The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-17 00:00:00

IRELAND.

We have authority to state that there is no truth in
the statement of the Lord Lieutenant's custom having
been withdrawn from Mr. Luke Dillon, in consequence
of his having joined the Repeaters. In 1839 some
cloth was purchased from him to make servants' liveries.
It was found more convenient afterwards to give the
entire order for material and making to the tailor. This
was done as far back as March ; and not one word was
said to Mr. Dillon re,peeting Repeal, nor, indeed, was
was it known that Mr. Dillon was a Repealer.—Dub.
lin Evening Post.

The temperance movement, combined with good go-
vernment, is producing the most wonderful results upon
the state of the country.
COUNTY OF GALWAY.—At the Sessions of Cliiden
and °tighter/ad, the Reformers registered 229, the
Tories but one.

COUNTY OF KlLDARE.—Reformers, 15 : Tories, 14.
COUNTY OF LiNtseacK.—Reformers 4 ' • Tories, 1.
.
COUNTY OF KERRYReformers, 10 ; Torics,2.
Mr. O'Connell arrived in Clonmel on Tuesday, and
was escorted into the town by a considerable multitude,
whom he addressed on the subject of repeal from the
balcony of the hotel. He was entertained at a public
dinner in the evening.

Yosterday Mr. O'Connell arrived in Kilkenny to at-
tend the Leinster Provir.cial Repeal Meeting, at which
there was a very numerous attendance. I shall send
you a report of the proceedings to-morrow. Mr. O'Con-
nell is to arrive in Dublin to-morrow. He starts for
Drogheda on Sunday, to attend the repeal meeting
there on Monday.

PARISH OF S PANCRAS.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV.
SIR,—My attention having been directed to a letter
which appeared in your Paper of Monday last, relating
to the Directors of the Poor of St. Pancras, and con-
taining falsehoods of the grossest nature, I feel called
on to assert, that during the four years I have been
associated with the gentlemen who have been Vestry-
men and Directors of the Poor during that period, I
have never seen, known, or heard of the slightest
grounds for your Correspondent's gross assertions and
insinuations. For myself I treat them with the utmost
contempt, as I am well aware your readers are of too
intellectual a class not to kr:ow and feel that truth
merely requires to be plainly asserted, and that " pot-
boy" eloquence can have little effect on them. Mr.
Brettilighatn's letter of yesterday has my most hearty
concurrence—there is nothing. in it but what is true ;
and as he has evidently a strong suspicion of who and
what your anonymous Correspondent is, your readers
will be able to at least picture in their " mind's eye"
what kind of a personage he must be.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM SIMPSON,
A Director of the Poor of St. Pancras.
110, Guildford street, Oct. 16, 1840.

THE WATE rtm EN'S ASYLUM.—A building
has just been covered in at Penge, near Sydenham,
short distance from the Croydon Railway station, which is
intended for the reception of thirty aged and decayed
watermen and lighterrnen of the river Thames. The new
almshouses are in the Elizabethan style,. This Institution
has been established by the Watermen's Company, who at
the outset subscribed 500/. from their funds towards its
support, which was followed by a rote of 5001 frem the
Corporation of London in aid of the endowment fund.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager is the patroness of this
Comity, and has given a donation of one hundred guineas.
The total amount subscribed by the nobility and gentry
and waterside people amounts to 11,000/. At a meeting
of the Committee of Management, held en Friday at
the ancient hail of the \Vateimen's Company, it was
proposed and agreed to that seven alditional alms..
houses should be erected, in addition to the thirty
already ce,itracted for, and the Watermen's Company
voted another grant of 500/. Mr. John Dulin Brown, the
senior warden of the Company, presented the Company
with *3501, and Mr. Charles Hay, of Rotherhithe, one of
the Court of Asiistants, in addition to a donation of 60
guineas, presented nig!. teen months since, when the al-
lum was first projected, said he should feel great pleasure
in contributing 20 guineas a year to the Endowment Fund.
Mr. Brown ha given in hard cash 5651., and presented
the Watermen's Company with two acres of freehold land,
land-tax redeemed, as a site for the almshouses, in Rddition
to which he has settled 1,000/., payable at his death, and
a liberal annual sebseription, the amount of which was not
made known. The members of the Court of Com-
pany individually have subscribed 1,200/. At the meeting
held yesterday it was agreed upon that another appeal
should be made to the public on behalf of the Endowment
Fund which is to be raised for the support of the inmates I
f the almshouses.

WILL OF THE LATE BISHOP OF ST. DA-
VID'6, —The will of John Banks Jeukinson, Doctor in Di-
vinity, Lord Bishop of St. David's, has just passed under
the seal of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, in Doc-
. tor',; Commons, to Frances Augusta Jenkinson, widow of
the deceased, the sole xecutrix named in the will. the
deceased was related to the late Earl of Liverpool. P..te
petspnal property of the deceased rlithin the jur*.sdiction
of the Court of C4nterbury has been swr.:
en underf:i the
v.,!ue of sevcray thousand pounds, i-Pri..ependent of property
out of the jurisd!ctian. The
of the deceased is dated
in May of the prcsent, -year, and the property is given to
the wife for lifer
tannia, and after her death to his ehildren.—Bri-

SiIROPSIIIRE FARMER'S SOCIETY.—The first
anniversary of this society, and its first agricultural show,
took place in this town on Tuesday, and attracted many
landed proprietors and practical farmers from all parts of
the county. The President of the Society, the Right
113 n. the Earl of Powis, assumed his seat as Chairman as
soon as the company was in some measure accommodated.
lic ass s",-rounded by Srißaldwin Leighton, Bart., Sir
Richlid Jenkins,
M. P., the Hon. R Clive, M. P., Mr.
O. Gor's, M. P., Mr. Slaney, M. P., Mr. Lloyd (Aston),
Mr. St. John Charlton, Mr. Burton Borough, Mr. Law_
ILY, Mr. °alley. and a great number of other gentlemen.
Sir Rowland Hill, 1.3.3 rt., M.P., and J. A. Lloyd, Esq.,
acted as Vice-Chairmen.—Shrewsbury aimicie.
Mr. Charles Keinble ii 4s, arrived in London,
froa. Italy, I,c, meet his daughter, Mrs. Butler, and to un!
derg9,?, s'Argteal oPc-ation by Mr. Liston. 'Hiss Adelaide
gymblg remains At Milan, where she is the prima donna.