The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-30 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. )
The Evening Packet, generally the best informed Tal
paper printed in Dublin, states that a stipendiary Magistrate
has been appointed to the district of the Fews Mountain!
county Armagh, and that a suggestion has been made!'
the Lords Justices to place that part of the country under tn,e
Coercion Act, inasmuch as the Protestant clergy cannot I'
lect their tithes there 1 It was a principal objection urged. /
the opponents of that unconsitutional measure, that it was j°'
troduced not so much to repress predial disturbance as to fay'
litate tho collection of tithes, an object which the members °
the then Government .earnestly disclaimed. HI mistake rot
a clause was brought into the Bill to allay those apprehati
sions, by prohibiting the extension of the extraordinary an
frightful powers which it confers to any place, merely on iaC:
count of tithe or anti-tithe agitation. At all events sue
modification was proposed, and it was on all hands a,greed, ,d
the spirit of the Coercion Act did not contemplate any.ieter;
ference, direct or indirect, in the momentous question6'
Church property, which is the prolific source of so much
cord and misery in our distracted and wickedly abused colon'
" The spirit of the Reform Bill," however, in the hands wit'et
are now empowered to develop it, may carry itself outo
more startling effects than that, if the spirit of the people at
brook to leave the appliances and means for working it
their disposal.
We may see what the new-light Reformers would be !t,
from this little indication of their designs in the Erenr
Packet. But it is scarcely to be feared that the Lords Just"`'
will take upon themselves the responsibility of an act, wl'l,;,
may with greater propriety be reserved to grace the inaugyrii.
tion of the Viceroy. Of their excellent dispositions to vo,,t
cate the law it is impossible to admit a doubt, seeing
Primate Beresford and Chief Justice Busche form the greate°
half of our Provisional Government. Nevertheless, weo
not expect
.to see the provisions of the Coercion Act puyd,
force avowedly for the collection of tithes, until The Sto°
in-hand Ministry shall have completed its arrangements by
sending over a competent Generalissimo to act under 1.;
Henry Hardinge, and installing an Attorney-General of tu
right sort to pocket the fees.
The Fews district being very convenient to Dundalk, Whented
Lord Roden intends to put up his son for the borough, 3;ii,
where the election will also be held for the county of 1-or''
it would be an object of great collateral as well as direct itar:
portance to the tithe-owners to obtain the benefit of the C°ed
cion Act immediately, and no wonder that exertions are Ina ,te
to procure it before the dissolution of Parliament; for witPbe
some extraordinary help, they will be defeated in both
county and the borough ; and even with all the constitutios;.
support which the Coercion Act is capable of affording, Iliene
chances are of the bluest complexion. Mr. Foster, the nr'e
of the county, has considerately spared his friends the trototo
and agitation of a contest, by retiring. He did not wish
expose the wretchedness of the party before the general e'ec,
tion, thinking, perhaps, that its nudity will be sufficiently ci;,
played on that occasion ; and therefore he left the field en'Ll
puted to Sir Patrick Bellew, who is the last child of the.
Reformed Parliament. Thus has Baron Leslie Foster De' I
appointed a Commissioner of the Great Seal to no purrae'o,
Mr. G. R. Dawson will, it is thought, try his luck at L
donderry, after being cast off at Devonport. A previneict
paper has hit off a strange sort of coalition for the Ri
ot
Hon. Secretary. " His friends are about to nominate "'ce
on the joint corporate and Liberal interest." Such an al-W/6
is just as probable as a junction of the fox with the heowli o
But it is not true. If Derry shall be honoured by suety
member, the undivided glory of the choice will belong to to
corporation and the Orangemen. The " Liberal interestbe
(for want of an English word strong enough to convey
popular popular sense regarding Mr. Dawson, I must adopt one
the Latin)—the Liberal interest respews such a connect'.
The Orangemen, however, are well-disposed towards list,
They can forgive even a turn-coat, when he turns the goo
meet to their colour; and it does not surprise us to sec, Ibis
praises of the Right Hon. Secretary sounded alongside o`oos
immortal brother-in-law " the cad," in those very COlit,or
which, only six years ago, were emblazoned with the folljay,
ing pyroligneous passages. I quote from the Age of SO
Aug. 24, 1828:
l is
" No—there is no change in Mr. Dawson himself. —be
in 1828 what he was in 1827 or 1797, or in any year sloe! he
was breeched. He is in 1828 what he will be in 1858, that?
continues so long in degraded existence. And what is
A mean fellow,—mean

In entrails, heart, and head, liver and reins.' etlf
In every action of his life some little dirty motive is distioo
traceable. He is one of the greatest misers in the ell 0/
We are sure that the Duke of Wellington will not forgetho
own declaration—' That, in these times, any loss is better/Noe
that of character.' We beg to ask the Duke, if Mr* apos'
son's character is not irretrievably lost by this disgusting :cith
tacy—and if he can think of polluting the public service! it
the continuance in office of a person, whom he must feel
disgrace to sit in the same room."
Now, the Liberals of Derry think that Mr. Dawson 1:305;101;t
done much to gain character since the date of that parannts 10
and they are waiting for the Age and other congenial Pr' froto
wash the Right Hon. Gentleman white, and purge lirm, be'
all the filth which they so industriously heaped upon
_lfideaoe•
fore they can possibly think of taking him to their env obli•
The pleasant alliteration of " Dirty Dawson "
mustelse th°
terated and spunged out by its witty inventors ;or Ilan
Liberal interest will leave him altogether in the clean
of the Corporation to beautify him.