The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-20 00:00:00

IRELAND.

BELFAST DINNER.—On Friday last the Belfast Society
held their third Anniversary Dinner. The usual toasts artfl
speeches were drunk and delivered. The _Dublin Mail,
who thought it worth while to send down a special reporter,
is exultant, devotes fourteen columns to the report of what
was said and done upon the occasion by Tories and politi-
cians of the doubtful genus. The Marquis of Downshire's
conduct is lauded most liberally.
TEMPORAL PEER.—The election terminated in giving
majority of 59 votes to Lord Dunsaney over the more 11-
beral candidate Lord Lismorc.

TITHES—THE INQUEST.—We have not received any
further particulars of the proceedings on this inquest since
our last number, but we learn that an adjournment took
place from Newtown to Charleville, on Thursday, on which
day the case for the prosecution closed, and that for the
police was to commence yesterday, with no likelihood of
its closing for two or three days. The anxiety and excite-
ment increased every hour, and in this state the country
will be kept while the accursed cause which produces it is
suffered to exist.—Goth Reporter of Saturday.
WAR WITH THE DEAD.—The parsons are determined
to shew value for the blood-money which they exact at the
bayonet's point from their Catholic parishioners. They will
read prayers over the graves of Catholics, whether requested
to do so or not. What a portrait for a spiritual Quixote
would a Parson be, with a prayer-book in his hand, a coffin
at his feet, a magistrate as a clerk at his side, and a con-
gregation of policemen, worshipping God, not " on the top
of their staffs," but on their bullet loaded muskets 1 This
is a scene that sickens.

It appears from a letter in the Dublin Freeman, which
the editor says can be authenticated by several respectable
gentlemen, the people assembled to convey the remains,
of a young man who died in the Roman Catholic faith
to the church-yard of Rathmore, adjacent to the splendid
mansion and fertile glebe of one of the starving parsons,
Rev. Mr. Olde—" When the procession approached the
church-yard," says the writer, "you may judge what the
feelings of the people were, when they saw the above-men-
tioned rev. gentleman preparing to read the funeral service,
at the interment of one whom he well knew to have died
in the Roman Catholic faith. He was guarded by seven
police, with loaded muskets, during the ceremony. The
people were provoked at this outrage to a very high de-
gree, but they remained quiet. It was well they did so, as
it is very probable blood would have been shed."

MR. RUTHTVEN, M. P.
The Mail says that "the Committee of the Kildare-street
Club came to a resolution for submitting a notice for the
expulsion of Mr. Edward Ruthven, the Member for Kil-
dare, in consequence of the late decision of the Turf Club,
unless his withdrawal should be officially notified to the
Secretary before twelve o'clock on Friday night." Mre-
Ruthven sent in his resignation immediately.

DEATH OF MR. RONAYNE, M.P.
The respected Member for Clonmel is no more. Letters
reached town on Saturday morning, stating his death after
one week's illness, at his seat near Youghal, early on th•
morning of Friday last. The immediate cause of this
melancholy event was an attack of bilious fever.
A more honest, high-minded, disinterested, and manly
Irishman, never pledged his fortunes to the fate of his
country. We never knew a man more single-minded, more
sincere, and zealous in the cause of liberal opinions, and the
especial welfare of Ireland.—Dublin Register.

The Commissioners for Slave Compensation have
judiciously rescinded the rule by which separate powers of
attorney were required from the possessors of property in
different colonies, which was found to be exceedingly incon-
venient in practice, and ruinous in many cases in point of
expense. On inspection and more careful consideration of
the Act of Parliament, it is held to be perfectly clear that
no such multiplication of powers of attorney is authorized by
it. This discovery is made somewhat of the latest, and
cannot remedy the evil already inflicted by the rule on which
the commissioners have acted up to the present time. In
future, however, it is understood that one power will suffice
for the property belonging to one person, in whatever
manner it may be distributed over the colonies.—Morning
Paper.

