The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-22 00:00:00

BOROUGH of DEVONPORT and STONEHOUSI4.

A public meeting of the electors having been held at
the Town Hall, in Devonport, this 20th day of Decem-
ber, 1834, in consequence of an announcement bearing the
signature of John Smith, Esq., that the Right Honourabli-
G. R. Dawson would have the honour to address the
electors this day, to 'state his political principles, with a
view to solicit their suffrages and support, J. Smith, Esq.,
having been called to the Chair—
Mr. DMVSON addressed the electors, whereupon, a rose,
lution having been proposed, Mr. Smith refused to tint the
same to the meeting—left the Chair—and declared the
meeting dissolved.
The electors then called Tuomns WOOLLCOWIE, Esq.,
to the Chair, •

And it was resolved—" That-this meeting, having heard.
the Right Hon. G. R. Dawson- declare his political senti-
ments, is of opinion, that the' present Government of which
he is a Member, canniit.',and ought not to have the confidence'
of Reformers, and this meeting remembering that the Right
Honourable Gentleman has, throughout his political life, been
an able and energetic opponent of those efforts which termi-
nated in the great measure, securing to this borough its poli-
tical freedom, cannot support his present claim to represent
those who, by his votes, he has in effect declared unworthy to
rank among the electors of Great Britain.
Resolved—That these resolution§ be published and circu-
lated in the Borough.
" THOMAS WOOLLCOMBE, Chairman."
_

The Chairman having left the Chair, the unanimous thanks
of the meeting were given to him for his able and independent
conduct therein.

Devonport, Dec. 20, 1854.

LOYALGRATITUDE.

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An OtiOpird
" Once on a time," (as the story-books say), n Celled
Sultan had a faithful- Minister, who laid before him various
plans for making the subjects of his Master prosperous, loyal,
and h4ppg,„ The ,Sultau approveil thetas. "My excellent
1 said he, "thy ideas are per,ectZy Cdfinhittni .o;ne—
and should Alla deprive me of thee, no Minister shall stAfid
before my throne who will not adopt all thy plans." The
Vizier retired joyful, and said in his heart, " My power is
established for ever--happy is he who serveth my wise and
JUST Master I" The same day he was dismissed from office,.
and his enemy installed in his place! The people were dis-
MtAyed, and said, " Wherefore is this just Vizier displaced?
Will his Stiedeggof lucid ail that lit bath dens ?" But the new
Minister said, " Behold I in all things will I Walk in tbe raths
of my predecesSor." And thereat the people. wondered, and
said, " Truly the councils of our Monarch are inscrutable
He is pleased with the measures of Mirza, whom he dis-
graceth, and Fablib meets favour in .his eyes, who hath all his
life opposed those plans which he now illidertalteth to perfect 1"

CARRYING OUT REFORM.

" earry out Reform"—Sir Robert said.
1 love that phrase ; it hath a moral. fitne,s§
• For if you knock a subject on the head,
And nurse it, till it sleeps among the dead,
It must be carried out then with a witness.
Esperance.

DUBLIN.

(rRoM oun. OWN ColittOrbflnt,NT,)
If Sir Robert shall venture to discard the present Parlia-
ment, he must calculate on an astonishing change of opinion
iu .England—for nothing short of a total conversion there can
seedia soirtgt the titittilmoup voice of Scotland, and the
determined unequivocal expression of great terror and great
indignation which agitates all Ireland, from Carrickfergus to
Cape Clear. The much- vaunted re-action is of a very diffe-
rent kind from that which the Tories dream of; for it is as
itineh as the friends-of the people can do, by all their influence
and reasoning, to confine it to objects which are legitimate and
constitutional: The people are eager for a general election,
that they 'nay shot* their power; and everywhere that tithes
are demanded the ttgtetibrity of a Tory faction is execrated
and spurned.
In Weifoftl the freeholders of the Barony of Forth niet on
Thursday last. Me. the Member for Wexford town,
was in the chair. Ile addressed the aggettilvl94 multitude at
cFnisidetable knob; and re.thinded them that the election was
purely a tithe election. With itigpOnt td the threats of their
landlords, he pointed .but the only safe ttiethod of laughing
theto to scorn, namely, unanimity ; for as he truly nhaerved,
lg if Only one.or,tid tenants-stand out, they will surely be made
ViCtifitig hilt if thilie he a ettetel dete urination on the part of
the people to do their duty, it would be Ittipm§ible to send a
whole community adrift. The country was given by the
Almighty to the people, and HE will not suffer their wholesale
sentiments were received with loud and con-
tiniied

Mr. Talbot, the Member for New 116§st said that he was
marked out as a victim to the atrocities of the titile system.
A demand was made on him the other day for 1351. where he
tionsidered only 51, as legally due It is needless to say that
such topics made a trerneuduut Impression on the farmers who
were present. The question among them is not what Tory
candidate they shall oppose, but which of the liberal candi-
dates has best ditser-red tit& suffrages by his hatred of tithes,
and his opposition to all who Mainatn and defend them.
The same sentiment is universal all over the country, and
everywhere it will produce the effect of driving away the Tory
candidates from the hustings. There is not the least doubt
that 11,1E1,00 WiLL send a MAJORITY Of FORTY-FIVE to Purlia-
vititt ctiminki Peel and MR Duke. The Mayor of Limerick
has had the modesty to het hiq ottin opinions, against that
of the two members for the city, and a nuns of cf merchants
and professional ientlemen, who required him to call it public
meeting: He saw no necessity for it, and therefore would not
conitliy. If theo ignorant folk think they are serving their
cause by such conduct, • bow miserably short sighted they
must be. _ _

The clergy of the diocese of Drornore have addressed a
parcel of fitlitiffieiv tri the Marquis of Downshire, thanking
him for his attendance at the Orange gathering in Hills-
borough. He has acknowledged the eetnpilinant in suitable
Thit nobleman, who is a great tithe impropriator, was
a Whig, and held ottt, tiritited, through all the fighting about
the lieflirin On and Softie other trump-fetchers which fol-
lbwed hafd iipbii, lint he was often seen to look over his
shoulder in the thick o? the fight, sold at last he bolted, like a
man. The mode of his desertion was charaeteristict He was
on a visit with Lord Wellesley in the park, where he remained
converging ptift Whiggery for three days. On the fourth
morning he took his leave, as if for Edenderry ; but instead of
turnirio. his horses' heads towards the county of Kildare, he
drove into Dublin, and forthwith made his great apostate
speech at the Winehelsea Orange Meeting, in Dawson-street.
He afterwards pursued his journey, arri'ed that evening at
Edenderry, and wrote by the same night'S pth.it td Lord
Wellesley, to solicit a favour for some dependent of hig, .Tio
doubt as honest and tindissembling as himself. What will
John Bull think of such a change of heart as that ? Does ii
not show a capacity for the Cabinet Which the Times' advises
the world to wait upon, as an enlightened and reformed
Council ?

P. S. The plunder of newspaper property in the Dublin
Post Office is quite unrestrained. Within the space of one
month the Sun, printed on Friday, directed to me, has been
three tin us purloined. I can only account for this periodical
rogtilarity of the theft by supposing that the gentlemen clerks
like to divert their leisure hours on a Sunday evening, with
the latest intelligence from London. I wish the fellow who
steals the Sun would acquire a taste for the Standard or some
other paper.