The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-22 00:00:00

DUBLIN, SEPT. 18.

(From a Correspondent.)
I perceive that the Limerick Chronicle, a church-militant
journal, has taken arms against a few stubborn things called
facts, which a Dublin correspondent of The Sun communi-
cated, touching the Lord Bishop of Limerick, and some
two or three of his clergy. The letter denounced is cha-
racterised as being " replete with falsehood and misrepre-
sentation." "By my troth, Captain, these are very bitter
words ;" but where is the proof? It is sometimes a conve-
nient thing to get rid of specific accusations by a sweeping
contradiction. But the statements which I have made af-
fecting individuals, I do now repeat, because I think that
the value of the hostility which those persons have ex-
presSed towards the Government cannot be illustrated in a
more convincing manner, than by letting the world know
who and what they are. Let me, at the same time, embrace
this opportunity of correcting an error with regard to the
Rev. Charles Warburton. He is not the incumbent of
Valentia, but only Archdeacon of Tuam, in the County of
Galway, Chancellor of Limerick Cathedral, and Rector
of the Union of Rathkeale, in that diocese and county, and
Rector of Clonmel and Templerobin, in the diocese of
Cloyne, and county of Cork. I plead guilty to the crime
of having left out all mention of his Cork preferment, and
misnamed his benefice in Limerick. Thereby, perhaps, I
may have incurred the charge of misrepresentation ; but it
was undesigned, and I now atone for it. It is not surprising
that such tripartite divines should quake at the signs of the
times, for of a verity their " craft is in danger."
The Evening Mail of yesterday gives the model of a re-
turn which the Conservative Society is desirous to procure
from the parochial clergy. It sets forth the value of each
benefice, the number of acres in the parish, distinguishing
those which belong to Catholic landlords and those which
belong to Protestants, the public charities, and the respec-
tive contribUtions of Catholics and Protestants for their
support. This return, which they have exhibited for a
pattern, is from three parishes in the county of Cavan. It.
is defective as a statement of the income of the clergymen ;
for it only communicates the amount of composition for
tithes, omitting altogether the extent of and the value of
the glebe lands, which in the North of Ireland especially
constitute a large portion of the clergyman's income. One
of the parishes mentioned in this return, Druinlane by name,
contains 16,605 acres. The amount of composition 5001.,
and the chatities—nothing ! The incumbent is a Beres-
ford. The other two parishes have dispensaries.
A meeting of that county (Cavan) has been called by
the High Sheriff for the 22d of this month " to consider
what constitutional steps ought to be taken in the present
alarming crisis." The requisition to the High Sheriff is
signed by thirteen Magistrates and two clergymen, Mr.
Martin (Bishop Mant's son-in-law), and Mr. Marcus Be-
resford. With that name to the requisition, it was well to
restrict the purview of the meeting to "constitutional steps."
Another meeting, composed of persons not often parti-
cular in picking their steps among the dry places of the
constitution, has hailed witk delight the intention of the
Cavan gentlemen to meet. These are the Orangemen of
Rockcorry, in the neighbouring county of Monaghan, who
have published some very curious resolutions in the news-
papers. The first is characteristic :—" Resolved, that we
concur, to the most unlimited extent, in the resolutions
agreed to by the glorious meeting of the Protestants of Ire-
land, held in the Mansion-house, Dublin, on the 14th of
last August."

These may be honest fellows ; at least they must be ab-
solved from the petty-larceny curse denounced by Shaks-
peare against " limited professions." But their notions of
Christian morality are not strictly according to the Gospel,
for they exalt the practice of duelling, which is a combina-
tion of murder and self-destruction, to the roll of Christian
graces. The Earl of Winchilsea is said, in one of their
resolutions, to have " justly entitled himself to the un-
bounded gratitude of the Protestants of the United Em-
pire," not only by attending at the Dublin meeting, but for
" the at once manly but Christian devotion to the Pro-
testant cause he manifested in the year 1828 (9?) in op-
posing, even at the risk of his life, that most banefnl mea-
sure, then in progress of enactment, the Roman Catholic
Relief Bill." The Parthian glance at the Great Captain
is in villainous taste. Is he never to be forgiven? After
the Oxford show he ought to stand cleaner with the party.
Further, as an illustration of the unlimited extent to which
the Rockcorry Orangemen are resolved to concur with the
Dublin meeting, they have published another resolution, ex-
pressing their own determination, and " recommending our
Protestant brethren to hold themselves in readiness to de-
fend to the utmost, and at a moment's warning if neces-
sary, our lives, properties, religion, its ministers, and our
Constitutional King." This declaration is in answer to
O'Connell's letter, for the author of which they express, at
the same time, their unqualified contempt. The harsh
terms in which that Learned Gentleman alluded to the
Orangemen, whom he had before so recently flattered and
courted, challenged a retort, and he has got it.