Some strange and scarcely intelligible notions are
afloat in the Money-market on the subject of Spanish
Finance, descriptive of a project said to have originated
with Mendizabal, but which could not have entered the
mind of any Minister, or man, possessed of the least know-
ledge of the matter. The basis of the project is some
arrangement by which the Deferred and Passive may be
converted into Active Debt, but this is said to require, as
a preliminary, that the price of the Active Stock, which is
now about 50, should advance to 60, and that ths price of
the Deferred and Passive Stock should at the same time
remain stationary—a state of things which is impossible, es
a relative value for those securities is now established in the
market, according to which they rise or fall together.
Neither is it easy to conceive by what process the general
estimate of the value of the Active Stock is to be so altered
for the better as to cause it to rise 10 per cent., or one'
fifth of its current quotation. It is matter of some curio'
sity to ascertain through what channel such an unintelligible
statement can have got into circulation ; that it must have
been wholly misunderstood by the party to whom it was
described is clear ; but it is also evident that something
must have been described, and in that case we might expect
to find among the friends of Mendizabal in this country
some description of the project which should be at least
consistent, and enable us to reconcile the parts with each
other. There is not, however, any information of the kind
to be met with. The conjecture is (which in this must
supply the place of information), that Mendizabal intends
to offer to the holders of Deferred and Passive Stock the
option of making it active, on payment of such a sum, or
nearly so, as constitutes the difference of price between
them in the market. Some think that his intentions i"
this respect refer to the Deferred Stock only, and that he
will make the Passive Stock productive to his resources,
by allowing it to become in part payable in the purchases
of national property, which would make the remaining
payment in money less onerous to the purchaser. In such
an operation, which, though not absolutely a loan, par-
takes very much of that character, the difficulty would be
the delay that must take place, and the disadvantageous
terms, in the present state of the market, under which it
must be carried into effect. For an intermediate supply
of funds, therefore, it is believed that an application co
the part of Spain has been to France and England through
the Ambassadors, in Madrid, for a loan, or the guarantee
of a loan, of between 2,000,0001. and 3,000,0001., the
greater portion of it to be devoted to the payment of the
dividends on the public foreign debt. In the event of
success in this application, the measure of conversion of
the Deferred and Passive Stock will, it is supposed, be at'
tempted, and probably under much more favourable cir-
cumstances than at present. Of course it is impossible
yet to say what reception this proposition has met with
from the French and English Governments.—Morn. Paper.
The following is an extract from a letter received
by a gentleman at Wimborne, from a friend on board the
brig Charybdis, on the Sierra Leone station :—" I have the
pleasure to inform you that after a three days' chase we
succeeded in getting up with a Spanish brig, and she sur-
rendered this morning with 429 slaves on board. When
we first spied her she had 480 on board, but fifty of those
on the upper deck, 3,000 yams, an anchor, and cable, were
thrown overboard to make sail from us, but all to no pur
pose ; get away from us she could not, do what she would.
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This is the third capture made by the Charybdis since she
has been on the station.—Salisbury Herald.

Wednesday evening Lieut. Walker, keeper of the
Formby Lighthouse, near Liverpool, observed a small sloop
aground on one of the Formby Banks. Lieut. Walker lost
not a moment in manning the life boat, and with a crew of
six men put off to the assistance of the sloop. They had
not, however, proceeded far from the shore when from the
extreme violence of the surf the life boat was upset, and
Lieut. Walker and five of the crew met a watery grave.
The surviving seaman has not yet sufficiently recovered to
give a particular account of this melancholy affair. Lieut.
Walker was much respected, and his untimely fate is 11W'
vernally regretted.
INQUEST UPON THE BODY OF JANE WooD•
—The whole neighbourhood of Tallow Hill was thrown
into the greatest excitement on Sunday morning last, bY,
the report of the death of a female about nineteen years a
age, said to have been caused by the cruel treatment of her
own father and step-mother. The name of the deceased
was Jane Wood, and who resided at the above place. The
judicial authorities were called upon to interfere, but here,
as in many cases on previous occasions within the last fe'
weeks, a difficulty arose, through the Municipal Reform
Act, as to whose duty it was to make the necessary
quiry into the cause of the deceased's death. However,
it was ultimately determined, that as Tallow Hill wad
within the Parliamentary Boundary, it came within the
jurisdiction of Mr. Hyde as the city Coroner, and that
gentleman proceeded on Monday morning to hold an in'
quisition upon the body. After the Court had been opened'
and other preliminary business proceeded with, the Jury
expressed a wish that two surgeons should be engaged to
make a post 'nor tem examination upon the body, and to al.'
low time for which, Mr. Hyde adjourned the inquest until
five o'clock in the evening. At the hour named, the Jury
re-assembled at the Ram public-house, and proceeded to
examine witnesses ; after which the Jury retired, and after
a consultation of about twenty minutes, returned the fel'
lowing verdict We find that Jane Wood died by the
Visitation of God ; but that her death has been greatly
accelerated by the ill-treatment of her family, in not suP„''
plying her with proper nourishment and medical assistance.
—Worcester Paper.