The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV

IRELAND.

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DUBLIN SOCIETY.—A special committee of the Dublin
Society, appointed to consider the resolutions of the Com-
mittee of the House of Commons, has given in its report.
In reference to the first resolution of the Commons' Com-
mittee, which regards the property of the society as a trust,
the report says, that the society cannot and ought not to
consent to any surrender of its property, but should abide
by the charter in its true spirit and integrity, convinced of
its entire adequacy to the objects for which it was granted.
THE TITHE CAMPAIGN.—A new course has been re-
solved on for adoption, in order to contend more effectually
with the church militant. The parsons' bills will be gene-
rally answered. The defendants will by this method avoid
contempt of Court, as it is called, and cannot then be im-
prisoned. The tithe prosecutions and their rebellion ruffians
will be thus baulked of their prey, and eventually, in most
cases, we trust, take nothing by their motion but the plea-
sure of paying the costs of the proceedings.
The Southern Reporter states that it appears from the
Crown books, that at the Mallow sessions previous to Oc-
tober, 1834, the processes entered at the suit of the Rev.
Richard Dean Freeman, amounted to eighty. Amongst
those he got decrees for were—No. 209, eightpence! 210,
eightpence ! 211, eightpence ! 212, eightpence! 220, four-
pence ! 237, fourpence ! 238, fourpence ! 245, twopence!
248, fourpence! 267, fourpence ! 281, threepence ! We
sincerely hope that other Rev. Gentlemen will meet with
similar success. We learn from the Limerick Star that the
clergy have put in practise a new scheme. Their present
plan is to issue writs of rebellion where they are assured the
party is unable to meet the expences of a defence, is not
only without all apology, as the revival of an obsolete and
unconstitutional law ; but is, on the very face of the pro-
ceeding, unjust and oppressive, as it admits a doubt of their
ability to substantiate their claims in the customary courts,
or by the ordinary forms of law. To the poor farmers
throughout Ireland it is an unrestrained and unfeeling ty-
ranny, because, however just their defence, or however ca-
pable they might be of proving that the claims against
them were illegal and untenable, when once a bill is filed
against them in the Court of Exchequer, and a rebellion
writ issued, they have no remedy but to strike, the expense
of extricating themselves from the rebellion commissioners
far exceeding the original demand against them. Under
Lord Stanley's Act, for instance, persons holding under pro-
posals, or under leases executed since 1832, or tenants at will,
are excepted from tithes. Farmers so circumstanced naturally
conform to the law and refuse to pay the tithes ; but the Rev.
claimants, instead of abiding by this law, or instituting suits
in the ordinary manner to determine its interpretation, take
a short cut to accomplish their objects, and set up pro-
ceedings of so expensive a nature as will terrify the defend-
ants from taking defence, and compel them to a neglect
of appearance in the court, which must subject them at
once to outlawry. This outlawry once accomplished, the
farmers are at their mercy. We would, as a matter of
serious consideration, recommend the reverend tithe claim-
ants to pause in future, before they run into an Exchequer
suit against their parishioners, since if those parishioners, as
they now certainly will do, file answers against their bills,
they will be involved in a mesh of law and costs with their
own solicitors, which may, perhaps, lead eventually to their
being lodged in those dungeons to which they have been so
freely consigning the poor farmers. The solicitors, they
may be assured, will take care that they are paid by one
party or another, and who that party must be, we think will
readily appear by a short illustration furnished by a bill
of costs.

