The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dublin, September 14.
• POLITICAL UNION.—The Trade Union held their weekly
meeting last night. The conduct of Mr. Reynolds in agi-
tating the Repeal question met with general and decided
reprehension. After some discussion on this topic two
reports of a very favourable description, emanating from
the deputations that recently went through the county of
Dublin, were read.
A public meeting has been held in Tullamore. The
people have nobly done their duty with regard to the Re-
gistration, and the Justice Rent is also in progress of
collection.
A letter has been received in town from Lord Minto,
First Lord of the Admiralty, stating that the Madagascar
Frigate, Captain Sir J. S. Peyton, K.C.H., of forty-six
guns, has been ordered to Kingstown, and might be ex-
pected to arrive on or before the 14th inst. She will re-
main for a week, after which she proceeds to Milford to
join the Galatea—D. E. Post.
ENGLISH SYMPATHY FOR IRISH WRONG.—This dig..
puted question is warmly discussed in the Irish papers.
We give the conclusion of an article on the subject from the
Freeman's Journal of Wednesday.
The Examiner, after quoting the paragraph in Mr.
O'Connell's letter, in which he gives so much sound and
wholesome advice to the Whigs as to their future conduct,
says,—" On one most important occasion Mr. O'Connell's
advice would have committed the Ministry to an infamy
unparalleled and to certain ruin. It is notorious that he
wished Ministers to accept the Irish Tithe Bill without the
appropriatian clause, and thus to waive the principle by
holding which to be indispensable they had broken up the
Government of Sir Robert Peel. It is equally notorious
that after the Irish Corporations Bill had been eviscerated'
by the Lords, Mr. O'Connell went about the town saying
that it should be accepted, and he only changed his lan-
guage when he found that Government spurned the very
notion of so shameful a submission. On these occasions had
the Ministry been influenced by Mr. O'Connell, it would
have been disgraced and ruined, and its conduct was far
more honest and courageous than his promptings. Let us
cite another instance with a different result."
Now it so happens that we had the best possible oppor-
tunities of ascertaining the truth or falsehood of the fore-
- going, and we have not the slightest hesitation in declar-
ing, in the strongest and most emphatic terms, that the
very contrary is the fact. Is it not notorious that he (Mr.
O'Connell) wished the ministers to accept the Irish Tithe
Bill without the appropriation clause? It is quite true that
the Tory journals asserted that ministers had determined
on abandoning the clause, and that in this determination
they were-likely- to be supported by Mr. O'Connell ; but
the writer of this heard Mr. O'Connell publicly declare, in
the Westminster Club-house, that it was a libel on the
Ministry to suppose or assert that they ever contemplated
such a proceeding. Again, it is not true that Mr. O'Con-
nell went about town saying that the Irish Corporation Bill,
after it had been eviscerated by the Lords, should be ac-
cepted by the Commons. Mr. O'Connell is seldom on
'town. Whatever his opinions may be of a public question
or of public men, he keeps them to himself till he has an
opportunity of promulgating them in public. It is, howe-
ver, unfortunately for the Examiner, notorious that a cer-
tain portion of Ministers were most anxious that the Bill
should he agreed to. The liberal Irish Members know this
to be a fact ; and they know that Mr. O'Connell was just
as anxious that it should be rejected. It may be said that
this, like the accusations of the Examiner, is mere asser-
tion. To this we reply that we have the means of esta-
blishing the accuracy of everything we have advanced, and
—if necessity requires—we are ready arid willing to come
forward with abundant proof, in support of our assertion,
TRANQUILLITY.—The perfect- peace which prevails ge-
nerally throughout the country, and in those places too
` which here forMerly the theatre of agrarian outrages, is
proved by every day's post. We take the following evi-
dence of improvement in the temper and habits -of the
people, taken from the last number of the Killi•ensty.lournal.
At the monthly petty sessions, on Saturday last, at the
Llinetree, there was not a single case, either civil or criminal,
Mr trial, The district for which these sesgions are held
contains eight parishes, and extends through nearly the
whole barony of Shillelo,gber. -It is certainly a most extra-
ordinary fact that iii so large and populous a district, after
the lapse of a month, there should not be a case of any de-
icription to go before the Magistiates. Such a gratifying
state of things is owing to many causes—ta the exertions
of the Catholic clergy—the good sense of the people tl-wm-
. selves—and, in a great measure, to the peaceful and judi-
cious conduct bf the respectable and intelligent presiding
Magistrates of that district. 'We trust .tbat the existing
tranquillity, not only in the Limetree dietrict, but through-
out the whole county of Kilkenny, will never ha disturbed
by the revival of the ascendancy of the vile and sanguinary
Tory faction.
