The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-13 00:00:00

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Anti-tithe Wteetings have been held in various parts of

COiktY.
SEDUCTION.—In the Sheriff's Court, Wexford, on Friday
last, a respectable farmer named Mathew Hickey was Etuar.
ded one hundred pounds damages 0003).1.": a young man
named James Connet) ti the seduction of his daughter.
Lormr.trrY.—There has lately died at Drnm„iine,
Donoughmore, Ireland) in his 114th :,,ea% ha*renqs
Crenny. He lived 70 years ill l'ne tein4ce of Mr. Innes's
family—,havin.g seen tile:, iotrtth heir of the Glen estate, now
11 inc": Ans old. He was a trustworthy, honest Mail
ae.tended divine service every Sunday, and at the age of
114 walked to chapel with great firmness. He retained
his recollection to the last.

A huntsman to one of the packs of hounds in the neigh-
bourhood of Cork, having committed matrimony in another
than his own parish, so deeply offended his Pastor by this
trespass, that he was ordered to be " married over again"
in his own parish, or to give up his vocation as a hunts-
man. The unfortunate transgressor against sacerdotal
authority, bad not money enough pay üble toll for per-
mission to travel the high way of, matrimony—and be-
ing refractory through dire necessity, he has lost his
place—another huntsman being appointed to succeed him.
—Cork Herald.

Skibbereen was the scene of disgraceful riot and confu-
sion on St. Stephen's day ; one man (Michael Collins) has
been killed and several persons wounded.
TIPPERARY MEETING.—On last Thursday, pursuant to
requisition, a meeting of magistrates assembled at the
Court-house of Cashel, to take into consideration the state
of crime in several of our Baronies, and to devise the best
means for its suppression. Lord Donoughmore was in the
chair. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted:—
" That application be made to Government for one hundred
additional policeman, to be allocated in the several dis-
turbed baronies, as Major Miller and the other Police
Magistrates should think advisable. That application be
made to Government that the Act (known as Sir Henry
Pamirs) for the better preservation of the peace, and the
more speedy punishment of offences, be put in force in those
baronies which are particularly considered to be unquiet."
Ma. O'CONNELL has deferred dining with the citizens
of Cork, as intimated in his former communication, until his
return from the ensuing Session of Parliament.—Lublin Post.

TITHES—Loss OF LIFE.—The lives of two human beings,
and the properties and liberty of two others have been sacri-
ficed in one day to support the dignity of a Christian esta-
blishment.--Dublin Freeman's Journal.