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COURT OF EXCHEQUER, LIMERICK.—The Rev. Charles
P. Coote v. Patrick O'Dwyer and John Benton.—The de-
fendants were brought up in custody of two commissioners
of rebellion—namely, John and James Lysaght, from the
parishes of Kilcolman and Doon, in the county of Lime-
rick, at the suit of the reverend plaintiff, as incumbent of
said parishes. The demand against Benton was 51., 3/.
only of such being claimed for tithe, the remainder for law
costs. That against Dyer was 181., 101. of which sum was
for costs. Both the unfortunate men had been arrested
five weeks back, and since then had suffered incarceration
in Limerick goal. The Registrar proceeded to interro-
gate them in the usual form :—Patrick Dwyer, do you
know why you have been brought up here ? Yes ; I un-
derstand that I have been taken here on a writ of rebellion
for not answering a tithe bill.—Have you anything to say
to the Court why you should not stand committed to the
custody of the hlarshal of the Four Courts Marshalsea ?
I have—and it is this—that I never rented, took, or held
in any way whatever a single perch of ground from the day
I was born down to the present. Registrar—John Ben-
ton, are you aware why you were brought here? I am.—
Do you wish to address anything to the Court as to why
you should not be committed ? No. Registrar—The de-
fendants stand committed.
TIPPERARY.—DUNKERRIN MASSACRE !—THE NOTO-
RIOUS PHIL. RTAN.—The Very Rev. Dean Hawkins v.
John Talbot, Cornelius Egan, and several others.—Mr.
Keary : My Lord, I have an application to the Court,
arising out of the recent melancholy affair at Dunkerrin.
It is for substitution of service of tithe subpoenas in the
usual way. I move upon the affidavit of Phillip Ryan
(great sensation in the Court). He swears that he had
been employed by the plaintiff to serve tithe notices or
subpoenas. That on the 21st of October last he went out
for that purpose, accompanied by a man named Hogan,
who was engaged for the purpose of pointing out to him
the dwellings of the defaulters; that they were to have met
the Sheriff, but were disappointed, and took a party of po-
lice with them for their protection. That at a place called
Dunkerrin Hogan was barbarously murdered, in conse-
quence of which said murder he had been since utterly un-
able to procure any person to point out to him the houses
of the defaulters. Baron Pennefather—What was the
former order ? To post on the doors of the dwellings, my
Lord. The deponent states that there is a church and
chapel in the parish, and that Dunkerrin is distant eight
miles from Roscrea, the nearest town. Baron Pennefather
Are the names, &c., of the parties described ? No, not
particularly. Court—Then you cannot get the order till
you amend.—The Court then rose, and adjourned to the
following morning.
The Southern Reporter states, on the authority of a cor-
respondent, that on Thursday last a large body of military,
horse and foot, and police served about thirty farmers in
the parish of Monagh, many of them Protestants, with Ex-
chequer processes. The people in the surrounding districts
immediately abandoned their houses, drove their cattle to a
great distance, and then congregated on the neighbouring
heights. The police acted as pioneers on the occasion, and
levelled fences and ditches as they proceeded. The Rev.
Robert H. Lawrence, sou of the former bishop of that
name, is the Rector. The composition under Stanley's Act
was 8501. The predecessor of the former parish offered to
take 6001. This Mr. Lawrence refused. From that time
attempts at arrangement were frequently made, and for a
period of nine or ten years a tithe war has existed between
parson and the people.
CORK.—Lord Ennismore, it would seem, declines to
come forward for the representation of the county. On
the 7th (yesterday) matter touching the selection of a se-
cond candidate was to come on for discussion at the County
Cork Reform Registry Association. The Southern Re-
porter deprecates the dictation which it apprehends is in•
volved in the proceedings of this Association, and concludes
by the following remarks :—" It should be recollected that
Members of Parliament are not always representatives of
the people—and the surest way to send representatives of
the people to Parliament, is to refer to the people for the
choice of them. We have seen the resolutions prepared
for Monday. They are resolutions which the Committee
cannot pass, whatever a public meeting may do with them."
The Privy Council have decided that no case was made
out for the removal to Dungarvan, and that the Assizes
should, as heretofore, continue to be held in Waterford.
This intelligence will be received with exultation by the
cesspayers of this county from one extreminity to the other ;
eternal thanks to the Privy Council for their righteous
decision, which has rescued our hard working farmers
from the merciless weight of a crushing and most unne-
cessary tax.—Waterford Chronicle.
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—An inquest was taken yes-
terday, on view of the body of Hannah Thomas, the wife
of Lieutenant Robinson Thomas, R.N., of Ballinakill,
county Waterford. It appeared by the evidence of Miss
Hannah Donovan of Ballinakill, a fashionably attired and
interesting young lady, that on Sunday the witness, the
deceased, and deceased's brother (witness's father), left
Ballinakill in their own jaunting car, for the purpose of
meeting the Waterford coach to Cork, at Kilmacthomas.
When they arrived there the coach had passed, and they pro-
ceeded in a chaise toDungarvan, where they overtook the mail,
where the females got inside and Mr. Donovan outside. At this
time the deceased and her brother were evidently intoxicated.
Mrs. Thomas had drunk, to witness's knowledge, two tum-
blers of punch—one at Kilmacthomas, the other at Dun-
garvan. James Pinnock, Esq., of the Colonial Office, said
that he and another English gentleman were travelling on
that morning on their way to Cork in the Waterford coach,
when at Dungarvan, they were joined by the deceased and
the former witness. The deceased was drunk. The wit-
ness added that the treatment observed to the deceased by
the man who was represented as her brother, was very
brutal. He was quite drunk, a ci-cumstance that might
account for his conduct. At one time he saw him push her
with force, and all through be was rough and rude to her.
Nor did he manifest any anxiety when it was told him she
was dead. The witness had no doubt upon his mind that
the deceased died a natural death, principally caused by
drunkenness, but superadded to which, as he had heard, she
was labouring under an attack of erysipelas. The inside of
the coach was partly covered with blood. Verdict—that
the deceased had died from the effects of intoxication,
combined with erysipelas, and a delicate state of health.

