The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-20 00:00:00

IRELAI D.

DUBLIN, Auo. 18—It has been blowing a gale all yester-
day, last night, and to-day ; so much so that the London
Papers, due at half-past six, A.m., have not as yet arrived,
three, P.m. The Liverpool mail-boat, due at six, P.M.,
yesterday, did not arrive until five, A. M., this morning;
and the mail for London and passengers were not for.
warded until this morning. Appearances are, however,
somewhat better to-day.
We regret to learn that a considerable portion of the
heavy Oat crop has been prostrated; but, if fine weather
should set in, the grain would ripen even in this position.
The Wheat crop has been more fortunate, having suffered
very little injury since the unfavourable change in the
weather on Sunday week. Reaping has commenced pretty
generally in the early districts around Dublin. Our re-
ports of the Potato crop continue favourable.
We have heard that two line-of-battle ships, the Van-
guard and the Rodney, are shortly expected at Cork, to
convey the 19th and 38th regiments to Gibraltar.
We learn that the Clonmel election is fixed for Friday
next, and that the Attorney-General has left town today
for the purpose of presenting himself to the constituency.
There will be no contest, nor show of opposition. It
is almost to be wished that there were, so complete would
be the triumph.
This is a state of things exceedingly gratifying to the
friends of the Government. Here is one of the most in-
dependent popular constituencies of Ireland voluntarily se-
lecting the First Law Officer of the Crown as their re-
presentative, without dictation, without solicitation of any
man, wholly uninfluenced by any consideration or control,
L • save their own good sense of the honest claims of the Go.

vernment to their support, aad their unbiassed approbation
of the individual who comes before them as the represen-
tative of that Government. We put the fact before the
public, with our emphatic commendation, as a proof of the
title the honest men of Clonmel possess to our hearty ap-
plause.—Dublin Evening Post.
There is a paragraph in the Evening Mail of yester-
day, relating to the new Chief Baron, which contains
nearly as many lies as lines, invented for the purpose
of sustaining the audacious assertions of the Editor, that
the Lord Lieutenant favours and encourages political
agitation.

—lt is affirmed that the new Chief Baron is an out and-
out Repealer. That he " owes his advancement first,
and then his promotion to, Mr. O'Connell ;" and conse-
quent/y, that his elevation to the Bench is, on the part of
the Lord Lieutenant, a direct act of encouragement to
the Repealers.

It is scarcely necessary to do more than mention these
absurdities, in order to expose their utter falsehood. —lbid.
The Ulster Association has commenced operations in
the very stronghold of Orangeism. The Reformers of
the Northern Province have been, at length, aroused to
combined and effective exertion, and the success which has
already attended the movement, as demonstrated at the
preliminary meeting on Friday, has induced the Mail to
treat it with such lofty contempt. The Association is,
therefore, a humbug, a farce, and, moreover, it is stupid
and absurd! We promise Jeremiah that he will soon
have to alter his tone. The Orange Magnates of Ulster
regard the Association with far different feelings. —lbid.