The Winter Tithe Campaign has commenced "by the
murder of one man and the death of another." The Rev.
Rector has, we think, a composition of eleven hundred
pounds a-year. Mr. James Cummins, an unquestionable
authority on such a subject, described the Rev. Gentle-
man as a young man of fashion, who spent his time at
places of gay resort in England and on the Continent. A
vast majority of the Clergy of this county were happy to
receive their tithe for 1831, and 1832, and 1833 from the
Government out of the million fund, at a deduction of 121
per cent. The Rev. Mr. Beresford preferred distraining
and suing his psrishioners, allowing to his proctor, the cele-
brated Mr. Philip Cross, twenty-five per cent. We have
heard, and we certainly believe truly, that in addition to the
1,1001. composition, the gentleman put his parishioners in
one year to six hundred pounds law costs. A mode of
proceeding hitherto unheard of in this country was resorted.
to ; Mr. Cross traversed the parish, with armed men, fol-
lowed by a but-load of handcuffs, wherewith to manacle the
peasantry. For the last-five years, there has been in this
unfortunate parish an incessant round of distraints—law and
equity processes. We recollect seeing in the public papers,
a short time since, the farm of one of the parishioners ad-
vertised to be sold under execution, at the suit of the Rev.
Gentleman. The peasantry of that part of the country
are in a stpte of complete despair and exasperation ; and
we are only surprised that the dreadful persecution to which
they have been subjected, has been so long and so patiently
borne. The depressed prices of the present season, and
their total inability to meet the Rev. Gentlerrian's demands
and the costs of proceedings in a Court of Equity—the
most expensive which could be resorted to—appear to have
at length exhausted their patience, and their capability of
enduring further suffering.
We are not disposed to impute a sanguinary disposition
to Mr. Beresford ; but, considering the course he pursued
with respect to the inhabitants of his parish, in exacting
from them three years' composition which he might have
had elsewhere, and in subjecting their' for five years to an
incessant harrassing of distraints and law proceedings, how
could he expect any other result from sending among them,
in this peculiarly depressed season, armed men, employed
in the obnoxious service of bringing them into a Court of
Equity, and subjecting them anew to enormous costs, than
that the shedding of human blood, and the loss of human
life, would be the consequence ?
Is there to be no end of these sacrifices ? Is this dread-
ful state of things never to terminate? Is the hereditary
branch of the Legislature, careless of the misery of the
rural population, and indifferent to their relief, still obsti-
nately to oppose itself to every measure which can be de-
vised, or may be sent up to them, to restore tranquillity and
peace to a distracted country ?
A great statesman professed his inability to draw a bill
of indictment against a whole people. The clergy of the
Established Church are solving a similar difficulty, by show-
ing the feasibility of going to law with the entire popula-
tion. We hear of nothing from every district of this great
country but law processes in progress against the commu-
nity of every class, grade, and description--occupying
tenants, middlemen, landlords, owners of the fee—all in-
volved in the common calamity. Landlords in numerous
instances, within our knowledge, are either threatened with
proceedings, or are being actually sued for hundreds of
pounds, arrears due by their tenants, to which, under the
operation of Stanley's Act, they are now considered legally
liable. There is no prospect for the agricultural commu-
nity, but that of general confusion, destruction, and ruin,
unless there be an immediate legislative interposition for
their relief. —Cork Reporter.
TITHES AGAIN ! ! !—Mr. Daniel Geran, of Rushmount,
near Kilworth, was arrested, on his way home from the
Chapel, on Twelfth Day, under an execution for tithe. He
remained two or three days in the tithe Proctor's house,
and in the Bridewell at Kilworth, from whence he was re-
moved last evening to the Bridewell at Fermoy. This old
gentleman, now upwards of seventy years of age, is, we un-
derstand, on hia way from Fermoy this day to the County
Gaol, under escort of Major Galwey, of the Police, and the
whole of the garrison of Fermoy ! ! This extraordinary pro-
cession is expected to arrive in this city about four o'clock.
At two o'clock Mr. Geran, in a chaise, surrounded by a
troop of Dragoons, has passed our office on his way to the
County Gaol. The escort was much more numerous until
it arrived at Batrick's Bridge, when a large part of the
troops was witharawn. The sensation created by this dis-
play is very great—particularly as the events of yesterday,
of which the Rev. Mr. Beresford is yet the only historian,
hail previously made an impression, which we need not de-
scribe, on the public mind.—The remembrance of the
Rathcormac slaughter, it seems, will never be suffered to be
effaced.—Cork Reporter of Saturday.
IMPRISONMENT.—The seizure and sale of the farmer's
stock is not sufficient to satisfy the successors of the
Apostles ! We have now to announce the imprisonment
of Mr. O'Flaherty, of Donornan, at the suit of the Rev.
Mr. Croker, of Croom. Mr. O'Flalierty's stock, consist-
ing of sheep and cows, were lately seized by the Rev. Plain-
tiff, and sold for a few shillings in our public streets. The
stock was, in point of value, quadruple the sum claimed ;
but a loss so serious as this, and that at the shrine of an
Establishment with which the loser had no religious con-
nection, did not appease the meek, charitable, and consis-
tent spirit of this Christian minister. He has had Mr.
O'Flaherty committed to the city gaol, where he now lies
immured, and where, we are sure, the sympathies of his
countrymen will reach him. He presents the affecting,
though glorious spectacle, of a man suffering with courage
for a great principle.—Limerick Paper.
The public dinner to Mr. O'Connell in Dublin is fixed
for Monday, the 25th instant.
Messieurs the Commissioners of the Dublin Election
have retired into private life.
ELEGANT EXTRACT.—The following specimen of Tory
slang adorns the.columns of the Dublin Evening Mail :
" The dinner to Mr. O'Connell at Cork is no go. The
Queen's County blow out, too, turns out to be a failure.
The people have given him their alms already. They won't
pay now for seeing the "hanimar at his food.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.

A numerous and highly respectable meeting of the inha-
bitants of_Croydon and its vicinity was held yesterday, at
the Town Hall, Croydon, to take into consideration the
propriety of supporting the line of railway to Brighton pro-
jected by Mr. Gibbs.
Capt. ALSAGER, M. P., took the Chair.
Mr. DRUMMOND read the report of a meeting held at
Croydon, on the 24th of September last, from which it
appeared that five different routes or lines were proposed
to effect a railway communication between London and
Brighton. Three of these lines passed through Croydon,
and two of them by way of Dorking, leaving Croydon
out of the route, thus showing the majority of opinions on
the part of the engineers engaged upon the subject to be
in favour of a line passing through the town. The Com-
mittee considered that the advantages derived by the neigh-
bourhood of Croydon from its present position, in the direct
route from London to Brighton, would be materially lessened
if the projected railways which were to avoid that place were
carried into effect, and that the injury thus effected would not
be counterbalanced by any benefit to the public from a
preference of those lines, and they recommended, therefore,
an active opposition to them. It appeared to the Corn-
mittee that of the lines passing through Croydon that