Morning Paper.

MONEY MARKET.

The private accounts from America, now that there has
been time fully to comprehend all the bargains of the late
measures of the Bank of England, do not exhibit the state
of things there in any formidable light. There continued
up to the date of these accounts, the 18th ult., a terrific
run upon all descriptions of speculative and investment pro-
perty, with a scarcity of money almost unexampled, but
the consolation was that no failures of any importance had
ensued. The material part of the news, as regards this
country, is the statement which appears in some of the ac-
counts, that large as the importations of bullion have been
from Europe, a further snpply will be required, and the
confident opinion which accompanies it, that this supply
will be obtained, notwithstanding all the efforts made
on this side of the water to stop it. The manner in
which this is to be done, as pointed out in these ac-
counts, is well deserving of notice. The demand in
Europe for cotton is, as would be anticipated, the prin-
cipal medium relied on, but several other causes are
stated to work in favour of the United States. " The
increase of manufactures," it is remarked, "is such, not
only in England, but throughout the Continent, that there
is a constant consumption of cotton, and the price, instead
of falling, is steadily advancing. The export of this article
has risen from 40,000,000 dollars a year to 80,000,000 dol-
lars, and the amount must be paid in some way or other.
Besides this, the rate of interest on this side of the water is
nearly double to theirs. Bonds and mortgages, which
throughout England, Holland, and other countries pay but
3or 3i per cent., pay here 7 per ceut. The same with our
stocks, and the consequence is, that a large amount of
English funds is gradually invested, very little of which is
ever returned, because it is perfectly safe and pays the
lender a handsome interest. This, together with the Ame-
rican productions, has brought Europe, and particularly
England, in debt to us, and until we take a larger amount
of their manufactures, they will continue in debt to us,
and the balance must come in gold." This is pretty
nearly the true state of the case, but a fall in the price of
cotton, with the total discouragement of investments in
American securities, which recent events have produced,
may go far to correct the evil. The tendency will, how-
ever, be always the other way, and it is clear that constant
watchfulness on the part of the Bank of England will be re-
quired for some time to come, to keep matters in tolerable
equilibrium.
An American paper mentions an extraordinary advance
in the value of real estates in Ohio, the effect of the specu-
lative mania, and it gives as an instance, that a gentleman,
who two years ago purchased an estate in Sandusk city for
3,000 dollars, had now sold it for 100,000. To show the
extent of the commodity on which these speculations have
to act, reference may be made to a list of the public lands
owned by the United States in different sections of the
Union, made up to the latest practicable period. It is as

Acres.
4,100,942
11,459,156
17,254,001

17,443,427
22,586,058
12,924,301
9,683,526
14,223,175
14,028,917
6,792,909

130,476,414

To these have to be added, in the same States - -
and territories, lands to which the Indian title
has been expunged
Lands to which the Indian title is not extin-
guished
Lands surveyed within the last year
And what is called the Desmoines Purchase, a
tract north of Missouri and west of Mississippi 24,523,586

Total

340,000,000

REDUCTION IN THE CONVIVIAL

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EXPENSES OF THE CORPORATION.

