The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

MAYO ELECTION.—The Honourable Constantine A.
Dillon, brother of Viscount Dillon, has just sent out an ad•
dress to the electors of the county. Mr. Dillon announces
himself as a firm supporter of the principles of the present
Adthinistration. He comes of a good stock--the family
of which he is a member having been consistent reformers.
There are already in the field five candidates, all professing-
liberal principles. They are Messrs. M'Donnell anEI
Browne, of Glen Corrib, Mr. Constantine Dillon, Sir Nip,
lentine Blake, and Mr. Michael Blake, Birmingham.

CARLOW DEPOPULATION.—We take the f01ic:11.64- from
a heart-rending letter written by Mr. Phelan, the Editor
of the Dublin Evening Post :
" BagnalstowP, March 31, 1836.
beg to direct your atte!ition, and that of the
public, to a most distressing scene Nvhich took place in thtft
parish on yesterday.
" It may be in your recollece.on, that at a meeting which
was held in Clonegath, in th;s parish, on last December, to
petition Parliament for Por,r Laws, that I, after counting over
the number of families' and individuals that were ejected
within the last few yea's from the property of three or four in
this parish, which amounted to 178 families, or 992 individuals,
including 230 widows and orphans, stated, that besides these.
already ejected, there were 71 additional families, amounting;
to 391 individuals, including eighty-six widows and orphan
served with notice to quit by three at these landlords.
that occasion, I said that I saw but little reason to hope that
this threat of intimidation wou/.6,' not be carried into ful .ffect.
" On yesterday, the sentelice of the law was carried into exe-
cution against 16 fami"cos, amounting to 96 individr.als, in-
cluding seven widows. and their families, in the townituid of
Sliguff, the property of Viscount Beresford.
" About euree o'clock on yesterday, John Agar, with a labour-
ing man heavily loaded with locks and keys., attended by the
Sheriff and 40 of the constabulary, with two chic', constables,
reached the devoted village. The approach of 'this formidable
force filled the miserable families about to be vjected with the
utmost consternation. The day was particul afly cold and severe
—sliowers of hail and snow succeeded each, other at short inter-
vals; but the moment had arrived when ',lit poor families were
to be driven from the spot where they W' re born and reared ;
they were all, with their little furniture, i.a a short time put out
upon the high road.. You could su.re,ely represent to your
mind a more distressing scene. Thar were actually shivering
with the cold—they were half naked --almost all the women and
children were bathed in tears—sorne of the married women had
infants at their breasts not more than a few months old—others
appeared on the eve of being confined; there were seven wi-
dows, all, but one, over 60 years of age—some beyond 70.
One of the bailiffs, who was at the time drunk, while dragging
out of the house a member of David Hacket's family, trampled
upon a young child ; the father of the child knocked him down
at the moment, and the Sheriff, to do him justice, turned the
bailiff away. When they came to dispossess a man named
Edward Hickey, who had his child confined to bed by the
measles, he entrea',ed them to allow him to stop in his bov.se
for a few days his children would get better—but no in-
dulgence would, be granted; the afflicted parents were obllged
to carry the children in their arms, and keep them on the road-
side exposed to the piercing cold wind that blew like a hur-
ricane at the moment.

" I consider that in directing public attention to the situa-
tion of this truly unhappy people, and by show;.ng the danger
they are in of perishing through destitution and want, that I
have discharged a duty which. I owed to 'society and to these
poor families. I trust that those who 'are charged with the
preservation of human life will take th'e.ir melancholy state into
consideration."
Ciluacn PATRONAGE..—StrP.ngers will naturally be sur-
prised at the number of enemies to the existence of the
Protestant Church , in its present form of government, to he
found even wit"'ain the pale of the Establishment itself:
The cause ;:s so well known in Ireland, that the fact causes
neither surprise nor regret. The fact is, the nepotism
'at P_. few great families, who have hitherto contrived to se-
cure to themselves a monopoly of ecclesiastical patronage in
the country, is so shamefully notorious, that one only won-
ders how Protestantism can find a single advocate out of
the ranks of the favoured and pampered pluralists. Th,
consequence is that the most violent as well as the ablest
opponents of tithes and the other abuses of the Establish-
ment are the sons of Protestant curates—gentlemen whose
only inheritance is their talents, and who are happy to take
every opportunity of indemnifying themselves for the inju-
ries received through neglect of their fathers, by reprisals on
the Church. Let the following be talon as an instance of the
cases of hundreds of unpatronised curates in Ireland, and can
any one doubt what must and ought to be the feelings of
the children of such a neglected class of Christian ministers?
A. pious, learned, and liberal curate the Rev. John Cham-
bers, died a few days ago. at Leek, in the diocese of Raphoc,
in the 82d year of his age. He lived in the same diocese
and the same curacy fifty-seven years—he saw five prela-'.es
of the diocese called to give an account of their ministry.
By all he lived unnoticed, and died—a curate. His, how-
ever, were not the virtues that win the patronage of a pre-
late. He had nothing to recommend him but meekness
and sincerity—learning and devotedness to the spiritual
wants of those committed to his charge—and absolutely so
seldom do the bishops tread • the same course, that it cans
scarcely be wondered that he never met one of the five
ived.
OUTRAGE.—tietween the hours of six .and seven -o ~...-_
on Thursday morning, three men, called at the lodgings of a
watchman, named Byrne, in Qcorge's-place, and having de-
coyed him to the' outside of the house, they instantly at-
tacked him with bludgeons, and heat.him in the most savage
manner. Byrne was removed to Mercer's Hospital. None
of the offenders were apprehended.—Register.
INCENDIARISM.—Between ten and eleven o'clock on
Thursday night, the turf-boat of a man named John
Brown, which was lying at Dolphin's-barn dock, was ma-
liciously set on fire by a number of persons. Intelligence:
of the attack having been sent to the police-barrack ;.ni
Kevin-street, a strong party of horse police was dispatc'4cd
to the spot, who succeeded in arresting the principal in the
outrage, a fellow named Killeen, and extinguished the ;Ire
before any serious injury was done.—lbid.
ANTI•TITHE MEETINGS.—On Thursday last, a highly
respectable meeting was held in the Lancasterir
.n School
in Ross, to petition against tithes, and oppose '..:orporation
tyranny,

