
Mr. M. Hackett, of Birr, having gone out to his property
at Cloughan, near Leap Castle, accompanied by Mr.
Wetherall, a magistrate, a chief constable, and a party
of police, to seize the effects of a tenant, named Carroll,
foi arrears of rent and tithes, his arrival was there greeted
by a party of over five hundred persons, who expressed
their firm resolve not to permit the law to take its course
—not to allow a single article belonging to Carroll to be
stirred by his landlord ; and in confirmation of their re-
solve, the chieftain of the clan stepping out, discharged a
blunderbuss in the air, thereby intimating to Mr. Hackett and
his party the reception they were likely to receive, should he
endeavour to prosecute the distress. The police and their
officer, we are informed, having declined acting against so
superior a force of Lord Melbourne's subsidies, Mr.
Hackett was obliged to return without having effected a
seizure. Thus things remained until Thursday week,
when it was rumoured that Mr. Hackett, with the as-
sistance of the military, would again attempt to dis-
train. No way daunted by this reported accession in
the persons of his Majesty's troops to the landlord's
strength, the intrepid and bellicose peasantry of the
King's County were seen on this morning also congre-
gating to the expected scene of action, from all quarters
of the country, armed with guns, pistols, scythes, pitch-
forks, and every other implement of husbandry, likely to
prove efficacious in the encounter as useful in the
field. It being a fine day, the boys increased as they
marched, for they impressed into their service as well
those who were unwilling to join them as those who
were not. They even pressed a few Protestants to the
field, because they were supposed to dislike the proceedings
of the day ; and others who feared the same treatment,
left the digging of their potatoes and secreted themselves.
All frize-clad reinforcements having at length arrived, to
the amount of two thousand armed men, they remained for
a considerable length of time in the neighbourhood of the
tenant (Carroll's) house, and there firmly awaited the ap-
proach of the military and Mr. Hackett, who, however, did
not make his appearance, the Irish executive not having
condesended to assist him. The native fencibles then re-
tired to the top of Knockhill, where they deployed, display-
ing their force and discipline to the best advantage, as they
stood out, bristling with arms, in bold relief from a bright
blue sky, until the approach of evening (not of his Ma-
jesty's soldiers, good reader) dispersed them to their respec-
tive homes. And so rests the matter up to the present.
Here is a pleasant and cheering prospect to all landlords
who may happen to be blessed with Popish tenants, and who
may have occasion for the next gale, as we would not ad-
vise them to build many speculations on the probability of
it being paid.—Leinster Express.

ROBBERY AT LORD WHARNCLIFFE'S.—Infor-
mation was received at the different police-offices of an
extensive robbery committed early last Friday morning, at
the scat of Lord Wharncliffe, Wortley Hall, near Shef-
field. Among the property described as stolen were va-
rious articles of plate, some of them bearing initials and
others a crest, a lion rampant and motto ; a large bunch
of gold seals (one of them a topaz, with double crest, viz.,
a lion and motto, and an eagle on a rock ; another a blood
stone, with coat of arms ; another a topaz, with cupid rid-
ing a lion) ; a cornelian ring, with antique raised head ;
various other rings and seals, a gold Bramah key, gold
pencil-case with crest and motto, a gold vinaigrette, a
double-barrelled gun, silver mounted, and with the word
" 'Windsor," in gold letters, between the barrels ; a Mac.
kintosh cloak, and other articles. The thieves also broke
open a blue leather-covered box, belonging to Mr. Stuart
Wortley, and stole from it a small blue folding purse, con-
taining two bank-notes for 101. and 51., with five sovereigns
rolled up in them, and another 51. note, believed to be a
country one ; and also several other articles of less value.

On Monday evening, Mr. Baker, the Coroner, went
from the inquiry in Clifton•street, Finsbury, to hold an in-
quiry at the Griffin public-house, in Leonard-street, Shore-
ditch, on William Bruff, late a police-constable, of the
G division. The deceased had been placed on duty in the
Bunhill-fields burying-ground last Thursday evening, it
being usual to place a policeman there to watch until the
arrival, at a certain hour, of the regularly employed watch-
man. The latter, on entering, found him upon his hands
and knees, on the ground, near one of the tomb-stones, and
unable to move. He seemed to be suffering much inter-
nally, and, being carried to his home, died there the next
evening. A suspicion afterwards arose that be had taken
poison, as he had been some time in low spirits, in conse-
quence of the death of his wife, whom he buried some
months since ; but Mr. Finer, the parish surgeon, who had
made the post mortem examination of the body, negatived
that suspicion by his evidence ; the deceased had died of
acute inflammation of the intestines. The Jury at once
pronounced a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God."
The Carlisle Journal makes favourable mention of
the Joint Stock Bank that has just been established there.

ITALIAN REVENGE.—A man named Bernard De-
micbeli went on the 30th ult. into an inn kept by two per-
sons of the name of Pothier, Rue Boileau, where he asked
for a pint of wine. A man named Ray, nicknamed Pari-
sien, who lodged at their house, was at the inn ; being na-
turally of a satirical disposition, he was still more excited
that evening by intoxication. He joked with Demicheli,
who is a Piedmontese, about his foreign accent, and the
latter, whose brains were heated with wine, thought that as
a laugh was raised at his expense he was mortally insulted,
and that his honour required that he should revenge him.
self: Consequently, he first wrestled with Parisien in the
inn ; then going out, be continued ?.o provoke him by call-
ing to him several times-7" Come out, Parisien, I will show
you of what stuff an Italian
is made." Parisien came out
accordingly, and advancing towards the Italian, whom he
called an Auvergnat, he gave him a slight blow, by which
he knocked off his hat. Demicheli, who carries on the
business of a knife-grinder, had then three tools about him,
the one a shoemaker's knife, and the two others triangular
instruments made of steel, used by turners. Fle struck
Parisien in the belly with one of these instruments ;
Pari-
sien afterwards picked up the Italian's hat, and placed it
upon his head, saying at the same time, " Go along, get
away as soon as you can." He immediately went into the
inn, sat down upon a chair, and after a few seconds his
features were discomposed, and he slipped down dead upon
the floor, without uttering a single complaint. In the course
of the same night Demicheli was arrested at his lodgings.
Fle was fast asleep, and several tools were found in his
pocket, among which was the instrument with which he had
committed the crime.