The following is an exact account of the convivial reform
perpetrated upon itself by the Court of Common Council at
the last meeting. We give the items of the former expen-
diture and those of the present allowance :
Former expenses. Present allowances.
Irish Society, exclusive of
Deputies to Ireland.-- ,£B7O £2oo
City Lands Committee ... 850
Bridge House Estates 650
Gresham lOO .. . 25
Commissions of Sewers ... 650
Navigation Committee. ... 650
Coal, Corn, and Finance 550
General Purposes 650
London-bridge (averages) 500
Blackfriars-bridge (ditto) 110
Nightly Watch (ditto).... 80
City of London School (in
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1835)
Corn Meters in trust lOO
Markets Committee IOO
Library

£6,028 18 6 ...... .. £2,675
2,675

Reduction 3,353 18 6
Mr. Edward Wilson has given a notice of a motion to
rescind the resolution of 500/. to the City Lands Committee
in order to bring it down to 4001.„ as recommended by the
Revenue Committee.
We understand that the work of retrenchment is to go
forward immediately in the offices of the chief officers of the
Corporation, in some of which offices, it is said, that the
clerks who do almost all the work are but very indifferently
remunerated by the principals, although the sums allowed
by the Corporation for assistance has been always extremely
liberal. Indeed some of the members were so convinced of
the existence of this abuse, that they urged the rapid eco-
nomising of the Corporation expenses as regarded the mem-
bers themselves, with the greater earnestness in order to
correct an evil which calls so strongly for a remedy.

His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge
is not expected to return to this country from the Conti-
nent for two years, or two years and a half from the date of '
his departure. The young Prince is now in Hanover,
with his Royal parents, but he will make the grand tour
of the European Courts ere his return, attended by Lieut.-
Colonel Cornwall, of the Coldstream Guards. The Rev.
John R. Wood, the Prince's tutor, remains at Windsor.
Lord John Frederick Gordon, son-in-law to the
King, was appointed a Lord of the Bedchamber very shortly
after his union with Lady Augusta Kennedy Erskine, but
was not gazetted until last week.
Earl and Countess Grey are entertaining a select
circlo at Howick. Count and Countess Flahaut visited the
Noble Earl on their way from the North.
Monday last being the anniversary of the birth of
the Countess of Kinnoul it was celebrated by a party of the
neighbouring tenantry and others connected with the estate,
who were entertained to a plentiful dinner at the Castle,
and, being afterwards joined by their fair partners and
daughters, dancing commenced, and the evening was spent
in the most happy and social manner.
The First Battalion of the Grenadier Regiment of
Guards arrived in town yesterday from Woolwich, where
it was relieved by the 97th regiment of Infantry, recently
returned from Ceylon.
The inhabitants of Oswestry have presented to the
Hon. Thomas Kenyon, son of Lord Kenyon, a splendid
candelabrum, of the value of 150 guineas, as a testimonial
of their respect for his public services as High Steward, and
of esteem for his private character.
The Guernsey Star mentions the death of Mr.
Peter Galliene, one of the Guernsey Sub-marine Society,
occasioned by his being accidentally suffocated whilst en-
gaged in operations on the wreck of a vessel under water
oiAlderney. He had been at work on the wreck during
the morning, and been twice drawn up, without having ex-
perienced the least fatigue, and was let down a third time
at his own request. The cause of the accident is not given.
The same paper states that the Alderney boatmen were
strongly opposed to the operations of the divers, and that
police officers were obliged to protect them from their
threatened attacks, as the boatmen considered the wreck
their property.
On Monday last, the piercers in Messrs. M'Con-
nel's and other large mills, in Ancoats, turned out ; some
of them returned to work that day or the next morning ;
but again struck on the following day, and we believe are
still out ; and by this strike, of course, a great number of
spinners, who have taken no part in the matter are thrown
out of work.—Manchester Guardian.

We understand that the working cotton-spinners at
Oldham have this week generally withdrawn the notices
which they had previously given to leave their employ-
merit ; and several of the mills which had been stopped re-
commenced work on Thursday morning. Since that time,
however, we are sorry to learn, owing to some fresh diffe-
rences or to a want of a thorough understanding at the
time the notices were withdrawn, a renewal of the turn-
out has taken place in one or two cases ; and fears were
entertained yesterday that the turn-out would not be ge-
neral.--Illanchester Guardian.
SNOW IN HARVEST.—The truth of this oft-re-
peated saying has been this year exemplified. A farmer in
the Isle of Ely has at this time a crop of oats of about
forty acres still standing, untouched by scythe or sickle.
It is impossible to tell what a November or a December
sun may do to bring it to maturity ; but it is calculated
that a fortnight's heat of the summer's sun would scarcely
effect that object, bowed and broken down as it is by the
recent hail and snow.—Cambridge Chronicle.