The Rossmen are determined to oppose, tr, the last, the
payment of tithes. James Talbot, Esq., . P., brother of
our worthy town member, was appointed. c,ne of the commit-
tee of management, and also treasurer.

A meeting of the parishioners of 131ackratb, county Kil-
kenny, to adopt a petition to Parl'in'.nent against the tithe
system, was held on Tuesday. 7;,
acenny .Journal.
A petition praying for a total, extinction of the accursed
tithe system, was forwarded Ori, 'Tuesday from the parish of
Ballyragget to the Honour aEle Colonel Butler, M.P., for
presentation to the House '.,f 'Commons. There were upwards
of 1,000 signatures attac:nr.d to it.—lbid.
FlRE.—Between the kaours of eleven and twelve o'clock
on Wednesday night, last, a fire broke out through the roof
of Mr. Sikes's C,Ai-det Ware Room, in Great George's-
street, which frown the frightful rapidity with which it
ap-
peared to have spread, and the immense columns of smoke
and flames wilich issued from the buildinc, itself, spread ter-
rific dismay amongst the inhabitants of that and the circura-

jacent streets. The Ware Rooms having been overstocked
at the time with a vast quantity of newly-finished furniture,
and much more in process of manufacture, those com-
bustible materials served to feed the flames to such a de-

gree, that notwithstanding all the prompt and-vigorous;
assistance rendered, and that promptly and speedily, not a
single particle of the same was saved from the devouring
element. The total loss of property on this occasion. is
estimated at 2,0001., and although Mr. Sikes was insured.
with the West of England Assurance Company, it was not:
fully to the amount of his loss.—Cork Herald.
A HUSBAND.—A. Coroner's inquest was held, on Sunaay
last, at Ahaseragli, on view of the body of a woman named
Madden, who, it appears, died in consequence of several
severe injuries inflicted on her person by hrs husband. One
of her arms and one her of legs were bre!Cen,the latter in t wo
different places, and various marks of violence were disco-
vered on her breast and other parts of her body. A ver-
dict of " Wilful murder" was found against her husband,
who had absconded, but wb.6 has been since apprehended
and committed to Galway gaol to abide his trial for the
alleged offence.—Athlonc Independent.
PROTESTANT REGISTRATION SOCIETY.—This title hav-
ing been put forward by Micky, John Rufus, jun., and
others, the honest Protestants of Waterford felt naturally
indignant at such audacity, and openly signified their dis-
pleasure at such an impudent attempt to identify them or
their religion, with the Orange spirit which is sought to be
fostered by a few old men, and a small band of presump-
tuous buckeens in our city. The lecture already rend therm
had such a salutary effect on their tender nerves, that they
discontinued the society. By this manoeuvre they sought
to escape our vigilance, and they are now confederati-ng
under the mire of " The City of Waterford Constitutional
Registration Association."—Waterfo^...d Chronicle.
On Friday last, our contezr:porary, the Guardia-7r, an-
nounced the final close of itP, publication. This ruraounee-
meat was contained in a j.ong- and well written address from
,
the Editor, Dr. StuP:rt, to the friends and rePilers of his
Join nal.—Beffo:ii News Letter.

intelligences o r
thf, raonndt Irelanduru
tshhao:ti nothingat thebut 1,1,e—
refuse to dissolve. T'
ney have had numerous
ClanraAlc; of
men generally
meetings in the
t them down.
Parliament shall pu
A pair of white gloves w
The
as Voted to Major Bingham
Newland,
as Chairman of the Midhurst Union, on TueF,day,
the t.,)(1 March, on the occasion of there not being one single
pauper application in the twenty-six parishes of which it con-
sists ; and which connected with the fact that the decrease in
expenditure for the two quarters ending December 25, 183.5,
as compared with that of 1834, amounts to 6,048/. Ss. od. ;
thus favourably showing the efficacy of the present poor law-
The expenditure in the 26 parishes for the half-year ending
corresponding half-year, 1834, was 2,7311. 11 s. 10P. --,
December 25, 1834, was 8,7801. ; the expenditure for thus
Hampshire 7'eleyraph,