The Sun.
London, England, 1834-07-22 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

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The " tail" of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cum-
berland begins to move in a portentous manner in Ireland.
Messrs. Shaw and Boyton, who were lately among his
Highness's guests at Kew, dined last Tuesday with Sheriff
Baker (a very valiant tailor in this city), and spoke nvezy
bitter words in their drink. The appearance of Mr. Boy-
ton, as an agitator, so soon after his recent retirement from
public life to the quiet and sacred duties of a parish priest,
has given occasion to some comments. He gave up his
fellowship, with an express determination to abandon the
stage of politics for ever ; and the very next notable thing
that was heard of him was his appearance, arm-in-arm with
the Roman Catholic Bishop of Tyrone, in the street of
Letterkenny. The two divines walked up and down in
friendly colloquy, while their respective flocks stared at
the conjunction in mute astonishment. The old Bishop,
however, was observed, in passing a knot of Anti-tithe
men, to thrust his tongue into his cheek, as much as to
say—" Bedershin." The next strange thing after that was
the promotion of a Popish attorney to the situation of
agent and tithe-gatherer to Mr. Boyton ; and the third time
his name appeared, was among the company invited to
dine, about three weeks ago, with the Duke of Cumber-
land. Mr. Shaw also held a conspicuous knife and fork at
the feast ; and now we behold them both alighting from
that " communion large and high," to dine with a tailor in
Dawson-street.

Mr. Shaw made a speech which would be very well worth
reporting, had he introduced anything new into it.
all his observations had oft been said, and well expressed
before. Mr. Boyton talked of the crisis, the fortress, and
the assizes ; and at last, coming to the point, gave out,
with a suitable flourish, the programme of a . grand aggre-
gate meeting of the Conservatives, to be held in Dublin on
the 14th of August. Some such thing was a-hatching a
month ago, under the auspices of Lords Winchilsea, 0..
den, and other " sage grave men," but was abandoneH d.
The political clause of the Coercion Bill was deemed hos-
tile to such an assemblage. Now there is no fear of an
unconstitutional interference through that channel, and
those eminent law-makers may come to the gathering, with-
out passing for law-breakers.
Baron Sir W. C. Smith has been puzzling the gentle-
men of the Wicklow Grand Jury with a charge, whch, by
its quaintness and quotations might do honour to Mr. Ho-
race Smith himself, as an imitation of " Burton's Anatomy
of Melancholy." How the jolterheads must have been
edified by the following congratulation upon their exemp-
tion from the coercion law :
" Its lower ranks have not, I believe, fallen under the
control of the coercion law ; and of such a population it
may therefore, to some extent, be said, that—
" Vindice nullo,
Sponto sua, sine lege, fidem rectumque colebant."
By " sine lege" I mean. without the rigorous sanction of a
stern and unusual control. I mean that—
" PcenaLnaetusque aberant ;"
or at least, that—

" Sine militis usu,"
without the military judgments of an almost martial law--
. " Mollia secure peragebant otia gentes."
The most cheering part of the learned Baron's address
is an intimation, near the end, of his intended " retirement
to the obscurity of private life." It had been well for his
fame, had he sought that retirement three years ago. He is
not gone yet, however. This hint was thrown out, when
it was thought possible that a Tory Ministry might assume
the reins of Government ; in which event, not only Baron
Smith, but five or six exceedingly tenacious adherents to
the Bench besides, could concede their places with much
alacrity, in order to secure another generation of " the sort
much wanted." If they could entail a race of young and
fresh Tory judges on the country, to keep the spirits of the
age in check for thirty years to come, they would " depart
in peace."

GETTING AND FORGETTING.--A yeoman living
not seven miles from Barnstaple seems to possess some very
unaccountable notions of his own, if we may be allowed to judge
from his actions, of getting children into the world, and easily
forgetting them afterwards. A few instances, by way of illus-
tration, will suffice :—.When one of his children was christened,
he and his boy went to the kiln for lime, and arriving home
about mid-day, he took a leg of mutton out of the pot, (intended
for the sponsors, &c.) and after helping himself and the boy,
replaced it, and, without waiting for the good folks, drove off
again to the lime kiln. On the baptism of another child, he
locked the door, and took away the key in his pocket, when his
wife was compelled to go to a neighbour's house with her
friends, to provide a cup of tea for them. The last instance
occurred about a fortnight since, when one of his children was
conveyed to " that bourne from whence no traveller returns;"
but our inflexible yeoman could not attend the funeral, having
a field of hay to carry, although he could have obtained assist-
ance gratis from several of his friends. We hope these are
marks of parental feeling but rarely to be met with in this
country.—Cornwall Gazette.
A large tiger made its appearance lately at the Cinco
Esquinas, near the Recoleta, Buenos Ayres, and attacked and
wounded three men (one of them severely), before it was de-
stroyed, which was not effected until it had been repeatedly
fired at. It is supposed to have been brought to this neigh-
bourhood by one of the floating islands (camalote), from the
Parana. This, it is said, is the first time since 1806 that one
of these animals has strayed so near the town.