The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

ANTI-TITHE MEETING.—The Dublin Evening Post of
Thursday reports the'proceedings of a great anti-tithe meet-
ing of the county of Meath, which was held in the Court
House at Navan last Wednesday. The meeting was convened
by the High-Sheriff, in compliance with a numerously signed
requisition. Meath is the first county that has met and re-
corded its dissatisfaction with the new Tithe Bill. Long be-
fore the hour appointed for taking th&chair, the people from
all parts of the country were flocking in to be present, and to
give their assent to any measures suggested by the requi-
sitionists calculated to extinguish the impost of tithes under
any denomination whatsoever.

At half past two o'clock, on the motion of the Marquis of
Headfort. CORBALLY, Esq., the High-Sheriff, was
called to the chair.

The Marquis of HEADFORT proposed, and MARK BARNE-
WELL seconded the following resolution :
" That the great and fundamental cause of all the evils of
Ireland is the effort to retain ascendancy of a Church of a
small minority of the people to the moral and political degra-
dation of the nation, and that Ireland can never enjoy tran-
quillity as long as that system be continued."

Mr: SIIAR:iiAN CRAWFORD then rose and said—Mr. High-
Sheriff, my Lord, and Freeholders of the county of Meath,
the duty has been entrusted to me of moving the second reso-
lution. It is to the effect—

" That the late Tithe Bill, instead of diminishing, has tended
to aggravate the evils of the original system, by creating
dissension on religious grounds between landlord and tenant,
and thus entailing additional misery and destitution on the
country."
Mr. MATTER seconded the resolution.

The next resolution, the purport of which ..was that the
" People of Ireland should reject with contempt every mea-
sure for the settlement of the tithe question, recognizing the
ascendancy of any Church or section over the remainder of the
nqtion," was moved by Mr. Taaffe, and seconded by the Rev.
Mr. Berke.

Mr. MATrnews proposed, and Mr. LOGAN secomled the
4th resolution, v;hich was to the effect, " That the claims of
Ireland could only be rectified by the passing of a law totally
extinguishing, in name and substance, the tithe impost, or
changing it to an appropriation for the public and general
purposes of the nation."

. Sir W. SOMERVILLE, after arguing against the Tithe Bill,
came to " the question of Municipal Reform, a system equally
corrupt and odious as that of the tithes, the remnant of one
of the worst of the abominable statutes of the penal code, and
the repeal of which would be almost as desirable as the ob-
taining of the Emancipation Bill." He advised the people
not to take any Bill with less than the English franchise, and
such a Bill he had good reason for believing would, be carried
next Session. The Hon. Baronet concluded by reading hiS
resolution in favour of Municipal Reform. It was seconded
by Mr. Cruise.
_ _

Mr. N. BOYLAN moved a resolutiOn expressive of tha thanks
of the meeting to Mr. Ward, Mr. Dillon BroWne, and the
other Members of the House of Commons, who formed the
minority on the late division on the Irish Tithe Bill. This
resolution was seconded by Mr. P. Mathews, and also passed
unanimously.
Dr. MULLEN then read'petitions to Parliament, founded on
the resolutions passed at themeeting, praying for the Abolition
of Tithes and for Corporate Reform.
On the motion of JAMES GERNON, Esq., and seconded by
B. FORD, Esq., those petitions were adopted.
P. LYNCH, Esq., of Tara Hall, then-moved that the pe-
tition be entrusted for presentation in the House of Lords to
the Marquis of Headfort, and in the House of Commons to
the County Members, and that Sir W. Somerville and Messrs.
Chapman and Chester be requested to support the prayer of
the petition.—The resolution was seconded by Mr. Murphy.
Mr. M'CANN moved a vote of " Thanks to, and confidence
in, the great leader of the Irish people, Daniel O'Connell.
Esq."
PETER PURCELL was called upon to second the motion,
and did so.

Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, after making some remarks ex-
shall
pressive of his non-concurrence with the resolution, said " I
atiankset
nthdaotnbyhmocee myself
that my
simplyy protestation
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lution,ll baeg
the Press."
Some marks of disapprobation were thereupon exhibited by
the meeting, but (the report adds), not a single personal or
offenaise expression was used towards Mr. Crawford.
When the applause with which the vote was carried had
ceased, Mr. Crawford moved the Marquis of Headfort. to the
chair, and the thanks of the meeting to the High Sheriff.
Before the meeting separated, three cheers were given for
the Queen, three cheers for the Lord Lieutenant, and three
cheers for Mr. O'Connell; also, cheers for the Marquis of
Headfort, Sir W. Somerville, and Peter Purcell, Esq.
All the resolutions were agreed to unanimously, with the
•of one, namely, a vote of confidence in Mr.
exception O'Con-
nell, which was diFsented from by Mr. Crawford.
Immediately after the meeting, Mr. Langan, of Baltram,
was arrested at the suit of the Rev. Mr. Batty, of Duleek, for
tithes due to him.