YOUGHAL ORANGEMF.N.—There is a small clique of
Orangemen in Youghal, who took it into their heads lately
to hold a feast and to make speeches. It'would appear
tI4 there was present at the entertainment (inter alias) a
person who rejoices in the name of O'Driscoll, and delights
in being considered as a Roman Catholic. Until fother
day, we had no idea that your Papist born and bred—your
man having an idolatrous father and anti-Christian mother—
would-belong to the holy brotherhood of Orangemen ; their
leading rule and 'principle—the very ground of the associa-
tion—being that no person descended from Catholic parents
could become a Member. Our ignorance,
.however, has
been recently enlightened . the rule has more than once
been modified, in order to let in certain apostate Papists,
who had rendered themselves peculiarly-obnoxious to the
co-religionists of their fathers and mothers, and whose rene-
gade shamelessness had recommended them in a peculiar
degree to Orange patronage. We doubt not that the De;
lanys, the Crottys, and a fellow we have heard (if in Mona-
ghan, who is desirous to follow in the profitable wake•of
these apostles of the True Faith, will forthwith be received
into the generous arms of the Orange Confederacy.—Dub-
list Evening Post.

Between 10 and 11 o'clock Thursday morning, a
man, named James Oliver, dropped down dead, as he was car-
rying a sack of flour into Mr. Wymans, baker, Leather-lane.
Yesterday at a meeting of the Board of Guardians,
of the parish of St. Marylebone, one of the assistvit overseers
stated that a sturdy Irishman, Cornelius Barry, had been no
less than seven times• sent home to Ireland with two of his
children, in the course of three or four years, •and he,as_often
returned to that parish. The Oay before yesterday the same
two children were left by their father at Lisson Grove, and
from thence they-were brought the workhouse, where they had
been inmates off and on since they were born, about nine years
ag'p. Barry, he observed, was well known to the officers of
the establishment as well as to the police, and although a
de-
scription of him had been forwarded to the different police
stations, he had hitherto contrived to, escape. As the only
.effectual•means, therefore, of securing his apprehension, the
Board directed that a reward should be offered, which might
quicken the vigilance of the police.' The *erseer also stated
that when I3arry was last sent telreland,. he had not a shilling
in his pocket, b-ut 'he understood that there were societies in
the sea-ports in that country who paid for the passage of their
paupers to Liverpool or Bristol, as the case might be, and from
- thence they begged their way to the metropolis.
Yesterday, pursuant to an order from the Board of.
Overseers of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea. issued upon the
representation of Mr. Wilson, one of the parochial surgeons,
Catherine Thomas, alias Steele, a female who evidently had
possessed great personal attractions, -formerly under the pro-
tection of a merchant in the city, was removed on a litter from
a wretched hovel in Blacklands-lane to the infirmary ward of
the workhouse, being in the last stage of consumption, brought
on in the opinion of the medical officers of the parish by the
want of the common necessaries of life, and great mental
suffering.'
It appears by a statement in the New York papers
on the subject of the gold coinage, that in the years
1826,
1827, and 1828, it amounted to only 15'4,655 dollars annually.
Since that period it has been as follows 1829, ' 295 717
ll •
dollars ;in 1830, 643,105 dollars ;in 1831, 714,270
dollars
in 1832, 798,435 dollars ; in 1833, 978,550 dollars
3,954,270-dollars; in 1835, 2,186,175 dollars; an in 1834,'
d in the
first six months of 1836,.1,006,575 dollars. In the last six
months of the present year it was expected to be much
larger. In the next year the means, of the Government for
coining will be increased by the completion of three new
branch Mints. On this subject it
imay be remarkedof thatillat it is
now the declared policy of the Government to charter no
oo;the
elated to
banks, and to connect itself to no establishments
na-
ture, but to confine its monetary operationseoina to. thpi issuingavery large and perfect gold and silverc
form the proper basis for the whole circulation of
try. Mr. Van Buren, who is expected to succeed General
Jackson in the Presidency, in a public declarationhas oefxlpirseosspreidl.
nions which be has been called upon to-make,
similar sentiments on this question-of the currency. "It is
high time," he says, " that we should return to the
Reform
is policy,, -and the first step in the way of
is that the Federal Government confine itself to the crea-
tion of. coin, and that the States afford it a fair
chance for circulation. Can any one inssign even a plausible
reason why the United States cannot maintain as stable a cur-
rency as either France or Great Bfitain ? None, I imagine,
other than it has not been the policy of the Government that
it should be so. In all material respects, so Mr as I can judge,
we are in at, equally favourable, if not a superior condition.
Whilst both those countries must rely on importations from
abroad for golf for their Mints, we derive three-fourths of a
jeillion annually from our mines, and are besides .nearer the
great
supplies of it in South America. Nothing, therefore,
• but faithful prosecution by the general Government and the
, States of the policy of the present Administration in regard
tq ,fociq,Cirettlation is necessary to place us on, a footing of
equality In that respect with other nations„ Such a result
oneelecotnplisc hecl' it will require no laboured argument to
prove that,morwill have been done for tile permanent inte-
rests and intEtuvement of the currency, than was ever accom-
plished by thei Bank of the United States, or than ever could
in the nature:of things be accomplished by such an institution.
;Vie may find, in what has already been done, the greatest en..
--4ouragernent to a vigorous prosecution of this policy." ,

lad viti